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This price is valid only online at Petco.com. Not available in stores at this price. For local in-store prices, please call your favorite Petco Store.Long-time breeder and fancier of west highland white terriers, Dawn Martin brings her decades of training and exhibiting dogs to A New Owner's Guide to West Highland White Terriers.This book, illustrated with over 150 spectacular color photographs, presents firsthand information on the characteristics and personality of the westie, selecting your dog, preparing for the puppy, daily care as well as health and dental hygiene. The author discusses grooming and training to keep your westie looking and behaving his best. Additionally, find out about the sport of competing with purebred dogs in various fields such as dog shows, obedience and agility trials and earth dog trials.Contents:Origin of the West Highland White TerrierStandard for the West Highland White TerrierLiving with a WestieSelecting a WestieWelcoming Your New WestieGrooming Your WestieBasic Training for Your WestieActivities for the WestieCollections and CollectiblesSport of Purebred DogsHealth CareDental Care for Your Dog's LifeIdentification and Finding the Lost DogTraveling with Your DogBehavior and Canine CommunicationSuggested ReadingIndex
Customer Reviews:
Owner's guide to West Highland White Terriers.......2007-02-16
This is a very informative book. Lots of pictures.
Great reading for new owners!.......2001-01-17
As a breeder and exhibitor of this fine breed. I recomend this book to all perspective westie owners. What a better way to explain what a versital dog this little breed can be. From therapy dogs right on to working in the feild, Ms. Martin does a great job letting the informed buyer be aware of all the attributes this breed can bring to any home.
The BEST book on the market for new Westie owners!.......1999-11-20
First time and old time owners alike will love this book. It gives a wonderful overview of the West Highland White Terrier. It includes good puppy selection and training tips as well as breed health care, grooming, and temperment information. We particularly like her coverage of the breed's versatile involvement in canine activities such as agility and tracking. It is also a good book for people who are trying to decide if a Westie is right for them. We recommend Ms. Martin's book to everyone who obtains a Westie from us.
very informative but not entirely well written.......1999-07-06
Good tips for training and knowing what to expect. Good pictures. Not always written well, and some parts are a bit hard to follow.
A GREAT BOOK FOR WESTIE LOVERS.......1999-05-04
It is a greatbecause it gives the history of the West Highland White Terrier. Also information on how to train them. Also how to take care of you West Highland White Terrier. And great pictures. At a great price.
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Absolutely Marvelous.......2002-01-07
I am a Huge Janette Oke fan. Her books inspire me to live a faithful, Christian life...and this book just happens to be my favorite, if it's possible to have a favorite Oke book (they are all wonderful!) I encourage you to read this Saga!
A 13 YEAR OLD READER.......2001-07-31
I LOVE JANETTE OKE'S BOOKS.THIS SERIES IS MY FAVORITE OF ALL OF HER BOOKS.I READ THIS BOOK OVER AND OVER AGIN.I ESPECIALY LIKE THAT IT'S A CHRISTIAN BOOK. ALL OF HER BOOKS ARE GREAT BUT I THINK THIS ONE IS HER BEST.
This book is wonderful!.......1999-12-14
This book really brings to life what living in Northern Canada was about in the early 1900's. I found myself thinking what it would be like in Elizabeth's shoes. She endured such hardships just to be with the man she loved. What a great lovestory! It is excellent, just like all of Jeanette Oke's other books that I have read. I can't wait until it is printed again so I can have my own copy.
What a GREAT book!.......1999-11-04
I love ever Janette Oke book I've ever read, but this is a favorite! I hope everyone who reads this liked it as much as I did!
It deserves many more stars!.......1999-10-03
This is my favorite series from Oke. I wish it was longer. I never wanted the book to end. Oke is a wonderful author, and this is a must read book.
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In 1955, Ali Akbar Khan issued an LP called Music of India: Morning and Evening Ragas, with spoken introductions by Western classical violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Until then, Indian classical music was terra incognita in the West. When the same album was reissued as a compact disc in 1995, under the title Then and Now, it was nominated for a Grammy. Between "then and now" has been the pervasive influence of Indian music and culture in the West. Most visibly, the wonders of the Indian musical world were spread by Ravi Shankar and George Harrison of the Beatles, but the music also had a profound effect on Mickey Hart and the Grateful Dead, John McLaughlin, Philip Glass, the Byrds, John Coltrane, and many others.
