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Maryland: A History
by Jean H. Baker Suzanne Ellery Chapelle Jean B. Russo Constance B. Schulz Dean R. Esslinger Edward C. Papenfuse Gregory A. StiversonAn engaging and accessible introductory history of the people, places, culture, and politics that shaped Maryland.In 1634, two ships carrying a small group of settlers sailed into the Chesapeake Bay looking for a suitable place to dwell in the new colony of Maryland. The landscape confronting the pioneers bore no resemblance to their native country. They found no houses, no stores or markets, churches, schools, or courts, only the challenge of providing food and shelter. As the population increased, colonists in search of greater opportunity moved on, slowly spreading and expanding the settlement across what is now the great state of Maryland.In Maryland, historians recount the stories of struggle and success of these early Marylanders and those who followed to reveal how people built modern Maryland. Originally published in 1986, this new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. Spanning the years from the 1600s to the beginning of Governor Larry Hogan’s term of office in January 2015, the book more fully fleshes out Native American, African American, and immigrant history. It also includes completely new content on politics, arts and culture, business and industry, education, the natural environment, and the role of women as well as notable leaders in all these fields. Maryland is heavily illustrated, with nearly two hundred photographs and illustrations (more than half of them in full color), as well as related maps, charts, and graphs, many of which are new to this book. An extensive index and a comprehensive Further Reading section provide extremely useful tools for readers looking to engage more deeply with Maryland history. Touching on major figures from George Calvert to Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman to William Donald Schaefer, this book takes readers on an unforgettable journey through the history of the Free State. It should be in every library and classroom in Maryland.
Marymount College of Kansas: A History
by Patricia E. AckermanOne year before the United States granted women the right to vote, the Sisters of St. Joseph broke ground on the construction of the first all-women's college in Kansas. Escalating construction costs put the school's future in jeopardy until Mother Antoinette took her plea for additional funds to Pope Benedict XV himself. Dubbed the "Million-Dollar College," the hilltop campus overlooking the Smoky Hill River finally opened its doors in 1922. The thousands who matriculated throughout its sixty-seven-year existence created a lasting legacy in the Sunflower State. Join alumnus Patricia Ackerman as she preserves the inspiring history of Marymount College.
María Cano. La virgen roja
by Beatriz Helena RobledoLa historia de de María Cano, precursora de la emancipación de las mujeres en Colombia. María Cano es uno de los personajes colombianos del siglo XX que han despertado especial interés en los últimos años. La igualdad de género y el feminismo han revivido la importancia de esta precursora de la emancipación política y social de las mujeres. Aunque existen bosquejos biográficos, este es el primer proyecto que puede considerarse una biografía como tal. Su autora, Beatriz Robledo, reconocida por su biografía de Rafael Pombo, se pone en la piel de una mujer sembró una forma de pensar y de relacionarse que marcaría el futuro. Este libro es además un retrato de la Medellín de principios del siglo XX y de una Colombia avocada al conflicto.
María Estuardo, reina de Escocia: Edición estudiante – maestro (Mujeres legendarias de la Historia Mundial #3)
by Laurel A. RockefellerLa reina María Estuardo fue una de las más amadas y controversiales mujeres en la historia de Escocia. Nieta del rey James IV y su esposa Margaret Tudor, con un estatus de heredera aparente al trono inglés junto con la violencia de la Reforma Protestante Escocesa dio lugar a una de las vidas más dramáticas y poco entendidas del siglo XVI. Este libro cuenta la historia verdadera de María, enfocándose principalmente en su reinado como reina de Escocia, celebrando su vida más que su muerte y mostrándonos a todos nosotros porque era una mujer adelantada a su tiempo. La edición estudiante - maestro incluye preguntas de estudio después de cada capítulo, además de una cronología detallada y una extensa lista de lecturas sugeridas.
María Estuardo, reina de Escocia: El reino olvidado
by Laurel A. RockefellerLa reina María Estuardo fue una de las más amadas y controversiales mujeres en la historia de Escocia. Nieta del rey James IV y su esposa Margaret Tudor, con un estatus de heredera aparente al trono inglés junto con la violencia de la Reforma Protestante Escocesa dio lugar a una de las vidas más dramáticas y poco entendidas del siglo XVI. Este libro cuenta la historia verdadera de María, enfocándose principalmente en su reinado como reina de Escocia, celebrando su vida más que su muerte y mostrándonos a todos nosotros porque era una mujer adelantada a su tiempo.
