Author: David H. Kaplan File Type: pdf This important book provides a novel perspective on ethnicity, nationality, and race by considering how they are shaped by their geography. Exploring the complicated terrain of ethnicity through an expansive global perspective, David H. Kaplan traces the spatial arrangements that convey such potent meaning to the identity and opportunities of members of any cultural group. With examples from around the world, the author considers the most important aspects of ethnicityfrom segregation to place making to multiculturalism, culture regions, diasporas, and transnationalism. He frames ethnicity as a contingent phenomenon, showing how context and place determine the position, definitions, behaviors, and attitudes toward and by members of an ethnic group. Drawing on an impressive depth of historical and empirical detail, Kaplans analysis of the critical role of ethnicity in everyday geographies makes a major contribution to the field. **

Author: R. V. Young File Type: epub A Students Guide to Literaturetakes up these questions In a time of mass culture and pulp fiction, can great literature still be discerned, much less defended? Why is literature so compelling? What should we read? Literary scholar R. V. Young addresses these timely issues in this guide to Western literature and poetry. He demonstrates that literature liberates the mind from cultural and temporal provincialism by expanding our intellectual and emotional horizons. Learn how great fiction and poetry are integral to a liberal education, and visit the classic works of literature againor for the first time.

Author: Stephanie McCurry File Type: pdf Pulitzer Prize FinalistWinner of the Frederick Douglass PrizeWinner of the Merle Curti PrizeThe story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by white Southern slaveholders to protect their property, has been told many times in heroic and martial narratives. Now, however, Stephanie McCurry tells a very different tale of the Confederate experience. When the grandiosity of Southerners national ambitions met the harsh realities of wartime crises, unintended consequences ensued. Although Southern statesmen and generals had built the most powerful slave regime in the Western world, they had excluded the majority of their own people-white women and slaves-and thereby sowed the seeds of their demise.Wartime scarcity of food, labor, and soldiers tested the Confederate vision at every point and created domestic crises to match those found on the battlefields. Women and slaves became critical political actors as they contested government enlistment and tax and welfare policies, and struggled for their freedom. The attempt to repress a majority of its own population backfired on the Confederate States of America as the disenfranchised demanded to be counted and considered in the great struggle over slavery, emancipation, democracy, and nationhood. That Confederate struggle played out in a highly charged international arena.The political project of the Confederacy was tried by its own people and failed. The government was forced to become accountable to women and slaves, provoking an astounding transformation of the slaveholders state.Confederate Reckoningis the startling story of this epic political battle in which women and slaves helped to decide the fate of the Confederacy and the outcome of the Civil War.__ReviewCombining the best of the tradition of writing history from the bottom up,with prodigious research, and a red thread of analytical brilliance, Confederate Reckoning dramatically reshapes our understanding of the history of slavery and the Civil War. (Walter Johnson, author of Soul by Soul Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market ) This is a major book [that] permanently rewrites the history of the Confederacy. (James L. Roark, author of Masters Without Slaves Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction ) Analyzing the experience of women, African Americans, and others often placed at the margins of Confederate history, McCurry powerfully challenges readers to get beyond high politics and storied military campaigns to engage a profoundly complicated, and often surprising, story of struggle and change amid seismic events. (Gary W. Gallagher, author of The Confederate War ) McCurry strips the Confederacy of myth and romance to reveal its doomed essence. Dedicated to the proposition that men were not created equal, the Confederacy had to fight a two-front war. Not only against Union armies, but also slaves and poor white women who rose in revolt across the South. Richly detailed and lucidly told, Confederate Reckoning is a fresh, bold take on the Civil War that every student of the conflict should read. (Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War ) [McCurry] has written a staggeringly smart analysis of the politics of the Confederacy--indeed, she has written one of the most illuminating and creative studies of 19th-century American political life, period...I have been waiting for McCurrys second book to be published since I read Masters of Small Worlds over a decade ago it is a triumph of political history, and it was well worth the wait. (Lauren Winner Books & Culture 2010-04-28) Forceful and elegantly written...this book [is] a landmark piece of Civil War historiography. (Jim Cullen History News Network 2010-06-11) Good history teaches readers about the past, excellent history offers perspective on the present. By this standard, Stephanie McCurrys Confederate Reckoning surely achieves excellence...McCurry offers a carefully researched and well-grounded frontal assault, examining secessions causes and actualities. She quickly disposes of the claims that the war was really about anything other than slavery, demonstrating that fanciful patinas such as states rights merely meant linguistic obfuscation of that brutal reality...As modern citizens decry government actions and hearken back to an ideal that never was, so too did the South assert a wish to return to a fictional revolutionary era utopia. This desire allowed them to not only ignore the long odds against their success, just as Tea Partiers fail to consider their programs (such as it is) absurd contradictions...McCurry shines a light on the Souths brutal reality and thus encourages us to cast a cold analytical eye on our own. (Jordan Magill San Francisco Book Review 2010-06-22) The sesquicentennial of the Civil War now looms on the horizon, promising its own deluge of books of every size, shape and description. We will be fortunate indeed if in sheer originality and insight they measure up to Confederate Reckoning...McCurry challenges us to expand our definition of politics to encompass not simply government but the entire public sphere. The struggle for Southern independence, she shows, opened the door for the mobilization of two groups previously outside the political nation--white women of the nonslaveholding class and slaves... Confederate Reckoning offers a powerful new paradigm for understanding events on the Confederate home front. (Eric Foner The Nation 2010-07-14) Building upon her work over almost two decades, McCurry presents a new history of the Souths experience during the war. It is an account that foregrounds social history as contrasted with military history, and in this respect it is of a piece with much of the pathbreaking new scholarship on the war. It moves political history from the study of elected politicians and government institutions to an exploration of power in all its dimensions...Perhaps the highest praise one can offer McCurrys work is to say that once we look through her eyes, it will become almost impossible to believe that we ever saw or thought otherwise... Confederate Reckoning Power and Politics in the Civil War South is a book about politics that stretches far beyond the ballot and the statehouse, all the way into plantations and farms and families and communities across the South...McCurry has helped to transform our understanding of the Confederacy--and of its impossibility...At the outset of the book, McCurry insists that she is not going to ask or answer the timeworn question of why the South lost the Civil War. Yet in her vivid and richly textured portrait of what she calls the Confederacys undoing, she has in fact accomplished exactly that. And in doing so McCurry has written also a paean to social justice and to democracy, commitments and aspirations we would be well-served to make the heart of our Sesquicentennial commemorations. (Drew Gilpin Faust New Republic 2010-10-28)About the Author Stephanie McCurry is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

