Author: Sidney W. Mintz File Type: pdf span 11pt Helvetica Neue vertical-align baseline id=docs-internal-guid-d7fa8a9a-f734-fbce-2aac-02e9012bce27Mintz, Sidney W. Plantations and the Rise of a World Food Economy Some Preliminary Ideas. spanspan 11pt Helvetica Neue font-style italic vertical-align baselineReview (Fernand Braudel Center)spanspan 11pt Helvetica Neue vertical-align baseline 34, no. 12 (2011) 314.span

Author: Andrew Stuhl File Type: pdf In recent years, journalists and environmentalists have pointed urgently to the melting Arctic as a leading indicator of the growing effects of climate change. While climate change has unleashed profound transformations in the region, most commentators distort these changes by calling them unprecedented. In reality, the landscapes of the North American Arcticas well as relations among scientists, Inuit, and federal governments are products of the regions colonial past. And even as policy analysts, activists, and scholars alike clamor about the future of our worlds northern rim, too few truly understand its history. In Unfreezing the Arctic, Andrew Stuhl brings a fresh perspective to this defining challenge of our time. With a compelling narrative voice, Stuhl weaves together a wealth of distinct episodes into a transnational history of the North American Arctic, proving that a richer understanding of its social and environmental transformation can come only from studying the regions past. Drawing on historical records and extensive ethnographic fieldwork, as well as time spent living in the Northwest Territories, he closely examines the long-running interplay of scientific exploration, colonial control, the testimony and experiences of Inuit residents, and multinational investments in natural resources. A rich and timely portrait, Unfreezing the Arctic offers a comprehensive look at scientific activity across the long twentieth century. It will be welcomed by anyone interested in political, economic, environmental, and social histories of transboundary regions the world over. The author intends to donate all royalties from this book to the Alaska Youth for Environmental Action (AYEA) andEast Three Schools On the Land Program. **

Author: Shaun T Griffin File Type: pdf Hayden Carruth survived isolation, mental health problems, and long struggle with drink and smoke to produce a vision of modern poetry rooted in the New England tradition but entirely his own. Many feel his best poems emerged from the isolation of rural Vermont, and his poems often are concerned with rural images and metaphors reflecting the land and hardscrabble people around him. Together with his second love, jazz, Carruths rural experiences infuse his poems with engaging and provocative ideas even as they present sometimes stark topics. This volume collects essays and poems from such notable contributors as Donald Hall, Marilyn Hacker, Adrienne Rich, Philip Booth, Matthew Miller, and Sascha Feinstein, among many others. The books sections concern the kinds of writings, and the values expressed in his writings, for which Carruth was most famous, including what editor Shaun T. Griffin calls social utility, jazz, his impoverished rural environment, and innovation in poetic form. **Review Now, with the publication of From Sorrows Well, theres a compilation of essays and interviews equal to the task of addressing the many facets of Carruth, from formalist to poetic improviser and innovator from rural northern farmer to urban jazzman and urbane literary critic from neurotic isolationist to clear-eyed observer of insanity and its cure in social connection. Green Mountains Review (Neil Shepard Green Mountains Review 2014-03-28) About the Author The author, editor, or translator of eight books, Shaun T. Griffin has taught a poetry workshop at Northern Nevada Correctional Center for twenty years. He received the Rosemary McMillan Lifetime Achievement in Art Award in 2006, awarded by the Sierra Arts Foundation.

Author: Kevin J. Hayes File Type: pdf When it comes to the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton are generally considered the great minds of early America. George Washington, instead, is toasted with accolades regarding his solid common sense and strength in battle. Indeed, John Adams once snobbishly dismissed him as too illiterate, unlearned, unread for his station and reputation. Yet Adams, as well as the majority of the men who knew Washington in his life, were unaware of his singular devotion to self-improvement. Based on a comprehensive amount of research at the Library of Congress, the collections at Mount Vernon, and rare book archives scattered across the country, Kevin J. Hayes corrects this misconception and reconstructs in vivid detail the active intellectual life that has gone largely unnoticed in conventional narratives of Washington. Despite being a lifelong reader, Washington felt an acute sense of embarrassment about his relative lack of formal education and cultural sophistication, and in this sparkling literary biography, Hayes illustrates just how tirelessly Washington worked to improve. Beginning with the primers, forgotten periodicals, conduct books, and classic eighteenth-century novels such as Tom Jones that shaped Washingtons early life, Hayes studies Washingtons letters and journals, charting the many ways the books of his upbringing affected decisions before and during the Revolutionary War. The final section of the book covers the voluminous reading that occurred during Washingtons presidency and his retirement at Mount Vernon. Throughout, Hayes examines Washingtons writing as well as his reading, from The Journal of Major George Washington through his Farewell Address. The sheer breadth of titles under review here allow readers to glimpse Washingtons views on foreign policy, economics, the law, art, slavery, marriage, and religion-and how those views shaped the young nation.. Ultimately, this sharply written biography offers a fresh perspective on Americas Father, uncovering the ideas that shaped his intellectual journey and, subsequently, the development of America. **