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Three Revolutions in American Law $10.00 Carl Malamud Book An essay respectfully submitted to the Honorable John Kroger, Attorney General of Oregon. No. 21 with horseshoe Sigrid Cichocki image American Social Problems $22.09 Walter Greenwood Beach and Edward Everett Walker Book This is a fantastic reproduction edition of the 1934 classic on American Social Problems. It's worth a read to compare with present day issues, student views, and teachings about social problems today... PREFACE TO AMERICAN SOCIAL PROBLEMS (originally published in 1934) This book is intended to be a first survey of social problems characteristic of American life today (1934). It is planned to stimulate the interest of young students in their own social world, to lead them to observe and to discuss the facts and conditions which they meet, and to search for satisfactory explanations. While there is no attempt at completeness of description, the essential facts of each problem studied are presented, together with suggested lines of interpretation. Moreover, the particular problems discussed are considered, not in isolation, but in relation both to each other and to the background of American life. In spite of apparent diversity of problems, there is an underlying unity in social life. It is the hope of the authors that this book may help students not only to remember isolated facts about particular problems, but to become clearly conscious of this unity and of its significance in understanding the separate facts described. Because of the definite purpose of the authors to make the book really suited to the needs of students, many teachers have been consulted, their suggestions in regard to methods of presentation have been weighed, and their criticism of varied plans of arrangement and treatment of subject-matter have been carefully considered. To these many teachers we owe a debt of gratitude which we hereby gratefully acknowledge. In 1934, at the time of original publication, Walter Greenwood Beach was Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. Edward Everett Walker previously worked at Southwest Missouri State Teachers College and Stanford University. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original Stanford University Press publication (ISBN 080470158X). Cover image courtesy the Library of Congress Photo Collection, Migrant Mother, by Dorothea Lange 1936. CONTENTS THE AUTHORS TO THE STUDENTS 1 GROUP LIFE Chapter One. The Geographical Setting of Group Life 9 Chapter Two. Human Nature and Group Life 25 Chapter Three. Cultural Factors in Group Life 41 Chapter Four. The Rise of American Culture 56 PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL CHANGE AND ADJUSTMENT Chapter Five. Challenges of Population Growth 75 Chapter Six. Rural and Urban Groups and Problems 93 Chapter Seven. Social Adjustments Involving the Immigrant 122 Chapter Eight. The Negro in American Society 152 Chapter Nine. Problems of Health and Physical Well-Being 176 Chapter Ten. The Welfare of the Wage-Earner 202 Chapter Eleven. The Family 224 Chapter Twelve. The Welfare of Children 246 Chapter Thirteen. Poverty and the Welfare of Dependents 279 Chapter Fourteen. Crime and Its Treatment 301 LOOKING TOWARD THE FUTURE Chapter Fifteen. Planning the Society of the Future 331 Chapter Sixteen. The Role of Education 344 Chapter Seventeen. The Role of Science 361 THE AUTHORS TO THE TEACHERS 378 INDEX 385 The First Russian Revolution, 1825 : The Decembrist Movement $19.96 Anatole Mazour Book THE FIRST RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 1825 The Decembrist Movement ANATOLE G. MAZOUR A reissue. "The Russian Revolution is a process which started probably with Peter the Great and which has not yet been concluded. It is the effort of the transformation of a backward and oppressive form of society into a more progressive one which would assure more justice and more liberty to the peoples of Russia. In this long process there are two outstanding events which mark turning points. The second and much better known is the Revolution of 1917 and its rapid transition from February to October. The first, much less known, is the so-called Decembrist Movement which led to the first revolutionary explosion in Russia in December 1825, ninety-two years before Lenin inaugurated a new stage of the Russian Revolution. The revolution of December 14, 1825, was a very short-lived affair, quickly suppressed, without any outward significance. But inwardly, this first attempt on the part of Russian intellectuals, members of the aristocracy, to