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Artistic Ambassadors
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

Artistic Ambassadors

During the first generation of black participation in U.S. diplomacy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a vibrant community of African American writers and cultural figures worked as U.S. representatives abroad. Through the literary and diplomatic dossiers of figures such as Frederick Douglass, James Weldon Johnson, Archibald and Angelina Grimké, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida Gibbs Hunt, and Richard Wright, Brian Roberts shows how the intersection of black aesthetic trends and U.S. political culture both Americanized and internationalized the trope of the New Negro. This decades-long relationship began during the days of Reconstruction, and it flourished as U.S. presidents courte...

Penguin Diplomacy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 486

Penguin Diplomacy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-06-15
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Brian Birley Roberts (1912-1978) was acknowledged among the polar community in his time as Britain's foremost expert on the Antarctic, and was the main driving force behind the Antarctic Treaty which has protected the region for the past 60 years. A scientist of enormous determination and dedication, he devoted much of his life to the protection of wilderness and wildlife. Yet he was a self-effacing man who preferred to avoid the limelight. Largely because of this, to the outside world he is almost unknown.The authors are Steve Heavens and June Roberts, Brian's niece, who have researched numerous unpublished archives, including Brian Roberts' own detailed, extensive and often very entertaining diaries.

Blackface Nation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 371

Blackface Nation

Introduction -- Carnival -- The Vulgar Republic -- Jim Crow's Genuine Audience -- Black Song -- Meet the Hutchinsons -- Love Crimes -- The Middle-Class Moment -- Culture Wars -- Black America -- Conclusion: Musical without End

Landscapes of Settlement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Landscapes of Settlement

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-08-21
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  • Publisher: Routledge

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Comcasted
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Comcasted

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The first book-length account of the nation's biggest cable TV company and one of America's most successful and powerful family enterprises. Comcasted is the unauthorized biography of both an industry and its founders--principally Ralph Roberts, and his son and successor, Brian.

People, Land and Time
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

People, Land and Time

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-05-12
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This major new text provides an introduction to the interaction of culture and society with the landscape and environment. It offers a broad-based view of this theme by drawing upon the varied traditions of landscape interpretation, from the traditional cultural geography of scholars such as Carl Sauer to the 'new' cultural geography which has emerged in the 1990s. The book comprises three major, interwoven strands. First, fundamental factors such as environmental change and population pressure are addressed in order to sketch the contextual variables of landscapes production. Second, the evolution of the humanised landscape is discussed in terms of processes such as clearing wood, the impac...

The Making of the English Village
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

The Making of the English Village

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Micro Social Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Micro Social Theory

Micro social theory covers a rich tradition in sociological thinking and research that focuses on the self or actor and social interaction. This new title in the Traditions in Social Theory series traces the development of the tradition and assesses its contemporary importance.

Advances in Biographical Methods
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 197

Advances in Biographical Methods

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-12-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Rooted in a long and diverse genealogy, biographical approaches have developed from a focus upon a single story, a ‘life story’ and personal documents (e.g. diaries), to encompass (more routinely) autobiographical secondary and archival research and analysis - as well as multi-media, arts based creative multi-sensory methods. Biographical Research and practices as part of human understanding helps people to make sense of what has been and what is happening in their lives, cultures, communities and societies. Advances in Biographical Methods: Creative Applications takes up these themes: theorising, doing and applying current advances in biographical methods. It demonstrates the momentum with which they areas are developing as a field of scholarship, especially in relation to creative innovations and applications, such as in new forms of interview and other practices, and debates on its interlinking with art, performance and digital methods.

Fungi
  • Language: en

Fungi

Brian Spooner and Peter Roberts provide a comprehensive account of the natural history of fungi, from their lifestyle, habitats and ecology to their uses for humans.