The Dawn of Indian Music in the West (with a Foreword by Ravi Shankar), finds musician and author Peter Lavezzoli sharing his uncommon ability to articulate the intimate nature of music while at the same time narrating a history. In his discussion on Indian music theory, he demystifies Eastern musical structures and terminology for Western readers, and explores the connection between the Indian and Western disciplines of musical training. Lavezzoli engages in thought-provoking conversation with a score of musicians including Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Philip Glass, David Crosby, Roger McGuinn, Zubin Mehta, Terry Riley, Bill Laswell, and John McLaughlin. These artists bring their own unique insights on the spiritual implications of Indian music to the discussion; and Lavezzoli's exploration of the relationships between Indian music and jazz, rock, and electronic music has few if any parallels.
"It is amazing to see the dedication and amount of hard work Peter Lavezzoli has gone through in creating this book. He has put hours, months, and years into meeting and interviewing so many musicians--Indians and Westerners as well." -- from the Foreword by Ravi Shankar.
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The History of East-Meets-West.......2007-04-06
Among the many thought-provoking quotes in Peter Lavezzoli's new book is this one from tabla player Tanmoy Bose. "If you talk to any music lover in the West, they know more about [Indian music] than Indians ... they have a thirst for it, and they are very critical in the West for that reason." At first, I was tempted to reply that these Western fans are so enthusiastic because they (we) are such a small minority. In India, interest in Indian classical music runs the gamut from devotion to mild interest. There is, for example, a sense of national pride that makes Indians feel they ought to like classical music even if they don't. In the West, you are either a devoted fan or completely ignorant on the subject, and it often seems to us that all the devoted fans are gathered in the Bay Area. However, Lavezzoli paints a significantly different picture, arguing quite convincingly that Indian music has deeply influenced both American and European music for over half a century.
Peter Lavezzoli's first book, "The King of All, Sir Duke," took a controversial approach to biography. He devoted relatively little space to Duke Ellington, the book's ostensible subject matter, and instead wrote about Ellington's influence on other prominent musicians (including Frank Zappa, Stevie Wonder, and George Clinton). His newest book, "The Dawn of Indian Music in the West: Bhairavi," follows a similar format, but it is not a story of one musician's impact on other musicians. It is the story of the influences of one entire musical culture on another, and the tracing of those influences from connection to connection is the perfect format. Lavezzoli's goal is to document every aspect of that impact with interviews and historical summaries. The result is a long and engrossing read, full of remarkable anecdotes and thoughtful discussions with some of the most important creative people in many different Indian and Western musical domains.
About a fifth of this book will probably produce a sense of déjà vu for regular readers of this magazine. There are detailed interviews with many local artists, including Cheb i Sabbah, Ali Akbar Khan, Zakir Hussain, Terry Riley, George Ruckert, and Mickey Hart. If you know little or nothing about these people and their music, you get all the introduction you need. But no matter how much you may think you know, Lavezzoli has new information for you. Those of us who live in the Bay Area know that there are lots of Americans and Europeans who have carefully studied Indian music. But Lavezzoli shows us who was first, where they did it, and how things developed from there.
The book is subtitled "Bhairavi" because the first significant musical contact between Indian and Western classical music was a recording of that raga in 1955 by Ali Akbar Khan. Bhairavi is also a morning raga traditionally played to close a concert that has gone on past midnight, so Lavezzoli also uses the word as an allusion to the "dawn" of Indian music. This recording was the first 33 rpm long-playing record of Indian classical music. Prior to this, the only recordings of Indian music were 78 rpm records, which had poor sound quality and lasted five minutes or less. This was also the first performance of Indian classical music in the West, except for an unrecorded concert at Columbia University by Inayat Khan. (It is a tribute to Lavezzoli's thoroughness that what little is known about that Columbia concert is in this book.) The Bhairavi recording included a verbal introduction by Yehudi Menuhin, who had discovered Indian music while touring India. Menuhin's endorsement helped to convince his colleagues that this music was a serious disciplined art form, not an exotic ethnic curiosity. Lavezzoli has some interesting parallels between the harsh pedagogic methods used by both Indian gurus and Western conservatories, which justified labeling both traditions as "classical."
