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Images of America: Rural York County (Paperback)

Journey to picturesque York County s past in this photographic history. Rural York County with its charming historic towns and villages has long been one of the most delightful areas of Maine. While tourists from the nineteenth century onward sought... more

Pre-Owned Essays on the American Revolution 9780807812044

Offering the first comprehensive study of Irish immigrants in the 19th-century South Gleeson adds a long-overlooked chapter to the story of the Irish in America which has previously focused almost entirely on the North. He traces the often difficult... more

Pre-Owned The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback) 0520232011 9780520232013

The practice of selling one s tale of woe to make a buck has long been a part of American culture. The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America is a powerful cultural history of how ordinary Americans crafted and sold their... more

Pre-Owned The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback 9780520232013) by Professor Ann Fabian

9780520232013. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 268. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 268 p. The practice of selling one s tale of woe to make a buck has long been a part of American culture. The Unvarnished... more

Portrait: The Life of Thomas Eakins (Paperback - Used) 0393330680 9780393330687

One of America s leading historians McFeely has long been an interpreter of nineteenth-century American writing. A fascinating aspect of this narrative is how he brings the painter into the company of Thoreau Melville and Whitman with whom Eakins... more

America and the Long 19th Century: Bodies of Reform: The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America (Paperback)

Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series From the patricians of the early republic to post-Reconstruction racial scientists from fin de siècle progressivist social reformers to post-war sociologists character that curiously formable yet... more

America and the Long 19th Century: Shadowing the White Manas Burden: U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color Line (Hardcover)

During the height of 19th century imperialism Rudyard Kipling published his famous poem The White Man s Burden. While some of his American readers argued that the poem served as justification for imperialist practices others saw Kipling s satirical... more

America and the Long 19th Century: Neither Fugitive Nor Free: Atlantic Slavery Freedom Suits and the Legal Culture of Travel (Hardcover)

Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Neither Fugitive nor Free draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and court documents to offer a critically and historically engaged understanding of the freedom celebrated in the literary... more

America and the Long 19th Century: Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (Hardcover)

2013 Book Award Winner from the International Research Society in Children s Literature 2012 Outstanding Book Award Winner from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2012 Winner of the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England... more

America and the Long 19th Century: Neither Fugitive Nor Free: Atlantic Slavery Freedom Suits and the Legal Culture of Travel (Paperback)

Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Neither Fugitive nor Free draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and court documents to offer a critically and historically engaged understanding of the freedom celebrated in the literary... more

America and the Long 19th Century: Sites Unseen: Architecture Race and American Literature (Hardcover)

Sites Unseen examines the complex intertwining of race and architecture in nineteenth and early-twentieth century American culture the period not only in which American architecture came of age professionally in the U.S. but also in which ideas about... more

America and the Long 19th Century: Shadowing the White Manas Burden: U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color Line (Paperback)

During the height of 19th century imperialism Rudyard Kipling published his famous poem The White Man s Burden. While some of his American readers argued that the poem served as justification for imperialist practices others saw Kipling s satirical... more

America and the Long 19th Century: Sites Unseen: Architecture Race and American Literature (Paperback)

Sites Unseen examines the complex intertwining of race and architecture in nineteenth and early-twentieth century American culture the period not only in which American architecture came of age professionally in the U.S. but also in which ideas about... more

Second Disestablishment: Church and State in Nineteenth-Century America (Hardcover)

Debates over the proper relationship between church and state in America tend to focus either on the founding period or the twentieth century. Left undiscussed is the long period between the ratification of the Constitution and the 1947 Supreme Court... more

Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America (Hardcover)

Historians have long assumed that new industrial machines and power sources eliminated work animals from nineteenth-century America yet a bird s-eye view of nineteenth-century society would show millions of horses supplying the energy necessary for... more

Images of America: Roslyn (Paperback)

In the 1840s the first wave of city people came to Roslyn attracted by the town s picturesque scenery. Later in the 19th century the Long Island Rail Road made the area appealing to the very wealthy who turned the rolling north shore of Long Island... more