María Magdalena
by Margaret GeorgeA través de la historia de María Magdalena, Margaret George narra un período clave de la Historia: el nacimiento del cristianismo. María Magdalena se caracterizó desde sus primeros años por su deseo de conocimiento, así como por sus visiones. Su encuentro con un joven profeta, Jesús, la ayudó a encontrar un sentido a su propia vida. María pasó a formar parte del círculo más cercano de Jesús, contribuyendo activamente a la forja de una nueva fe, no sin grandes sacrificios personales. Su elección, sin embargo, le obligó a renunciar a su marido y a su hija, un sacrificio que despertó toda clase de rumores que han llegado hasta nuestros días.
María Zambrano’s Ontology of Exile: Expressive Subjectivity
by Karolina Enquist KällgrenThis book analyzes the exile ontology of Spanish philosopher María Zambrano (1904-1991). Karolina Enquist Källgren connects Zambrano’s lived exile and political engagement with the Spanish Civil War to her poetic reason, and argues that Zambrano developed a theory of expressive subjectivity that combined embodiment with the expressive creativity of the human mind. The analysis of recurring literary figures and concepts—such as new materialism, the confession, image, the ruin, the heart, and awakening— show how a comprehensive argument runs as a thread through her works. Further, this book situates Zambrano’s thought in a larger European philosophical context by showing how Zambrano’s poetic reason was directly related to her unconventional exile readings of Martin Heidegger, Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, and Xavier Zubiri, among others.
María de Habsburgo (Historia Incógnita)
by Yolanda ScheuberPoco después de morir su hermano, Carlos V, María de Hungría se apresta a partir para hacerse cargo del gobierno de los Países Bajos. Antes de emprender el viaje, le remite a Catalina de Austria (reina de Portugal), su única hermana viva, todas sus cartas personales. En ellas María guarda el único tesoro que le queda: sus recuerdos. Yolanda Scheuber, con su particular estilo, nos ofrece la única historia escrita en español sobre esta reina que, como sus hermanas, estuvo destinada a hacer flamear la divisa de los Habsburgo.
Masacre en el comedor: La bomba de Montoneros en la Policía Federal. El atentado más sangriento de los 70
by Ceferino ReatoLa primera historia documentada sobre el mayor atentado contra una dependencia policial en el mundo: la voladura del comedor de la Superintendencia de Seguridad de la Policía Federal en plena dictadura y el papel de Pepe Salgado, autor material del atentado, y Rodolfo Walsh, hombre clave de la Inteligencia montonera. La bomba de Montoneros que explotó en el comedor de la Superintendencia de Seguridad Federal el 2 de julio de 1976, a cien días de instalada la dictadura militar, dejó veintitrés muertos y ciento diez heridos. Fue el atentado terrorista más sangriento de la historia argentina hasta la voladura de la AMIA y sigue siendo el mayor contra una dependencia policial en todo el mundo. Sin embargo, no ha despertado el interés de periodistas ni de historiadores; tampoco el de la Justicia, que cuarenta y cinco años después sigue sin haberlo investigado. Obra cumbre de la guerrilla, parece tratarse de una realidad incómoda para todos: contemporáneamente comportó una humillación poco digerible para la Policía y el gobierno de Videla; en perspectiva, constituye un hecho difícil de justificar para el relato hegemónico sobre los 70. Más aún a la hora de hacer nombres: si bien la bomba es colocada por un joven de clase media alta infiltrado en la institución, José María Salgado, el atentado lleva la firma del servicio de Inteligencia e Informaciones de Montoneros, cuyo hombre clave era Rodolfo Walsh. Este libro parte de la explosión y reconstruye el minuto a minuto de aquellos días, acudiendo a sus fuentes y protagonistas, desde deudos de las víctimas hasta familiares de Pepe Salgado. En ese gesto repone un capítulo interesadamente olvidado de nuestro pasado y tácitamente postula su argumento: la verdadera historia de los 70 es la historia de todas sus víctimas.
Masada Will Not Fall Again: A Novel
by Sophie GreenspanThe mighty epic of Masada tells of Jews who preferred liberty to life itself. Their story centers on the bleak fortress of Masada in the Judean Desert after the conquest of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Holy Temple by the Romans in 70 CE. Here, in a last stand, Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes laid aside the differences that had crippled their resistance to the Romans and united in their zeal for God and country. Their leader was Eleazar ben Ya’ir, one of the great freedom fighters of Jewish history. This story brings to vivid life people who might have taken part in this great episode of Jewish history. It tells of the bridal couple, Adin and Ohada, from distant Babylonia; the winsome Urzillah from Nabatea, child of the caravan trails of the East; and Justus from Alexandria in Egypt, with his faithful wife, Sara, a convert to Judaism. Survivors from Jerusalem may well have included boys such as Iddo, of the priestly tribe; his friend and rival Aviel; and little Yitzhak, orphaned by the Romans and protected by Hannah, his grandmother and only surviving relative. Faith and courage belonged to them all—as they held a mighty Roman army at bay for three years. Even in their extremity they practiced and treasured the rites of their religion—blessing the new moon, circumcising the newborn infant, bathing in the mikveh (the ritual bath), and reciting the daily prayers. When all hope was gone they resolved to die as free men, women, and children. In turning their swords against themselves they ultimately denied victory to the Romans and the general Flavius Silva, for their memory has prevailed over that of their oppressors.
Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth
by Jodi MagnessA new account of the famous site and story of the last stand of a group of Jewish rebels who held out against the Roman EmpireTwo thousand years ago, 967 Jewish men, women, and children—the last holdouts of the revolt against Rome following the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple—reportedly took their own lives rather than surrender to the Roman army. This dramatic event, which took place on top of Masada, a barren and windswept mountain overlooking the Dead Sea, spawned a powerful story of Jewish resistance that came to symbolize the embattled modern State of Israel. The first extensive archaeological excavations of Masada began in the 1960s, and today the site draws visitors from around the world. And yet, because the mass suicide was recorded by only one ancient author—the Jewish historian Josephus—some scholars question if the event ever took place.Jodi Magness, an archaeologist who has excavated at Masada, explains what happened there, how we know it, and how recent developments might change understandings of the story. Incorporating the latest findings, she integrates literary and historical sources to show what life was like for Jews under Roman rule during an era that witnessed the reign of Herod and Jesus’s ministry and death.Featuring numerous illustrations, this is an engaging exploration of an ancient story that continues to grip the imagination today.
Masada: Mass Suicide in the First Jewish-Roman War, C. AD 73 (History of Terror)
by Phil CarradiceThe dramatic history behind one of the great landmarks of ancient Israel. In the spring of 73 AD, the rock fortress of Masada on the western shore of the Dead Sea was the site of an event that was breathtaking in its courage and self-sacrifice. Here the last of the Jewish Zealots who, for nearly eight years, had waged war against the Roman occupiers of their country made their last stand. The Zealots on Masada had withstood a two-year siege but with Roman victory finally assured, they were faced by two options: capture or death. They chose the latter, and when the Roman legions forced their way into the hill fort the following morning they were met only with utter silence by row upon row of bodies. Rather than fall into enemy hands the 960 men, women, and children who had defended the fortress so heroically had committed suicide. The story of the siege and eventual capture of Masada is unique, not just in Israeli legend but in the history of the world. It is a story of bravery that even the Roman legionaries, well used to death and brutality, could see and appreciate. It was a massacre but a massacre with a difference: carried out by the victims themselves. This book tells the story, also covering the excavation of the remote hilltop site in the twentieth century.
Masada: The Last Fortress
by Gloria D. MiklowitzIn the year 72 C.E., after a four-year war between Rome and Judea, only one fortress remains to be taken: Masada, high above the Dead Sea in what is now Israel. Two years later, the commander of the famous Roman Tenth Legion, Flavius Silva, marches toward Masada to capture or kill the 960 Jewish zealots who hold it. In this eloquent and powerful novel, we meet 17-year-old Simon ben Eleazar, son of the Jewish leader of Masada. Apprenticed too Masada’s only physician, Simon learns to help victims of the enemy’s onslaught as he struggles with his love for Deborah, the intended of his best friend, and with the painful decision he must ultimately make.
Masaryk Station (John Russell #6)
by David DowningBerlin, 1948. Still occupied by the four Allied powers and largely in ruins, the city has become the cockpit of a new Cold War. The legacies of the war have become entangled in the new Soviet-American conflict, creating a world of bizarre and fleeting loyalties--a paradise for spies. As spring unfolds, a Western withdrawal looks increasingly likely. Berlin's German inhabitants live in fear of the Soviet forces who occupy half the city, and whose legacy of violence has ripped apart many families. John Russell works for both Stalin's NKVD and the newly created CIA, trying his best to cut himself loose from both before his double-agency is discovered by either. As tensions between the great powers escalate, each passing day makes Russell's position more treacherous. He and his Soviet liaison, Shchepkin, seek out one final operation--one piece of intelligence so damning it could silence the wrath of one nation and solicit the protection of the other. It will be the most dangerous task Russell has ever taken on, but one way or the other, it will be his last.
