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Fort San Juan and the Limits of Empire
Built in 1566 by Spanish conquistador Juan Pardo, Fort San Juan is the earliest known European settlement in the interior United States. Located at the Berry site in western North Carolina, the fort and its associated domestic compound stood near the Native American town of Joara, whose residents sacked the fort and burned the compound after only eighteen months.
Drawing on archaeological evidence from architectural, floral, and faunal remains, as well as newly discovered accounts of Pardo's expeditions, this volume explores the deterioration in Native American–Spanish relations that sparked Joara's revolt and offers critical insight into the nature of early colonial interactions.
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Handbook of Spectroscopy
This second, thoroughly revised, updated and enlarged edition provides a straightforward introduction to spectroscopy, showing what it can do and how it does it, together with a clear, integrated and objective account of the wealth of information that may be derived from spectra. It also features new chapters on spectroscopy in nano-dimensions, nano-optics, and polymer analysis.
Clearly structured into sixteen sections, it covers everything from spectroscopy in nanodimensions to medicinal applications, spanning a wide range of the electromagnetic spectrum and the physical processes involved, from nuclear phenomena to molecular rotation processes.
In addition, data tables provide a comparison of different methods in a standardized form, allowing readers to save valuable time in the decision process by avoiding wrong turns, and also help in selecting the instrumentation and performing the experiments.
These four volumes are a must-have companion for daily use in every lab.
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The state we’re in
What makes people lose faith in democratic statecraft? The question seems an urgent one. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, citizens across the world have grown increasingly disillusioned with what was once a cherished ideal. Setting out an original theoretical model that explores the relations between democracy, subjectivity and sociality, and exploring its relevance to countries ranging from Kenya to Peru,The State We're In is a must-read for all political theorists, scholars of democracy, and readers concerned for the future of the democratic ideal.
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U.S. Foreign Policy and the Other
John Quincy Adams warned Americans not to search abroad for monsters to destroy, yet such figures have frequently habituated the discourses of U.S. foreign policy. This collection of essays focuses on counter-identities in American consciousness to explain how foreign policies and the discourse surrounding them develop. Whether it is the seemingly ubiquitous evil of Hitler during World War II or the more complicated perceptions of communism throughout the Cold War, these essays illuminate the cultural contexts that constructed rival identities. The authors challenge our understanding of \"others,\" looking at early applications of the concept in the eighteenth century to recent twenty-first century conflicts, establishing how this phenomenon is central to decision making through centuries of conflict.
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At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice
Music is powerful and transformational, but can it spur
actual social change?
A strong collection of essays, At the Crossroads of Music
and Social Justice studies the meaning of music within a
community to investigate the intersections of sound and race,
ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and differing
abilities. Ethnographic work from a range of theoretical frameworks
uncovers and analyzes the successes and limitations of music's
efficacies in resolving conflicts, easing tensions, reconciling
groups, promoting unity, and healing communities. This volume is
rooted in the Crossroads Section for Difference and Representation
of the Society for Ethnomusicology, whose mandate is to address
issues of diversity, difference, and underrepresentation in the
society and its members' professional spheres. Activist scholars
who contribute to this volume illuminate possible pathways and
directions to support musical diversity and representation.
At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice is an
excellent resource for readers interested in real-world examples of
how folklore, ethnomusicology, and activism can, together, create a
more just and inclusive world.
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