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13 produkter
'Knowledge is Power'
The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865
Häftad, 1992
1073 kr
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One of the leading scholars dealing with early communication history in America, Richard Brown discusses how information moved through eighteenth and nineteenth-century American society, principally through the expansion of the printed word and its change from the property of the learned and …
Knowledge Is Power
The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865
E-bok, 1991
595 kr
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Brown here explores America''s first communications revolution--the revolution that made printed goods and public oratory widely available and, by means of the steamboat, railroad and telegraph, sharply accelerated the pace at which information travelled. He describes the day-to-day experiences of …
Humanitarianism and Suffering
The Mobilization of Empathy
Av Richard Ashby Wilson, Richard D. Brown
Häftad, 2011
555 kr
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Humanitarian sentiments have motivated a variety of manifestations of pity, from nineteenth-century movements to end slavery to the creation of modern international humanitarian law. While humanitarianism is clearly political, this text addresses the ways in which it is also an ethos embedded in …
Humanitarianism and Suffering
The Mobilization of Empathy
Av Richard Ashby Wilson, Richard D. Brown
Inbunden, 2008
1648 kr
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Humanitarian sentiments have motivated a variety of manifestations of pity, from nineteenth-century movements to end slavery to the creation of modern international humanitarian law. While humanitarianism is clearly political, this text addresses the ways in which it is also an ethos embedded in …
Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler
A Story of Rape, Incest, and Justice in Early America
Av Irene Quenzler Brown, Richard D. Brown
Häftad, 2005
323 kr
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In 1806 an anxious crowd of thousands descended upon Lenox, Massachusetts, for the public hanging of Ephraim Wheeler, condemned for the rape of his thirteen-year-old daughter, Betsy. Not all witnesses believed justice had triumphed. The death penalty had become controversial; no one had been …
Strength of a People
The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650-1870
Häftad, 1997
528 kr
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Thomas Jefferson's conviction that the health of the nation's democracy would depend on the existence of an informed citizenry has been a cornerstone of our political culture since the inception of the American republic. Even today's debates over education reform and the need to be competitive in a …
Strength of a People
The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650-1870
E-bok, 2000
535 kr
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Thomas Jefferson’s conviction that the health of the nation’s democracy would depend on the existence of an informed citizenry has been a cornerstone of our political culture since the inception of the American republic. Even today’s debates over education reform and the need to be competitive in a …
Taming Lust
Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic
Av Doron S. Ben-Atar, Richard D. Brown
E-bok, 2014
437 kr
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In 1796, as revolutionary fervor waned and the Age of Reason took hold, an eighty-five-year-old Massachusetts doctor was convicted of bestiality and sentenced to hang. Three years later and seventy miles away, an eighty-three-year-old Connecticut farmer was convicted of the same crime and sentenced …
Taming Lust
Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic
Av Doron S. Ben-Atar, Richard D. Brown
Häftad, 2016
341 kr
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In 1796, as revolutionary fervor waned and the Age of Reason took hold, an eighty-five-year-old Massachusetts doctor was convicted of bestiality and sentenced to hang. Three years later and seventy miles away, an eighty-three-year-old Connecticut farmer was convicted of the same crime and sentenced …
Massachusetts
A Concise History
Av Richard D. Brown, Jack Tager
Häftad, 2000
666 kr
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This volume presents a survey of the rich heritage of the city of Massachusetts, showing how it has long exerted an influence disproportionate to its size. The authors argue that the experiences of the people of Massachusetts have been emblematic of larger themes in American history.
Self-Evident Truths
Contesting Equal Rights from the Revolution to the Civil War
Inbunden, 2017
410 kr
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From a distinguished historian, a detailed and compelling examination of how the early Republic struggled with the idea that “all men are created equal”How did Americans in the generations following the Declaration of Independence translate its lofty ideals into practice? In this broadly synthetic …
