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Author : Harriet Martineau
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Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Retrospect of Western Travel written by Harriet Martineau and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Gribben
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 1588385663
Total Pages : 1124 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Mark Twain's Literary Resources written by Alan Gribben and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Alan Gribben, a foremost Twain scholar, made waves in 1980 with the publication of Mark Twain's Library, a study that exposed for the first time the breadth of Twain's reading and influences. Prior to Gribben's work, much of Twain's reading history was assumed lost, but through dogged searching Gribben was able to source much of Twain's library. Mark Twain's Literary Resources is a much-expanded examination of Twain's library and readings. Volume I included Gribben's reflections on the work involved in cataloging Twain's reading and analysis of Twain's influences and opinions. This volume, long awaited, is an in-depth and comprehensive accounting of Twain's literary history. Each work read or owned by Twain is listed, along with information pertaining to editions, locations, and more. Gribben also includes scholarly annotations that explain the significance of many works, making this volume of Mark Twain's Literary Resources one of the most important additions to our understanding of America's greatest author.
Author : David S. Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982128240
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book The Last American Aristocrat written by David S. Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “marvelous…compelling” (The New York Times Book Review) biography of literary icon Henry Adams—one of America’s most prominent writers and intellectuals, who witnessed and contributed to the United States’ dramatic transition from a colonial society to a modern nation. Henry Adams is perhaps the most eclectic, accomplished, and important American writer of his time. His autobiography and modern classic The Education of Henry Adams was widely considered one of the best English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. The last member of his distinguished family—after great-grandfather John Adams, and grandfather John Quincy Adams—to gain national attention, he is remembered today as an historian, a political commentator, and a memoirist. Now, historian David Brown sheds light on the brilliant yet under-celebrated life of this major American intellectual. Adams not only lived through the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution but he met Abraham Lincoln, bowed before Queen Victoria, and counted Secretary of State John Hay, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and President Theodore Roosevelt as friends and neighbors. His observations of these powerful men and their policies in his private letters provide a penetrating assessment of Gilded Age America on the cusp of the modern era. “Thoroughly researched and gracefully written” (The Wall Street Journal), The Last American Aristocrat details Adams’s relationships with his wife (Marian “Clover” Hooper) and, following her suicide, Elizabeth Cameron, the young wife of a senator and part of the famous Sherman clan from Ohio. Henry Adams’s letters—thousands of them—demonstrate his struggles with depression, familial expectations, and reconciling with his unwanted widower’s existence. Offering a fresh window on nineteenth century US history, as well as a more “modern” and “human” Henry Adams than ever before, The Last American Aristocrat is a “standout portrait of the man and his era” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Author : Joseph Ralston Hayden
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Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Topical Reading List on the Political and Constitutional History of the United States written by Joseph Ralston Hayden and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Syed Farid Alatas
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137411341
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon written by Syed Farid Alatas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-27 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book expands the sociological canon by introducing non-Western and female voices, and subjects the existing canon itself to critique. Including chapters on both the ‘founding fathers’ of sociology and neglected thinkers it highlights the biases of Eurocentrism and androcentrism, while also offering much-needed correctives to them. The authors challenge a dominant account of the development of sociological theory which would have us believe that it was only Western European and later North American white males in the nineteenth and early twentieth century who thought in a creative and systematic manner about the origins and nature of the emerging modernity of their time. This integrated and contextualised account seeks to restructure the ways in which we theorise the emergence of the classical sociological canon. This book’s global scope fills a significant lacuna and provides a unique teaching resource to students of classical sociological theory.
Author : Edward J Renehan
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1641603410
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Deliberate Evil written by Edward J Renehan and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is true crime at its most enthralling—prepare to be transported." —Terri Cheney, New York Times bestselling author of Manic The 1830 murder of wealthy slaver Joseph White shook all of Salem, Massachusetts. Soon the crime drew national attention when it was discovered that two of the conspirators came from Salem's influential Crowninshield family: a clan of millionaire shipowners, cabinet secretaries, and congressmen. A prosecution team led by famed Massachusetts senator Daniel Webster made the case even more newsworthy. Meanwhile, young Salem native Nathaniel Hawthorne—who knew several of the accused—observed and wrote. Here, using source materials not available previously, Edward J. Renehan Jr. provides a riveting narrative of the cold-blooded murder, intense investigations, scandal-strewn trials, and grim executions that dominated headlines nearly two-hundred years ago.
