In Plain Sight: Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry and the Problem of Literary History, Hardcover - Alexandra Socarides

Reducere. In Plain Sight explores how the poetry of nineteenth-century American women that was once so visible within American culture could have, with the e...

Reducere. Hidden in Plain Sight: A History of the Newberry Mass Lynching of 1916 is a fast-paced narrative history of a 1916 mass lynching in North Florida, ...

Lucretia Coffin Mott was one of the most famous and controversial women in nineteenth-century America. Now overshadowed by abolitionists like Willi...

From the longest-running, most influential book review in America, here is its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past...

Reducere. Hidden in Plain Sight: A History of the Newberry Mass Lynching of 1916 is a fast-paced narrative history of a 1916 mass lynching in North Florida, ...

DescriptionThe story of the Norman Conquest and the Battle of Hastings as shown in the Bayeux Tapestry is arguably the most widely-known in the ent...

DescriptionThis account of evil takes the Book of Job as its guide. The Book of Job considers physical pain, social bereavement, the origin of evil...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles G. WormanThe gun, like the axe and the plow, was an essential tool in the exploration and settlement of the trans-M...

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...

This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of disper...

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

After the Revolution, Americans abandoned the political economy of self-denial and sacrifice that had secured their independence. In its place, the...

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

DescriptionA dynamic, timely history of nineteenth-century activists--free-lovers and socialists, abolitionists and vigilantes--and the social revo...

In an era of rapidly increasing technological advances and international exchange, how did young people come to understand the world beyond their d...

Reducere. A study of three controversies that illuminate the changing cultural role of art exhibition in the nineteenth centuryFrom the antebellum era throug...

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

Reducere. DescriptionAfter decades of concealing the full account of her experiences, Holocaust survivor Beatrice Sonders (Basia Gadzuik) writes her story of...

Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert. Lond...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Albert FolchIllustration(s): 122 colour illustrations, 8 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 264Public...

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...

Greek Sculpture and the Problem of Description - A. A. Donohue

In this pioneering study, Elizabeth Helsinger reframes lyric poetry as a social form. Taking nineteenth-century poetry as her focus, she explores v...

This interdisciplinary collection focuses on the history of the future and in particular how Irish people in the nineteenth century thought about t...

Reducere. Historians have long assumed that immigration to the United States was free from regulation until anti-Asian racism on the West Coast triggered the...

Reducere. This is a prose English and very literal translation of the first five books of the Old Testament (The Torah). Aramaic was the language of Jesus an...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. In Plain Sight reveals symbols of faith found in everyday surroundings. Through original photography and inspirational messages, Amy Bretall shares...

Reducere. DescriptionFinding Edith: Surviving the Holocaust in Plain Sight is the coming-of-age story of a young Jewish girl chased in Europe during World Wa...

Reducere. DescriptionFINALLY, A REVEALING LOOK AT THE TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES OF SENDING MANNED MISSIONS TO THE MOON ------ I was always fascinated by the A...

A person who is not recognised as a citizen anywhere is typically referred to as 'stateless'. Statelessness, governance, and the problem of citizen...

Kipling's Vision of India and the Problem of Split Consciousness - Nicoleta Aurelia Marcu (Medrea)

Investigates the fascinating intersection of two American passions: education and literature. Allison Speicher introduces readers to the common sch...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Alan R. H. (University of Cambridge, UK) BakerIllustration(s): 13 MapsNumber of pages: 248Publica...

"What an achievement, these sixty years of poetry In whatever terms we Americans regard the rest of our recent history, the score of things done we...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Fredrik (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland) WesterlundNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimen...

Reducere. Offering a comprehensive overview of Puerto Rico's history and evolution since the installation of U.S. rule, Cesar Ayala and Rafael Bernabe connec...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Oxford University PressAuthor(s): Geoff EleyNumber of pages: 308Publication date: 1984Dimensions: 218 x 139 x 17Cover type: Paperback / ...

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...