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The Sea Is My Country
For the Makahs, a tribal nation at the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States, a deep relationship with the sea is the locus of personal and group identity. Unlike most other indigenous tribes whose lives are tied to lands, the Makah people have long placed marine space at the center of their culture, finding in their own waters the physical and spiritual resources to support themselves. This book is the first to explore the history and identity of the Makahs from the arrival of maritime fur-traders in the eighteenth century through the intervening centuries and to the present day. Joshua L. Reid discovers that the “People of the Cape” were far more involved in shaping t...
Transformed
In May 1964, Bill McAtee became the new minister at Columbia Presbyterian Church, deep in the Piney Woods of south Mississippi. Soon after his arrival, three young civil rights workers were brutally murdered outside Philadelphia, Mississippi. Many other activists from across the country poured into the state to try to bring an end to segregation and to register black citizens to vote. Already deeply troubled by the resistance of so many of his fellow white southerners to any change in the racial status quo, McAtee understood that he could no longer be a passive bystander. A fourth-generation Mississippian and son of a Presbyterian minister, he joined a group of local ministers--two white and...
Emerging Conflicts of Principle
Debates over the ethics of war, economic redistribution, resource consumption and the rights and responsibilities associated with membership of a political community are just some of the major conflicts of principle identified by Thomas Kane which characterize world politics today. According to the author, debates such as these are being drawn towards increasingly polarized positions represented by strongly universalist and particularist moral and political ideologies, such as cosmopolitanism and republicanism. Kane analyzes each of these areas, identifying that the potential for ideologically-driven conflict will constitute the greatest challenge facing scholars and policy makers in the twenty-first century.
New Reclamation Era
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Bury Him Again
Private investigator Harry Carson,54, and Nick Parker,29, hit it off from the very first time they met in spite of the gap in their ages. Parker, a former PM in the army, needed a job. Carson doubled the size of his detective agency when he made him a partner, feeling good about being the younger man's mentor, mainly in professional matters and occasionally also about woman issues, something the more experienced older man should know more about. But, you're never too old to screw up. Nick Parker comes to work one morning and finds a message for his partner and mentor on the front porch. Carson's former lover is seated, back against the wall beside the front door, a bullet in her forehead and one in each knee. She was sexy and 30 younger than the 54 year old detective. She was also married to a mobster with a psychopathic father. From the beginning Carson knew their affair would not end well. Burying a dead body was just the beginning. Keywords: Murder, Affair, Adultery, Psychopath, Mafia, Kidnap, Justice, Bunglers, Detectives, Violence
Sacred Places
Memorials to Australian participation in wars abound in our landscape. From Melbourne's huge Shrine of Remembrance to the modest marble soldier, obelisk or memorial hall in suburb and country town, they mourn and honour Australians who have served and died for their country. Surprisingly, they have largely escaped scrutiny. Ken Inglis argues that the imagery, rituals and rhetoric generated around memorials constitute a civil religion, a cult of ANZAC. Sacred Places traces three elements which converged to create the cult: the special place of war in the European mind when nationalism was at its zenith; the colonial condition; and the death of so many young men in distant battle, which impell...
