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Cannibals All! Or, Slaves without Masters
Av George Fitzhugh, C. Vann Woodward
Häftad, 1966
373 kr
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Cannibals All! got more attention in William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator than any other book in the history of that abolitionist journal. And Lincoln is said to have been more angered by George Fitzhugh than by any other pro-slavery writer, yet he unconsciously paraphrased Cannibals All! in his …
American Protest Literature
Av Zoe Trodd
Häftad, 2008
332 kr
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“I like a little rebellion now and then”—so wrote Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, enlisting in a tradition that throughout American history has led writers to rage and reason, prophesy and provoke. This is the first anthology to collect and examine an American literature that holds the nation to …
Prison Blossoms
Anarchist Voices from the American Past
Av Alexander Berkman, Henry Bauer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
444 kr
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In 1892, unrepentant anarchists Alexander Berkman, Henry Bauer, and Carl Nold were sent to the Western Pennsylvania State Penitentiary for the attempted assassination of steel tycoon Henry Clay Frick. Searching for a way to continue their radical politics and to proselytize among their fellow …
Puritans among the Indians
Accounts of Captivity and Redemption, 1676–1724
Av Alden T. Vaughn, Alden T. Vaughan m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
397 kr
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These eight reports by white settlers held captive by Indians gripped the imagination not only of early settlers but also of American writers through our history. Puritans among the Indians presents, in modern spelling, the best of the New England narratives. These both delineate the social and …
Memoir of James Jackson, The Attentive and Obedient Scholar, Who Died in Boston, October 31, 1833, Aged Six Years and Eleven Months
Av Susan Paul, Lois Brown
Häftad, 2000
336 kr
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“The design of this Memoir is, to present the incidents in the life of a little colored boy.” So begins the life story of James Jackson, as set down by his African American teacher, Susan Paul, in 1835, as an example to other children and adults who might learn from the boy’s goodness.This …
Fanny Kemble’s Journals
Av Fanny Kemble, Catherine Clinton
Häftad, 2000
336 kr
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Henry James called Fanny Kemble’s autobiography “one of the most animated autobiographies in the language.” Born into the first family of the British stage, Fanny Kemble was one of the most famous woman writers of the English-speaking world, a best-selling author on both sides of the Atlantic. In …
American Party Battle: Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876, Volume 1: 1828–1854
Häftad, 1999
372 kr
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The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. Political parties mapped the landscape of electoral and ideological warfare, …
American Party Battle: Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876, Volume 2: 1854–1876
Häftad, 1999
372 kr
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The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. Political parties mapped the landscape of electoral and ideological warfare, …
On Religious Liberty
Selections from the Works of Roger Williams
Av Roger Williams, James Calvin Davis
Häftad, 2008
327 kr
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Banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his refusal to conform to Puritan religious and social standards, Roger Williams established a haven in Rhode Island for those persecuted in the name of the religious establishment. He conducted a lifelong debate over religious freedom with …
Red Badge of Courage
Av Stephen Crane, Paul Sorrentino
Häftad, 2009
362 kr
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Stephen Crane’s weirdly impressionistic The Red Badge of Courage is one of the first non-romantic novels of the Civil War—and the first nonromantic account to gain wide popularity. Paul Sorrentino introduces Red Badge to a new generation of readers for a fuller appreciation of the novel and its …
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
An American Slave, Written by Himself
Häftad, 2009
116 kr
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No book more vividly explains the horror of American slavery and the emotional impetus behind the antislavery movement than Frederick Douglass’s Narrative. In an introductory essay, Robert B. Stepto reexamines the extraordinary life and achievement of a man who escaped from slavery to become a …
Common Law
Häftad, 2009
258 kr
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Much more than an historical examination of liability, criminal law, torts, bail, possession and ownership, and contracts, The Common Law articulates the ideas and judicial theory of one of the greatest justices of the Supreme Court. G. Edward White reminds us why the book remains essential reading …
Scarlet Letter
Häftad, 2009
362 kr
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Hawthorne’s greatest romance, The Scarlet Letter, is often simplistically seen as a timeless tale of desire, sin, and redemption. In his introduction, Michael J. Colacurcio argues that The Scarlet Letter is a serious historical novel. If Hawthorne’s fiction rigorously and faithfully subjects Hester …
House of the Seven Gables
Häftad, 2009
362 kr
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Following on the heels of The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables was intended to be a far sunnier book than its predecessor and one that would illustrate “the folly” of tumbling down on posterity “an avalanche of ill-gotten gold, or real estate.” Many critics have faulted the novel for …
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Written by Herself, with “A True Tale of Slavery” by John S. Jacobs
Av Harriet A. Jacobs, Jean Fagan Yellin
Häftad, 2009
234 kr
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This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John S. Jacobs’s short slave narrative, A True Tale of Slavery, published in London in 1861, adds a brother’s perspective to …
Jim Crow, American
Selected Songs and Plays
Av T. D. Rice, W. T. Lhamon Jr.
