The South in Modern America is a lively and illuminating account of the Southern experience since the end of Reconstruction. In the twentieth century, as in the nineteenth, the South has been the ...region most sharply at odds with the rest of the nation. No other part of the country has as clear-cut a sectional image. The interplay between the South, the North, and the rest of the nation represents a rich and instructive part of the United States history, illustrating much of the nation's conflict and tension, the way it has tried to reconcile divergent issues, and its struggles to realize its historical ideals. In this new treatment of modern Southern history, Dewey W. Grantham illuminates the features that make the South a distinctive region while clarifying how it has converged socially and politically with the rest of the country during this century.
This volume completes the translation of Ibn Battuta's narrative. Volume III ended with Ibn Battuta's appointment by the Sultan of Delhi to accompany an embassy to China. In Volume IV he describes ...his journey to the coast where he embarked near Cambay and sailed to Calicut. Here the ships which were to take them to China were wrecked. Ibn Battuta joined the Sultan of Honavar in a temporarily successful attack on Goa, and then went to the Maldives, which had not long been converted to Islam by another North African. Here he functioned as a judge, married into the ruling elite, and became involved in a plot to bring the islands under the authority of a bloodthirsty Sultan in south India. On the way to join him, Ibn Battuta found himself in Ceylon and took the opportunity to climb Adam's Peak. He abandoned the planned invasion of the Maldives, to which he returned briefly, and the sailed to Bengal to visit an ascetic in Sylhet. He claims to have visited several countries in south-east Asia, including Sumatra and Java and some which cannot be satisfactorily identified, and arrived at Ch'?an-chou in China. After going to Canton he travelled by a non-existent river to Hang-chou and Beijing. His return to Morocco, during which he witnessed the ravages of the Black Death in Syria and Egypt, and called at Cagliari in a Catalan ship, is described summarily. He made two more journeys, the first to part of Spain still under Muslim rule, which included Gibraltar, Ronda, M?laga and Granada, and the other across the Sahara to the kingdom of Mali on the upper Niger, from which he returned to Fez via Timbuktu, Gao, A?r, the Hoggar country and Tuat.
Rae’s book analyses southern Democrats as a force in American politics since the 1960s. Drawing on interviews with many southern politicians, Rae traces the history of southern Democrats from the ...erosion of their national influence in the early 1960s to the 1992 election of Clinton and Gore.
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This volume collects together Sir Alec Cairncross' most important contributions to the economic history of the post-1939 period. They address such major issues as the role of economists in the 2nd ...World War, the significance of the Marshall plan and Britain's relative economic decline. Together they demonstrate a keen insight into the changing role of the economist in government and the gradual transformation of the economic landscape.
Justice for natives Cotler, Irwin; Morrison, Andrea P
Justice for natives,
c1997, 19940101, 1994, 1994-01-01
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The collection follows a cycle of remembering the past, learning from the present, and planning for the future. In the first section of the book, "Conflict, Self-Determination, and Native Peoples," ...contributors, including Mohawk activist Ken Deer, Judge Rejean Paul, and scholar Brian Slattery, look at the historical roots of the conflict between Native and non-Native people, problems in the current justice system, and the movement for Native self-determination. In the second section, "Lessons from Oka," Native leaders Elijah Harper, Matthew Coon-Come, and Diom Romeo Saganash respond to the crisis at Oka and scholars Bruce Clark and Robert Venables consider constitutional alternatives and compare Canadian policy with that in the United States. Looking into the future, the final section, "Justice for Natives?" offers practical alternatives for improving relations, reviews actual measures being taken, and proposes models for change. Some of the solutions raised include increased recognition of Crown fiduciary duties to Native people, co-management strategies for land use, and an independent Native judiciary as envisioned by scholar Leroy Little Bear of Saskatchewan.
Science as Salvation Midgley, Mary
1992, 20130201, 1994-03-31, 2013-02-01, 19920101
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What is the role of scientists in society? What should we think when they talk about more than just science? Mary Midgley discusses the high spiritual ambitions which tend to gather around the notion ...of science.
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We have tested a method originally developed by Beisser et al. (1990) to retrieve the source parameters (strike, dip, rake, and depth) of sparsely recorded earthquakes from the inversion of ...teleseismic waveform data. The complete wave train of all body waves is modeled using the reflectivity method. The parameter space of strike, dip, and rake is searched to find the source orientation which leads to the minimum misfit between the observed and the synthetic seismogram. The 1983 Kaoiki, Hawaii, earthquake (MS = 6.6) was chosen as a test case. The inversion of the full data set (16 stations) gave a fault plane solution similar to the best double couple moment tensor solution of Harvard University and National Earthquake Information Centre. These three solutions were averaged to create a standard solution. Sparse data sets were simulated by decimating the full data set, and the resulting fault plane solutions were compared with the standard. We found that as few as one to three stations were sufficient to retrieve the focal mechanism of the 1983 Kaoiki event. We applied this technique to the 1951 Kona, Hawaii, earthquake (MS = 6.9). A total of four stations and nine components were used to model the source parameters of this earthquake. The depth was estimated at 13±3 km. The fault plane solution was a decollement type with a near‐horizontal plane dipping at about 15° to the southwest and a near‐vertical plane striking NW‐SE. This observation supports a tectonic model for the Kona coast similar to that of Kilauea's south flank; the upper crust is pushed away from the center of Hawaii, slipping westward along a near‐horizontal plane of weakness.
