Books: 'New town hall'

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New Mexico Town Hall (9th 1992 Angel Fire, N.M.). Financing New Mexico government: Report of the Ninth New Mexico Town Hall, April 30-May 3, 1992, Angel Fire, New Mexico. New Mexico First, 1992.

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New Mexico Town Hall (20th 1997 Gallup, N.M.). Integrated regional transportation: Report of the Twentieth New Mexico First Town Hall, October 23-26, 1997, Gallup, New Mexico. New Mexico First, 1997.

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Hrubeš, Josef. Novoměstská radnice, Karlovo náměstí. Edited by Augusta Pavel. Milpo Media, 2000.

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New Mexico Town Hall (6th 1990 Gallup, N.M.). New Mexico's environment: Dance of the interests : report of the Sixth New Mexico Town Hall, May 3-6, 1990, Gallup, New Mexico. New Mexico First, 1990.

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New Mexico Town Hall (7th 1990 Mescalero, N.M.). Health care--rights and privileges: Report of the Seventh New Mexico Town Hall, October 25-28, 1990, Mescalero, New Mexico. New Mexico First, 1990.

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New, Mexico Town Hall (17th 1996 Taos N. M. ). Strategic planning for New Mexico's future: Report of the seventeenth New Mexico First Town Hall, June 20-June 28, 1996, Taos, New Mexico. New Mexico First, 1996.

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Taos, N. M. ). New Mexico Town Hall (22nd 1999. K-12 education in New Mexico: Benchmarks for the new millennium : report of the Twenty-second New Mexico First Town Hall, June 3-6, 1999, Taos, New Mexico. New Mexico First, 1999.

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Indian Town Hall (19th 1999 Phoenix, Ariz.). Report of the 19th Arizona Indian Town Hall, June 22-23, 1999: Redefining tribal-state relations for the new millennium. The Commission, 1999.

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New Mexico Town Hall (4th 1989 Las Cruces, N.M.). The services of state government: Processes and traditions : report of the Fourth New Mexico Town Hall, April 30-May 3, 1989, Las Cruces, New Mexico. New Mexico First, 1989.

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New Mexico Town Hall (19th 1997 Albuquerque, N.M.). Managing New Mexico land and water resources for the best use: Now and through 2020 : report of the nineteenth New Mexico First Town Hall, June 26-29, 1997, Albuquerque, New Mexico. New Mexico First, 1997.

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International Symposium on Functionally Gradient Materials (5th 1998 Dresden, Germany). Functionally graded materials 1998: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Functionally Graded Materials, held in New Town Hall, Dresden, Germany, October 26-29, 1998. Edited by Kaisser Wolfgang. Trans Tech Publications, 1999.

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International Symposium on Functionally Gradient Materials (5th 1998 Dresden, Germany). Functionally graded materials 1998: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Functionally Graded Materials, held in New Town Hall, Dresden, Germany, October 26-29, 1998. Edited by Kaisser Wolfgang. Trans Tech Publications, 1999.

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Committee, New Jersey Legislature General Assembly Environmental Quality. Public hearing before Assembly Environmental Quality Committee on Assembly bills 2698, 2699, 2700 & 2701 (hazardous waste financing package): July 29, 1986, Kearny Town Hall, Kearny, New Jersey. The Committee, 1986.

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New Jersey. Legislature. Senate. Institutions, Health, and Welfare Committee. Public hearing before Senate Institutions, Health, and Welfare Committee on S-2024, establishes the "New Jersey Uncompensated Care Trust Fund" and appropriates $7,500,000.00, July 9, 1986, West Orange Town Hall, West Orange, New Jersey. The Committee, 1986.

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New Jersey. Legislature. General Assembly. Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Public meeting before Assembly Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Assembly Bill 3562: (Would require the Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission ...), March 23, 1987, Maplewood Town Hall, Maplewood, New Jersey. The Committee, 1987.

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d'outre-mer, Société française d'histoire, ed. New Caledonia, twenty years on, 1988-2008: Political and social change in a French Pacific Island : proceedings of a conference held on 25 and 26 April 2008, chaired by Michel Rocard, Paris Town Hall and Palais du Luxembourg. Société française d'histoire d'outre-mer, 2011.