There were, however, parallel influences occurring in rock and jazz, spearheaded by George Harrison and John Coltrane respectively, who were both great admirers of Ravi Shankar. Rock and jazz musicians were attracted not only by the complex use of rhythms and microtones, but also by the freedom to improvise, and by altered states of spiritual consciousness. These musicians usually associated altered states with drugs, creating a controversy that endures to this day. For most Westerners during the 1960s, Ravi Shankar's sitar was the soundtrack for drug experiences. This was a serious misunderstanding: Shankar did compose scores for psychedelic movies like Chappaqua, but he also insisted that his audiences not use drugs. Lavezzoli asks almost all of his interviewees about drugs, and discovers a spectrum of opinions that reveal another great contribution of Indian music to the West.
Western music had fragmented into two conflicting elements: the emotional drug-tinged intensity of improvised jazz and rock, and the tightly controlled intellectual discipline of European classical music. Because Indian music had never separated emotion and thought, it could show Westerners how to reunite them. It challenged rock musicians to acquire discipline, enabled jazz musicians to see their improvisation as a spiritual practice, and reminded European classical musicians that music is not just marks on paper, but is played by a musician, and heard with the ears. Sometimes Western musicians tried to capture the mood of Indian music with little awareness of technical details. Other times, they took Indian techniques and reworked them to create very different moods. But Lavezzoli shows us that all forms of Western music now have a healthier relationship to each other, and to the rest of the world because of the Indian influence. Perhaps in the new millennium, there may even be Westerners who will be great virtuosos of Indian music. Will this music then still be Indian, and will its players still be Westerners?
Kate Wharton, Straight No Chaser (UK).......2006-10-07
This historical study is full of detailed information about a disparate collection of the most inventive musicians of the 20th century, all drawn together by the thread of a fascination with India. The book gives equal attention to legends like John Coltrane, and more marginal avant-garde figures like Don Cherry, John Mayer (of Indo-Jazz Fusions), and John Handy. It also refers to rock stars like David Crosby, and contemporary classical composers like Philip Glass. Each musician's biography is woven into the text, so the entire book (nearly 500 pages) gives you an intense impression of the deep spirituality of this generation of musicians.
Peter Lavezzoli is a very astute critic of the key albums of this movement, and I learned a lot from his detailed discussion of Duke Ellington's "Far East Suite," Coltrane's "India," and Don Cherry's "Mu." When reading this book, you really feel you are being guided by someone with a highly developed intuitive feel for integrity and truth in music, as he himself is a musician who is concerned, as he admits, with "the connection between musical and spiritual expression."
In this book, historical narratives are interspersed with interviews with the leading musicians in Western and Indian music, such as Terry Riley and Shujaat Khan. These interviews are not your average magazine interviews, however, as the central concern of Lavezzoli is always wisdom, and his questions are always subtle and searching. If you glanced at this book, you might be put off by the way the text is crammed on the page, the lack of margins and smallness of type making it seem somehow a hurried book or not carefully thought out, but do not be deceived by bad design--this book is a true labour of love. It will inspire all musicians to take their work on to the next level, and it will inspire all record collectors to rush out and get hold of Alice Coltrane's "World Galaxy."
A history of the recent yet amazing infusion of East Indian classical music into western culture.......2006-07-04
Musician and author Peter Lavezzoli presents The Dawn Of Indian Music In The West: Bhairavi, a history of the recent yet amazing infusion of East Indian classical music into western culture. Though Indian music was largely unheard of until 1955, when Ali Akbar Khan issues an LP called "Music of India: Morning and Evening Ragas", its appeal steadily gained ground, to the extent that Indian and Western disciplines began to borrow concepts from one another to aid in composition and training. When "Music of India" was re-released as a compact disc in 1995, it won a Grammy. The Dawn of Indian Music in the West follows the influence and impact of Indian classical music in extensive detail, meticulously researched and presented especially for intermediate to advanced music scholars and theorists. Highly recommended especially for college library and music reference shelves.
Enhanced my knowledge and appreciation for Indian music and its many important influences.......2006-07-03
This is a fantastic book for many reasons; Peter Lavezzoli has done an amazing amount of research, delivering a lovingly written treasure trove of well-rounded details that will interest music enthusiasts from many different schools and tastes. Fascinating connections are drawn from the histories and influences of Indian music on rock, jazz, western classical and more. Included are vivid chapters on the pivotal history of Allauddin Khan, teacher of Ravi Shankar and the father and teacher of Ali Akbar Khan; Yehudi Menuhin's discovery and presentation of Indian music to western audiences (he is pictured with Ravi Shankar on the cover); the fabulous chapter on George Harrison; and a powerful section on John Coltrane, to name just a few personal favorites, with numerous connections to Ravi Shankar, who is widely referenced and featured (in too great a depth to summarize in a brief review).
