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Makes the far-reaching argument that potent systems and modes for self-critique as well as critique of others are inherent in Islam - indeed, critique is integral to its fundamental tenets and practices. Challenging common views of Islam as hostile to critical thinking, Ahmad delineates thriving traditions of critique in Islamic culture, focusing in large part on South Asian traditions.

In order to make an accurate appraisal of the work of the courts, it is necessary to consider all the cases decided for a considerable period. This book is an attempt to analyse a sufficient number of cases decided by the courts of the state to show the general trends and tendencies in the interpretation by the Supreme Court of criminal procedure. Originally published in 1930.

This is one author's examination of the whole matter of the search for social laws, written at a time in which the natural sciences were abandoning the concept of fixed laws and replacing them with a concept of relativity. Originally published in 1930.

Contains a detailed and critical analysis of the experimental evidence of varying methods of foreign language study, summarising the knowledge concerning economical methods of language learning. A distinction is drawn between convictions based on general experience or on purely logical processes and facts that have been established experimentally. Originally published in 1931.

The authors of this study deplore the gulf that lies between the creative writer and the scholar. In five stimulating essays on letters, language, literary history, criticism, and imaginative writing, they challenge our prevailing pedantries and offer a program for revitalizing literary scholarship in the universities. Originally published in 1941.

To most laymen the law is a mysterious thing - hedged about with tradition and complicated terminology. In this book the author gives an interpretation of legal rules and principles in simple language, dwelling especially on those aspects of law that are of greatest concern for everyday life. Originally published in 1941.

This is the story of Hugh Winton's passionate struggle to hold his land, to stay on his farm. Hail and drought cannot defeat him - but forces beyond his control, forces of the auction floor and the market places, sweep relentlessly over him and his home. Originally published in 1941.

A study of the problems and needs of 306 successful families to discover the factors contributing to a normal, healthful life for parents and children. Factors affecting achievement and satisfaction and the sources of fatigue, worry, and friction are analysed and described. The basic economic needs and continually increasing need of education are fully set forth. Originally published in 1931.

Questions concerning land tenure are discussed in this analysis of policies developed in recent years. The topics discussed include public control over land, the legal background, land inheritance, tenure of forest land, farm credit, and farm tenancy policy. Originally published in 1941.

Starting from up-state New York, Klitgaard swings through the country in search of artists who interpret the American landscape; through Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, then west along the Gulf to Texas, the Dust Bowl, the Grand Canyon, and finally to California-where he finds more artists than on any other part of his trip. Originally published in 1941.

This is a brief story of the long agitation for textile unions in the South. To evaluate the contributions of textile unions and to determine whether they are socially desirable, it is necessary to know the history of the union movement and the effect unions have had in educating workers. Mitchell gives a clear, succinct account of the movement in the South. Originally published in 1931.

This study of a leading nineteenth-century Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, and Fine Arts offers an excellent approach to average intelligent Victorian thought. The Athanaeum early established a reputation for independent and unbiased criticism and this study presents some interesting reviews. Originally published in 1941.

No romantic reconstruction of the history of the Indian, this book is an objective account of the white man's treatment of the Indian based on records long buried in inaccessible archives. The treaties with Indian tribes illuminate the tragic saga of the gradual removal of the Indian from reservation to reservation, and reveal the virtual extinction of a noble race. Originally published in 1941.

This colourful and exciting history of Florida is in two parts: the historical land of Spanish galleons, Seminole Indians, and the Confederacy; second, the modern state with its land booms, resorts, and tourist attractions. This revised edition contains information on flood control and other contemporary problems. Originally published in 1941.

Offers an analysis of significant social and economic items that have been computed according to county types. There is a map for each state with the county type indicated for each county. The extensive bibliography is arranged to permit all studies bearing on individual counties to be keyed to data for each county. Originally published in 1941.

The story of the building of the Clinchfield Railroad reflects the dominant elements that have shaped the economic history of an important section of the southeastern states. It is the history of continuous efforts in a venture that was to be the backbone of a gigantic commercial system but that attained only the proportions of a short, highly specialized, local line. Originally published in 1931.

This is a chronicle of the North Carolina Piedmont. Although Salisbury is "home" and "The River" (the Yadkin) is a dominant theme, the book has a wider scope, for through her father the author presents a picture of life in eastern Carolina in antebellum days and, through her mother, the university village of Cahpel Hill in the early nineteenth century. Originally published in 1938.

This history of tobacco in America begins with the country's earliest times. The author gives the broadest possible interpretation, tracing not only the industry itself in its various aspects - plantation, leaf market, factory, and fluctuating nicotine manners - but also the effect of tobacco on political, economic, and social life in America through the years. Originally published in 1967.

Presents the revolutionary thesis that English poetry and poetic theory were deflected from their richest line of development by the scientific rationalism that came with Hobbes and has continued its restrictive influence to the present day, when such poets as Yeats and Eliot have begun the reestablishment of the earlier line of development. Originally published in 1939.

Markham sees as the principal sign of our time the striving of men and women all over the world for a better life. He deals with the question of how one can tell mass striving that is evil from that which is good. He feels that any wave that brings slavery is a resurgence of the past and any wave that increases freedom and self-respect is of the future. Originally published in 1941.

In this groundbreaking study, Adam Gussow takes the full measure of the devil's presence in the blues. Working from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores the varied uses to which black southern blues people have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also empowering figure.

Exploring the environmental and economic ramifications of imperial expansion on colonial environments and production practices, Rebecca J. H. Woods traces how global physiological and ecological diversity eroded under the technological, economic, and cultural system that grew up around the production of livestock by the British Empire.

In the first full-length history of the Liberator, Christopher M. Tinson locates the magazine as a touchstone of US-based black radical thought and organising in the 1960s. By mapping the history and intellectual trajectory of the magazine and its thinkers, Tinson traces black intellectual history into an internationalism that would shape radical thought for decades to come.