The Place of Stone: Dighton Rock and the Erasure of Americas Indigenous Past
Author: Douglas Hunter File Type: pdf Claimed by many to be the most frequently documented artifact in American archeology, Dighton Rock is a forty-ton boulder covered in petroglyphs in southern Massachusetts. First noted by New England colonists in 1680, the rocks markings have been debated endlessly by scholars and everyday people alike on both sides of the Atlantic. The glyphs have been erroneously assigned to an array of non-Indigenous cultures Norsemen, Egyptians, Lost Tribes of Israel, vanished Portuguese explorers, and even a prince from Atlantis. In this fascinating story rich in personalities and memorable characters, Douglas Hunter uses Dighton Rock to reveal the long, complex history of colonization, American archaeology, and the conceptualization of Indigenous people. Hunter argues that misinterpretations of the rocks markings share common motivations and have erased Indigenous people not only from their own history but from the landscape. He shows how Dighton Rock for centuries drove ideas about the original peopling of the Americas, including Bering Strait migration scenarios and the identity of the Mound Builders. He argues the debates over Dighton Rock have served to answer two questions Who belongs in America, and to whom does America belong? **Review Hunters deeply researched, heavily detailed study raises fascinating questions about white Americans understandings of Native American culture as well as their own sense of identity and nation.--Publishers Weekly, starred review Review A model of research and style, The Place of Stone is required reading for anyone interested in American history, anthropology, or archaeology.--Kenneth Feder, Central Connecticut State University A fascinating study that intertwines Indigenous history with colonial narcissism, told in an accomplished and engaging voice. A rich and deep story with lessons that still resonate.--James Taylor Carson, Griffith University
Author: Mikhail Gorbachev
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Here is the whole sweep of the Soviet experiment and experience as told by its last steward. Drawing on his own experience, rich archival material, and a keen sense of history and politics, Mikhail Gorbachev speaks his mind on a range of subjects concerning Russias past, present, and future place in the world. Here is Gorbachev on the October Revolution, Gorbachev on the Cold War, and Gorbachev on key figures such as Lenin, Stalin, and Yeltsin. The book begins with a look back at 1917. While noting that tsarist Russia was not as backward as it is often portrayed, Gorbachev argues that the Bolshevik Revolution was inevitable and that it did much to modernize Russia. He strongly argues that the Soviet Union had a positive influence on social policy in the West, while maintaining that the development of socialism was cut short by Stalinist totalitarianism. In the next section, Gorbachev considers the fall of the USSR. What were the goals of perestroika? How did such a vast superpower disintegrate so quickly? From the awakening of ethnic tensions, to the inability of democrats to unite, to his own attempts to reform but preserve the union, Gorbachev retraces those fateful days and explains the origins of Russias present crisis. But Gorbachev does not just train his critical eye on the past. He lays out a blueprint for where Russia needs to go in the next century, suggesting ways to strengthen the federation and achieve meaningful economic and political reforms. In the final section of the book, Gorbachev examines the new thinking in foreign policy that helped to end the Cold War and shows how such approaches could help resolve a range of current crises, including NATO expansion, the role of the UN, the fate of nuclear weapons, and environmental problems.Gorbachev On My Country and the World reveals the unique vision of a man who was a powerful actor on the world stage and remains a keen observer of Russias experience in the twentieth century.
Author: Thornton Lockwood
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Arguably the foundational text of Western political theory, Aristotles Politics has become one of the most widely and carefully studied works in ethical and political philosophy. This volume of essays offers fresh interpretations of Aristotles key work and opens new paths for students and scholars to explore. The contributors embrace a variety of methodological approaches that range across the disciplines of classics, political science, philosophy, and ancient history. Their essays illuminate perennial questions such as the relationship between individual and community, the nature of democratic deliberation, and how to improve political institutions. Offering groundbreaking studies that both set Aristotle within the context of his own time and draw on contemporary discussion of his writings, this collection will provide researchers with an understanding of many of the major scholarly debates surrounding this key text. **Book Description Arguably the foundational text of Western political theory, Aristotles Politics has become one of the most carefully studied works in ethical and political philosophy. This volume offers fresh interpretations of Aristotles key work by internationally renowned contributors and opens new paths for students and scholars to explore. About the Author Thornton Lockwood is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Quinnipiac University. He has published articles on Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics and Politics in Phronesis, the Journal of the History of Philosophy, History of Political Thought, Ancient Philosophy, Oxford Bibliographies On-line, and The Cambridge Companion to Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics. Thanassis Samaras is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Plato on Democracy (2002) and Plato, Apology and Crito Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2003). He has published a number of articles on the Pre-Socratics, Sophists, Plato and Aristotle, as well as a contribution to Platos Laws A Critical Guide (edited by Christopher Bobonich, 2010).
Author: Bill Dunn
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This is an ambitious survey of the history and state of the world economy, covering the major upheavals of the capitalist system over the last 100 years.Bill Dunn provides an original and enlightening explanation of the state of the world economy. He covers all the main aspects of global political economy explaining the theories behind production, trade, finance and relations between rich and poor countries. He also tackles the question of the origin of capitalism, a debate that always proves popular among students and academics. Dunn also includes a critique of alternative perspectives, showing that Marxism still provides the best analytical tools for understanding the global economy.This comprehensive text is a must for students of politics and economics who are keen to understand how the economy reached its current stage and what the future is likely to bring.
