Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania, Paperback - Sarah Justina Eyerly

Reducere. In Moravian Soundscapes, Sarah Eyerly contends that the study of sound is integral to understanding the interactions between German Moravian missio...

Reducere. This volume is made up of the autobiographical writings of thirty of the women who lived in the major North American Moravian settlement of Bethleh...

Reducere. The Scots Irish were one of early Pennsylvania's largest non-English immigrant groups. They were stereotyped as frontier ruffians and Indian haters...

Reducere. The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash ar...

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

By the eighteenth century, personal networks bound together the widening British world. In The Opened Letter, Lindsay O'Neill argues that the Briti...

Reducere. In Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan examines the poetic design of early modern printed books and explores how volumes of compiled poems, which...

DescriptionPeople have always been xenophobic, but an explicit philosophical and scientific view of human racial difference only began to emerge du...

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...

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As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying the coast o...

Reducere. A detailed study of early historical preservation efforts between the 1780s and the 1850sIn Historic Real Estate, Whitney Martinko shows how Americ...

Reducere. DescriptionFocusing on the Connecticut River Valley--New England's longest river and largest watershed-- Strother Roberts traces the local, regiona...

Reducere. The Indian Chiefs Of Pennsylvania, Or, A Story Of The Part Played By The American Indian In The History Of Pennsylvania: Based Primarily On The Pen...

What did it mean to keep a secret in early medieval England? It was a period during which the experience of secrecy was intensely bound to the beli...

Provides an account of the rebellion of the unprotected frontiersmen and the unfranchised artisans, who constituted two-thirds of the population in...

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Reducere. In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette underwent a dramatic change. This very structured form, created using garments ...

A wide-ranging collection of essays on plants as market forces.

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Family names: Ambrose, Boarman, Carbaugh, Dyer, Elder, Finch, Flohr, Gilland, Greene, Hagan, Kint, Klein, Kline (Cline), Livers, Shriner, Spalding,...

Reducere. By: Clarence V. Roberts, Pub. 1925, Reprinted 2019, 742 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-736-X.Bucks County was created in 1682 and was one of the first...

Justin A. Reynolds, author of Opposite of Always, returns with another charming and powerful YA contemporary novel with a speculative twist, perfec...

Examines the history of Fraktur (illuminated religious manuscripts created and used by Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centur...

Reducere. In Creole Italian, Justin A. Nystrom explores the influence Sicilian immigrants have had on New Orleans foodways. His culinary journey follows thes...

DescriptionOccult topics have long fascinated artists, and the subject of witches--their imagined bodies and fantastic rituals--was a popular one f...

Reducere. European exploration and conquest expanded exponentially in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and as the horizons of imperial experience ...

Skilfully uses this notorious episode to illuminate the nature and extent of piracy in the period.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Sarah C...

Reducere. From sex and music to religion and politics, a history of irrationality and the ways in which it has always been with us--and always will be In thi...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Examines legal documents and magic texts relevant to two cases where authorities in Tudor England confronted practicing magicians. Explores how mag...

Reducere. Seneca Possessed examines the ordeal of a Native people in the wake of the American Revolution. As part of the once-formidable Iroquois Six Nations...

In its seventeenth-century heyday, the English broadside ballad was a single large sheet of paper printed on one side with multiple woodcut illustr...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 48 bw illusNumber of pages: 280Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2022...

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An accessible introduction to the teachings of the Buddha told through the oral tradition of the Dīghanikāya--the preeminent text of the Pali canon...

Eddie's stuck at home, doing a monstrous pile of laundry. But mid-cycle, the power goes out! He sets out to explore the seemingly empty neighborhoo...

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Michel Baridon traces the history of the most famous gardens in the world from their inception through the three centuries of eventful history that...

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...

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DescriptionIn The Captive Sea, Daniel Hershenzon explores the entangled histories of Muslim and Christian captives--and, by extension, of the Spani...

With ongoing debates on Scottish independence, immigration, Britain's place in the EU, multiculturalism, national identity and the specter of a pas...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Timothy RennerThough the terms "Bigfoot" and "Sasquatch" have only been in our popular vocabulary since the late 1950s, peo...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Quakers, then keep reading...Many other mainline Christians viewed the Quakers as a dangerou...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Quakers, then keep reading...Many other mainline Christians viewed the Quakers as a dangerou...