Irish in the South 1815 1877 or In the Path of Hizbullah

Irish in the South, 1815-1877

Author: David T Gleeson

The only comprehensive study of Irish immigrants in the nineteenth-century South, this book makes a valuable contribution to the story of the Irish in America and to our understanding of southern culture.

Lawrence J. McCaffrey

David T. Gleeson demonstrates that Irish America comes in different shades of green. In his perceptive, well-researched, and readable The Irish in the South, 1815-1877 he reveals its regional diversity.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: The Forgotten People of the Old South	1
Ch. 1	The Irish Diaspora	10
Ch. 2	Urban Pioneers in the Old South	23
Ch. 3	Earning a Living	38
Ch. 4	Family, Community, and Ethnic Awareness	55
Ch. 5	Keeping the Faith	74
Ch. 6	The Irish, the Natives, and Politics	94
Ch. 7	The Know-Nothing Challenge	107
Ch. 8	Slavery, State Rights, and Secession	121
Ch. 9	The Green and the Gray	141
Ch. 10	Irish Confederates	158
Ch. 11	Postwar Integration	173
	Conclusion: Irish Southerners	187
	Occupational Status Classification	195
	Notes	197
	Selected Bibliography	239
	Index	269

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In the Path of Hizbullah

Author: ANizar Hamzeh

This book serves as a road map for understanding not only Hizbullah but also other Islamist groups and their challenges to contemporary politics. Ahmad Nizar Hamzeh examines the Hizbullah of Lebanon through a structural analysis using original and archival sources. Employing a theoretical framework drawing on a broad range of studies on crisis conditions, leadership, political parties, and guerrilla warfare, In the Path of Hizbullah stands alone in its qualitative and quantitative exploration of one of the most complex contemporary Islamist organizations and offers a thoughtful perspective on the party's future.

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What makes Hamzeh's book unique is that it focuses not so much on Hizbullah's ideology but on its complex, sophisticated organizational structure. More than anything else, it is Hizbullah's structure that guides its operational choices and explains the inner workings of the organization's structural components. This illuminating and timely book looks objectively at the dynamics of one of the most important yet least understood forces in contemporary Lebanon and the Middle East. . . . Essential.

Does It Take a Village or The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison

Does It Take a Village?: Community Effects on Children, Adolescents and Families

Author: Alan Booth

Does It Take a Village? focuses on the mechanisms that link community characteristics to the functioning of the families and individuals within them--community norms, economic opportunities, reference groups for assessing relative deprivation, and social support networks. Contributors underscore those features of communities that represent risk factors for children, adolescents, and their families, as well as those characteristics that underlie resilience and thus undergird individual and family functioning.

As a society we have heavy investments both in research and in programs based on the idea that communities affect families and children, yet important questions have arisen about the validity of the link between communities, children, and families. This book answers the question of whether--and how--it takes a village to raise a child and what we can do to help communities achieve this essential task more effectively.

Booknews

Focuses on mechanisms that link community characteristics to the functioning of families and individuals, discussing community norms, economic opportunities, assessment of relative deprivation, and social support networks. Highlights those features of communities that represent risk factors for children, adolescents, and their families, as well as characteristics that strengthen individual and family functioning. Material originated at a November 1998 symposium held at Pennsylvania State University, where the editors teach. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison

Author: David B Mattern

From modest Quaker beginnings as the child of financially insecure parents and the wife of a stolid young lawyer to the excitement and challenges of life as the nation's first First Lady—arguably the most influential role in the American government's formative years—Dolley Payne Todd Madison (1768-1849) led an extraordinary life. David B. Mattern and Holly C. Shulman have culled a particularly rich selection of her letters to illuminate the story of the woman widely credited with setting the standard for successive generations of Washington's political women. This collection will prove an invaluable resource in current political and historical circles, where the role founding mothers played—both as supportive family members and as crucial political negotiators—is increasingly recognized and studied.

Organized chronologically into five sections reaching from her correspondence as a young adult in late-eighteenth-century Philadelphia up to the letters of her widowhood in 1840s Washington, and with a helpful contextualizing introduction to each section, The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison provides a long-overdue biographical sketch of one of the early republic's most fascinating personalities.

