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Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writingsby Roy P. BaslerISBN 0306810751 (0-306-81075-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Afro-American History: Primary Sourcesby Thomas R. FrazierISBN 0256063060 (0-256-06306-0)
Softcover, Dorsey Press
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America's History: Since 1865by James A. HenrettaISBN 0256035474 (0-256-03547-4)
Softcover, Dorsey Press
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The Americas in the Age of Revolution 1750-1850by Lester D. LangleyISBN 0300077262 (0-300-07726-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Americas in the Age of Revolution 1750-1850'Book summary:Within half a century, three European empires fell to American movements for independence. In this innovative and sophisticated account of comparative history, Lester D. Langley considers the revolutions in the American colonies, Saint Domingue (later Haiti), and the "Iberoamerican" independence movements in South America. He compares class leadership, racial factors, and the relative violence of each movement. His study alters the typical framework for analyzing American independence as he considers revolution from a dynamic or systemic perspective. Eschewing questions of causation such as "Why did the revolutions occur?" or "What did they achieve?" he explores instead the importance of place and location as well as what the revolts brought in terms of industrialization, militarization, and material progress. Professor Langley's arguments are based in an intriguing understanding of chaos theory, which he applies to the interpretation of historical experience in order to draw out the roles of probability and randomness as constraints on and conditions for the various revolutionary movements. [via]
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Arthur and Georgeby Julian BarnesISBN 030726310X (0-307-26310-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arthur and George'Book summary:A real tour de force from masterful author Julian Barnes is Arthur & George, which was short-listed for the 2005 Man Booker Prize. Late-Victorian Britain is brought to vivid life in the true story of the intersection of two lives: one an internationally famous author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the other, an obscure country lawyer, George Edalji, son of a Parsi Midlands vicar and a Scottish mother. They start out very differently. Arthur pursues a career in medicine before he discovers that he is really a writer; George, on his way to becoming a lawyer--near-sighted, timid and friendless--is victimized by locals because he is easy to scapegoat--a half-Indian in lily-white Great Wyrley.
The victimization of George takes the form of nasty letters, the theft of a school key, and finally, the accusation that he has mutilated animals. Meanwhile, Arthur is becoming more and more famous for creating Sherlock Holmes, whom he tries to kill off once and is forced to resurrect because of his fans' outcry. He marries, fathers two children and then, when his wife is invalided by consumption, falls madly in love for the first time with Jean Leckie.
The novel's style is smoothly revelatory. We slowly come to realize that George is half-Indian, that Arthur is the famous Doyle, that the woman he loves, chastely, is not his wife and, sadly, that George will not prevail over the forces ranged against him.
When George, desperate to resume his law career after imprisonment, sends Arthur the sad chronicle of his history, Arthur sees immediately that he could not be guilty and sets out to clear his name. This case of George's lifts Arthur from the slough of despond into which he has sunk after his wife, Touie, dies. He is guilt-ridden, constantly wondering if he was attentive enough, if she could possibly have known about Jean. Realizing the immense injustice George has suffered, he is shaken out of lethargy and, in Holmesian fashion, sets out to solve the case.
Julian Barnes is a gifted writer of enormous accomplishment. This novel is thoroughly engrossing, filled with Barnes's trademark themes of identity and love, longing and loss, and ultimately, an examination of man's inhumanity to man. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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Aspects of Aristocracy: Grandeur and Decline in Modern Britainby David CannadineISBN 0300059817 (0-300-05981-7)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aspects of Aristocracy: Grandeur and Decline in Modern Britain'Book summary:In this stylish and provocative book, the eminent historian David Cannadine brings his characterisitc wit and acumen to bear on the British aristocracy, probing behind the legendary escapades and indulgences of aristocrats Such as Lord Curzon, the Hon C.S. Rolls (of Rolls Royce), Winston Churchill, Harold Nicolson, and Vita Sackville -West, and changing our perceptions of them - transforming wastrels into heroes and the self-satisfied into tthe second-rate. Cannasine begins by investigating the land-owning classes as a whole during the last two hundred years, describing their origins, their habits, their increasing debts, and their involvement with the steam train, the horseless carriage, and the aeroplamne. He next focuses on patricians he finds particularly fascinating: Lord Curzon, an unrivaled ceremonial impresario and inventor of traditions; Lord Strickland, part English landowner and part Mediterranean nobleman, who has both an imperial proconsul and prime minister of Malta; and Winston Churchill, whom Cannadine sees as an aristocratic adventureer, a man who has burdened by more than he benefited fromhis family connections and patrician attitudes. Cannadiine then moves from individuals to aristocratic dynasties. He reconstructs the extraordinary financial history of the dukes of Devonshire, narrates the story of the Cozwns-Hardys, a Norfolk family who playeda remarkably varies part in the life of their country, and offers a controversial reapraisal of the forebears, lives, work, and personalities of Harols Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West- a portrait, notes Cannadine, of more than a marriage. [via]
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Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939by John R. StilgoeISBN 0300048661 (0-300-04866-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Byrons and Trevanionsby A. L. RowseISBN 0297775480 (0-297-77548-0)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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A Century of the Scottish People, 1830-1950by T. Christopher SmoutISBN 0300037740 (0-300-03774-0)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. Historyby Rogers M. SmithISBN 0300078773 (0-300-07877-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History'Book summary:Is civic identity in the United States really defined by liberal, democratic political principles? Or is U.S. citizenship the product of multiple traditions -- not only liberalism and republicanism but also white supremacy, Anglo-Saxon supremacy, Protestant supremacy, and male Supremacy? In this powerful and disturbing book, Rogers Smith traces political struggles over U.S. citizenship laws from the colonial period through the Progressive era and shows that throughout this time, most adults were legally denied access to full citizenship, including political rights, solely because of their race, ethnicity, or gender. Basic conflicts over these denials have driven political development and civic membership in the U.S., Smith argues. These conflicts are what truly define U.S. civic identity up to this day.
Others have claimed that nativist, racist, and sexist traditions have been marginal or that they are purely products of capitalist institutions. In contrast, Smith's pathbreaking account explains why these traditions have been central to American political and economic life. He shows that in the politics of nation building, principles of democracy and liberty have often failed to foster a sense of shared "peoplehood" and have instead led many Americans to claim that they are a "chosen people", a "master race" or superior culture, with distinctive gender roles. Smith concludes that today the United States is in a period of reaction against the egalitarian civic reforms of the last generation, with nativist, racist, and sexist beliefs regaining influence. He suggests ways that proponents of liberal democracy should alter their view of U.S. citizenship in order to combat thesedevelopments more effectively.
"An important and original argument that ranges through a long period of American history and makes a major contribution to the debate about the bases of American nationality and civic identity". -- Eric Foner, Columbia University [via]
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Complete Poemsby Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive MabbottISBN 0252069218 (0-252-06921-8)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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The Complete Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea a New Translation of Jules Verne's Science Fiction Classicby Jules Verne, Emanuel J. MickelISBN 0253338107 (0-253-33810-7)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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A Critical Edition of the War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0253328535 (0-253-32853-5)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracyby David CannadineISBN 0300047614 (0-300-04761-4)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Democratic Wish: Popular Participation and the Limits of American Governmentby James MoroneISBN 0300074654 (0-300-07465-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Devil's Church and Other Storiesby MacHado De AssisISBN 0292715420 (0-292-71542-0)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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Disciplines of Virtue: Girls' Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuriesby Lynne ValloneISBN 0300061722 (0-300-06172-2)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Doo-Dah: Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Cultureby Ken EmersonISBN 0306808528 (0-306-80852-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doo-Dah: Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture'Book summary:Ken Emerson's thickly textured narrative features an affectionate examination of American music's diverse strands as well as a perceptive portrait of the nation's first great songwriter. Stephen Foster (1826-64) was born in Pittsburgh and visited the South only briefly, yet songs like "My Old Kentucky Home" and "Oh! Susanna" drew on black Southern culture to create a uniquely American form of popular music. The author is clear-sighted about the complex blend of racism and genuine compassion that infused Foster's "blackface" compositions. [via]
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poemsby Elizabeth Barrett BrowningISBN 0312097514 (0-312-09751-4)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poems'Book summary:I love thee with a love I seemed to lose[via]
With my lost saints-I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Bloomsbury Poetry Classics are selections from the work of some of our greatest poets. The series is aimed at the general reader rather than the specialist and carries no critical or explanatory apparatus. This can be found elsewhere. In the series the poems introduce themselves, on an uncluttered page and in a format that is both attractive and convenient. The selections have been made by the distinguished poet, critic, and biographer Ian Hamilton.More editions of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poems:
