Unsettled States

Author : Dana Luciano,Ivy Wilson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781479857722

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Unsettled States by Dana Luciano,Ivy Wilson Pdf

In Unsettled States, Dana Luciano and Ivy G. Wilson present some of the most exciting emergent scholarship in American literary and cultural studies of the “long” nineteenth century. Featuring eleven essays from senior scholars across the discipline, the book responds to recent critical challenges to the boundaries, both spatial and temporal, that have traditionally organized scholarship within the field. The volume considers these recent challenges to be aftershocks of earlier revolutions in content and method, and it seeks ways of inhabiting and amplifying the ongoing unsettledness of the field. Written by scholars primarily working in the “minor” fields of critical race and ethnic studies, feminist and gender studies, labor studies, and queer/sexuality studies, the essays share a minoritarian critical orientation. Minoritarian criticism, as an aesthetic, political, and ethical project, is dedicated to finding new connections and possibilities within extant frameworks. Unsettled States seeks to demonstrate how the goals of minoritarian critique may be actualized without automatic recourse to a predetermined “minor” location, subject, or critical approach. Its contributors work to develop practices of reading an “American literature” in motion, identifying nodes of inquiry attuned to the rhythms of a field that is always on the move.

Author : Ian S. Lustick
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501731945

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Unsettled States, Disputed Lands by Ian S. Lustick Pdf

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Author : Dana Luciano,Ivy Wilson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781479889327

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Unsettled States by Dana Luciano,Ivy Wilson Pdf

In Unsettled States, Dana Luciano and Ivy G. Wilson present some of the most exciting emergent scholarship in American literary and cultural studies of the “long” nineteenth century. Featuring eleven essays from senior scholars across the discipline, the book responds to recent critical challenges to the boundaries, both spatial and temporal, that have traditionally organized scholarship within the field. The volume considers these recent challenges to be aftershocks of earlier revolutions in content and method, and it seeks ways of inhabiting and amplifying the ongoing unsettledness of the field. Written by scholars primarily working in the “minor” fields of critical race and ethnic studies, feminist and gender studies, labor studies, and queer/sexuality studies, the essays share a minoritarian critical orientation. Minoritarian criticism, as an aesthetic, political, and ethical project, is dedicated to finding new connections and possibilities within extant frameworks. Unsettled States seeks to demonstrate how the goals of minoritarian critique may be actualized without automatic recourse to a predetermined “minor” location, subject, or critical approach. Its contributors work to develop practices of reading an “American literature” in motion, identifying nodes of inquiry attuned to the rhythms of a field that is always on the move.

Author : NiNi Harris
Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781935806554

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A Most Unsettled State: First-Person Accounts of St. Louis During the Civil War by NiNi Harris Pdf

During the Civil War, St. Louis was under martial law. The city was divided to the core. A Most Unsettled State conveys this precarious dynamic through the pens of those who experienced it. Author NiNi Harris collects memoirs, letters, sermons, and accounts that reveal a critical time in a volatile place. Learn firsthand about the women who nursed wounded soldiers, the ministers who were appalled by slavery, and Southern sympathizers whose resentment grew as the Union gained control of St. Louis. The book contains eyewitness accounts of significant events that occurred in the streets, not to mention the writers' insights and feelings. Learn firsthand how Julia Dent Grant responded to the news about the Siege of Vicksburg and how her "neighbors were all Southern in sentiment and could not believe that [she] was not." Experience Camp Jackson through the eyes of then-civilian William Tecumseh Sherman, who, with his seven-year-old son Willie at his side, "heard the balls cutting the leaves above our heads, and saw several men and women running in all directions, some of whom were wounded."

Author : Steven E. Koonin
Publisher : BenBella Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781953295248

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Unsettled by Steven E. Koonin Pdf

"Unsettled is a remarkable book—probably the best book on climate change for the intelligent layperson—that achieves the feat of conveying complex information clearly and in depth." —Claremont Review of Books "Surging sea levels are inundating the coasts." "Hurricanes and tornadoes are becoming fiercer and more frequent." "Climate change will be an economic disaster." You've heard all this presented as fact. But according to science, all of these statements are profoundly misleading. When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that "the science is settled." In reality, the long game of telephone from research to reports to the popular media is corrupted by misunderstanding and misinformation. Core questions—about the way the climate is responding to our influence, and what the impacts will be—remain largely unanswered. The climate is changing, but the why and how aren't as clear as you've probably been led to believe. Now, one of America's most distinguished scientists is clearing away the fog to explain what science really says (and doesn't say) about our changing climate. In Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters, Steven Koonin draws upon his decades of experience—including as a top science advisor to the Obama administration—to provide up-to-date insights and expert perspective free from political agendas. Fascinating, clear-headed, and full of surprises, this book gives readers the tools to both understand the climate issue and be savvier consumers of science media in general. Koonin takes readers behind the headlines to the more nuanced science itself, showing us where it comes from and guiding us through the implications of the evidence. He dispels popular myths and unveils little-known truths: despite a dramatic rise in greenhouse gas emissions, global temperatures actually decreased from 1940 to 1970. What's more, the models we use to predict the future aren't able to accurately describe the climate of the past, suggesting they are deeply flawed. Koonin also tackles society's response to a changing climate, using data-driven analysis to explain why many proposed "solutions" would be ineffective, and discussing how alternatives like adaptation and, if necessary, geoengineering will ensure humanity continues to prosper. Unsettled is a reality check buoyed by hope, offering the truth about climate science that you aren't getting elsewhere—what we know, what we don't, and what it all means for our future.

