Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America, Paperback - Carol Faulkner

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

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One of the most important books published on slave society, Stolen Childhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19th-century...

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From Eve to Evolution provides the first full-length study of American women's responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science pl...

Reveals how constructions of sovereignty shed light on a host of concerns including regional and sectional tensions; territorial expansion and juri...

Reducere. An Organ of Murder explores the origins of both popular and elite theories of criminality in the nineteenth-century United States, focusing in part...

From the intimate perspective of three friends and neighbors in mid-nineteenth century Auburn, New York--the "agitators" of the title--acclaimed au...

Publisher: ScribnerAuthor(s): Dorothy WickendenNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 212 x 139 x 28Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera...

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

DescriptionTo know the story of Nathan Bangs is to understand American Methodism between the death of Francis Asbury and the Civil War. During the ...

Exploring the origins, experiences and identities of 100, 000 Africans who landed in Sierra Leone following Britain's abolition of the trans-Atlant...

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

Zuck argues that, in the decades between the ratification of the Constitution and the publication of Sutton Griggs's novel Imperium in Imperio in 1...

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DescriptionA critique of population control narratives reproduced by international development actors in the 21st century Since the turn of the mil...

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. ...

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

Reducere. In 1832, the captain of the brigantine Catalina ordered Scotsman James Black, dying of typhus, abandoned at Monterey, California. Nursed by J. B. R...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Richa (Douglas College, Canada) DworNumber of pages: 208Collection: New Directions in Religion and L...

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...

This is the first comprehensive study of John Thomond O'Brien, one of the most significant Irish-born figures in the history of modern South Americ...

AwardsLukas Prize ProjectDescriptionIn a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, the bestselling author of Home and City Life illuminat...

Based on the authors' thesis (doctoral--University of Exeter, 2012) presented under the title: Arranging the past, reconsidering the present: the e...

2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. While some things have changed, others haven't.This book tells the story of American Method...

The Government of Social Life in Colonial India: Liberalism, Religious Law, and Women's Rights - Rachel Sturman

Reducere. What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives ...

This book will act as a useful overview of key regimes of international law and their regulation of women's rights in conflict to postgraduate stud...

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...

Reducere. As the modern celebration of Christmas took shape across the nineteenth century, American writers gave it new meaning in the pages of countless boo...

This book focuses on women's human rights in India. Drawing on case studies, it provides a clear overview of the key sources on gender and rights i...

Reducere. Discover the unlikely story of Beate Sirota Gordon, a young woman who grew up in Japan and returned as a translator working for the American milita...

Bringing together an international group of established and emerging scholars, this volume considers the emerging field of the history of emotion a...

Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Robert (Professor, University of Leicester) GarnerNumber of pages: 288Collection: Critical Perspecti...

The first study to examine both the experience and representation of Christmas during the formative period of the nineteenth and early twentieth ce...