Author : Kerry Dean Carso
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501755951
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Follies in America written by Kerry Dean Carso and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as "follies," from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration in 1876. In a period of increasing nationalism, follies—such as temples, summerhouses, towers, and ruins—brought a range of European architectural styles to the United States. By imprinting the land with symbols of European culture, landscape gardeners brought their idea of civilization to the American wilderness. Kerry Dean Carso's interdisciplinary approach in Follies in America examines both buildings and their counterparts in literature and art, demonstrating that follies provide a window into major themes in nineteenth-century American culture, including tensions between Jeffersonian agrarianism and urban life, the ascendancy of middle-class tourism, and gentility and social class aspirations.
Author : William B. Meyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190212810
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Americans and Their Weather written by William B. Meyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the major exchanges that have occurred since colonial times in the role of weather in life and livelihood in the U.S. The intent is to relate how shifts in ordinary human activities have been influenced and altered the significance of climate patterns -- patterns that have been far more stable than the society experiencing them -- development of weather science where appropriate. At times, persistent features of our climate and recurrent weather have acted as help or hindrance, hazard or resource. And as ways of life in country have changed, these features have become hazard of resources in new ways.
Author : Kenneth Myers
Publisher : Hudson River Museum
ISBN 13 : 9780943651057
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Catskills written by Kenneth Myers and published by Hudson River Museum. This book was released on 1987 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. Dier
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439663025
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book The 1868 St. Bernard Parish Massacre written by C. Dier and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The slaughter of newly liberated African Americans just days before a Reconstruction Era election is recounted in this true crime history. Louisiana, 1868. With the Civil War over, a victorious Ulysses S. Grant was riding a wave of popularity straight to the White House. But former Confederates across the South feared what Reconstruction might look like under President Grant. Days before the tumultuous election, Louisiana’s St. Bernard Parish descended into chaos. As African American men gained the right to vote, white Democrats of the parish feared losing their majority. Armed groups mobilized to suppress these recently emancipated voters. Freed people were dragged from their homes and murdered in cold blood. Many fled to the cane fields to hide from their attackers. The reported number of those killed varies from 35 to 135. Though efforts were made to cover up the tragedy, its implications reverberated throughout the South and lingered for generations. In this authoritative chronicle, historian Chris Dier reveals the horrifying true story behind the St. Bernard Parish Massacre.
Author : Henry Louis Taylor
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252019869
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (198 download)
Download or read book Race and the City written by Henry Louis Taylor and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Provides a rich prism through which to explore the social, economic, and political development of black Cincinnati. These studies offer insight into both the dynamics of racism and a community's changing responses to it." -- Peter Rachleff, author of Black Labor in Richmond
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Author : Bowdoin College (BRUNSWICK, Me.). Library
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Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of Bowdoin College; to which is Added, an Index of Subjects. [Edited by W. P. Tucker.] written by Bowdoin College (BRUNSWICK, Me.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 128 pages
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Download or read book Catalogues of Items for Auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1850-1880 written by and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Warner
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387322437
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Queechy; In Two Volumes written by Susan Warner and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-22 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Joseph Boskin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195363531
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Sambo written by Joseph Boskin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988-09-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the tumultuous events of the 1960's ended his long life, "Sambo" prevailed in American culture as the cheerful and comical entertainer. This stereotypical image of the black male, which developed during the Colonial period, extended into all regions and classes, pervading all levels of popular culture for over two centuries. It stands as an outstanding example of how American society has used humor oppressively. Joseph Boskin's Sambo provides a comprehensive history of this American icon's rise and decline, tracing the image of "Sambo" in circuses and minstrel shows, in comic strips and novels, in children's stories, in advertisements and illustrations, in films and slides, in magazines and newspapers, and in knick-knacks found throughout the house. He demonstrates how the stereotype began to unravel in the 1930s with several radio series, specifically the Jack Benny show, which undercut and altered the "Sambo" image. Finally, the democratic thrust of World War II, coupled with the advent of the Civil Rights movement and growing national recognition of prominent black comedians in the 1950's and '60's, laid Sambo to rest.
Author : Bowdoin college
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Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book A catalogue of the library of Bowdoin college; to which is added, an index of subjects written by Bowdoin college and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ephraim Douglass Adams
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Great Britain and the American Civil War written by Ephraim Douglass Adams and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book discusses the role of the United Kingdom during the American Civil War. Officially, the UK stayed neutral throughout the war. They also legally recognised the belligerent status of the Confederate States of America (CSA), though never recognising it as a nation. Neither did the UK sign a treaty with it nor ever exchanged ambassadors. Over 90 percent of Confederate trade with Britain ended, causing a severe shortage of cotton. Private British blockade runners sent munitions and luxuries to Confederate ports in return for cotton and tobacco. Public opinion was divided over the war, with support for the Confederacy tending to emanate from the upper class while the middle and lower classes mostly favored the Union.
