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A Companion to American Women's HistoryThis collection of twenty-four original essays by leading scholars in American women's history highlights the most recent important scholarship on the key debates and future directions of this popular and contemporary field. Covers the breadth of American Women's history, including the colonial family, marriage,...
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Transgression and the Aesthetics of EvilHow do we perceive evil? How do we represent evil? In Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil, Taran Kang examines the entanglements of aesthetics and morality. Investigating conceptions and images of evil, Kang identifies a fateful moment of transformation in the eighteenth century that...
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The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and ArtThe essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practices--from diaries and poetry, to almanacs and commonplace books, to sermons and lists, to Indigenous ruins and other material shards and fragments--often overlooked by critics in a scholarly...
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Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum SouthAnalyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor. With the rising global demand for cotton - and thus, slaves - in the 1840s and 1850s, the need...
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Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal CultureIn postrevolutionary America, the autonomous individual was both the linchpin of a young nation and a threat to the founders' vision of ordered liberty. Conceiving of self-government as a psychological as well as a political project, jurists built a republic of laws upon the...
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Reporting World War II: The 75th Anniversary Edition: A Library of America Boxed SetThis deluxe two-volume collector's boxed set captures a world at war as seen through the eyes of a generation's greatest reporters. Released to mark the 75th anniversary of America's entrance into World War II, this Library of America two-volume boxed set gathers the acclaimed...
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Norman Mailer: The Sixties: A Library of America Boxed SetFifty years after the turmoil of 1968, modern America's most turbulent decade comes to life though the collected writings of its greatest literary provocateur No writer plunged more wholeheartedly into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, as he fearlessly revolutionized literary...
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Instrument of War: Volume 1 - The Austrian Army in the Seven Years WarHow did an 18th Century army work? This book is the most important examination of such an army yet done, written by the premier military historian of the era.Maria Theresa had seen her inheritance almost lost to unprovoked attacks from her neighbors. Her army...
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She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare Clubs in AmericaIn the late nineteenth century hundreds of clubs formed across the United States devoted to the reading of Shakespeare. From Pasadena, California, to the seaside town of Camden, Maine; from the isolated farm town of Ottumwa, Iowa, to Mobile, Alabama, on the Gulf coast,...
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Feminism and SuffrageIn the two decades since Feminism and Suffrage was first published, the increased presence of women in politics and the gender gap in voting patterns have focused renewed attention on an issue generally perceived as nineteenth-century. For this new edition, Ellen Carol DuBois addresses...
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Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955-1968Arrested Development examines the USSR's involvement in West Africa during the 1950s and 1960s as aid donor, trade partner, and political inspiration for the first post-independence governments in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali. Buoyed by solid economic performance in the 1950s, the USSR opened itself...
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The Statistical Handbook of Trigg County, KentuckyBy: Eurie Pearl Wilford Neel, pub.1961, reprinted 2020, 726 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-678-9. Trigg County was created in 1820 from Christian and Caldwell counties. It too is located in the Southwestern portion of the State along the Kentuck-Tennessee border. Records within this book are:...
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Biographical Memoirs of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, Pulaski, Phelps, and Dent Counties MissouriBy: Goodspeed Publishing Company, Pub. 1889, Reprinted 2018; 652 pages, New Index, Soft Cover, ISBN #089308-875-7 The original book was divided into two main sections, The first being the histories of the various counties while the second section concentrated it efforts onto the biographical...
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Terrence Malick and the Examined LifeTerrence Malick is one of American cinema's most celebrated filmmakers. His films--from Badlands (1973) and Days of Heaven (1978) to The Thin Red Line (1998), The Tree of Life (2011), and, most recently, A Hidden Life (2019)--have been heralded for their artistry and lauded...
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The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist NovelsIs plot a line, an arc, or a shape? None of these. Rather than thinking of plot as a sequence of events or actions put into place solely through human agency against the backdrop of setting, this book questions why we should distinguish between...
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Charles Owen O'Conor, "The O'Conor Don": Landlordism, Liberal Catholicism and Unionism in Nineteenth-Century IrelandThis book uncovers the world of Charles Owen O'Conor, the O'Conor Don (1838-1906), a Catholic landlord and MP from County Roscommon. The scion of the last high king of Ireland and one of a long line of politically active O'Conors, he was destined for...
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Nurses and Disasters: Global, Historical Case StudiesThis timely volume describes and analyzes the nursing response to a variety of historic and recent global disasters that occurred between 1885 and 2012, including Hurricane Sandy. The book is unique in its discussion of cooperation and conflict in the disaster responses regarding the...
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Surveillance Capitalism in AmericaSurveillance Capitalism in America offers a crucial historical perspective on the intimate relationship between surveillance and capitalism. While surveillance is often associated with governments, today the role of the private sector in the spread of everyday surveillance is the subject of growing public debate....
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The Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment ThoughtThe Enlightenment is often either praised as the wellspring of modern egalitarianism or condemned as the cradle of scientific racism. How should we make sense of this paradox? The Color of Equality is the first book to investigate both the inclusive language of common...
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Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic DevelopmentDuring the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality...
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