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Review-Fishing For Chickens: A Smokies Food Memoir, Blake Denton Aug 2023

Review-Fishing For Chickens: A Smokies Food Memoir, Blake Denton

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Honor, Excrement, Ethnography: Colonial Knowledge Between Missionary And Militaire In French Algeria, Joseph W. Peterson Mar 2021

Honor, Excrement, Ethnography: Colonial Knowledge Between Missionary And Militaire In French Algeria, Joseph W. Peterson

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In 1865, an overly aggressive missionary in the Kabyle mountains of French Algeria was tricked into sitting in human excrement, publicly humiliated by the tribe he hoped to convert. Or was he? Historians of French Algeria have recounted this story as confirmation of the scholarly consensus: that public missions to Muslims were either nonexistent or delusional and short-lived in the early decades of French Algeria. But these historians have relied on a version of the incident that was authored by an unsympathetic military administrator. This article argues that the excremental incident in Kabylie—and the competing versions of what happened there—should …


Haiti And The Uses Of America: Post-U.S. Occupation Promises, By Chantalle F. Verna, Matthew Casey Dec 2018

Haiti And The Uses Of America: Post-U.S. Occupation Promises, By Chantalle F. Verna, Matthew Casey

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The Nation Before Taste: The Challenges Of American Culinary History, Andrew P. Haley May 2012

The Nation Before Taste: The Challenges Of American Culinary History, Andrew P. Haley

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Food is material and familiar, and because it is, we are often overconfident about our ability to understand the culinary past. It is easy to believe that if we can discover the recipe for some forgotten dish, the history of the dish becomes intelligible. When it does not, it tempts those who consume culinary history to impose modern sensibilities on our predecessors. The Nation before Taste" argues that historians and museum curators must be especially vigilant when presenting the history of food. Reviewing a series of historical challenges that stemmed from studying the United States in the late nineteenth and …


The Early American Table: Food And Society In The New World, Andrew P. Haley Dec 2010

The Early American Table: Food And Society In The New World, Andrew P. Haley

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The Body Soviet: Propaganda, Hygiene, And The Revolutionary State, Brian K. Lapierre Sep 2010

The Body Soviet: Propaganda, Hygiene, And The Revolutionary State, Brian K. Lapierre

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Women, Work, And Family In The Antebellum Mountain South, Max L. Grivno May 2009

Women, Work, And Family In The Antebellum Mountain South, Max L. Grivno

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Abraham In Arms: War And Gender In Colonial New England, Kyle F. Zelner Dec 2008

Abraham In Arms: War And Gender In Colonial New England, Kyle F. Zelner

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Choctaw Women In A Chaotic World: The Clash Of Cultures In The Colonial Southeast, Greg O'Brien Jun 2006

Choctaw Women In A Chaotic World: The Clash Of Cultures In The Colonial Southeast, Greg O'Brien

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Prologue To Lewis And Clark: The Mackay And Evans Expedition, Greg O'Brien Dec 2004

Prologue To Lewis And Clark: The Mackay And Evans Expedition, Greg O'Brien

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Social Investigation And Rural England, 1870-1914, L. Margaret Barnett Sep 2004

Social Investigation And Rural England, 1870-1914, L. Margaret Barnett

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Reel History: In Defense Of Hollywood, Brian O'Neil Mar 2004

Reel History: In Defense Of Hollywood, Brian O'Neil

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Family, Commerce, And Religion In London And Cologne: Anglo-German Emigrants, C.Ad1000-C.1300, Richard H. Bowers Jul 2001

Family, Commerce, And Religion In London And Cologne: Anglo-German Emigrants, C.Ad1000-C.1300, Richard H. Bowers

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Conversations In Cold Rooms: Women, Work And Poverty In Nineteenth-Century Northumberland, L. Margarett Barnett Mar 2001

Conversations In Cold Rooms: Women, Work And Poverty In Nineteenth-Century Northumberland, L. Margarett Barnett

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A Forty-Niner From Tennessee: The Diary Of Hugh Brown Heiskell, John D. W. Guice Mar 1999

A Forty-Niner From Tennessee: The Diary Of Hugh Brown Heiskell, John D. W. Guice

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Growing Up Poor: Home, School And Street In London 1870-1914, L. Margaret Barnett Dec 1998

Growing Up Poor: Home, School And Street In London 1870-1914, L. Margaret Barnett

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Reading Lives: Reconstructing Childhood, Books And Schools In Britain, 1870-1920, L. Margaret Barnett Dec 1998

Reading Lives: Reconstructing Childhood, Books And Schools In Britain, 1870-1920, L. Margaret Barnett

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The Brotherhood Of The Common Life And Its Influence, Kathryn A. Edwards Apr 1998

The Brotherhood Of The Common Life And Its Influence, Kathryn A. Edwards

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Adultery And Divorce In Calvin's Geneva, Kathryn A. Edwards Apr 1998

Adultery And Divorce In Calvin's Geneva, Kathryn A. Edwards

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Authority And Sexuality In Early Modern Burgundy (1550-1730), Kathryn A. Edwards Apr 1998

Authority And Sexuality In Early Modern Burgundy (1550-1730), Kathryn A. Edwards

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Southern Slavery And The Law, 1619-1860, Bradley G. Bond Mar 1997

Southern Slavery And The Law, 1619-1860, Bradley G. Bond

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Archaeology Of Precolumbian Florida, Jon Sensbach Jun 1996

Archaeology Of Precolumbian Florida, Jon Sensbach

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The Conscription Of Fashion - Utility Cloth, Clothing, And Footwear, 1941-1952, L. Margaret Barnett Mar 1996

The Conscription Of Fashion - Utility Cloth, Clothing, And Footwear, 1941-1952, L. Margaret Barnett

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Territorial Ambition: Land And Society In Arkansas, 1800-1840 - Bolton, Sc, John D. W. Guice Sep 1995

Territorial Ambition: Land And Society In Arkansas, 1800-1840 - Bolton, Sc, John D. W. Guice

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Empire And Social-Reform, British Liberals And The Civilizing Mission In The Sugar Colonies, 1868-1874, James Patterson Smith Jun 1995

Empire And Social-Reform, British Liberals And The Civilizing Mission In The Sugar Colonies, 1868-1874, James Patterson Smith

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England And The German Hanse, 1157-1611: A Study Of Their Trade And Commercial Diplomacy, Richard H. Bowers Apr 1994

England And The German Hanse, 1157-1611: A Study Of Their Trade And Commercial Diplomacy, Richard H. Bowers

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The Making Of Social Policy In Britain 1830-1990, L. Margaret Barnett Dec 1992

The Making Of Social Policy In Britain 1830-1990, L. Margaret Barnett

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The British National Health Service: State Intervention In The Medical Marketplace, L. Margaret Barnett Sep 1992

The British National Health Service: State Intervention In The Medical Marketplace, L. Margaret Barnett

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Quintilius Ethos As Critic Of The Poet: Horace, Ap 438-44, Mark Edward Clark Jan 1992

Quintilius Ethos As Critic Of The Poet: Horace, Ap 438-44, Mark Edward Clark

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Wills Of The Archdeaconry Of Suffolk, 1620-1624, Jay Pascal Anglin Jun 1991

Wills Of The Archdeaconry Of Suffolk, 1620-1624, Jay Pascal Anglin

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