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Almost Free A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia
Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia By Eva Sheppard Wolf
2012 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0820332291 | PDF | 3 MB
In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf uses the story of Samuel Johnson, a free black man from Virginia attempting to free his family, to add detail and depth to our understanding of the lives of free blacks in the South.There were several paths to freedom for slaves, each of them difficult. After ten years of elaborate dealings and negotiations, Johnson earned manumission in August 1812. An illiterate "mulatto" who had worked at the tavern in Warrenton as a slave, Johnson as a freeman was an anomaly, since free blacks made up only 3 percent of Virginia's population. Johnson stayed in Fauquier County and managed to buy his enslaved family, but the law of the time required that they leave Virginia if Johnson freed them. Johnson opted to stay. Because slaves' marriages had no legal standing, Johnson was not legally married to his enslaved wife, and in the event of his death his family would be sold to new owners. Johnson's story dramatically illustrates the many harsh realities and cruel ironies faced by blacks in a society hostile to their freedom.Wolf argues that despite the many obstacles Johnson and others faced, race relations were more flexible during the early American republic than is commonly believed. It could actually be easier for a free black man to earn the favor of elite whites than it would be for blacks in general in the post-Reconstruction South. Wolf demonstrates the ways in which race was constructed by individuals in their day-to-day interactions, arguing that racial status was not simply a legal fact but a fluid and changeable condition. Almost Free looks beyond the majority experience, focusing on those at society's edges to gain a deeper understanding of the meaning of freedom in the slaveholding South.A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication


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Alfarabi's Book of Dialectic
David M. DiPasquale, "Alfarabi's Book of Dialectic "
English | ISBN: 1108417531 | 2019 | 360 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Widely regarded as the founder of the Islamic philosophical tradition, and as the single greatest philosophical authority after Aristotle by his successors in the medieval Islamic, Jewish, and Christian communities, Alfarabi was a leading figure in the fields of Aristotelian logic and Platonic political science. The first complete English translation of his commentary on Aristotle's Topics, Alfarabi's Book of Dialectic, or Kitāb al-Jadal, is presented here in a deeply researched edition based on the most complete Arabic manuscript sources. David M. DiPasquale argues that Alfarabi's understanding of the Socratic art of dialectic is the key prism through which to grasp his recovery of an authentic tradition of Greek science on the verge of extinction. He also suggests that the Book of Dialectic is unique to the extent to which it unites Alfarabi's logical and political writings, opening up novel ways of interpreting Alfarabi's influence.


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Al-Jahiz In Praise of Books
Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books By James E. Montgomery
2013 | 592 Pages | ISBN: 0748683321 | PDF | 3 MB
Edinburgh University Press will publish two self-contained guides to reading al-Jahiz that also shed light on his society and its writings. This first volume, 'In Praise of Books', is devoted to bibliomania and al-Jahiz's bibliophilia. Volume 2, In Censure of Books, explores Al-Jahiz's bibliophobia. Al-Jahiz was a bibliomaniac, theologian, and spokesman for the political and cultural elite, a writer who lived, counselled and wrote in Iraq during the first century of the 'Abbasid caliphate. He advised, argued and rubbed shoulders with the major power brokers and leading religious and intellectual figures of his day, and crossed swords in debate and argument with the architects of the Islamic religious, theological, philosophical and cultural canon. His many, tumultuous writings engage with these figures, their ideas, theories and policies. They give us an invaluable but much-neglected window onto the values and beliefs of this cosmopolitan elite.


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Agrarian Puerto Rico Reconsidering Rural Economy and Society, 1899-1940
César J. Ayala, "Agrarian Puerto Rico: Reconsidering Rural Economy and Society, 1899-1940"
English | ISBN: 1108488463 | 2020 | 322 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Fundamental tenets of colonial historiography are challenged by showing that US capital investment into this colony did not lead to the disappearance of the small farmer. Contrary to well-established narratives, quantitative data show that the increasing integration of rural producers within the US market led to differential outcomes, depending on pre-existing land tenure structures, capital requirements to initiate production, and demographics. These new data suggest that the colonial economy was not polarized into landless Puerto Rican rural workers on one side and corporate US capitalists on the other. The persistence of Puerto Rican small farmers in some regions and the expansion of local property ownership and production disprove this socioeconomic model. Other aspects of extant Puerto Rican historiography are confronted in order to make room for thorough analyses and new conclusions on the economy of colonial Puerto Rico during the early twentieth century.


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After Foucault Culture, Theory, and Criticism in the 21st Century
Lisa Downing, "After Foucault: Culture, Theory, and Criticism in the 21st Century "
English | ISBN: 1107140498 | 2018 | 218 pages | PDF | 1442 KB
The work of Michel Foucault is much read, widely cited, and occasionally misunderstood. In response to this state of affairs, this collection aims to clarify, to contextualize, and to contribute to Foucauldian scholarship in a very specific way. Rather than offering either a conceptual introduction to Foucault's work, or a series of interventions aimed specifically at experts, After Foucault explores his critical afterlives, situates his work in current debates, and explains his intellectual legacy. As well as offering up-to-date assessments of Foucault's ongoing use in fields such as literary studies, sexuality studies, and history, chapters explore his relevance for urgent and emerging disciplines and debates, including ecology, animal studies, and the analysis of neoliberalism. Written in an accessible style, by leading experts, After Foucault demonstrates a commitment to taking seriously the work of a key twentieth-century thinker for contemporary academic disciplines, political phenomena, and cultural life.


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Aegean Linear Script(s) Rethinking the Relationship Between Linear A and Linear B
Ester Salgarella, "Aegean Linear Script(s): Rethinking the Relationship Between Linear A and Linear B "
English | ISBN: 1108479383 | 2020 | 436 pages | PDF | 63 MB
When does a continuum become a divide? This book investigates the genetic relationship between Linear A and Linear B, two Bronze Age scripts attested on Crete and Mainland Greece and understood to have developed one out of the other. By using an interdisciplinary methodology, this research integrates linguistic, epigraphic, palaeographic and archaeological evidence, and places the writing practice in its sociohistorical setting. By challenging traditional views, this work calls into question widespread assumptions and interpretative schemes on the relationship between these two scripts, and opens up new perspectives on the ideology associated with the retention, adaptation and transmission of a script, and how identity was negotiated at a moment of closer societal interaction between Cretans and Greek-speaking Mainlanders in the Late Bronze Age. By delving deeper into the structure and inner workings of these two writing systems, this book will make us rethink the relationship between Linear A and B.


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Adolescence, 12th Edition
Adolescence 12th Edition
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1260058891 | 577 Pages | PDF (True) | 56 MB
Cutting-edge science personalized for today's students.As a well-respected researcher Laurence Steinberg connects current research with real-world application helping students see the similarities and differences in adolescent development across different social economic and cultural backgrounds.Through an integrated personalized digital learning program students gain the insight they need to study smarter stay focused and improve their performance.


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Ace Notes Tips and Tricks on Existing in an Allo World
Ace Notes
by Kirichanskaya, Michele;Masog, Ashley;

English | 2023 | ISBN: 1839975229 | 290 pages | True PDF EPUB | 12.56 MB


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A Research Agenda for Critical Political Economy
Bill Dunn, "A Research Agenda for Critical Political Economy "
English | ISBN: 1789903068 | 2020 | 256 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.


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A Real-time Approach to Distillation Process Control
A Real-Time Approach to Distillation Process Control
by Young, Brent R.;Taube, Michael A.;Udugama, Isuru A.;

English | 2023 | ISBN: 1119669219 | 258 pages | True PDF | 6.05 MB


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