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The Websters: Letters of an American Army Family in Peace and War, 1836-1853
Frances Marvin Smith Webster
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When Lucien Webster, West Point graduate and artilleryman, met Frances Smith, granddaughter of a Connecticut Revolutionary War hero, in Florida, neither could anticipate how exciting and stressful their lives would be over the next 17 years.
The couple was barely married before being separated by orders that sent Lucien Þrst to south Florida, where he established a post on the site of present-day Miami, and then to North Carolina, where he participated in the army's sad duty of driving the Cherokee Indians onto their “trail of tears.” When finally reunited, the newlyweds were posted to duty in Maine for seven years and then Pensacola Bay for a few months while Lucien's unit prepared for the imminent war with Mexico. For the next two years Frances and Lucien's letters were filled with the details of their lives.
The Websters has the rare distinction of containing both sides of a correspondence between an “Old Army” officer and his socially prominent wife, one that reflects both their private lives and many of the public events of the times and that interweaves their responses to one another's experiences.
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Southern Historical Association on February 1, 2003. The length of the article is 589 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: The Websters: Letters of an American Army Family in Peace and War, 1836-1853.(Book Review)
Author: Virginia J. Laas
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Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 2003
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
Volume: 69
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Page: 166(2)
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Michael Faraday: Physics and Faith (Oxford Portraits in Science)
Colin A. Russell
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Michael Faraday (1791-1867), the son of a blacksmith, described his education as "little more than the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic at a common day-school." Yet from such basics, he became one of the most prolific and wide-ranging experimental scientists who ever lived. As a bookbinder's apprentice with a voracious appetite for learning, he read every book he got his hands on. In 1812 he attended a series of chemistry lectures by Sir Humphry Davy at London's prestigious Royal Institution. He took copious and careful notes, and, in the hopes of landing a scientific job, bound them and sent them to the lecturer. Davy was impressed enough to hire the 21-year-old as a laboratory assistant. In his first decade at the Institution, Faraday discovered benzene, isobutylene, and two chlorides of carbon. But despite these and other accomplishments in chemistry, he is chiefly remembered for his work in physics. In 1831 he proved that magnetism could generate an electric current, thereby establishing the field of electromagnetism and leading to the invention of the dynamo. In addition to his extraordinary scientific activities, Faraday was a leader in his church, whose faith and wish to serve guided him throughout his career. An engaging public speaker, he gave popular lectures on scientific subjects, and helped found a tradition of scientific education for children and laypeople that continues to this day. Oxford Portraits in Science is an ongoing series of scientific biographies for young adults. Written by top scholars and writers, each biography examines the personality of its subject as well as the thought process leading to his or her discoveries. These illustrated biographies combine accessible technical information with compelling personal stories to portray the scientists whose work has shaped our understanding of the natural world.
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FARADAY THE GREAT.......2005-08-30
APPROX 60 YEARS AGO,MY LATE MOTHER GAVE ME A MAGAZINE OR BOYS ADVENTURE BOOK ,AND I WAS ABSORBED BY THE STORY OF MICHAEL FARADAY;THIS DESCRIBED HIS WORK ON ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCES.I WAS FASCINATED THEN AND AM VERY PROUD TO SAY I AM STILL FASCINATED NOW AT 70 YEARS OF AGE :I RECOMMEND THIS BOOK AS A MUST READ FOR ALL--REGARDS,ALBERT ANDREWS
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Read the Preface, Introduction, and Chapter 1 at thewellnessrevolution.paulzanepilzer.com.
Five years ago, Paul Zane Pilzer outlined the future of an industry he called “wellness” and showed readers how they could get in on the profitable bottom floor. The New Wellness Revolution, Second Edition includes more guidance and business advice for entrepreneurs, product distributors, physicians, and other wellness professionals. It’s an industry that will only grow, so get in while you can.
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Wellness is worth it!.......2007-08-07
Paul educates the reader about how to take part in the next trillion dollar industry by getting into health and wellness.
