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The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s

Author : Dorceta E. Taylor
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822392240
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s written by Dorceta E. Taylor and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Environment and the People in American Cities, Dorceta E. Taylor provides an in-depth examination of the development of urban environments, and urban environmentalism, in the United States. Taylor focuses on the evolution of the city, the emergence of elite reformers, the framing of environmental problems, and the perceptions of and responses to breakdowns in social order, from the seventeenth century through the twentieth. She demonstrates how social inequalities repeatedly informed the adjudication of questions related to health, safety, and land access and use. While many accounts of environmental history begin and end with wildlife and wilderness, Taylor shows that the city offers important clues to understanding the evolution of American environmental activism. Taylor traces the progression of several major thrusts in urban environmental activism, including the alleviation of poverty; sanitary reform and public health; safe, affordable, and adequate housing; parks, playgrounds, and open space; occupational health and safety; consumer protection (food and product safety); and land use and urban planning. At the same time, she presents a historical analysis of the ways race, class, and gender shaped experiences and perceptions of the environment as well as environmental activism and the construction of environmental discourses. Throughout her analysis, Taylor illuminates connections between the social and environmental conflicts of the past and those of the present. She describes the displacement of people of color for the production of natural open space for the white and wealthy, the close proximity between garbage and communities of color in early America, the cozy relationship between middle-class environmentalists and the business community, and the continuous resistance against environmental inequalities on the part of ordinary residents from marginal communities.

Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland, Ormond, Arthur Mervyn, and Edgar Huntly

Author : Charles Brockden Brown
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 162466203X
Total Pages : 1677 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland, Ormond, Arthur Mervyn, and Edgar Huntly written by Charles Brockden Brown and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 1677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Wieland; or the Transformation: "An impressive edition . . . the most thoroughly satisfying historical and literary contextualization for the novel that I've ever encountered. Shapiro and Barnard offer a rich transatlantic artistic and ideological context that helps pull the whole novel into coherent focus. The footnotes to the novel are incredibly thorough, helpful, and interesting. . . . This Hackett edition of Wieland [is] the freshest and most topical of those now available." --Dana D. Nelson, Vanderbilt University On Ormond; or, the Secret Witness: "Philip Barnard and Stephen Shapiro have produced an awesome edition of Brown's Ormond by providing copious explanatory notes and helpful documentation of the essential historical context of feminist, radical, egalitarian, and abolitionist expression. Oh, ye patriots, read it and learn!" --Peter Linebaugh, University of Toledo On Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793: "This new edition of Arthur Mervyn far exceeds any previous version of this remarkable American novel. Through exhaustive archival research, the editors have produced a reliable text constructed within the intellectual, cultural, political, and religious contexts of a society informing Brown's efforts to capture and preserve the formation of the early republic for generations of readers and cultural historians. This vital text is essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of the United States." --Emory Elliott, University Professor, University of California-Riverside On Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker: "This is now the edition of choice for those of us who teach Brown's fascinating Edgar Huntly. Barnard and Shapiro explore the relevant historical, cultural, and literary backgrounds in their illuminating Introduction; they skillfully annotate the text; they provide useful and up-to-date bibliographies; and they append a number of revealing primary texts for further cultural contextualization. This edition will help to stimulate new thinking about race, empire, and sexuality in Brown's prescient novel of the American frontier." --Robert S. Levine, University of Maryland

History of the Settlement of Steuben County, N.Y.

Author : Guy Humphrey McMaster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book History of the Settlement of Steuben County, N.Y. written by Guy Humphrey McMaster and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Infelice

Author : Augusta Jane Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Infelice written by Augusta Jane Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Infelice

Author : Augusta Jane Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Infelice written by Augusta Jane Evans and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Philadelphia Stories

Author : Samuel Otter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019974193X
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Philadelphia Stories written by Samuel Otter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Philadelphia Stories, Samuel Otter finds literary value, historical significance, and political urgency in a sequence of texts written in and about Philadelphia between the Constitution and the Civil War. Historians such as Gary B. Nash and Julie Winch have chronicled the distinctive social and political space of early national Philadelphia. Yet while individual writers such as Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, and George Lippard have been linked to Philadelphia, no sustained attempt has been made to understand these figures, and many others, as writing in a tradition tied to the city's history. The site of William Penn's "Holy Experiment" in religious toleration and representative government and of national Declaration and Constitution, near the border between slavery and freedom, Philadelphia was home to one of the largest and most influential "free" African American communities in the United States. The city was seen by residents and observers as the laboratory for a social experiment with international consequences. Philadelphia would be the stage on which racial character would be tested and a possible future for the United States after slavery would be played out. It would be the arena in which various residents would or would not demonstrate their capacities to participate in the nation's civic and political life. Otter argues that the Philadelphia "experiment" (the term used in the nineteenth-century) produced a largely unacknowledged literary tradition of peculiar forms and intensities, in which verbal performance and social behavior assumed the weight of race and nation.

The Works of W. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq: Old Saint Paul's : a tale of the plague and the fire

Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Old Saint Paul's

Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Old Saint Paul's written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Works of William Harrison Ainsworth. [With a Memoir of the Author by Samuel L. Blanchard.]

Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Works of William Harrison Ainsworth. [With a Memoir of the Author by Samuel L. Blanchard.] written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The masterpiece library. Penny popular novels, ed. by W.T. Stead

Author : Masterpiece library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The masterpiece library. Penny popular novels, ed. by W.T. Stead written by Masterpiece library and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Old St. Paul's

Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Old St. Paul's written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sensibility and the American Revolution

Author : Sarah Knott
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807831980
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Sensibility and the American Revolution written by Sarah Knott and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of American independence, it was clear that the new United States required novel political forms. Less obvious but no less revolutionary was the idea that the American people needed a new understanding of the self. Sensibility was a cultural m

The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown

Author : Philip Barnard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199860076
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown written by Philip Barnard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past few decades, the writings of Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) have reclaimed a place of prominence in the American literary canon. Yet despite the explosion of teaching, research, and an ever-increasing number of doctoral dissertations, there remains no up-to-date overview of Brown's work. The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown provides a state-of-the-art survey of the life and writings of Charles Brockden Brown, a key writer of the Atlantic revolutionary age and U.S. Early Republic. The seven novels he published during his lifetime are now studied for their narrative complexity, innovations in genre, and social-political commentaries on life in early America and the revolutionary Atlantic. Through the late twentieth century, Brown was best known as an author of political romances in the gothic mode that proved to be widely influential in romantic era, and has generated large amounts of scholarship as a crucial figure in the history of the American novel. This Handbook extends its focus beyond the well-known novels to address the full range of Brown's prolific literary career. The Handbook includes original essays on all of Brown's fiction and nonfiction writings, and offers new interpretations of the contexts of his work: from the literary, social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious. The thirty-five contributors in this volume speak in new ways about Brown's depictions of literary theory, social justice, sexuality, and property relations, as well as colonialism, slavery, Native Americans, and women's rights. Brown's perspectives on American and global history, emerging modernity, selfhood and otherness, and other topics, are explained in comprehensible and up-to-date terms. In addition to opening up new avenues of research, The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown provides the intellectual foundations needed to understand Brown's enduring impact and literary legacy.

Revolutionary Medicine

Author : Jeanne E. Abrams
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479880574
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Medicine written by Jeanne E. Abrams and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the advent of modern antibiotics, one's life could be abruptly shattered by contagion and death, and debility from infectious diseases and epidemics was commonplace for early Americans, regardless of social status. Concerns over health affected the founding fathers and their families as it did slaves, merchants, immigrants, and everyone else in North America. As both victims of illness and national leaders, the founders occupied a unique position regarding the development of public health in America. This work refocuses the study of the lives of George and Martha Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John and Abigail Adams, and James and Dolley Madison away from the usual lens of politics to the unique perspective of sickness, health, and medicine in their era. For the founders, republican ideals fostered a reciprocal connection between individual health and the 'health' of the nation. Studying the encounters of these American founders with illness and disease, as well as their viewpoints about good health, not only provides us with insight into their lives, but also opens a first-hand window into the practice of medicine in the eighteenth century. Perhaps most importantly, today's American public health initiatives have their roots in the work of America's founders, for they recognized early on that government had compelling reasons to shoulder some new responsibilities with respect to ensuring the health and well-being of its citizenry. The state of medicine and public healthcare today is still a work in progress, but these founders played a significant role in beginning the conversation that shaped the contours of its development.--Publisher information.

Cull of the Wild

Author : Hugh Warwick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1399403737
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book Cull of the Wild written by Hugh Warwick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON CONSERVATION Investigating the ethical and practical challenges of one of the greatest threats to biodiversity: invasive species. Across the world, invasive species pose a danger to ecosystems. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity ranks them as a major threat to biodiversity on par with habitat loss, climate change and pollution. Tackling this isn't easy, and no one knows this better than Hugh Warwick, a conservationist who loathes the idea of killing, harming or even eating animals. Yet as an ecologist, he is acutely aware of the need, at times, to kill invasive species whose presence harms the wider environment. Hugh explores the complex history of species control, revealing the global movement of species and the impacts of their presence. Combining scientific theory with gentle humour in his signature style, he explains the issues conservationists face to control non-native animals and protect native species – including grey and red squirrels on Anglesey, ravens and tortoises in the Mojave Desert, cane toads in Australia and the smooth-billed ani on the Galapagos – and describes cases like Pablo Escobar's cocaine hippos and the Burmese python pet trade. Taking a balanced and open approach to this emotive subject, Hugh speaks to experts on all sides of the debate. How do we protect endangered native species? Which species do we prioritise? And how do we reckon with the ethics of killing anything in the name of conservation?

Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793

Author : Charles Brockden Brown
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603844732
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 written by Charles Brockden Brown and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-15 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set during the epic Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1793, Charles Brockden Brown's classic gothic novel Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 connects the outbreak with the upheavals of the revolutionary era and the murderous financial networks of Atlantic slavery. This edition of Arthur Mervyn offers selections from key contemporary texts as well as excerpts from Brown's own writings on slavery, race, and the uses of history in fiction.

Foul Bodies

Author : Kathleen M. Brown
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300160275
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Foul Bodies written by Kathleen M. Brown and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In colonial times few Americans bathed regularly; by the mid-1800s, a cleanliness “revolution” had begun. Why this change, and what did it signify? A nation’s standards of private cleanliness reveal much about its ideals of civilization, fears of disease, and expectations for public life, says Kathleen Brown in this unusual cultural history. Starting with the shake-up of European practices that coincided with Atlantic expansion, she traces attitudes toward “dirt” through the mid-nineteenth century, demonstrating that cleanliness—and the lack of it—had moral, religious, and often sexual implications. Brown contends that care of the body is not simply a private matter but an expression of cultural ideals that reflect the fundamental values of a society.The book explores early America’s evolving perceptions of cleanliness, along the way analyzing the connections between changing public expectations for appearance and manners, and the backstage work of grooming, laundering, and housecleaning performed by women. Brown provides an intimate view of cleanliness practices and how such forces as urbanization, immigration, market conditions, and concerns about social mobility influenced them. Broad in historical scope and imaginative in its insights, this book expands the topic of cleanliness to encompass much larger issues, including religion, health, gender, class, and race relations.