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Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground
Maryland During the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 1987
492 kr
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During the tumultuous Civil War era, the border state of Maryland occupied a middle position both geographically and socially. Situated between the slave-labor states of the lower South and the free-labor states of the North, Maryland—with a black population almost evenly divided between slave and …
Ts`ao Yin and the K`ang-hsi Emperor
Bondservant and Master, Second edition
Häftad, 1988
582 kr
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In this highly praised book, Jonathan D. Spence recounts the story of Ts'ao Yin, hereditary bondservant to the Manchu emperors. Ts'ao Yin, whose great-grandfather was captured and enslaved by the Manchus and whose descendent wrote Dream of the Red Chamber, China's most famous novel, becomes the …
The Rise of the Penitentiary
Prisons and Punishment in Early America
Inbunden, 1992
840 kr
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Before the 19th century, American prisons were used to hold people for trial and not to incarcerate them for wrong-doing. After independence, states began to reject such public punishment as whipping and pillorying and turn to imprisonment instead. Hirsch explores the reasons behind this change.
Idea of Progress in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Inbunden, 1990
1057 kr
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The idea of progress stood at the very center of the intellectual world of eighteenth-century Britain, closely linked to every major facet of the British Enlightenment as well as to the economic revolutions of the period. David Spadafora here provides the most extensive discussion ever written of …
Women and the Work of Benevolence
Morality, Politics, and Class in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Häftad, 1992
468 kr
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Nineteenth-century middle-class Protestant women were fervent in their efforts to "do good." Rhetoric—especially in the antebellum years—proclaimed that virtue was more pronounced in women than in men and praised women for their benevolent influence, moral excellence, and religious faith. In this …
Fallen Women, Problem Girls
Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890-1945
Häftad, 1995
506 kr
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During the first half of the twentieth century, out-of-wedlock pregnancy came to be seen as one of the most urgent and compelling problems of the day. The effort to define its meaning fueled a struggle among three groups of women: evangelical reformers who regarded unmarried mothers as fallen …
Philip III and the Pax Hispanica, 1598-1621
The Failure of Grand Strategy
Av Paul Allen
Inbunden, 2000
959 kr
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Impoverished and exhausted after fifty years of incessant warfare, the great Spanish Empire at the turn of the sixteenth century negotiated treaties with its three most powerful enemies: England, France, and the Netherlands. This intriguing book examines the strategies that led King Philip III to …
Hunter's Game
Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America
Häftad, 2000
455 kr
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This provocative book takes a new look at the angry struggles between American conservationists and local hunters since the rise of wildlife conservation at the end of the 1800s. From Italian immigrants in Pennsylvania, to rural settlers and Indians in New Mexico, to Blackfeet in Montana, local …
Beaufort
The Duke and His Duchess, 1657-1715
Häftad, 2012
541 kr
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The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort survived the tumultuous and uncertain decades that followed the English civil war by creating a remarkable political partnership. Together, they worked to restore their family’s estates and political power base as well as their home, Badminton House in …
Religion and Society in Frontier California
Häftad, 2013
455 kr
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The chaotic and reputedly immoral society of the California mining frontier during the gold rush period greatly worried Protestant evangelicals from the Northeast, and they soon sent missionaries westward to transplant their religious institutions, beliefs, and practices in the area. This book …
Fuzhou Protestants and the Making of a Modern China, 1857-1927
Av Ryan Dunch
Häftad, 2014
528 kr
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In this groundbreaking examination of Chinese Protestants and their place in the history of modern China, Ryan Dunch focuses on the Fuzhou area of southeast China from the mid-nineteenth century until 1927, when a national revolutionary government was established. Though accounting for only a small …
