Walter william pettit (5 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explore the complex and fascinating world of early Russian-American relations with this comprehensive history. The authors bring together a wealth of primary sources to illuminate key political events and dynamics during the period from March 1917 to March 1920. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of diplomacy and international relations.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. …

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explore the complex and fascinating world of early Russian-American relations with this comprehensive history. The authors bring together a wealth of primary sources to illuminate key political events and dynamics during the period from March 1917 to March 1920. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of diplomacy and international relations.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Two notebooks with printed title: Normal Rhetorical Exercise Correction Book. Fredonia, N.Y.: F.C. Chatsey, Publisher, Copyright 1886. Small quartos. Bound in quarter cloth and marbled paper over boards. Covers are rubbed and worn, one front cover has some staining, good overall. Both notebooks contain several book reports and essays on special topics written by Walter Pettit when he was a teenage student at the Fredonia Normal School. Both notebooks date from the late 1890s. In addition to reports on *The House of the Seven Gables*, *Gulliver's Travels*, *The Merchant of Venice*, *Oliver Twist* and other books; the notebooks include both fictional essays such as "My Flying Machine" and "A Trip to the North Pole," and personal essays on special topics. Here for example is an excerpt from an essay titled: "Should Lynching be Suppressed?": "One of the greatest evils in existence, is lynching. That it should be abolished, is evident. Many innocent people have met their death by this means and it still [is] in existence in the Southern States. Perhaps some person suspected of [a] crime is imprisoned. A crowd collects and is excited by somebody over the crime the jailor gives up the suspected criminal to the mob who immediately carry the poor man to the nearest tree This incident is kept from the newspapers and the suspected criminal dies, unmourned, unknown. With hanging by authorities the criminal has a chance for his life; he may plead his case before unprejudiced men. His death is not embittered by the taunts of an unfeeling multitude of men, women, and children, many of whom are as bad as the criminal. The wretches who are the leaders in such a mob, are far worse than the victim " Also included is a travelogue from Sitka, Alaska to Dawson City (then at the height of the gold rush), written in the form of a letter: "Feb. 18, 1898: Dawson City [Canada] / Dear Friend We started from San Francisco arrived at Sitka the town consists of a number of Indian huts, a few Russian and American residences we accompanied an excursion party to the Yukon. This river is one of the largest in the world upon its banks are a few Indian villages and, here and there, 'Totem poles'. These totem poles are made of wood grotesquely carved with figures of men, beasts, and birds. Upon them are kept the records of the Indian's ancestors. These Indians are a half civilized, sneaking, dirty race short in stature with small eyes. They act as guides around the settlements While at Sitka we bought a large stock of groceries We carried these with us when we went to Dawson. Our party consisted of ten Indians, my partner and I. Our journey took three weeks we reached this city in October and immediately rented the only vacant building in town I wish you where here to wait on some of our customers. They bring in a bag of gold dust and we weigh out enough to pay for the groceries they buy. This city is in the midst of the gold fields. It is composed, principally, of saloons, dancing halls, theaters and gambling houses. The miners sleep in tents we have rows nearly every night and thieves are as thick as mosquitos " A graduate of the Class of 1901, Pettit had quickly shed such early, external prejudices against indigenous peoples, and gold miners. He taught high school in the Philippines (1901-09), attended Teacher's College at Columbia, and served as a U.S. Government Special Relief Assistant in Russia during World War I. As Director of the New York School of Social Work, Pettit won international acclaim for his work on the "interdependence of peoples and the strengthening of international relations". A compelling pair of notebooks that sheds light on Pettit's early education in upstate New York. *American Sociological Review* (December, 1961, pp. 959-60).…