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New Jersey. Legislature. General Assembly. Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Public hearing before Assembly Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Assembly Resolution No. 130 (directs a study of certain aspects concerning the completion of the Delaware and Raritan Canal dredging project): Held May 8, 1985, Plainsboro Town Hall, Plainsboro, New Jersey. The Committee, 1985.

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New Jersey. Legislature. General Assembly. Municipal Government Committee. Public meeting before Assembly Municipal Government Committee, Assembly bill 3587: Requires Council on Affordable Housing to reduce its municipal need estimates by 50% of the estimate it has presently adopted : January 23, 1987, Middletown Township Town Hall Middletown Township, New Jersey. The Committee, 1987.

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New Jersey. Legislature. General Assembly. Special Committee to Investigate Hazardous Waste Disposal at Military Institutions. Public hearing before Special Committee to Investigate Hazardous Waste Disposal at Military Institutions on environmental and public health dangers which may be posed by the discharging of hazardous wastes at the military installations at Fort Monmouth, the Raritan Arsenal, and the Earle Naval Weapons Station: October 24, 1985, Middletown Township Town Hall, Middletown, New Jersey. The Committee, 1985.

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Fighting sprawl and City Hall: Resistance to urban growth in the Southwest. University of Arizona Press, 1995.

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Lampropoulos, Andreas, ed. Case Studies on Conservation and Seismic Strengthening/Retrofitting of Existing Structures. International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/cs002.

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<p>Recent earthquakes have demonstrated that despite the continuous developments of novel materials and new strengthening techniques, the majority of the existing structures are still unprotected and at high seismic risk. The repair and strengthening framework is a complex process and there are often barriers in the preventative upgrade of the existing structures related to the cost of the applications and the limited expertise of the engineers. The engineers need to consider various options thoroughly and the selection of the appropriate strategy is a crucial parameter for the success of these applications.</p><p>The main aim of this collection is to present a number of different approaches applied to a wide range of structures with different characteristics and demands acting as a practical guide for the main repair and strengthening approaches used worldwide. This document contains a collection of nine case studies from six different countries with different seismicity (i.e. Austria, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Nepal and New Zealand). Various types of structures have been selected with different structural peculiarities such as buildings used for different purposes (i.e. school buildings, town hall, 30 storey office tower), a bridge, and a wharf. Most of the examined structures are Reinforced Concrete structures while there is also an application on a Masonry building. For each of the examined studies, the local conditions are described followed by the main deficiencies which are addressed. The methods used for the assessment of the in-situ conditions also presented and alternative strategies for the repair and strengthening are considered.</p>

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Hinman, Marjory Barnum. Bingham's land, Whitney's town: A documentary history of the first half century in the development of Binghamton, New York and vicinity, 1794-1845. Broome County Historical Society, 1996.

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New Jersey. Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee on Economic Recovery. Committee meeting of Joint Legislative Committee on Economic Recovery: "general economic conditions in the State and steps the Committees can take to further bolster the economic recovery that is currently underway; also addressed were various tax incentive proposals deemed beneficial to business expansion and business location in the State" : Marlboro Town Hall, Courthouse, Marlboro, New Jersey, March 24, 1993, 10:00 a.m. : members of Joint Committee present: Senator Jack Sinagra, chairperson ... [et al.]. The Committee, 1993.

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Mexico, University of New, and New Mexico Town Hall (3rd : 1988 : Gallup, N.M.), eds. Higher education in New Mexico: Report of the Third New Mexico Town Hall, October 12-15, 1988, Gallup, New Mexico. New Mexico First, 1988.

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Death at Tammany Hall. 2015.

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Eleventh Annual Benefit Auction 19th & 20th Century Photographs Saturday, October 7, 1989, 700 pm. Town Hall, Woodstock, New York. The Center For Photography, 1989.

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Garodnick, Daniel R. Saving Stuyvesant Town. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501754371.001.0001.

