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Battle for Christmas
E-bok, 2010
242 kr
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Anyone who laments the excesses of Christmas might consider the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts: they simply outlawed the holiday. The Puritans had their reasons, since Christmas was once an occasion for drunkenness and riot, when poor "wassailers extorted food and drink from the well-to-do. In …
Sex, Diet, and Debility in Jacksonian America
Sylvester Graham and Health Reform
Inbunden, 1980
641 kr
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Salem Possessed
The Social Origins of Witchcraft
Av Paul Boyer, Stephen Nissenbaum
Häftad, 1976
276 kr
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Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill.The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion, individual and organized, which had been growing for more than a generation before the …
All Over the Map
Rethinking American Regions
Av Edward L. Ayers, Patricia Nelson Limerick m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
468 kr
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Even as Americans keep moving "all over the map" in the late twentieth century, they cherish memories of the places they come from. But where do these places-these regions-come from? What makes them so real? In this groundbreaking book a distinguished group of historians explores the concept of …
Behind the Christmas Tree
The Surprising Story of a German Abolitionist Radical and America''s Favorite Evergreen
E-bok, 2014
17 kr
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From the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Battle for Christmas, here is the story of America''s first reported Christmas tree: a tale of antislavery and radical German philosophy, a popular British travel writer and Boston Brahmin elites, the education of nineteenth-century children and candles blowing …