Question about something.......2007-07-30
I have read some of this book in the bookstore because it looked rather interesting - and is. And maybe I'm stretching things, but I was 'confused' by some things in it, and here is one example. He talks about Dr. Mercola's website, which I had previously learned about and registered on. Then later in the book, he touts how GREAT soy is. Well anyone that follows Mercola's website knows that Dr. M does not promote soy and actually has articles detailing the adverse effects that regular consumption of soy can produce. And with Pilzer writing about Mercola and later about how good soy is, well those two items are in conflict to me. I suppose I should see this book more along the lines of reference material as well as a promotion of how trends will tend toward pro-health activities and lifestyles, not forgetting to mention the potentially profitable opportunities that exist. I guess when I read a book, I expect topics and information to run along similar lines. It would be like say a democrat writing a book about his liberal views, with a chapter detailing how Roe vs. Wade should have been thrown out altogether. It just wouldn't be the expected fit for me. I welcome any comments to help me see things more accurately. Feel free to write to me at purpleshake on gmail if so inclined. Thank you.
The New Wellness Revolution - Rocks`.......2007-07-03
Being in the Health and Wellness industry i found this book to be state of the art. A definite read for everyone.
Brian Brown.......2007-04-11
This book was amazing. Paul is dead on the money. As the owner of a fast growing Health & Wellness company, it is affirming to hear that I am doing the right things. It also gave me a lot of new ideas for my current projects. If anyone is considering being involved in this trillion dollar industry, this book is a must read!
A must read for anyone concerned about their health and the future!!.......2007-03-22
This is a great book to open your eyes about health and your responsibility in being responsible for yourself. I was amazed to read about milk!!
Take charge of your life and read this book!
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How to make a fortune in the next big boom industry
The paperback edition of this revolutionary business book, by bestselling author Paul Pilzer, shows wellness professionals and entrepreneurs how to get in on the ground floor of the booming wellness industry. A legendary entrepreneur and speaker, Pilzer predicts that within the next decade money spent on disease prevention will surpass that spent on disease treatment-and he shows readers how to stake their claim while there's still time. The Wellness Revolution is a step-by-step plan for getting rich that will help entrepreneurs figure out where they fit in the industry, learn how to control demand, and how to get started. This insightful and well-reasoned book shows how to take advantage of the wellness boom, but its lessons can be applied to any new market.
Paul Zane Pilzer (Park City, UT) is a world-renowned economist, a multimillionaire software entrepreneur, a part-time rabbi, a college professor, and a bestselling author. As an entrepreneur, Pilzer earned his first $10 million before the age of thirty. A former commentator on National Public Radio and CNN, Pilzer has been a guest on Larry King Live! three times, and he has been on the cover of several national magazines. He speaks to nearly 500,000 people a year, and more than 10,000,000 video and audio copies of his speeches have been sold.
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An Informative Book That Will Inspire Crusaders of The Anti-Aging and Wellness Revolution.......2005-11-23
This is a MUST READ for all Networkers whose companies are offering Anti-Aging and Wellness products!
Nobel Prize Winning Economist Paul Zane Pilzer has predicted that US$1 trillion of the US economy will be devoted to products and services that keep people healthy, make them look or feel better, slow down the effects of aging, and prevent diseases from developing altogether!
If you're a MLM crusader of Anti-Aging and Wellness, this book informative book will certainly reinforce your conviction.
James Leong
Author of The World's First Book on Network Marketing with NLP,
"MLM Persuasion Mastery: How Master Networkers Change Beliefs and Behavior"
Great Book--Now is the time to find the right vehicle .......2004-12-28
Now is the time to take action with the fastest growing industry in the world-The Wellness Revolution. Pilzer is a genius.
Read this book for health & wealth.......2004-06-16
I won't go over Paul Zane Pilzers credentials as other reviewers have, I believe that if you found your way to this webpage, you already know his credentials.
But the fact is that Pilzer has predicted other trillion dollar industries. He knows what of he speaks. Personally, I am a baby boomer and in a company that is predicted to become the next billion dollar company. I have also had some health problems and hardly a day goes by when I talk to other baby boomers where the subject of health & wellness doesn't come up.
Pilzer has something here. Worth a read for both your health and your wealth.
Stay Well Rather Than Cure Sickness!.......2003-06-16
The main problem with The Wellness Revolution is that the brilliant Paul Zane Pilzer has stretched a magazine article's worth of information on healthy living and ways to develop businesses around that theme into a book. If you know nothing about how nutrition, water and exercise affect your health, you will probably love this book. But you can find better books. If you have been paying attention to those areas, you will find the book to be superficial and limited. As for investing, the ideas are pretty broad. Basically, you should make the economics of your business serve wellness and anti-aging.
