2009
Worse Than War
Preface Introduction: Clarifying the Issues Eliminations, Not Genocide[rtoc] Human Being and Mass Slaughter Eliminationism The Modern State, Transformative Power The Problems Defined[/rtoc] Worse Than War: Our Age of Suffering[rtoc] Our Age’s Slaughters Varieties of Eliminationist Assaults The Scope of Eliminationist Assaults[/rtoc] Explaining Eliminationist Assaults Why They Begin[rtoc] Four Questions and Three Perspectives A New Perspective …
Eleven Minutes Late
Gobowen Newton-Le-Willows The Death of a Dithering Politician … And the Birth of a Very Strange Relationship Penzance First-class, Second-class, 143rd class The Slow Train North The Even Slower Train Further North In Breach of Regulations Blisworth Spoiling the Shires, Ruining the Squires The Great Wall of China? A Doddle! And the Dust Gathered on …
Deliver Us from Evil
Introduction The Upper South’s Travail Owning Slaves, Disowning Slavery Rebellion and Reaction The Lower South’s Embrace of Slavery Opening the Slave Trade Extending Slavery Paternalism Rising Paternalism Emerges Paternalism Contested Paternalism in Crisis The Scare Analyzing the Scare Reacting to the Scare Words and Deeds Discourses of Colonization Rumors and Insurrection The Upper South Responds …
The Sound of Freedom
Prologue: October 1964 Freedom’s Child Singing in the Dark Deep Rivers The Heart of a Nation Sweet Land of Liberty An American Icon, 1943-93
Skylark Meets Meadowlark
Preface Birds of a Feather: Avians, Indigenes, Animal Rights, and Ecology Wandering Voices: The Avian Other from Cowper to Wordsworth Blithe Spirit and Immortal Bird: The Avian Other from Wordsworth of Clare The Eagle and the Crow: Avian Returns in Native American Literature A Beatitude of Birds: Contemporary Native Poetry Epilogue: The Avian Speaks Back
A MacBrayne Memoir
The Royal Route Columba Captain James Hodgson Stornoway The Lordly Ship MacBrayne Publicity – The Tours and the Tourists Fresh Water Services Captain Duncan Robertson A Bus Conductor with David MacBrayne Ltd The Grenadier Disaster Working for the Goods Service The Sound of Mull – Lochinvar and Lochearn The End of David MacBrayne Ltd MacBrayne’s …