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UNINA9910453951403321 |
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Chartered schools : two hundred years of independent academies in the United States, 1727-1925 / / edited by Nancy Beadie and Kim Tolley |
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Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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1-138-97020-4 |
0-203-95160-3 |
1-135-31652-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (377 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in the history of education |
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BeadieNancy <1958-> |
TolleyKimberley |
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Private schools - United States - History |
Electronic books. |
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First published 2002 by RoutledgeFalmer. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; A School for Every Purpose: An Introduction to the History of Academies in the United States; Institutions: Origins and Purposes; Mapping the Landscape of Higher Schooling, 1727-1850; From Anstalt to Academy: Moravian Boarding Education for Native American Children in the Eighteenth Century; ""A Triumph of Reason"": Female Education in Academies in the New Republic; Students: Meaning and Culture |
Internal Improvement: The Structure and Culture of Academy Expansion in New York State in the Antebellum Era, 1820-1860""Endeavor to Improve Yourself"": The Education of White Women in the Antebellum South; ""A Good and Delicious Country"": Free Children of Color and How They Learned to Imagine the Atlantic World in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana; Teachers and Institutions: Challenges and Opportunities; Leaving Home to Teach: The Diary of Susan Nye Hutchison, 1815-1841; ""Creating an Educational Interest"": Sophia Sawyer, Teacher of the Cherokee |
Alternative Pedagogy: The Rise of the Private Black Academy in Early Postbellum Mississippi, 1862-1870The Chinese Western Military |
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Academies in the United States, 1902-1911; Systems: Competition, Struggle, and Transformation; ""Let the People Remember It"": Academies and the Rise of Public High Schools, 1865-1890; Betrothed to the State?: Nineteenth-Century Academies Confront the Rise of the State Normal Schools; ""Many Years before the Mayflower"": Catholic Academies and the Development of Parish High Schools in the United States, 1727-1925; Conclusion; Legacies of the Academy; Contributors |
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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
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UNINA9910789857603321 |
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Wanjohi wa Makokha |
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Nest of stones [[electronic resource] ] : Kenyan narratives in verse / / Wanjohi Wa Makokha |
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Bamenda, Cameroon, : Langaa, 2010 |
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9956-727-99-7 |
1-283-00483-6 |
9786613004833 |
9956-579-13-0 |
9956-578-81-9 |
9956-578-42-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (186 p.) |
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Elections - Kenya |
Democracy - Kenya |
Kenyan poetry (English) |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Biography; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Mchongoano; Lament of Chetambe; The Voice of Mvita; At the Truth and Justice Court Marshall; The Qiyama Address to a Talkative Television; Mirror of Memory; |
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Wound of Wajir; The Blood-Stone Sequence; Enkapune ya Muto; Illeret; KORE; Mayienga ne waa Sudaan; last supper; retribution; Communion of Stones; Communion of Bloods; Anthems of Stone; kali yuga; Dreams Half-Expressed; Tongues of Flame; Call to Manhood and Arms; The Last Call; Anthem of Hunger; Season of Reason |
Portrait of the Citizen as an ExileGovernment Eviction; Let Their Conscience Crack; Waiting for Mr Law; Brideprice of Tears; Where Democracy Rests Peacefully is Here....; Ethnicinsanity; Lines of the Country Within; Opinion Polls Twisty; Elegy of Escapees from the East; Mundu khu Mundu; kenya; Sacrifices; Three Words....I. D. P.; Shadow of the Sun; Sect of the Multitude; Repentance; Vision of Sacrifice; Return of Hope; Peace on the Leaves of Heaven; Statue of Bones; At the Stone Bench; The Sheng'sphere Sequence; In the Shadow of Dedan Kimathi; a nation of advocates |
Degree-Oozing Mendicants of Boulevard Vision 2030Cure by Fire; Reconciliation; the still small voice; My Other Mother; NgetaAATHRRrchokelykkg!; 2008; Relatives for Hire; The Wailing of Uncle B; At the Gates of Mists; Tears of Fish; Green Card West; Crying Stone of Apolilia; Harambee; End of an Error; Soul Retrieval; Address to the First Republic; TRIBUTES; About the Book; Back Cover |
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Wanjohi wa MakokhaÌs Nest of Stones is the second book of poems, since the publication of Sitawa NamwalieÌs Cut off my Tongue (Storymoja: 2009), devoted in principal to the moment of the 2007-2008 Kenyan Crisis. The crisis is locally known as the Post-Election Violence (PEV). The book collects over sixty pieces of his recent verse chosen on the basis of artistic merit and social relevance. The poems focus sharply on the tumultuous period between the General Elections of 2007 and August 4th Referendum of 2010. Some of the poems relate to events drawn out of earlier moments in Kenyan history but |
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