liberalize and humanize the Russian regime was of utmost significance. It was the start of all the later revolutionary movements of the Russian intelligentsia. It was the source of inspiration to the succeeding generations. "Notwithstanding the importance of the Decembrist Movement, there did not exist until now a detailed treatise on its origins, development, and significance. The present book by Dr. Mazour tries to fill the gap, and it does it so well that, at least for some time to come, it can be regarded not only as the first but also the definitive book on its subject…The author not only presents us with the history of the Decembrist Movement, but traces its background back to about 1800 and practically covers the ground of a history of the liberal and revolutionary movements in Russia from 1800 to 1825. He gives us a detailed story of the rise and development of both branches of the revolutionary movement then, the Northern Society and the Southern Society, their program discussions, their preparations for the revolt, their defeat and their trial, and ends with a description of their life in exile in “Siberia."-The Annals. "One of the most important books ever printed about Russia."-Los Angeles Times. "Dr. Mazour's book unquestionably will prove to be of value. . . . In addition to its scientific value, this account of a dramatic page of Russian history is also interesting as general reading."-The New York Times Book Review. "The historian no less than the general reader must be grateful for so careful and illuminating a study of a little-known subject."- The Spectator (London). "It is a first rate history . . . The mass of materials . . . is handled with that assurance which attests both mastery of detail and breadth of vision."-Sun Francisco Chronicle. Mr. Mazour is Professor of History at Stanford University. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original work from Stanford University Press published in 1937 (ISBN 080470818). Beyond the Pass : Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864 $21.34 James A. Millward Book “This is a strikingly original, thoroughly researched study of the conquest and administration of the vast region of Xinjiang under the Qing empire. It is an outstanding work that deserves wide attention from all readers interested in modern Chinese history. Millward opens a field almost completely unexplored in Western scholarship and presents new conclusions that reshape our vision of modern China.” Peter C. Perdue, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Beyond the Pass examines the fiscal and ethnic policies that underlay Qing imperial control over Xinjiang, a Central Asian region that now comprises the westernmost sixth of the People’s Republic of China. By focusing on a region of the Qing empire beyond the borders of China proper, and by treating the empire not as a Chinese dynasty but in its broader context as an Inner Asian political entity, this innovative study fills a gap in Western-language historiography of late imperial China. As analysis of the revenue available to Qing garrisons in Xinjiang reveals, imperial control over the region in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries depended upon sizeable yearly subsidies from China. In an effort to satisfy criticism of their expansion into Xinjiang and make the territory pay for itself, the Qing court permitted local authorities great latitude in fiscal matters and encouraged the presence of Han and Chinese Muslim merchants. At the same time, the court recognized the potential for unrest posed by Chinese mercantile penetration of this Muslim, Turkic-speaking area. They consequently attempted, through administrative and legal means, to defend the native Uyghur population against economic depredation. This ethnic policy reflected a conception of the realm that was not Sinocentric, but rather placed the Uyghur on a par with Han Chinese. Both this ethnic policy and Xinjiang’s place in the realm shifted following a series of invasions from western Turkestan starting in the 1820s. Because of the economic importance of Chinese merchants and the efficacy of merchant militia in Xinjiang, the Qing court revised its policies in their favor, for the first time allowing permanent Han settlement in the area. At the same time, the court began to advocate provincehood and the Sinicization of Xinjiang as a resolution to the perennial security problem. These shifts, the author argues, marked the beginning of a reconception of China to include Inner Asian lands and peoples – a notion that would, by the twentieth century, become a deeply held