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Author |
: Susan E. Klepp |
Publisher |
: Penn State Press |
Total Pages |
: 196 |
Release |
: 2010-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0271041137 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780271041131 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Infortunate by : Susan E. Klepp
A rare memoir from the early eighteenth century by an Englishman who traveled to the New World as an indentured servant.
Author |
: Hannah Callender Sansom |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 380 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801475139 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801475139 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Diary of Hannah Callender Sansom by : Hannah Callender Sansom
Hannah Callender Sansom (1737-1801) witnessed the effects of the tumultuous eighteenth century: political struggles, war and peace, and economic development. She experienced the pull of traditional emphases on duty, subjection, and hierarchy and the emergence of radical new ideas promoting free choice, liberty, and independence. Regarding these changes from her position as a well-educated member of the colonial Quaker elite and as a resident of Philadelphia, the principal city in North America, this assertive, outspoken woman described her life and her society in a diary kept intermittently from the time she was twenty-one years old in 1758 through the birth of her first grandchild in 1788. As a young woman, she enjoyed sociable rounds of visits and conviviality. She also had considerable freedom to travel and to develop her interests in the arts, literature, and religion. In 1762, under pressure from her father, she married fellow Quaker Samuel Sansom. While this arranged marriage made financial and social sense, her father's plans failed to consider the emerging goals of sensibility, including free choice and emotional fulfillment in marriage. Hannah Callender Sansom's struggle to become reconciled to an unhappy marriage is related in frank terms both through daily entries and in certain silences in the record. Ultimately she did create a life of meaning centered on children, religion, and domesticity. When her beloved daughter Sarah was of marriageable age, Hannah Callender Sansom made certain that, despite risking her standing among Quakers, Sarah was able to marry for love. Long held in private hands, the complete text of Hannah Callender Sanson's extraordinary diary is published here for the first time. In-depth interpretive essays, as well as explanatory footnotes, provide context for students and other readers. The diary is one of the earliest, fullest documents written by an American woman, and it provides fresh insights into women's experience in early America, the urban milieu of the emerging middle classes, and the culture that shaped both.
Author |
: Rhys Isaac |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 489 |
Release |
: 2005-09-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195189087 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195189086 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom by : Rhys Isaac
In this long-awaited work, Isaac mines the diary of a Revolutionary War-era Virginia planter--and many other sources--to reconstruct his interior world as it plunged into turmoil.
Author |
: Robert Dubin |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1096 |
Release |
: 1976 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105039066563 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Handbook of Work, Organization, and Society by : Robert Dubin
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: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1090 |
Release |
: 1818 |
ISBN-10 |
: IBNF:CF990987808 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Dictionary of the English Language; in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals; and Illustrated in Their Different Significations ... Together with a History of the Language, and an English Grammar. By Samuel Johnson ... Whith Numerous Corrections, and with the Addition of Several Thousand Words ... by the Rev. H.J. Todd ... In Four Volumes. Vol. 1. [-4.] by :
Author |
: Samuel Johnson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 752 |
Release |
: 1818 |
ISBN-10 |
: ONB:+Z178872907 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Dictionary Of The English Language; In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals; And Illustrated In Their Different Significations, By Examples From The Best Writers: Together With A History of the Language, and an English Grammar by : Samuel Johnson
Author |
: Samuel Johnson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1086 |
Release |
: 1818 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:C2652187 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Dictionary of the English Language by : Samuel Johnson
Author |
: John Gilbert McCurdy |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 283 |
Release |
: 2011-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801457807 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801457807 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Citizen Bachelors by : John Gilbert McCurdy
In 1755 Benjamin Franklin observed "a man without a wife is but half a man" and since then historians have taken Franklin at his word. In Citizen Bachelors, John Gilbert McCurdy demonstrates that Franklin's comment was only one side of a much larger conversation. Early Americans vigorously debated the status of unmarried men and this debate was instrumental in the creation of American citizenship. In a sweeping examination of the bachelor in early America, McCurdy fleshes out a largely unexamined aspect of the history of gender. Single men were instrumental to the settlement of the United States and for most of the seventeenth century their presence was not particularly problematic. However, as the colonies matured, Americans began to worry about those who stood outside the family. Lawmakers began to limit the freedoms of single men with laws requiring bachelors to pay higher taxes and face harsher penalties for crimes than married men, while moralists began to decry the sexual immorality of unmarried men. But many resisted these new tactics, including single men who reveled in their hedonistic reputations by delighting in sexual horseplay without marital consequences. At the time of the Revolution, these conflicting views were confronted head-on. As the incipient American state needed men to stand at the forefront of the fight for independence, the bachelor came to be seen as possessing just the sort of political, social, and economic agency associated with citizenship in a democratic society. When the war was won, these men demanded an end to their unequal treatment, sometimes grudgingly, and the citizen bachelor was welcomed into American society. Drawing on sources as varied as laws, diaries, political manifestos, and newspapers, McCurdy shows that in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the bachelor was a simultaneously suspicious and desirable figure: suspicious because he was not tethered to family and household obligations yet desirable because he was free to study, devote himself to political office, and fight and die in battle. He suggests that this dichotomy remains with us to this day and thus it is in early America that we find the origins of the modern-day identity of the bachelor as a symbol of masculine independence. McCurdy also observes that by extending citizenship to bachelors, the founders affirmed their commitment to individual freedom, a commitment that has subsequently come to define the very essence of American citizenship.
Author |
: Sébastien Japrisot |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2014-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0099593998 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780099593997 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Very Long Engagement by : Sébastien Japrisot
During the First World War five French soldiers, accused of a cowardly attempt to evade duty, are bundled into no-man's land and certain death. Five bodies are later recovered, the families are notified that the men died in the line of duty and the whole, distasteful incident appears closed. After the war the fianc-e of one of the men receives a letter which hints at what might have happened. Mathilde Donnay determines to discover the fate of her beloved amid the carnage of battle. A Very Long Engagement turns into an unusual and engrossing thriller as she discovers an increasing number of people trying to put her off the scent. Japrisot's achievement is to have written a novel that is both a suspenseful thriller and one which transforms a single small incident into the epitome of all wartime atrocities. The d-nouement, when it finally happens, is moving and horribly convincing.
Author |
: William Moraley |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 64 |
Release |
: 1743 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:228746819 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Infortunate by : William Moraley