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Review Of Immigration, Colonisation Et Propagande: Du Reve Americain Au Reve Colonial By Serge Courville, J. David Wood
Review Of Immigration, Colonisation Et Propagande: Du Reve Americain Au Reve Colonial By Serge Courville, J. David Wood
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
This book is a true magnum opus-large in its 640 pages of text, and a major work of exploration well beyond the author's previous scholarly bailiwick. The period covered includes the seventeenth century to the 1930s but concentrates on the nineteenth century. Dividing its focus on two main subjects, the study first traces the stories of the European "migration fever" over the three centuries and offers a thorough commentary on how the discourse on migration developed in various European countries ("Theories et Propagande"). From an early date the British took a lead in publishing accounts of explorations, scientific reports, and …
Review Of Native American Sovereignty On Trial: A Handbook With Cases, Laws, And Documents By Bryan H. Wildenthal, David Wilkins
Review Of Native American Sovereignty On Trial: A Handbook With Cases, Laws, And Documents By Bryan H. Wildenthal, David Wilkins
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Native American Sovereignty on Trial is part of the On Trial series that examines complex and controversial legal issues with an eye toward providing students and other interested readers with an analytical and educational examination of how "the law in all its various forms-constitutional, statutory, judicial, political, and customary-has shaped and reshaped the world in which we live today."
Review Of Come To Texas: Enticing Immigrants, 1865-1915 By Barbara J. Rozek, Frank Van Nuys
Review Of Come To Texas: Enticing Immigrants, 1865-1915 By Barbara J. Rozek, Frank Van Nuys
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Citizens in the southernmost reaches of the Great Plains, as Barbara J. Rozek demonstrates in her exhaustively researched study, strove to convince all able-bodied individuals from other states and Europe to "Come to Texas." Rozek examines a fifty-year period, from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of World War I, in which energetic Texans produced a stunning collection of almanacs, brochures, letters, newspapers, and pamphlets, trusting in the power of the written word to entice migration into the state. "Committed Texans did this," she asserts, "with a vigor, a persistence, and a creativity not always found in …
Review Of Who Are Canada's Aboriginal Peoples? Recognition, Definition, And Jurisdiction Edited By Paul L. A. H. Chartrand, Roy Todd
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Official recognition of indigenous peoples in North America has been a slow and uneven process. Many groups in Canada and the United States remain unrecognized and are thus denied collective and individual rights. This book deals with legal policy relating to recognition of indigenous peoples, analyzing Canadian constitutional issues and case law with particular emphasis upon the Metis, and with some comparisons between Canada and the United States.
Review Of Slaughterhouse Blues: The Meat And Poultry Industry In North America By Donald D. Stull And Michael J. Broadway, Kendall Thu
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Stull and Broadway capture fifteen years' experience examining structural shifts and community consequences of an increasingly industrialized meat production system in North America, with particular attention to the meatpacking sector. Their impressive, wide-ranging coverage of changing beef, poultry, and pork production systems and their influence on rural cultures will no doubt be a staple resource for scholars, policy makers, and communities in the Great Plains and elsewhere grappling with dramatic changes in our nation's food system.