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From city streets to City Hall and to Midtown corporate offices, this book is the incredible true story of how one middle-class community defeated the largest residential real-estate deal in American history. As a lifetime Stuy Town resident and former City Councilman, the author recounts how his neighbors stood up to mammoth real-estate interests and successfully fought to save their homes, delivering New York City's biggest-ever affordable-housing preservation win. In 2006, the author found himself engaged in an unexpected battle. Stuyvesant Town was built for World War II veterans by MetLife, in partnership with the City. Two generations removed, MetLife announced that it would sell Stuy Town to the highest bidder. The author and his neighbors sprang into action. Battle lines formed with real-estate titans like Tishman Speyer and BlackRock facing an organized coalition of residents, who made a competing bid to buy the property themselves. Tripped-up by an over-leveraged deal, the collapse of the American housing market, and a novel lawsuit brought by tenants, the real-estate interests collapsed, and the tenants stood ready to take charge and shape the future of their community. The result was a once-in-a-generation win for tenants and an extraordinary outcome for middle-class New Yorkers. The book shows how creative problem solving, determination, and brute-force politics can be marshalled for the public good. The nine-year struggle to save Stuyvesant Town by these residents is an inspiration to everyone who is committed to ensuring that New York remains a livable, affordable, and economically diverse city.

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Environment, Projects, and Manchester City Art Gallery, eds. New voices in the city: Art and the urban environment : public forums and international conference, Manchester Town Hall, Monday 15th - Sunday 21st March, 1993. [Projects Environment in association with Manchester City Art Galleries], 1993.

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Bruce, Steve. Counting the Spiritual. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805687.003.0006.

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The data from two thoroughgoing attempts to estimate popular involvement in religious and spiritual innovations—a two-year study of the small English town of Kendal and a detailed social survey—are examined. Both point to the same conclusion: that the number of people typically engaged in New Age spirituality activities broadly defined is less than 2 per cent, and half of them do their yoga, meditation, and the like for reasons of physical and psychological well-being rather than for spiritual growth. That is, much of what is often claimed as proof that religion is changing rather than declining is actually secular in purpose and nature. Further, because New Age spirituality appeals more to those disillusioned with conventional religion than with secularity, it depends on conventional religion for recruits, and that pool is drying up.

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Brown, Thomas J. Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653747.001.0001.

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This sweeping new assessment of Civil War monuments unveiled in the United States between the 1860s and 1930s argues that they were pivotal to a national embrace of military values. Americans' wariness of standing armies limited construction of war memorials in the early republic, Thomas J. Brown explains, and continued to influence commemoration after the Civil War. As large cities and small towns across the North and South installed an astonishing range of statues, memorial halls, and other sculptural and architectural tributes to Civil War heroes, communities debated the relationship of military service to civilian life through fund-raising campaigns, artistic designs, oratory, and ceremonial practices. Brown shows that distrust of standing armies gave way to broader enthusiasm for soldiers in the Gilded Age. Some important projects challenged the trend, but many Civil War monuments proposed new norms of discipline and vigor that lifted veterans to a favored political status and modeled racial and class hierarchies. A half century of Civil War commemoration reshaped remembrance of the American Revolution and guided American responses to World War I. This book provides the most comprehensive overview of the American war memorial as a cultural form and reframes the national debate over Civil War monuments that remain potent presences on the civic landscape.

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Thoreau, Henry David. Walden. Edited by Stephen Allen Fender. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199538065.001.0001.

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‘The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.’ In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau’s classic autobiographical account of this experiment in solitary living, his refusal to play by the rules of hard work and the accumulation of wealth and above all the freedom it gave him to adapt his living to the natural world around him. This new edition of Walden traces the sources of Thoreau’s reading and thinking and considers the author in the context of his birthplace and his sense of its history - social, economic and natural. In addition, an ecological appendix provides modern identifications of the myriad plants and animals to which Thoreau gave increasingly close attention as he became acclimatized to his life in the woods by Walden Pond.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables. Edited by Michael Davitt Bell. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199539123.001.0001.

