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Book A People s Guide to Greater Boston

Download or read book A People s Guide to Greater Boston written by Joseph Nevins and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Herein, we bring you to sites that have been central to the lives of 'the people' of Greater Boston over four centuries. You'll visit sites associated with the area's indigenous inhabitants and with the individuals and movements who sought to abolish slavery, to end war, challenge militarism, and bring about a more peaceful world, to achieve racial equity, gender justice, and sexual liberation, and to secure the rights of workers. We take you to some well-known sites, but more often to ones far off the well-beaten path of the Freedom Trail, to places in Boston's outlying neighborhoods. We also visit sites in numerous other municipalities that make up the Greater Boston region-from places such as Lawrence, Lowell and Lynn to Concord and Plymouth. The sites to which we do 'travel' include homes given that people's struggles, activism, and organizing sometimes unfold, or are even birthed in many cases in living rooms and kitchens. Trying to capture a place as diverse and dynamic as Boston is highly challenging. (One could say that about any 'big' place.) We thus want to make clear that our goal is not to be comprehensive, or to 'do justice' to the region. Given the constraints of space and time as well as the limitations of knowledge--both our own and what is available in published form--there are many important sites, cities, and towns that we have not included. Thus, in exploring scores of sites across Boston and numerous municipalities, our modest goal is to paint a suggestive portrait of the greater urban area that highlights its long-contested nature. In many ways, we merely scratch the region's surface--or many surfaces--given the multiple layers that any one place embodies. In writing about Greater Boston as a place, we run the risk of suggesting that the city writ-large has some sort of essence. Indeed, the very notion of a particular place assumes intrinsic characteristics and an associated delimited space. After all, how can one distinguish one place from another if it has no uniqueness and is not geographically differentiated? Nonetheless, geographer Doreen Massey insists that we conceive of places as progressive, as flowing over the boundaries of any particular space, time, or society; in other words, we should see places as processual or ever-changing, as unbounded in that they shape and are shaped by other places and forces from without, and as having multiple identities. In exploring Greater Boston from many venues over 400 years, we embrace this approach. That said, we have to reconcile this with the need to delimit Greater Boston--for among other reasons, simply to be in a position to name it and thus distinguish it from elsewhere"--

Book The Craft of Research  2nd edition

Download or read book The Craft of Research 2nd edition written by Wayne C. Booth and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1995, more than 150,000 students and researchers have turned to The Craft of Research for clear and helpful guidance on how to conduct research and report it effectively . Now, master teachers Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams present a completely revised and updated version of their classic handbook. Like its predecessor, this new edition reflects the way researchers actually work: in a complex circuit of thinking, writing, revising, and rethinking. It shows how each part of this process influences the others and how a successful research report is an orchestrated conversation between a researcher and a reader. Along with many other topics, The Craft of Research explains how to build an argument that motivates readers to accept a claim; how to anticipate the reservations of thoughtful yet critical readers and to respond to them appropriately; and how to create introductions and conclusions that answer that most demanding question, "So what?" Celebrated by reviewers for its logic and clarity, this popular book retains its five-part structure. Part 1 provides an orientation to the research process and begins the discussion of what motivates researchers and their readers. Part 2 focuses on finding a topic, planning the project, and locating appropriate sources. This section is brought up to date with new information on the role of the Internet in research, including how to find and evaluate sources, avoid their misuse, and test their reliability. Part 3 explains the art of making an argument and supporting it. The authors have extensively revised this section to present the structure of an argument in clearer and more accessible terms than in the first edition. New distinctions are made among reasons, evidence, and reports of evidence. The concepts of qualifications and rebuttals are recast as acknowledgment and response. Part 4 covers drafting and revising, and offers new information on the visual representation of data. Part 5 concludes the book with an updated discussion of the ethics of research, as well as an expanded bibliography that includes many electronic sources. The new edition retains the accessibility, insights, and directness that have made The Craft of Research an indispensable guide for anyone doing research, from students in high school through advanced graduate study to businesspeople and government employees. The authors demonstrate convincingly that researching and reporting skills can be learned and used by all who undertake research projects. New to this edition: Extensive coverage of how to do research on the internet, including how to evaluate and test the reliability of sources New information on the visual representation of data Expanded bibliography with many electronic sources

Book A Summary Guide to the Archives and Manuscript Collections  at The  University of Massachusetts Amherst  University Library

Download or read book A Summary Guide to the Archives and Manuscript Collections at The University of Massachusetts Amherst University Library written by University of Massachusetts. Amherst, Mass. Archives and published by . This book was released on 1975* with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Healey Library  Archives and Special Collections

Download or read book Healey Library Archives and Special Collections written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features the Archives and Special Collections of the Healey Library at the University of Massachusetts in Boston (UMB). Posts a brief history of UMB and an overview of archival and printed sources. Describes the UMB series numbering scheme, the Archival Collection series list, the Max Bluestone Papers, the Oral History Project, and the institutional publications collection. Includes library policies and offers access to related Internet resources. Posts contact information via street address, telephone number, and e-mail, and notes operating hours. Provides access to the Healey Library home page.

