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The Diary Of Ellen Birdseye Wheaton
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Book Synopsis The Diary of Ellen Birdseye Wheaton by : Mrs. Ellen Douglas (Birdseye) Wheaton
Download or read book The Diary of Ellen Birdseye Wheaton written by Mrs. Ellen Douglas (Birdseye) Wheaton and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Diary of Ellen Birdseye Wheaton by : Mrs Ellen Douglas (Birdseye) Wheaton
Download or read book The Diary of Ellen Birdseye Wheaton written by Mrs Ellen Douglas (Birdseye) Wheaton and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Diaries by : William Matthews
Download or read book American Diaries written by William Matthews and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of Reading by : S. Towheed
Download or read book The History of Reading written by S. Towheed and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together research from a variety of countries and periods, this volume introduces readers to the diverse approaches used to recover the evidence of reading through history in different societies, and asks whether reading practices are always conditioned by specific local circumstances or whether broader patterns might emerge.
Book Synopsis Columbus, Shakespeare, and the Interpretation of the New World by : J. Hart
Download or read book Columbus, Shakespeare, and the Interpretation of the New World written by J. Hart and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-01-03 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Columbus, Shakespeare, and the Interpretation of the New World explores a range of images and texts that shed light on the complexity of the European reception and interpretation of the New World. Jonathan Hart examines Columbus's first representation of the natives and the New World, the representation of him in subsequent ages, the portrayal of America in sexual terms, the cultural intricacies brought into play by a variety of translators and mediators, the tensions between the aesthetic and colonial in Shakespeare's The Tempest , and a discussion of cultural and voice appropriation that examines the colonial in the postcolonial. This book brings the comparative study of the cultural past of the Americas and the Atlantic world into focus as it relates to the present.
Book Synopsis More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave by : Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Download or read book More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave written by Ruth Schwartz Cowan and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2023-02-25 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrounded by mechanical appliances and electronic gadgets, today’s woman devotes as much time to housework as a woman living in the early decades of the 20th century. This book explains why. “This work won the 1984 Dexter Prize of the Society for the History of Technology. It is a history of housework and household technology from the 17th century to the present. Ruth Schwartz Cowan contends that households were not industrialized the way other workplaces were in the 19th century and that women’s work was industrialized incompletely or differently from men’s. Despite technological advances, housework thus remains a full-time task. Critics praised the book’s clarity and insights.” — The New York Times “More Work for Mother is a major contribution to the social history of technology and a book that attempts feats few scholars undertake... it is lucid, engaging, and provocative... On balance, More Work for Mother is a remarkable book. It makes some important aspects of the history of technology accessible to a popular audience; provides a stimulating, scholarly overview of domestic technology for courses in the history of women, labor, or technology; and seems destined to set the next decade’s research agenda for scholarship on housework and household technology.” — Isis “[A] perceptive contribution to the social history of technology.” — The Business History Review “More Work for Mother is an engaging and thought-provoking general history of household technology in America from colonial times to the present... All students of the subject will greatly benefit by the framework [Cowan] has constructed and the stimulating ideas she has put forward.” — Journal of Social History “The strength of Cowan’s work is her consistent ability to demonstrate how tools have shaped human behavior... Cowan’s book is knowledgeable, deft, and stimulating.” — The American Historical Review “Ruth Cowan’s knowledgeable, witty, and concise survey of three hundred years of household work — and her original interpretation of the industrialization of the household — will open the eyes and provoke the thoughts of historians and general readers alike.” — Nancy Cott, Yale University “It is written with eloquence and fluency revealing a subtlety of mind and an eye for the neglected obvious which I much admire.” — Daniel J. Boorstin, The Librarian of Congress “So interesting and so well written that you scarcely realize how much you are learning.” — Jessie Bernard, author, The Female World
Download or read book A Day at a Time written by Margo Culley and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1985 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers diary selections, describes the historical background of each writer, and discusses the changing function and content of diaries.
Book Synopsis John Wesley North and the Reform Frontier by : Merlin Stonehouse
Download or read book John Wesley North and the Reform Frontier written by Merlin Stonehouse and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Wesley North and the Reform Frontier was first published in 1965. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This biography is the absorbing and significant story of a frontier life in America in the nineteenth century. John Wesley North was a carpetbagger in the best sense of the word, and professor Stonehouse points out that no fallacy is more persistent in American history than the generalization that carpetbaggers were evil opportunists peculiar to the southward movement after the Civil War. North's aims, ambitions, and ideas were typical of many carpetbaggers whose common aspiration was the evangelical humanism that flourished in all of the English-speaking world at that time except in the slave-holding South. Born in upstate New York in 1815, North migrated westward. For the rest of his life he pursued business and political interests with equal zest and championed many social causes. He went to Minnesota, Nevada, and California without enough money to live on, yet contributed significantly to their early history. He was a founder of Minneapolis, proprietor of Fairbault and Northfield, a founder of the University of Minnesota and of the Republican party in Minnesota, and a leader in the state's constitutional convention. In Nevada he helped shape land policy and mining law and found its cities and was president of the 1863 constitutional convention. He helped develop Southern California, where he established Oleander and Riverside. These three states welcomed him as a penniless dreamer, and he added much to the development of each. But in Tennessee, where he arrived with a fortune, eager to help rebuild the war-torn state, his best efforts resulted only in recrimination and his financial ruin. Thus North's life illustrates the sorry truth of General Sherman's comment that the carpetbaggers built the West but were not permitted to build the South.
