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Yeoman Farmers In The South Carolina Upcountry: Changing Production Patterns In The Late Antebellum Era, Lacy K. Ford, Jr.
Yeoman Farmers In The South Carolina Upcountry: Changing Production Patterns In The Late Antebellum Era, Lacy K. Ford, Jr.
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The End Of Practical Man: Entrepreneurship And Higher Education In Germany, France, And Great Britain, 1880-1940, By Robert R. Locke, Michael S. Smith
The End Of Practical Man: Entrepreneurship And Higher Education In Germany, France, And Great Britain, 1880-1940, By Robert R. Locke, Michael S. Smith
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A review of The End of Practical Man: Entrepreneurship and Higher Education in Germany, France, and Great Britain, 1880-1940, by Robert R. Locke
Concise Dictionary Of Modern Japanese History, By Janet H. Hunter, William Dean Kinzley
Concise Dictionary Of Modern Japanese History, By Janet H. Hunter, William Dean Kinzley
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A review of Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History, by Janet H. Hunter
Sacred Flutes, Fertility, And Growth In The Papua New Guinea Highlands, Terence E. Hays
Sacred Flutes, Fertility, And Growth In The Papua New Guinea Highlands, Terence E. Hays
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Since Read's (1952) classic study of the nama cult of the Goroka area, ethnographers in the Papue New Guinea Highlands haved focused considerable attention on what I shall refere to as a "sacred flute complex" around which men's cults are organized. The flutes have been seen as acore symbol of male hegemony, and their associated riges and dogma as key factors in the perpetuation of "antagonistic" relations between the sexes, for which that region has long been known. In specific cases ethnographers have provided ingenious and persuasive analyses of the symbolic aspects of sacred flutes (e.g., Herdt 1981, 1982; Gillison …
Cousin Laman In The Wilderness: The Beginnings Of Brigham Young's Indian Policy, Richard E. Bennett
Cousin Laman In The Wilderness: The Beginnings Of Brigham Young's Indian Policy, Richard E. Bennett
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Historians of the American West have observed that compared with most other mid-19th century American overlanders, whether Oregon-bound farmers or California Agronauts, the Mormons enjoyed a relatively more amicable, more peaceful relationship with the American Indian. Furthermore several contend with cause that Brigham Young was the principal architect of peace with the Ute, Shoshoni, Navaho, Hopi, and other tribes in the deserts and valleys of "Deseret," the Mormon Zion in the Great Basin Kingdom. Leonard Arrington, Davis Bitton, James Allen, and other modern writers have argued that Young pursued a conciliatory (if not self protective and condescending) policy toward the …