Table of Contents:

	Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	Editorial Method
	Introduction	1
	Quaker Beginnings, 1768-1801	9
	A Washington Education, 1801-1809	38
	The Politics of War, 1809-1817	90
	A Well-Deserved Retirement, 1817-1836	216
	Washington Widow, 1836-1849	317
	Biographical Directory	393
	Index	417

Small Strangers or The School Choice Hoax

Small Strangers: The Experiences of Immigrant Children in America, 1880-1925

Author: Melissa Klapper

Children are the largely neglected players in the great drama of American immigration. In one of history's most remarkable movements of people across national borders, almost twenty-five million immigrants came to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-from Mexico, Japan, and Canada as well as the more common embarkation points of southern and eastern Europe. Many of them were children. Together with the American-born children of immigrants, they made up a significant part of turn-of-the-century U.S. society. Small Strangers recounts and interprets their varied experiences to illustrate how immigration, urbanization, and industrialization-all related processes-molded modern America.

Garrett Berger - Virginia Quarterly Review

Small Strangers captures the essence of what it meant to be one of the many children whose families immigrated to America around the turn of the last century.

What People Are Saying

Roger Daniels
"Her culturally sensitive survey fills a gap in the histories of childhood and of immigration."--(Roger Daniels, author of Not Like Us)

Alice Kessler-Harris
"This small, provocative book is a gem . . . Small Strangers touches on an astonishing range of key issues...indispensable."--(Alice Kessler-Harris, author of Gendering Labor History)

Marilyn Irvin Holt
"[A] careful blending of personal accounts with the larger social issues and reform movements of the period."--(Marilyn Irvin Holt, author of Children of the Western Plains)

Kriste Lindenmeyer
"Skillfully shows how the experiences of immigrant children highlight the dramatic shift from farm to factory...[A]n engaging synthesis."--(Dr. Kriste Lindenmeyer, author of The Greatest Generation Grows Up)

Jonathan Zimmerman
"Klapper has written a brief gem of a book, examining immigrant children in all of their diversity, tragedy, and triumph."--(Jonathan Zimmerman, author of Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools)

Table of Contents:

Preface     xi
Acknowledgments     xvii
Childhood and Immigrants: Changing Ideas at the Turn of the Century     3
The Landscape of Early Childhood     18
At School, at Work, at Home, at Play     54
Adolescent Years     108
After the Door Closed: The Effects of Restrictive Legislation and the Depression     161
Immigrant Children and Modern America     177
Notes     183
A Note on Sources     195
Index     211

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The School Choice Hoax: Fixing America's Schools

Author: Ronald G Corwin

This book argues that the autonomy granted to choice schools has been a counterproductive dead end. Its authors see no proof that freedom has produced the outstanding results that charter school advocates promised. Nor has the competition from charter schools spurred the improvement in public schools that charter advocates predicted. Instead, charter schools and education vouchers promoted competition among schools that should be cooperating. Overburdened public school districts are faced with rivalry from schools that are merely duplicating conventional programs and competing for some students while ignoring others. Since choice schools are not meeting the expectations touted by their advocates, the authors maintain that they should be planned, monitored, and operated by school districts.

W E B Du Bois or The Global Resurgence of Religion and the Transformation of International Relations

W. E. B. Du Bois: Writings (The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade, The Souls of Black Folk, Dusk of Dawn, Essays)

Author: W E B Du Bois

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The Global Resurgence of Religion and the Transformation of International Relations: The Struggle for the Soul of the Twenty-First Century (Culture and Religion in International Relations Series)

Author: Scott M Thomas

"Here undoubtedly is a book that is both helpful and insightful for those of us who feel there has got to be a better way to promote global security and global welfare,"--from the foreword by Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, Nobel Peace Laureate"Scott Thomas' work should be read not only by scholars interested in international relations and development, but also by leaders in civil society - in the NGO's, in the corporations, and in the churches. We neglect religious factors in contemporary history to our great peril. One may quibble with his treatment of certain theorists of "modernity," but he sees key global trends clearly, and argues artfully for policies could correct today's intellectual and moral blinders."--Max L. Stackhouse, Rimmer and Ruth DeVries Professor of Theology and Public Life, Princeton Theological Seminary, Author/editor of the series, God and Globalization"Post Cold War and post 9/11 politics have witnessed the global resurgence of religion, nationalism and ethnic identity and underscored the failure of international relations theory to anticipate and adequately address the role of religion and culture. Scott Thomas' The Global Resurgence of Religion and the Transformation of International Relations is a powerful corrective, demonstrating how and why religion and culture are significant forces world politics that have transformed our understanding of IR theory." --John L. Esposito, University Professor, Georgetown University and author of Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam"The Global Resurgence of Religion is a vital topic on which mainstream international relations research has been oddly silent. In clear andmeasured prose Scott Thomas explicates the reason for our intellectual failures and develops an original, eclectic perspective that gives new relevance to the constructivist turn in international relations theory. More importantly, Thomas succeeds in illustrating empirically how and why religion matters in world politics. For those interested in regaining their voice on a crucial topic in world politics this book is essential reading."--Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter Professor, Jr. of International Studies, Cornell University"To the surprise of most academics and many politicians, religion has become one of the most dynamic forces in 21st century world politics. Scott Thomas's insightful analysis of this phenomenon fills a gaping hole in international relations theory and should help policy-makers and thoughtful citizens alike think more clearly about the ways in which profound religious and moral convictions can help build a measure of order in world affairs."--George Weigel, Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center