Download or read book Siblings written by C. Dallett Hemphill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brothers and sisters are so much a part of our lives that we can overlook their importance. Even scholars of the family tend to forget siblings, focusing instead on marriage and parent-child relations. Based on a wealth of family papers, period images, and popular literature, this is the first book devoted to the broad history of sibling relations, spanning the long period of transition from early to modern America. Illuminating the evolution of the modern family system, Siblings shows how brothers and sisters have helped each other in the face of the dramatic political, economic, and cultural changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book reveals that, in colonial America, sibling relations offered an egalitarian space to soften the challenges of the larger patriarchal family and society, while after the Revolution, in antebellum America, sibling relations provided order and authority in a more democratic nation. Moreover, Hemphill explains that siblings serve as the bridge between generations. Brothers and sisters grow up in a shared family culture influenced by their parents, but they are different from their parents in being part of the next generation. Responding to new economic and political conditions, they form and influence their own families, but their continuing relationships with brothers and sisters serve as a link to the past. Siblings thus experience and promote the new, but share the comforting context of the old. Indeed, in all races, siblings function as humanity's shock-absorbers, as well as valued kin and keepers of memory. This wide-ranging book offers a new understanding of the relationship between families and history in an evolving world. It is also a timely reminder of the role our siblings play in our own lives.
Author :Library of Congress. Copyright Office Publisher :Copyright Office, Library of Congress ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1790 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series by : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1924 with total page 1790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 20 : Nos. 1 - 125 (Issued April, 1923 - May, 1924)
Book Synopsis The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by :
Download or read book The New England Historical and Genealogical Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
Book Synopsis Anonymous Was a Woman by : Mirra Bank
Download or read book Anonymous Was a Woman written by Mirra Bank and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-09-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In print since it was first published in 1979, this book is a glorious collection of American folk art by "ordinary" women of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Filled with beautiful four-color reproductions of samplers, quilts, paintings, and needle-pictures along with excerpts from diaries and letters, sampler verse, books, and magazines of the period, Anonymous Was a Woman celebrates the daily experiences and inner lives of women who, in acts of love and duty, created many masterpieces of American folk art.
Book Synopsis An Historical View of Pompey Hill, NY Volume 1 by : J. Roy Dodge
Download or read book An Historical View of Pompey Hill, NY Volume 1 written by J. Roy Dodge and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Genealogies in the Library of Congress by : Marion J. Kaminkow
Download or read book Genealogies in the Library of Congress written by Marion J. Kaminkow and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2001 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
Book Synopsis Syracuse African Americans by : Barbara Sheklin Davis
Download or read book Syracuse African Americans written by Barbara Sheklin Davis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syracuse African Americans abounds with hard work, forbearance, determination, strength, and spirit. It depicts through photographs the heritage of this upstate New York African American community. The story spans several centuries, beginning when escaped slaves made salt here and sold it to the Native Americans. Once a hotbed of abolitionism, Syracuse was the site of a protest against the Fugitive Slave Law. Later, as the city became a manufacturing center, its black population increased.
Book Synopsis An Abolitionist in the Appalachian South by : Ezekiel Birdseye
Download or read book An Abolitionist in the Appalachian South written by Ezekiel Birdseye and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume, a collection of letters written by an abolitionist businessman who lived in East Tennessee prior to the Civil War, provides one of the clearest firsthand views yet published of a region whose political, social, and economic distinctions have intrigued historians for more than a century." "Between 1841 and 1846, Birdseye expressed his views and observations in letters to Gerrit Smith, a prominent New York reformer who arranged to have many of them published in antislavery newspapers such as the Emancipator and Friend of Man." "Those letters, reproduced in this book, drew on Birdseye's extensive conversations with slaveholders, nonslaveholders, and the slaves themselves. He found that East Tennesseans, on the whole, were antislavery in sentiment, susceptible to rational abolitionist appeal, and generally far more lenient toward individual slaves than were other southerners. Opposed to slavery on economic as well as moral grounds, Birdseye sought to establish a free labor colony in East Tennessee in the early 1840s and actively supported the region's abortive effort in 1842 to separate itself from the rest of the state."--[book jacket].
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism by : Joel Myerson
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism written by Joel Myerson and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume includes fifty original essays from a group of renowned scholars as well as a compact chronology and specialized bibliographies. It offers a rich, authoritative, interdisciplinary account, providing scholars with the definitive resource on this seminal movement in American culture."--From the dust jacket.