A good portion of the book features the musicians and associates themselves having their say through remarkable interviews with Ali Akbar Khan, Mary Johnson Khan, Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Jim Keltner, Terry Riley, Cheb i Sabbah, Zubin Mehta, Anoushka Shankar, Ravi Shankar, Tanmoy Bose, John McLaughlin, Bill Laswell, Shujaat Khan, George Ruckert, Shubhendra Rao, Suskia Rao-de Haas, David Crosby, Roger McGuinn, and Philip Glass. The author asks good questions and gets rich answers, making for a highly enjoyable reading experience.
This is a book I can spend hours re-reading. I've learned enormous amounts about a wide variety of music forms within each chapter. Readers with virtually any level of music interest will find something of value here. A real stunner! Highly recommended.
How the West Woke Up.......2006-06-12
Peter Lavezzoli's "The Dawn of Indian Music in the West: Bhairavi" is a superbly written, astonishingly comprehensive, and deeply important book. Not only is it a must-read for anyone interested in how classical Indian musical forms were embraced by Western audiences -- laying the groundwork for the proliferation of so-called world beat and other fusions -- but it's also essential reading for anyone interested in how Western musical forms like jazz and rock and roll evolved into the complex, elegant, and risk-taking journeys of discovery that they are now, in the post-Byrds and post-Beatles age.
This book is crammed with fascinating anecdotes about and probing interviews of the musicians whose own creativity was transformed by their exposure to Indian music, and the result is a book that provides one of the deepest examinations of the global revolution in music over the past four decades. The careers of pop stars like the Byrds' Roger McGuinn and David Crosby are shown in a new light; the breathtaking evolutions of John Coltrane and the Beatles are analyzed in ways that are completely fresh; and such nearly forgotten geniuses and innovators as Collin Walcott and Nadia Boulanger are finally given their due.
I had done quite a bit of reading in these areas before stumbling across Lavezzoli's book in a bookstore, but every time I pick up this book, I learn something new about music I've loved for years, from Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" to Walcott's "Cloud Dance" to Coltrane's "A Love Supreme." Lavezzoli's prose style is top-drawer -- conversational and obviously passionate about its subject, yet also highly learned and insightfully critical -- which makes the book a real pleasure to read.
One of the finest books of the year, and one of the best music books I've read in a decade.
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Having survived the harshness of their first year in the far Northwest, Elizabeth and Wynn, her Royal Canadian Mountie, now face new challenges. Just when they've made new friends and started a new school, they are presented with a new posting. It seems Elizabeth's dreams for a family and home of her own are not to be. Will their love for each other, hope for the future, and their faith in God carry them through the crushing disappointments? Book 3 of the bestselling Canadian West series.
Customer Reviews:
Best of Janette Oke.......2006-11-10
The Canadian West series are by far the best of Janette Oke. Most of the books by Janette Oke are simplistic with little depth. But in the Canadian West series the heroine actually grows in her faith etc. and many of the things that happened to her, were very comical, and had real life adventure. How she meets her future husband is hilarious, and I really enjoyed this series. There is no obscene language, or sexual instances, and anyone could read these. I know I first read them when I was around 11. A great book I would recommend to anyone.
Absolutely enthralling!!!.......1999-10-20
Janette Oke has done an amazing job of bringing to life the history of the Canadian West! "When Breaks the Dawn" depicts the trials faced by the law enforcement officers (Mounties) on the harsh frontire but it also intricately entwines elements of Christ's gracious provision and protection as Wynn and Elizabeth Delaney work and interact in the small northern community of Beaver River. It will touch your heart and move you to laughter and tears as you join Elizabeth in her ventures as a school teacher and share her pain of the lack of a child. You will worry with her as Wynn is out on duty and become an accomplice in her stuggles. Each moment reading this book is to be savored and will be thoroughly enjoyed.
