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Cairns, M. Alphabetical guide to gravestones in the Somerset Road Cemetery, Cape Town, Cape, 1907. [Pretoria]: State Archives Service, 1993.
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Maidman, Maynard P. Life in Nuzi’s Suburbs. Venice: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-404-2.
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Nuzi was a town in what is today northeastern Iraq. It flourished as part of the kingdom of Mittanni from about 1475 to 1350 BCE, early in the Late Bronze Age. Uniquely for a town of its moderate size, Nuzi produced a huge number of documents of which almost 7,000 survive. These include economic, legal, administrative, and even a few scholastic texts. They come from government offices in the town, private houses from several of the town’s neighborhoods, and private villas in Nuzi’s wealthy suburbs. The present volume presents text editions, including transliterations, translations, and analyses of some of these tablets from the suburbs, predominantly from a single family’s records, a huge private archive, one of the largest ever to have been unearthed in the entire ancient world.
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Ward, Gordon T. A bit of earth in the Somerset Hills: Growing up in a small New Jersey town. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2007.
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Shaw, Robert L. J. The Celestine Monks of France, c. 1350-1450. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462986787.
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The Celestine monks of France represent one of the least studied monastic reform movements of the late Middle Ages, and yet also one of the most culturally impactful. Their order - an austere Italian Benedictine reform of the late thirteenth century, which came be known after the papal name of their founder, Celestine V (St Peter of Murrone) - arrived in France in 1300. After a period of marginal growth, they flourished in the region from the mid-fourteenth century, founding thirteen new houses over the next hundred years, taking their total to seventeen by 1450. Not only did the French Celestines expand, they gained a distinctive character that separated them from their Italian brothers. More urban, better connected with both aristocratic and bourgeois society, and yet still rigorous and reformist, they characterised themselves as the 'Observant' wing of their order, having gained self-government for their provincial congregation in 1380 following the arrival of the Great Western Schism (1378-1417). But, as Robert L.J. Shaw argues, their importance runs beyond monastic reform: the late medieval French Celestines are a mirror of the political, intellectual, and Christian reform culture of their age. Within a France torn by war and a Church divided by schism, the French Celestines represented hope for renewal, influencing royal presentation, lay religion, and some of the leading French intellectuals of the period, including Jean Gerson.
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Malcolm, John. A Back Room in Somers Town (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries). Felony & Mayhem, 2007.
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Flood insurance study: Town of Somers, New York, Westchester County. [Washington, D.C.?]: Federal Emergency Management Agency, 1986.
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The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Somers (1734-1850),. Genealogical Pub Co, 2000.
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And grandmother's bed went too: Poor but happy in Somers Town. Camden: The St Pancras Housing Association in association with The Richmond Publishing Co., 1988.
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Society, Thirties, ed. A grave, some social housing and more graves: A walk in Somers Town. [U.K.]: The Thirties Society, 1989.
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Covey V Town of Somers US Supreme Court Transcript of Record with Supporting Pleadings. Gale, U.S. Supreme Court Records, 2011.
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Cansick, Frederick Teague. A Collection Of Curious And Interesting Epitaphs. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007.
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Cansick, Frederick Teague. A Collection Of Curious And Interesting Epitaphs. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007.
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J, Denford Steven L., Woodford F. Peter, and Camden History Society, eds. Streets of St Pancras: Somers Town and the Railway Lands : a survey of streets, buildings and former residents in a part of Camden. [London]: Camden History Society, 2002.
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Slocum, Karla. Black Towns, Black Futures. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653976.001.0001.
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Some know Oklahoma’s Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era—this is only part of the story. In this book, Karla Slocum shows that the appeal of these towns is more than their past. Drawing on interviews and observations of town life spanning several years, Slocum reveals that people from diverse backgrounds are still attracted to the communities because of the towns’ remarkable history as well as their racial identity and rurality. But that attraction cuts both ways. Tourists visit to see living examples of Black success in America, while informal predatory lenders flock to exploit the rural Black economies. In Black towns, there are developers, return migrants, rodeo spectators, and gentrifiers, too. Giving us a complex window into Black town and rural life, Slocum ultimately makes the case that these communities are places for affirming, building, and dreaming of Black community success even as they contend with the sometimes marginality of Black and rural America.
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Hämeenniemi, Eero. ‘Every town our home town’. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199352227.003.0010.