tenet of Chinese nationalism. James A. Millward is Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University. Cover illustration is from a bilingual edition of the Qianlong Atlas, c. 1175, based on the map drawn by Father Benoist. This detail of the region around Jiayu Guan is used courtesy of the British Library (India Office records Map collection x/3265/1-10, roll 10). This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original 1998 publication. You can find more reproductions editions from Stanford University Press on QOOP.com. Contents LANDMARKS 20 The Lay of the Land 21 The Historical Terrain 25 High Qing 36 FINANCING NEW DOMINION 44 Planting the Frontier 50 Local Sources of Revenue 52 Merchant 72 Xinjiang Military Deployment 77 Tea and the Beginnings 91 Proper 91 The Southern Commissaries 92 The Qing and the Silk 101 Sancheng Goes Too Far 105 Nayancengs TeaTax Plan 106 109 CHINESE MERCANTILE PENETRATION 113 The OpenGuan Policy 114 135 The Southern March 138 Manchu Cities or Chinese Cities? 149 QING ETHNIC POLICY AND CHINESE MERCHANTS 194 TOWARD THE DOMESTICATION OF EMPIRE 232 CHARACTER LIST 255 NOTES 261 BIBLIOGRAPHY 315 INDEX 343 The Yili military complex c 1809 78 6

Island Hotel & Restaurant Michelle Pearson image The Island Hotel sits across the street from the old L & W Saloon. The Island Hotel was built on 2nd Street out of cypress and "tabby", a mix of lime rock and crushed oyster shells. According to http://www.civilwaralbum.com/misc6/cedarkey1.htm : The structure that is now the Island Hotel was built sometime between 1859 and 1860. Records indicate that Major John Parsons bought the property in 1859. It is likely that construction was finished the following year. The Florida pioneers who settled Cedar Key made the building to last. They mixed oyster shell, limestone and sand to pour tabby walls 10 inches thick. Massive 12-inch oak beams were framed in the basement to support the wooden structure. (Their workmanship has withstood the ravages of time for more than 140 years. The building has survived innumerable hurricanes, floods, storms and other disasters. The floors are uneven. The building contracts and expands with the seasons and has all the "aches and pains" of an elderly lady. Development of Cedar Key had begun in 1859 in anticipation of the prosperity that completion of the Florida Railroad was expected to bring to the port on the Gulf. Major Parsons and his partner and co-owner Francis E. Hale (died 1910) were among businessmen hoping to take advantage of the economic opportunity when they opened Parsons and Hale's General Store. The outbreak of the Civil War forced an abrupt halt to Cedar Key development. Union troops considered it a strategic port. They invaded the town and burned down almost every building that wasn't needed to quarter troops or store supplies. The fact that Parsons and Hale's General Store survived the war lends credence to the strong probability that it served as a barracks and warehouse for the Yankees. It may have been used by Confederate troops as well during the times they managed to retake Cedar Key, since building owner Major Parsons was commander of a detachment of Confederate volunteers defending the Gulf Coast against Federal gunboats and troops. On November 23, 1984, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/FL/Levy/state.html Some history of the Island Hotel: http://www.islandhotel-cedarkey.com/history.html 224 2nd Street Cedar Key, Levy, Florida 9/2/09 1:13:04 PM IMG_0027618 4x6 Island Hotel & Restaurant Michelle Pearson image Established 1859, the Island Hotel sits across the street from the old L & W Saloon. The Island Hotel was built on 2nd Street out of cypress and "tabby", a mix of lime rock and crushed oyster shells. According to http://www.civilwaralbum.com/misc6/cedarkey1.htm : The structure that is now the Island Hotel was built sometime between 1859 and 1860. Records indicate that Major John Parsons bought the property in 1859. It is likely that construction was finished the following year. The Florida pioneers who settled Cedar Key made the building to last. They mixed oyster shell, limestone and sand to pour tabby walls 10 inches thick. Massive 12-inch oak beams were framed in the basement to support the wooden structure. (Their workmanship has withstood the ravages of time for more than 140 years. The building has survived innumerable hurricanes, floods, storms and other disasters. The floors are uneven. The building contracts and expands with the seasons and has all the "aches and pains" of an elderly lady. Development of Cedar Key had begun in 1859 in