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The Transatlantic Soul: German Catholic Emigration During The Nineteenth Century, Kevin Ostoyich Apr 2004

The Transatlantic Soul: German Catholic Emigration During The Nineteenth Century, Kevin Ostoyich

Kevin Ostoyich

No abstract provided.


Hidden Spheres Of Politics, Chandan Gowda Apr 2004

Hidden Spheres Of Politics, Chandan Gowda

Chandan Gowda

No abstract provided.


Review Of A Stone Of Hope: Prophetic Religion And The Death Of Jim Crow By David L. Chappell, Brian D. Behnken Apr 2004

Review Of A Stone Of Hope: Prophetic Religion And The Death Of Jim Crow By David L. Chappell, Brian D. Behnken

Brian D. Behnken

In this provocative new book, David Chappell examines the role of religion and religious thought in the Civil Rights movement. By focusing on the intellectual and religious underpinnings of both the activists and their segregationist rivals, he makes a persuasive argument that the struggle should best be understood as a prophetic religious movement, rather than as a social movement or as the triumph of a liberal consensus. Scrutinizing religion allows Chappell to shift the historiographical debate away from protests and violence to the role of ideas, principles, and faith.


A Riotous Reflection: The Heroic, Richard, And Canadian Sport History, Don Morrow Mar 2004

A Riotous Reflection: The Heroic, Richard, And Canadian Sport History, Don Morrow

Donald Morrow

No abstract provided.


Chaucer And The Discourse Of German Philology: An Addendum, Richard Utz Mar 2004

Chaucer And The Discourse Of German Philology: An Addendum, Richard Utz

Richard Utz

Contains several additions to the “Annotated Bibliography” of German and Austrian Chaucer criticism between 1793 and 1948 published in Chaucer and the Discourse of German Philology (Turnhout: Brepols, 2002)


Mary Shelley, Romantic-Era Women, And Frankenstein's Genesis, Jan Wellington Feb 2004

Mary Shelley, Romantic-Era Women, And Frankenstein's Genesis, Jan Wellington

Jan Wellington

No abstract provided.


Labels Of African American Ballers: A Historical Contemporary Investigation Of African American Male Youth's Depletions From America's Favorite Pastime 1885-2000, Keith Harrison Feb 2004

Labels Of African American Ballers: A Historical Contemporary Investigation Of African American Male Youth's Depletions From America's Favorite Pastime 1885-2000, Keith Harrison

Dr. C. Keith Harrison

No abstract provided.


Len Fox, 1905-2004, Rowan Cahill Feb 2004

Len Fox, 1905-2004, Rowan Cahill

Rowan Cahill

Obituary on the life of Australian author, journalist, historian, and Left activist Len Fox.


“Still Life: Sephardi, Ashkenazi And West African Art And Form In Suriname’S Jewish Cemeteries”, Aviva Ben-Ur Feb 2004

“Still Life: Sephardi, Ashkenazi And West African Art And Form In Suriname’S Jewish Cemeteries”, Aviva Ben-Ur

Aviva Ben-Ur

No abstract provided.


The American Democratic Tradition & The Quest For Access & Equity In Higher Education: The Browns And Blues Of Social Change, Amilcar Shabazz Feb 2004

The American Democratic Tradition & The Quest For Access & Equity In Higher Education: The Browns And Blues Of Social Change, Amilcar Shabazz

Amilcar Shabazz

In this lecture I revisit the meaning of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision and the legal and social struggles that led to the ruling and its consequences especially in the area of higher educational opportunity. I develop the idea of the American Democratic Tradition not as a fossilized ideal but as a contested terrain. The Brown decision and the blues of social change as a protracted, continuous process of struggle is the moment I am trying to render here in this lecture. The Cornell Law Review invited me to participate in its 2004 Symposium, particularly Panel One …


Racial Terror & The Attempt To Stop The Desegregation Of Lamar State College Of Technology, Amilcar Shabazz Jan 2004

Racial Terror & The Attempt To Stop The Desegregation Of Lamar State College Of Technology, Amilcar Shabazz

Amilcar Shabazz

The desegregation of Lamar State College of Technology in Beaumont was marked by racial terror. The clash at Lamar climaxed a protracted antidiscrimination campaign that developed during the Second World War, escalated in 1949 when Lamar grew from a locally supported junior college to a state-supported senior college, and turned into a court battle in the wake of the victorious 1950 Supreme Court decision in Sweatt v. Painter which opened certain graduate and professional school programs at the University of Texas to African Americans. While in the book Advancing Democracy my focus is on documenting Lamar’s desegregation and situating the …


Flags Of Convenience: Shipping Industry Patriotism, Rowan Cahill Jan 2004

Flags Of Convenience: Shipping Industry Patriotism, Rowan Cahill

Rowan Cahill

An account of the growth of 'flag of convenience' shipping during the twentieth century, with critical attention to the dynamics that drive the industry.


