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  • The Great Murdering-Heir Case

    A Biography of Riggs v. Palmer

    par William B. Meyer ...
    Uncovers the facts behind the celebrated 1889 case of Riggs v. Palmer and shows how they transform our understanding of the decision.In 1882, Elmer Palmer was convicted of poisoning his grandfather Francis in rural northern New York State. In a famous decision in 1889, the New York Court of Appeals denied Elmer the right to inherit from Francis, even though the statute governing wills seemed to ... En savoir plus

    $40.99 CAD

  • Wetlands

    par John C. Callaway, Stephen Faulkner, Mary A. Hague, William B. Meyer, Thomas Michael Power, Joel W. Snodgrass ...
    Collections series Exploring Environmental Challenges: A Multidisciplinary Approach
    The purpose of the Exploring Environmental Challenges: A Multidisciplinary Approach series is to publish a collection of short texts that each explore a specific environmental issue and describe the methodologies, theories, and findings pertaining to that issue from both natural and social science perspectives. Each text contains three natural science essays, three social science essays, and a ... En savoir plus

    $50.99 CAD

  • Neo-Environmental Determinism

    Geographical Critiques

    par Dylan M.T. Guss, William B. Meyer ...
    Collections series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book pulls together major critiques of contemporary attempts to explain nature-society relations in an environmentally deterministic way. After defining key terms, it reviews the history of environmental determinism’s rise and fall within geography in the early twentieth century. It discusses the key reasons for the doctrine’s rejection and presents alternative, non-deterministic frameworks ... En savoir plus

    $70.49 CAD

  • The Progressive Environmental Prometheans

    Left-Wing Heralds of a “Good Anthropocene”

    par William B. Meyer ...
    Collections series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is devoted to the exploration of environmental Prometheanism, the belief that human beings can and should master nature and remake it for the better. Meyer considers, among others, the question of why Prometheanism today is usually found on the political right while environmentalism is on the left.Chapters examine the works of leading Promethean thinkers of nineteenth and early and mid ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • Americans and Their Weather

    Updated Edition

    par William B. Meyer ...
    This revealing book synthesizes research from many fields to offer the first complete history of the roles played by weather and climate in American life from colonial times to the present. Author William B. Meyer characterizes weather events as neutral phenomena that are inherently neither hazards nor resources, but can become either depending on the activities with which they interact. Meyer ... En savoir plus

    $32.79 CAD

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  • Separation of Church and State: What the Founders Meant

    par David Barton ...
    This book is very timely for one of the most frequently debated issues in America: the separation of church and state. Where did this phrase originate? Was it always meant to prohibit expressions of religious faith in public settings as many claim today? Learn the answers to these questions and discover the Founding Fathers own words and intents in this book! With all these resources, you will be ... En savoir plus

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  • The History of White People

    par Nell Irvin Painter ...
    A New York Times bestseller: “This terrific new book . . . [explores] the ‘notion of whiteness,’ an idea as dangerous as it is seductive.”—Boston GlobeTelling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the invention of race but also the frequent ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Changes in the Land

    Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

    par William Cronon, John Demos ...
    The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated.Winner of the Francis Parkman PrizeIn this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an ... En savoir plus

    $3.99 CAD

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  • Terror in the Heart of Freedom

    Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South

    par Hannah Rosen ...
    Collections series Gender and American Culture
    The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity of slavery (coded as black) and full citizenship (coded as white as well as male). These traditional definitions of race were radically disrupted after emancipation, when citizenship was granted to all persons born in the United States and suffrage was extended to all men. Hannah Rosen persuasively ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

    par James C. Scott ...
    Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics-the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • Ramp Hollow

    The Ordeal of Appalachia

    par Steven Stoll ...
    How the United States underdeveloped AppalachiaAppalachia—among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America—has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original investigation into the history of Appalachia and its place in U.S. history, with a special emphasis on how ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton

    An American Life

    par Lori D. Ginzberg ...
    "This deft biography . . . firmly roots Stanton . . . in the complex swell of 19th century middle-class reform, and reveals her thornier, less egalitarian side." — The New YorkerElizabeth Cady Stanton was a brilliant activist-intellectual. That nearly all of her ideas—that women are entitled to seek an education, to own property, to get a divorce, and to vote—are now commonplace is in large part ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD