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20,000 Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 067143473X (0-671-43473-X)
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The Age of Napoleonby Will Durant, Ariel DurantISBN 067121988X (0-671-21988-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Alas! the Love of Women: 1813-1814by George Gordon Byron, Leslie A. MarchandISBN 0674089421 (0-674-08942-1)
Hardcover, Belknap Pr
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The Americanization of the Common Law: The Impact of Legal Change on Massachusetts Society, 1760-1830by William E. NelsonISBN 0674029720 (0-674-02972-0)
Softcover, Harvard University Press
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Andersen's Fairy Talesby Hans Christian Andersen, H. B. Paull, Edgar Lucas, Ronald CrociISBN 0671475592 (0-671-47559-2)
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The Arcades Projectby Walter Benjamin, Kevin McLaughlin, Howard EilandISBN 0674008022 (0-674-00802-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arcades Project'Book summary:You could spend years trying to read Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project--after all, he spent much of the last 13 years of his life doing the research. When he committed suicide in 1940, he destroyed his copy of the manuscript, and so for decades the work was believed lost. But another copy turned up, and Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin have translated it into English. It is a complex, fragmentary work--more a series of notes for a book than a book itself--which probes the culture of the Paris arcades (a cross between covered streets and shopping malls) of the mid-19th century and the flaneur ("the man who walks long and aimlessly through the streets" in an "anamnestic intoxication [that] ... feeds on the sensory data taking shape before his eyes but often possesses itself of abstract knowledge--indeed, of dead facts--as something experienced and lived through"). The Arcades Project is, frankly, so dense a work that one hardly has enough time to glimpse fleetingly at its sections--over 100 pages of notes on Baudelaire alone!--before mentioning it to you, though one certainly looks forward to the opportunity to peruse it at leisure. [via]
Aristocracy and Peopleby Norman GashISBN 0674044916 (0-674-04491-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Between Two Worlds: 1820by George Gordon Byron, Leslie A. MarchandISBN 0674089472 (0-674-08947-2)
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The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousnessby Paul GilroyISBN 0674076060 (0-674-07606-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness'Book summary:Afrocentrism. Eurocentrism. Caribbean Studies. British Studies. To the forces of cultural nationalism hunkered down in their camps, this bold hook sounds a liberating call. There is,Paul Gilroy tells us, a culture that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or British, but all of these at once, a black Atlantic culture whose themes and techniques transcend ethnicity and nationality to produce something new and, until now, unremarked. Challenging the practices and assumptions of cultural studies, The Black Atlantic also complicates and enriches our understanding of modernism.
Debates about postmodernism have cast an unfashionable pall over questions of historical periodization. Gilroy bucks this trend by arguing that the development of black culture in the Americas arid Europe is a historical experience which can be called modern for a number of clear and specific reasons. For Hegel, the dialectic of master and slave was integral to modernity, and Gilroy considers the implications of this idea for a transatlantic culture. In search of a poetics reflecting the politics and history of this culture, he takes us on a transatlantic tour of the music that, for centuries, has transmitted racial messages and feeling around the world, from the Jubilee Singers in the nineteenth century to Jimi Hendrix to rap. He also explores this internationalism as it is manifested in black writing from the "double consciousness" of W. E. B. Du Bois to the "double vision" of Richard Wright to the compelling voice of Toni Morrison.
In a final tour de force, Gilroy exposes the shared contours of black and Jewish concepts of diaspora in order both to establish a theoretical basis for healing rifts between blacks and Jews in contemporary culture and to further define the central theme of his book: that blacks have shaped a nationalism, if not a nation, within the shared culture of the black Atlantic.