Author : Tom Casey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798988717355

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Unsettled States by Tom Casey Pdf

Author : Donald M. Nonini,Ida Susser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429536724

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The Tumultuous Politics of Scale by Donald M. Nonini,Ida Susser Pdf

Contemporary politics, this book contends, depend upon the turbulent struggles and strategies around scale. Confl icts over scale can be seen as opaque class struggles. Political projects, whether from the ground up or representing corporate or state interests, continually contest the scale at which authority is vested. This volume looks at the way global corporations redefi ne the scale of power and how working- class and other movements build alliances and cross scales to develop political blocs. What injustices are perpetrated or, more hopefully, redressed in this process? The book, consisting of contributions from anthropologists, geographers, and cultural studies scholars, explores theoretical issues around contested temporal and spatial scales, and around variations in scale from the body to the global. Part I focuses on bodies in motion, entangled in battles over new boundaries and political coalitions, and the ways in which migrants and refugees are disrupted by intersecting time scales. Part II on the nation- state addresses the shifting responsibilities assigned by law at diff erent historical moments and the impact of global energy trade on national austerity policies. Part III, on rescaling sovereignty, discusses the misleading media discourse on “Brexit” and reconstructs the class bases of the move to the Right in Eastern Europe that threaten the EU. Part IV on the histories of changing scales of movements revisits historical debates on uneven and combined development, and sets out the transnational labor movements of the eighteenthand nineteenth- century Atlantic, which prefi gure contemporary struggles of labor in a world which is still one of uneven and combined capitalist development. Finally, Part V considers ways in which some social movements are constrained by scale while others reshape parties and traverse nations in their eff orts to build class alliances and political blocs.

Author : Eric P. Perramond
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520971127

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Unsettled Waters by Eric P. Perramond Pdf

In the American West, water adjudication lawsuits are adversarial, expensive, and lengthy. Unsettled Waters is the first detailed study of water adjudications in New Mexico. The state envisioned adjudication as a straightforward accounting of water rights as private property. However, adjudication resurfaced tensions and created conflicts among water sovereigns at multiple scales. Based on more than ten years of fieldwork, this book tells a fascinating story of resistance involving communal water cultures, Native rights and cleaved identities, clashing experts, and unintended outcomes. Whether the state can alter adjudications to meet the water demands in the twenty-first century will have serious consequences.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555039712

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THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Marine Corps,William Marshall Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435020270740

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A Chronology of the United States Marine Corps by United States. Marine Corps,William Marshall Miller Pdf

Author : Jocelyn Alexander
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0852558929

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The Unsettled Land by Jocelyn Alexander Pdf

This book engages with current debates on land and politics in Africa and provides a much needed historical narrative of the Zimbabwean case.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1164 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11549197

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Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : Allen Buchanan,Margaret Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521525756

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States, Nations and Borders by Allen Buchanan,Margaret Moore Pdf

This volume examines comparatively the views and principles of seven prominent ethical traditions on one of the most pressing issues of modern politics - the making and unmaking of state and national boundaries. The traditions represented are Judaism, Christianity, Islam, natural law, Confucianism, liberalism and international law. Each contributor, an expert within one of these traditions, shows how that tradition can handle the five dominant methods of altering state and national boundaries: conquest, settlement, purchase, inheritance and secession. Written by a distinguished group of international specialists this volume is unique in providing both in-depth normative and comparative perspectives on a troubling question that will offer readers real insight into inter-tradition conflict. Those readers will range from upper-level undergraduates to scholars in such fields as philosophy, political science, international relations and comparative religion.

Author : Edmund Ollier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : United States
ISBN : OXFORD:590734716

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Cassell's History of the United States by Edmund Ollier Pdf

Author : United States. Administrative Office of the United States Courts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Judicial statistics
ISBN : OSU:32435029454055

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Annual Report of the Director - Administrative Office of the United States Courts by United States. Administrative Office of the United States Courts Pdf