What will be new to some are the details of how you can use high deductible health insurance and tax-advantaged medical savings to cut your cost of sickness while having some money left over for wellness activities (like exercise and better food). If you regularly read investment or business magazines, chances are you will know about these ideas too.
For entrepreneurs, the stories of Steve Demos (Silk soy milk), Paul Wenner (Gardenburger), Jill Kenney (Club One fitness), Dr. Frank Yanowitz (The Fitness Institute), Dr. Tod Cooperman (ConsumerLab.com), and Stuart Johnson (facilitating wellness products being provided through network marketing) may help inspire a new business thought or principle. Professionals can look at pages 188-189 for specific examples that apply to them.
Those who want stock purchase ideas won't find much here, although you'll probably have an itch to buy stock in whomever first specializes a whole company in wellness insurance.
As a result, the "how to" part of the book's subtitle is quite misleading.
There is a fine book that can be written on this subject, but unfortunately, this isn't it.
After you finish this book (if you choose to read it), I suggest that you find ways to make your working and investing more health-enhancing for you and others. If nothing else, walk on a treadmill while you watch the financial news at night to pick out companies that enhance health!
Mine went in the trash.......2003-06-15
This book really didn't tell me a whole lot I didn't already know. Probably the only part that I really paused to think about was the link between the "sick care" industry and the food industry. I already know about how processed our foods are and are lacking nutrition. As a benefits specialist for my employer, I found of the information about the insurance to be somewhat misleading. This book probably would have been great about fifteen years ago, but we are already here now. Save your money, most of the information here can be found in other sources and I was really wondering how I was going to make my "fortune" in the health care industry and I'm not about to sell medical insurance.
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Say good-bye to flavorless tomatoes, mealy apples, and "mystery meats." Say hello to the way food used to taste-and still can.
The Real Food Revival is a book of celebration and indulgence, an ode to culinary delight, and an indispensable reference guide for food lovers everywhere. It takes you through the delicious process of filling your pantries (and tummies) with Real Food. Simply put, Real Food is: delicious, produced as locally as possible, sustainable, affordable, and accessible.
In The Real Food Revival, readers will learn how to find Real Food wherever they shop, and how to navigate the jargon-organic, eco-friendly, fresh, fresh-frozen, cage-free, GMO-free, fair-trade, grass-fed, grain-finished-in order to make meaningful choices. The book also informs readers about alternative Real Food sources such as CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture systems), direct-from-the-farm, and the Internet.
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The Real Food Revival.......2007-07-16
In recent years, our society has become more and more obsessed about food. Many people consciously count calories, limit fat intake, and cut carbohydrates hoping to become healthy. At the same time, however, our food has never before contained so many additives or had so many chemical and other unnatural processes occur before the product ever reaches the supermarket. Such things not only reduce the nutritional value and tastiness of our food but may even be detrimental to our health.
The authors propose a real food revival to counter these costly effects. This revival takes the form of understanding the processes that our food undergoes to get to us and determining the freshest, least processed food products on the market. At first, this task seems almost impossible given that many of us have very little time to research, seek out, and then prepare these products. However, this book sets out in an easy to understand way, various practices that reduce food nutrition and taste starting from the raising of animals and the growing of crops through the antibodies given to these animals and the pesticides used on these plants to the chemicals and freezing processes that keep foods looking flawless during transportation and storage. The authors then explain ways that consumers can reduce costs and increase potential nutritional value of the food they buy. The simplest of these plans is to buy local foods in season, limiting the amount of chemicals that are needed to keep the product looking perfect during long periods of transportation.
