Bound in the publisher's original cloth over boards, spine stamped in gilt. Dust jacket has one small closed tear at the top edge is rubbed at the extremities. Black &amp; white illustrations throughout.

Ignatius Donnelly: The Portrait of a Politician

Biographies & Memoirs

Ridge, Martin

Leaders & Notable People

University of Chicago Press

Atlas of American Frontiers

History

Americas

Rand-McNally

Martin Ridge was approaching retirement after a long career with An Garda Siochana. Posted to a quiet corner of Co. Donegal, he found himself investigating one of the most horrific series of child sex abuse cases in Ireland. At Christmas 1997 a local priest Fr Eugene Greene reported to the Gardai that a man had tried to blackmail him. His hubris set in motion a Garda investigation which revealed him as a serial child sex abuser for decades. As word of the investigation spread, 26 men came forward. Most were from the tiny Gaeltacht parish of Gort an Choirce. All had been abused by Greene as children. Soon after, another man came forward to say that he had been sexually abused by local schoolteacher Denis McGinley. As Ridge dug deeper, he discovered that McGinley had been systematically abusing children in his classroom for decades. He had at least 50 victims. The Greene and McGinley cases both involved the Catholic Church. Greene was a priest, and McGinley a teacher in a Catholic school answerable to religious managers. As Ridge investigated, he discovered that the Church knew about the abuse, but ignored the problem. Breaking the Silence is a brilliantly written account of the Garda investigation that brought two serial and unrepentant abusers to justice.

Breaking the Silence: One Garda's Quest to Find the Truth

Parenting & Relationships

Cunningham, Gerard

Family Relationships

GILL MACMILLAN

When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington's Westward Expansion set a new standard for scholarship in western American history, and the book's reputation among historians, scholars, and students grew through four subsequent editions. This abridgment and revision of Billington and Martin Ridge's fifth edition, with a new introduction and additional scholarship by Ridge, as well as an updated bibliography, focuses on the Trans-Mississippi frontier. 
Although the text sets out the remarkable story of the American frontier, which became, almost from the beginning, an archetypal narrative of the new American nation's successful expansion, the authors do not forget the social, environmental, and human cost of national expansion. While most Americans take pride in the nation's frontier heritage and its associated myths, they also share that history with others--especially with people of color--in whose collective memories the story of the American west is rendered both dark and painful. Westward Expansion encourages an understanding of American "westering" that is mindful of the racism and excessive nationalism that frequently marred the Western frontier experience. At the same time, the authors understand a sense of optimism, a profound faith in individuals' own abilities, the willingness to innovate, and an abiding trust in democracy to be the transcendent values of the frontier experience, traits that continue to influence the character of America's people long after the close of the western frontier.

Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier

BILLINGTON, Ray Allen

University of New Mexico Press

This book contains four essays by and about Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932), the Wisconsin-born historian whose ideas and writings have had such a profound impact upon the way Americans view their past, and their place in the world. It is a book not only for the scholar and teacher (who will find it both useful and incisive), but also for the mythic "general reader" who wants to broaden and enrich his aquaintanceship with Turner and the celebrated Frontier Thesis. In addition to essays by Turner and by Martin Ridge of The Huntington Library and the late Ray Allen Billington, the book is illustrated with photos from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

Frederick Jackson Turner: Wisconsin’s Historian of the Frontier

Wisconsin Historical Society Press

The only full-length biography of one of the Midwest's most important, nineteenth-century political and intellectual leaders.

Ignatius Donnelly (Borealis Books)

Historical

Minnesota Historical Society Press

New Bilingualism: An American Dilemma

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Routledge

America's Frontier Story

Krieger Pub. Co

In 1890 the Superintendent of the Census found it was no longer possible to draw a line to mark the frontier in the American West. Historian Frederick Jackson Turner used the occasion of that bureaucratic's announcement to undertake his analysis of the defining role that the frontier had played in the making of American society and institutions, in his famous paper "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" in 1893. A century later, the Turner thesis is being subjected to intense revision by scholars, many of whom view the history of the frontier and of the West through the prism of gender, race, ethnicity, and class, or from an environmental perspective. The contributors to this collection, which was derived from a 1991 symposium sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society, offer their views on the American West. Martin Ridge re-examines Turner's legacy in this time of revisionism; Elizabeth A.H. John draws attention to the rich ethnic and archival legacy of the Spanish Borderlands and urges that the region be fully incorporated "into this nation's knowledge of itself"; Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., provides a personal view of the continuity between the Old West and the New; Howard R. Lamar acknowledges the diverse and often personal nature of the West and looks forward to an eventual synthesis of work old and new; Kevin Starr urges the incorporation of the urban dimensions of western history, the West's links with the rest of the Pacific Rim, and of the whole 20th century in a comprehensive view of the history of the West. The volume concludes with George Miles's presentation of a catalogue entitled "'Go west and grow up with the country': an exhibition of 19th century guides to the American West in the collections of the American Antiquarian society".

Writing the History of the American West

Amer Antiquarian Society

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