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Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sailby W. Jeffrey BolsterISBN 0674076273 (0-674-07627-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail'Book summary:Among the more intriguing facts that this fascinating book contains is this statistic: by 1803, nearly 20 percent of seamen's jobs were filled by black men, most of them freemen. Historian Jeffrey Bolster, himself a sailor for a decade, covers the story of black sailors from Africa through mid-1800s America. Working as seamen helped blacks support families and helped facilitate communication among widely dispersed people. There were dangers--free blacks could be kidnapped and sold into slavery, and all black sailors were subject to vicious racism. Yet for all the drawbacks, sailing was a profession black men saw as "an occupation of opportunity." [via]
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Born for Opposition: 1821by George Gordon Byron, Leslie A. MarchandISBN 0674089480 (0-674-08948-0)
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Kneeby Dee Brown, Sam BrownISBN 0671494120 (0-671-49412-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee'Book summary:First published in 1970, this extraordinary book changed the way Americans think about the original inhabitants of their country. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending 30 years later with the massacre of Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, it tells how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society. During these three decades, America's population doubled from 31 million to 62 million. Again and again, promises made to the Indians fell victim to the ruthlessness and greed of settlers pushing westward to make new lives. The Indians were herded off their ancestral lands into ever-shrinking reservations, and were starved and killed if they resisted. It is a truism that "history is written by the victors"; for the first time, this book described the opening of the West from the Indians' viewpoint. Accustomed to stereotypes of Indians as red savages, white Americans were shocked to read the reasoned eloquence of Indian leaders and learn of the bravery with which they and their peoples endured suffering. With meticulous research and in measured language overlaying brutal narrative, Dee Brown focused attention on a national disgrace. Still controversial but with many of its premises now accepted, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee has sold 5 million copies around the world. Thirty years after it first broke onto the national conscience, it has lost none of its importance or emotional impact. --John Stevenson [via]
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Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern Chinaby Elizabeth J. Perry, Merle GoldmanISBN 067400843X (0-674-00843-X)
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Damnation of Theron Wareby Harold FrederickISBN 0674190017 (0-674-19001-7)
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David to Delacroixby Walter F. FriedlaenderISBN 0674194012 (0-674-19401-2)
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Defining Germany: The 1848 Frankfurt Parliamentarians and National Identityby Brian E. VickISBN 0674009118 (0-674-00911-8)
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Emerson in His Journalsby Joel PorteISBN 0674248627 (0-674-24862-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emerson in His Journals'Book summary:This long-awaited volume offers the general reader the heart of Emerson's journals, that extraordinary series of diaries and notebooks in which he poured out his thoughts for more than fifty years, beginning with the "luckless ragamuffin ideas" of his college days.
Emerson as revealed in his journals is more spontaneous, more complex, more human and appealing than he appears in the published works. This man is the seeker rather than the sage; he records the turmoil, struggle, and questioning that preceded the serene and confident affirmations of the essays. He is honest, earthy, tough-minded, self-critical ("I am a lover of indolence, & of the belly"), warm in his enthusiasms, a witty and sharp observer of people and events. Everything is grist for his mill: personal experiences, his omnivorous reading, ruminations on matters large and small, his doubts and perplexities, public issues and local gossip. There are abrupt shifts in subject and tone, reflecting the variousness of his moods and the restless energy of his mind.
Drawing from Harvard's sixteen-volume scholarly edition of the journals--but omitting the textual apparatus that makes it hard to read--Joel Porte presents a sympathetic selection that brings us close to Emerson the man.