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I am a Finnish classically trained composer who has extensive experience of working with musicians from diverse backgrounds. In this chapter I examine some of the possibilities and challenges that arise in this kind of work. The discussion focuses on composing for a symphony orchestra and incorporating musical ideas from my exploration of Carnatic classical music. The discussion is illustrated with reference to the compositional processes for a specific musical project: Yaadum uuree (‘Every town our home town’). This work featured the singer Bombay Jayashri Ramnath, one of the leading Carnatic performers, and it was premiered in a concert given by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra in 2013.
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McSheffrey, Shannon. The Sanctuary Town of Knowle. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198798149.003.0006.
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A 1537 case of a thief who fled to sanctuary in Knowle, a town in Warwickshire, shows in some detail the ins and outs of the administration of this small sanctuary and more generally the workings of sanctuary in the later 1530s. Even at this late date, and in a disputed case, it is important to note that no one questioned the town’s sanctuary privileges (based on its status as a dependent manor of Westminster Abbey). The records associated with the case demonstrate the structural interlacing of the management of sanctuary with the administration of the king’s justice and its imbrication in the complicated lines of patronage and office-holding in Henrician England.
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Fagan, Garrett G. Social Life in Town and Country. Edited by Christer Bruun and Jonathan Edmondson. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195336467.013.023.
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Epigraphy reveals important aspects of the social life of ordinary people and slaves in the Roman world, habitually overlooked by elite literary authors. Inscriptions dealing with the lower orders might appear to have no overt social filter but are often influenced by the epigraphic culture of the elite. The chapter argues that through public documents, such as the statutes of collegia, the commemoration of benefactions, gravestones, and graffiti, some commoners gain a voice. Inscriptions give scholars a better understanding of life in the countryside and among the urban plebs .
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Schmidt, Christopher A., ed. Bürgerbegehren und Bürgerentscheid in Freiberg - 1999 bis 2008. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748905707.
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Saxony is one of Germany’s pioneering states when it comes to direct democracy, introducing public petitions and referendums as early as during the Weimar Republic. After 1990, there was another spate of citizens’ initiatives in a vast number of towns, cities and local communities. Between 1990 and 2008, the university town of Freiberg had vastly differing experiences of a number of public petitions which related to a diverse range of subjects. The groups that initiated these petitions were also equally as diverse: political parties, groups of voters with no strong ties to one political party, lobby groups and citizens’ action groups. In some instances, the petitions were initiated by ordinary citizens and market traders, but in others also by local politicians. Under the guidance of Prof. Dr Christopher Schmidt, students from the University of Esslingen have now embarked on in-depth research into this fascinating chapter in Freiberg’s history, the results of which are published in this book. In addition to depicting the individual public petitions that were initiated, it examines the legal foundations of citizens’ initiatives and referendums in Saxony. With contributions by Christopher A. Schmidt, Juliane de Pay, Janine Lebküchner, Vanessa Mayer and Hanife Tozman
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A Bit of Earth in the Somerset Hills: Growing Up in a Small New Jersey Town. History Press, 2007.
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Wells, Stanley. 1. Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198718628.003.0001.
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William Shakespeare is thought to have been born on 23 April 1564 and died on 23 April 1616. ‘Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon’ describes his life in the Warwickshire market town with his parents, John Shakespeare and Mary Arden, and his siblings. Shakespeare’s works confirm he had a good education, most likely at the grammar school. He married Anne Hathaway in 1582 and they had three children. He moved to London, the centre of the literary and theatre world, some time after his children were born, but his family remained in Stratford and Shakespeare retained strong links with the town to the end of his life.
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Fair, Alistair. ‘A New Image of the Town Centre’. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807476.003.0006.
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This chapter locates key theatres of the 1960s and early 1970s in a series of urban contexts. The first part of the chapter discusses the idea of civic pride, and shows how this idea—often associated with the nineteenth century—persisted in the post-war period. It discusses how theatres could be invoked in discussions of civic pride and urban identity, and the range of individuals and organizations who did so. The second part of the chapter considers a series of examples whose location was discussed at some length. Some of these examples were located in civic centres as demonstrations of their role as a civic amenity, but others were built in shopping areas to suggest accessibility. Key examples discussed in the chapter include Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Leicester’s Haymarket Theatre, Derby Playhouse, Billingham Forum, and the unbuilt Glasgow Cultural Centre.
