American Authors, 1600-1900

American Authors, 1600-1900
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Synopsis American Authors, 1600-1900 by : Stanley Kunitz

American Authors, 1600-1900

American Authors, 1600-1900
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Publisher : New York : The H. W. Wilson Company
Total Pages : 864
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015003751743
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Synopsis American Authors, 1600-1900 by : Stanley Kunitz

Complete in one volume with 1300 biographies and 400 portraits.

The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s

The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 641
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ISBN-10 : 9780822392248
ISBN-13 : 0822392240
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Synopsis The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s by : Dorceta E. Taylor

In The Environment and the People in American Cities, Dorceta E. Taylor provides an in-depth examination of the development of urban environments, and urban environmentalism, in the United States. Taylor focuses on the evolution of the city, the emergence of elite reformers, the framing of environmental problems, and the perceptions of and responses to breakdowns in social order, from the seventeenth century through the twentieth. She demonstrates how social inequalities repeatedly informed the adjudication of questions related to health, safety, and land access and use. While many accounts of environmental history begin and end with wildlife and wilderness, Taylor shows that the city offers important clues to understanding the evolution of American environmental activism. Taylor traces the progression of several major thrusts in urban environmental activism, including the alleviation of poverty; sanitary reform and public health; safe, affordable, and adequate housing; parks, playgrounds, and open space; occupational health and safety; consumer protection (food and product safety); and land use and urban planning. At the same time, she presents a historical analysis of the ways race, class, and gender shaped experiences and perceptions of the environment as well as environmental activism and the construction of environmental discourses. Throughout her analysis, Taylor illuminates connections between the social and environmental conflicts of the past and those of the present. She describes the displacement of people of color for the production of natural open space for the white and wealthy, the close proximity between garbage and communities of color in early America, the cozy relationship between middle-class environmentalists and the business community, and the continuous resistance against environmental inequalities on the part of ordinary residents from marginal communities.

A Reference Guide for English Studies

A Reference Guide for English Studies
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 2816
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ISBN-10 : 9780520321878
ISBN-13 : 0520321871
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Synopsis A Reference Guide for English Studies by : Michael J. Marcuse

American Writers

American Writers
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Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Total Pages : 449
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ISBN-10 : 9781438108094
ISBN-13 : 1438108095
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Synopsis American Writers by : Elizabeth H. Oakes

"American Writers focuses on the rich diversity of American novelists

Witnessing America

Witnessing America
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Publisher : Viking Adult
Total Pages : 584
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015038111392
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Synopsis Witnessing America by : Library of Congress

Presents a portait of America's social and cultural history between 1600 and 1900, told through letters, diaries, memoirs, tracts, and other articles and first-hand accounts found in the collections of the Library of Congress.

The Progressive Era's Health Reform Movement

The Progressive Era's Health Reform Movement
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 444
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ISBN-10 : 9780313051852
ISBN-13 : 0313051852
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Synopsis The Progressive Era's Health Reform Movement by : Ruth Clifford Engs

Religious, political, social, and health reform earmarked the Progressive Era. The era's health reform movement—like today's clean living movement—saw campaigns against alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and sexuality. It included crusades for exercise, vegetarian diets, and alternative health care and concerns about eugenics and new diseases. Covering the years leading up to the Progressive Era through the 1920s, this book provides entries on the central figures, events, crusades, legislation, publications and terms of the health reform movements, while a detailed timeline ties health reform to political, social, and religious movements. A valuable resource for scholars, students, and laymen interested in earlier health reform movements.

Cruising Through Research

Cruising Through Research
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 9780313022876
ISBN-13 : 0313022879
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Synopsis Cruising Through Research by : John D. Volkman

Teaching research skills is a breeze with these fun, reproducible lessons! Through a variety of engaging projects, students experience and learn research techniques that they can use throughout their lives. In one lesson, they take a treasure hunt approach, consulting standard library materials such as Current Biography, Dictionary of American History, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, and Contemporary Authors, to find answers to a series of reference questions. In another students write letters (term papers in disguise) that describe in detail a future cruise. In the process they learn how to take notes and combine facts to produce an interesting paper and an accurate bibliography. Projects include topics for science, foreign language, social science, and language arts.