I LOVE THIS BOOK!.......2006-07-31
I was so impressed that I bought 6 additional copies to give to close friends. It's not preachy or radical, just wholesome information. Like the other reviewers, I was appalled of what I learned about food and livestock production, it's impact on the environment thus our economy. I particularly laud the German, French, and Japanese governments for the food production actions they are taking to protect their people. The EU is also instituting humane legislation for chickens that has a deadline of 2012. I consider the current pertinent laws a blatant selling out of the American peoples' health by the USDA and FDA (not from content from this book, but other books and web searches) through lobbying antics by mega international food and chemical producers (most started here and then went international). I also quit Splenda (as a RN I had been one of its strongest proponents to diabetics and overweight persons) and went back to sugar (now organic) and will soon try stevia. I think each of us has a responsibility to make our consumer demands for healthy products well known by no longer purchasing unhealthy food products and notifying our local, state and federal government officials of the same, including the USDA and FDA. Unfortunately money or political votes seem to be the only way to get a message through nowadays. As an aside, Monsanto and the US government own a shared patent on technology that renders a plant's seeds sterile so they cannot be saved for future plantings. Sounds like a bad science fiction movie or a take off from Logan's Run (1976) or a more accurate Soylent Green (1973), but it's really true. In the latter movie, when Charlton Heston says the freeze dried company developed its technolgy for soylent green in Norfolk,VA, I about flipped out that 1973 Hollywood even knew my hometown existed.
An excellent resource.......2006-04-28
Whether you're like me and you were outraged by "Fast Food Nation" and "The Future of Food," or like the author of this book, you simply miss the taste of your grandmother's home-grown peaches, this book is an excellent resource on how to eat Real Food. By Real Food, the writers mean food that is not genetically modified, grown with harmful chemicals, or overly processed. The writers take you through the grocery store, aisle by aisle, explaining exactly what terms such as "free-range," "antibiotic-free," "USDA inspected," and "natural" really mean. It is eye-opening as well as interesting. One thing I particularly like about this book is that the writers do not insist that you must be vegetarian or vegan. They include plenty of information on buying meat, dairy, and eggs that are healthy and sustainable.
Join the revolution!.......2006-03-09
Are you sick of eating tasteless food that may contain genetically modified ingredients or harmful amounts of pesticides and herbicides? Check out this book, and take back your right to good food! This is a great book, and really inspired me to take control of what I and my family eat. Learn how to find out what is in the food you buy, and how to insure a steady supply of fresh, nutritious food for your family. Includes some practical steps we can all take, and a list of resources in the back.
The Real Food Revival.......2005-08-15
This is the finest book I have ever read about nutritious food and where to find it. If you wish to learn how bad the food you buy at the super market is and how it has been treated without regard to your health please read this book. If you are concered about your health and the health of your family please read this book. Finally, someone tells us what and how to eat healthy. I feel so much better after reading this book.
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Guppy Handbook
C. W. Emmens
Manufacturer: Tfh Pubns Inc
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Guppies to groupers: Handbook/ by Paul Speice and editedby Bob Chitester
Paul Speice
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• Sixteen different layouts
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Combine a special fabric with a few easy nine-patches to create a captivating quilt, sassy or sophisticated, country cozy or city chic, plain or fancy. Sixteen layouts make it hard to choose a favorite—but remember, nine-patches are the potato chips of quiltmaking...no one can make just one.
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9-Patch Pizzazz: Fast, Fun & Finished in a Day .......2007-09-18
Very easy pattern, good for a beginner or someone wanting to do a quick easy quilt.
Is this really quilting?.......2007-06-29
It's a book about using large-scale fabrics and nine-patch blocks placed here-and-there to give some sort of effect. Sorry, but I just don't think this is quilting. Just sloppily putting together fabrics. It's easy to finish these projects in a day because there are not many pieces. The nine-patch blocks are thrown all over the place. It's like either making a cake with a box of Duncan Hines cake mix and canned frosting or making a cake from scratch with home-made frosting that takes time, care, and lots of love. That's true with quilting too. A quilt should be made with time, care and lots of love, not something thrown together like the patterns in this book.
Great Options.......2007-05-13
I debated a long time before buying. Then someone told me about seeing a quilt made using the book and she was really impressed. The concepts are basic, the detail of the information and the explanations of best fabric use, colors, etc., are invaluable. It truly makes it possible to make a gorgeous quilt in a limited amount of time--and one to be proud of. And eases your mind about buying those gorgeous large-patterned fabrics. A very good book and well worth having in the library.
Excellent Used product.......2007-05-09
This book was like new and did not have any defects. I was glad to get this product from the "bookstore".