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Robert D. Kaplan, author of the acclaimed
Balkan Ghosts, travels from the countries of West Africa and the fundamentalist enclaves of Egypt and Iran to the culturally explosive lands of Central Asia, India, Pakistan, and Southeast Asia with hardly more than a notebook and a backpack. The result is an intimate portrait of the devastated parts of the world whose cultural disasters - like those in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Chechnya - will dominate our attention and remake the world of tomorrow.
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The bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts takes readers on a journey through troubled regions where age-old cultural rivalries threaten to reshape the world of tomorrow. From West Africa to the fundamentalist enclaves of Egypt and Iran to the culturally explosive lands of Central Asia, the people who will remake our world tomorrow are profiled.
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Mandatory reading!.......2002-07-17
Robert Kaplan writes in a style that drives the reader's eyes to rip the words from the page. This book was not only extremely relevant to current events(strange that it was written several years ago), it gives the reader a real view of life in a part of the world which almost any westerner would not survive two seconds in. Read this and open your frickin eyes to the shaky world we are living in.
important book.......2002-02-21
Robert Kaplan writes about his experiences traveling abroad from africa to cambodia discussing things like the region's historys and economies. The book provides an interesting comparision among different improvished regions of the world. Reading this book provides a better understanding of the third world.
Geat read, but misinformed and biased.......2000-11-16
Kaplan is a good writer and creates a strong sense of fear and concern for the reader. He is an intrepid travel who can weave a fantastic story and enthrall the reader. But his talent for writing can also distract the reader. Between the lines one can see that he is taking liberties with facts and inflating single incidents into general conclusions. For example, he will take comments from street vendors in Cairo and make a vast, general conclusion about the state of the country. He also has a terrible habit of generalizing societies and reverting to now much-maligned 'orientalist'writers to support his case. One of the more embarassing moments in this book is when he discusses 'oriental despotism' and uses texts to talk about the unique nature of 'oriental' totalitarianism and its particularly abusing ways of managing society and oppressing people. This from a man who comes from a culture that slaugheter over 22 million humans in world wars, and a country that dropped atomic bombs on civilian populations, murdered millions in Indochina and other unmentionable acts. Is oriental despotism really that unique? Have we forgotten the colonial empires in Latin America, Congo and the rest of Africa, the slave trade etc. etc.. Can anyone really sit and claim that oriental despotism was more/less despotic that what the Occident demonstrated? Amusing to hear him talk about the unique nature of oriental oppression and totalitarianism. These are old racist ideas in not even new guises. A sensitive read will quickly find these tendencies annoying, but I think that most general readers will actually think that they are benefiting from such writers and books. That is sad, because people like Kaplan, who continue to focus on the small differences rather than the larger commonalities between societies and peoples, will continue to create dialogues in their societies that mislead and scare rather than inform and explain
Admiration in despite of "malthusian" pessimism.......1998-01-19
I want to express my deeper admiration to this work, that I consider extremely clarifying on the situation of the Third World. Perhaps the theory will be excessively "malthusian" and, as such, pessimistic, but when procures be released of that prophetic determinism, Kaplan provides explanations that can not be rejected beforehand . Joaquín Collado (Spain)
A Great Disapointment.......1998-01-14
After Balkan Ghosts, expectations where high for Mr. Kaplan. Unfortunately, he fell victim to the debunked theories of Malthus and depends on as best very questionable and at worse totally false "scientific facts" from sources such as Cheryl Simon Silver. This work cries out that the human race is too ignorant to learn, adapt, and survive. History has proven otherwise and will continue to do so.
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Two weeks after the United States declared war on Germany in 1917, the town of Lewistown, Montana, held a patriotic parade. Less than a year later, a mob of 500 Lewistown residents burned German textbooks in Main Street while singing The Star Spangled Banner. In Lewistown's nationalistic fervor, a man was accused of being pro-German because he didn't buy Liberty Bonds; he was subsequently found guilty of sedition. Montana's former congressman Tom Stout was quoted in the town's newspaper, The Democrat-News, “With our sacred honor and our liberties at stake, there can be but two classes of American citizens, patriots and traitors!”
Darkest Before Dawn takes to task Montana's 1918 sedition law that shut down freedom of speech. The sedition law carried fines of up to $20,000 and imprisonment for as many as twenty years. It became a model for the federal sedition act passed in 1918. Clemens Work explores the assault on civil rights during times of war when dissent is perceived as unpatriotic. The themes of this cautionary tale clearly resonate in the events of the early twenty-first century.
