Author: John B. Rehder
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: american, landscape, north, creating, folkways, appalachian
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2004-06-07
List price: $43.00
ISBN-10: 0801878799
ISBN-13: 9780801878794

Appalachia may be the most mythologized and misunderstood place in America, its way of life and inhabitants both caricatured and celebrated in the mainstream media. Over generations, though, the families living in the mountainous region stretching from West Virginia to northeastern Alabama have forged one of the country’s richest and most distinctive cultures, encompassing music, food, architecture, customs, and language.In Appalachian Folkways, geographer John Rehder offers an engaging and enlightening account of southern Appalachia and its cultural milieu that is at once sweeping and

Author: William Graham Sumner
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: customs, morals, manners, mores, study, folkways
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1602067589
ISBN-13: 9781602067585

William Graham Sumner was an influential professor of sociology and politics at Yale College and president of the American Sociological Association from 1908 to 1909, and it was in this early classic textbook of sociology, first published in 1906, that he coined the term folkways, to denote the habits and customs of a society. He fully explores the concept here, examining their influence on: · the struggle for existence · labor and wealth · slavery · abortion, infanticide, and the killing of the elderly · cannibalism · sex and marriage · blood revenge and primitive justice ·

Author: David Hackett Fischer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: america, cultural, history, folkways, british, seed, four, albion
Number of Pages: 972
Published: 1989-03-14
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0195069056
ISBN-13: 9780195069051

This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. Itis a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins.

Author: Joseph Gibson
Publisher: TheCapitol.Net, Inc.
Keywords: congress, advocacy, successful, capitol, advice, executives, dynamics, candid, folkways, guide, practical, parlaying, understanding, congressional, persuading
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 2010-02-24
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 1587331640
ISBN-13: 9781587331640

Persuading Congress, by Joseph Gibson, is a very practical book, packed with wisdom and experience in a deceptively short and simple package. What happens in Congress affects all of our lives and extends into every corner of the economy. Because so much is at stake there, businesses and other interest groups spend billions of dollars each year trying to influence it. Yet, most of these efforts are doomed to futility from the outset. Only a small percentage of the bills introduced in Congress actually become law, and most interested parties do not fully understand why those few bills succ