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Rethinking Minimalism: At the Intersection of Music Theory ...

Rethinking Minimalism: At the Intersection of Music Theory ...

Peter Shelley

Masculinity, however, must be redefined with the onset of the 1960s. Following Peter Stearns and Michael Kimmel, I argue for an austere, isolationist masculinity, whose presumed omnipotence produces an immanent fragility.
Luzerne Legal Register Reports

Luzerne Legal Register Reports

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Esther Stearns Shoemaker died on March 20, 1926, her husband and two minor children, Irving Stearns Shoemaker and William Mercer Shoemaker, 2nd, surviving. On March 27, 1926, Irving Stearns Shoemaker died. In the will we find this ...
Blackout

Blackout

Richard Steele

Paul Stearns, one of the CIA's top undercover agents, has just succeeded in smuggling an East German scientist through the Berlin Wall, when suddenly Stearns falls flat on his face-literally.
Oil, Wheat & Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World ...

Oil, Wheat & Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World ...

Nigel Anthony Sellars

Peter Stearns suggests that working class culture as a whole was intolerant of homosexuality as it challenged the values ... In addition, Peter Filene has noted that Victorian society saw women and the family as a bulwark against male lust.
In the Benedictine Tradition: The Origins and Early ...

In the Benedictine Tradition: The Origins and Early ...

M. Dorothy Neuhofer

"The Catholic Church in Stearns County." In William Bell Mitchell. History of Stearns County Minnesota, 195-209. Chicago: H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1915. . " Collegiate Institutions." In William Bell Mitchell. History of Stearns County Minnesota, ...
Dryland: One Woman's Swim to Sobriety

Dryland: One Woman's Swim to Sobriety

Nancy Stearns Bercaw

For swimming champion Nancy Stearns Bercaw, the pool was a natural habitat.
The Southern Literary Messenger

The Southern Literary Messenger

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Happily at the same time comes from the pen of the former president of the Poetry Society of Virginia, Florence Dickinson Stearns, a little book of verse, Strange Dimension, dedicated to her sister, Virginia Dickinson Reynolds. Mrs. Stearns was ...
Modeling Demographic Processes in Marked Populations

Modeling Demographic Processes in Marked Populations

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David L. Thomson, Evan G. Cooch, Michael J. Conroy. 1992; Stearns 1992). The field of life history evolution focuses on the evolution of demographic parameters, a class of traits also called fitness components (Stearns 1992) Studies of the ...
History of Stearns County, Minnesota

History of Stearns County, Minnesota

William Bell Mitchell

Dr. and Mrs. David L. Kiehle celebrated their golden wedding on the 16th inst., at Portland Oregon, their present home. ... Mr. Bennett, better known as "Deacon" Bennett, has been a resident of Stearns county since 1856, first making his home  ...
Violent children: a reference handbook

Violent children: a reference handbook

Karen L. Kinnear

In his introduction to this volume, historian Peter N. Stearns calls the industrial revolution "one of those rare occasions in world history when the human species has altered its framework of existence".
Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People

Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People

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3 The Pacific Before Empire, c.1500–1800 To understand the nature and significance of early modern global travel in broader chronological and geographic perspectives, readers might profitably consult Stephen Gosch and Peter N. Stearns, ...
Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit

Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit

Joyce E. Chaplin

Magellan agonistes 1. stephen Gosch and peter n. stearns, Premodern Travel in World History (new york, 2007). 2. ovid, Metamorphoses, trans. Mary M. innes ( harmondsworth, UK, 1955), 50–59. 3. on spices and the spice trade, see paul ...
Tolerance in World History

Tolerance in World History

Peter Stearns

On Buddhism and Hinduism: Kristin Scheible, “Toward a Buddhist Policy of Tolerance: The Case of King Ashoka,” in Jacob Neusner and Bruce Chilton (eds.) , Religious Tolerance in World Religions (West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton ...
Peace in World History

Peace in World History

Peter N. Stearns

New York: Twayne, 1992. Davis, Calvin DeArmond. The UnitedStates andtheFirst Hague Peace Conference. Ithaca,NY: Cornell University Press, 1962. Hawkley, Louise, and JamesC.Juhnke, eds.Nonviolent America: History throughtheEyes ...
Cambridge Sketches (Webster's French Thesaurus Edition)

Cambridge Sketches (Webster's French Thesaurus Edition)

Frank Preston Stearns

By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of Cambridge Sketches by Frank Preston Stearns was edited for three audiences.
Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South

Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South

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Greenwood Press, 1994); C. Dallett Hemphill, "Class, Gender, and the Regulation of Emotional Expression in Revolutionary Era Conduct Literature," in An Emotional History of the United States, ed. Jan Lewis and Peter Stearns (New York: ...
Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West

Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West

Peter N. Stearns

Fat History explores the meaning of fat in contemporary Western society and illustrates how progressive changes, such as growth in consumer culture, increasing equality for women, and the refocusing of women's sexual and maternal roles have ...
Premodern Travel in World History

Premodern Travel in World History

Stephen Gosch

Stephen Gosch, Peter Stearns. Chapter. 1. Introduction. WHY TRAVEL? World history teachers have come to love Ibn Battuta. This North African traveler journeyed over 75,000 miles in his life, on foot and by donkey and ship, visiting three ...

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