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Emerson in His Journalsby Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel PorteISBN 0674248619 (0-674-24861-9)
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Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923by Efraim Karsh, Inari KarshISBN 0674005414 (0-674-00541-4)
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Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Centuryby Barbara TaylorISBN 0674270231 (0-674-27023-1)
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The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracyby Bruce AckermanISBN 0674023951 (0-674-02395-1)
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Fairy Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers GrimmISBN 0671437925 (0-671-43792-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Famous in My Time: 1810-1812by George Gordon Byron, Leslie A. MarchandISBN 0674089413 (0-674-08941-3)
Hardcover, Belknap Pr
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Fevre Dreamby George R.R. MartinISBN 0671431854 (0-671-43185-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fevre Dream'Book summary:From George R.R. Martin, author of the New York Times best-selling novel series A Song of Ice and Fire, comes a moonlit tale of feuding vampire clans, death, and debauchery in the bayou! Set in 1857 along the muddy Mississippi, FEVRE DREAM introduces Abner Marsh, a remarkably ugly man who longs to captain the fastest steamboat on the river. When a pale, mysterious gentleman named Joshua who keeps strange hours and stranger friends approaches him with an offer of partnership, Abners dreams appear to come true& though he may have unleashed a nightmare on the unsuspecting shores! Adapted by Hugo-nominated author Daniel Abraham and artist Rafa Lopez, this graphic novel stays faithful to Martins original dark vision, immersing the reader in the tortures and joys of vampire society. Includes an original introduction by the legendary author! [via]
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The Fire Roseby Mercedes LackeyISBN 067187750X (0-671-87750-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fire Rose'Book summary:San Francisco, 1905: Rosalind, a medieval scholar, is hired by Jason, a powerful sorcerer. Jason's enemy offers to restore Rosalind's family fortune if she will betray Jason. And then the earthquake strikes. . . . [via]
The Flesh Is Frail: 1818-1819by George Gordon Byron, Leslie A. MarchandISBN 0674089464 (0-674-08946-4)
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'For Freedom's Battleby George Gordon Byron, Leslie A. MarchandISBN 0674089537 (0-674-08953-7)
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Frederick Douglassby William S. McFeelyISBN 067175971X (0-671-75971-X)
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The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Lifeby Michael SchudsonISBN 0674356403 (0-674-35640-3)
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Good Earthby Pearl S. BuckISBN 0671510126 (0-671-51012-6)
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The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Lifeby Nancy TomesISBN 0674357086 (0-674-35708-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life'Book summary:AIDS. Ebola. "Killer microbes." All around us the alarms are going off, warning of the danger of new, deadly diseases. And yet, as Nancy Tomes reminds us in her absorbing book, this is really nothing new. A remarkable work of medical and cultural history, The Gospel of Germs takes us back to the first great "germ panic" in American history, which peaked in the early 1900s, to explore the origins of our modern disease consciousness.
Little more than a hundred years ago, ordinary Americans had no idea that many deadly ailments were the work of microorganisms, let alone that their own behavior spread such diseases. The Gospel of Germs shows how the revolutionary findings of late nineteenth-century bacteriology made their way from the laboratory to the lavatory and kitchen, with public health reformers spreading the word and women taking up the battle on the domestic front. Drawing on a wealth of advice books, patent applications, advertisements, and oral histories, Tomes traces the new awareness of the microbe as it radiated outward from middle-class homes into the world of American business and crossed the lines of class, gender, ethnicity, and race.
Just as we take some of the weapons in this germ war for granted--fixtures as familiar as the white porcelain toilet, the window screen, the refrigerator, and the vacuum cleaner--so we rarely think of the drastic measures deployed against disease in the dangerous old days before antibiotics. But, as Tomes notes, many of the hygiene rules first popularized in those days remain the foundation of infectious disease control today. Her work offers a timely look into the history of our long-standing obsession with germs, its impact on twentieth-century culture and society, and its troubling new relevance to our own lives.
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Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sexby Alice Domurat DregerISBN 0674001893 (0-674-00189-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex'Book summary:Punctuated with remarkable case studies, this book explores extraordinary encounters between hermaphrodites--people born with "ambiguous" sexual anatomy--and the medical and scientific professionals who grappled with them. Alice Dreger focuses on events in France and Britain in the late nineteenth century, a moment of great tension for questions of sex roles. While feminists, homosexuals, and anthropological explorers openly questioned the natures and purposes of the two sexes, anatomical hermaphrodites suggested a deeper question: just how many human sexes are there? Ultimately hermaphrodites led doctors and scientists to another surprisingly difficult question: what is sex, really?
Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex takes us inside the doctors' chambers to see how and why medical and scientific men constructed sex, gender, and sexuality as they did, and especially how the material conformation of hermaphroditic bodies--when combined with social exigencies--forced peculiar constructions. Throughout the book Dreger indicates how this history can help us to understand present-day conceptualizations of sex, gender, and sexuality. This leads to an epilogue, where the author discusses and questions the protocols employed today in the treatment of intersexuals (people born hermaphroditic). Given the history she has recounted, should these protocols be reconsidered and revised?
A meticulously researched account of a fascinating problem in the history of medicine, this book will compel the attention of historians, physicians, medical ethicists, intersexuals themselves, and anyone interested in the meanings and foundations of sexual identity.