“This is history at its exciting, human best. Clemens Work tells the little-known story of how Americans were punished for what they said during World War I: imprisoned, brutalized, lynched. It is a crucial part of the American struggle for freedom of speech.”—Anthony Lewis, columnist for the New York Times and author of Gideon's Trumpet and Make No Law
“Clem Work has written a colorful and engaging account of a rough-and-tumble era when exercising your right of free speech could get you tossed into jail, or worse. Work's description of the frenzied and often irrational reaction to dissent during wartime is truly timeless, disturbingly reminiscent of our own world, post-9/11/01. This book reminds us just how fragile Americans' allegiance to the First Amendment can be.”—Jane E. Kirtley, Silha Professor of Media Ethics and Law, University of Minnesota
“Work offers a new way of thinking about a broader topic—sedition—and one in which new insights are provided. That, in my mind, is the essence of scholarship.”--Charles N. Davis, executive director of The National Freedom of Information Center at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and associate professor of journalism
"Darkest Before Dawn makes an important contribution to the literature of the history of free speech in America. No future study of sedition laws could hope to be complete without drawing on this well researched and well written work. Clem Work has made his mark--and what a marvelous mark it is!"--Ronald K. L. Collins, scholar, The First Amendment Center
Book Details Montana's Attack on Dissent in World War I Era (article by Charles S. Johnson, chief of the Lee Newspapers State Bureau in Helena, Montana):
"As U.S. troops fight in Iraq, Montanans heatedly debate whether we should be engaged in that war. This robust discussion is exactly as it should be in a country that has enshrined the right to free speech in its Constitution's Bill of Rights.
"But the ability to comment candidly, in speech and writing, on this country's policies should never be taken for granted. Clemens P. Work's excellent new book, Darkest before Dawn: Sedition and Free Speech in the American West, describes in absorbing detail one of the darkest eras in Montana history in which dissenting voices were stifled.
"During World War I, some Montanans opposing U.S. involvement in the war and those immigrants expressing pro-German, anti-American sentiments in beer halls found themselves arrested. Seventy-four Montanans — all but one of them men-were convicted of sedition. Forty of these men and the one lone woman served sentences of up to 20 years at Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge and faced fines of up to $20,000.
"Montana's frightening Sedition Act, enacted by a special legislative session and becoming law Feb. 22, 1918, became a model for the Federal Sedition Act, which was enacted May 16, 1918. The language defining sedition in the federal law is identical to the Montana law except for three words.
"It is a shameful, frightening yet fascinating story. Yet it's one many Montanans know nothing about. It should be taught in our schools at all levels so we don't repeat the mistakes of our past.
"The book, published this fall, is a well-written, fully documented history of the period. It sets the stage for what happened here, describes the terrifying events and puts the Montana era in a national context. Work, director of graduate studies at the University of Montana School of Journalism, weaves a compelling story about what led to the dissenting voices.
"Western Montana's two major industries then were mining and timber, which faced an insurgent labor movement upset over unsafe working conditions and low wages. The radical labor group, the Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies, helped stir the pot. Miners walked off the job at the Anaconda Copper Mining Co.'s Speculator Mine in 1917 after a fire killed 168 workers and exposed dangerous, illegal working conditions.
"The powerful Anaconda Copper Mining Co. dominated Montana economically and politically as few corporations ever have nationally. Its copper was a critical product in the war effort. The Company had the ears, if not the souls, of most of the state's leading politicians. It also either owned, or had in its pocket, most of Montana's major daily newspapers.
"The United States entered the war in 1917. By no means did all Montanans embrace the idea. Many German immigrants saw no reason for the United States to fight against their homeland, nor did all Irish immigrants support this country bailing out Great Britain.
"Dissent was not tolerated in Montana as a wave of super-patriotism spread. Besides passing the Sedition Act, a special legislative session emboldened the Montana Council of Defense, previously a minor group urging people to grow gardens and buy bonds. The Legislature granted the council the extraordinary power to pass virtual statewide laws.
"The council soon banned German books and forbade the use of the German language here, even in the pulpit, driving Mennonites into Canada. The council encouraged neighbor spying on neighbor, with the full encouragement of spineless politicians, with a few exceptions such as U.S. Attorney and later Sen. Burton K. Wheeler and U.S. District Judge George M. Bourquin.