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Moore, James. High culture and tall chimneys. Manchester University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781784991470.001.0001.
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During the nineteenth century industrial Lancashire became a leading national and international art centre. In 1857 Manchester hosted the international Art Treasures Exhibition at Old Trafford, arguably the single most important art exhibition every held. By the end of the century almost every major Lancashire town possessed an art gallery, while Lancashire art schools and artists were recognised nationally and internationally. This book examines the reasons for the remarkable rise of visual art in Lancashire and its relationship to the rise of the commercial and professional classes who supported it. Lancashire is rarely seen by outsiders as a major cultural centre but the creation of a network of art institutions facilitated a vibrant cultural life and shaped the civic identity of its people. The modern industrial towns of Lancashire often looked to the cultural history of other great civilisations to understand the rapidly changing world around them. Roscoe’s Liverpool of the late eighteenth century emulated Medici’s Florence, Fairbairn’s Manchester looked to Rome, while a century later Preston built an art gallery as a tribute to Periclean Athens. Yet the art institutions and movements of the county were also distinctively modern. Many embraced the British fashions of the time, while some looked to new art movements abroad. Art institutions also became a cultural battleground for alternative visions of the future, from those that embraced modern mass production technologies and ‘commercial art’ to those that feared technology and capitalism would destroy artistic creativity and corrode standards of excellence.
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Korpiola, Mia. High and Late Medieval Scandinavia. Edited by Heikki Pihlajamäki, Markus D. Dubber, and Mark Godfrey. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198785521.013.19.
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The region that later comprised the kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden was Christianized between 900 and 1200. A change from oral to written laws apparently took place first in twelfth-century Norway and Iceland, although the surviving legal manuscripts are some centuries later. Danish provincial laws were compiled c.1200–50 and the Swedish provincial laws only later. In all three Scandinavian kingdoms, royal and ecclesiastical statutes preceded the compilation of provincial laws. Precocious legal unification of the realms of Norway and Sweden was reached by nationwide law in 1274 (Norway) and Sweden (c.1350), supplemented in both kingdoms by town laws. In Denmark, the provincial laws remained in force until the 1680s. Roman law influences came mostly through canon law. Continental legal influences were also transmitted from Germany (feudal and town law). The universities of Uppsala and Copenhagen (1470s) had relatively little impact, clerics mostly studying law at Continental universities.
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Barlow, Frank, Martin Biddle, Olaf von Feilitzen, and D. J. Keene. Winchester in the Early Middle Ages: An Edition and Discussion of The Winton Domesday. Edited by Martin Biddle. Archaeopress Archaeology, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.32028/9781803270166.
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London and Winchester were not described in the Domesday Book, but the royal properties in Winchester were surveyed for Henry I about 1110 and the whole city was surveyed for Bishop Henry of Blois in 1148. These two surveys survive in a single manuscript, known as the Winton Domesday, and constitute the earliest and by far the most detailed description of an English or European town of the early Middle Ages. In the period covered Winchester probably achieved the peak of its medieval prosperity. From the reign of Alfred to that of Henry II it was a town of the first rank, initially centre of Wessex, then the principal royal city of the Old English state, and finally `capital’ in some sense, but not the largest city, of the Norman Kingdom. This volume provides a full edition, translation, and analyses of the surveys and of the city they depict, drawing on the evidence derived from archaeological excavation and historical research in the city since 1961, on personal- and place-name evidence, and on the recent advances in Anglo-Saxon numismatics.
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Lilley, Keith D. Overview. Edited by Christopher Gerrard and Alejandra Gutiérrez. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198744719.013.13.
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This overview provides an overview of some emerging key themes and topics in the archaeological study of later medieval towns and cities. The focus is on the contribution archaeology makes to providing an understanding of how urban landscapes were shaped on the ground, and what kinds of activities took place in medieval townscapes. The pattern of urban development across the twelfth to fifteenth centuries shows some similarities across Britain, even though differences within and between towns and cities are evident in their details. The archaeology of later medieval urbanism has revealed much that would otherwise not be known if written records alone were to be relied upon, showing clearly that the archaeologist is in a strong position to shed light on the nature of living in medieval towns.