9-Patch Piizzazz.......2007-03-11
GREAT BOOK, EASY TO FOLLOW INTRUCTIONS
HAVE MADE TWO QUILTS JUST IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS.
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Garden Surfaces: 20 Projects for Paths, Decks, Steps, Patios, and Edgings
Richard Key
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From a simple edging to a cobbled patio, this book offers gardeners both inspiration for garden surfaces and practical expertise. This book of 20 surfacing ideas, including stepping stones, a wooden bridge, and a gravel path, shows garden enthusiasts of all levels how to achieve professional results. Dozens of suggestions for unusual materials and effects as well as 500 color photos are included.
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Fears, feeding, and sleep problems, croup and tantrums, stomachaches, asthma: these are some of the problems that every parent worries about at one time or another. According to Dr. Brazelton, most of these are a normal part of growing up. Only if parents add their own anxieties to the child's natural drive toward master will these "normal problems" become laden with guilt and tension and deepen into chronic issues. If parents can learn to listen, to hear the stress that may lie behind psychosomatic complaints, they can not only remove some of the excess pressures, but also help their children toward self-understanding.
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My hero.......2002-04-24
I love Dr. T. Berry Brazelton! He puts things in such basic terms that you almost want to slap your head and say "why didn't I think of that?". It is a must for anyone with children, even the "veteran" moms and dads. I also VERY HIGHLY recommend "Touchpoints" by Dr. Brazelton. It is my bible.
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Doris McCarthy, whose extraordinary career embraces more than half a century of Canadian art history, won glowing reviews for the first installment of her warm and intimate autobiography, A Fool in Paradise, the book that recounted her growth as a woman and artist.
It marked a new departure for women’s autobiography: Elspeth Cameron, writing in Saturday Night magazine called it “a book so direct and simple it seems almost to invent its form.” The Toronto Star declared it a work of “great fascination, deserving a permanent place on the shelf of Canadian artists memoirs.” Books in Canada echoed countless others: “it makes one yearn for more.”
The Good Wine describes her life from 1950 to 1991. At age forty, she broke free of her teaching responsibilities to take a year’s sabbatical in Europe as a full-time painter. It was the first of many adventures in the wider world that included a solitary round-the- world odyssey from Japan to Australia, India to the Middle East. She discovered the Arctic and in 1991, Antarctica, drawing inspiration for her art and her life in the far-flung corners she visited and in the beloved landscape of her own country.
Encounters with Dorothy Sayers and Arnold Toynbee, friendships with Bora Laskin and Boyd Neel, politics and controversies within the fledgling Canadian art community, the painful losses and unexpected victories of later life — all colour this account of four decades that saw her recognized as one of Canada’s foremost landscape painters.
Doris McCarthy’s vibrant, creative energy, her intense and hard-won independence, the great strength she found in love and friendships make this second volume of her memoirs as enchanting as the first.
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Margaret Lock explicitly compares Japanese and North American medical and political accounts of female middle age to challenge Western assumptions about menopause. She uses ethnography, interviews, statistics, historical and popular culture materials, and medical publications to produce a richly detailed account of Japanese women's lives. The result offers irrefutable evidence that the experience and meanings--even the endocrinological changes--associated with female midlife are far from universal. Rather, Lock argues, they are the product of an ongoing dialectic between culture and local biologies.
Japanese focus on middle-aged women as family members, and particularly as caretakers of elderly relatives. They attach relatively little importance to the end of menstruation, seeing it as a natural part of the aging process and not a diseaselike state heralding physical decline and emotional instability. Even the symptoms of midlife are different: Japanese women report few hot flashes, for example, but complain frequently of stiff shoulders.
Articulate, passionate, and carefully documented, Lock's study systematically undoes the many preconceptions about aging women in two distinct cultural settings. Because it is rooted in the everyday lives of Japanese women, it also provides an excellent entree to Japanese society as a whole.
Aging and menopause are subjects that have been closeted behind our myths, fears, and misconceptions. Margaret Lock's cross-cultural perspective gives us a critical new lens through which to examine our assumptions.
Customer Reviews:
A provocative, engrossing read........2000-09-18
ENCOUNTERS WITH AGING is a fascinating book examining the contrasting cultural constructions of aging and menopause in Japan and North America. Lock is a medical anthropologist who has done extensive research on attitudes and practices surrounding menopause among women in Japan and North America. She juxtaposes these women's experiences with a penetrating look at the broader medical and social discourses surrounding aging in the two regions. The book serves as a revealing critique of western medical practices surrounding women and aging.
