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Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves

Author : Doris Y. Kadish
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1846318467
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves written by Doris Y. Kadish and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves explores the unique contribution by French women writers to Haitian politics and culture during the early nineteenth century, when Haiti was on the verge of reestablishing slavery and when class, race, and gender identities were being renegotiated. It offers in-depth readings of works by Germaine de Staël, Claire de Duras, and Marceline Desbordes- Valmore, as well as two lesserknown but important writers, Charlotte Dard and Sophie Doin, all of whom were writers living in France commenting on Haiti from afar, and all of whom were staunch opponents of slavery. Exploring the similarities between the works of these French women and twentiethand twenty-first-century francophone texts, it offers a much-needed new voice to the exploration of colonial fiction, Caribbean writing, romanticism, and feminism, undercutting the neat distinctions between the cultures of France and its colonies, as well as nineteenth- and twentieth-century writing.

Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel

Author : Margaret Oppenheimer
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613733836
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel written by Margaret Oppenheimer and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notorious life and times of one of the wealthiest women in 19th-century America Born into grinding poverty, Eliza Jumel was raised in a brothel, indentured as a servant, and confined to a workhouse when her mother was in jail. Yet by the end of her life, "Madame Jumel" was one of the richest women in New York, with servants of her own and mansions in Manhattan and Saratoga Springs. During her remarkable life, she acquired a fortune from her first husband, a French merchant, and almost lost it to her second, the notorious vice president Aaron Burr. Divorcing Burr amid lurid charges of adultery, Jumel lived on triumphantly to the age of 90, astutely managing her property and public persona. After her death, while family members extolled her virtues, claimants to her estate painted a different picture: of a prostitute, the mother of George Washington's illegitimate son, and a wife who ruthlessly defrauded her husband and perhaps even plotted his death. With this book, author Margaret A. Oppenheimer draws from archival documents and court filings, many untouched since the 1800s, to tell the true and full story of Eliza Jumel.

Vénus Noire

Author : Robin Mitchell
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820354325
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Vénus Noire written by Robin Mitchell and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In Vénus Noire, Robin Mitchell shows how these literary and visual depictions of black women helped to shape the country's postrevolutionary national identity, particularly in response to the trauma of the French defeat in the Haitian Revolution. Vénus Noire explores the ramifications of this defeat in examining visual and literary representations of three black women who achieved fame in the years that followed. Sarah Baartmann, popularly known as the Hottentot Venus, represented distorted memories of Haiti in the French imagination, and Mitchell shows how her display, treatment, and representation embodied residual anger harbored by the French. Ourika, a young Senegalese girl brought to live in France by the Maréchal Prince de Beauvau, inspired plays, poems, and clothing and jewelry fads, and Mitchell examines how the French appropriated black female identity through these representations while at the same time perpetuating stereotypes of the hypersexual black woman. Finally, Mitchell shows how demonization of Jeanne Duval, longtime lover of the poet Charles Baudelaire, expressed France's need to rid itself of black bodies even as images and discourses about these bodies proliferated. The stories of these women, carefully contextualized by Mitchell and put into dialogue with one another, reveal a blind spot about race in French national identity that persists in the postcolonial present.

Refugees of the French Revolution

Author : K. Carpenter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230501648
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Refugees of the French Revolution written by K. Carpenter and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-07-23 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kirsty Carpenter puts a human face on the victims of revolutionary legislation. London had the largest community of émigrés. It had the most evolved social structure and was the most politically-active community. It was in London that two cultures came face-to-face with their prejudices and were forced to confront them.

The Eagle in Splendour

Author : Philip Mansel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085773895X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book The Eagle in Splendour written by Philip Mansel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When I think of the great Emperor, in my mind's eye it is summer again, all gold and green." Heine The court of Napoleon I, in its grandeur and extravagance, surpassed even that of that the Sun King. Napoleon's palaces at Saint-Cloud and the Tuileries were the centres of his power, the dazzling reflection of the greatest empire in modern European history. Napoleon's military conquests changed the world and dominate most portraits of him, but it was through the splendour of his court - a world fashioned beyond the battlefield - that Napoleon governed his empire. Using the unpublished papers of the Emperor's leading courtiers, and his second Empress Marie Louise, Philip Mansel brings to life the intoxicated world of a court 'devoured by ambition' as Stendhal called it : its visual magnificence and rigid hierarchy; mistresses, artists and manipulators. The life of the court illuminates the life of Napoleon himself and the nature of a personality that conquered half the world yet, in the end, was abandoned by his dynasty and his courtiers, his past glories fading into lonely and ignominious exile.