English Children and Their Magazines, 1751-1945by Kirsten DrotnerISBN 0300040105 (0-300-04010-5)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1804-1920by Barbara Jelavich, Charles JelavichISBN 0295964138 (0-295-96413-8)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersenby Hans Christian Andersen, Isabelle Brent, Neil PhilipISBN 0276428307 (0-276-42830-7)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen'Book summary:"The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen" is a magnificent collection of 40 of his most magical works, including "The Little Mermaid", "The Princess and the Pea", "The Tinderbox" as well as lesser-known delights such as "The Shepherdess and The Chimney Sweep", "The Teapot and The Goblin at the Grocer's". Unlike many other dull and stilted translations, this collection of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales captures the freshness and sparkle of Andersen's original Danish text. Beautifully illustrated with exquisite watercolours and edged and picked out in sumptuous gold, the "Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen" is a book for both young and old to treasure and the perfect gift for children. The "Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen" begins with an introduction that sets Andersen in the context of earlier and contemporary storytellers and those he has influenced, such as J. K. Rowling. This biographical introduction provides a fascinating account of 'the fairytale of my life' as Andersen described it, backed up with photographs and Andersen's own artworks. The publication date of the "Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen" is set to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Andersen's birth. [via]
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Faustby Martin Greenberg, Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0300056567 (0-300-05656-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust'Book summary:Goethe's "Faust, Part II" is distinguished by its extraordinary range of allusion, tone and style. This translation is designed to offer English-language readers much of the pleasure afforded to readers of the original German. [via]
Flawed Victory: A New Perspective on the Civil Warby William L. BarneyISBN 0275520404 (0-275-52040-4)
Hardcover, Praeger
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France and the Dreyfus Affairby Michael BurnsISBN 0312111673 (0-312-11167-3)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Gendered Strife & Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstructionby Laura F. EdwardsISBN 0252066006 (0-252-06600-6)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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George IVby E. A. SmithISBN 0300088027 (0-300-08802-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Georgian Londonby John Summerson, Howard Montagu ColvinISBN 0300089880 (0-300-08988-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Gladys, Duchess of Marlboroughby Hugo VickersISBN 0297776525 (0-297-77652-5)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Grimm's Fairy Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers GrimmISBN 0307671135 (0-307-67113-5)
Hardcover, Goldencraft
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A History of East Central Europeby Peter F. Sugar, Donald W. TreadgoldISBN 0295953519 (0-295-95351-9)
Hardcover, University of Washington Press
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A History of English Political Thought in the Nineteenth Centuryby John Morrow, Mark FrancisISBN 0312121393 (0-312-12139-3)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The House of Mirthby Edith Wharton, Shari BenstockISBN 0312062346 (0-312-06234-6)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Mirth'Book summary:"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.
One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.
Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Howards Endby E. M. Forster, Alistair M. DuckworthISBN 0312111827 (0-312-11182-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Howards End'Book summary:Margaret Schlegel, engaged to the much older, widowed Henry Wilcox, meets her intended the morning after accepting his proposal and realizes that he is a man who has lived without introspection or true self-knowledge. As she contemplates the state of Wilcox's soul, her remedy for what ails him has become one of the most oft-quoted passages in literature:
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.
Like all of Forster's work, Howards End concerns itself with class, nationality, economic status, and how each of these affects personal relationships. It follows the intertwined fortunes of the Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, and the Wilcox family over the course of several years. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes, on the other hand, can't be bothered with the life of the mind or the heart, leading, instead, outer lives of "telegrams and anger" that foster "such virtues as neatness, decision, and obedience, virtues of the second rank, no doubt, but they have formed our civilization." Helen, after a brief flirtation with one of the Wilcox sons, has developed an antipathy for the family; Margaret, however, forms a brief but intense friendship with Mrs. Wilcox, which is cut short by the older woman's death. When her family discovers a scrap of paper requesting that Henry give their home, Howards End, to Margaret, it precipitates a spiritual crisis among them that will take years to resolve.Forster's 1910 novel begins as a collection of seemingly unrelated events--Helen's impulsive engagement to Paul Wilcox; a chance meeting between the Schlegel sisters and an impoverished clerk named Leonard Bast at a concert; a casual conversation between the sisters and Henry Wilcox in London one night. But as it moves along, these disparate threads gradually knit into a tightly woven fabric of tragic misunderstandings, impulsive actions, and irreparable consequences, and, eventually, connection. Though set in the early years of the 20th century, Howards End seems even more suited to our own fragmented era of e-mails and anger. For readers living in such an age, the exhortation to "only connect" resonates ever more profoundly. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Industrial Madness: Commercial Photography in Paris, 1848-1871by Elizabeth Anne McCauleyISBN 0300038542 (0-300-03854-2)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Kimby Rudyard Kipling, Edward W. Said, Veronica CanalesISBN 030739123X (0-307-39123-X)