I have very successfully used the book in teaching in both gender studies and medical anthropology classes. It is long yet accessible. The introductory chapter, "Scientific Discourse and Aging Women," is brilliant, witty and cutting--and could be used as a stand-alone piece--challenging readers to rethink western medical constructions of aging and women in a new, feminist light. The book complements well another of California's recent books on aging, women, the body and menopause--WHITE SARIS AND SWEET MANGOES: AGING, GENDER AND BODY IN NORTH INDIA.
Book Description
Examines the influence of Shintoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism on Japanese ethics, with implecations for our understanding of various social, economic, and environmental problems.
Customer Reviews:
Review of Encounter with Enlightenment.......2002-03-04
Carter has now anchored his position as THE comparative philosophy scholar whose clear and unmistakable writing makes him the favorite author of students of the Japanese philosophical tradition. In this new book, Carter sensitively and faithfully explains not only the basics of Japanese ethics, but also the diverse sources of inspiriation behind Japanese moral philosophy (Shintoism, Confucianism, Buddhism), as well as modern Japanese intellectual and spritual encounters with the West.
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Manchuria Under Japanese Dominion (Encounters with Asia)
Yamamuro Shin'ichi ,
Joshua A. Fogel , and
Shinichi Yamamuro
Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press
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Beautiful prose, muddled history.......2005-09-16
Mirror in the Shrine essentially attempts to recreate the perspectives of three Americans living in Japan. The language is very nice, although often longwinded, with plenty of visual imagery and a conscious attempt by Rosenstone to emulate the film through words. Some readers may find the language pretentious, but I found it quite enjoyable. Unfortunately, the stories of these men simply are not interesting enough to pull in readers. Historians may also take issue with the blurring of lines between sources and the author's imagination; one is never sure whether a given (perhaps ignorant or prejudiced) comment is a paraphrase of the journal sources, Rosentone's speculation as to what the subjects would have thought, or Rosenstone's own perspective.
Despite the flaws, this book should prove valuable for historians interested in experiments with style. Narrative history continues to gain momentum (both among scholars and readers) but this book is merely an early experiment, not a canonical example of how modern narrative history can be done.
A New Way of Telling the Past.......2004-11-12
This story is about three Americans (Willie Griffis, Edward Morse, and Lafcadio Hearn) who visited Japan in the 1800s and had their lives "altered greatly" by the experience. Unconventional in both style and form, and explicitly subjective - even self relexive - the book is nevertheless interesting, informing, and challenging. Moreover, it is exactly what Rosenstone purports it to be -- a new way of telling the past. His aim is to "break with some of the conventions of narrative history, and to move beyond the 'realistic' nineteenth-century novel as a paradigm for the historian's 'art'." Yet despite this new approach, the author keeps 'reality' in check by combining stylistic innovation with sound research.
Rosenstone writes in the present tense - both in the first and second person - and as the 'Biographer', whose comments appear much like side takes in television documentaries. A&E anyone? In any case, the technique, scorned by most conventional historians, is quite successful. Instead of reinforcing the dichotomy between 'true' history and film, Rosenstone establishes a truce between them - one might even say a 'relationship'.
In short, 'Mirror in the Shrine' is thoughtful, entertaining, and highly recommended -- and certainly not dry.
Very interesting, but also very dry..........2002-08-07
A book about how Japan was changing Americans NOT just on how America (and the West) was changing the Japanese. It focuses on William E. Griffis, Edward S. Morse, and Lafcadio Hearn (whose names you will find many times within history books about Japan). Their different writings (with their different ideas, backgrounds and view points) allow us to see how Americans responded to visiting and living within Japan.
I have to warn you, the book is somewhat dry(the other review compared it to A&E) but worth reading for those of us who love Japanese history.