anticipation of the prosperity that completion of the Florida Railroad was expected to bring to the port on the Gulf. Major Parsons and his partner and co-owner Francis E. Hale (died 1910) were among businessmen hoping to take advantage of the economic opportunity when they opened Parsons and Hale's General Store. The outbreak of the Civil War forced an abrupt halt to Cedar Key development. Union troops considered it a strategic port. They invaded the town and burned down almost every building that wasn't needed to quarter troops or store supplies. The fact that Parsons and Hale's General Store survived the war lends credence to the strong probability that it served as a barracks and warehouse for the Yankees. It may have been used by Confederate troops as well during the times they managed to retake Cedar Key, since building owner Major Parsons was commander of a detachment of Confederate volunteers defending the Gulf Coast against Federal gunboats and troops. On November 23, 1984, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/FL/Levy/state.html A little history of the Island Hotel can be found: http://www.islandhotel-cedarkey.com/history.html 224 2nd Street Cedar Key, Levy, Florida 9/2/09 1:13:04 PM IMG_0027618 Antique 4x6 Dennis Reid Lithographs $20.99 Dennis Reid Lithographs Calendar This is a 2010 Calendar with some of the images for the Dennis Reid Lithograph Collection. Please take a look at the preview before purchasing. If you'd like to design your own calendar from the mix those tools will be available here on QOOP very soon. Unexpected Revolution Social Forces in the Hungarian $15.82 Paul Kecskemeti Book Why did Hungary's Communist regime, backed by seemingly impregnable power, succumb almost immediately to an uprising of popular forces in October 1956? Does this successful revolt (successful in the sense that it could be overthrown only by Soviet military intervention) have any implications for the future of other Communist satellites? Specifically, are there factors of political instability that can be said to be inherent in all Communist regimes - indeed in totalitarian governments in general? A number of clear and convincing answers to these questions are offered in this study of how Hungary upset the longstanding myth that successful mass revolution was impossible in a totalitarian police state. The record of dictatorial rule not only in the Soviet Union but in Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany generally seemed to indicate the impossibility of even the mildest manifestations of anti-regime feelings, let alone of large-scale revolt. The political history of the smaller Central European states that had been turned into satellites of the Soviet Union seemed to furnish additional proof of this thesis, since in each of these countries the Communists represented only a small and unpopular minority. Yet massive police power eventually gave them uncontested dominance. An analysis of the impact of totalitarianism upon the various social groups in Hungary - Communist intellectuals, non-Party intelligentsia, workers, peasants, and students - yields many of the reasons why the Hungarian revolt ellite countries failed. A savage intra-Party purge, carried out between 1949 and 1951, seemingly established the unchallenged supremacy of the Stalinist leader, Mâtyâs Râkosi. After Stalin's death, however, disruptive tendencies began to manifest themselves, with the new leadership in Moscow playing off one Hungarian Communist faction against another. In the concluding chapters the events in Hungary are compared with the milder uprisings that occurred in several other European satellite countries between 1953 and 1956, and some general observations are made concerning the conditions under which revolution may break out in states where political power is highly centralized. Mr. Kecskemeti is a Senior Research Associate of The RAND Corporation, and the author of Strategic Surrender (Stanford, 1958) This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title The unexpected revolution: social forces in the Hungarian uprising Rand Research, The Rand Corporation Author Paul Kecskemeti Publisher Stanford University Press, 1961 Length 178 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com By the People $10.00 Carl Malamud Book A talk given at the Government 2.0 Summit. The talk gives the history of 3 waves of change in the way government relates to citizens, then goes on to discuss the challenges in placing all primary legal materials in the United States on the Internet for public access, open sourcing America's operating system.