"The Montana press followed the council in lockstep, with a few courageous exceptions such as William F. Dunn, fiery editor of the Butte Bulletin, a labor paper.
Work said most sedition convictions in Montana were based on "offhand outburst, often in saloons," usually by blue-collar workers, many of them immigrants, often using foul language.
"As part of his research, Work created the Montana Sedition Project (Web site: http://www.seditionproject.net/), and, with students' help, has tracked down relatives of some of those convicted and seeks to learn more about others. As Work wrote on the Web site, 'Those caught in Montana's sedition net were hardly heroes, but they should not have been scapegoats either.'
"Among those reading Work's book with keen interest is Gov. Brian Schweitzer, whose grandparents were German-Russian farmers who immigrated to Montana nearly a century ago.
"'What made this country great is the melting pot because we accept a lot of different nationalities,' Schweitzer said. 'They came here because they wanted to be here. Most were like my grandparents. They came here because they had nowhere else to go.'"Asked if he might issue posthumous pardons to some Montanans convicted of sedition nearly 90 years ago, Schweitzer said he hadn't thought of it. Then he said, 'Why not? I will look into pardons. This was a time of some pretty mass hysteria. Why not clear the names of some of the people?'"
For more information go to www.seditionproject.net/
Today's threats against freedom of speech echo the hysteria of World War I, when Americans went to prison for dissent. This cautionary tale focuses on events in Montana and the West that led to the suspension of this crucial right.
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The fourth book in a multivolume history of modern Japanese literature by one of the world's most accomplished translators and scholars of Japanese culture and literature, this volume offers unparalleled insight into Japanese poetry, drama, and criticism.
Customer Reviews:
The best on Japanese letterature.......2007-09-07
I'm studying Japanese letterature at university and among my various book, i think that Donald Keene is the best. Though, he sometimes may be lengthy, his style is fluent and interesting, you'll never get bored.
Make sure you get the right volume!.......2005-02-21
This book comprises two volumes that bear the same title but are sold separately. Vol. 1 (1329 pages) is devoted to Prose, Vol. 2 (698 pages) covers Poetry, Criticism, and Drama. Make sure you you don't get the wrong volume as I did!!
The book itself wears its 20 years well and for its breadth of coverage continues to be very useful as a general survey of modern Japanese literature. The three (and a half) stars are because the author's own voice tends to flatten the rich and varied body of writing the book treats, making it sound deceptively homogeneous.
All you need to know, right here.......2000-03-31
I bought this book to supplement a course I was taking on Japanese literature, and it was one of the few "optional" texts I ever actually read. Donald Keene is the first person to look to if you are interested in Japanese literature. Not only does he know the literaure inside and out, he puts everything in a context of history and culture that makes you appreciate the actual works even more. This book is comprehensive, well thought out, and very accessible.
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Dawn F. Stinchcomb identifies and examines the sensitive nature of racism in the literature of the Dominican Republic, a problematic aspect of the country's heritage from the contact period to the present. Despite the fact that 90 percent of the nation is of African descent, the national rhetoric employs racial labels to avoid admitting any ethnic similarity to their hated Haitian neighbors. In both politics and prose, the author says, blacks traditionally have buried their blackness, contributing to a crisis of racial identity in the Dominican culture.
Stinchcomb explores the issues of Dominicans' deep-rooted psychological and historical reactions to ethnicity and demonstrates how these attitudes have affected literary production. She shows that literature nationally regarded as "Negroid" is the creation of writers who claim to have no African roots and objectify the black characters they depict, and she demonstrates that the first "black" literature was written by blacks with roots in other Caribbean nations.
In contrast, Stinchcomb discusses the works of Blas Jimenez, an Afro-Dominican poet who proudly affirms his black identity, as proof of the existence of a literature that has remained in the margins of contemporary literature, because it criticizes the prescribed concept of Dominican national identity.
This book will be useful to scholars of Latin American and Caribbean literature and culture as well as to anthropologists and sociologists interested in ethnographic literature.
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Dawn After Dachau
Joel Sack
Manufacturer: Shengold Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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This unique memoir describes the experiences of the author after his liberation from Dachau. Sometimes shocking encounters with members of the liberating American forces; conversations with a Polish priest; and his dealings with Germans cast a fascinating light on the period immediately after the war.
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