Reference Sources in History: An Introductory Guide, Second Edition (Non-Series)

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Now in a newly updated and expanded second edition

Reference Sources in History: An Introductory Guide, Second Edition (Non-Series)
Ronald H. Fritze , Louis A. Vyhnanek , and Brian E. Coutts
Manufacturer: ABC-Clio
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Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 0874368839

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Now in a newly updated and expanded second edition.......2004-05-15

The collaborative effort of historians and academicians Ronald H. Fritze, Brian E. Coutts, and Louis A. Vyhnanek, Reference Sources In History: An Introductory Guide is now in a newly updated and expanded second edition. This seminal reference begins with an initial chapter dealing with historiography, methodology, chronologies, calendars, lists of rulers, historical metrology, and the auxiliary sciences of history (archaeology, genealogy, heraldry, numismatics, paleography, diplomatics, epigraphy, and sigillography); then goes on with specific chapters devoted to bibliographies; book review indexes; periodical guides and core journals; periodical indexes, abstracts, and guides; newspapers; dissertations and theses; government publications and legal sources; dictionaries and encyclopedias; biographical sources; geographical sources and atlases; historical statistical sources; archives, manuscripts, special collections, digital sites; and microforms. Enhanced with an exhaustive (but thoroughly user friendly) index, this new edition of Reference Sources In History is an ideal and highly recommended addition to secondary school, college, and university History Studies and Study Skills reference and resource collections.

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It is a spring morning in New Orleans, 1843. In the Spanish Quarter, on a street lined with flophouses and gambling dens, Madame Carl recognizes a face from her past. It is the face of a German girl, Sally Miller, who disappeared twenty-five years earlier. But the young woman is property, the slave of a nearby cabaret owner. She has no memory of a "white" past. Yet her resemblance to her mother is striking, and she bears two telltale birthmarks. In brilliant novelistic detail, award-winning historian John Bailey reconstructs the exotic sights, sounds, and smells of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, as well as the incredible twists and turns of Sally Miller's celebrated and sensational case. Did Miller, as her relatives sought to prove, arrive from Germany under perilous circumstances as an indentured servant or was she, as her master claimed, part African, and a slave for life? A tour de force of investigative history that reads like a suspense novel, The Lost German Slave Girl is a fascinating exploration of slavery and its laws, a brilliant reconstruction of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, and a riveting courtroom drama. It is also an unforgettable portrait of a young woman in pursuit of freedom.

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The Lost German Slave Girl.......2007-10-04

I think the most faqscinating thing about this book is the research and details of the slavery life prior to the "War of the Northern Aggression" (otherwise known as The Civil War.) To have lived and worked in any situation in lower Louisiana in the early days must have been terribly oppressive to all--even slave owners. Salome Muller lived a terrible life as a slave---not really knowing almost from day to day where she might live.

Enthralling!.......2007-08-12

John Bailey writes: "The law may have designated slaves as property, but legislation has never been able to change human nature." And the human nature Bailey chronicles in the history of "The Lost German Slave Girl" is fired with passion, intrigue, and suspense. I couldn't put it down--the story of Sally Miller's quest for freedom enslaved my full attention. Enthralling history, beautifully written.

Absolutely fascinating.......2007-05-19

My wife recommended this book and, once I picked it up, it was hard to put down.

The many ways in which the legal and social systems of the slave-holding South parsed levels of "black taint" are truly bizarre. And yet the author makes you realize they were utterly logical once the insanity of slavery was accepted as the law of the land.

The book reads like a thriller and I, at least, was on the edge of my seat wondering how it would come out until the very end.

deserves ten stars!!!.......2006-11-22

Really interesting story. Lots of twists and turns. I just came back from New Orleans a few days ago. I had read the book before and I got to visit the Presbytere and the Cabildo where the trials actually took place!

Excellent Book!.......2006-11-21

I loved this book. I don't know why other reviewers didn't like the end - the book is based on actual events - the author really couldn't make the ending to fit "happily ever after." Regardless, I couldn't put this book down and at the same time, I learned a lot about the legal ramifications of slavery. I would recommend this book to everyone.

The Mysteries of New Orleans (The Longfellow Series of American Languages and Literatures)

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A lost treasure

The Mysteries of New Orleans (The Longfellow Series of American Languages and Literatures)
Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein
Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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ASIN: 0801868823

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"Reizenstein's peculiar vision of New Orleans is worth resurrecting precisely because it crossed the boundaries of acceptable taste in nineteenth-century German America and squatted firmly on the other side... This work makes us realize how limited our notions were of what could be conceived by a fertile American imagination in the middle of the nineteenth century." -- from the Introduction by Steven Rowan

A lost classic of America's neglected German-language literary tradition, The Mysteries of New Orleans by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein first appeared as a serial in the Louisiana Staats-Zeitung, a New Orleans German-language newspaper, between 1854 and 1855. Inspired by the gothic "urban mysteries" serialized in France and Germany during this period, Reizenstein crafted a daring occult novel that stages a frontal assault on the ethos of the antebellum South. His plot imagines the coming of a bloody, retributive justice at the hands of Hiram the Freemason--a nightmarish, 200-year-old, proto-Nietzschean superman--for the sin of slavery. Heralded by the birth of a black messiah, the son of a mulatto prostitute and a decadent German aristocrat, this coming revolution is depicted in frankly apocalyptic terms.