WW1 Mountains and barbed wire $21.99 Jonathan Shave Poster Sexten Dolomites, Refugio Loccateli,ww1 Austro Italian front line. IMG_0515.JPG jerri did it! image calvin, north dakota IMG_0532.JPG jerri did it! image IMG_0518.JPG jerri did it! image IMG_0515.JPG jerri did it! image

Jaime I $50.99 Javier Alfaro Guillén Poster The Paradise Myth in Eighteenth-Century Russia $19.78 Stephen Lessing Baehr Book From the reign of Peter the Great through that of Catherine the Great, visions of an earthly paradise recurred in a wide variety of Russian sources: panegyric and pastoral poetry, portrait painting, the utopian novel, allegorical fireworks and masquerades, Masonic ritual and literature, and even the winter garden. In this rich, many-faceted work, the author traces how, at a time when Russian culture was being transformed from sacred to secular, the paradise myth provided a bridge between the two. Most Western writers of the period, influenced by the scientific and critical worldview of the Enlightenment, used the conventions of the paradise myth to idealize faraway lands and hence criticize existing reality. The author shows that in eighteenth-century Russian, however, most writers used these conventions to idealize, mythologize, and "utopianize" the Russian status quo and the Slavic past. These writings were thus closer to the literature of European Renaissance courts than to that of the contemporary Enlightenment, reflecting a "culture gap" between Russia and the West that is significantly larger than has heretofore been realized. Instead of using utopian methods to oppose governmental opposition to promote the rights of individuals, Russian writers often used them to glorify existing authoritarian structures. The author contends that this tendency to propagandize the status quo through paradisal imagery has been a constant current in Russia from its Christianization through socialist realism, reflecting an "urge to utopia" among the populace that was frequently abused by those in power. In analyzing the ways in which the paradise myth helped to shape eighteenth-century Russian literature and culture, the author begins with a typology of paradise, focusing on Western paradisal conventions that were to become omnipresent in Russian culture. He discusses the paradise myth in terms of the impact of Peter the Great's secularization and westernization and of two other myths that were also central to it: the rebirth or renaissance of Russia and Russia as an Edenic garden. The author examines in detail the influence of the paradise myth on the allegorical rituals and literature of Freemasonry and on the Russian utopia and "eutopia" (a hybrid of the panegyric ode and the utopia that is virtually unique to Russia). Finally, he deals with the reactions against the paradise myth during the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and its replacement by the myth of the iron age Stephen Lessing Baehr is Associate Professor of Russian at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title The paradise myth in eighteenth-century Russia: utopian patterns in early secular Russian literature and culture Author Stephen Lessing Baehr Edition illustrated Publisher Stanford University Press, 1991 ISBN 0804715335, 9780804715331 Length 308 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com DSC00797.jpg JD Robert Wiebe image Grande Prairie Train Trestle Secrets of the Kingdom $24.55 Richard L. Greaves Book Secrets of the Kingdom British Radicals from the Popish Plot to the Revolution of 1688-89 Richard L Greaves This volume completes a trilogy that explores the history of British political and religious radicalism - in England, Scotland, Ireland, and British exile communities on the Continent - from the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 to the Revolution of 1688-89. The trilogy underscores both the continuity and the geographical range of dissident activity in all three kingdoms over nearly three decades. Much of the present volume deals with the controversial conspiracies collectively (and misleadingly) known as the Rye House Plot. Whether these conspiracies actually existed has been disputed since the 1680's, and the problem of evaluating the evidence regarding them is complicated by the fact that both Whigs and Tories freely engaged in subornation, severely undermining the credibility of many accounts, not to mention the integrity of the judicial system. The book traces the complete history of the Rye House Plot, including the general uprising planned by Monmouth and his associates, the schemes to assassinate Charles and James, and the trials of a number of conspirators. The author concludes that, on balance, the evidence affirms the existence of conspiracies against the crown. The author describes and analyzes several other instances of radical activity: the assassination of the Archbishop of St. Andrews, the Bothwell Bridge rebellion, the Argyll and Monmouth rebellions, and the involvement of the radicals in the events leading up to the revolution of 1688-89. Historiographically, the book is part of a major reassessment of the late Stuart period which accords greater attention to the significance and contribution of British radicals. It is now clear that radical activity continued throughout the British Isles during the reigns of Charles II and James II, and even beyond, and that Restoration Nonconformists were not uniformly quiescent and passive. The first volume in the trilogy, Deliver Us from Evil: The Radical Underground in Britain, 1660-1663, was published in 1986 by Oxford University Press. The second volume, Enemies Under His Feet: Radicals and Nonconformists in Britain, 1664-1677, was published in 1990 by Stanford University Press. Richard L. Greaves is Robert O Lawton Distinguished Professor of History and Courtesy Professor of Religion at Florida State University. He is the author of editor of more than a dozen books. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Secrets of the kingdom: British radicals from the Popish Plot to the Revolution of 1688-1689 Author Richard L. Greaves Publisher Stanford University Press, 1992 ISBN 0804720525, 9780804720526 Length 465 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Merlin's Disciples $18.10 Howard Dobin Book Merlin's Disciples Prophecy, Poetry, and Power in Renaissance England Howard Dobin "This book presents a powerful new argument about ambivalent attitudes toward prophecy in the Renaissance, and how the government's uneasy attitude became an important means of undoing the desired aims of the Reformation. No less central is the book's discussion of critical method, a successful attempt to synthesize many of the most interesting aspects of poststructuralism of new Historicism...In both theory and the historical realm this book seems to me to have a claim to extraordinary importance." - David Bevington, University of Chicago Political prophecy in Britain extends back at least to the twelfth century, to Geoffrey of Monmouth's collection of Merlin's prophecies. Through the Renaissance, the secular prophetic tradition burgeoned in new native prophets and interpretations, invoked by both the crown and would-be usurpers. The Elizabethan period's veritable explosion of prophetic activity was kindled by the religious and political upheavals of the Reformation and inflamed by the nation's anxiety concerning the Spanish threat and the uncertainty of royal succession. The prophet appeared in many forms -- contemporary doomsayer, religious fanatic, partisan propagandist, and outright fraud. But whatever its source, prophecy challenged political, religious, and social institutions. It became a dominant mode of political discourse. Methodologically, the book allies itself with the New Historicism, where its contributions are, first, to articulate the importance of deconstruction for the New Historicism in relation to a novel set of canonical and noncanonical texts and, second, to delineate a mode of subversive discourse that eludes both political and authorial control. The author shows that prophetic texts and the interpretive dynamics that surround them are virtually textbook models of certain concerns foregrounded in deconstruction and the New Historicism. The prophetic text claims a referentiality that is endlessly deferred; when that reference is politically invested, the powers that be shift responsibility from the text to its interpreters -- ofter, in this period, leading to torture and even execution. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical influences, from Derrida to Weber and Geertz, the author knits together historical evidence and critical theory to show how prophecy functions in a great variety of texts, from little-known works like The Birth of Merlin to The Faerie Queene and Shakespeare's history plays. An Afterword traces how political prophecy emerges as a potent public weapon in the civil-war period -- then is revived and transformed in the literary realm, in the disempowered and private vision of Milton. Howard Dobin is Associate Professor of Englis at the University of Maryland at College Park. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Merlin's disciples: prophecy, poetry, and power in Renaissance England Author Howard Dobin Publisher Stanford University Press, 1990 ISBN 0804717834, 9780804717830 Length 257 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com

The Closing of the Public Domain $21.52 E. Louise Peffer Book The Closing of the Public Domain Disposal and Reservation Policies, 1900-1950 E. Lousie Peffer On June 17, 1902, the 56th Congress of the United States passed the Reclamation--or Newlands-Act, which allocated the proceeds of future sales of public lands to the irrigation of the arid West. Federally sponsored reclamation was the last of the great developmental projects of the country to be subsidized initially by proceeds from the public domain. In its major aspect, the act represented a continuation of an established pattern of policy. In another respect, however, it gave indication of a new trend in policy for the future. In 1900 there were still around 560 million acres open to entry and settlement under the general land laws of the United States, within the continental limits of the country exclusive of Alaska. This was more than a fourth of the land area of the whole country. It was difficult, even impossible, to accept the idea that so vast an area could not long be expected to furnish homes. Indeed, the Reclamation Act was intended to push far into the future the time when consideration of such an eventuality would be necessary. By the most optimistic estimates, reclamation, chiefly by irrigation, would in time bring 100 million acres into cultivation-and the tendency was to accept the most optimistic figure. Furthermore, the non-irrigable land was not worthless; some of it was valuable for forests, some for minerals, some as range. Consequently it was hardly likely that the country could be brought to believe