Outlooks and Insights: A Reader for College Writers

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Outlooks and Insights: A Reader for College Writers Edition: Third

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America Firsthand provides a refreshing new way for students of American history to explore the important themes and events of our nations past. It presents 47 readings in this Volume, all drawn from original documents that offer eyewitness accounts of life in America. Part one discusses the completion of the transcontinental railroad link in 1869, and the movement westward. The destruction of western buffalo herds, meant the collapse of the Indian culture based on hunting the buffalo. By the 1880's, sharecropping, governed by instruments like the Grimes Sharecrop contract, had emerged as the replacement for slavery. The tragedy of the Wounded Knee massacre. The late nineteenth century marked the final shunting of Indians to reservations often far distant from their ancestral homes. A selection containing Indian testimony and the ballad of a cavalry soldier shows contrasting views of what stands as one of the most dismal event in Indian white relations. The second part of this Volume goes over the age of economic expansion. Sharpening the tension of American society were the massive surges of immigration in the 1880s and the early years of the twentieth century. The first victims of nativist resentment were the Chinese (they supposedly took railroad and other jobs away from white Americans) through legislation enacted in 1882 led to a ten year prohibition of new immigrants from China. The readings in the third part of Volume II are on the Progressive Era (1901-1917) are found many descriptions of social ills and problems that have been recurrent concern in recent history. The First World War brought major domestic changes and the Second World War helped pull the economy out of the depression. The fourth part America since 1945, goes over American ideological quarrels with the Soviet Union, new lifestyles for young people dissatisfied with the suburban dream, the Civil Rights movement through to the administration of Ronald Regan.

America Firsthand: From Reconstruction to the Present, Volume II (3rd edition)

Burner, David

Marcus, Robert D.

The St. Martin's Guide to Writing

Rise B. Axelrod

A friendly, easy-to-use guide, Writing Research Papers walks students through every step of the research process â€” from finding a topic to searching the Web to formatting the final manuscript. The seventh edition is thoroughly revised to help students find and evaluate the very best sources amidst the flood of information that electronic searching makes available.

Writing Research Papers: A Guide to the Process

Stephen Weidenborner

Does the ongoing dynamics of economic globalization also entail, and indeed require, the globalization of a particular model of peace? This book, as it considers this question, brings to light the degree to which mechanisms of global governance emerging in counterpoint to economic globalization rest on the imposition of specific models of conflict resolution in long-standing conflicts in peripheral regions. The peacebuilding project at the heart of these efforts often lacks clear connection with the political and institutional configurations at the basis of these conflicts, and for this reason it frequently ends in failure. Does the ongoing dynamics of economic globalization also entail, and indeed require, the globalization of a particular model of peace? This book, as it considers this question, brings to light the degree to which mechanisms of global governance emerging in counterpoint to economic globalization rest on the imposition of specific models of conflict resolution in long-standing conflicts in peripheral regions. The peacebuilding project at the heart of these efforts often lacks clear connection with the political and institutional configurations at the basis of these conflicts, and for this reason it frequently ends in failure.

Peace, Power and Resistance in Cambodia: Global Governance and the Failure of International Conflict Resolution (International Political Economy Series)

History

Pierre P. Lizée

Africa

Great Operatic Disasters

To its devotees, opera is the most sublime of arts. It is also one of the most accident prone, and when things go wrong, they tend to do so on a grand scale. Great Operatic Disasters records some of the most memorable calamities from opera houses around the world. Most of them are true, some have been embroidered over the years, and a few, well, se non e vero, e ben trovato.

Arts & Photography

Hugh Vickers

Music

The general principles of expository prose and persuasive rhetoric are applied to the analysis and solution of law-school examination questions

Legal Writing: The Strategy of Persuasion

John O. Brand, Norman; White

Contemporary Artists

Derived from the "New Grove Dictionary of Opera", this work brings together the stories of the lives and careers of Puccini, Alfano, Catalani, Cilea, Franchetti, Giordano, Leoncavallo, Mascagni and Zandonai, and synopses and authoritative appreciations of all their major operas. Also covered are the principal librettists and singers of the time.

Puccini and His Operas ([The New Grove composers series])

Stanley Saide, Editor

Biographies & Memoirs

The original is back. TRULY TASTELESS JOKES took America by storm and made it laugh at itself. It's all in here, disgusting, repulsive, cruel, and just plain tasteless jokes and stories that will make you smile, laugh, or groan--and love every minute of it.

Truly Tasteless Jokes V

Humor & Entertainment

Blanche Knott

Humor

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