Introduction: The Problem Of The Color Line, Elizabeth Clark-Lewis Jan 2004

Introduction: The Problem Of The Color Line, Elizabeth Clark-Lewis

Elizabeth Clark-Lewis

"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Fifty years after Dr. W. E. B. DuBois wrote these words in The Souls of Black Folk, the 1954 Brown v. the Board of Education case dramatized them. This legal action forced the United States to confront the explicit racial caste system imposed on African Americans prior to the constitutional protections guaranteed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The Brown decision also highlighted how politics, wedded to the maintenance of white supremacy, supported the well-organized de Jure terror system common …


Latvia: History, Steven R. Morrison, J. Michael Lyons Jan 2004

Latvia: History, Steven R. Morrison, J. Michael Lyons

Steven R Morrison

No abstract provided.


Latvia: The Economy, Steven R. Morrison Jan 2004

Latvia: The Economy, Steven R. Morrison

Steven R Morrison

No abstract provided.


Συνοπτικό Διάγραμμα Προϊστορικής Αρχαιολογίας, Kosmas Touloumis Jan 2004

Συνοπτικό Διάγραμμα Προϊστορικής Αρχαιολογίας, Kosmas Touloumis

Kosmas Touloumis

A diagrammatic survey of the theory, the methods, the archeologists, the sites and the data of prehistoric archaeology in Greece.


Gender And Time In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Richard Utz Jan 2004

Gender And Time In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Richard Utz

Richard Utz

The word "time," as defined by cultural critic Norbert Elias in his essay on the sociology of knowledge, is a human symbol "for a relation which a group of human beings, who possess the biological capability of memorization and synthesis, establishes among several events, one of which they standardize as the frame of reference or measuring rod for the others". Similarly, Aaron Gurevic underlines there there are no universal definitions of space and time ...


Potted Histories: Cremation, Ceramics And Social Memory In Early Roman Britain,, Howard M. R. Williams Jan 2004

Potted Histories: Cremation, Ceramics And Social Memory In Early Roman Britain,, Howard M. R. Williams

Howard M. R. Williams

Archaeologists have identified the adoption of new forms of cremation ritual during the early Roman period in south-east Britain. Cremation may have been widely used by communities in the Iron Age, but the distinctive nature of these new rites was their frequent placing of the dead within, and associated with, ceramic vessels. This paper suggests an interpretation for the social meaning of these cremation burial rites that involved the burial of ashes with and within pots as a means of commemoration. In this light, the link between cremation and pottery in early Roman Britain can be seen as a means …


Death Warmed Up: The Agency Of Bodies And Bones In Early Anglo-Saxon Cremation Rites, Howard M. R. Williams Jan 2004

Death Warmed Up: The Agency Of Bodies And Bones In Early Anglo-Saxon Cremation Rites, Howard M. R. Williams

Howard M. R. Williams

It is argued that recent archaeological theories of death and burial have tended to overlook the social and mnemonic agency of the dead body. Drawing upon anthropological, ethnographic and forensic analogies for the effects of fire on the human body, together with Gell’s theory of the agency of inanimate objects, the article explores the cremation rites of early Anglo-Saxon England. As a case study in the archaeological study of the mnemonic agency of bodies and bones it is suggested that cremation and postcremation rites in the 5th and 6th centuries AD in eastern England operated as technologies of remembrance. Cremation …


[Review] History Of Oceanography: Abstracts Of The Vii International Congress Of The History Of Oceanography. V.L. Stryuk (General Editor) (2003), Enrique Wulff Jan 2004

[Review] History Of Oceanography: Abstracts Of The Vii International Congress Of The History Of Oceanography. V.L. Stryuk (General Editor) (2003), Enrique Wulff

Enrique Wulff

No abstract provided.


[Review] El Instituto De Investigaciones Pesqueras: Tres Décadas De Historia De La Investigación Marina Española. Ángel Guerra Sierra & Ricardo Prego Reboredo (2003), Enrique Wulff Jan 2004

[Review] El Instituto De Investigaciones Pesqueras: Tres Décadas De Historia De La Investigación Marina Española. Ángel Guerra Sierra & Ricardo Prego Reboredo (2003), Enrique Wulff

Enrique Wulff

No abstract provided.