Yet, Reizenstein was equally concerned with setting and characters, from the mundane to the fantastic. The book is saturated with the atmosphere of nineteenth-century New Orleans, the amorous exploits of its main characters uncannily resembling those of New Orleans' leading citizens. Also of note is the author's progressively matter-of-fact portrait of the lesbian romance between his novel's only sympathetic characters, Claudine and Orleana. This edition marks the first time that The Mysteries of New Orleans has been translated into English and proves that 150 years later, this vast, strange, and important novel remains as compelling as ever.

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A lost treasure.......2007-07-28

I *did* mean to stop reading Gothic fiction before I went insane, but I found there was a genre I hadn't covered: Urban Mysteries. The Gothic genre was winding down by the 1840's, for obvious reasons: medieval castles imprisoning wronged virgins were no longer very relevant, and no one could possibly read another book with a dungeon full of skeletons. However, in 1843 Eugene Sue wrote a book called "The Mysteries of Paris" that became a massive bestseller: it mixed real and thinly-disguised fictional characters in sinister conspiracies set in places in Paris familiar to all readers. No one had thought to make a big busy city the site of invisible and unspeakable horrors, so it struck a thrilling chord in urban readers and was enthusiastically copied by hack authors for every big city in Europe and America. The problem was that most of these novels were pretty dismal: there aren't that many vices to serve up freshly horrible day after day.

That's where Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein comes in. He was a German ne'er-do-well sent by his family to make his fortune in America, only he never really buckled down, selling birdcages, working as a surveyor, dabbling in journalism, and collecting insects. He published his scandalous novel "The Mysteries of New Orleans" in installments in one of New Orleans's German-language newspapers beginning in 1854 (where it lay forgotten until recently). What makes Reizenstein's "Mysteries" worth reading is: first, while he wasn't the greatest of fiction writers, he was a fine journalist, and his picture of New Orleans in the 1850s pulsates with life: poor children scavenging outside warehouses for fallen coffee beans, women selling goat's milk from carts, mixed-race prostitutes plying one of the few trades open to them, and thieves mixing with new immigrants in slums threatened by fire and yellow fever. This portrait would be interesting in itself but is especially poignant now, with New Orleans lost yet again. Secondly, Reizenstein described "America" almost entirely through its immigrant populations; most coming from somewhere else unwillingly or in order to remake themselves, and in their bustling interactions, of Scots with Frenchmen, Germans with slaves, they form a uniquely "American" picture of city life. Thirdly, his sympathetic portrayal of homosexuality and lesbianism were unique for the time and place (he was probably gay and his mother was probably lesbian). Finally, while most of the other "Mysteries" dealt with garden-variety vices and secrets, this book had a very serious core: Reizenstein was horrified by slavery, and the novel's plot was driven by a fast-approaching Apocalypse to purge the earth of this sin.

The book is too long, and drags in the last half, when we spend *much* too much time following blue-eyed, blond-braided 7-yr-old Gertrude as she collects Spanish moss for bedding as her immigrant family, through no fault of their own, sinks into poverty. Angelic Gertrude begins to pall and you wish a horrible death for her, but: guess what? Reizenstein gives her one! He sees slavery as an evil that transcends ordinary morality and dooms both evil and ordinary well-meaning people to damnation. His anger is startling. While "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was forceful in its depiction of slavery's evil, its good characters went to heaven: Reizenstein spares no one. "Mysteries of New Orleans" is certainly one of the most interesting books I've read this year.

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Germans Of Louisiana
Ellen C. Merrill
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The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans

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Die Fuchsin Oder Louisiana- Fieber (Roman)

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Die Fuchsin Oder Louisiana- Fieber (Roman)
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Fish Out of Water: Nazi Submariners as Prisoners in North Louisiana During World War II

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Note from author: Documentary based on the book

Fish Out of Water: Nazi Submariners as Prisoners in North Louisiana During World War II
Wesley L. Harris
Manufacturer: Roughedge Publications
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During World War II, nearly 700 prisoner of war camps were scattered across the U.S. None were more interesting than Camp Ruston, a large complex in north Louisiana. Within its fences were some of the war's most intriguing stories, including that of German U-boat submariners. The capture and concealment of the U-505 crew at Camp Ruston was one of the war's best kept secrets. Other U-boats were represented as well, including the U-234 which was engaged in a mission to take military technology and uranium for atomic bombs to Japan when it surrendered. The relationship between the prisoners and the local community was a stark contrast to the hostility shared by their homelands. This book reveals some of the fascinating aspects of POW life, a largely overlooked facet of war.