A New Way of Telling the Past.......2000-04-22
Essentially, the 'story' was about three Americans (Willie Griffis, Edward Morse, and Lafcadio Hearn) visiting Japan in the 1800s who had their lives permanently changed by the experience. Unconventional in both style and form, and explicitly subjective - even self-reflexive - the book was nonetheless interesting, informing, and challenging. Moreover, it was exactly what Robert Rosenstone purported it to be: a new way of telling the past. His aim was to "break with some of the conventions of narrative history, and to move beyond the 'realistic' nineteenth-century novel as a paradigm for the historian's 'art'." While the technique itself was effective, the author kept 'reality' in check by combining this unorthodox approach with sound research.
The author's interest in historical fims was evident from the outset. Clearly, his "notion of writing as a motion picture camera" was carried through to the fullest extent. Rosenstone wrote in the present tense, both in the second person (addressing the reader and, less frequently, the characters) and in the first person (of the characters). No use of 'proper' quotations was made, and the characters' comments were injected - yes, from documentation, not guesswork - into italicised words, sentences, and even entire paragraphs. In addition, a person called "The Biographer' crept in once in a while to explain methodological and historical problems. Such comments appeared much like side takes in television documentaries. A&E anyone? In any case, the method, scorned by most conventional historians, was quite successful. Instead of reinforcing the dichotomy between 'true' history and film, Rosenstone established a truce between them - one might even say a 'relationship'.
That traditionalists are likely to question the author's technique is undeniable, but they have no grounds for criticising his honesty. By that is simply meant that he had a straightforward thesis. He looked not at how his three American subjects changed Japan, but at how Japan changed them, about their lives having been "altered greatly...in ways they did not fully understand." Having lived in Japan himself, albeit almost a century later, Rosenstone undoubtedly experienced some of the same 'feelings' and 'alterations' as Griffis, Morse, and Hearn. Sound relativistic? That choice was entirely deliberate.
Probably, the author's stay in Japan resulted in a new attitude about historical studies. Maybe, it was the result of seeing things differently, 'unconventionally'. Regardless, he is very aware of the change, and it was reflected in his historical writing, which showed that the use of new techniques AND traditional modes of research can indeed result in new ways of telling the past. For that reason alone, 'Mirror in the Shrine' was enjoyable and provocative, and is certainly highly recommended.
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Travellers' Visions adds another perspective to ongoing debates over colonialism with an examination of the intercultural relations between France, a major colonial empire for nearly three centuries, and Japan, a country that has remained mostly autonomous throughout its existence.
In this analytic history of French literary images of Japan, from soon after its reopening to the West to the present day, Kawakami examines the work of many of France's most revered authors including Marcel Proust, Paul Claudel, and Roland Barthes, along with other, lesser-known writers and artists, such as Loti and Farrère, as they embarked on journeys—literary and real—to this "exotic" land. Authors are discussed according to type— journalists, diplomats, or collectors, for example—and the close readings are accompanied by Gérard Macé's beautiful and rarely seen photographs. Travellers' Visions offers new clarity to current intellectual debates and will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of French literature and Asian history alike.
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The Awakened Self: Encounters With Zen (Kodansha Globe Series)
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Neil S. Fujita
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A Story of Bravery and Tragedy.......1999-11-26
Though out of print, this book is well worth tracking down for those interested in Japan's introduction to Christianity. The stories of the sacrifices made by these early Christians, both as missionaries and particularly as native Japanese Christians, are a rebuke to much of today's comfortable Christianity. The book is also of interest to those studying dialogue between Buddhists and Christians, as it outlines and interacts with some of the earliest Buddhist assessments and critiques of Christianity.
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In the first book to focus on African American attitudes toward Japan and China, Marc Gallicchio examines the rise and fall of black internationalism in the first half of the twentieth century. This daring new approach to world politics failed in its effort to seek solidarity with the two Asian countries, but it succeeded in rallying black Americans in the struggle for civil rights.
Black internationalism emphasized the role of race or color in world politics and linked the domestic struggle of African Americans with the freedom struggle of emerging nations "of color," such as India and much of Africa. In the early twentieth century, black internationalists, including W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey, embraced Japan as a potential champion of the darker races, despite Japan's imperialism in China. After Pearl Harbor, black internationalists reversed their position and identified Nationalist China as an ally in the war against racism.
In the end, black internationalism was unsuccessful as an interpretation of international affairs. The failed quest for alliances with Japan and China, Gallicchio argues, foreshadowed the difficulty black Americans would encounter in seeking redress for American racism in the international arena.
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