Liberty's Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America, Paperback - Jen Manion

Reducere. DescriptionLiberty's Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary sy...

Reducere. If sexology--the science of sex--came into being sometime in the nineteenth century, then how did statesmen, scientists, and everyday people make m...

Reducere. Religion and Profit Moravians in Early America Katherine Carté Engel Winner of the 2010 Dale W. Brown Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Ana...

Reducere. Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeWidely hailed as a "powerfully written" history about America's beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rechel Hope ClevesCharity and Sylvia is the intimate history of two ordinary women who lived in an extraordinary same-sex m...

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Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned...

How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on credit Even before the United States became a country, ...

This is the only book available that tells the full story of how the U.S. government, between 1942 and 1945, detained nearly half a million Nazi pr...

Contested Spaces of Early America is a wide-ranging, eclectic volume that seeks to reconcile the parallel histories and historiographies of Europea...

Atlantic Lives offers insight into the lived experiences of a range of actors in the early modern Atlantic World. Organized thematically, each chap...

DescriptionIn My Power tells the story of letter writing and communications in the creation of the British Empire and the formation of the United S...

Gholsons in Early America and Their Connections with the Founding Fathers is the fifth entry in Donna Gholson Cook's well- documented family histor...

Michael Breidenbach traces American secularism to an unexpected source: not Enlightenment liberalism but Catholic tradition. Suspected of dual loya...

Reducere. On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attack...

Explores how church disciplinary practices gendered Puritanism and challenged ideas of ministers. Laymen punished men for public behavior that thre...

Reducere. Starting in pre-Islamic Arabia and deepest Africa, following the lives, adventures and writings of three Muslim slaves through antebellum America a...

Reducere. "Food cooked in the fireplace tastes better than food cooked in most conventional methods today, " say the authors and this book shows how twenty-f...

Reducere. "Decolonizing the Diet" challenges the common claim that native American communities were decimated after 1492 because they lived in "virgin soils"...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressiv...

Reducere. When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine...

Reducere. Relying on meticulous original archival research, historian Peter Silver uncovers a fearful and vibrant early America in which Lutherans and Presby...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): He BianIllustration(s): 9 b/w illus. 3 tables. 4 maps.Number of pages: 264Publication date: 2022Dim...

The story of one of Britain's most famous radicals visiting the 'Land of the Free'

Reducere. A historical novel based on the life of Mary Rowlandson -An authentic drama of Indian captivity...A compelling, emotionally gripping tale.---Eliot ...

In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans ...

The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12 were the strongest temblors in the North American interior in at least the past five centuries. From the Grea...

The concept of cultural history has in the last few decades come to the fore of historical research into early modern Europe. Due in no small part ...

Available for the first time in a modern and readable edition Preceding The Federalist by several years, this first volume of John Adams' A Defence...

This highly readable investigation of the early church explores the revolutionary nature, dynamics, and effects of the earliest Christian communiti...

Part exhibition catalog, part magazine, Identity is a visual exploration of contemporary artists views on personal, cultural and national identity....

Reducere. Witchcraft in Early North America investigates European, African, and Indian witchcraft beliefs and their expression in colonial America. Alison Ga...

Al patrulea volum al seriei Experiente carcerale in Romania comunista cuprinde 26 de interviuri cu fosti detinuti din judetele Alba, Botosani, Cara...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Christine M. E. GuthIllustration(s): 40 color illustrations, 11 b-w illustrationsNumber of page...