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Note from author: Documentary based on the book.......2007-09-16

My book was used as the basis for a documentary on Camp Ruston released September 2007 by PBS through Louisiana Public Broadcasting. See [...]. Wesley Harris, author

Freedom of the press in the German Republic, 1918-1933, (Louisiana State University studies)

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Freedom of the press in the German Republic, 1918-1933, (Louisiana State University studies)
Peter J Fliess
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From Geilenkirchen to Acadia Parish: A history of the Germans of Roberts Cove, 1880-1987
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A history of the German churches in Louisiana: (1823-1893)

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A history of the German churches in Louisiana: (1823-1893)
J. Hanno Deiler
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Louisiana's German Heritage: Louis Voss' Introductory History

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Narrative of the case of Salome Muller, a German girl , A

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Narrative of the case of Salome Muller, a German girl , A
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Originally published in 1845. 22 pages. This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection

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Why do we measure time in the way that we do? Why is a week seven days long? At what point did minutes and seconds come into being? Why are some calendars lunar and some solar? The organisation of time into hours, days, months and years seems immutable and universal, but is actually far more artificial than most people realise. The French Revolution resulted in a restructuring of the French calendar, and the Soviet Union experimented with five and then six-day weeks. Leofranc Holford-Strevens explores these questions using a range of fascinating examples from Ancient Rome and Julius Caesar's imposition of the Leap Year, to the 1920s' project for a fixed Easter.

Galileo: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

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Sacrificed to Aristotle and the Gods of Philosopohy

Galileo: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Stillman Drake
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In a startling reinterpretation of the evidence, Stillman Drake advances the hypothesis that Galileo's trial and condemnation by the Inquisition was caused not by his defiance of the Church, but by the hostility of contemporary philosophers. Galileo's own beautifully lucid arguments are used to show how his scientific method was utterly divorced from the Aristotelian approach to physics in that it was based on a search not for causes but for laws. Galileo's method was of overwhelming significance for the development of modern physics, and led to a final parting of the ways between science and philosophy.

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Sacrificed to Aristotle and the Gods of Philosopohy.......2004-05-25

In this slim volume is packed the central thesis of one of the foremost students of Galileo:
1) that Galileo was not a victim of the inquisition but rather the Aristotelean method of reasoning particulars of Science from theoretical ideas. Galileo thought that experience, measurability and prediction should be the guide. Grand ideas he left to the Church and philosophers. Perhaps he was a little too naive in assuming that the inquisition would leave him alone. But it was in the defence of Aristotle that the inquisition indicted him. Not mere religious intolerance (which of course there was plenty).

The other observation was the in-fighting and jockeying inside the academic community for political and religious favour -- the competition for well-paying university seats was intense and Galileo was a direct victim of academics who ruthlessly pilloried him to gain favour.

2) Galileo was no crusader directly challenging the power of the church. He in fact had many freinds as high-archbishops and even a was a personal friend of the Pope. His desire was never to challenge the church and the church only very reluctantly charged him with "teaching" the doctrine of Copernicus and Kepler.

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Galaxies are the building blocks of the Universe: standing like islands in space, each is made up of many hundreds of millions of stars in which the chemical elements are made, around which planets form, and where on at least one of those planets intelligent life has emerged. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is just one of several hundred million other galaxies that we can now observe through our telescopes. Yet it was only in the 1920s that we realised that there is more to the Universe than the Milky Way, and that there were in fact other 'islands' out there. In many ways, modern astronomy began with this discovery, and the story of galaxies is therefore the story of modern astronomy. Since then, many exciting discoveries have been made about our own galaxy and about those beyond: how a supermassive black hole lurks at the centre of every galaxy, for example, how enormous forces are released when galaxies collide, how distant galaxies provide a window on the early Universe, and what the formation of young galaxies can tell us about the mysteries of Cold Dark Matter. In this iVery Short Introduction/i, renowned science writer John Gribbin describes the extraordinary things that astronomers are learning about galaxies, and explains how this can shed light on the origins and structure of the Universe.

The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

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The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Leofranc Holford_Strevens
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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This digital document is an article from Parks & Recreation, published by National Recreation and Park Association on May 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1440 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: A long stretch of history ... and recreation. (Great parks: the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park).
Publication: Parks & Recreation (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2003
Publisher: National Recreation and Park Association
Volume: 38 Issue: 5 Page: 64(3)

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