An initial chapter aptly outlines the contours of agricultural industrialization, followed by a chapter each devoted specifically to the three major meat sectors. The …
Review Of Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement And Nagpra By Kathleen S. Fine-Dare, James Riding In
Review Of Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement And Nagpra By Kathleen S. Fine-Dare, James Riding In
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Fine-Dare tells the story of the American Indian movement to recover human remains and cultural objects taken from them by non-Indians for the purposes of study, display, and profit from the viewpoint of an anthropologist supportive of Indian issues who wants her profession used in a more positive way regarding Native peoples. To her, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) is a means for understanding boarder historical currents invol ving the treatment of Indians, whether bad, good, or indifferent. She argues that relating this history is vital for fathoming the complexities of repatriation that began during the …
Review Of Preserving The Sacred: Historical Perspectives On Ojibwa Midewiwin By Michael Angel, Katherine Pettipas
Review Of Preserving The Sacred: Historical Perspectives On Ojibwa Midewiwin By Michael Angel, Katherine Pettipas
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
This volume is a critical historiography of the nature and meaning of the Midewiwin as it was, and still is, practiced by southwestern, western, and northern Anishinaabeg (Ojibwa or Chippewa) in both Canada and the United States. A self-described "culturally sensitive outsider," Angel has approached his subject from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing heavily from religious studies and historic and ethnographic documentation. The origins and functions of the Midewiwin are examined within the contexts of Anishinaabeg religion and society. Angel takes issue with the classification of the Midewiwin as a "revitalization movement" or a "crisis cult" by demonstrating that the "essential …
Review Of Creek Indian Medicine Ways: The Enduring Power Of Mvskoke Religion By David Lewis, Jr. And Ann T. Jordan, Susan A. Miller
Review Of Creek Indian Medicine Ways: The Enduring Power Of Mvskoke Religion By David Lewis, Jr. And Ann T. Jordan, Susan A. Miller
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
This collaborative work by Mvskoke (Creek) medicine man David Lewis Jr. and Euro-American anthropologist Ann T. Jordan focuses on the heles-hayv tradition of medicine that Lewis's family has kept for generations through the forced relocation from the Southeast to the eastern margins of the southern Great Plains. Lewis's first-person narrative occupies the heart of the book: chapters titled "Kinds of Medicine People," "Selection of Medicine People," and "Memories of Childhood in a Medicine Family"; a chapter on the sacred story encoding much of the tradition's essential knowledge; chapters on vegetal pharmacopoeia, medical practices, and ceremonies; and a chapter titled "The …
Review Of Eye On The Future: Business People In Calgary And The Bow Valley, 1870- 1900 By Henry C. Klassen, Vernon Jones
Review Of Eye On The Future: Business People In Calgary And The Bow Valley, 1870- 1900 By Henry C. Klassen, Vernon Jones
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
The city of Calgary is well known for its entrepreneurial spirit, often associated with the Calgary Stampede and Alberta's wildcatting oil and gas industry. For those interested in the early history of the city and the Bow Valley, Henry Klassen's Eye on the Future is both readable and enlightening. Concentrating on the years 1870 through 1900, Klassen captures Calgary's frontier blend of rural and emerging urban life well before the era of oil and gas.
Calgary's dynamic growth during this period was due to its geography. At the confluence of the Bow and Elbow Rivers, the Edmonton Trail from the …
Review Of American Arrivals: Anthropology Engages The New Immigration Edited By Nancy Foner, Mcc. Heyman
Review Of American Arrivals: Anthropology Engages The New Immigration Edited By Nancy Foner, Mcc. Heyman
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Immigration to the United States since 1965, usually labeled "the new immigration," has several distinguishing features. First, the predominant source nations are in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, rather than Europe. The second is a new trend within this scenario, the diversification of destinations, such that migration involves not only Los Angeles and New York, but also numerous small cities in the Prairie and Great Plains states, locations that once received Europeans and Mexicans but have been little involved in international migration for decades. In order to understand the dramatic social and cultural changes stemming …
Review Of Uniting Mountain And Plain: Cities, Law, And Environmental Change Along The Front Range By Kathleen A. Brosnan, Richard Hogan
Review Of Uniting Mountain And Plain: Cities, Law, And Environmental Change Along The Front Range By Kathleen A. Brosnan, Richard Hogan
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Brosnan offers a remarkably well-researched and well-written analysis of the Colorado Front Range urban ecology, focusing on Denver (the financial and commercial capital), Colorado Springs (the tourist town), and Pueblo (the factory town). Denver's business leaders receive the bulk of the attention here, but their efforts to promote a diverse regional industrial hinterland lead the reader through the mining, farming, and grazing regions of nineteenth-century Colorado. The narrative does not follow localities so much as problems and possibilities, beginning with the problem of extinguishing Native American claims (chapter 2) and establishing irrigated agriculture (chapter 3). The histories of Colorado Springs …
