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Alibis of empire
Alibis of Empire presents a novel account of the origins, substance, and afterlife of late imperial ideology. Karuna Mantena challenges the idea that Victorian empire was primarily legitimated by liberal notions of progress and civilization. In fact, as the British Empire gained its farthest reach, its ideology was being dramatically transformed by a self-conscious rejection of the liberal model. The collapse of liberal imperialism enabled a new culturalism that stressed the dangers and difficulties of trying to \"civilize\" native peoples. And, hand in hand with this shift in thinking was a shift in practice toward models of indirect rule. As Mantena shows, the work of Victorian legal scholar Henry Maine was at the center of these momentous changes. Alibis of Empire examines how Maine's sociotheoretic model of \"traditional\" society laid the groundwork for the culturalist logic of late empire. In charting the movement from liberal idealism, through culturalist explanation, to retroactive alibi within nineteenth-century British imperial ideology, Alibis of Empire unearths a striking and pervasive dynamic of modern empire.
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The salt house : a novel
\"A gorgeously written debut novel set during a Maine summer, about a family navigating the confusing contradictions of grief, love, and hope after an unforgettable accident.\"-- Provided by publisher
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The Spice of Popery
The title for this work comes from the Puritan minister Increase
Mather, who used the colorful metaphor to express his concern about
the state of English Protestantism. Like many New Englanders,
Mather's fears about the creeping influence of French Catholicism
stemmed from English conflicts with France that spilled over into
the colonial frontiers from French Canada. The most consistently
fragile of these frontiers was the Province of Maine, notorious for
attracting settlers who had \"one foot out the door\" of New England
Puritanism. It was there that English Protestants and French
Catholics came into frequent contact. The Spice of Popery:
Converging Christianities on an Early American Frontier shows
how, between the volatile years of 1688 to 1727, the persistence of
Catholic people and culture in New England's border regions posed
consistent challenges to the bodies and souls of frontier
Protestants.
Taking a cue from contemporary observers of religious culture,
as well as modern scholars of early American religion, social
history, material culture, and ethnohistory, Laura M. Chmielewski
explores this encounter between opposing Christianities on an early
American frontier. She examines the forms of lived religion and
religious culture-enacted through gestures, religious spaces,
objects, and discreet religious expressions-to elucidate the range
of experience of its diverse inhabitants: accused witches, warrior
Jesuits, unorthodox ministers, indigenous religious thinkers,
voluntary and involuntary converts. Chmielewski offers a nuanced
perspective of the structured categories of early American
Christian religious life, suggesting that the terms \"Protestant\"
and \"Catholic\" varied according to location and circumstances and
that the assumptions accompanying their use had long-term
consequences for generations of New Englanders.
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Blaze : a novel
At six foot seven, and just under three hundred pounds, Clay \"Blaze\" Blaisdell is a giant of a man, but his capers were purely small time until he met George Rackley. George introduced a slow-thinking Blaze to a past paced world of a hundred different cons and one big idea: Kidnapping the child of wealthy parents. Their intended mark is the definition of filthy rich, and the last twig on the Gerard family tree could be worth millions. There's only one problem: by the time the deal goes down, the brains of the partnership is dead. Or is he? Now a haunted Blaze is on the run from the authorities with a baby as a hostage, headed straight into the teeth of a howling snowstorn... the crime of the century transformed into sudden race against time in with whiteout hell of the Maine Woods.
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Increased probability of fire during late Holocene droughts in northern New England
Understanding the role of fire in the Earth system, and particularly regional controls on its frequency and severity, is critical to risk assessment. Charcoal records from lake sediment and fire-scar networks from long-lived tree species have improved our understanding of long-term relationships between fire events and climate. This work has primarily focused on historically fire-prone ecosystems and regions. In the northeastern USA, where wildfire has been relatively infrequent in historical times, fire-risk assessments have incorporated little-to-no pre-historical data and little is known about long-term fire-climate relationships. We developed coupled, high-resolution records of moisture variability and fire from three ombrotrophic peatlands in Maine using testate amoebae and analysis of microscopic charcoal. Water-table depth reconstructions among the three sites were generally coherent, with high-magnitude dry and wet events corresponding within the uncertainty of age-depth models. At all sites, there was a significantly higher probability of fire events during high-magnitude droughts. However, although prolonged droughts were widespread and associated with higher probability of fire, the fire events were rarely synchronous among sites, with the exception of ~550 years before present (yr BP) when all three sites experienced both drought and fire. While fire has been relatively uncommon in the northeastern USA during the past century, our records clearly highlight the potential vulnerability of the region to future drought and fire impacts. Results also demonstrate the utility of coupled records of fire and climate in understanding regional fire-climate dynamics.
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Home now : how 6000 refugees transformed an American town
\"Over the past 15 years, the town of Lewiston, Maine-once a booming mill town that had fallen on harder times-- has improbably become one of the most Islamic towns in America. Some 6000 Somali immigrants have settled there, drastically changing the makeup of a town of 36,000 people in total. Lewiston now has the third highest per capita Muslim population of any U.S. city Cynthia Anderson tells the story of this fractious yet resilient town and how it is thriving in a new era. With empathy and honesty, she delivers a dramatic portrait of a community grappling with change, while humanizing one of the most defining political issues in America today. Her reporting takes the reader deep into the lives of both immigrants and lifelong Mainers to tell the story of America's relationship to Islam, and deliver an honest refutation of the idea that we'd be better off without change\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Surge in Anaplasmosis Cases in Maine, USA, 2013–2017
Incidence of human granulocytic anaplasmosis is rising in Maine, USA. This increase may be explained in part by adoption of tick panels as a frequent diagnostic test in persons with febrile illness and in part by range expansion of Ixodes scapularis ticks and zoonotic amplification of Anaplasma phagocytophilum.
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Maine
Exciting and fascinating, Maine: An Annotated Bibliography is a look at the Maine Experience from its many historical, political, social, and literary perspectives. Organized under such unifying themes as \"The Wild, Wild East,\" \"Ethnicity Matters,\" \"Women in Maine,\" and \"Maine in the Civil War,\" the work gives readers a most useful and often humorous overview of over 400 books written about Maine. The author introduces the reader to many often overlooked works from the nineteeth century and early twentieth century, such as those by Sally Field, Elijah Kellogg, and Chenoa Hall, as well as many studies of familiar political figures such as Bill Cohen, Ed Muskie, Joshua Chamberlain, Angus King, Margaret Chase Smith, and George Mitchell. A valuable resource for anyone interested in the Pine Tree State.
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