Author: William Bence Jones
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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The Life's Work in Ireland of a Landlord who Tried to Do His Duty
Author: William Bence Jones
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Catalogue of the Public Library of Brookline. Supplement 1873-81
Author: Public Library of Brookline
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Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Catalogue of Books in the Lower Hall of the Boston Public Library in the Classes of History, Biography, Geography, and Travel
Author: Boston Public Library
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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The Athenaeum
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 884
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 884
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The Color of Family
Author: Michael O'Malley
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022683591X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
A uniquely blended personal family history and history of the changing definitions of race in America. A zealous eugenicist ran Virginia’s Bureau of Vital Statistics in the first half of the twentieth century, misusing his position to reclassify people he suspected of hiding their “true” race. But in addition to being blinded by his prejudices, he and his predecessors were operating more by instinct than by science. Their whole dubious enterprise was subject not just to changing concepts of race but outright error, propagated across generations. This is how Michael O’Malley, a descendant of a Philadelphia Irish American family, came to have “colored” ancestors in Virginia. In The Color of Family, O’Malley teases out the various changes made to citizens’ names and relationships over the years, and how they affected families as they navigated what it meant to be “white,” “colored,” “mixed race,” and more. In the process, he delves into the interplay of genealogy and history, exploring how the documents that establish identity came about, and how private companies like Ancestry.com increasingly supplant state and federal authorities—and not for the better. Combining the history of O’Malley’s own family with the broader history of racial classification, The Color of Family is an accessible and lively look at the ever-shifting and often poisoned racial dynamics of the United States.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022683591X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
A uniquely blended personal family history and history of the changing definitions of race in America. A zealous eugenicist ran Virginia’s Bureau of Vital Statistics in the first half of the twentieth century, misusing his position to reclassify people he suspected of hiding their “true” race. But in addition to being blinded by his prejudices, he and his predecessors were operating more by instinct than by science. Their whole dubious enterprise was subject not just to changing concepts of race but outright error, propagated across generations. This is how Michael O’Malley, a descendant of a Philadelphia Irish American family, came to have “colored” ancestors in Virginia. In The Color of Family, O’Malley teases out the various changes made to citizens’ names and relationships over the years, and how they affected families as they navigated what it meant to be “white,” “colored,” “mixed race,” and more. In the process, he delves into the interplay of genealogy and history, exploring how the documents that establish identity came about, and how private companies like Ancestry.com increasingly supplant state and federal authorities—and not for the better. Combining the history of O’Malley’s own family with the broader history of racial classification, The Color of Family is an accessible and lively look at the ever-shifting and often poisoned racial dynamics of the United States.
The academy
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Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Languages : en
Pages : 668
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The Potato
Author: Larry Zuckerman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466812435
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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The Potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable, once regarded as trash food, had as revolutionary an impact on Western history as the railroad or the automobile. Using Ireland, England, France, and the United States as examples, Larry Zuckerman shows how daily life from the 1770s until World War I would have been unrecognizable-perhaps impossible-without the potato, which functioned as fast food, famine insurance, fuel and labor saver, budget stretcher, and bank loan, as well as delicacy. Drawing on personal diaries, contemporaneous newspaper accounts, and other primary sources, this is popular social history at its liveliest and most illuminating.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466812435
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable, once regarded as trash food, had as revolutionary an impact on Western history as the railroad or the automobile. Using Ireland, England, France, and the United States as examples, Larry Zuckerman shows how daily life from the 1770s until World War I would have been unrecognizable-perhaps impossible-without the potato, which functioned as fast food, famine insurance, fuel and labor saver, budget stretcher, and bank loan, as well as delicacy. Drawing on personal diaries, contemporaneous newspaper accounts, and other primary sources, this is popular social history at its liveliest and most illuminating.
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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The Social Sciences
Author: Chicago Public Library
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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The Social Sciences
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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