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The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918
by Randolph Bourne  Synopsis Randolph Bourne was only thirty-two when he died in 1918, but he left a legacy of astonishingly mature and incisive writings on politics, literature, and culture, which were of enormous influence in shaping the American intellectual climate of the 1920s...
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Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865
by Mary P Ryan Publisher Comments Examines the emergence of the privatized middle-class family with its sharp division of male and female roles....
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Bonds of Affection: Civic Charity and the Making of America: Winthrop, Jefferson, and Lincoln (Religion and Politics)
by Matthew Scott Holland Publisher Comments Notions of Christian love, or charity, strongly shaped the political thought of John Winthrop, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln as each presided over a foundational moment in the development of American democracy. Matthew Holland examines how each...
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The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America
by David M Henkin Publisher Comments Many of us may not realize that what we now call snail mail was once just as revolutionary as e-mail and text messages are today. As David M. Henkin argues in The Postal Age, a burgeoning postal network initiated major cultural shifts during the...
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Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform
by Leslie Butler Publisher Comments As questions of citizenship generate new debates for this generation of Americans, Thomas argues for revitalizing the role of literature in civic education. He considers 4 case studies in which individuals are presented in literature as "the good citizen,...
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Labor, Free and Slave: Workingmen and the Anti-Slavery Movement in the United States
by Bernard Mandel Synopsis A classic piece of Old Left scholarship made available to a new generation of students and activists Bernard Mandel's classic study provides a concise overview of the relationship between organized abolitionism and the fledgling labor movement in the...
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Rereading Sex
by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz Review "Rereading Sex brings marvelous order to the bewildering array of conflicting voices that spoke out and wrote about human sexuality in mid-19th-century America. Deftly separating the strands of argument, Helen Horowitz illuminates this fascinating...
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For the People: American Populist Movements from the Revolution to the 1850s
by Ronald P Formisano Publisher Comments For the People offers a new interpretation of populist political movements from the Revolution to the eve of the Civil War and roots them in the disconnect between the theory of rule by the people and the reality of rule by elected representatives. Ron...
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The Big Vote: Gender, Consumer Culture, and the Politics of Exclusion, 1890s--1920s (Reconfiguring American Political History)
by Liette Gidlow Publisher Comments Perhaps curiously, though in cases intentionally (as in the Jim Crow South), Progressive reforms had the effect of lowering voter turnout. Also curiously--given the intensity of the women's suffrage movement--the entry of women into the political arena...
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A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character, and the Promise of America
by Jenna Weiss Joselit Publisher Comments A striking and inventive social history of the role of clothing in the making of modern Americans. While fashions of the rich and famous have been lessly chronicled, little attention has been paid to the meaning of clothes for everyone else. Yet between...
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The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York (Historical Studies of Urban America)
by Timothy J. Gilfoyle Publisher Comments Obscene, libidinous, loathsome, lascivious. Those were just some of the ways critics described the nineteenth-century weeklies that covered and publicized New York City’s extensive sexual underworld. Publications like the Flash and the Whip—...
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The Western Pursuit of the American Dream: Selections from the Collection of Kenneth W. Rendell
by Kenneth W Rendell Synopsis The migration of the American people to the West has often been associated with the quest for the American Dream. In The Western Pursuit of the American Dream, Kenneth W. Rendell, renowned dealer in Americana, draws on his extensive collection to tell...
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Burying the Dead But Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause (Civil War America)
by Caroline E Janney Publisher Comments Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve and rebury the remains of Confederate soldiers scattered throughout the region. In Virginia alone, these Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and reinterred the...
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By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority
by Holly Brewer Publisher Comments In England in the middle of the sixteenth century, people were born into authority and responsibility based on their social status. Thus even the children of the elite could designate property or serve in Parliament, while children of the poorer sort...
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A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America
by Thomas M Allen Publisher Comments The development of the American nation has typically been interpreted in terms of its expansion through space, specifically its growth westward. In this innovative study, Thomas Allen posits time, not space, as the most significant territory of the young...
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Framing American Divorce: From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians
by Norma Basch Publisher Comments Divorce has become one of the most widely discussed issues in America. In this innovative exploration of the phenomenon of divorce in American society, Norma Basch uses a variety of analytic perspectives to enrich our understanding of the meaning of...
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Fierce Communion: Family & Community in Early America
by Helena M Wall Publisher Comments Helena Wall shows what life was like in colonial America, a culture where individuals and family were subordinated to the demands of the community. Using local town, church, and especially court records from every colony, she examines the division of...
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Obedient Sons: The Discourse of Youth and Generations in American Culture, 1630-1860
by Glenn Wallach Synopsis A revealing study that shows how Americans have thought and talked about youth and generations, from the early colonial era to the eve of the Civil War....
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The Mauve Decade: American Life at the End of the Nineteenth Century
by Thomas Beer Synopsis Laced with witty anecdotes and sparkling epigrams, Beer's remarkable cultural history encompasses the wild panoply of the Gilded Age's last decade--from high society to the closing of the West--bracketed by Emerson's death and Teddy Roosevelt's...
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Peaceful Revolution: Constitutional Change and American Culture from Progressivism to the New Deal
by Maxwell Bloomfield Publisher Comments Although Americans claim to revere the Constitution, relatively few understand its workings. Its real importance for the average citizen is as an enduring reminder of the moral vision that shaped the nation's founding. Yet scholars have paid little...
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