Britannia's Embrace

Author : Caroline Shaw
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190200995
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Britannia's Embrace written by Caroline Shaw and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of the American Revolution, the refugee was, according to British tradition, a Protestant who sought shelter from continental persecution. By the turn of the twentieth century, however, British refuge would be celebrated internationally as being open to all persecuted foreigners. Britain had become a haven for fugitives as diverse as Karl Marx and Louis Napoleon, Simón Bolívar and Frederick Douglass. How and why did the refugee category expand? How, in a period when no law forbade foreigners entry to Britain, did the refugee emerge as a category for humanitarian and political action? Why did the plight of these particular foreigners become such a characteristically British concern? Current understandings about the origins of refuge have focused on the period after 1914. Britannia's Embrace offers the first historical analysis of the origins of this modern humanitarian norm in the long nineteenth century. At a time when Britons were reshaping their own political culture, this charitable endeavor became constitutive of what it meant to be liberal on the global stage. Like British anti-slavery, its sister movement, campaigning on behalf of foreign refugees seemed to give purpose to the growing empire and the resources of empire gave it greater strength. By the dawn of the twentieth century, British efforts on behalf of persecuted foreigners declined precipitously, but its legacies in law and in modern humanitarian politics would be long-lasting. In telling this story, Britannia's Embrace puts refugee relief front and center in histories of human rights and international law and of studies of Britain in the world. In so doing, it describes the dynamic relationship between law, resources, and moral storytelling that remains critical to humanitarianism today.

Mirage in the West

Author : Durand Echeverria
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400875072
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Mirage in the West written by Durand Echeverria and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... a gracefully written, brief, but remarkably complete account of the varieties and vicissitudes of French opinion regarding the English colonies and, to 1815, the U.S.... a major contribution."-William and Mary Quarterly Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Queen of Fashion

Author : Caroline Weber
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805079491
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Queen of Fashion written by Caroline Weber and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-09-19 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like Princess Diana and Jacqueline Onassis, Marie Antoinette was an icon of style, a fashion muse, a woman who used clothing to command attention. But few biographers have paid close attention to her wardrobe's impact. Now, Queen of Fashion, Caroline Weber tells the story of Marie Antoinette's "Revolution in Dress," which helped make (and unmake) her reputation, altering the very course of French history."--BOOK JACKET.

The Nation and Athenaeum

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Nation and Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nation and Athenæum

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 942 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nation and Athenæum written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Harvard Guide to American History

Author : Frank Freidel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674375604
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (756 download)

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Download or read book Harvard Guide to American History written by Frank Freidel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editions for 1954 and 1967 by O. Handlin and others.

Writings on American History

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writings on American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sex, Violence, and the Avant-Garde

Author : Richard D. Sonn
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271036648
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Sex, Violence, and the Avant-Garde written by Richard D. Sonn and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A study of anarchism in twentieth-century France during the interwar years. Focuses on anarchist demands for personal autonomy and sexual liberation. Argues that these ideals, as well as anarchist hatred of the government, found favor with members of the artistic avant-garde, especially the surrealists"--Provided by publisher.

Experiencing Illness and the Sick Body in Early Modern Europe

Author : M. Stolberg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230355846
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Experiencing Illness and the Sick Body in Early Modern Europe written by M. Stolberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on thousands of letters written by patients and their relatives and on a wide range of other sources, this book provides the first comprehensive account of how early modern people understood, experienced and dealt with common diseases and how they dealt with them on a day-to-day basis.

Church and Society in Eighteenth-century France

Author : John McManners
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0198270038
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Church and Society in Eighteenth-century France written by John McManners and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 describes the relations of Church and State, the wealth of the Church, and its role in national life from Versailles to the scaffold. Dioceses, parishes, and the monastic structure are presented in detail, and the vocation and life-style of the clergy as in mesh with every aspect of social living.

Amico

Author : Warwick Lister
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199707073
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Amico written by Warwick Lister and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length biography in English of Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755-1824), one of the great violinist-composers in the history of music, and arguably the most influential violinist who ever lived. This study is based on extensive documentary research, much of it here revealed for the first time.

Agony and Eloquence

Author : Daniel L. Mallock
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1634508327
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Agony and Eloquence written by Daniel L. Mallock and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The drama of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson is the foundational story of America—courage, loyalty, hope, fanaticism, greatness, failure, forgiveness, love. Agony and Eloquence is the story of the greatest friendship in American history and the revolutionary times in which it was made, ruined, and finally renewed. In the wake of Washington’s retirement, longtime friends Thomas Jefferson and John Adams came to represent the opposing political forces struggling to shape America’s future. Adams’s victory in the presidential election of 1796 brought Jefferson into his administration—but as an unlikely and deeply conflicted vice president. The bloody Republican revolution in France finally brought their political differences to a bitter pitch. In Mallock’s take on this fascinating period, French foreign policy and revolutionary developments—from the fall of the Bastille to the fall of the Jacobins and the rise of Napoleon—form a disturbing and illuminating counterpoint to events, controversies, individuals, and relationships in Philadelphia and Washington. Many important and fascinating people appear in the book, including Thomas Paine, Camille Desmoulins, Dr. Benjamin Rush, Tobias Lear, Talleyrand, Robespierre, Danton, Saint-Just, Abigail Adams, Lafayette, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, Dr. Joseph Priestley, Samuel Adams, Philip Mazzei, John Marshall, Alexander Hamilton, and Edward Coles. They are brought to life by Mallock’s insightful analysis and clear and lively writing. Agony and Eloquence is a thoroughly researched and tautly written modern history. When the most important thing is at stake, almost anything can be justified. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.