Search Results - Civilization

"The Touch of Civilization" Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization / by Sabol, Steven

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Daily Demonstrators The Civil Rights Movement in Mennonite Homes and Sanctuaries / by Shearer, Tobin Miller, 1965-

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Go East, Young Man Imagining the American West as the Orient / by Francaviglia, Richard V.

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From Shtetl to Stardom Jews and Hollywood /

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Parodies of Ownership Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law / by Schur, Richard L.

Table of Contents: “…From chattel to intellectual property : legal foundations of African American cultural critique -- Critical race theory, signifyin', and cultural ownership -- Defining hip-hop aesthetics -- Claiming ownership in the post--civil rights era -- "Fair use" and the circulation of racialized texts -- "Transformative uses" : parody and memory -- From invisibility to erasure? …”
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The National PTA, Race, and Civic Engagement, 1897-1970 by Woyshner, Christine A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the national PTA, race, and civic engagement -- "No hats to be worn" : organizing the National Congress of Mothers -- "To work more effectively and gain better leadership experience" : the founding of the National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers -- "For convenience of a better education and training for my people" : organizational growth and stability -- Making America "strong from within" : school lunches, civics, and intergroup relations -- Diminishing as it advanced : the unification of the PTA -- Epilogue : civil society and public education.…”
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Uncommon Women Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing / by Laffrado, Laura

Table of Contents: “…: gender and self-representation in Louisa May Alcott's Hospital sketches -- "I am other than my appearance indicates" : sex-gender representation in women's nineteenth-century Civil War reminiscences -- "I found it hard to preserve my self-control" : race, women, representation.…”
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Proverbs Are The Best Policy Folk Wisdom And American Politics / by Mieder, Wolfgang

Table of Contents: “…"Different strokes for different folks" : American proverbs as an international, national, and global phenomenon -- "Government of the people, by the people, for the people" : the making and meaning of an American proverb about democracy -- "God helps them who help themselves" : proverbial resolve in the letters of Abigail Adams -- "A house divided against itself cannot stand" : from biblical proverb to Abraham Lincoln and beyond -- "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" : Frederick Douglass's proverbial struggle for civil rights -- "It's not a president's business to catch flies" : proverbial rhetoric in presidential inaugural addresses -- "We are all in the same boat now" : proverbial discourse in the Churchill-Roosevelt correspondence -- "Good fences make good neighbors" : the sociopolitical significance of an ambiguous proverb.…”
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To Enlarge the Machinery of Government Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858–1891 / by Hoffer, Williamjames

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "badly in detail but well on the whole": the second state -- Prologue : "the great, noisy, reedy, jarring assembly" : the Capitol, lawyers, and public space -- A "government of states" : sponsorship and the first debate on land grant colleges, 1858-1861 -- "The object of a democratic government" : sponsorship and supervision of agriculture and land grant colleges, 1861-1863 -- "A government of law" : sponsoring and supervising the freedmen, abandoned lands, and refugees, 1863-1865 -- The "twin pillars" of the state : the supervision and standardization of education and law enforcement, 1865-1876 -- "To change the nature of the government" : standardizing schooling and the civil service, 1876-1883 -- "What constitutes a state" : supervising labor and commerce, 1883-1886 -- "A system entirely satisfactory to the country" : standardizing labor and the courts, 1886-1891 -- Conclusion : "to answer our purposes, it must be adapted".…”
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Culture Clash : Law and Science in America / by Goldberg, Steven, 1947-2010

Table of Contents: “…Creationism in the Courts. The Growth of Civil Religion. Science, Progress, and Values -- 6. …”
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