Book Guide to the Manuscripts and Archival Collections of the Bostonian Society

Download or read book Guide to the Manuscripts and Archival Collections of the Bostonian Society written by Margaret Ann Dempsey and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to Research Collections of Former United States Senators 1789 1982

Download or read book Guide to Research Collections of Former United States Senators 1789 1982 written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1982 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sammelband Mit 5 Franz  Theaterstuecken

Download or read book Sammelband Mit 5 Franz Theaterstuecken written by and published by . This book was released on 16?? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Selective Guide to the Collections

Download or read book Selective Guide to the Collections written by Helen Willa Samuels and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A People s Guide to Greater Boston

Download or read book A People s Guide to Greater Boston written by Joseph Nevins and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A People's Guide to Greater Boston reveals the region’s richness and vibrancy in ways that are neglected by traditional area guidebooks and obscured by many tourist destinations. Affirming the hopes, interests, and struggles of individuals and groups on the receiving end of unjust forms of power, the book showcases the ground-level forces shaping the city. Uncovering stories and places central to people’s lives over centuries, this guide takes readers to sites of oppression, resistance, organizing, and transformation in Boston and outlying neighborhoods and municipalities—from Lawrence, Lowell, and Lynn to Concord and Plymouth. It highlights tales of the places and people involved in movements to abolish slavery; to end war and militarism; to achieve Native sovereignty, racial equity, gender justice, and sexual liberation; and to secure workers’ rights. In so doing, this one-of-a-kind guide points the way to a radically democratic Greater Boston, one that sparks social and environmental justice and inclusivity for all.

Book Making Beats

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph G. Schloss
  • Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
  • Release : 2014-11-20
  • ISBN : 0819574821
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Making Beats written by Joseph G. Schloss and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on ten years of research among hip-hop producers, Making Beats was the first work of scholarship to explore the goals, methods, and values of a surprisingly insular community. Focusing on a variety of subjects—from hip-hop artists’ pedagogical methods to the Afrodiasporic roots of the sampling process to the social significance of “digging” for rare records—Joseph G. Schloss examines the way hip-hop artists have managed to create a form of expression that reflects their creative aspirations, moral beliefs, political values, and cultural realities. This second edition of the book includes a new foreword by Jeff Chang and a new afterword by the author.

Book Special Collections and Archives  University of Massachusetts Amherst

Download or read book Special Collections and Archives University of Massachusetts Amherst written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features the Special Collections and Archives Department in the W.E.B. Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) in Amherst. Offers information on the University Archives, manuscript collections, the papers of Du Bois and Silvio O. Conte, and the department's published materials. Provides access to the library home page.

Book The Invention of the White Race

Download or read book The Invention of the White Race written by Theodore W. Allen and published by Verso. This book was released on 1994 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A monumental study of the birth of racism in the American South which makes truly new and convincing points about one of the most critical problems in US history a highly original and seminal work." David Roediger, University of Missouri

Book A guide to archives and special collections

Download or read book A guide to archives and special collections written by Kimberly H. Brookes and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On Our Own

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judi Chamberlin
  • Publisher : Dutton Adult
  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book On Our Own written by Judi Chamberlin and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1978 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about psychiatry and alternatives to it, written from a patient's point of view. For too long, mental patients have been faceless, voiceless people. We have been thought of, at worst, as subhuman monsters, or, at best, as pathetic cripples, who might be able to hold down menial jobs and eke out meagre existences, given constant professional support. Not only have others thought of us in this stereotyped way, we have believed it of ourselves. It is only in this decade, with the emergence and growth of the mental patients' liberation movement, that we ex-patients have begun to shake off this distorted image and to see ourselves for what we are- a diverse group of people, with strengths and weaknesses, abilities and needs, and ideas of our own. Our ideas about our "care" and "treatment" at the hands of psychiatry, about the nature of "mental illness," and about new and better ways to deal with (and truly to help) people undergoing emotional crises differ drastically from those of mental health professionals.

Book A Guide to Research Collections of Former Members of the United States House of Representatives  1789 1987

Download or read book A Guide to Research Collections of Former Members of the United States House of Representatives 1789 1987 written by Cynthia Pease Miller and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: