New Directions in Narrative History – serie
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Conversions
Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America
Häftad, 2013
369 kr
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The experiences of two families—one in seventeenth-century Holland, the other in America today—and how they coped when a family member changed religionsThis powerful and innovative work by a gifted cultural historian explores the effects of religious conversion on family relationships, showing how …
Living Man from Africa
Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century South Africa
Häftad, 2013
600 kr
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Born into a Xhosa royal family around 1792 in South Africa, Jan Tzatzoe was destined to live in an era of profound change—one that witnessed the arrival and entrenchment of European colonialism. As a missionary, chief, and cultural intermediary on the eastern Cape frontier and in Cape Town and a …
Captain and "the Cannibal"
An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, and the Broadway Stage
Inbunden, 2015
1035 kr
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The astounding saga of an American sea captain and the New Guinean nobleman who became his stunned captive, then ally, and eventual friendSailing in uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first outsider to encounter the inhabitants of a small …
Arcadian America
The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition
Av Aaron Sachs
Häftad, 2014
770 kr
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How a forgotten environmental tradition of the pre-Civil War era may prove powerfully useful to us nowPerhaps America's best environmental idea was not the national park but the garden cemetery, a use of space that quickly gained popularity in the mid-nineteenth century. Such spaces of repose …
Strange Bird
The Albatross Press and the Third Reich
Inbunden, 2017
437 kr
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The first book about the Albatross Press, a Penguin precursor that entered into an uneasy relationship with the Nazi regime to keep Anglo-American literature alive under fascismThe Albatross Press was, from its beginnings in 1932, a “strange bird”: a cultural outsider to the Third Reich but an …
My Soul Is a Witness
The Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching
Inbunden, 2023
385 kr
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An intimate look at the afterlife of lynching through the personal stories of Black victims and survivors who lived through and beyond its trauma Mari N. Crabtree traces the long afterlife of lynching in the South through the traumatic memories it left in its wake. She unearths how African American …
Sarah Osborn's World
The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America
Inbunden, 2013
450 kr
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A colonial woman's riveting personal journal and correspondence opens a window on America's first-generation evangelicalsIn 1743, sitting quietly with pen in hand, Sarah Osborn pondered how to tell the story of her life, how to make sense of both her spiritual awakening and the sudden destitution …
Sarah Osborn's World
The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America
Häftad, 2017
314 kr
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A colonial woman's riveting personal journal and correspondence opens a window on America's first-generation evangelicalsIn 1743, sitting quietly with pen in hand, Sarah Osborn pondered how to tell the story of her life, how to make sense of both her spiritual awakening and the sudden destitution …
