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"Licentious Liberty" in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Re...
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To studies of Brazilian slavery this book adds a new dimension by showing how it developed in a region where mining was the chief commercial activity and how important a role gender played in this frontier setting in creating opportunities for slaves to achieve some measure of autonomy, compared wit..
Pennsylvalia State University Press
A City Transformed: Redevelopment, Race, and Subur...
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As was true of many American cities, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, adopted urban renewal programs in the postwar years to revitalize a downtown that was experiencing economic decline. As the commercial and residential infrastructure of the city decayed, people and jobs migrated to the suburbs. Urban rene..
A Conceptual Guide to Finnegans Wake
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"Intended to 'make a solid statement as to where we stand right now' in rendering this inordinately complex work accessible, this collection provides quite a useful, systematic review of the novel as a whole. Several contributors effectively summarize recent critical work. A substantial addition to ..
A Monk's Confession: The Memoirs of Guibert of Nog...
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A Monk's Confession is the first completely new English translation of Guibert of Nogent's remarkable memoirs in over seventy years. Written around the year 1115, they offer an unparalleled look at the life of a monk in the Middle Ages. Guibert, who lived his entire life in northern France, called t..
A Philosopher’s Story
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A Philosopher’s Story is the autobiography of a prominent philosopher whose interactions with other leading thinkers and experiences at major institutions of higher learning over a period of time of more than fifty years make this an informative introduction to the intellectual life of late twentiet..
Pennsylvania State University Press
American Baseball. Vol. 1: From Gentleman's Sport ...
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How did "America's National Game" evolve from a gentlemen's pastime in the 1850s to a national obsession in the Roaring Twenties What really happened at Cooperstown in 1839, and why does the "Doubleday legend" persist How did the commissioner system develop, and what was the impact of the "Black S..
Angels and Wild Things: The Archetypal Poetics of ...
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Over the course of more than eighty books that he has written and illustrated in a career that has spanned four decades, Maurice Sendak has become the most influential and, at times, the most controversial creator of works for children. Each of the books in his trilogy-Where the Wild Things Are, In ..
Antebellum American Culture: An Interpretive Antho...
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First published in 1979, this volume offers students and teachers a unique view of American history prior to the Civil War. Distinguished historian David Brion Davis has chosen a diverse array of primary sources that show the actual concerns, hopes, fears, and understandings of ordinary antebellum A..
Architecture and Artifacts of the Pennsylvania Ger...
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How did a mid-eighteenth-century group, the so-called Pennsylvania Germans, build their cultural identity in the face of ethnic stereotyping, nostalgic ideals, and the views imposed by outside contemporaries Numerous forces create a group’s identity, including the views of outsiders, insiders, and ..
Art of Estrangement: Redefining Jews in Reconquest...
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At its peak in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the so-called Spanish Reconquest transformed the societies of the Iberian Peninsula at nearly every level. Among the most vivid signs of this change were the innovative images developed by Christians to depict the subjugated Muslims and Jews withi..
Beckett Translating/Translating Beckett
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Up to now, Samuel Beckett has been considered largely as a commentator on the human condition and on the angst of our time, and as a novelist and a playwright who undermines and manipulates the metaphysical assumptions and conventions that underlie language and representation. This book offers a new..
Becoming Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and ...
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This is the first book to examine Franklin’s Autobiography systematically in relation to the life history from which it was drawn. It also considers the Autobiography in terms of eighteenth-century conventions of autobiography and Enlightenment conceptions of the self.Seavey emphasizes the cultural ..
Benjamin Franklin and the Zealous Presbyterians
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Two sides of Franklin are presented in this book: on one hand, the promoter conveying positive images of himself and his nation as models of toleration; on the other, the polemicist inveighing against alleged offenses of the colonial American Calvinist Establishments (he called them all Presbyterian..
Benjamin Franklin and Women
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Benjamin Franklin was undoubtedly one of the most important arbiters of American culture and society at the time of the Revolution, when the young nation was establishing its constitutions, laws, and civil institutions. Franklin also played a major role in defining a new and important role for women..
Beyond Philadelphia: The American Revolution in th...
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This book moves the story of Pennsylvania's pivotal role in the American Revolution beyond familiar Philadelphia into the rural areas to the north and west. It covers not only the city’s surrounding counties of Bucks and Chester but also the interior areas of the Lehigh, Schuylkill, Susquehanna, and..
Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life: T...
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Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life presents selections from the writings of two dozen representative black women leaders of the past century, with a general introduction relating them to their forebears in colonial times and to their descendants in the twentieth century. Each selection ..
Burden of Dreams: History and Identity in Post-Sov...
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Ukraine is the largest new state to appear on the map of Europe this century. With a population of more than 50 million people and a territory larger than France, the new Ukrainian state faces many challenges, not least of which is to forge a national identity after years of Soviet rule. Burden of D..
Pennsylvania State University Press
Catastrophic Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Me...
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Upon its enactment in July 1988, the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act (MCCA) was hailed as the first major expansion of government health care since the creation of Medicare in 1965. Supported by President Reagan, majorities in both houses of Congress, and the nation's largest senior-citizen inter..
Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-First C...
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The twentieth century was one of profound transformation in rural America. Demographic shifts and economic restructuring have conspired to alter dramatically the lives of rural people and their communities. Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-First Century defines these changes and interprets..
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper"...
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Since its publication in 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper" has always been recognized as a powerful statement about the victimization of a woman whose neurasthenic condition is completely misdiagnosed, mistreated, and misunderstood, leaving her to face insanity alone, as a pri..
Child's Garden: The Kindergarten Movement form Fro...
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The first comprehensive account of the roots of the kindergarten movement in the United States, this book restores the Froebelians to their rightful place as pioneers of early childhood education. Although overshadowed by the followers of Dewey and Thorndike, the followers of Froebel played a key ro..
Pennsylvania State University Press
Children of God's Fire: A Documentary History of B...
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ContentsList of Illustrations xiiiPreface xvAcknowledgments xxviiPart I. "Men of Stone and of Iron" The African Slave Trade1.1. The Beginnings of the Portuguese-African Slave Trade in the Fifteenth Century, as Described by the Chronicler Gomes Eannes de Azurara 51.2. The Enslavement Process in the P..
Civil Rights and Social Wrongs: Black-White Relati...
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The persistence of racial inequality in a democratic society may be the gravest problem confronting the United States. It has surely been the most intractable. Yet the torrent of scholarship and comment unleashed in recent years by the question of race provides a general reader with little overall u..
Comandante Che: Guerrilla Soldier, Commander, and ...
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The victory of Fidel Castro’s rebel army in Cuba was due in no small part to the training, strategy, and leadership provided by Ernesto Che Guevara. Despite the deluge of biographies, memoirs, and documentaries that appeared in 1997 on the thirtieth anniversary of Guevara’s death, his military caree..
Compromised Positions: Prostitution, Public Health...
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To illuminate the complex cultural foundations of state formation in modern Mexico, Compromised Positions explains how and why female prostitution became politicized in the context of revolutionary social reform between 1910 and 1940. Focusing on the public debates over legalized sexual commerce and..