Author: Liz Jensen
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NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING JAMIE DORNAN AND AARON PAULNine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child bright, precocious, deceitful and dangerously, disturbingly, disaster-prone. When he falls off a cliff into a ravine, the accident seems almost predestined. Louis miraculously survives but the family has been shattered.Louis father has vanished, his mother is paralysed by shock, and Louis lies in a deep coma from which he may never emerge. In a clinic in Provence, Dr Pascal Dannachet tries to coax Louis back to consciousness. But the boy defies medical logic, startling Dannachet out of his safe preconceptions, and drawing him inexorably into the dark heart of Louis buried world. Only Louis holds the key to the mystery surrounding his fall and he cant communicate. Or can he?
Author: John Gillingham
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William II (1087-1100), or William Rufus, will always be most famous for his death killed by an arrow while out hunting, perhaps through accident or perhaps murder. But, as John Gillingham makes clear in this elegant book, as the son and successor to William the Conqueror it was William Rufus who had to establish permanent Norman rule. A ruthless, irascible man, he frequently argued acrimoniously with his older brother Robert over their fathers inheritance - but he also handed out effective justice, leaving as his legacy one of the most extraordinary of all medieval buildings, Westminster Hall.**About the Author John Gillingham is the author of The Middle Ages and Medieval Britain.
Author: Rob Stone
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In Auditions, Rob Stone proposes a new and transformative view of architecture and sound. He offers a radical rethinking of the inhabitation of architectural space in terms of its acoustic dimensions, presenting a concept of aurality as an active, speculative, yet conditional understanding of the complexity of social spaces. The aural architectures he discusses are assembled from elements of architecture and music -- including works by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and John Cage -- but also from imagined spaces and other kinds of less obviously musical sounds. Stone presents a series of aural-architecture moments, each of which brings architectural space into conversational relationships with extra-architectural concepts and perceptions, often suggested by other art forms and social practices. He considers, for example, the acoustic themes of a silent movie Greg Louganiss failed dive at the Seoul Olympics and the moral values attached to water in architecture the custodianship of high culture at a second-hand classical record shop in London and hair (as in the conductors hairstyle) as a mediating form between music and architectural space. In Auditions, Stone brings together and revises the canonical instances of sounds relationships with architectural spaces, and he does so by granting new kinds of spatial agency to sound. Sound is not only a portal into otherwise imperceptible aspects of architecture but also a reflection on the concepts that produce our expectations of architecture. **
Author: Jacob F. Lee
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bA riveting account of the conquest of the vast American heartland that offers a vital reconsideration of the relationship between Native Americans and European colonists, and the pivotal role of the mighty Mississippi.bAmericas waterways were once the superhighways of travel and communication. Cutting a central line across the landscape, with tributaries connecting the South to the Great Plains and the Great Lakes, the Mississippi River meant wealth, knowledge, and power for those who could master it. In this ambitious and elegantly written account of the conquest of the West, Jacob Lee offers a new understanding of early America based on the long history of warfare and resistance in the Mississippi River valley.Lee traces the Native kinship ties that determined which nations rose and fell in the period before the Illinois became dominant. With a complex network of allies stretching from Lake Superior to Arkansas, the Illinois were at the height of their power in 1673 when the first French explorersfur trader Louis Jolliet and Jesuit priest Jacques Marquettemade their way down the Mississippi. Over the next century, a succession of European empires claimed parts of the midcontinent, but they all faced the challenge of navigating Native alliances and social structures that had existed for centuries. When American settlers claimed the region in the early nineteenth century, they overturned 150 years of interaction between Indians and Europeans.Masters of the Middle Waters shows that the Mississippi and its tributaries were never simply a backdrop to unfolding events. We cannot understand the trajectory of early America without taking into account the vast heartland and its waterways, which advanced and thwarted the aspirations of Native nations, European imperialists, and American settlers alike.Review Masters of the Middle Waters tells a completely new story about the vast center of North America between the collapse of the Mississippian city-state of Cahokia around 1200 and U.S. domination in the 1800s. Lee reveals how kinship and alliance networks and the control of riverways were the keys to power, showing that what happened in this region had repercussions from the Great Lakes and Great Plains to the British, French, and Spanish empires in North America and Europe. span font-style italic spanstrong font-style italic Kathleen DuVal, author of Independence Lost Jacob Lee does for Middle America what Richard White did for the Great Lakes in Middle Ground. In this important work, Lee bridges the arbitrary divide between the pre- and post-contact eras. He pays due attention to Illinois and Osage power as well as to French, Spanish, and British colonial policies indigenous leaders figure as prominently as colonial traders and agents. Masters of the Middle Waters will earn a place among a growing literature that demonstrates the central role of Native Americans in early American history. Colin Calloway, author of The Victory with No Name In this brilliant book, Lee deftly explores the fortunes of empires and natives at the heart of the continent and, it turns out, at the long-hidden center of its history. Masters of the Middle Waters illuminates the interplay of rivers and kinship networks in sustaining families, trade, and alliance in a landscape of great power and deep memories. Alan Shaw Taylor, author of American Revolutions About the Author bJacob F. Leeb is Assistant Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University. A historian of early America and the American West, he received fellowships from the Huntington Library, the Newberry Library, and the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, for his work on this book.