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Forests for the People tells one of the most extraordinary stories of environmental protection in our nation’s history: how a diverse coalition of citizens, organizations, and business and political leaders worked to create a system of national forests in the Eastern United States. It offers an insightful and wide-ranging look at the actions leading to the passage of the Weeks Act in 1911—landmark legislation that established a system of well-managed forests in the East, the South, and the Great Lakes region—along with case studies that consider some of the key challenges facing eastern forests today. The book begins by looking at destructive practices widely used by the timber industry in the late 1800's and early 1900's, including extensive clearcutting followed by forest fire that devastated entire landscapes. The authors explain how this led to the birth of a new conservation movement that began simultaneously in the Southern Appalachians and New England, and describe the subsequent protection of forests in New England (New Hampshire and the White Mountains); the Great Lakes region (Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota), and the Southern Appalachians. Following this historical background, the authors offer eight case studies that examine critical issues facing the eastern national forests today, including timber harvesting, the use of fire, wilderness protection, endangered wildlife, oil shale drilling, invasive species, and development surrounding national park borders. Forests for the People is the only book to fully describe the history of the Weeks Act and the creation of the eastern national forests and to use case studies to illustrate current management issues facing these treasured landscapes. It is an important new work for anyone interested in the past or future of forests and forestry in the United States.

Forest conservation -- East (U.S.). --- Forest reserves -- East (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century. --- Forest reserves --- Forest conservation --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Forestry --- Environmental Sciences --- History --- Conservation of forests --- Forest preservation --- Forests and forestry --- Preservation of forests --- Forest management areas --- Forest parks --- Forest preserves --- Forest protected areas --- Forests, National --- Forests, State --- Management areas, Forest --- National forests --- Parks, Forest --- Preserves, Forest --- Reserves, Forest --- State forests --- Conservation --- Environment. --- Ecology. --- Ecosystems. --- Conservation biology. --- Forestry. --- Environment, general. --- Conservation Biology/Ecology. --- Nature conservation --- Deforestation --- Natural monuments --- Natural resources conservation areas --- Protected areas --- Public lands --- National parks and reserves --- Control --- Environmental sciences. --- Forests and forestry. --- Endangered ecosystems. --- Threatened ecosystems --- Biotic communities --- Ecology --- Forest land --- Forest lands --- Forest planting --- Forest production --- Forest sciences --- Forestation --- Forested lands --- Forestland --- Forestlands --- Forestry industry --- Forestry sciences --- Land, Forest --- Lands, Forest --- Silviculture --- Sylviculture --- Woodlands --- Woods (Forests) --- Agriculture --- Natural resources --- Afforestation --- Arboriculture --- Logging --- Timber --- Tree crops --- Trees --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Environmental science --- Science --- Ecology . --- Biocenoses --- Biocoenoses --- Biogeoecology --- Biological communities --- Biomes --- Biotic community ecology --- Communities, Biotic --- Community ecology, Biotic --- Ecological communities --- Ecosystems --- Natural communities

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It was Maurice Sugar, labor activist and lawyer for the United Auto Workers, who played a key role in guiding the newly-formed union through the treacherous legal terrain obstructing its development in the 1930s. He orchestrated the injunction hearings on the Dodge Main strike and defended the legality of the sit-down tactic. As the UAW's General Council, he wrote the union's constitution in 1939, a model of democratic thinking. Sugar worked with George Addes, UAW Secretary-Treasurer, to nurture rank-and-file power. A founder of the National Lawyers' Guild, Sugar also served as a member of Detroit's Common Council at the head of a UAW "labor" ticket. By 1947, Sugar was embroiled in a struggle within the UAW that he feared would destroy the open structures he had helped to build. He found himself in opposition to Walter Reuther's bid to run the union. A long-time socialist, Sugar fell victim to mounting Cold War hysteria. When Reuther assumed control of the UAW, Sugar was summarily dismissed. Christopher Johnson chronicles the life of Maurice Sugar, from his roots in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, through his resistance with Eugene V. Debs to World War I, and on to the struggles of the early 1930s to bring the union message to Detroit. Firmly grounded on the historiography of the UAW, Johnson shows the importance of Sugar and the Left in laying the foundation for unionizing the auto industry in the pre-UAW days. He documents the work of the Left in building a Black-labor coalition in Detroit, the importance of anti-Communism in Reuther's rise to power, and the diminution of union democracy in the UAW brought about by the Cold War. Maurice Sugar represents a force in American life that bears recalling in these barren years of plant closings.

Lawyers --- Labor unions and communism --- Automobile industry workers --- History. --- Labor unions --- Biography. --- Sugar, Maurice, --- International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America --- Advocates --- Attorneys --- Bar --- Barristers --- Jurists --- Legal profession --- Solicitors --- Representation in administrative proceedings --- Auto workers --- Automobile construction workers --- Automobile industry and trade --- Automobile workers --- Employees --- Communism and labor unions --- Trade-unions and communism --- Communism --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- U.A.W. --- UAW --- United Automobile Workers of America --- United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America --- International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America --- Persons --- U.A.W. (United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America) --- UAW (United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America) --- Labour / income economics

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"Becoming Bourgeois" traces the fortunes of three French families in the municipality of Vannes, in Brittany - the Galles, Jollivet, and Le Ridant - who rose to prominence in publishing, law, the military, public administration, and intellectual pursuits over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Revisiting complex issues of bourgeois class formation from the perspective of the interior lives of families, Christopher H. Johnson argues that the most durable and socially advantageous links forging bourgeois ascent were those of kinship. Economic success, though certainly derived from the virtues of hard work and intelligent management, was always underpinned by marriage strategies and the diligent intervention of influential family members. Johnson's examination of hundreds of personal letters opens up a whole world : the vicissitudes of courtship ; the centrality of marriage ; the depths of conjugal love ; the routines of pregnancy and the drama of childbirth , the practices of child rearing and education ; the powerful place of siblings ; the role of kin in advancing the next generation ; tragedy and deaths ; the enormous contributions of women in all aspects of becoming bourgeois ; and the pleasures of gathering together in intimate soirées, grand balls, country houses, and civic and political organizations. Family love bound it all together, and this is ultimately what this book is about, as four generations of rather ordinary provincial people capture our hearts.

Families --- Middle class --- Bourgeoisie --- Commons (Social order) --- Middle classes --- Social classes --- History --- Social conditions --- France --- Middle class - France - History - 18th century --- Middle class - France - History - 19th century --- Families - France --- France - Social conditions - 18th century --- France - Social conditions - 19th century

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Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645), one of the greatest poets of the Spanish Golden Age, was the master of the baroque style known as "conceptismo," a complex form of expression fueled by elaborate conceits and constant wordplay as well as ethical and philosophical concerns. Although scattered translations of his works have appeared in English, there is currently no comprehensive collection available that samples each of the genres in which Quevedo excelled-metaphysical and moral poetry, grave elegies and moving epitaphs, amorous sonnets and melancholic psalms, playful romances and

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As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787). From its inception, Hawkins's work, arising from a close relationship with Johnson that spanned over forty-five years, challenged certain adulatory views of Johnson and has continued to raise interesting critical questions about both Johnsonian biography and the genre of biography generally.