The Illusion of Peace

The Illusion of Peace
Author: Tad Szulc
Publisher: Viking Adult
Total Pages: 838
Release: 1978
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Tad Szulc makes it possible to understand just what happened, and how, in foreign affairs during the Nixon years - revealing how Henry Kissinger and President Nixon together pursued parallel public and covert policies.

The Lottery

The Lottery
Author: Shirley Jackson
Publisher: The Creative Company
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781583415849

A seemingly ordinary village participates in a yearly lottery to determine a sacrificial victim.

The Puritan Dilemma

The Puritan Dilemma
Author: Edmund Sears Morgan
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1958
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781886746237

The First American Frontier

The First American Frontier
Author: Wilma A. Dunaway
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2000-11-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807861170

In The First American Frontier, Wilma Dunaway challenges many assumptions about the development of preindustrial Southern Appalachia's society and economy. Drawing on data from 215 counties in nine states from 1700 to 1860, she argues that capitalist exchange and production came to the region much earlier than has been previously thought. Her innovative book is the first regional history of antebellum Southern Appalachia and the first study to apply world-systems theory to the development of the American frontier. Dunaway demonstrates that Europeans established significant trade relations with Native Americans in the southern mountains and thereby incorporated the region into the world economy as early as the seventeenth century. In addition to the much-studied fur trade, she explores various other forces of change, including government policy, absentee speculation in the region's natural resources, the emergence of towns, and the influence of local elites. Contrary to the myth of a homogeneous society composed mainly of subsistence homesteaders, Dunaway finds that many Appalachian landowners generated market surpluses by exploiting a large landless labor force, including slaves. In delineating these complexities of economy and labor in the region, Dunaway provides a perceptive critique of Appalachian exceptionalism and development.

The Livelihood of Kin

The Livelihood of Kin
Author: Rhoda H. Halperin
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1990-12-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0292746709

Rural Appalachians in Kentucky call it "The Kentucky Way"—making a living by doing many kinds of paid and unpaid work and sharing their resources within extended family networks. In fact, these strategies are practiced by rural people in many parts of the world, but they have not been studied extensively in the United States. In The Livelihood of Kin, Rhoda Halperin undertakes a detailed exploration of this complex, family-oriented economy, showing how it promotes economic well-being and a sense of identity for the people who follow it. Using actual life and work histories, Halperin shows how people make a living "in between" the cash economy of the city and the agricultural subsistence economy of the country. In regionally based, three-generation kin networks, family members work individually and jointly at many tasks: small-scale agricultural production, food processing and storage, odd jobs, selling used and new goods in marketplaces, and wage labor, much of which is temporary. People can make ends meet even in the face of job layoffs and declining crop subsidies. With these strategies people win a considerable degree of autonomy and control over their lives. Halperin also examines how such multiple livelihood strategies define individual identity by emphasizing a person’s role in the family network over an occupation. She reveals, through psychiatric case histories, what damage can result when individuals leave the family network for wage employment in the cities, as increasing urbanization has forced many people to do. While certainly of interest to scholars of Appalachian studies, this lively and readable study will also be important for economic anthropologists and urban and rural sociologists.

Colorado River Floodway Protection Act

Colorado River Floodway Protection Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Water Resources
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1986
Genre: Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
ISBN: