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Among numerous ancient Western tropes about gender and procreation, ""the seed and the soil"" is arguably the oldest, most potent, and most invisible in its apparent naturalness. In Gender Vendors: Sex and Lies from Abraham to Freud, Al Jones de-naturalizes the proto-theory of "seed-and-soil" procreation and deconstructs its contemporary legacy.

THE CONCEPT OF 'CIVIL RIGHTS' IS BASED ON ASSUMPTIONS THAT DO NOT EXTEND TO ALL LANDS WITHIN U.S. BORDERS, INCLUDING NATIVE AMERICAN RESERVATIONS. A CENTRAL POLICY TENSION EXISTS BETWEEN ENFORCING EURO-AMERICAN 'CIVIL RIGHTS' AND RECOGNIZING NATIVE AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY. THIS TENSION IS DISCUSSED IN LIGHT OF THE SITUATION ON THE WHITE EARTH RESERVATION, ONE OF SIX RESERVATIONS THAT MAKE UP THE MINNESOTA CHIPPEWA TRIBE. FOUR POSSIBLE MEANS OF ADDRESSING WHITE EARTH CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUES ARE DISCUSSED, EACH WITH POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS IN OTHER RESERVATION SETTINGS. NONE OF THE FOUR IS FOUND TO BE CLEARLY EFFECTIVE IN GAINING THE CIVIL RIGHTS DEFINED FOR U.S. CITIZENS FOR RESERVATION RESIDENTS. ALTHOUGH THE UNDERLYING QUESTION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CIVIL RIGHTS AND SOVEREIGNTY DEFIES EASY SOLUTION, SOME SUGGESTIONS ARE OFFERED.

Mrs Maria Mejia was a 47-year-old Maya woman who lived in the village of Parraxtut, in the Quiche province in the western highlands of Guatemala. She was murdered at 7.30 pm on Saturday, 17 March 1990 when 2 armed men burst into her house and shot her and her second husband. Examines the countryside's militarisation and the bureaucratisation of human rights. (SJK)

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Underground Whales: An Energy Archaeology -- Part 1. Loomings -- 1. Built-In Obsolescence: Energy and Limits to Growth in the Whaling World of Moby-Dick -- Part 2. Whaling Entertainment -- 2. The Invention of Quaintness: Nantucket Tourism and the Logics of Energy and Exhaustion -- 3. Pioneer Inland Whaling: A Whale on a Train, a Ship Called Progress, and the Transformation of Whaling Culture in the Inland United States -- Part 3. Whaling Nostalgia -- 4. Extinction Burst: White Supremacy and Yankee Whaling Heritage at the End of the Industry -- 5. Nostalgia for the Wooden World: Energy, the Melville Revival, and Rockwell Kent's Moby-Dick -- Epilogue. The Bone in Our Teeth -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Editor's Introduction -- The Background -- The Springs of Agricultural Productivity -- General -- Advances in Husbandry Technique -- Improvements in Agrarian Organitation -- Contributions to Economic Development -- The Supply of Food and Raw Materials -- The Release of Factors of Production -- Income Effects of Agricultural Change and Development of a Market for Industrial Goods -- Conclusions -- 1 Obstacles to Progress -- 2 Agricultural Progress in Open-Field Oxfordshire -- 3 Agriculture and the Brewing and Distilling Industries in the Eighteenth Century -- 4 Enclosure and Labour Supply in the Industrial Revolution -- 5 The Cost of Parliamentary Enclosure in Warwickshire -- 6 Agriculture and Economic Growth in England, 1660-1750: Agricultural Change -- 7 Agricultural Productivity and Economic Growth in England 1700-1760 -- Select Bibliography.

Professions and politics in crisis - a MacIntyrean response -- Composing the stories of our lives - pursuing our good through human flourishing -- Flourishing in practices - common goods and the pursuit of excellence -- Living in Piscopolis Part I - Fishing crews, their common goods, and their everyday relationships with other inhabitants -- Living in Piscopolis Part II - Political conversation and the greater common good in the fishing village polis -- Living in the liberal democratic state - contrasts and prospects -- Living in Juropolis - trawling for justice in the fishing village of the law -- Beyond Juropolis - toward the liberal democratic state as a republic of virtue.