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Felson, Marcus. Four Images of the Delinquency Area. Edited by Gerben J. N. Bruinsma and Shane D. Johnson. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190279707.013.6.
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This chapter sorts out some of the ideas that are sometimes mixed together under the rubric of “social disorganization.” It argues that (1) social disorganization is really not an independent variable or a theory; (2) rather, it is a composite image of the “delinquency area”—the part of town that also has very high crime rates; and (3) this composite image can be disentangled and then clarified, allowing students to learn it and researchers to sharpen their findings. The chapter extracts four distinct images of the delinquency area in the effort to clarify the topic, help people learn it, and assist researchers.
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Anderson, Michael, and Corinne Roughley. Spatial Variations in Mortality and its Causes. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805830.003.0018.
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Scottish nineteenth mortality statistics are unusual in distinguishing death rates and causes grouped by the population size of localities, and also separately for many of the larger towns. Larger settlements tended to have higher death rates than smaller, and from most diseases, and, although these differences declined over time, the major towns of the West Central Belt (and Glasgow above all) show, with a few puzzling exceptions, persistent tendencies throughout our period to higher rates than other urban centres (other at some periods than Dundee). Infant mortality shows similar differences, but it remains hard to explain why Scotland had such relatively low infant mortality in the nineteenth century but so much higher than elsewhere for most of the twentieth. Various suggestions are explored.
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Christ, Martin. Biographies of a Reformation. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198868156.001.0001.
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This monograph investigates how religious coexistence functioned in six towns in the multiconfessional region of Upper Lusatia in Western Bohemia. Lutherans and Catholics found a feasible modus vivendi through written agreements and regular negotiations. This meant that the Habsburg kings of Bohemia ruled over a Lutheran region. Lutherans and Catholics in Upper Lusatia shared spaces, objects, and rituals. Catholics adopted elements previously seen as a firm part of a Lutheran confessional culture. Lutherans, too, were willing to incorporate Catholic elements into their religiosity. Some of these overlaps were subconscious, while others were a conscious choice. This monograph provides a new narrative of the Reformation and shows that the concept of the ‘urban Reformation’, where towns are seen as centres of Lutheranism has to be reassessed, particularly in towns in former East Germany, where much work remains to be done. It shows that in a region like Upper Lusatia, which did not have a political centre and underwent a complex Reformation with many different actors, there was no clear confessionalization. By approaching the Upper Lusatian Reformation through important individuals, this monograph shows how they had to negotiate their religiosity, resulting in cross-confessional exchange and syncretism.
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Lane, Christel. The Historical Development of Taverns, Inns, and Public Houses. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826187.003.0002.
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This largely descriptive chapter introduces the reader to the specific features and functions of each type of hostelry and provides a broad-brush picture of their historical development, activities, ways they influenced each other, and importance in their role in out-of-home consumption of food, drink, and sociality. It outlines their social, economic, and political functions, and places them in their societal context. The pub was always the lowest in the social hierarchy among the three. Yet, it has been the longest survivor and has gradually taken over some of the functions formerly performed by inns and taverns. Inns and taverns, however, persist in the British social imagination and, where their buildings have survived, they lend distinction to a village or part of town. Both continuities and changes over time, as well as some overlap between the three hostelries, are described using examples of places and personalities.
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Attanasio, John. Philosophical Ruminations. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190847029.003.0007.
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Ideas matter. Constitutional jurisprudence decisions reflect overarching intellectual trends in society. The Buckley Constitution reflects the influence of modern individualistic libertarianism in contemporary American society. Some prominent authors have glimpsed more inclusive approaches to free speech. For example, renowned First Amendment theorist Alexander Meiklejohn sought to illustrate an inclusive approach to freedom of speech in his timeless metaphor of a town meeting. This chapter begins by outlining several wrong turns that the campaign finance cases have taken which render an inclusive approach impossible. One involves equating spending money with speaking. Spending money to speak is at most a combination of speech and action. Moreover, monetary limitations on political campaigning are similar to content neutral time, place, and manner restrictions. Some authors concerned with the distribution of speech rights have overtly offered a more egalitarian free speech approach. They include Jürgen Habermas, Bruce Ackerman, and Ronald Dworkin.
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Bruce, Steve. Contemporary Spirituality. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805687.003.0002.
