Author: Various
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041356645
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 752

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Publisher: Poetry Salzburg
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Author: Molly Rogers
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300163282
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 554

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M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

Author: Joseph O. Jewell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461641659
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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Moral reform movements targeting racial minorities have long been central in negotiating the relationship between race and class in the United States, particularly in periods of large scale social change. Over a century ago, when the abolition of racial slavery, Southern Reconstruction, industrialization, and urban migration presented challenges to both race and class hierarchies in the South, postbellum missionary reform organizations like the American Missionary Association crusaded to establish schools, colleges, and churches for Blacks in Southern cities like Atlanta that would aggressively erode cultural differences among former slaves and assimilate them into a civic order defined by Anglo-Protestant culture. While the AMA's missionary institutions in Atlanta sought to shift racial dynamics between Blacks and Whites, they also fueled struggles over the social and cultural boundaries of middle class belonging in a region beset by social change. Drawing upon late nineteenth century accounts of AMA missionary activity in Atlanta, Black attempts to define and maintain a middle class identity, and Atlanta Whites' concerns about Black attempts at upward mobility, the author argue that the rhetoric about the implications of increased minority access to middle class resources like education and cultural knowledge speaks to links between anxieties about class position and racial status in societies stratified by both class and race.

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1890

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Author: Howard Markel
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324036753
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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A lively account of how Darwin’s work on natural selection transformed science and society, and an investigation into the mysterious illness that plagued its author. By early morning of June 30, 1860, a large crowd began to congregate in front of Oxford University’s brand-new Museum of Natural History. The occasion was the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and the subject of discussion was Charles Darwin’s new treatise: fact or fiction? Darwin, a simultaneously reclusive and intellectually audacious squire from Kent, claimed to have solved “that mystery of mysteries,” introducing a logical explanation of the origin of species—how they adapted, even transmogrified, through natural selection. At stake, on that summer’s day of spirited debate, was the very foundation of modern biology, not to mention the future of the church. Without fear of exaggeration, Darwin’s thesis would forever change our understanding of the life sciences and the natural world. And yet the author himself was nowhere to be found in the debate hall—instead, he was miles away, seeking respite from a spate of illnesses that had plagued him for much of his adult life. In Origin Story, medical historian Howard Markel recounts the two-year period (1858 to 1860) of Darwin’s writing of On the Origin of Species through its spectacular success and controversy. Simultaneously, Markel delves into the mysterious health symptoms Darwin developed, combing the literature to emerge with a cogent diagnosis of a case that has long fascinated medical historians. The result is a colorful portrait of the man, his friends and enemies, and his seminal work, which resonates to this day.

Author: Sir Leslie Stephen
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Author: Leslie Stephen
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Author: Leslie Stephen
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1388

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