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Population matters in Native America (2007)
Book Chapter
Porter, J. (2007). Population matters in Native America. In P. D. Davies, & I. Morgan (Eds.), America's Americans: Population issues in U.S. society and politics. Institute of Latin American Studies

Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825: Progress and popular democracy on the Southwestern Frontier (2007)
Book
Ray, K. (2007). Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825: Progress and popular democracy on the Southwestern Frontier. University of Tennessee Press

During its early years, the frontier region of Middle Tennessee developed from thinly settled outposts to a premier destination for thousands of land-hungry immigrants. The resulting population explosion led to a shift in political power from a small... Read More about Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825: Progress and popular democracy on the Southwestern Frontier.

Dangers to going it alone: Social capital and the origins of community resilience in the Philippines (2007)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2007). Dangers to going it alone: Social capital and the origins of community resilience in the Philippines. Continuity and Change, 22(2), 327-355. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416007006315

Robert Putnam's influential article 'Bowling alone: America's declining social capital' puts forward a number of possible factors to explain the decline of civil society in the USA. Many of these same forces are also at work in America's erstwhile co... Read More about Dangers to going it alone: Social capital and the origins of community resilience in the Philippines.

Place and Native American Indian history and culture (2007)
Book
Porter, J. (2007). J. Porter (Ed.). Place and Native American Indian history and culture. Peer Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Review
«Place remains a native concept rich with political meaning for North American culture as a whole, and for the world as a whole. This volume undertakes a broad and deep exploration of what the sense of place has meant in specific Indian cultu... Read More about Place and Native American Indian history and culture.