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The histories of the Findhorn Foundation (which is Europe’s oldest New Age centre) and of Glastonbury (England’s main New Age town) and detailed biographies of producers and consumers of holistic spirituality instruction, rituals, and therapies are used to describe such basic themes of the contemporary cultic milieu as individual autonomy, the importance of intuition, the persistence of the self through reincarnation, a melding of the realms of the living and the dead, the occult, a romantic preference for the natural and the ancient over the modern and the industrial, tolerance of diversity, and syncretism and holism. The unusual structure of the cultic milieu is described, and attention is drawn to the importance of ‘subsistence spirituality’: while some New Age activity is commercial, much is based on people providing services for themselves and their associates.
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Doody, Colleen. New Deal Detroit, Communism, and Anti-Communism. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037276.003.0002.
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This chapter provides some context on the city of Detroit, New Deal labor, and the Communist Party. In the 1940s, Detroit was a boomtown confronted with enormous social and political change. Most Detroit residents had lived there for no more than a generation. The city's political and economic elites struggled to control these newcomers while the migrants themselves fought to assert their rights, which often conflicted with the rights of others. As a result of the growth of both its population and its labor movement, Detroit, a formerly largely white, open-shop town, became the most heavily unionized city in the nation with one of the largest African American populations outside of the South. Many of the same factors that led to Detroit's population changes also led to the expansion of the city's Communist Party.
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Beal, Amy C. Sunnyside, 1927–1933. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039157.003.0001.
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This chapter looks at Beyer's life in Sunnyside Gardens in the late 1920s. Sunnyside Gardens was the center of Beyer's social life. Friends in Beyer's community during this time included not just social worker Bertha Reynolds and Beyer's niece Frida—who lived with Beyer for some period around 1930—but also the influential piano teacher Abby Whiteside, and Reynolds's cousin Erdix Winslow Capen, who was also a frequent visitor to the community. Her friendship with Reynolds seems to have brought her into a world of political activism and engagement with social and racial issues of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Beyer's political engagement during this period embraced both national and international developments, and she and Reynolds were active in the Town Hall Club, an important cultural and political center in Manhattan.
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Martin, Lou. Conclusion. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039454.003.0008.
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This concluding chapter examines how the rural-industrial working-class culture that emerged in Hancock County gradually disappeared in the late twentieth century. The ethic of making do traveled well from the farm to the factory town, but it began its decline in the late 1960s and 1970s as buying power increased and industrial workers focused more on vacations or socializing and less on making do. While many people in Hancock County still tend gardens, work on their houses, hunt, and fish, these activities no longer supplement family income the way they did in the 1950s. Moreover, the localism of their culture may have persisted in some ways to the present, but a localized system of negotiation that local manufacturers helped create disappeared along with many of those companies.
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Gann, Kyle. The Vessel of the Eternal Present. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252035494.003.0002.
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This chapter situates Robert Ashley's formative years in his home state of Michigan. Born on March 28, 1930 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ashley would grow up in the musically prestigious shadow of the University of Michigan, where many famous composers have taught, although he would never teach there himself. Ashley earned his bachelor's degree from that university, however, and later worked on a doctorate there, which he never completed. On and off, the town remained his center of activities for 39 years, and he even referred to it as “Headquarters.” To some extent, he thinks of his operas as drawn from the melody of the distinctive southeastern Michigan accent. Ashley would spend the early part of his creative life in Ann Arbor as co-founder and co-director of the ONCE festivals.
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Calloway, Colin. The Chiefs Now in This City. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197547656.001.0001.
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In contrast to many popular and some academic histories that portray Indians retreating as cities grow in North America, this book recovers the forgotten stories of the many Indian people who traveled, primarily on diplomatic business, to the cities of colonial America and the early Republic—what they did there, how they were viewed, and what they made of it all. Violent resistance was just one of many responses to colonialism; in this book, Indian people who visit colonial cities for negotiations also go out on the town. They see the sights, sit down to dinner, attend church, go to the theater, and offer critiques of urban life. The are also “onstage” themselves, and conscious of the roles they perform as they pursue their own agendas and represent tribal interests in centers of colonial power.
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Mac Suibhne, Breandán. The Last Places Man Created. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198738619.003.0004.