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A History Of American Lawby Lawrence Meir FriedmanISBN 0671528076 (0-671-52807-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History Of American Law'Book summary:"A History of American Law" has become a classic for students of law, American history and sociology across the country. In this brilliant and immensely readable book, Lawrence M. Friedman tells the whole fascinating story of American law from its beginnings in the colonies to the present day. By showing how close the life of the law is to the economic and political life of the country, he makes a complex subject understandable and engrossing. "A History of American Law" presents the achievements and failures of the American legal system in the context of America's commercial and working world, family practices and attitudes toward property, slavery, government, crime and justice.
Now Professor Friedman has completely revised and enlarged his landmark work, incorporating a great deal of new material. The book contains newly expanded notes, a bibliography and a bibliographical essay. [via]
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In My Hot Youth: 1798-1810by George Gordon Byron, Leslie A. MarchandISBN 0674089405 (0-674-08940-5)
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Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americansby Joyce ApplebyISBN 0674006631 (0-674-00663-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans'Book summary:Born after the Revolution, the first generation of Americans inherited a truly new world--and, with it, the task of working out the terms of Independence. Anyone who started a business, marketed a new invention, ran for office, formed an association, or wrote for publication was helping to fashion the world's first liberal society. These are the people we encounter in Inheriting the Revolution, a vibrant tapestry of the lives, callings, decisions, desires, and reflections of those Americans who turned the new abstractions of democracy, the nation, and free enterprise into contested realities.
Through data gathered on thousands of people, as well as hundreds of memoirs and autobiographies, Joyce Appleby tells myriad intersecting stories of how Americans born between 1776 and 1830 reinvented themselves and their society in politics, economics, reform, religion, and culture. They also had to grapple with the new distinction of free and slave labor, with all its divisive social entailments; the rout of Enlightenment rationality by the warm passions of religious awakening; the explosion of small business opportunities for young people eager to break out of their parents' colonial cocoon. Few in the nation escaped the transforming intrusiveness of these changes. Working these experiences into a vivid picture of American cultural renovation, Appleby crafts an extraordinary--and deeply affecting--account of how the first generation established its own culture, its own nation, its own identity.
The passage of social responsibility from one generation to another is always a fascinating interplay of the inherited and the novel; this book shows how, in the early nineteenth century, the very idea of generations resonated with new meaning in the United States. [via]
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The Invisible Man/the War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0671471139 (0-671-47113-9)
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John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Lifeby Paul C. NagelISBN 0674479408 (0-674-47940-8)
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The Language of Canaan: Metaphor and Symbol in New England from the Puritans to the Transcendentalistsby Lowance, Mason I., Jr.ISBN 0674509498 (0-674-50949-8)
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollowby Washington Irving, Austin M. FoxISBN 0671462113 (0-671-46211-3)
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Lincoln at Gettysburgby Garry WillsISBN 0671769561 (0-671-76956-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lincoln at Gettysburg'Book summary:A former professor of Greek at Yale University, Wills painstakingly deconstructs Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and discovers heavy influence from the early Greeks (Pericles) and the 19th century Transcendentalists (Edward Everett). The author also probes Lincoln's decision to rely more on the Declaration of Independence than the U.S. Constitution, a decision Wills says represented a "revolution in thought." He speaks effusively of the 272-word address: "All modern political prose descends from [it]. The Address does what all great art accomplishes. [I]t tease[s] us out of thought." Wills' book won the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. [via]
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Lincoln at Gettysburg : The Words That Remade Americaby Garry WillsISBN 0671867423 (0-671-86742-3)
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Lonesome Doveby Larry McMurtryISBN 067168390X (0-671-68390-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lonesome Dove'Book summary:Larry McMurtry, in books like The Last Picture Show, has depicted the modern degeneration of the myth of the American West. The subject of Lonesome Dove, cowboys herding cattle on a great trail-drive, seems like the very stuff of that cliched myth, but McMurtry bravely tackles the task of creating meaningful literature out of it. At first the novel seems the kind of anti-mythic, anti-heroic story one might expect: the main protagonists are a drunken and inarticulate pair of former Texas Rangers turned horse rustlers. Yet when the trail begins, the story picks up an energy and a drive that makes heroes of these men. Their mission may be historically insignificant, or pointless--McMurtry is smart enough to address both possibilities--but there is an undoubted valor in their lives. The result is a historically aware, intelligent, romantic novel of the mythic west that won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. [via]
Manhood at Harvard: William James and Othersby Kim TownsendISBN 0674548043 (0-674-54804-3)
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The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinsonby Emily Dickinson, Ralph W. FranklinISBN 0674548280 (0-674-54828-0)
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Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North Americaby Ira BerlinISBN 0674002113 (0-674-00211-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America'Book summary:When Americans look at slavery, they conjure up images of tired black bodies picking cotton from sunup to sundown under Southern skies. That image is partly true, but, as the noted history professor Ira Berlin details, the lives of slaves in America's racist system were complex and diverse. "Viewing slavery through the perspective of what slaves did most of the time," Berlin writes, "provides a means to draw some fundamental distinctions and find some essential commonalities among the various experiences of North America."