Review Of Americanizing The West: Race, Immigrants, And Citizenship, 1890-1930 By Frank Van Nuys, Gerhard Grytz
Review Of Americanizing The West: Race, Immigrants, And Citizenship, 1890-1930 By Frank Van Nuys, Gerhard Grytz
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Americanizing the West is an eloquently written account of Progressive reformers' concerted efforts to Americanize immigrants and ethnics in the American West, with a specific focus on the Mountain and Southwest regions, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Americanization in the West was not a simple replica of similar efforts in the American East. In the West, Americanizers encountered a unique multicultural environment and the presence of ethnic groups who resided there well before the arrival of the first "Anglos" in the region. Euro-American pioneers pouring into the area during the second half of the nineteenth century increasingly …
Review Of The Trajectories Of Rural Life: New Perspectives On Rural Canada Edited By Raymond Blake And Andrew Nurse, Michael Gertler
Review Of The Trajectories Of Rural Life: New Perspectives On Rural Canada Edited By Raymond Blake And Andrew Nurse, Michael Gertler
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
The Trajectories of Rural Life presents papers from a Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy conference designed to go "beyond the myths of rural Canada's past to develop a clear picture of the present reality from all perspectives .... " This could be a complicated project. The chapters range from research reports to policy essays, with notable diversity in terms of discipline and approach. Despite some lack of clarity in overall concept, many of the contributions shine through. In addition to chapters on the cultural reconstruction of rural life in Quebec, minority experiences in rural Atlantic Canada, family violence in rural …
Great Plains Research, Volume 14, Number 2, Fall 2004 - Editorial Matter
Great Plains Research, Volume 14, Number 2, Fall 2004 - Editorial Matter
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Editorial Matter
Review Of Remaking The American Mainstream: Assimilation And Contemporary Immigration By Richard D. Alba And Victor Nee, Hal Barron
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Co-authored by two distinguished sociologists, this book is a valuable synthesis of scholarship on recent immigration to the United States that explores whether assimilation is still a viable theory for understanding the new arrivals' experiences. In a thorough and nuanced analysis comparing contemporary patterns of acculturation with those of earlier European and Asian immigrants, Alba and Nee argue strongly for the continued utility of the concept. Notwithstanding some serious caveats and concerns, they are extremely optimistic about the future of immigrants and of American society, which they see as increasingly more united by common social experiences than divided along ethnic …
Letter From The Editor, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.
Letter From The Editor, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
There I was, happily enjoying retirement, getting to read what I wanted, and come to the office when I wanted. Then in late February 2004, the Director of the Center for Great Plains Studies (CGPS) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Dr. Jim Stubbendieck, called me and asked if I would consider accepting the job of editor of Great Plains Research. I considered the offer and quickly accepted.
In the brief time that I have been on the job I have gotten to know some of the staff at the CGPS and have found them to be easy to work …
Parents’ Perceptions Of Wraparound Services In Lancaster County, Nebraska, Paul Mooney, Gregory Benner
Parents’ Perceptions Of Wraparound Services In Lancaster County, Nebraska, Paul Mooney, Gregory Benner
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
The role of parents in wraparound mental health systems of care for youth with emotional and behavioral disorders is evolving. The purpose of the present study was to identify variables that impact parents' perceptions of systems of care. Parents in a countywide system of care (N = 213) were surveyed to determine their perceptions of barriers to effective services and service priorities. Parents identified the ability to pay for services, long waiting lists and periods, and lack of information about community services and resources as their top barriers. Respondents indicated services coordination, mental health outreach, and mentoring programs were their …
Review Of Roadside Geology Of Nebraska By Harmon D. Maher Jr., George F. Engelmann, And Robert D. Shuster, Rex Buchanan
Review Of Roadside Geology Of Nebraska By Harmon D. Maher Jr., George F. Engelmann, And Robert D. Shuster, Rex Buchanan
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Like many of the fly-over states, Nebraska suffers from a bad reputation when it comes to scenery. But the Sand Hills of northwestern Nebraska are one of the most stark, yet entrancing landscapes in the country. The Platte, the Missouri, and the Niobrara are great places to see river systems at work. Nebraska's Cretaceous rocks and Oligocene-Pleistocene sediments have produced classic vertebrate fossils that grace museums in Nebraska and throughout the world.
