![]() ![]() ![]() It was an ideal that excluded not only blacks but also all ethnic groups not of Protestant, northern European background. There followed an explosion of theories of race, now focusing on racial temperament as well as skin color, and Anglo-Saxons were labeled by some as the only true Americans. ![]() Not until the eighteenth century did an obsession with whiteness flourish, with the German invention of the notion of Caucasian beauty. ![]() In Greek and Roman antiquity, where the concept of race did not exist, only geography and the opportunity to conquer led some to enslave others. The author examines more than two thousand years of Western civilization, tracing not only the invention of the idea of race but also the frequent worship of 'whiteness' for economic, social, scientific, and political ends. Ever since the Enlightenment, race theory and its inevitable partner, racism, have followed a crooked road, constructed by dominant peoples to justify their domination of others. Summary: The author presents a study of racial classification, examining the slave trade and the nation-building efforts which dominated the United States in the 18th century, when thinkers led by Ralph Waldo Emerson strove to explain the rapid progress of America within the context of white superiority. ![]()
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![]() Book Synopsis Menolly needs more than musics power in the second book in the Harper Hall trilogy, set within science fiction legend Anne McCaffreys beloved and bestselling Dragonriders of Pern series. However, a dragon rider named Flar knows that the riders are once again needed. Now, centuries have passed between threadfalls, and the danger of thread is considered a myth. To combat this menace, the inhabitants of Pern developed a species of dragon that could burn these threads out of the sky before they touched down. These silver threads fell in a destructive wave on the temperate lands of Pern once every 200 years, destroying all life they encountered. When humans first settled on this world, they did not take notice of its sister planet, which had an indigenous life form that attempted to land on Pern when it came within reach. About the Book The planet Pern has been colonized for centuries by humans. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But an attempt on her life and an unexpected attraction threatens to derail her plans.Īlone in a new and dangerous world, learning who to trust and who to charm may mean the difference between becoming queen and being sent home in shame to marry her lecherous uncle. Determined to save her impoverished family-and herself-Sophie vows to do whatever is necessary to thrive in her new surroundings. Petersburg, surviving means navigating the political, romantic, and religious demands of the bitter Empress Elizabeth and her handsome, but sadistic nephew, Peter. Imperial Court holds dangers like nothing Sophie has ever faced before. "A must read romance!"~ Serena Chase, Special for USA TODAYīefore she can become the greatest empress in history, fifteen-year-old Sophie will have to survive her social-climbing mother's quest to put her on the throne of Russia-at any cost. Take a decadent look back at one of the most intriguing monarchs in history. ![]() For fans of the Netflix original series, The Last Czars. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now Eliza embarks on the trip of a lifetime, home with Sofya to see the splendors of Russia: the church with the interior covered in jeweled mosaics, the Rembrandts at the tsar’s Winter Palace, the famous ballet.īut when Austria declares war on Serbia and Russia’s imperial dynasty begins to fall, Eliza escapes back to America, while Sofya and her family flee to their country estate. The two met years ago one summer in Paris and became close confidantes. ![]() Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a cousin of the Romanovs. Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. It is 1914, and the world has been on the brink of war so often, many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. ![]() “Not only a brilliant historical tale, but a love song to all the ways our friendships carry us through the worst of times.” -Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours Petersburg to Paris under the shadow of World War I. Now Lost Roses, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline’s mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St. The million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instructions and advice on how to best do an AMA. Want to do an AMA or know someone who does? Message the mods! King Philips War: The History and Legacy of Americas Forgotten Conflict. Comments should be on-topic and contribute.ĭiscussions are limited to events over 20 years ago.If a post breaks one of our rules or guidelines you will be informed about it. ![]() So it is perfectly normally for your post to not show up in the new listing. Feel free to submit interesting articles, tell us about this cool book you just read, or start a discussion about who everyone's favorite figure of minor French nobility is!Īll posts will be reviewed by a human moderator first before they become visible to all subscribers on the subreddit. r/History is a place for discussions about history. Available from - King Philips War : The History and Legacy of Americas Forgotten Conflict by Eric B. ![]() Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order. Tougias and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Read reviews and buy King Philips War - by Eric B Schultz & Michael J Tougias (Paperback) at Target. Join the r/history Discord server to chat with other history enthusiast! : King Philip's War : The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict (9780881504347) by Eric B. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the taut opener, “Victory Lap,” a boy witnesses the attempted abduction of the girl next door and is faced with a harrowing choice: Does he ignore what he sees, or override years of smothering advice from his parents and act? In “Home,” a combat-damaged soldier moves back in with his mother and struggles to reconcile the world he left with the one to which he has returned. ![]() One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short story, and Tenth of December is his most honest, accessible, and moving collection yet. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Fortunately, when he is in control, as in ""The Tootsie Roll Factor,"" about a compulsive gambler saved by Lady Luck as an 11-year-old freckled girl, he knows precisely when to stop. ![]() Even in a more serious effort at using Lovecraft, the kaleidoscopic ""Discovery of the Ghooric Zone,"" which has an unexpectedly poignant scene of the death of HPL's aunt, Lupoff is compelled to drag in the old pop tune ""Bei Mir Bist du Schon"" for irony. Lovecraft, the author's weakness for Yiddish humor slows down the story. In ""Documents in the Case of Elizabeth Akeley,"" an homage to H.P. ""Lux Was Dead Right"" flounders in a welter of ""inside"" referential puns. Humor is Lupoff's strong suit, for he can be quite funny, though again he can overindulge. Similarly, ""The Second Drug,"" a pastiche of the overwritten, exotic stories of a century ago, is a heavyweight exercise in nostalgia. ![]() The opening tale, ""Black Mist,"" about a Japanese space station on a Martian moon, gets bogged down in its Japanese idiom. After some 50 books and 100 short stories, Lupoff has yet to achieve stardom, but he remains a skillful and inventive practitioner of lighter fantasy, as shown in this somewhat mixed collection. ![]() ![]() ![]() "And yet we're totally Midwestern, by background and by education, and not only Midwestern, but Nordic, and WASP Midwestern, so there's all these seething undercurrents, but the closest we ever come to an argument is kind of a martyred sigh by the stove, followed by 10 years of not speaking. "The one quality that everyone in our family shares is irreverence," Smiley, 45, says later. In the Midwest, where the students, Smiley says, are "so respectful they're practically dead," this is a Turkish bath without towels. Why didn't Ginny and Rose, incest victims modeled on Goneril and Regan, get pregnant? Why was the opening so dry? Why is Ginny's vocabulary so sophisticated if she didn't go to college? What about readers who don't know "Lear"? The white lady in the thick glasses answers every one, without a drop of feeling, as if she's reading from a seed catalogue. The discussion devolves into a series of acutely knowing, and assiduous, challenges. Some have read Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "A Thousand Acres," and Shakespeare's "King Lear," its springboard. She is folded into a chair in the library at Banneker High School in Northwest Washington, surrounded by the predominantly indifferent faces of about 30 urban African American students. ![]() ![]() She is certainly beanpole, part antelope - her neck is long, her forearm longer, her thighbone practically infinite. ![]() She resembles not one but two breadbasket types: schoolmarm and farm girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you feel satisfied enough to just remove yourself from this review, run with that feeling. That statistic alone should be enough to justify this one star rating. ![]() That’s the number of times that the word “mate,” in any of its hellish forms, is used in this book. Maas, the fate of Feyre's world is at stake as armies grapple for power over the one thing that could destroy it. In this thrilling third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Sarah J. Amidst these struggles, Feyre and Rhysand must decide whom to trust amongst the cunning and lethal High Lords, and hunt for allies in unexpected places. One slip could bring doom not only for Feyre, but for everything-and everyone-she holds dear.Īs war bears down upon them all, Feyre endeavors to take her place amongst the High Fae of the land, balancing her struggle to master her powers-both magical and political-and her love for her court and family. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit. ![]() Maas.įeyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's actions and learn what she can about the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees. The epic third novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. ![]() ![]() The only legitimate complaint to make is that this audio was abridged at all-Mayer and Talty could have kept listeners enthralled for an audiobook at twice the length. ![]() The abridgment is flawless the listener would never know this production was abridged if not for the cover copy. Mayer reads in a rich, resonant voice it's perfectly suited to the grim and gritty subject matter, and would not be out of place narrating a History Channel documentary. Talty focuses the story on Morgan's most exciting exploits, including the tale of what is perhaps Morgan's most infamous act: the unauthorized sacking of Panama. ![]() ![]() But before his career was over, he had become one of the most notorious pirates ever to sail the Spanish Main. Henry Morgan was a Welsh-born sailor who traveled to the Caribbean as a privateer-a “licensed marauder of the sea”-on behalf of the British Empire. ![]() |