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Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1959
Total Pages: 966
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)
Author: Robert N. Proctor
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2012-02-28
Total Pages: 779
ISBN-13: 0520950437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. In Golden Holocaust, Robert N. Proctor draws on reams of formerly-secret industry documents to explore how the cigarette came to be the most widely-used drug on the planet, with six trillion sticks sold per year. He paints a harrowing picture of tobacco manufacturers conspiring to block the recognition of tobacco-cancer hazards, even as they ensnare legions of scientists and politicians in a web of denial. Proctor tells heretofore untold stories of fraud and subterfuge, and he makes the strongest case to date for a simple yet ambitious remedy: a ban on the manufacture and sale of cigarettes.
Author: John F. Freeman
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2008-11-30
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0870819275
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHigh Plains Horticulture explores the significant, civilizing role that horticulture has played in the development of farmsteads and rural and urban communities on the High Plains portions of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming, drawing on both the science and the application of science practiced since 1840. Freeman explores early efforts to supplement native and imported foodstuffs, state and local encouragement to plant trees, the practice of horticulture at the Union Colony of Greeley, the pioneering activities of economic botanists Charles Bessey (in Nebraska) and Aven Nelson (in Wyoming), and the shift from food production to community beautification as the High Plains were permanently settled and became more urbanized. In approaching the history of horticulture from the perspective of local and unofficial history, Freeman pays tribute to the tempered idealism, learned pragmatism, and perseverance of individuals from all walks of life seeking to create livable places out of the vast, seemingly inhospitable High Plains. He also suggests that, slowly but surely, those that inhabit them have been learning to adjust to the limits of that fragile land. High Plains Horticulture will appeal to not only scientists and professionals but also gardening enthusiasts interested in the history of their hobby on the High Plains.
Author: Stephanie Zarach
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1987-06-18
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1349089842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bill Williams
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780719018244
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Oklahoma Geological Survey
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Steven C. Rubert
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0896802035
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThousands of African men, women, and children worked on European-owned tobacco farms in colonial Zimbabwe from 1890 to 1945. Contrary to some commonly held notions, these people were not mere bystanders as European capitalism penetrated into Zimbabwe, but helped to shape the work and the living conditions they encountered as they entered wage employment. Steven Rubert's fine study draws on a rich variety of sources to illuminate the lives of these workers. The central focus of the study is the organization of workers' compounds, the social relationships there, and the labor of women and children, paid and unpaid. Rubert's findings indicate the beginnings of a moral economy on the tobacco farms prior to 1945.
Author: United States. Department of the Air Force
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 102
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rory Pilossof
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 177922169X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of colonial land alienation, the grievances fuelling the liberation war, and post-independence land reforms have all been grist to the mill of recent scholarship on Zimbabwe. Yet for all that the country's white farmers have received considerable attention from academics and journalists, the fact that they have always played a dynamic role in cataloguing and representing their own affairs has gone unremarked. It is this crucial dimension that Rory Pilossof explores in The Unbearable Whiteness of Being. His examination of farmers' voices - in The Farmer magazine, in memoirs, and in recent interviews - reveals continuities as well as breaks in their relationships with land, belonging and race. His focus on the Liberation War, Operation Gukurahundi and the post-2000 land invasions frames a nuanced understanding of how white farmers engaged with the land and its peoples, and the political changes of the past 40 years. The Unbearable Whiteness of Being helps to explain why many of the events in the countryside unfolded in the ways they did.
Author: University of Oklahoma. Western History Collections
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780806134734
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe University of Oklahoma's Western History Collections were established in 1927 to gather and preserve records for scholarly research in anthropology, Native American studies, Oklahoma history and the history of the American West. This guide describes manuscript collections which include papers from pioneers and later prominent citizens including businessmen, educators, Native American leaders, historians and anthropologists. The manuscripts cover a variety of subjects such as cowboys and the cattle industry, the Five Civilized Tribes, frontier life, missionaries in Indian Territory, the oil industry and the history of transportation in the West.