Images of America: Theatres of San Jose (Paperback)

San Joseans have long had their pick of the best in stage and screen entertainment. In the late 19th through the mid-20th centuries theatres were beloved places. Whether in downtown the neighborhoods or surrounding communities theatres provided the... more

Images of America: Peabody (Paperback)

In this the first-ever photographic history of Peabody authors Stephen J. Schier and Kenneth C. Turino document vividly the long and illustrious history of the nineteenth-century s Leather City. Once the largest producer of leather in the world Peabody... more

Images of America: Orleans County (Paperback)

Orleans County is a quiet rural county in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. In the late 18th and early 19th century southern New England settlers moved north to the hills and valleys where the Native American Abenaki had long resided. Life in Orleans... more

Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America (Paperback)

From nineteenth-century public baths to today s private backyard havens swimming pools have long been a provocative symbol of American life. In this social and cultural history of swimming pools in the United States Jeff Wiltse relates how over the... more

Sin in the City : Chicago and Revivalism 1880-1920 9780826217431 Used / Pre-owned

Long before today s culture wars the Third Great Awakening rocked America. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries evangelists such as Dwight L. Moody and Billy Sunday roused citizens to renounce sin as it manifested in popular culture... more

America and the Long 19th Century: Tomorrow s Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America (Hardcover)

Honorable Mention for the 2014 MLA Alan Bray Memorial Award Finalist for the 2013 LAMBDA LGBT Studies Book Award In nineteenth-century America--before the scandalous trial of Oscar Wilde before the public emergence of categories like homo- and... more

America and the Long 19th Century: Emergent Worlds: Alternative States in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (Paperback)

Reimagines the American 19th century through a sweeping interdisciplinary engagement with oceans genres and time Emergent Worlds re-locates nineteenth-century America from the land to the oceans and seas that surrounded it. Edward Sugden argues that... more

America and the Long 19th Century: Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (Paperback)

2013 Book Award Winner from the International Research Society in Children s Literature 2012 Outstanding Book Award Winner from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2012 Winner of the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England... more

Ashgate Library of Essays in Opera Studies: National Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Opera Volume I: Italy France England and the Americas (Hardcover)

This volume covers opera in Italy France England and the Americas during the long nineteenth century (1789-1914). The book is divided into four sections that are thematically rather than geographically conceived: Places-essays centering on contexts for... more

Pre-Owned Picture Freedom: Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century (Paperback 9781479829774) by Jasmine Nichole Cobb

9781479829774. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 288. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white Illustrations color. America and the Long 19th Century 20. In the decades... more

Oration on the hundredth anniversary of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to the combined forces of America and France at Yorktown Virginia 19th October 1781: delivered at Yorktown 19th October 1

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Pre-Owned Passage to America: A History of Emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland America in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Hardcover Terry Coleman

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Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas: Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Americas (Paperback)

During the nineteenth century gridding graphing and surveying proliferated as never before as nations and empires expanded into hitherto unknown territories. Though nominally geared toward justifying territorial claims and collecting scientific data... more

Events That Changed America in the Nineteenth Century 9780313290817 Used / Pre-owned

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Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities 19th Century America 9780253180643 Used / Pre-owned

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Pre-Owned Perfecting the Family : Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth-Century America 9781558490680

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A general collection of voyages and travels from the discovery of America to commencement of the nineteenth century. Volume 28 (1810) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Volume: v. 28 Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1810 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint.... more

Pre-Owned Star-Spangled Eden : 19th Century America Through the Eyes of Dickens Wilde Francis Trollope Frank Harris and Other British Travellers 9780786707348

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Pre-owned Smell Detectives : An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America Hardcover by Kiechle Melanie A.; Sutter Paul S. (FRW) ISBN 0295741937 ISBN-13 9780295741932

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Mapping the Nation : History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America (Hardcover)

In the nineteenth century Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns educators mapped... more

Pre-Owned The Monroe Doctrine : Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America 9780809071913

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Pre-owned Ghosts of Futures Past : Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America Paperback by McGarry Molly ISBN 0520274539 ISBN-13 9780520274532

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