Radical Spirits, Second Edition: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America, Paperback - Ann Braude

Reducere. ... Ann Braude still speaks powerfully to unique issues of women's creativity-spiritual as well as political-in a superb account of the controversi...

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

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...

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 ...

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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...

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

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. ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John Patrick DeveneyThis is the fascinating story of Paschal Beverly Randolph, an African American who carved his own eccen...

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...

... an extraordinary and richly contextualized biography that highlights the engagement and agency of a little-known African American activist who ...

Scholars of second-wave feminism often center their research on northern thought and political activity and usually overlook the vibrant pockets of...

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...

A seasonal tale of betrayal and the search for justice - before an innocent man dies...Publisher: Headline Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Anne PerryNum...

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...

This book, published in association with the International Bar Association, examines the concept of the rule of law from a variety of perspectives,...

This is the first study of women's leading contribution to animal protection in nineteenth-century Britai -- .Illustrations: 30 black & white illus...

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

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

Updated for the anniversary year, Gillian Beer's classic Darwin's Plots continues to open up new approaches to Darwin's thinking and to its effects...

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

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

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...

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A fifth edition of this classic textbook, revised and updated throughout.Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Stephen F. EisenmanIllustration(s...

Reducere. Personal in its style yet radical in its vision, Radical Ecopsychology, Second Edition offers an original introduction to ecopsychology--an emergin...