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In the final years of the seventeenth century in a small New England town, the venerable Colonel Pyncheon decides to erect a ponderously oak-framed and spacious family mansion. It occupies the spot where Matthew Maule, ‘an obscure man’, had lived in a log hut, until his execution for witchcraft. From the scaffold, Maule points his finger at the presiding Colonel and cries ‘God will give him blood to drink!’ The fate of Colonel Pyncheon exerts a heavy influence on his descendants in the crumbling mansion for the next century and a half. Hawthorne called his novel a ‘Romance’, drawing on the Gothic tradition which embraced and exploited the thrills of the supernatural. Unlike The Scarlet Letter, with its unrelentingly dark view of human nature and guilt, Hawthorne sought to write ‘a more natural and healthy product of my mind’, a story which would show guilt to be a trick of the imagination. The tension between fantasy and a new realism underpins the novel's descriptive virtuosity.

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Brooker, Megan E. Indivisible. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190886172.003.0009.

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In the wake of Donald Trump’s election to the presidency, a group of former Democratic Congressional staffers set out to organize and educate the grassroots opposition to the new administration. Indivisible began with an online guide providing an action plan of how to influence Congress. Subsequent efforts focused on ways to influence policy through conventional political channels, by stalling or defeating the Trump administration’s agenda using local, grassroots protest and advocacy tactics. Self-consciously strategic, Indivisible explicitly described its strategy as inspired by the success of the Tea Party. Like the Tea Party, Indivisible’s organizational model encouraged supporters to target members of Congress by attending town halls, making phone calls, and visiting their offices. This chapter explores how political circumstances shape the avenues of influence available to challengers and the means of contention in which they engage at any given time.

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Thrush, Coll. Urban Native Histories. Edited by Frederick E. Hoxie. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199858897.013.35.

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Urbanization has profoundly affected indigenous peoples. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, more than half of all American Indian and Alaskan Native people live not on reservations or in rural areas, but in towns and cities. According to the 2000 US census, some of the largest Indian populations are in places like Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Seattle. This study focuses on the widespread indigenous history in and of urban places to draw attention to important themes and debates in the scholarship on Native peoples and cities and to articulate a broad agenda for a new approach to urban Indigenous history.

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Gaskell, Elizabeth, and Sally Shuttleworth. North and South. Edited by Angus Easson. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199537006.001.0001.

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`She tried to settle that most difficult problem for women, how much was to be utterly merged in obedience to authority, and how much might be set apart for freedom in working.’ North and South is a novel about rebellion. Moving from the industrial riots of discontented millworkers through to the unsought passions of a middle-class woman, and from religious crises of conscience to the ethics of naval mutiny, it poses fundamental questions about the nature of social authority and obedience. Through the story of Margaret Hale, the middle-class southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton, Gaskell skilfully explores issues of class and gender in the conflict between Margaret’s ready sympathy with the workers and her growing attraction to the charismatic mill ownder, John Thornton. This new revised and expanded edition sets the novel in the context of Victorian social and medical debate.

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Talbot, Ian, and Tahir Kamran. Colonial Lahore. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190642938.003.0002.

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Chapter one firstly discusses the spatial development of colonial Lahore with the creation of the Civil Lines, the Cantonment and the Mall. These areas contained such imposing new buildings as the GPO, the High Court and the Museum. Later the prestigious suburb of Model Town with its well-ordered streets, parks and bungalows was created. Secondly, the chapter looks at the migration to the city which led to its rapid growth in the colonial era. Lahore’s administrative importance, its commercial development and its emergence as the leading educational centre for North India provided the context for migration. The chapter reveals the role of migrants such as Lala Harkishen Lal in Lahore’s commercial activities and Lala Lajpat Rai in its institutional and cultural development. The role of migrants from Delhi such as Muhammad Hussain Azad and Altaf Hussain Hali is also discussed with respect to establishing the city as a major centre of Urdu culture.culture.

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Cohn, Jr., Samuel K. Cholera Violence. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198819660.003.0010.

