S Thomas: 567 books
Public Intellectuals and Nation Building in the Iberian Peninsula, 1900–1925
The Alchemy of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
This book provides a detailed analysis of the core concepts of national identity articulated by Iberian writers during the period between 1900 and 1925. It is centered on four "pedagogical" essays written in these decades previous to the onset of authoritarian dictatorships in Spain and Portugal,...
by Barbara A. Baker, Louis A Rabb, Roberta S. Maguire
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
This collection consists of essays written by prominent African American literature, jazz, and Albert Murray scholars, reminiscences from Murray protégés and associates, and interviews with Murray himself. It illustrates Murray’s place as a central figure in African American arts and...
Charlotte, NC
The Global Evolution of a New South City
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from “regional backwater” to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now. Once a regional manufacturing and textile center, Charlotte stands today as one of the nation’s premier banking and financial cores with interests...
A City of Marble
The Rhetoric of Augustan Rome
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In A City of Marble, Kathleen Lamp argues that classical rhetorical theory shaped the Augustan cultural campaigns and that in turn the Augustan cultural campaigns functioned rhetorically to help Augustus gain and maintain power and to influence civic identity and participation in the Roman Principate...
The Coming New World Order
The Rise of Global Government
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
This book proposes a step-by-step blueprint for a better world. There is a storm brewing on the horizon. A new world order is coming based on all the trends and global pressures that is facing mankind today. The question is, who's world vision is going to prevail and lead us into the 21st century and...
Late Cainozoic Floras of Iceland
15 Million Years of Vegetation and Climate History in the Northern North Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Being the only place in the northern North Atlantic yielding late Cainozoic terrestrial sediments rich in plant fossils, Iceland provides a unique archive for vegetation and climate development in this region. This book includes the complete plant fossil record from Iceland spanning the past 15 million...
Ladies in the Laboratory II
West European Women in Science, 1800-1900: A Survey of Their Contributions to Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2004
The lives of many of the nineteenth century's most notable women of science are presented in English for the first time in this companion volume to Ladies in the Laboratory: American and British Women in Science. The present volume bridges a considerable gap in English literature available on women...
United States–Latin American Relations, 1850–1903
Establishing a Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014
During the second half of the 19th century several forces in the United States, Latin America, and Europe converged to set the stage for the establishment of a more permanent relationship between the United States and Latin America. The key factors--security, economics, and modernization--created...
by Thomas S. Fiske
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2014
Starting a military career under General Patton in the American desert can’t be easy. But Kentucky farmer Laban Jackson did it, was promoted three times, and was dispatched by Ike to organize the Fifth Army. As HQ Commandant under Generals Patton, Clark, and Truscott, Jackson experienced three invasions...
Arkansas
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
Distilled from Arkansas: A Narrative History, the definitive work on the subject since its original publication in 2002, Arkansas: A Concise History is a succinct one-volume history of the state from the prehistory period to the present. Featuring four historians, each bringing his or her expertise...
by Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel, Wayment
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
What was Jerusalem like at the time of the Savior's birth? How did Satan's temptations of Jesus prepare him for the beginnings of his public ministry? Why were people astonished at the doctrine Jesus taught in the Sermon on the Mount? If you've wondered about such questions, you'll appreciate the insights...
Ethnography as Risky Business
Field Research in Violent and Sensitive Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
Ethnography as Risky Business: Field Research in Violent and Sensitive Contexts offers a hands-on, critical appraisal of how to approach ethnographic fieldwork on socio-political conflict and collective violence, focusing on the global south. The volume’s contributions are all based on extensive...
by Thomas S. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Letchworth State Park, located in the Genesee Valley of western New York State, is renowned for its natural beauty, scenic roads, trails, and recreational facilities. Created from the private estate of William Pryor Letchworth in 1907, the park quickly grew in size and popularity. A series of ambitious...
The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1589-1597
Building the Faith of Saint Peter upon the King of Spain's Monarchy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
English Catholic voices, once disregarded as merely confessional, are now acknowledged to provide important perspectives on Elizabethan society. Based on extensive archival research, this book builds on previous studies for the first thorough investigation of the Jesuit mission to England during a...