From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in the Nineteenth Century, Paperback - Alex Gourevitch

Reducere. This book reconstructs how a group of nineteenth-century labor reformers appropriated and radicalized the republican tradition. These "labor republ...

Reducere. Award NameMidwest Book Award (MIPA)Award categoryBiographyDescriptionEdward Coles, who lived from 1786-1868, is most often remembered for his antis...

Reducere. Remarkably thorough descriptions, information about hundreds of fashions: morning dresses, riding outfits, bridal gowns, more. Also millinery, foot...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Paul W. RhodeIllustration(s): 13 line drawings, 132 tablesNumber of pages: 336Collection: Nati...

Reducere. DescriptionIra Lapidus' global history of Islamic societies, first published in 1988, has become a classic in the field. For over two decades, it h...

Reducere. Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to live in the nineteenth century? How would you have got a partner in a ballroom? What would y...

Reducere. The nineteenth century, according to C. Willett Cunnington, was a period when the cult of modesty was a tactical maneuver camouflaged as a virtue. ...

Reducere. China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship...

Reducere. The nineteenth century witnessed a series of revolutions in the production and circulation of images. From lithographs and engraved reproductions o...

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In the first half of the nineteenth century, rural New England society underwent a radical transformation as the traditional household economy gave...

Reducere. This volume brings together a series of lectures A. V. Dicey first gave at Harvard Law School on the influence of public opinion in England during ...

Reducere. Natural philosophy encompassed all natural phenomena of the physical world. It sought to discover the physical causes of all natural effects and wa...

This study explores the science and culture of nineteenth-century British arboretums, or tree collections. The development of arboretums was foster...

Provincializing the history of the Ottoman Empire, this book provides a critical approach to the projects of 'modernity' that took place in the Eas...

This book aims to intervene in current critical contexts for the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. Topics discu...

Barbara Taylor's classic book, reissued with a new introduction.Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Barbara TaylorNumber of pages: 432Pub...

Reducere. This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. ...

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Reducere. Beginning with an examination of the relationship between Hegel and Goethe, L with discusses how Hegel's students, particularly Marx and Kierkegaar...

The fully updated third edition of Farewell, My Nation considers the complex and often tragic relationships between American Indians, white America...

Reducere. Analyzing published and archival oral histories of formerly enslaved African Americans, Libra R. Hilde explores the meanings of manhood and fatherh...

Reducere. Including oral history, letters and excerpts from diaries, this is a documentary study of 2 million black slave women and 200, 000 free black women...

Publisher: Froglets Publications LtdAuthor(s): Bob OgleyIllustration(s): 250ill.(some col.).Number of pages: 256Publication date: 2003Dimensions: 2...

Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From ope...

Reducere. Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner In New York Burning, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic e...

Reducere. D. L. Moody's reaction was quick and to the point. "No A thousand times no I have no intentions of standing off here in New York City and approving...

Pulitzer PrizeThis is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Horace O. RussellIllustration(s): 7 ill.Number of pages: 323Collection: Research in Religion and Fam...

Reducere. Before the drought of the early twenty-first century, the dry benchmark in the American plains was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But in this eye-open...

Reducere. Pleasant Litchford and his family traveled as freed slaves from Virginia, who settled in Franklin County, Perry Township, Ohio, in the years betwee...