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With comparative forays into Spain and Russia, this chapter concentrates on Italy and the historical trajectory of cholera disturbances from 1837 to its last major cholera wave in 1910–11. While the collective violence of cholera was confined mostly to Sicily in 1837, it expanded from the 1860s to 1910–11 across the mainland, affecting cities in Rome’s ambit, Livorno in Tuscany, and city states of the North, including Venice. Despite greater understanding of cholera’s transmission and the culturing of the bacillus in 1884, these riots amassed crowds as large as 3000, with the same beliefs that the state and doctors were scheming to cull populations of the poor, leading to pharmacists, physicians, and mayors being murdered and hospitals and town halls destroyed. With cholera in Naples in 1973 and social unrest, these mythologies finally disappeared. Now, working classes rioted against the scarcity of medicines and absence of professional care.

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Hawley, John Stratton. Krishna's Playground. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190123987.001.0001.

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Many call Vrindavan the spiritual capital of India, for it’s long been recognized as the playground where Krishna spends his eternal youth. Today, however, the world is gobbling it up. Delhi’s sprawl inches closer day by day—half the town is a vast real-estate development—and the waters of the Yamuna are too polluted to drink or even bathe in. Temples now style themselves as theme parks, and the world’s tallest religious building is under construction in Krishna’s pastoral paradise. What happens when the Anthropocene Age makes everything virtual? What happens when heaven gets plowed under? Like our age as a whole, Vrindavan throbs with feisty energy, but is it the canary in our collective coal mine? This book lays bare the glories and struggles of Vrindavan today—its waters and its thirst, its widows and its women, its newcomers (like ISKCON), and its old hands. It shows us the real Vrindavan—a parable of Hinduism in rapid change.

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Johnson, Tom. Law in Common. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198785613.001.0001.

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There were tens of thousands of different local law-courts in late-medieval England, providing the most common forums for the working out of disputes and the making of decisions about local governance. While historians have long studied these institutions, there have been very few attempts to understand this complex institutional form of ‘legal pluralism’. Law in Common provides a way of apprehending this complexity by drawing out broader patterns of legal engagement. The first half of the book explores four ‘local legal cultures’ – in the countryside, towns and cities, the maritime world, and Forests – that grew up around legal institutions, landscapes, and forms of socio-economic practice in these places, and produced distinctive senses of law. The second half of the book turns to examine ‘common legalities’, widespread forms of social practice that emerge across these different localities, through which people aimed to invoke the power of law. Through studies of the physical landscape, the production of legitimate knowledge, the emergence of English as a legal vernacular, and the proliferation of legal documents, it offers a new way to understand how common people engaged with law in the course of their everyday lives. Drawing on a huge body of archival research from the plenitude of different local institutions, Law in Common offers a new social history of law that aims to explain how common people negotiated the transformational changes of the long fifteenth century through legality.

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Eliot, George. Middlemarch: In Half the Time (Compact Editions). Phoenix Press, 2007.

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Parker, Joanne, and Corinna Wagner, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199669509.001.0001.

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Victorian medievalism physically transformed the streets of Britain. It lay at the root of new laws and social policies. It changed religious practices. It deeply coloured national identities. And it inspired art, literature, and music that remains influential to this day. Sometimes driven by nostalgia, but also often progressive and future-facing, this wide-reaching movement, which reached its peak during the reign of Queen Victoria, looked back to a range of different peoples and historical periods spanning a thousand years, in order to inspire and vindicate cultural, political and social change. Medievalism was pervasive in Victorian literature, with texts ranging from translated sagas to pseudo-medieval devotional verse, to triple-decker novels. It became a dominant architectural mode – transforming the English landscape, with 75% of new churches built on a ‘Gothic’ rather than a classical model, as well as museums, railway stations, town halls, and pumping stations. It was appealed to by both Whigs and Tories. But it also permeated domestic life – influencing the popularity of beards, the naming of children, and the design of homes and furniture. This landmark study is an attempt to draw together for the first time every major aspect of Victorian medievalism, and to examine the phenomenon from the perspective of the many disciplines to which it is relevant, including intellectual history, religious studies, social history, literary history, art history, and architecture. Bringing together the expertise of 39 experts from different subject areas, it reveals the pervasiveness and multi-faceted character of the movement in the nineteenth century, and explains its continuing legacy today.

