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Published: 24 August 2017
...The chapter critically reappraises the work of the British experimental filmmaker John Smith, drawing on analyses of key films and interview material to explore his use of sound, music and voice. Smith’s films often engage self-reflexively with how sound creates or accepts meaning within...
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Published: 28 September 2000
... of John Smith, who was brought before the Senate on charges of conspiring with Burr, but was acquitted in a proceeding managed by John Quincy Adams and Jesse Franklin; Burr's decision to leave Kentucky and moved to Louisiana and Texas; his stop in New Orleans, where the clergy mattered; his meeting...
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Published: 03 August 2000
... actively opposed the notion of incorporation. This chapter, delivered as a lecture in March 1993, rehearsed the arguments in favour of incorporation; the day before, as it happened, the late John Smith had signalled a change in Labour Party policy. Now, that change has been given legislative effect...
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Published: 03 August 2000
... including Professor Sir John Smith, whom most would gladly hail as the outstanding criminal lawyer of the time. A code was produced and published in 1985; it was revised and expanded in 1989. It has very largely withstood the appraisal and criticism to which it has been properly subjected, and has...
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Published: 20 June 2024
... Sermons Augustine of Hippo Hilary of Poitiers Jerome Leo the Great Eucharist Irenaeus Pietism scripture primacy of merit expiation Church the Lancelot Andrewes Ralph Cudworth deification Richard Hooker John Jewel justification Henry More John Smith Jeremy Taylor Benjamin Whichcote...
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Published: 09 August 2016
...The prologue draws a contrast between the typical starting point for Chesapeake history—John Smith’s captivity narrative—with an alternative point of departure—a Pamunkey ritual performed around a map of the Powhatan world. A shift from American master narratives and colonial-era celebrities toward...
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Published: 22 December 2005
...John Roskell John Smith Roskell (1913–1998), a Fellow of the British Academy, defended a broadly neo-Stubbsian view of the British Parliament against the revisionists, while making a more critical and balanced assessment of the role of the Commons in what his mentor, J. G. Edwards, termed...
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Published: 15 March 2012
... Europeans to emigrate to America (e.g. Captain John Smith's Description of New England (1616) and Thomas Prince's A Chronological History of New-England (1736)); the notion of the “American dream” (e.g. David Graham Phillips's novel The Husband's Story...
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Published: 25 January 2018
... Wesley Powell John Smith Smithsonian Institution John White On November 9, 1969, a young Native American student dove from a borrowed sailboat into the frigid waters of San Francisco Bay and swam 250 yards against swift currents to reclaim Alcatraz Island as indigenous land. A Mohawk man from the St...
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Published: 26 August 2010
... Orange war Chippewas Illinois Confederacy Jamestown Meyer John Miamis Ohio country Ottawas Plymouth colony Potawatomies Shawnees Virginia Powhatans Rolfe John Smith John Massasoitt Mohegans Narragansetts New England Pequots Wampanoags Massachusetts Bay colony Miantonomi Pequot War...
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Published: 25 August 2016
... and innumerability. In 1616, Powhatan, the most powerful ruler in what is today Virginia, ordered an emissary named Uttamatomakkin to accompany Pocahontas on her visit to England and to “number the people” there. 1 According to the English captain and explorer John Smith, Uttamatomakkin could...
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Published: 23 October 2014
...This chapter outlines the book’s key concepts by sketching out a history of American unsettlement that finds its origins story in La Navidad, the first European colony in the New World. Drawing upon examples ranging from Columbus’s Diario to the captivity of John Smith...
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Published: 25 July 2014
... (1624), a text that includes the original story of Pocahontas and John Smith. It also examines the emergence of the English novel as a major form; the myth, allegory, and providential plot in works such as Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682...
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Published: 08 October 2018
... Things Forgotten Deetz materiality Pennell Sara Reconstruction Veterans Union soldiers Confederate soldiers Appomattox Court House Ulysses S. Grant Robert E. Lee John Smith of Pennsylvania John Chamberlayne of Virginia Army of the Potomac Army of Northern Virginia The remains of a lone apple...
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Published: 01 February 2018
... social class structure and class politics Livingstone Ken Prescott John Supply side socialism City of London John Smith financial sector Macmillan gap infrastructure This chapter considers two overlapping issues: Labour’s conception of the economy, and its overall electability. As to the first...
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Published: 22 April 2020
...The second chapter details the ideas under the leaderships of John Smith and Tony Blair. It chronicles Smith’s short term in terms of new ideas and policy processes he began to develop. After Smith’s tragic death, this chapter analyses the rise of Blair and the ideas he engaged with before winning...
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Published: 25 September 2014
... violence Bacon Nathaniel Berkeley William rebellions Kentucky mortality rates Tennessee treaties land African Americans fugitive slaves New York slavery slave trade John Smith South America South Carolina white supremacy John Winthrop America held promises of wealth and freedom...
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Published: 01 April 2015
...This chapter focuses on three case studies of John Smith’s oratory from the last decade of his life in order to understand what kind of speaker he was as he was emerging as a party leader and a potential Prime Minister. The first focuses on House of Commons speeches; the second on the speeches John...
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Published: 15 May 2008
... for tenure at Yale were even slimmer than they were at Princeton University, and that John Smith, with his dismissive reference to au courant movements in philosophy, was betraying his own incapacities. These points could not be expressed to Smith, who would have reacted badly to the charge that Yale...
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Published: 19 October 2016
...This chapter covers the period from the election of General Scard as General Secretary through to his replacement by Derek Kay and the internal machinations which ended with John Smith being elected General Secretary in 2002. Reorganisation of the UK’s orchestras is reported. Internal restructuring...