Mascarada Misteriosa
by Hilary GilmanRico, apuesto y de buena cuna, el duque de Staynes podría haber elegido a las debutantes más encantadoras de Londres durante más temporadas de las que le gustaría recordar. Sin embargo, ha pasado tanto tiempo desde que incluso la chica más hermosa ha hecho que su pulso se acelere un ápice, que cuando conoce a Angel Graham, una hermosa inocente en apuros, decide no dejar que desaparezca de su vida. Pero, habiendo aceptado su ayuda, Ángel no cumple con una cita y el duque comienza a sospechar un misterio. Angel no sabe si alegrarse o lamentarse cuando sus esfuerzos por escapar del duque resultan infructuosos. Pero una vez que ella está en su poder, se entera de que Staynes tiene muchos secretos como ella, y él tiene motivos para ella y su hermano esprituoso, Desde las asambleas de moda de Almacks hasta el sombrío mundo del espionaje, Staynes y Angel deben dejar de lado la creciente ola de pasión que amenaza con abrumarlos y trabajar juntos para salvar a Inglaterra de la amenaza de la traición dentro de los círculos más altos de la Ton. .
Mascarada Mágica
by Hilary GilmanOtra versión mágica de la Bella y la Bestia. La Bella es Minette de Saint Saze, una adorable inocente que debe salvar el honor de su hermana melliza al costo de su propia virtud. La Bestia es su Excelencia el Duque de Rochford, un hombre amargo con un corazón lleno de cicatrices como su propia cara, alguna vez hermosa. Minette con poca voluntad toma el lugar de su hermana en el Castillo Camer, la guarida de la Bestia, donde ella aprende a conocer al hombre verdadero detrás de la máscara cínica que Rochford le presenta al mundo. Ella desea sanar su terrible herida, aunque sabe que, por la seguridad de su hermana, él no debe sospechar que la mujer que se enamoró de él no es la Bella de la sociedad que aceptó su fortuna y despreció su pasión. Mientras el amor arde en deseo, Minette entiende que la única felicidad verdadera que alguna vez conocerá está en los brazos de este hombre dañado que no le pertenece y nunca lo hará.
Mascarada de Milady: Una Mascarada de Regencia
by Hilary GilmanLady Elizabeth Marlowe, una fanática del blues, se resiste a cambiar su tranquila existencia rural por las despreciadas frivolidades de la temporada londinense. Pero cuando su prima, la gran duquesa de Catamenthia, es secuestrada, la convencen de que ocupe su lugar en las celebraciones de la boda de la princesa Charlotte. A pesar de sí misma, también debe aceptar las atenciones de Lord Matlock, el hombre más atractivo de Londres, cuyos motivos sospecha fuertemente. Mientras tanto, la Gran Duquesa se refugia con el coronel Julius Paige, un oficial de caballería, terriblemente herido en la batalla de Waterloo, que debe recuperar su pasión por la vida si quiere ayudar a la mujer a derrotar a sus enemigos. Dos héroes atrevidos, dos heroínas voluntarias, y el destino de Europa en sus manos.
Mascot Nation: The Controversy over Native American Representations in Sports
by Jason Edward Black Andrew C. BillingsThe issue of Native American mascots in sports raises passions but also a raft of often-unasked questions. Which voices get a hearing in an argument? What meanings do we ascribe to mascots? Who do these Indians and warriors really represent? Andrew C. Billings and Jason Edward Black go beyond the media bluster to reassess the mascot controversy. Their multi-dimensional study delves into the textual, visual, and ritualistic and performative aspects of sports mascots. Their original research, meanwhile, surveys sports fans themselves on their thoughts when a specific mascot faces censure. The result is a book that merges critical-cultural analysis with qualitative data to offer an innovative approach to understanding the camps and fault lines on each side of the issue, the stakes in mascot debates, whether common ground can exist and, if so, how we might find it.
Mascoutah (Postcard History)
by Thomas S. SnyderGerman emigrants established Mascoutah in 1837, naming it after the Mascouten Indians. Despite being located in an area filled with swamps, snakes, and disease, the village prospered, owing primarily to a flour mill that drew farmers into town. This brought customers to merchants and tradesmen. By the 1850s, Mascoutah was thriving and had established itself as the social and cultural center of the surrounding area. By 1900, it was the third-largest town in St. Clair County and one of the most progressive. World War I, the establishment of Scott Air Force Base, Prohibition, and the Great Depression soon altered the course of Mascoutah's history, but the town retained its resiliency. For over 170 years, Mascoutah has grown and adapted to meet a changing world, retaining its small-town flair and pride in its German heritage.