Foreign Affairs

The global resurgence of religion has been widely noted, and this book provides a thoughtful reflection on its implications for Western ideas about modernity and international relations. The conventional view is that the upsurge in fundamentalism, particularly in the Middle East, reflects a stalled transition to modernity, giving militants an ideological kinship with previous antiliberal and antimodernist movements. Thomas, in contrast, asserts that the revival of religion — including among evangelicals and fundamentalist Christians in the developed world — is part of a more wide-ranging global phenomenon that represents a crisis of modernity itself. The grand narrative of Western progress is under challenge, and a search for "authenticity" is underway inside and outside the West, with communities of the faithful seeking to refashion political life in line with moral and religious values. This provocative claim is never convincingly established, but Thomas' more general point is well taken: Western scholars and policymakers need to rethink how the potent mix of religion, nationalism, and globalization is wreaking havoc on old traditions of diplomacy, development, and Western hegemony and transforming international affairs in the process.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction : the struggle for the soul of the twenty-first century	1
1	"The revenge of God?" : the twentieth century as the "last modern century"	21
2	Blind spots and blowback : why culture and religion were marginalized in international relations theory	47
3	In the eye of the storm : explaining and understanding culture and religion in international relations	71
4	The soul of the world? : religious non-state actors and international relations theory	97
5	Wars and rumors of war? : religion and international conflict	121
6	"Creating a just and durable peace" : rethinking religion and international cooperation	149
7	Soulcraft as statecraft? : diplomacy, conflict resolution, and peacebuilding	173
8	Funding virtue? : rethinking religion, civil society, and democracy	197
9	Where faith and economics meet? : rethinking religion, civil society, and international development	219
	Conclusion : how shall we then live?	247

Comparative Politics or Give Me Liberty

Comparative Politics: Domestic Responses to Global Challenges

Author: Charles Hauss

This comprehensive text focuses on traditional issues and concepts in comparative politics, using a unique theme: domestic responses to global challenges. The author examines the growing interdependence among strong and weak states and discusses 12 countries, including the U.S. and the European community, to help students develop their skills of comparison, synthesis and interpretation, the author organized the text by economic development.

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Give Me Liberty!: An American History

Author: Eric Foner

Adopted at over 600 universities, colleges, and schools across the country, Eric Foner's Give Me Liberty! is making a difference in the American history survey course. Featuring a single author and a single, comprehensive theme, Give me Liberty! presents American history with unparalleled clarity and coherence. The study tools in the book and the companion print and electronic package ensure student success in the course.

The Second Edition builds on the success of the first, retaining the unifying theme of freedom while becoming more comprehensive, and adding stronger coverage of Native American and immigration history. In addition, the pedagogy has been strengthened with new Voices of Freedom-paired primary sources in each chapter, chapter-opening chronologies, key terms, and more. Overall the presentation remains concise and crisp, free of the encyclopedic detail that clogs so many other survey textbooks.

Table of Contents:

	List of Maps, Tables, and Figures	xvii
	About the Author	xix
	Preface	xxi
Part 1	American Colonies to 1763
1.	A New World	4
	The Expansion of Europe	7
	Peoples of the Americas	12
	The Spanish Empire	15
	The First North Americans	23
	England and the New World	30
	The Freeborn Englishman	35
	Voices of Freedom: From Henry Care, English Liberties, or, The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance (1680)	40
2.	American Beginnings, 1607-1650	44
	The Coming of the English	47
	Settling the Chesapeake	51
	Origins of American Slavery	57
	The New England Way	62
	Voices of Freedom: From John Winthrop, Speech to the Massachusetts General Court (July 3, 1645)	64
	New Englanders Divided	69
	The New England Economy	73
3.	Crisis and Expansion: North American Colonies, 1650-1750	78
	Empires in Conflict	81
	The Expansion of England's Empire	87
	Voices of Freedom: From William Penn, England's Present Interests Discovered (1675)	93
	Colonies in Crisis	94
	The Eighteenth Century: A Growing Society	101
	Social Classes in the Colonies	110
4.	Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763	118
	Slavery and the Empire	121
	Slave Culture and Slave Resistance	130
	An Empire of Freedom	133
	The Public Sphere	138
	The Great Awakening	145
	Imperial Rivalries	148
	Battle for the Continent	151
	Voices of Freedom: From Pontiac, Speeches (1762 and 1763)	156
Part 2	A New Nation, 1763-1840
5.	The American Revolution, 1763-1783	166
	The Crisis Begins	169
	The Road to Revolution	176
	The Coming of Independence	180
	Voices of Freedom: From Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)	185
	Securing Independence	189
6.	The Revolution Within	200
	Democratizing Freedom	203
	Toward Religious Liberty	207
	Defining Economic Freedom	212
	The Limits of Liberty	215
	Slavery and the Revolution	220
	Voices of Freedom: From Petitions of Slaves to the Massachusetts Legislature (1773 and 1777)	224
	Daughters of Liberty	228
7.	Founding a Nation, 1783-1789	234
	America under the Articles of Confederation	237
	A New Constitution	246
	The Ratification Debate and the Origin of the Bill of Rights	253
	Voices of Freedom: From James Madison, The Federalist no. 51, and Anti-Federalist Essay Signed "Brutus" (1787)	254
	We the People	261
8.	Securing the Republic, 1790-1815	270
	Politics in an Age of Passion	272
	Voices of Freedom: From Address of the Democratic-Republican Society of Pennsylvania (December 18, 1794)	281
	The Adams Presidency	283
	Jefferson in Power	290
	The "Second War of Independence"	298
9.	The Market Revolution	306
	A New Economy	309
	Market Society	319
	Voices of Freedom: From Josephine L. Baker, "A Second Peep at Factory Life," Lowell Offering (1845)	328
	The Free Individual	330
	The Limits of Prosperity	335
10.	Democracy in America, 1815-1840	344
	The Triumph of Democracy	346
	Voices of Freedom: From "The Memorial of the Non-Freeholders of the City of Richmond" (1829)	348
	Nationalism and Its Discontents	353
	Nation, Section, and Party	358
	The Age of Jackson	363
	The Bank War and After	373
Part 3	Slavery, Freedom, and the Crisis of the Union, 1840-1877
11.	The Peculiar Institution	386
	The Old South	389
	Voices of Freedom: From John C. Calhoun, Speech in Congress (1837)	398
	Life under Slavery	400
	Slave Culture	409
	Resistance to Slavery	414
12.	An Age of Reform, 1820-1840	422
	The Reform Impulse	424
	The Crusade against Slavery	434
	Black and White Abolitionism	441
	The Origins of Feminism	445
	Voices of Freedom: From Angelina Grimke, Letter in The Liberator (August 2, 1837)	448
13.	A House Divided, 1840-1861	456
	Fruits of Manifest Destiny	458
	A Dose of Arsenic	470
	The Rise of the Republican Party	477
	Voices of Freedom: From William H. Seward, "The Irrepressible Conflict" (1858)	484
	The Emergence of Lincoln	487
	The Impending Crisis	495
14.	A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War, 1861-1865	502
	The First Modern War	504
	The Coming of Emancipation	514
	The Second American Revolution	524
	Voices of Freedom: From Abraham Lincoln, Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore (April 18, 1864)	525
	The Confederate Nation	532
	Turning Points	536
	Rehearsals for Reconstruction and the End of the War	539
15.	"What Is Freedom?": Reconstruction, 1865-1877	548
	The Meaning of Freedom	551
	Voices of Freedom: From Petition of Committee in Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson (1865)	558
	The Making of Radical Reconstruction	562
	Radical Reconstruction in the South	572
	The Overthrow of Reconstruction	577
	Appendix
	Documents
	The Declaration of Independence (1776)	2
	The Constitution of the United States (1787)	4
	From George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)	14
	The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848)	18
	From Frederick Douglass's "What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?" Speech (1852)	20
	The Gettysburg Address (1863)	23
	Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)	24
	The Populist Platform of 1892	25
	Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address (1933)	28
	Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)	30
	Tables
	Presidential Elections	32
	Admission of States	40
	Population of the United States	41
	Historical Statistics of the United States
	Workforce	42
	Immigration, by Origin	42
	Glossary	43
	Credits	63
	Index	67