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Brokering democracy in Africa : the rise of clientelist democracy in Senegal
No full textThis book examines the achievements and limitations of democratization in Senegal - and Africa more broadly - as a result of the continuing political culture of clientelism.https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1004/thumbnail.jp
Teaching students with mild and moderate disabilities : research-based practices
No full textEncouraging high standards and expectations for all students, this title goes beyond other methods texts by personally connecting education professionals with the knowledge, tools, and practical strategies to be effective in today\u27s diverse classrooms.https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1016/thumbnail.jp
Maine\u27s place in the environmental imagination
No full textThe essays in Maine’s Place in the Environmental Imagination address – from a variety of perspectives – how Maine’s unique identity among the states of the United States has been formed, and what that identity is: A place that is still imagined by others primarily through its environmental associations, its “nature” and landscape, rather than through its social arrangements and human history. The collection attempts a foundational study, not of a regional literature, but of a state literature. In doing so, it makes the case that Maine was constructed imaginatively and environmentally through its literature, and that this image is the one that endures even now. The essays suggest how this identity was formed, by discussing writings ranging from the recently recovered work of Joseph Nicolar, a member of the Penobscot Nation in the late 19th century, to the contemporary Maine author Carolyn Chute; from Thoreau’s canonical essay, “Ktaadn,” to the modernist E.B. White, whose works have an under-appreciated environmental project. Contributors include scholars Nathaniel Lewis, Annette Kolodny, Linda Kornasky, Daniel Malachuk, Kent Ryden, and Lynn Wakehttps://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1009/thumbnail.jp
Louis Riel and the creation of modern Canada : mythic discourse and the postcolonial state
No full textSince he was tried and hanged for treason in November of 1885, Louis Riel has been the subject of more histories, biographies, novels, and poetry than any other figure in Canadian history. Politician, founder of Manitoba, and leader of the aboriginal Métis people, Riel led two resistance movements against the Canadian government: the Red River Uprising of 1869-70, and the North-West Rebellion of 1885, in defense of Métis and other minority rights.
Against the backdrop of these legendary uprisings, Jennifer Reid examines Riel\u27s religious background, the mythic significance that has consciously been ascribed to him, and how these elements combined to influence Canada\u27s search for a national identity. Reid\u27s study provides a framework for rethinking the geopolitical significance of the modern Canadian state, the historic role of Confederation in establishing the country\u27s collective self-image, and the narrative space through which Riel\u27s voice speaks to these issues.https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1057/thumbnail.jp
The Beat handbook : 100 days of Kerouactions
No full textThe Beat Handbook: 100 Days of Kerouactions, by Rick Dale, brings the wit and wisdom of the beat generation, and its titular head, Jack Kerouac, into contemporary application through one hundred daily suggestions on how to deal with everything from sex to parking your car. In the tradition of the What Would Jesus Do? books, Rick Dale reinterprets the question and applies the unique spin of beat philosophy to modern living, following the premise that in order to be a beat, one need only take one’s lead from the words of the acknowledged “King of the Beats”: Jack Kerouac. Inspired by Kerouac’s On The Road and The Dharma Bums, Dale’s The Beat Handbook: 100 Days of Kerouactions uses humor and whimsy to bring an old perspective on living and loving life into a fresh context. Told by a true beat aficionado, The Beat Handbook: 100 Days of Kerouactions makes what was old new again, while dispensing more than a little fun, philosophy, and Kerouacian guidance along the way.https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1019/thumbnail.jp
Racewalking fun! : Alex and Maria discover racewalking
No full textRacewalking? Alex thinks it sounds silly. Maria thinks it doesn’t sound fun. Learn to racewalk with them and discover how racewalking is really fun and not silly at all.https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1022/thumbnail.jp
A darker, sweeter string
No full textIn these poems of the moral imagination, Lee Sharkey explores the disfigured psychic landscape of cruelty, violence, and war. Her lyric poems chart a geography that draws its imagery from Israel/Palestine, Somalia, the Balkans, Iraq, and small town USA, as well as from the intimate domains of sickness and birth. Sharkey responds to our endangered post-9/11 world with courage and clear-eyed tenderness. In a political environment that threatens sanity, she has composed a music of daring empathy.https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1065/thumbnail.jp
War & society in the American Revolution : mobilization and home fronts
No full textThe War for Independence touched virtually every American. It promised liberty, the opportunity for a better life, and the excitement of the battlefield. It also brought disappointment, misery, and mourning. In this collection of original essays that highlight the variety and richness of recent research, eleven leading historians investigate the diverse experiences of Americans from North to South, from coast to backcountry, from white townsfolk to African American slaves. Revolutionary ideology may have inspired some soldiers in the Continental Army, but as the case studies in this volume document, the men of New England also weighed family commitments, economic concerns, and local politics when deciding whether or not to enlist in the militia. Slaves joined the army believing the war would bring them personal freedom while women served as auxiliaries or as camp followers. Those left behind defended the home front—unless the war took their homes and made them refugees. On the frontier, politically astute Native Americans weighed the relative advantages to themselves before deciding to support the patriots or the Crown. By bringing together the perspectives of soldiers, women, African Americans, and American Indians, War and Society in the American Revolution gives readers a fuller sense of the meaning of this historical moment. At the same time, these essays show that instead of unifying Americans, the war actually exacerbated social divisions, leaving unresolved the inequalities and tensions that would continue to trouble the new nation.https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1063/thumbnail.jp
The ghosts of you and me : poems
No full textIn this new collection, Wesley McNair offers his fullest vision of human life, both its hardships and its rich possibilities. Opening with poems about growing up with family conflict in a New England of broken farms and towns, McNair explores the limits of personal wishes and American dreams. Here too are haunting encounters with ghost selves, the dead, and the gangsters in old movies; lighter fare such as a poem about the poignant hopefulness of comb-overs; and a transcendent series of lyrics that celebrate self-acceptance and the spiritual dimension of life on the ground. Praised by Maxine Kumin as a master craftsman and by Philip Levine as a poet with a profound love and understanding of people and a superb ear, Wesley McNair here gives us his strongest and most moving volume to date, a major addition to what the Ruminator Review calls one of the most individual bodies of work by a poet of his generation.https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1038/thumbnail.jp