Masculine Figures: Fashioning Men and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century Spain
by Nicholas WoltersBased on years of archival research in Madrid and Barcelona, this interdisciplinary study offers a fresh approach to understanding how men visualized themselves and their place in a nation that struggled to modernize after nearly a century of civil war, colonial entanglement, and imperial loss. Masculine Figures is the first study to provide a comprehensive overview of competing models of masculinity in nineteenth-century Spain, and it is particularly novel in its treatment of Catalan texts and previously unstudied evidence (e.g., department store catalogs, commercial advertisements, fashion plates, and men&’s tailoring journals). Fictional masculinity performs a symbolic role in representing and negotiating the contradictions male novelists often encountered in their attempts to professionalize not only as writers, but also as businessmen, professors, lawyers, and politicians. Through specific and recurring figures like the student, the priest, the businessman, and the heir, male novelists portray and represent an increasingly middle-class world at odds with the values and virtues it inherited from an imperial Spanish past, and those it imported from more industrialized nations like England and France. The visual culture of the time and place marks the material turn in middle-class masculinity and sets the stage for discussions of race and sexuality.
Masculine Ideals and Alexander the Great: An Exemplary Man in the Roman and Medieval World
by Jaakkojuhani PeltonenFrom premodern societies onward, humans have constructed and produced images of ideal masculinity to define the roles available for boys to grow into, and images for adult men to imitate. The figure of Alexander the Great has fascinated people both within and outside academia. As a historical character, military commander, cultural figure and representative of the male gender, Alexander’s popularity is beyond dispute. Almost from the moment of his death Alexander’s deeds have had a paradigmatic aspect: for over 2300 years he has been represented as a paragon of manhood - an example to be followed by other men - and through his myth people have negotiated assumptions about masculinity. This work breaks new ground by considering the ancient and medieval reception of Alexander the Great from a gender studies perspective. It explores the masculine ideals of the Greco-Roman and medieval past through the figure of Alexander the Great, analysing the gendered views of masculinities in those periods and relates them to the ways in which Alexander’s masculinity was presented. It does this by investigating Alexander’s appearance and its relation to definitions of masculinity, the way his childhood and adulthood are presented, his martial performance and skill, proper and improper sexual behaviour, and finally through his emotions and mental attributes. Masculine Ideals and Alexander the Great will appeal to students and scholars alike as well as to those more generally interested in the portrayal of masculinity and gender, particularly in relation to Alexander the Great and his image throughout history.
Masculine Style
by Daniel Worden"Masculine Style "argues for the importance of "cowboy masculinity"from late nineteenth-century dime novels to the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Nat Love, Theodore Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, and Owen Wister. Daniel Wordenanalyzes the democratic politics of masculinity in American literature and positions the American West as central to modernism. "
Masculine Virtue in Early Modern Spain (New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies)
by Shifra ArmonMasculine Virtue in Early Modern Spain extricates the history of masculinity in early modern Spain from the narrative of Spain’s fall from imperial power after 1640. This book culls genres as diverse as emblem books, poetry, drama, courtesy treatises and prose fiction, to restore the inception of courtiership at the Spanish Hapsburg court to the history of masculinity. Refuting the current conception that Spain’s political decline precipitated a ’crisis of masculinity’, Masculine Virtue maps changes in figurations of normative masculine conduct from 1500 to 1700. As Spain assumed the role of Europe’s first modern centralized empire, codes of masculine conduct changed to meet the demands of global rule. Viewed chronologically, Shifra Armon shows Spanish conduct literature to reveal three axes of transformation. The ideal subject (gendered male in both practice and law) became progressively more adaptable to changing circumstances, more intensely involved in currying his own public image, and more desirous of achieving renown. By bringing recent advances in gender theory to bear on normative rather than non-normative masculinities of early modern Spain, Armon is able to foreground the emergence of energizing new models of masculine virtue that continue to resonate today.
Masculinities In Contemporary Argentine Popular Cinema
by Carolina RochaExamines contemporary cinematic representations of Argentine masculinities, the social construction of gender, and the financing of domestic film production following Argentina's 1990 change to a neo-liberal economic model.
Masculinities and Representation: The Eroticized Male in Early Modern Italy and England
by Konrad EisenbichlerIn studies on premodern masculinities that have enriched scholarship in recent years, relatively little attention has been paid to the eroticizing of the male body. Masculinities and Representation seeks to fill this lacuna, illustrating how gender construction served to affirm but also diversify premodern masculinity. In so doing, this collection details how, as a social construct, masculinity was not a single concept, but a dynamic and intricate notion. Focusing on the premodern period, Masculinities and Representation reveals how heteronormative masculinity was affirmed, but also how it was challenged when the male body was eroticized in art, literature, and devotion, or when “masculine” norms were transgressed by the assumption of “feminine” behaviours. Ultimately, the book demonstrates how masculinity itself could be transgressive in its focus of affection or in its inherent ambiguities.