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Beagh is a small neighbourhood (380 acres), two miles west of the two-street town of Ardara. Here, the cultivation of potatoes had facilitated demographic expansion from the mid-eighteenth century, and in 1841 it was home to c.115–20 people. Beagh was then part of the Marquis of Conyngham’s Boylagh Estate and, prior to 1841, it had been held in rundale, a system of land use that involved communal rights and responsibilities. In 1837, leases on the estate expired and, over much of Boylagh, the landlord’s agent ordered the replacement of rundale by a ‘divided’ system in which ‘every man is only accountable for his own portion’. The change involved social and cultural dislocation, but, in Beagh, it cannot be shown to have significantly increased inequality between landholders as happened elsewhere; still, it undoubtedly involved the removal of some landless subtenants.
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Surdam, David George. Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037139.003.0001.
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This introductory chapter describes the “bush league” characteristics of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) early days. While basketball was quite popular in the 1940s, and college basketball had shown promise as a spectator attraction, professional basketball still had an air of disrepute: barnstorming, uncouth players, and poorly lit (and often poorly ventilated) gyms or dance halls. The Basketball Association of America (BAA), the NBA's precursor, had struggled to gain credibility and popularity among the country's sports fans during this time. The BAA/NBA during its early seasons relied on exhibition games featuring the Harlem Globetrotters, on playing doubleheaders, on using territorial draft picks of stars from local colleges, on playing regular-season games out of town, and on having teams fold mid-season. Some teams continued to play league games in high school gymnasiums well into the 1950s.
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Kartomi, Margaret. Tabut. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036712.003.0004.
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This chapter examines an elaborate Shi'a mourning festival of music and spectacle of Persian and Indian origins known as tabut, which was transplanted, probably more than three centuries ago, from India to Pariaman and some other coastal Sumatran towns. Tabut had such an impact in Pariaman's hinterland that aspects of it were absorbed into its indigenous non-Muslim arts. Shi'a Islam is not officially allowed in Indonesia today, yet a few families of Shi'a believers who claim descent from British Indian sepoys live in the west-coast Sumatran towns of Pariaman and Bengkulu, where tabut festivals are held, if the government gives permission, every year. The chapter first provides a historical and legendary background on the tabuik myth as well as tabuik proceedings at Pariaman before discussing a tabuik performance, which was part of a dol-tasa competition. It then considers tabuik's impact on the hinterland and the survival of the tabuik festival in Pariaman, although the element of passion—the distinguishing feature of Shi'ism—is lost.
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Steinberg, Ellen F., and Jack H. Prost. Eastern European Jews in the Cities. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036200.003.0004.
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This chapter presents the author's account of their search for the author of a handwritten cookbook that they purchased on eBay. It was a standard composition notebook filled with more than one hundred recipes, sprinkled with a few comments, along with some mathematical figures scribbled in open spots. They discovered that the cookbook author was one Ruth Ginsburg of St. Louis. On September 21, 1913, she married Isadore F. Dunie who, at the time, had been residing in the rich mining town of Leadwood, Missouri. After the birth of two children, the Dunie family moved to Hillsboro, Illinois. Additional research into census, birth, death, cemetery records, and the Missouri History Museum stacks, produced both concrete and tangential information about Ruth. Born around 1893, she emigrated from Lithuania in 1903 with her mother, Jennie, and six siblings, at the time when Eastern European Jewish migration was at its height.
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Donaldson, Ronnie, ed. Human Geographies of Stellenbosch: Transforming Space, Preserving Place? African Sun Media, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/9781928536017.
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Amid a growing ‘turn’ towards Southern cities, South African urban geographers continue to remind us why and how to attend to local context and draw on theory from elsewhere. Human Geographies of Stellenbosch: Transforming Space, Preserving Place? (edited by Ronnie Donaldson) provides a deep look at crucial questions facing one of South Africa’s most well-known town-cities. Written from years of local knowledge by scholars at Stellenbosch University, this volume asks what urban transformation means, who it is for, and the politically tantalising question of whether and how we might hold on to some of the old while aspiring towards the new? In a global context in which we are all searching for how to justly remember our messy past, how to decolonise and hold onto what makes places unique, this volume will be of interest to scholars asking such questions in and beyond urban studies.
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Donaldson, Ronnie, ed. Human Geographies of Stellenbosch: Transforming Space, Preserving Place? African Sun Media, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/9781991201010.
