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University Press of Colorado
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
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"Sacred Objects and Sacred Places combines native oral histories, photographs, drawings, and case studies to present current issues of cultural preservations vital to American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians. Complete with commentaries by curators, native peoples, and archaeologists, this book discusses the repatriation of human remains, the curation and exhibition of sacred masks and medicine bundles, and key cultural compromises for...
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Publisher
New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
The world is about to run out of cheap oil and change dramatically. Within the next few years, global production will peak. Thereafter, even if industrial societies begin to switch to alternative energy sources, they will have less net energy each year to do all the work essential to the survival of complex societies. We are entering a new era, as different from the industrial era as the latter was from medieval times. In The Party's Over, Richard...
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Publisher
Crowell-Collier Press
Pub. Date
[1962, c1961]
Language
English
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Account of the threat of an Indian war in 1915, growing out of the alleged murder of a Mexican by a Ute Indian, Tse-ne-gat, also called Everett Hatch.
Headlines carrying news of the war in Europe took second place one day in 1915 when the Denver Rocky Mountain News carried this eight-column streamer: INDIAN BATTLE RAGES, 3 DEAD, TOWN IS IN PERIL. The battle was the "Ute War"-the last struggle of the American Indian to save his lands from range-hungry...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." A daringly ironic...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 2005 James A. Rawley Prize, Organization of American Historians" "Winner of the 2005 Best Book in Urban Affairs, Urban Affairs Association" "Winner of the 2004 Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association" "Winner of the 2004 Best Book in North American Urban History, Urban History Association" Robert O. Self is assistant professor of history at Brown University.
A gripping portrait of black power politics and the...
1771) Plutopia: nuclear families, atomic cities, and the great Soviet and American plutonium disasters
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In Plutopia, Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the stories of Richland, Washington and Ozersk, Russia--the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium. To contain secrets, American and Soviet leaders created plutopias--communities of nuclear families living in highly-subsidized, limited-access atomic cities. Brown shows that the plants' segregation of permanent and temporary workers and of nuclear and non-nuclear...
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Publisher
The Macmillan Co
Pub. Date
1910
Language
English
Description
In 1889, while many Americans were disdainful of newly arrived immigrants, Jane Addams established Hull-House as a refuge for Chicago's poor. The settlement house provided an unprecedented variety of social services. In this inspiring autobiography, Addams chronicles the institution's early years and discusses the ever-relevant philosophy of social justice that served as its foundation. Addams, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 for her philanthropic...
Author
Publisher
Heyday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This is the unlikely but true story of the Japanese American Citizens League's fight for an official government apology and compensation for the imprisonment of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. Author John Tateishi, himself the leader of the JACL Redress Committee for many years, is first to admit that the task was herculean in scale. The campaign was seeking an unprecedented admission of wrongdoing from Congress. It depended...
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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Homesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox scholarly view. The authors begin by noting the striking disparity between the public's perception of homesteading as a cherished part of our national narrative and most scholars' harshly negative and dismissive treatment. Homesteading the Plains reexamines old data and draws from newly available digitized records to reassess...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
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"This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns...
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