The roadside geology series, published by Mountain Press, has helped introduce a large, generally non-geological audience to the rocks and fossils of many states. This addition to the …
Review Of Texas Natural History: A Century Of Change By David J. Schmidly, Brian Barnette
Review Of Texas Natural History: A Century Of Change By David J. Schmidly, Brian Barnette
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
As the nineteenth century drew to a close, a team of naturalists ventured out across the state of Texas to capture, identify, and record as many species of wildlife as they could find. Under the direction of Vernon Bailey, they spent more than 2,100 days in Texas between 1889 and 1906 sampling each of the state's ten ecological regions. Their efforts were part of a nation-wide survey sponsored by the Department of Agriculture.
Bailey's 1905 summary of the team's findings, North American Fauna No. 25: Biological Survey of Texas, has served as a standard reference on Texas mammals for …
Fishes Of The Missouri National Recreational River, South Dakota And Nebraska, Charles Berry, Jr., Bradley Young
Fishes Of The Missouri National Recreational River, South Dakota And Nebraska, Charles Berry, Jr., Bradley Young
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Two sections of the Missouri River, one extending 94 km downstream from Gavins Point Dam, and the other extending 62 km downstream from Fort Randall Dam, are legally designated as National Recreational Rivers. An ichthyofaunal list and fish habitat data were needed for conservation planning by states and federal agencies (e.g., National Park Service). We collected fish during three summers from four macrohabitats, using five fish collection techniques, and measured fish habitat characteristics. Temperature, conductivity, and turbidity varied little, but substrate, depth, and velocity differed among macrohabitats (e.g., depth and velocity in the channel exceeded those elsewhere; sand dominated the …
New Perspectives On The Changing Religious Diversity In The Great Plains, Stanley Brunn, Holly Barcus
New Perspectives On The Changing Religious Diversity In The Great Plains, Stanley Brunn, Holly Barcus
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
The religious landscape of the Plains is dominated by four major denominations: Lutherans, Catholics, Methodists, and Baptists. But beneath these prevailing majorities are others that are declining (Presbyterians) and increasing (Pentecostals and Mormons) in membership and places of worship. Jews, Muslims, Charismatics, and Baha'i are also increasing in metropolitan areas, where the greatest diversity exists. "Religious geology," a concept that depicts religious diversity, exhibits sharp regional variations.
Mapping Changes In Denominational Membership In The Great Plains, 1952-2000, Holly Barcus, Stanley Brunn
Mapping Changes In Denominational Membership In The Great Plains, 1952-2000, Holly Barcus, Stanley Brunn
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
The religious heritage of the Great Plains is illustrated in distinct denominational regions. Mapping county-level data on major denominations reveals that Catholics and Lutherans are strongest in the Northern Plain, Methodists in the Central Plains, and Baptists in the Southern Plains. Counties that are increasing in population and closest to metropolitan and interstate areas experience the most diversity. During the last fifty years, Lutherans and Methodists have lost members, while Catholics and Baptists gained. The Central Plains is experiencing the most dynamism.
Social Capital, Wealth, And Nebraska Towns, John Anderson
Social Capital, Wealth, And Nebraska Towns, John Anderson
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
The relationship between political theory and economic development is often overlooked. In this research, political theorizing about what makes democracies work is linked to the production of wealth in rural Nebraska towns. Evidence shows that social capital in rural settings actually can help with economic development. The evidence also shows that suburban towns may actually inhibit the development of social capital.
Review Of The Columbia Guide To American Indians Of The Great Plains By Loretta Fowler, F. Todd Smith
Review Of The Columbia Guide To American Indians Of The Great Plains By Loretta Fowler, F. Todd Smith
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Loretta Fowler, professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma and author of several books on Great Plains tribes such as the Arapahos and the Gros Ventres, has now produced this excellent guide to all of the Indian tribes of the area. Dividing the Great Plains into five different regions-Southern, Central, Northwestern, Middle Missouri, and Northeastern Periphery-Fowler provides a concise and straightforward Indian history from prehistoric times to the present in four short chapters. Important terms-people, places, and events-used in each chapter are placed in boldface type and then defined in an appendix that stretches alphabetically from "age-graded societies" to …
Review Of North American Box Turtles: A Natural History By C. Kenneth Dodd, Jr., Lynette Sievert
Review Of North American Box Turtles: A Natural History By C. Kenneth Dodd, Jr., Lynette Sievert
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Box turtles, genus Terrapene, inhabit much of the eastern US and some of Mexico. Many herpetologists and naturalists can recount pleasant childhood memories of encounters with these docile reptiles. Offering a wealth of scientific information to satisfy the highly trained herpetologist, Ken Dodd has written a book about a turtle familiar to most of us sure to appeal to the beginner as well.