Hardcover, Random House Espanol
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Kim es sin duda la gran novela del Premio Nobel Rudyard Kipling. Publicada en 1901. Cuenta la historia de un chico, huérfano de un soldado del regimiento irlandés. Su nombre completo es Kimball OHara, pero se le conoce como Kim. La novela tiene lugar en la India, cuando era aún una colonia británica. Kim pasa su infancia en Lahore donde se encuentra a un lama tibetano que se propone encontrar un río místico. Kim le acompañará en su viaje, durante el que se encontrará al regimiento de su padre, que le adoptará y le enviará a la escuela, aunque en sus vacaciones continuará con su búsqueda. Con el tiempo, Kim será seleccionado por el Coronel Creighton como joven promesa para los servicios secretos. Bajo las órdenes del indio Huree Babu se convierte en un distinguido miembro del los servicios secretos, obteniendo unos papeles de espías rusos en el Himalaya. La novela es una maravillosa evocación de la vida en la India bajo el dominio británico y en última instancia el retrato de un alma dividida entre Oriente y Occidente.More editions of Kim:
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The Lands of Partitioned Poland, 1795-1918by Piotr S. Wandyc<ISBN 0295953586 (0-295-95358-6)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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London 1900: The Imperial Metropolisby Jonathan SchneerISBN 0300089031 (0-300-08903-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Making of Modern London 1815-1914by Gavin Weightman, Steve HumphriesISBN 0283990465 (0-283-99046-5)
Softcover, Sidgwick & Jackson
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A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian Englandby John ToshISBN 0300077793 (0-300-07779-3)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Tosh begins by looking at the experience of boyhood, married life, sex, and fatherhood in the early decades of the nineteenth century -- illustrated by case studies representing a variety of backgrounds -- and then contrasts this with the lives of the late Victorian generation. He finds that the first group of men placed a new value on the home as a reaction to the disorienting experience of urbanization and as a response to the teachings of Evangelical Christianity. Domesticity still proved problematic in practice, however, because most men were likely to be absent from home for most of the day, and the role of father began to acquire its modern indeterminacy. By the 1870s, men were becoming less enchanted with the pleasures of home. Once the rights of wives were extended by law and society, marriage seemed less attractive, and the bachelor world of clubland flourished as never before.
The Victorians declared that to be fully human and fully masculine, men must be active participants in domestic life. In exposing the contradictions in this ideal, they defined the climate for gender politics in the next century. [via]
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Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Reviewby Mark Twain, Michael J. KiskisISBN 0299125440 (0-299-12544-0)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Thus Mark Twain began the first of the twenty-five Chapters from My Autobiography published in the North American Review 19061907. Those chapters contain a unified account of Twain's life recorded in his own unmistakable voice; in them we read his life's story as he intended it to be read and savored.
More than just the story of a literary career, Mark Twains Own Autobiography is securely anchored in the writers relation to his family. His memories of his beloved wife Livy and daughter Susywhat they meant to him as a husband, a father, and an artistconstitute a poignant self-portrait. At the same time, this text draws on Twains immense autobiographical writings for some of his best comic anecdotes, such as those that recall his rambunctious boyhood in Hannibal, his misadventures in the Nevada territory, and his notorious Whittier birthday speech.
Mark Twains Own Autobiography stands as the last of Twains great yarns. Here he tells his story in his own way, freely expressing his joys and sorrows, his affections and hatreds, his rages and reverenceending, as always, tongue-in-cheek: Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.More editions of Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review:
Metropolitan Corridorby John StilgoeISBN 0300034814 (0-300-03481-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Sceneby John R. StilgoeISBN 0300030428 (0-300-03042-8)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-1875by Geoffrey Francis Andrew BestISBN 0297002767 (0-297-00276-7)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the Nineteenth Centuryby Francis Frascina, Nigel Blake, Briony Fer, Tamar GarbISBN 0300055137 (0-300-05513-7)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the Nineteenth Centuryby Nigel Blake, Briony Fer, Francis Frascina, Tamar GarbISBN 0300055145 (0-300-05514-5)
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More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americasby Darlene Clark Hine, David Barry GasparISBN 0253210437 (0-253-21043-7)
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Gender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave mens experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both in reproductive as well as productive capacities. The women did not figure prominently in revolts, because they engaged in less confrontational resistance, emphasizing creative struggle to survive dehumanization and abuse.
