Gathercole, Peter W. ; & Lowenthal, David ; editors ::The Politics of the Past
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New York: Empire Books, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. 360 pages. Illus., notes, index. DJ has some wear, soiling, and edge tears/chips. Minor edge soiling. Inscrib… Altro …
New York: Empire Books, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. 360 pages. Illus., notes, index. DJ has some wear, soiling, and edge tears/chips. Minor edge soiling. Inscribed by the autho on fep and signed on t-p. Frank Van Riper is a nationally acclaimed Washington-based photographer, author, journalist and lecturer. His current book, done in collaboration with Judith Goodman, his wife and professional partner, is 'Serenissima: Venice in Winter.' A collection of atmospheric black and white photographs and essays, it was published in Fall, '08 to rave reviews both in the United States and in Italy. Frank is a documentary photographer in the tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Gianni Berengo Gardin. He also is an award-winning writer, having served for 20 years in the Washington Bureau of the New York Daily News, as White House correspondent, national political correspondent, and Washington Bureau news editor. For 19 years he was the photography columnist of the Washington Post. John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 - December 8, 2016) was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio. In 1962 he was the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times. Before joining NASA, Glenn was a distinguished fighter pilot in World War II and Korea with six Distinguished Flying Crosses and eighteen clusters on his Air Medal.He was one of the Mercury Seven, military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA as the United States' first astronauts. On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission; the first American to orbit the Earth, he was the fifth person in space. He received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978, was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1990, and was the last surviving member of the Mercury Seven.After Glenn resigned from NASA in 1964 and retired from the Marine Corps the following year, he planned to run for a U.S. Senate seat from Ohio. An injury in early 1964 forced his withdrawal, and he lost a close primary election in 1970. A member of the Democratic Party, Glenn first won election to the Senate in 1974 and served for 24 years until January 3, 1999.In 1998, still a sitting senator, Glenn was the oldest person to fly in space as a crew member of the Discovery space shuttle and the only person to fly in both the Mercury and Space Shuttle programs. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012., Empire Books, 1983, 2.75, New York, N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. viii, 440 pages. Endpaper map. Includes Prologue, Epilogue, Acknowledgments, Illustration Credits, Notes, and Index. Also contains chapters on Casus Belli, 1890-1911; The First Mine War, 1912-1918; The Second Mine War, 1919-1921; and The Peace, 1922-1933. James Robert Green (November 4, 1944 - June 23, 2016) was an American historian, author, and labor activist. He was Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Boston. In 1970, Green was appointed an assistant professor of history at Brandeis University. When the magazine Radical America moved from Madison, Wisconsin, to Boston in 1971, Green began writing for the former SDS-run publication, Radical America. An influential 1974 Radical America article by Green and co-author Allen Hunter outlining the history of school desegregation in Boston prior to the 1974 school-busing crisis, "Racism and Busing in Boston." Green received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1972. Green studied under the legendary historian C. Vann Woodward, and became acquainted with the leftist historians Eric Hobsbawm and Herbert Gutman. During this time he also was involved in the anti-war movement, which eventually sparked his interest in the history of radicalism in the United States. In 1977, Green was appointed an associate professor of history and labor studies in the College of Public and Community Service at the University of Massachusetts. In December of that year and into early 1978, Green worked in West Virginia, covering a national strike by coal miners who had defied (for a few days) a Taft-Hartley Act back-to-work order. This book brilliantly locates the West Virginia mine wars within the contexts of West Virginia and American history, and portrays this story as a basic struggle for the freedoms Americans have always expected as their birthright. Green personifies this class struggle in a panorama of heroes, antiheroes, and the mass of ordinary people doing unordinary things to achieve a better life. This book is an essential chapter in the history of American Freedom. From before the dawn of the 20th century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence. On the other side were 50,000 mine workers, the nation's largest labor union, and the legendary miners' angel, Mother Jones. The fight for unionization and civil rights sparked a political crisis verging on civil war that stretched from the creeks and hollows to the courts and the US Senate. In The Devil is Here in These Hills, celebrated labor historian James Green tells the story of West Virginia and coal like never before. The value of West Virginia's coalfields had been known for decades, and after rail arrived in the 1870s, industrialists pushed fast into the wilderness, digging mines and building company towns where they wielded nearly complete control over everyday life. The state's high-quality coal drove American expansion and industrialization, but for tens of thousands of laborers, including boys as young as ten, mining life showed the bitter irony of the state motto, Mountaineers are Always Free. Attempts to unionize were met with stiff resistance. Fundamental rights were bent, then broken, and the violence evolved from bloody skirmishes to open armed conflict, as an army of miners marched to an explosive showdown. Extensively researched and told in vibrant detail, The Devil is Here in These Hills is the definitive book on an essential chapter in the history of American freedom., Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015, 3, Some minor rubbing. VG. Textual illustrations. Archaeology Routledge London (1994) orig. wrappers 23x15cm, xxvi,319 pp., PAPERBACK. Series: One World Archaeology, 12. Contains 23 papers from the session of the World Archaeological Congress, held in Southampton, England in September 1986. Includes: The heritage of ethnocentricity: the western world view in archaeological atlases [Chris Scarre]; public presentations and private concerns - archaeology in the pages of "National Geographic" [Joan Gero and Dolores Root]; American nationality and ethnicity in the depicted past [Michael L.Blakey] Afro- Americans in the Massachusetts historical landscape [Robert Paynter]; the W.E.B.DuBois boyhood homesite - a case study in the politics of historical archeology; black people and museums - the Caribbean heritage project in Southampton [Ronald Belgrave]; "volk und Germanentum" - the presentation of the past in Nazi Germany [W.J. McCann]; Rulers and ruled: Maori control of the Maori heritage [Stephen O'Regan]; Nga Tukemata - Nga Taonga o Ngati Kahungunu (The Awakening - The Treasures of Ngati Kahungunu) [David J. Butts]; God's police and damned whores - images of archaeology in Hawaii [ Matthew Spriggs]; aboriginal perceptions of the past - the implications for cultural resource management in Australia [Howard Creamer]; search for the missing link - archaeology and the public in Lebanon [Helga Seeden]; the legacy of Eve [Stan Jones and Sharon Pay]; museums - two case studies of reaction to colonialism [Frank Willett]; cultural education in West Africa - archeological perspectives [Nwanna Nzewunwa]; irreconcilable issues? - culture houses in Zimbabwe [Peter J.Ucko]; the development of museums in Botswana - dilemmas and tensions in a front-line state; etc., Routledge, 3<