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Book Synopsis Marblehead's Pygmalion by : F. Marshall Bauer
Download or read book Marblehead's Pygmalion written by F. Marshall Bauer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agnes Surriage, it turns out, was more Pygmalion than Cinderella. Her role models were the fiercely independent "codfish widows, "? wives of the early Marblehead fishermen who managed home and family seven months a year without their husbands. In Agnes's version of My Fair Lady, she had to act as her own Henry Higgins while making the often painful transformation from "girl of all works"? at the Fountain Inn to the charming and dignified Lady Agnes, wife of Sir Charles Henry Frankland. After deconstructing the legend for twenty-five years, author F. Marshall Bauer has unearthed a story of money, lust and vindication.
Book Synopsis Zell's Popular Encyclopedia by : Leo de Colange
Download or read book Zell's Popular Encyclopedia written by Leo de Colange and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Twentieth Century Encyclopædia by : Charles Morris
Download or read book Twentieth Century Encyclopædia written by Charles Morris and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Imperial Reference Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zell's Popular Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Educator by : Daniel Garrison Brinton
Download or read book The American Educator written by Daniel Garrison Brinton and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dramas in Twenty Volumes by : Lincoln Hulley
Download or read book Dramas in Twenty Volumes written by Lincoln Hulley and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dramas written by Lincoln Hulley and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Richard Potter written by John A. Hodgson and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apart from a handful of exotic--and almost completely unreliable--tales surrounding his life, Richard Potter is almost unknown today. Two hundred years ago, however, he was the most popular entertainer in America--the first showman, in fact, to win truly nationwide fame. Working as a magician and ventriloquist, he personified for an entire generation what a popular performer was and made an invaluable contribution to establishing popular entertainment as a major part of American life. His story is all the more remarkable in that Richard Potter was also a black man. This was an era when few African Americans became highly successful, much less famous. As the son of a slave, Potter was fortunate to have opportunities at all. At home in Boston, he was widely recognized as black, but elsewhere in America audiences entertained themselves with romantic speculations about his "Hindu" ancestry (a perception encouraged by his act and costumes). Richard Potter’s performances were enjoyed by an enormous public, but his life off stage has always remained hidden and unknown. Now, for the first time, John A. Hodgson tells the remarkable, compelling--and ultimately heartbreaking--story of Potter’s life, a tale of professional success and celebrity counterbalanced by racial vulnerability in an increasingly hostile world. It is a story of race relations, too, and of remarkable, highly influential black gentlemanliness and respectability: as the unsung precursor of Frederick Douglass, Richard Potter demonstrated to an entire generation of Americans that a black man, no less than a white man, could exemplify the best qualities of humanity. The apparently trivial "popular entertainment" status of his work has long blinded historians to his significance and even to his presence. Now at last we can recognize him as a seminal figure in American history.
Book Synopsis The Will of the People by : T. H. Breen
Download or read book The Will of the People written by T. H. Breen and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Important and lucidly written...The American Revolution involved not simply the wisdom of a few great men but the passions, fears, and religiosity of ordinary people.” —Gordon S. Wood In this boldly innovative work, T. H. Breen spotlights a crucial missing piece in the stories we tell about the American Revolution. From New Hampshire to Georgia, it was ordinary people who became the face of resistance. Without them the Revolution would have failed. They sustained the commitment to independence when victory seemed in doubt and chose law over vengeance when their communities teetered on the brink of anarchy. The Will of the People offers a vivid account of how, across the thirteen colonies, men and women negotiated the revolutionary experience, accepting huge personal sacrifice, setting up daring experiments in self-government, and going to extraordinary lengths to preserve the rule of law. After the war they avoided the violence and extremism that have compromised so many other revolutions since. A masterful storyteller, Breen recovers the forgotten history of our nation’s true founders. “The American Revolution was made not just on the battlefields or in the minds of intellectuals, Breen argues in this elegant and persuasive work. Communities of ordinary men and women—farmers, workers, and artisans who kept the revolutionary faith until victory was achieved—were essential to the effort.” —Annette Gordon-Reed “Breen traces the many ways in which exercising authority made local committees pragmatic...acting as a brake on the kind of violent excess into which revolutions so easily devolve.” —Wall Street Journal
Download or read book This Gulf of Fire written by Mark Molesky and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book Award A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist The captivating and definitive account of the Great Lisbon Earthquake--the most consequential natural disaster of modern times. On All Saints’ Day 1755, tremors from an earthquake measuring approximately 9.0 or perhaps higher on the magnitude scale swept furiously toward Lisbon, then one of the wealthiest cities in the world and the capital of a vast global empire. Within minutes, much of the city lay in ruins. A half hour later, a giant tsunami unleashed by the quake smashed into Portugal’s coastline and barreled up the Tagus River, carrying countless thousands out to sea. To complete Lisbon’s destruction, a hellacious firestorm then engulfed the city’s shattered remains, killing thousands more and incinerating much of what the earthquake and tsunami had spared. Drawing on a wealth of new sources, the latest scientific research, and a sophisticated grasp of European history, Mark Molesky gives us the gripping, authoritative account of the Great Lisbon Earthquake disaster and its impact on the Western world—including descriptions of the world’s first international relief effort, the rise of a brutal, yet modernizing, dictatorship in Portugal, and the effect of the catastrophe on the spirit and direction of the European Enlightenment.
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Book Synopsis Répertitres by : François Verschaeve
Download or read book Répertitres written by François Verschaeve and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Queer Futures by : Dr des Beatrice Michaelis
Download or read book Queer Futures written by Dr des Beatrice Michaelis and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following debates surrounding the anti-social turn in queer theory in recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the role of activism, the limits of the political, and the question of normativity and ethics. Queer Futures engages with these concerns, exploring issues of complicity and agency with a central focus on the material and economic as well as philosophical dimensions of sexual politics. Presenting some of the latest research in queer theory, this book draws together diverse perspectives to shed light on possible ‘queer futures’ when different affective, temporal, and local contexts are brought into play. As such, it will appeal to scholars of cultural, political, literary, and social theory, as well as those with interests in gender and sexuality, activism, and queer theory.
Download or read book Liber Amoris written by William Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Military Comedy Films by : Hal Erickson
Download or read book Military Comedy Films written by Hal Erickson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder Arms, released in America near the end of World War I, the military comedy film has been one of Hollywood's most durable genres. This generously illustrated history examines over 225 Army, Navy and Marine-related comedies produced between 1918 and 2009, including the abundance of laughspinners released during World War II in the wake of Abbott and Costello's phenomenally successful Buck Privates (1941), and the many lighthearted service films of the immediate postwar era, among them Mister Roberts (1955) and No Time for Sergeants (1958). Also included are discussions of such subgenres as silent films (The General), military-academy farces (Brother Rat), women in uniform (Private Benjamin), misfits making good (Stripes), anti-war comedies (MASH), and fact-based films (The Men Who Stare at Goats). A closing filmography is included in this richly detailed volume.
Book Synopsis Merchant Vessels of the United States by : United States. Coast Guard
Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States written by United States. Coast Guard and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
