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Author | : Nancy L. Struna |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780252065521 |
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Prowess--extraordinary skill and ability, especially in sports--has always been important to Americans, even in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Nancy L. Struna explores the significance, meaning, and structure of competitive matches and displays of physical prowess for both men and women in colonial culture. Engrossingly written for the general reader as well as sport and leisure historians, People of Prowess is a pioneering work that explores a rarely examined area of colonial history and society.
Author | : Jay Coakley |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 609 |
Release | : 2000-08-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1446265056 |
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Now available in paperback, this vital handbook marks the development of sports studies as a major new discipline within the social sciences. Edited by the leading sociologist of sport, Eric Dunning, and Jay Coakley, author of the best selling textbook on sport in the USA, it both reflects and richly endorses this new found status. Key aspects of the Handbook include: an inventory of the principal achievements in the field; a guide to the chief conflicts and difficulties in the theory and research process; a rallying point for researchers who are established or new to the field, which sets the agenda for future developments; a resource book for teachers who wish to establish new curricula and develop courses and programmes in the area of sports studies. With an international and inter-disciplinary team of contributors the Handbook of Sports Studies is comprehensive in scope, relevant in content and far-reaching in its discussion of future prospect.
Author | : Eve Fairbanks |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2022-07-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1476725292 |
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Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction A dozen years in the making, The Inheritors weaves together the stories of three ordinary South Africans over five tumultuous decades in a sweeping and exquisite look at what really happens when a country resolves to end white supremacy. Dipuo grew up on the south side of a mine dump that segregated Johannesburg’s black townships from the white-only city. Some nights, she hiked to the top. To a South African teenager in the 1980s—even an anti-apartheid activist like Dipuo—the divide that separated her from the glittering lights on the other side appeared eternal. But in 1994, the world’s last explicit racial segregationist regime collapsed to make way for something unprecedented. With penetrating psychological insight, intimate reporting, and bewitching prose, The Inheritors tells the story of a country in the throes of a great reckoning. Through the lives of Dipuo, her daughter Malaika, and Christo—one of the last white South Africans drafted to fight for the apartheid regime—award-winning journalist Eve Fairbanks probes what happens when people once locked into certain kinds of power relations find their status shifting. Observing subtle truths about race and power that extend well beyond national borders, she explores questions that preoccupy so many of us today: How can we let go of our pasts, as individuals and as countries? How should historical debts be paid? And how can a person live an honorable life in a society that—for better or worse—they no longer recognize?
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Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1873 |
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Download The People's Hymnal. [Compiled by R. F. Littledale.] Fifth Edition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Organization of American historians |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1997 |
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Author | : Edward Sylvester Ellis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
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Author | : Elizabeth A. Fenn |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2014-03-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0374711070 |
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Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1804-1805 with them, but why don't we know more? Who were they really? In this extraordinary book, Elizabeth A. Fenn retrieves their history by piecing together important new discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, epidemiology, and nutritional science. Her boldly original interpretation of these diverse research findings offers us a new perspective on early American history, a new interpretation of the American past. By 1500, more than twelve thousand Mandans were established on the northern Plains, and their commercial prowess, agricultural skills, and reputation for hospitality became famous. Recent archaeological discoveries show how these Native American people thrived, and then how they collapsed. The damage wrought by imported diseases like smallpox and the havoc caused by the arrival of horses and steamboats were tragic for the Mandans, yet, as Fenn makes clear, their sense of themselves as a people with distinctive traditions endured. A riveting account of Mandan history, landscapes, and people, Fenn's narrative is enriched and enlivened not only by science and research but by her own encounters at the heart of the world.
Author | : Simon J. Ortiz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 23 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : 9781537968162 |
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Traces the progress of the Indians of North America from the time of the Creation to the present.
Author | : Liz Bryan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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History of the aboriginal groups living on the plains of western Canada from the last glaciation to European contact.
Author | : Edward Sylvester Ellis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : United States |
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