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Ai shi jie volume 010
Publisher
Aimili chu ban you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
中文
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Series
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
"During the first half-century of American independence, a fundamental change in the meaning and morality of ambition emerged in American culture. Long stigmatized as a dangerous passion that led people to pursue fame at the expense of duty, ambition also raised concerns among American Revolutionaries who espoused self-sacrifice. After the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and the creation of the federal republic in 1789, however, a new ethos...
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Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
This book offers an intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of 'hybrid environments.' Focusing on chars--the part-land, part-water, low-lying sandy masses that exist within the riverbeds in the floodplains of lower Bengal--the authors show how, both as real-life examples and as metaphors, chars straddle the conventional categories of land and water, and how people who live on them fluctuate between legitimacy and illegitimacy. The result, a study...
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Social history of Canada volume 39
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Peggy Marxen grew up in the somewhat isolated environment of northwestern Wisconsin's Sawyer County, yet was surrounded by close-knit extended family. In 1916, after a lengthy search conducted by train and bicycle, her grandparents settled a forty next to Badger Creek, in the hilly cutover land that remained after lumberjacks harvested thousands of acres of pines. They arrived just before the creation of the Township of Meteor in 1919. In the 1920s...
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