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Kline, Wendy. Coming Home. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190232511.001.0001.

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By the mid-twentieth century, two things appeared destined for extinction in the United States: the practice of home birth and the profession of midwifery. In 1940, close to half of all U.S. births took place in the hospital, and the trend was increasing. By 1970, the percentage of hospital births reached an all-time high of 99.4%, and the obstetrician, rather than the midwife, assumed nearly complete control over what had become an entirely medicalized procedure. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, an explosion of new alternative organizations, publications, and conferences cropped up, documenting a very different demographic trend; by 1977, the percentage of out-of-hospital births had more than doubled. Home birth was making a comeback, but why? A quiet revolution spread across cities and suburbs, towns and farms, as individuals challenged legal, institutional, and medical protocols by choosing unlicensed midwives to catch their babies at home. Drawing on archival materials and interviews with midwives, doctors, and home birth consumers, Coming Home analyzes the ideas, values, and experiences that led to this quiet revolution, and its long-term consequences for our understanding of birth, medicine, and culture.

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Whatmore, Richard. Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans. Princeton University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691168777.001.0001.

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In 1798, members of the United Irishmen were massacred by the British amid the crumbling walls of a half-built town near Waterford in Ireland. Many of the Irish were republicans inspired by the French Revolution, and the site of their demise was known as Genevan Barracks. The Barracks were the remnants of an experimental community called New Geneva, a settlement of Calvinist republican rebels who fled the continent in 1782. The British believed that the rectitude and industriousness of these imported revolutionaries would have a positive effect on the Irish populace. The experiment was abandoned, however, after the Calvinists demanded greater independence and more state money for their project. This book tells the story of a utopian city inspired by a spirit of liberty and republican values being turned into a place where republicans who had fought for liberty were extinguished by the might of empire. The book brings to life a violent age in which powerful states like Britain and France intervened in the affairs of smaller, weaker countries, justifying their actions on the grounds that they were stopping anarchists and terrorists from destroying society, religion, and government. The Genevans and the Irish rebels, in turn, saw themselves as advocates of republican virtue, willing to sacrifice themselves for liberty, rights, and the public good. The book shows how the massacre at Genevan Barracks marked an end to the old Europe of diverse political forms, and the ascendancy of powerful states seeking empire and markets — in many respects the end of enlightenment itself.

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Plotkin, Mark J. The Amazon. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190668297.001.0001.

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The Amazon is a land of superlatives. The complex ecosystem covers an area about the size of the continental U.S. The Amazon River discharges 57 million gallons of water per second--in two hours, this would be enough to supply all of New York City’s 7.5 million residents with water for a year. Its flora and fauna are abundant. Approximately one of every four flowering plant species on earth resides in the Amazon. A single Amazonian river may contain more fish species than all the rivers in Europe combined. It is home to the world's largest anteater, armadillo, freshwater turtle, and spider, as well as the largest rodent (which weighs over 200 lbs.), catfish (250 lbs.), and alligator (more than half a ton). The rainforest, which contains approximately 390 billion trees, plays a vital role in stabilizing the global climate by absorbing massive amounts of carbon dioxide--or releasing it into the atmosphere if the trees are destroyed. Severe droughts in both Brazil and Southeast Asia have been linked to Amazonian deforestation, as have changing rainfall patterns in the U.S., Europe, and China. The Amazon also serves as home to millions of people. Approximately seventy tribes of isolated and uncontacted people are concentrated in the western Amazon, completely dependent on the land and river. These isolated groups have been described as the most marginalized peoples in the western hemisphere, with no voice in the decisions made about their futures and the fate of their forests. In this addition to the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, ecologist and conservation expert, Mark J. Plotkin, who has spent 40 years studying Amazonia, its peoples, flora, and fauna. The Amazon offers an engaging overview of this irreplaceable ecosystem and the challenges it faces.

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