[Review] Historia De La Sección De Corrosión De La Asociación De Químicos De Cataluña (1960-2002). Enrique Julve Y Juan Cullell (2003), Enrique Wulff Jan 2004

[Review] Historia De La Sección De Corrosión De La Asociación De Químicos De Cataluña (1960-2002). Enrique Julve Y Juan Cullell (2003), Enrique Wulff

Enrique Wulff

No abstract provided.


[Review] 90º Aniversario. El Instituto Español De Oceanografía: Sus Orígenes Y Primeras Investigaciones. Juan Pérez De Rubín (2004), Enrique Wulff Jan 2004

[Review] 90º Aniversario. El Instituto Español De Oceanografía: Sus Orígenes Y Primeras Investigaciones. Juan Pérez De Rubín (2004), Enrique Wulff

Enrique Wulff

No abstract provided.


[Review] Historia De La Bioestadística: La Génesis, La Normalidad Y La Crisis. José Almenara Barrios, Luis Carlos Silva Ayçaguer, Alina Benavides Rodríguez, Cesáreo García Ortega, Juan Luis González, Juan Luis González Caballero (2003), Enrique Wulff Jan 2004

[Review] Historia De La Bioestadística: La Génesis, La Normalidad Y La Crisis. José Almenara Barrios, Luis Carlos Silva Ayçaguer, Alina Benavides Rodríguez, Cesáreo García Ortega, Juan Luis González, Juan Luis González Caballero (2003), Enrique Wulff

Enrique Wulff

No abstract provided.


Spanish And Mamluk Carpets: Comparisons Of Decoration And Structure, Carol Bier Jan 2004

Spanish And Mamluk Carpets: Comparisons Of Decoration And Structure, Carol Bier

Carol Bier

Two recent exhibitions, Carpets of Andalusia and Mamluk Rugs from Egypt, at The Textile Museum afforded a rare opportunity to compare two radically different rug-weaving traditions from the perspectives of design and weave structure. While not often evident to the casual viewer, there is a significant relationship between design, pattern, and weave structure in all Oriental carpets. The opportunity to explore such differences warrants careful examination and critical viewing.The Mamluk rugs all probably date from the last quarter of the 15th century. They comprise a cohesive group defined by color, a geometric style, and similarity of weave characteristics.


Women At The Gates: Gender And Industry In Stalin's Russia., Lisa Kirschenbaum Jan 2004

Women At The Gates: Gender And Industry In Stalin's Russia., Lisa Kirschenbaum

Lisa Kirschenbaum

No abstract provided.


Going Back To The Old Mainstream: No Depression, Robbie Fulks, And Alt. Country's Muddied Waters, Barbara Ching Jan 2004

Going Back To The Old Mainstream: No Depression, Robbie Fulks, And Alt. Country's Muddied Waters, Barbara Ching

Barbara Ching

In 1972, when Doctor Hook and the Medicine Show sang "The Cover of the Rolling Stone," they cast rock critics as arbiters of stardom. By the time Cameron Crowe used th is song in his 2000 film Almost Famous, it held little irony. Sex and drugs were good but they just couldn't compare to joining the magazine's anointed. Currently, some alternative country aspirant could sing the same tune about No Depression. The magazine, now in its eighth year, invariably uses its cover to showcase an alt.country artist. It has sponsored alt.country package tours (in which the editors indulge the fan's …


In Flanders Fields: Uncovering The Carnage Of World War I, Neil A. Silberman Jan 2004

In Flanders Fields: Uncovering The Carnage Of World War I, Neil A. Silberman

Neil A. Silberman

No abstract provided.


"Surat Bahr Al Rum"(Picture Of The Sea Of Byzantium): Possible Meanings Underlying The Forms, Karen C. Pinto Jan 2004

"Surat Bahr Al Rum"(Picture Of The Sea Of Byzantium): Possible Meanings Underlying The Forms, Karen C. Pinto

Karen C. Pinto

In this paper I will display, examine, and deconstruct the "classical" medieval Islamic conception of the Mediterranean as seen through colorful, miniature maps found in medieval Arabic and Persian geographical manuscripts from the 11th to 17th centuries. In his classic book "Mohammad and Charlemagne" (1939), the Belgian scholar Henri Pirenne set forth what has since come to be known as the Pirenne thesis, expressing the dominant European view that the sudden advent of Islam on the "other" side of the Mediterranean disrupted the unity of the "Roman Lake" forever. "With Islam a new world was established on those Mediterranean shores, …


City, Chronicle, Chronotope: Re-Constructing And Writing Old Quito, Ernesto B. Capello Jan 2004

City, Chronicle, Chronotope: Re-Constructing And Writing Old Quito, Ernesto B. Capello

Ernesto B. Capello

No abstract provided.