Author: John L. Hennessy File Type: epub The fifth edition of Computer Organization and Designwinner of a 2014 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from The Text and Academic Authors Associationmoves forward into the post-PC era with new examples, exercises, and material highlighting the emergence of mobile computing and the cloud. This generational change is emphasized and explored with updated content featuring tablet computers, cloud infrastructure, and the ARM (mobile computing devices) and x86 (cloud computing) architectures.Because an understanding of modern hardware is essential to achieving good performance and energy efficiency, this edition adds a new concrete example, Going Faster, used throughout the text to demonstrate extremely effective optimization techniques. Also new to this edition is discussion of the Eight Great Ideas of computer architecture.As with previous editions, a MIPS processor is the core used to present the fundamentals of hardware technologies, assembly language, computer arithmetic, pipelining, memory hierarchies and IO.Instructors looking for fourth edition teaching materials should e-mail textbook@elsevier.com.ullWinner of a 2014 Texty Award from the Text and Academic Authors AssociationllIncludes new examples, exercises, and material highlighting the emergence of mobile computing and the cloudllCovers parallelism in depth with examples and content highlighting parallel hardware and software topics llFeatures the Intel Core i7, ARM Cortex-A8 and NVIDIA Fermi GPU as real-world examples throughout the book llAdds a new concrete example, Going Faster, to demonstrate how understanding hardware can inspire software optimizations that improve performance by 200 timesllDiscusses and highlights the Eight Great Ideas of computer architecture Performance via Parallelism Performance via Pipelining Performance via Prediction Design for Moores Law Hierarchy of Memories Abstraction to Simplify Design Make the Common Case Fast and Dependability via RedundancyllIncludes a full set of updated and improved exerciseslul(The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)