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Amid a growing ‘turn’ towards Southern cities, South African urban geographers continue to remind us why and how to attend to local context and draw on theory from elsewhere. Human Geographies of Stellenbosch: Transforming Space, Preserving Place? (edited by Ronnie Donaldson) provides a deep look at crucial questions facing one of South Africa’s most well-known town-cities. Written from years of local knowledge by scholars at Stellenbosch University, this volume asks what urban transformation means, who it is for, and the politically tantalising question of whether and how we might hold on to some of the old while aspiring towards the new? In a global context in which we are all searching for how to justly remember our messy past, how to decolonise and hold onto what makes places unique, this volume will be of interest to scholars asking such questions in and beyond urban studies.
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Lupack, Barbara Tepa. Silent Serial Sensations. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501748189.001.0001.
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This book, the first book-length study of pioneering and prolific filmmakers Ted and Leo Wharton, offers a fascinating account of the dynamic early film industry. As the book demonstrates, the Wharton brothers were behind some of the most profitable and influential productions of the era, including The Exploits of Elaine and The Mysteries of Myra, which starred such popular performers as Pearl White, Irene Castle, Francis X. Bushman, and Lionel Barrymore. Working from the independent film studio they established in Ithaca, New York, Ted and Leo turned their adopted town into “Hollywood on Cayuga.” By interweaving contemporary events and incorporating technological and scientific innovations, the Whartons expanded the possibilities of the popular serial motion picture and defined many of its conventions. A number of the sensational techniques and character types they introduced are still being employed by directors and producers a century later.
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Kornicki, Peter Francis. Reading Sinitic Texts in the Vernaculars. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797821.003.0007.
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Chinese texts first reached neighbouring societies in the form of raw texts, without any aids to understanding or even punctuation. Manuscripts recovered from Dunhuang, though, testify to the need for such aids either in the form of written punctuation for reading aloud or in the form of dry-point glosses made with a stylus or the wooden end of a brush: these dry-point glosses are invisible at first sight but the indentations in the paper serve as guidance to the interpretation of the text. By the sixth century some form of ‘vernacular reading’ was being practised in the Silk Road town of Gaochang: this means that students there were reading Chinese classical texts in their own language rather than in Chinese. Similar techniques developed in Korea and these were most likely then transmitted to Japan. Vernacular reading was a means of translating a text but keeping very close to the original.
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Hutchinson, G. O. A Father Struggles (Heliodorus 10.16.1–2). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198821717.003.0023.
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Emotional conflict is elaborately and heroically portrayed in another part of Heliodorus’ finale. Contrast between the sexes, and some humour, enter in too. The king Hydaspes is torn between fatherly and patriotic urges. A wealth of imagery and bold use of language absorb the attention without rhythm—not that such means are lacking to rhythmic writers, but the impact of the whole is different: more sweeping, less sharply defined. The differences from Chariton are salient, and Chariton’s rhythm is much involved in them.
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Bank, Leslie, Nico Cloete, and François van Schalkwyk. Anchored in Place: Rethinking the university and development in South Africa. African Minds, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.47622/9781928331759.
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Tensions in South African universities have traditionally centred around equity (particularly access and affordability), historical legacies (such as apartheid and colonialism), and the shape and structure of the higher education system. What has not received sufficient attention, is the contribution of the university to place-based development. This volume is the first in South Africa to engage seriously with the place-based developmental role of universities. In the international literature and policy there has been an increasing integration of the university with place-based development, especially in cities. This volume weighs in on the debate by drawing attention to the place-based roles and agency of South African universities in their local towns and cities. It acknowledges that universities were given specific development roles in regions, homelands and towns under apartheid, and comments on why sub-national, place-based development has not been a key theme in post-apartheid, higher education planning. Given the developmental crisis in the country, universities could be expected to play a more constructive and meaningful role in the development of their own precincts, cities and regions. But what should that role be? Is there evidence that this is already occurring in South Africa, despite the lack of a national policy framework? What plans and programmes are in place, and what is needed to expand the development agency of universities at the local level? Who and what might be involved? Where should the focus lie, and who might benefit most, and why? Is there a need perhaps to approach the challenges of college towns, secondary cities and metropolitan centers differently? This book poses some of these questions as it considers the experiences of a number of South African universities, including Wits, Pretoria, Nelson Mandela University and especially Fort Hare as one of its post-centenary challenges.