The contributors are Hilary Beckles, Barbara Bush, Cheryl Ann Cody, David Barry Gaspar, David P. Geggus, Virginia Meacham Gould, Mary Karasch, Wilma King, Bernard Moitt, Celia E. Naylor-Ojurongbe, Robert A. Olwell, Claire Robertson, Robert W. Slenes, Susan M. Socolow, Richard H. Steckel, and Brenda E. Stevenson.
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Mormonism in Transition: A History of the Latter-Day Saints, 1890-1930by Thomas G. AlexanderISBN 0252065786 (0-252-06578-6)
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Mrs. Astor's New York: Money and Social Power in a Gilded Ageby Eric HombergerISBN 0300105150 (0-300-10515-0)
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Mysteriesby Knut HamsunISBN 0285647288 (0-285-64728-8)
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The Northwest Coast: Or, Three Years' Residence in Washington Territoryby James Gilchrist SwanISBN 0295951907 (0-295-95190-7)
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The Original Memoirs of Charles G. Finneyby Garth M. Rosell, Richard A. G. DupuisISBN 0310243351 (0-310-24335-1)
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Princess and Curdieby George MacDonald, Jean Watson, Peter WaneISBN 0310423104 (0-310-42310-4)
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Psychology: The Briefer Courseby William James, Gordon AllportISBN 0268015570 (0-268-01557-0)
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Reading the Pre-Raphaelitesby T. J. BarringerISBN 0300077874 (0-300-07787-4)
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0307122263 (0-307-12226-3)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner: "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" and Other Essaysby John MacK Faragher, Frederick Jackson TurnerISBN 0300075936 (0-300-07593-6)
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The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentlemanby Mark GirouardISBN 0300034733 (0-300-03473-3)
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The Rime of the Ancient Marinerby Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Paul H. FryISBN 0312112238 (0-312-11223-8)
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The Rise of Silas Laphamby William Dean Howells, Walter J. MeserveISBN 0253350166 (0-253-35016-6)
Hardcover, Indiana University Press
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Robert Southey: Entire Man of Lettersby W. A. SpeckISBN 0300116810 (0-300-11681-0)
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Roots of Disorder: Race and Criminal Justice in the American South, 1817-80by Christopher WaldrepISBN 0252067320 (0-252-06732-0)
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Russia's Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1750-1917by Daniel R. Brower, Edward J. LazzeriniISBN 0253211131 (0-253-21113-1)
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Samuel Taylor Coleridgeby Samuel Taylor ColeridgeISBN 0312112505 (0-312-11250-5)
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Selected Poems: Walt Whitmanby Walt WhitmanISBN 0312097549 (0-312-09754-9)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Sexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine Between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuriesby Ludmilla JordanovaISBN 0299122948 (0-299-12294-8)
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The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History Transcontinental America 1850-1915by D.W. MeinigISBN 0300082908 (0-300-08290-8)
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Shelley: The Pursuitby Richard HolmesISBN 0297767224 (0-297-76722-4)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Silkby Alessandro Baricco, Ann GoldsteinISBN 0307277976 (0-307-27797-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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There Joncour meets a woman. They do not touch; they do not even speak. And he cannot read the note she sends him until he has returned to his own country. But in the moment he does, Joncour is possessed. [via]More editions of Silk:
Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880S-1920sby Nancy A. HewittISBN 0252071913 (0-252-07191-3)
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The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular Warby David GatesISBN 0306810832 (0-306-81083-2)
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Sweetness and Light : The "Queen Anne" Movement, 1860-1900by Mark GirouardISBN 0300030681 (0-300-03068-1)
Softcover, Yale University Press
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Tales and Stories from Hans Christian Andersenby H. C. Andersen, Sven Hakon Rossel, Patricia L. ConroyISBN 0295959363 (0-295-95936-3)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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The Victorian Country Houseby Mark GirouardISBN 0300034725 (0-300-03472-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Visual Novel : Emile Zola and the Art of His Timesby William J. BergISBN 0271008261 (0-271-00826-1)
Hardcover, Pennsylvania State University Press
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Wilderness and the American Mindby Roderick NashISBN 0300091222 (0-300-09122-2)
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The Wind in the Willowsby Kenneth GrahameISBN 0307671178 (0-307-67117-8)
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The Worm in the Bud: The World of Victorian Sexualityby Ronald PearsallISBN 0297176633 (0-297-17663-3)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Editionby Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Julie Bates DockISBN 0271017341 (0-271-01734-1)
Softcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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