Berlin reveals the color-caste codes of the Afro-Creoles of the Chesapeake, the survival of African culture in the South Carolina-Georgia-Florida coastal area, and the intermingling of Africans with French and Spanish in the Mississippi Delta area. He weaves a woeful and wondrous tale of the mores, occupations, conflicts, wars, and rebellions that made up the ongoing relationships between masters and slaves. Many Thousands Gone is an excellent companion to Philip D. Morgan's Slave Counterpoint, revealing the influence the "peculiar institution" of slavery had on those of African and European descent alike. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Mornings on Horsebackby David G. McCulloughISBN 0671447548 (0-671-44754-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mornings on Horseback'Book summary:FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF JOHN ADAMS
Winner of the 1982 National Book Award for Biography, Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as a masterpiece by Newsday, it is the story of a remarkable little boy -- seriously handicapped by recurrent and nearly fatal attacks of asthma -- and his struggle to manhood.
His father -- the first Theodore Roosevelt, "Greatheart," -- is a figure of unbounded energy, enormously attractive and selfless, a god in the eyes of his small, frail namesake. His mother -- Mittie Bulloch Roosevelt -- is a Southerner and celebrated beauty.
Mornings on Horseback spans seventeen years -- from 1869 when little "Teedie" is ten, to 1886 when he returns from the West a "real life cowboy" to pick up the pieces of a shattered life and begin anew, a grown man, whole in body and spirit.
This is a tale about family love and family loyalty...about courtship, childbirth and death, fathers and sons...about gutter politics and the tumultuous Republican Convention of 1884...about grizzly bears, grief and courage, and "blessed" mornings on horseback at Oyster Bay or beneath the limitless skies of the Badlands. [via]
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Once and Alwaysby Judith McNaughtISBN 0671737627 (0-671-73762-7)
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The Plays of Ibsenby Henrik IbsenISBN 0671607669 (0-671-60766-9)
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Psychology: The Briefer Courseby William JamesISBN 0674721020 (0-674-72102-0)
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The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hopeby Andrew DelbancoISBN 0674003837 (0-674-00383-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope'Book summary:The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope is a jewel of a book by Andrew Delbanco. It distills the spiritual history of the United States into three short chapters: "God," "Nation," and "Self." Delbanco writes that the history of hope in America is a history "of diminution." In Puritan New England, "the self expanded toward (and was sometimes overwhelmed by) the vastness of God." Between the rise of Constitutional Democracy and the post-World War II Great Society, citizens' hopes "remained implicated in a national ideal lesser than God but larger and more enduring than any individual citizen." And today, Delbanco believes, "hope has narrowed to the vanishing point of the self alone." But The Real American Dream is still cautiously optimistic in its final analysis of our self-centered society. "[T]he sense of fairness and decency for which the American people are regularly complimented by their politicians is actually real and abiding. Against all odds, the live issues of our day are still sometimes debated with dignity." --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0671740814 (0-671-74081-4)
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The Rise of Respectable Society: A Social History of Victorian Britain, 1830-1900by F.M.L. ThompsonISBN 0674772865 (0-674-77286-5)
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Selected Proseby John H. Reynolds, Leonidas M. JonesISBN 0674799356 (0-674-79935-6)
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Seven Contemporary Short Novelsby ClercISBN 0673155692 (0-673-15569-2)
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Short History the American Nationby John A. GarratyISBN 0673980286 (0-673-98028-6)
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A Shovel of Stars: The Making of the American West - 1800 to the Presentby Ted MorganISBN 0671794396 (0-671-79439-6)
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So Late into the Night: 1816-1817by George Gordon Byron, Leslie A. MarchandISBN 0674089456 (0-674-08945-6)
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Something Wonderfulby Judith McNaughtISBN 0671737635 (0-671-73763-5)
