History of television > African Americans in Florida by Maxine D. Jones, ISBN 156164031X

African Americans in Florida by Maxine D. Jones, ISBN 156164031X

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-- Profiles more than 50 African Americans during four centuries of Florida history in brief essays
-- Traces the role African Americans played in the discovery, exploration, and settlement of Florida as well as through the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement
-- From Estevanico the Black, who first stepped on the shores of Florida in 1528, to Carrie Pittman Meek, elected to the United States Congress, African Americans have been setting examples of courage and perseverance
-- Topics include Fort Mose (first free black community in North America), Black Seminoles, T.

Underground Film: A Critical History by Parker Tyler, ISBN 0306806320

A masterpiece of cinema literature, Tyler has evaluated the Underground in general and the seminal films in particular, covering the history and scope of the genre with insight and verve. "Indispensable for anyone interested in contemporary filmmaking, its history, personalities, and rationale".--Publishers Weekly. 67 film stills and frame enlargements. Underground Film: A Critical History by Parker Tyler, ISBN 0306806320
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Chesapeake Steamboats: Vanished Fleet by David C. Holly, ISBN 0870334557

In eight engaging chapters, this book portrays the steamboat era (1813-1963) on the Chesapeake, which matched in glamour and excitement the steamboats' history on the Mississippi. The book begins with the building of the first steamboat on the Bay in the shadow of the bitter struggle between Stevens, Livingston, Fulton, and Latrobe, among others, over monopoly on the Delaware and Chesapeake. Some of the accepted history on the origin of the first Bay steamboat is called into question. The chapters continue with stories of the genius of early engine builders, the legends arising from dramatic steamboat disasters, spirited adventures of the Civil War (including the mystery of the "French lady spy"), the romance of steamboat excursions and resorts, the personalities of many steamboats and their masters, the Pennsylvania Railroad's near achievement of monopoly on the Bay, and the denouement when trucks and automobiles eclipsed the role of the steamboat. An appendix details the workings of early... Chesapeake Steamboats: Vanished Fleet by David C. Holly, ISBN 0870334557
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The Aesthetics of the Japanese Lunchbox by Kenji Ekuan, ISBN 0262550350

The Makunouchi Bento, or traditional Japanese lunchbox, is a highly lacquered wooden box divided into quadrants, each of which contains different delicacies. It is also one of the most familiar images of Japan's domestic environment. When presented to the diner, the Japanese lunchbox seems straightforward enough; each of four food portions resides in its own compartment, apparently obeying a strict lunchbox geometry. So far, just food. But Kenji Ekuan reveals that a much deeper reading is possible, one that sees the lunchbox as nothing less than a key to an understanding of Japanese civilization, the spirit of form, and the aesthetic ideal in which the many are reduced to one.Ekuan reads the Japanese lunchbox as both object and metaphor. It is one of this book's many charms that he is able to see it as both simultaneously. He compares the visual pleasures of the Zen lunchbox to an aerial view of the Japanese archipelago; he invites us to savor its quadripartite structure as we savor the... The Aesthetics of the Japanese Lunchbox by Kenji Ekuan, ISBN 0262550350
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Underground Film: A Critical History by Parker Tyler, ISBN 0306806320

Marriage and the Family in Eurasia: Perspectives on the Hajnal Hypothesis

This is the first volume of a projected series aimed at comparing the demographic regimes of two parts of Europe and China in late traditional times. Ever since the publication of John Hajnal's 1965 seminal paper on the European marriage pattern, the demographic history of the world has been divided into what demographers characterize as "preventive" and "positive" regimes. Essentially, these perspectives have to do with whether demographers consider population growth to be problematic or not. This volume traces the origins of Hajnal's position to Malthus and others, and places the European marriage pattern in the context of the demographic transition theory. This volume provides an up-to-date survey of one of the most important issues in demographic history, from specialists from all over the world. Marriage and the Family in Eurasia: Perspectives on the Hajnal Hypothesis
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Porsche: The Road Cars by Laurence Meredith, ISBN 076031005X

This wide-ranging pictorial history celebrates the race-bred heritage, the innovative engineering, and the imaginative designs that have distinguished Porsche's superlative sports cars over the last half-century. Particular attention is given to the fact that the differences between road and race editions have never been absolute, as witnessed by the fact that owners of some competition 911s still enjoy their cars on both the street and track. Archival photographs -- including production line images -- are accompanied by modern photos of restored cars at speed and at rest. Porsche: The Road Cars by Laurence Meredith, ISBN 076031005X
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Race and Nation

"Race and Nation" is the first book to compare the racial and ethnic systems that have developed around the world. It is the creation of nineteen scholars who are experts on locations as far-flung as China, Jamaica, Eritrea, Brazil, Germany, Punjab, and South Africa. The contributing historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and scholars of literary and cultural studies have engaged in an ongoing conversation, honing a common set of questions that dig to the heart of racial and ethnic groups and systems.
Guided by those questions, they have created the first book that explores the similarities, differences, and the relationships among the ways that race and ethnicity have worked in the modern world. In so doing they have created a model for how to write world history that is detailed in its expertise, yet also manages broad comparisons. Race and Nation
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The Purpose and Power of Love and Marriage

Probably no other dimension of human experience has been pondered, discussed, debated, analyzed, and dreamed about more than the nature of true love. Love is everywhere -- in songs and in books, on televisions and on movie screens. crt televisions
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