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The Cacophony of Politics
The Cacophony of Politics charts the trajectory of the
Democratic Party as the party of opposition in the North during the
Civil War. A comprehensive overview, this book reveals the myriad
complications and contingencies of political life in the Northern
states and explains the objectives of the nearly half of eligible
Northern voters who cast a ballot against Abraham Lincoln in
1864.
The party's famous slogan \"The Union as it was, the Constitution
as it is\" was meant to have broad appeal and promote solidarity
among Northern Democrats by invoking their core ideological
commitments to nationalism, law and order, tradition, and strict
construction. But, as J. Matthew Gallman shows, the slogan was a
poor reflection of the volatile, fluid, messy, and improvisational
reality of political life for men and women, across the public and
private spheres. Democrats experienced the war as a cascading
series of dilemmas, for which their slogan did not always offer
guidance or resolution. Offering a definitive account of the
Democratic Party in the North, The Cacophony of Politics
shows the limits of ideology and the ways the Civil War-and the
nature of nineteenth-century political culture-confounded the
Democrats' self-image and exacerbated their divisions, especially
over the central issue of slavery.
A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era
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Peter Pan
The adventures of The adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up.
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Collecting evolution : the Galápagos expedition that vindicated Darwin
The story of the 1905-1906 voyage by the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands, during which over 78,000 species were collected.
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Peter Pan : an illustrated classic
The adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up.
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Rebellious Histories
From the early 1970s to the mid-1990s, playwrights, novelists,
filmmakers, visual artists, and prison writers from Sierra Leone
and the United States brought a new attention to the events of the
1839 Amistad shipboard slave rebellion. As a testament of
the human will to freedom, the story of the Amistad
mutineers also describes the wide arc of the international circuits
of capital, commerce, juridical power, and diplomacy that
structured and reproduced the Atlantic slave trade for nearly four
centuries. In Rebellious Histories , Matthew J. Christensen
argues that for creative artists struggling to comprehend-and
survive-pernicious manifestations of globalization like Sierra
Leone's civil war, the Amistad rebellion's narrative of
exploitative resource extraction, transatlantic migrations, armed
rebellion, and American judicial intervention offers both a
historical antecedent and allegory for contemporary global
capitalism's reconfiguration of culture and subjectivity. At the
same time, he shows how the mutineers' example provides a model for
imagining utopian forms of transnationalism. With its wide-ranging
comparative approach, Rebellious Histories brings a unique
perspective to the study of the cultural histories of both slave
resistance and globalization.
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The collected Peter Pan
'To die will be an awfully big adventure.' Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. J. M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living in secret with the birds and fairies in the middle of London, but as the children for whom he invented the stories grew older, so too did Peter, reappearing in Neverland, where he was aided in his epic battles with Red Indians and pirates by the motherly and resourceful Wendy Darling. Peter Pan has become a cultural icon and symbol for escapism and innocence, remaining popular with both children and adults. In this collected edition, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst brings together five of the main versions of the Peter Pan story, from Peter Pan's first appearance in The Little White Bird, to his novelisation of the story, the stage version, and unrealised silent film script. This edition contains a lively introduction, detailed explanatory notes, original illustrations, and appendices that include Barrie's coda to the play that was only performed once.
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Security as Practice
This important text offers a full and detailed account of how to use discourse analysis to study foreign policy. It provides a poststructuralist theory of the relationship between identity and foreign policy and an in-depth discussion of the methodology of discourse analysis.
Part I offers a detailed discussion of the concept of identity, the intertextual relationship between official foreign policy discourse and oppositional and media discourses and of the importance of genres for authors' ability to establish themselves as having authority and knowledge. Lene Hansen devotes particular attention to methodology and provides explicit directions for how to build discourse analytical research designs
Part II applies discourse analytical theory and methodology in a detailed analysis of the Western debate on the Bosnian war. This analysis includes a historical genealogy of the Western construction of the Balkans as well as readings of the official British and American policies, the debate in the House of Commons and the US Senate, Western media representations, academic debates and travel writing and autobiography.
Providing an introduction to discourse analysis and critical perspectives on international relations, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of international relations, discourse analysis and research methodology.
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Lost boy : the true story of Captain Hook
\"From the national bestselling author of Alice comes a familiar story with a dark hook--a tale about Peter Pan and the friend who became his nemesis, a nemesis who may not be the blackhearted villain Peter says he is ...\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Untouched by the Conflict
A rare glimpse into the life of one young man who chose not to fight Nearly three million white men of military age remained in the North during the Civil War, some attending institutions of higher learning.
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