that the frontier of opportunity afforded by the public domain was closed, as Frederick Jackson Turner, in his famous hypothesis advanced in 1893, had suggested the geographical frontier to be; and that a new policy was dictated. There was, however, a small but dynamic body of opinion which cited, as evidence of the need for change, the very arguments advanced against a change of policy. The public land policy of the United States has been described as having fallen into three phases: sale, development, and reservation. The Reclamation Act bridged the three, using as expedients in aid of further development the old principle of sale and the new principle of reservation. The resort to the reservation principle in the Reclamation Act did not constitute Congressional acceptance of the idea it represented. It did, however, point the direction in which public land policy was to travel in the twentieth century. In its main outline, the story of the public domain in the twentieth century is one of a tug of war between the forces advocating the continuation of the process of settlement and development, and the growing number of those maintaining that the equity of the public in the valuable resources which remained should not be dissipated. It is a struggle which continues actively today in spite of the apparent victory achieved by the reservationists in the passage of the Taylor Grazing Act in 1934. This act, as amended, virtually closed both the public domain and one of the most significant and colorful epochs of American history. This study does not purport to be a history of the public domain in the twentieth century. Nor can it present a full coverage of the phase of public domain history implied by the title; for the latter period, much of the material necessary to round out the account is not yet open to public scrutiny. It is proposed to relate, on the basis of the sources which are available, the steps by which the concept of the public domain has veered from one of land held in escrow pending transfer of title, toward one of reservations held in perpetuity in the interest of the collective owners, the people of the United States. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the 1951 original edition: Title: The Closing of the Public Domain Author: E. Louise Peffer Publisher: Stanford University Press 1951 ISBN: 080473237X State and Society in Early Medieval China $23.28 Albert E. Dien Book State and Society in Early Medieval China Edited by Albert E. Dien Extending roughly from the final collapse of the Han Dynasty in A.D. 220 to the establishment of the T'ang Dynasty in 618, the Six Dynasties period in China is commonly compared to the "Dark Ages" of European history. The political history of the period is a dismal record of disunity, intrigue, strife, and alien encroachments, seeming to amount to little more than a confusing series of dynastic names. Given such an array of fragile ands short-lived dynasties, it is natural to attempt to summarize the period, but the inadequate state of our knowledge (the historical record is sparse, fragmentary, and very difficult to interpret) makes such an attempt at best provisional. The twelve essays in this volume are therefore to be viewed as attempts to further our knowledge of the period and to test what few generalizations we do have. The authors address a wide range of problems, including the composition of the ruling elites, the evolution of eminent families, and the nature of the state and its administration. For example, previous scholarship has portrayed the period as one dominated by powerful aristocratic clans; a revisionist view presented here argues that the leading families were neither powerful, nor aristocratic, nor clans. In almost every case the topics of the individual papers are treated here for the first time in English The period of the Six Dynasties suggests fragmentation and disorder, and yet it is now generally recognized that the so-called fragmentation simply meant that the level of cohesion had shifted from a national to a regional level. To a large extent, what was involved were changes in the ways in which various social and political groups related to one another. The focus of this volume, then, is to explore the interfaces within Six Dynasties social and political organizations and to trace the changes in the these complex and often puzzling relationships. The editor suggests that in these developments are to be found the roots of T'ang greatness. The contributors are William Crowell, Albert E. Dien, Patricia Ebrey, Dennis Grafflin, Jennifer Holmgren, Whalen Lai, Carl Leban, Mao Hankuang, Richard Mather, Robert M. Somers, and Tang Changru. Albert E. Dien is Professor of Chinese at Stanford University. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title State and society in early medieval China Author Albert E. Dien Editor Albert E. Dien Contributor Albert E. Dien Edition illustrated Publisher Stanford University Press, 1991 ISBN 0804717451, 9780804717458 Length 414 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Minority Problems in Southeast Asia $19.18 Virginia Thompson and Richard Adloff Book MINORITY PROBLEMS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA By Virginia Thompson and Richard Adloff Shifts of power in Southeast Asia during the past decade (1945-1955) from colonial to national groups have brought minority problems of the area into a new and important focus. “Everywhere in Southeast Asia,” reported the authors of, Minority Problems in Southeast Asia, “the new nationalist governments have teed to ignore the problems of the ethnic minorities once the foreign imperial power has been eliminated. Their concern for such minorities is aroused only when they feel that outside elements may be using minority grievances as an excuse to re-establish foreign rule.” Strategically placed minorities in Thailand, Burma, Indochina, Indonesia, and Malaya may play potentially disruptive, if not subversive, roles in the future. Virginia Thompson and Richard Adloff examine these ethnic and alien groups for their economic stake, political activities, history, and education, and in certain cases analyze their citizenship status. This is the first study of the Indian minority and of the indigenous minorities such as the Eurasians, the Malays of Thailand, the Thai of Indochina, the Arakanese, and the Ambonese. The Chinese minority – already exhaustively treated in other studies – is presented here chiefly as a regional problem, with special reference to their current activities. A final chapter relates to possible future developments, and warns that those in power must offer minorities enough of a stake in the country to induce them to merge with the majority people in a common nationality, since they are now deeply rooted in Southeast Asia. This book is issued under the auspices of the Institute of Pacific Relations. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the orginal work. Title: Minority Problems in Southeast Asia Author: Virginia Thompson and Richard Adloff Publisher: Stanford University Press 1955 ISBN : 080473786X Socialists of Rural Andalusia Unacknowledged Revolutionaries of The Second Republic $18.16 George A. Collier Book A new perspective on the Spanish Second Republic and Civil War emerges from this study of the Socialists of a western Andalusian town. Although Andalusian Socialists contributed substantially to the radicalization of the Spanish countryside, they have been largely ignored by scholars, who have concentrated instead on the activities of the anarchists. This book studies the Socialists of one particular pueblo, examining their considerable accomplishments in the Second Republic, their repression in and after the Civil War, and their place in postwar Spanish historical memory. It views the radicalization of Socialists as stemming, not primarily from frustration over their failure to bring about land reform, which is the usual interpretation, but just as much from their success in revolutionizing labor relations. As ethnography, this study is experimental, focusing on a group of people and what happened to them through time rather than on a community or place. Its method may be characterized as serial ethnography, drawing upon oral history, family history, newspapers, and analysis of town archives to reconstruct the pueblo Socialists' experience of the Second Republic and the Franco dictatorship. It interprets pueblo experience in terms of Andalusian concepts of autonomy, hope, kinship, patronage, and politics. Throughout, the author relates the conflict and change experienced in one pueblo to the experience of other locales similarly situated in the broader dynamic of Spanish national politics. The book includes 18 illustrations and 7 maps. George A. Collier is Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, and the author of The Fields of the Tzotzil: The Ecological Bases of Tradition in Highland Chiapas. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Socialists of rural Andalusia: unacknowledged revolutionaries of the Second Republic Author George Allen Collier Edition illustrated Publisher Stanford University Press, 1987 ISBN 0804714118, 9780804714112 Length 253 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com French West Africa $29.20 Virginia Thompson and Richard Adloff Book This is a reproduction edition from the original 1958 publication on French West Africa. There have been a great many books on Africa since the ware but astonishingly few in English that deal with the vast and important tropical areas under French administration. As to the most extensive of these – French West Africa – the lack is particularly striking, contrasting as it does with the larger number of works concerning adjacent Nigeria and Ghana. The few studies of French West Africa produced thus far by British and American writers have been mostly in specialized periodicals, and no work on the Federation as a whole has been available to the English-reading public. The authors have provided a general and reliable survey of the main political, economic, social and cultural developments in the whole territory of French West Africa, supplemented by an analysis which takes into account both official and non-official French and African viewpoints. Some historical background is provided – especially where it is helpful to the understanding of current developments – but the book’ emphasis is upon the rapid evolution of French West Africa, in many fields, since the end of the Second World War. While most welcome as a reference work for students, the book will also be read more widely for the light it casts on the role that the French West African group of territories may play in the future ‘Eurafrica.’ This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original work: Title: French West Africa Author: Virginia Thompson and Richard Adloff Publisher: Stanford University Press 1958 ISBN: 0804742561

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