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L'industriel canadien-français et son milieu
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ISBN: 141235658X Year: 2006 Publisher: Chicoutimi : J.-M. Tremblay,

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Cavalier and Yankee : the Old South and American national character
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ISBN: 1280526831 0195359518 1429400137 9781429400138 9780195359510 9780195082845 0195082842 9781280526831 0195082842 0197712002 Year: 1993 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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William Taylor's Cavalier and Yankee was one of the most famous works of American history written in the 1960's. The book is an intellectual history of the South before the Civil War, the perception of it in the North, and the effect it had upon the nation in the years from 1800 to 1860. First published in 1961 and out of print for several years, Taylor's classic study remains essential to the study of the pre-Civil War South.


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Unity in Christ and country
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ISBN: 081739088X 9780817390884 9780817319458 081731945X Year: 2017 Publisher: Tuscaloosa

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Every citizen a soldier
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ISBN: 162349169X 9781623491697 9781623491468 1623491460 Year: 2014 Publisher: College Station

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Beginning in 1943, US Army leaders such as John M. Palmer, Walter L. Weible, George C. Marshall, and John J. McCloy mounted a sustained and vigorous campaign to establish a system of universal military training (UMT) in America. Fearful of repeating the rapid demobilization and severe budget cuts that had accompanied peace following World War I, these leaders saw UMT as the basis for their postwar plans. As a result, they promoted UMT extensively and aggressively.In Every Citizen a Soldier: The Campaign for Universal Military Training after World War II, William A. Taylor illustrates how army


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Faith and slavery in the Presbyterian diaspora
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ISBN: 1611462010 1611462029 9781611462029 9781611462012 Year: 2016 Publisher: Bethlehem

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Faith and Slavery considers how in diverse places-the New Hebrides, Scotland, the United States, and East Central Africa-the Presbyterian faith shaped men's and women's interpretations of and interactions with chattel slavery. The chapters highlight how the particular ways Presbyterians framed the Reformed Tradition made slavery an especially problematic and fraught issue for adherents to the faith, and led to a variety of reactions to slavery-ranging from abolitionism, to indifference, to support.


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Marvels & miracles in late colonial Mexico
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ISBN: 1283636743 0826349773 9780826349774 9781283636742 6613949205 9786613949202 9780826349750 0826349757 Year: 2011 Publisher: Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press

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Consisting of three rare documents about miracles from this period, each accompanied by an introductory essay, this study serves as a source book and complement to the author's Shrines and Miraculous Images: Religious Life in Mexico Before the Reforma

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Miracles --- Mexico --- Church history


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Shrines and miraculous images
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ISBN: 1283636921 0826348556 9780826348555 082634853X 9780826348531 9781283636926 6613949388 9786613949387 9780826348531 Year: 2010 Publisher: Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press

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William Taylor explores the use of local and regional shrines, and devotion to images of Christ and Mary, including Our Lady of Guadalupe, to get to the heart of the politics and practices of faith in Mexico before the Reforma. This book considers previously unstudied or reconsidered places, themes, patterns, and episodes in Mexican religious history during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. William Taylor explores the use of local and regional shrines as well as devotion to images of Christ and Mary, including Our Lady of Guadalupe, to get to the heart of the politics and practices of faith in Mexico before the Reforma.


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Fugitive freedom : the improbable lives of two imposters in late colonial Mexico
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ISBN: 0520976142 Year: 2021 Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press,

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Cut loose from their ancestral communities by wars, natural disasters, and the great systemic changes of an expanding Europe, vagabond strangers and others out of place found their way through the turbulent history of early modern Spain and Spanish America. As shadowy characters inspiring deep suspicion, fascination, and sometimes charity, they prompted a stream of decrees and administrative measures that treated them as nameless threats to good order and public morals. The vagabonds and impostors of colonial Mexico are as elusive in the written record as they were on the ground, and the administrative record offers little more than commonplaces about them. Fugitive Freedom locates two of these suspect strangers, Joseph Aguayo and Juan Atondo, both priest impersonators and petty villains in central Mexico during the last years of Spanish rule.Displacement brought pícaros to the forefront of Spanish literature and popular culture-a protean assortment of low life characters, seen as treacherous but not usually violent, shadowed by poverty, on the move and on the make in selfish, sometimes clever ways as they navigated a hostile, sinful world. What to make of the lives and longings of Aguayo and Atondo, which resemble those of one or another literary pícaro? Did they imagine themselves in literary terms, as heroes of a certain kind of story? Could impostors like these have become fixtures in everyday life with neither a receptive audience nor permissive institutions? With Fugitive Freedom, William B. Taylor provides a rare opportunity to examine the social histories and inner lives of two individuals at the margins of an unfinished colonial order that was coming apart even as it was coming together.


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The vital landscape : nature and the built environment in nineteenth-century Britain
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ISBN: 1351144790 1351144804 1351144782 Year: 2018 Publisher: London : Routledge,

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"The Vital Landscape explores the arrival of the biological sciences - most notably the sciences of?life? entailed in studies of botany and zoology, ecology and evolutionary science, physiology and psychology - in the nineteenth century and their impact on architecture and landscape architecture in Great Britain. Specifically, the book explores the idea of the contrived or artificial environment as an object of both scientific speculation and aesthetic reflection. Unlike specialist histories of biological science or environmental thought, this book is unique in locating one source for present-day concerns for the environment and human well-being in debates over proper housing and the growing popularity of domestic and public gardens in the nineteenth century. The book skilfully interweaves architecture and garden history, the history and philosophy of science, plant and animal physiology and human psychology, works of literature, popular science and domestic economy in a story that opens new opportunities for the study of architecture and gardens."--Provided by publisher.


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Military service and American democracy : from World War II to the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
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ISBN: 0700623213 Year: 2016 Publisher: Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas,

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Who Serves? William Taylor shows us why the changing answers to that question matter, not only to the individuals involved but to the health of American democracy. A pioneering work on the political and social history of American military recruiting since the end of World War II.

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