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Strange Dislocations: Childhood and the Idea of Human Interiority, 1780-1930by Carolyn SteedmanISBN 0674839781 (0-674-83978-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Strange Dislocations: Childhood and the Idea of Human Interiority, 1780-1930'Book summary:Strange, deformed, and piercingly beautiful, the child acrobat Mignon sprang onto the public stage in 1795. No child at all, but a figment of Goethe's fiction, Mignon appeared and reappeared in countless forms and guises over the next century. The meaning of this compelling creature is at the center of Carolyn Steedman's book, a brilliant account of how nineteenth-century notions of childhood, like those expressed in the figure of Mignon, gave birth to the modern idea of a self.
During the last century, a change took place in the way people in Western societies understood themselves--the way they understood the self and how it came into being. Steedman tracks this development through changing attitudes about children and childhood as these appear in literature and law, medicine, science, and social history. Moving from the world of German fiction to that of child acrobats and street arabs in nineteenth-century Britain, from the theories of Freud to those of Foucault, she shows how the individual and personal history that a child embodied came to represent human "insideness." Particularly important for understanding this change is the part that Freudian psychoanalysis played, between 1900 and 1920, in summarizing and reformulating the Victorian idea that the core of an individual's psychic identity was his or her own lost past, or childhood.
Using the perspectives of social and cultural history, and the history of psychology and physiology, Strange Dislocations traces a search for the self, for a past that is lost and gone, and the ways in which, over the last hundred years, the lost vision has come to assume the form of a child.
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Streets of Laredoby Larry McMurtryISBN 0671537466 (0-671-53746-6)
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Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860by Morton HorwitzISBN 0674903714 (0-674-90371-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860'Book summary:In a remarkable book based on prodigious research, Morton J. Horwitz offers a sweeping overview of the emergence of a national (and modern) legal system from English and colonial antecedents. He treats the evolution of the common law as intellectual history and also demonstrates how the shifting views of private law became a dynamic element in the economic growth of the United States. Horwitz's subtle and sophisticated explanation of societal change begins with the common law, which was intended to provide justice for all. The great breakpoint came after 1790 when the law was slowly transformed to favor economic growth and development. The courts spurred economic competition instead of circumscribing it. This new instrumental law flourished as the legal profession and the mercantile elite forged a mutually beneficial alliance to gain wealth and power. The evolving law of the early republic interacted with political philosophy, Horwitz shows. The doctrine of laissez-faire, long considered the cloak for competition, is here seen as a shield for the newly rich. By the 1840s the overarching reach of the doctrine prevented further distribution of wealth and protected entrenched classes by disallowing the courts very much power to intervene in economic life. This searching interpretation, which connects law and the courts to the real world, will engage historians in a new debate. For to view the law as an engine of vast economic transformation is to challenge in a stunning way previous interpretations of the eras of revolution and reform. [via]
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The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson's Bostonby Albert J. Von FrankISBN 0674908503 (0-674-90850-3)
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 0671555782 (0-671-55578-2)
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Until Youby Judith McNaughtISBN 0671880608 (0-671-88060-8)
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0671673041 (0-671-67304-1)
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Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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We the People: Transformationsby Bruce AckermanISBN 0674003977 (0-674-00397-7)
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Wedlock's the Devil: 1814-1815by George Gordon Byron, Leslie A. MarchandISBN 0674089448 (0-674-08944-8)
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