Review Of Plants Of The Lewis And Clark Expedition By H. Wayne Phillips, Alfred Schuyler
Review Of Plants Of The Lewis And Clark Expedition By H. Wayne Phillips, Alfred Schuyler
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Since the publication of Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists by Paul Russell Cutright in 1969 and the arrival of the expedition's bicentennial, more and more people are interested in the botanical results of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The combined efforts of explorer Meriwether Lewis and botanist Frederick Pursh provided the foundation of our knowledge of the flora of western North America as well as the earliest portrayal of western plants as botanical art. Despite all the ordeals of the expedition, Lewis managed to collect specimens of about eighty currently recognized plant species that were described as new to science …
Review Of Agricultural Policy, Agribusiness, And Rent-Seeking Behavior By Andrew Schmitz, Hartley Furtan, And Katherine Baylis, Brian Oleson
Review Of Agricultural Policy, Agribusiness, And Rent-Seeking Behavior By Andrew Schmitz, Hartley Furtan, And Katherine Baylis, Brian Oleson
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
This excellent text is suitable for senior undergraduate students and graduate students in agricultural economics and agribusiness. Its underlying premise is that the formation of agricultural policy is driven by rent-seeking behavior and that agribusiness is an important participant in the policy process. The book goes on to contrast agricultural policies in Canada and the United States through this rent-seeking lens.
Although its title's emphasis on rent-seeking and agribusiness is somewhat misleading, the volume offers an excellent economic analysis of agricultural policy. Rent-seeking is a dominant theme but certainly not the book's focus, unless policy and rent-seeking are simply seen …
Review Of The Indian Reorganization Act: Congresses And Bills Edited By Vine Deloria Jr., Douglas Nash
Review Of The Indian Reorganization Act: Congresses And Bills Edited By Vine Deloria Jr., Douglas Nash
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Federal Indian policy has always been cyclical and often at opposite ends of a spectrum defined by tribal values. The treaty era, when tribal land holdings were reduced and tribes confined to reservations, and the General Allotment Act of 1887, designed to break up and further reduce tribal land holdings, and the termination era, when some tribes and their reservations were legislated out of existence, occupy the lower level of those cycles. The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, also known as the Wheeler-Howard Act, has always been seen as containing some of the most enlightened and positive policies.
The Indian …
Review Of Changing Precipitation Regimes And Terrestrial Ecosystems: A North American Perspective Edited By Jake F. Weltzin And Guy R. Mcpherson, Luke Marzen
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
This volume, the result of a 1998 symposium organized by the Ecological Society of America, bring together a number of leading experts to answer important questions about global change, precipitation regimes, and terrestrial ecosystems in several biomes of temperate North America. It is becoming increasingly apparent that anthropogenic activities combined with many other factors are substantially affecting terrestrial ecosystems and vegetation response patterns at a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Concern over global changes is leading to an increasing number of investigations into the impacts human activity may be having on climate patterns and what the potential consequences may …
Review Of Trails And Trials: Markets And Land Use In The Alberta Beef Cattle Industry, 1881-1948 By Max Foran, Ian Maclachlan
Review Of Trails And Trials: Markets And Land Use In The Alberta Beef Cattle Industry, 1881-1948 By Max Foran, Ian Maclachlan
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Max Foran's Trails and Trials does a superb job of filling a conspicuous gap in Alberta's agricultural history. By covering the period 1881-1948, the book extends the standard accounts of Alberta's ranching history well into the twentieth century. And it expands on traditional ranch history themes with its clear and consistent focus on the importance of cattle exports in relation to Canada's small domestic market and on the importance of markets in understanding land use change. Foran periodizes and organizes his story clearly. Each chapter follows a similar structure with sections and subsections describing major market and policy developments and …