Häftad, 2009
362 kr
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Jim Crow is the figure that has long represented America’s imperfect union. When the white actor Thomas D. Rice took to the stage in blackface as Jim Crow, during the 1830s, a ragged and charismatic trickster began channeling black folklore through American popular culture. This compact edition of …
Tribunal
Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid
Inbunden, 2012
525 kr
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When John Brown led twenty-one men in an attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry on October 16, 1859, he envisioned a biblical uprising of millions of armed bondsmen, thus ridding the nation of the scourge of slavery. The insurrection did not happen, and Brown and the other surviving raiders …
How the Other Half Lives
Studies among the Tenements of New York
Av Jacob A. Riis, Sam Bass Warner Jr.
Häftad, 2010
325 kr
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Since 1959 The John Harvard Library has been instrumental in publishing essential American writings in authoritative editions.Jacob Riis’s pioneering work of photojournalism takes its title from Rabelais’s Pantagruel: “One half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth; considering that no …
Blithedale Romance
Häftad, 2010
362 kr
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One of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s great romances, The Blithedale Romance draws upon the author’s experiences at Brook Farm, the short-lived utopian community where Hawthorne spent much of 1841. Blithedale (“Happy Valley”), another would-be modern Arcadia, is the stage for Hawthorne’s grimly comic …
Selected Stories
Häftad, 2011
362 kr
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Dark, weird, psychologically complex, Hawthorne’s short fiction continues to fascinate readers. Brenda Wineapple has made a generous selection of Hawthorne’s stories, including some of his best-known tales as well as other, less-often anthologized gems. In her introduction, she explores a writer …
Works of Anne Bradstreet
Av Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley
Häftad, 2010
284 kr
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Anne Bradstreet was one of our earliest feminists and the first true poet in the American colonies. This collection of her extant poetry and prose, scrupulously edited by Jeannine Hensley, has long been the standard edition of Bradstreet’s work. Hensley’s introduction sketches the poet’s life, and …
Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
Av Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, Ben Mazer
Inbunden, 2010
481 kr
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Unlike Whitman, Dickinson, or Wordsworth, Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821–1873) never wanted to start a revolution in poetry. Nor did he—like Longfellow or his friend Tennyson—capture or ever try to represent the spirit of his age. Yet he remains one of America’s most passionate, moving, and …
Common Sense
Av Thomas Paine
Häftad, 2010
315 kr
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“In Common Sense a writer found his moment to change the world,” Alan Taylor writes in his introduction. When Paine’s attack on the British mixed constitution of kings, lords, and commons was published in January 1776, fighting had already erupted between British troops and American Patriots, but …
Letters from an American Farmer and Other Essays
Av J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Dennis D. Moore
Inbunden, 2013
481 kr
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Letters from an American Farmer was published in London in 1782, just as the idea of an “American” was becoming a reality. Those epistolary essays introduced the European public to America’s landscape and customs and have since served as the iconic description of a then-new people. Dennis D. …
Pudd’nhead Wilson
Av Mark Twain
Häftad, 2015
362 kr
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When a murder takes place in Dawson’s Landing, Missouri, the lives of twin Italian noblemen, the courageous slave Roxy, her 1/32nd “black” son who has been raised “white,” and a failing lawyer with an intense interest in the science of fingerprinting become tangled. The unsolved riddle at the heart …
Damnation of Theron Ware
Av Harold Frederic, Everett Carter
Häftad, 1996
364 kr
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This Faustian tale of the spiritual disintegration of a young minister, written in the 1890s, deals subtly and powerfully with the impact of science on innocence and the collective despair that marked the transition into the modern age. In its realism, The Damnation of Theron Ware foreshadows …
Fool’s Errand
Av Albion W. Tourgée, John Hope Franklin
Häftad, 1961
468 kr
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What was a carpetbagger? Albion W. Tourgée was called one, and he wrote, “To the southern mind it meant a scion of the North, a son of an ‘abolitionist,’ a creature of the conqueror, a witness to their defeat, a mark of their degradation: to them he was hateful, because he recalled all of evil or …
Journal of John Winthrop, 1630–1649
Av John Winthrop, James Savage m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
2097 kr
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For 350 years Governor John Winthrop's journal has been recognized as the central source for the history of Massachusetts in the 1630s and 1640s. Winthrop reported events--especially religious and political events--more fully and more candidly than any other contemporary observer.The governor's …
Journal of John Winthrop, 1630–1649
Abridged Edition
Av John Winthrop, Richard S. Dunn m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
555 kr
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The journal of Governor John Winthrop, one of the key documents of early New England history, records the first two crucial decades of the Bay Colony. Writing in a precise expository style, Winthrop details the myriad religious and political problems of the new settlement. The modernized abridgment …
Key of Liberty
The Life and Democratic Writings of William Manning, “a Laborer,” 1747–1814
Häftad, 1993
416 kr
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The recovery of the ideas and experiences of William Manning is a major event in the history of the American Revolutionary era. A farmer, foot soldier, and political philosopher, Manning was a powerful democratic voice of the common American in a turbulent age. The public crises of the infant …
