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UNINA9910786842403321 |
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Autore |
Akers Donna |
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Titolo |
Living in the land of death [[electronic resource] ] : the Choctaw nation, 1830-1860 / / Donna L. Akers |
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East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2004 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Choctaw Indians - Relocation |
Choctaw Indians - Social conditions |
Indians, Treatment of - Southern States - History - 19th century |
Indians of North America - Government relations - 1789-1869 |
United States Race relations |
United States Politics and government 19th century |
United States Social conditions To 1865 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-195) and index. |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Ch. 1 - A Brief History of the Choctaw People to 1817; Ch. 2 - History, Change, and Tradition; Ch. 3 - The Physical and Spiritual World of the Choctaw People; Ch. 4 - After Doak's Stand: Indian Territory in the 1820's; Ch. 5 - A Perfect Picture of Chaos; Ch. 6 - A New Life in the Land of Death: Decade of Despair; Ch. 7 - Making Death Literal; Ch. 8 - Cultural Continuity and Change; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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With the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Choctaw people began their journey over the Trail of Tears from their homelands in Mississippi to the new lands of the Choctaw Nation. Suffering a death rate of nearly 20 percent due to exposure, disease, mismanagement, and fraud, they limped into Indian Territory, or, as they knew it, the Land of the Dead (the route taken by the souls of Choctaw people after death on their way to the Choctaw afterlife). Their first few years in the new nation affirmed their name for the land, as hundreds more died from whooping cough, floods, starvation |
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UNINA9910815871403321 |
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Autore |
Turner Jonathan H. |
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Titolo |
The problem of emotions in societies / / Jonathan H. Turner |
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New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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1-280-87437-6 |
9786613715685 |
1-136-16501-0 |
1-136-16500-2 |
0-203-83425-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (87 p.) |
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Framing 21st century social issues |
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Emotions - Sociological aspects |
Emotions - Social aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Includes bibliographical references. |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; I. Why are Humans So Emotional?; II. The Dark Side of Emotions; III. The Stratification of Emotions; IV. The Effects of Emotions on People and Societies; References; Glossary/Index |
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Like any other valued resource, emotions are distributed unequally. Moreover, emotions are a generalized resource because they give people the confidence, or lack of confidence, to secure additional types of resources. Thus, this distribution of emotions roughly corresponds to the shares of others kinds of resources that members of various social classes possess. The level of positive and negative emotional energy evident among members of different social classes has large consequences for the viability of human societies. When a large majority of members in diverse social classes have rese |
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