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...William S. Powell Colonial South Carolina: A History . By Weir Robert M. . New York : Kraus-Thompson Organization Press , 1983 . Pp. 409 . $30.00 . Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 232 The South Atlantic Quarterly each pair the heroine and the solo-voice...

...Robert M. Weir Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 The South Carolinian as Extremist Robert M. Weir Why the blood of South Carolinians ran so hot in the ante­ bellum period has long been an intriguing question.1 But in addressing themselves to it historians have generally...

... in Persuasion. DUKE UNIVERSITY BENJAMIN BOYCE Colonial South Carolina: A History. By Robert M. Weir. New York: Kraus-Thompson Organization Press, 1983. Pp. 409. $30.00. Professor Weir, of the history faculty at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, has devoted much of his scholarly research to a study...

... landing beyond Wallaceton the trip must be con­ tinued by motorboat one of a regular line that plies there to the point of cleared land in the swamp known as the Waste Weir; and' thence onward in a canoe, accompanied by softspoken guides who have grown up in the shadow of the swamp and are steeped in its...

... Capitalism . London : Polity . Vandaele Kurt . 2018 . Will Trade Unions Survive in the Platform Economy? Emerging Patterns of Platform Workers’ Collective Voice and Representation in Europe . Brussels : European Trade Union Institute . Weir Stan . 2004 . Singlejack...

... radicalism. Soon this original group was joined by Jouett Shouse, well-known Democratic politician; John W. Davis, unsuccessful Democratic presidential nominee in 1924; James W. Wadsworth, New York Republican; Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., of General Motors; Ernest T. Weir, President of Weirton Steel...

... Democratic politician; John W. Davis, unsuccessful Democratic presidential nominee in 1924; James W. Wadsworth, New York Republican; Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., of General Motors; Ernest T. Weir, President of Weirton Steel; and, the tragic figure in the story, Alfred E. Smith. Although theoretically non-partisan...

... of his staff, the completed narrative is Professor Morison s own, clear, beautifully written, and relatively free from technical jargon. This particular volume completes the story of the operations against the Japanese bases ringing the Bismarck Sea, a fish weir or hedgehog of posts centered around...

..., beautifully written, and relatively free from technical jargon. This particular volume completes the story of the operations against the Japanese bases ringing the Bismarck Sea, a fish weir or hedgehog of posts centered around the good harbor and five airfields of Rabaul, a minor colonial port which turned...

... and Political Economy. His recent publications include (with Geoff Lightfoot, Simon Lilley, and Kenneth Weir) “What Are We to Do with Feral Publishers?” (2012) and (with the Free Association) Moments of Excess: Movements, Protest and Everyday Life (2011) and Up We Rise: Reflections on Global Rebellion...

..., and the other established lights of the literary capital. The focus then shifts to Philadelphia, with Weir Mitchell and Henry Charles Lea as members of the Old Guard, Frank Stockton as a newly estab­ lished entertainer, and Logan Pearsall Smith and Agnes Repplier as be­ ginners. In the South were the new...

..., Rudyard Kipling, and Henry Cabot Lodge. He was destined for the bar, but like Lowell, Lanier, and many another young lawyer, he deserted the bar for literature. His cousin, the well-known physician and novelist, S. Weir Mitchell, sent him to Wyoming for his health in 1885. What the young lawyer saw...

.... The most recent example of this is Peter Weir’s The Truman Show with Jim Carrey playing the small-town clerk who gradually discovers the truth that he is the hero...

..., Mary Johnston, the late S. Weir Mitchell, Arnold Mulder, James Oppenheim, Thomas Nelson Page, Georgia Wood Pangborn, Georg Schock, Mary S. Watts, and Owen Wister each of these has contributed something, in a sanely catholic way, to modern American realism. The situation is far from hopeless. If one...

... stories, no sane, fair-minded reader would think of maintain­ ing that The Spy is equal to Winston Churchill s Richard Wanted: A New Spirit in Literary Criticism 169 Carvel or S. Weir Mitchell s Hugh Wynne , either in historical accuracy or in literary style. Now let us glance for a moment at our...

..., as an incentive to heroic action and righteous living. Here, in our ancestors, is one more ideal, as worthy of loyalty and as capable of arousing it among men of today, as it ever was in the Past. R. L. Stevenson refers to what we mean in his Weir ofHermiston, when he says: There burns alive in the Scot a sense...

... he is far more important in the history of American thought and letters than Thomas Bailey Aldrich, S. Weir Mitchell, Joaquin Miller, and George W. Cable, to name only a few of his contem­ poraries who have been the subjects of full-length biographies. Charles Beard, John Dewey, and Edward Weeks...

..., but it will be re­ membered that Ariel was a poet and singer with a longing to be free and a lack of lasting human affections. Prospero s question is also a characterization: Professor of English at Temple University, Mr. Earnest has written John and William Bartram; S. Weir Mitchell: Novelist and Physician...

... Mason contributes a biographical sketch as an introduction. W. K. Boyd. Introduction to the History of Modern Europe. By Archibald Weir. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1907, viii., 340 pp. This book has a worthypurpose. It aims to describe those new movements in Europe during the last...

... a step, walked down the side street leading off the square, and crossed the bridge over the river Suir rushing from its weir. The crumbling wall of an old castle rose from the street, but, as we stepped inside on the grassy hummocks of the courtyard, we saw that little was left but a frag­ ment...