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Prison Blossoms - Anarchist Voices From The American Past

by Alexander Berkman, Carl Nold e Henry Bauer

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 In 1892, unrepentant anarchists Alexander Berkman, Henry Bauer, and Carl Nold were sent to the Western Pennsylvania State Penitentiary for the attempted assassination of steel tycoon Henry Clay Frick. Searching for a way to continue their radical politics and to proselytize among their fellow inmates, these men circulated messages of hope and engagement via primitive means and sympathetic prisoners. On odd bits of paper, in German and in English, they shared their thoughts and feelings in a handwritten clandestine magazine called "Prison Blossoms." This extraordinary series of essays on anarchism and revolutionary deeds, of prison portraits and narratives of homosexuality among inmates, and utopian poems and fables of a new world to come not only exposed the brutal conditions in American prisons, where punishment cells and starvation diets reigned, but expressed a continuing faith in the "beautiful ideal" of communal anarchism.Most of the "Prison Blossoms" were smuggled out of the penitentiary to fellow comrades, including Emma Goldman, as the nucleus of an expose of prison conditions in America's Gilded Age. Those that survived relatively unrecognized for a century in an international archive are here transcribed, translated, edited, and published for the first time. Born at a unique historical moment, when European anarchism and American labor unrest converged, as each sought to repel the excesses of monopoly capitalism, these prison blossoms peer into the heart of political radicalism and its fervent hope of freedom from state and religious coercion.
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House Of The Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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 Following on the heels of The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables was intended to be a far sunnier book than its predecessor and one that would illustrate "the folly" of tumbling down on posterity "an avalanche of ill-gotten gold, or real estate." Many critics have faulted the novel for its explaining away of hereditary guilt or its contradictory denial of it. Denis Donoghue instructs the reader in a fresh appreciation of the novel.The John Harvard Library edition reproduces the authoritative text of The House of the Seven Gables in the Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Federalist

by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison e John Jay

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 The 85 Federalist Papers written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the pseudonym 'Publius' advocated ratification of the proposed US Constitution. This work argues that Publius embraces deliberative democracy, and reminds us that Publius' arguments bear on fresh debates.
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Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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 Hawthorne's greatest romance, The Scarlet Letter, is often simplistically seen as a timeless tale of desire, sin, and redemption. In his introduction, Michael J. Colacurcio argues that The Scarlet Letter is a serious historical novel. If Hawthorne's fiction rigorously and faithfully subjects Hester and Dimmesdale to the limits of seventeenth-century possibility, it nonetheless looks forward to the better, brighter world of Margaret Fuller and Fanny Fern, of Charles Fourier and John Humphrey Noyes.The John Harvard Library edition reproduces the authoritative text of The Scarlet Letter in the Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Selected Stories

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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 Dark, weird, psychologically complex, Hawthorneâ€™s short fiction continues to fascinate readers. Brenda Wineapple has made a generous selection of Hawthorneâ€™s stories, including some of his best-known tales as well as other, less-often anthologized gems.
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American Protest Literature

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 American Protest Literature presents sources from eleven protest movementsâ€"political, social, and culturalâ€"from the Revolution to abolition to gay rights to antiwar protest. In this impressive work, Zoe Trodd provides an enlightening and inspiring survey of this most American form of literature.
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How The Other Half Lives - Studies Among The Tenements Of New York

by Jacob A. Riis

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 A work of photojournalism that deals with the New York City's slums in the 1880s. It includes the images of the squalid living conditions of 'the other half', who might well have inhabited another country.
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Blithedale Romance

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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 One of Nathaniel Hawthorne's great romances, The Blithedale Romance draws upon the author's experiences at Brook Farm, the short-lived utopian community where Hawthorne spent much of 1841. Blithedale ("Happy Valley"), another would-be modern Arcadia, is the stage for Hawthorne's grimly comic tragedy (Henry James famously called the novel "the lightest, the brightest, the liveliest" of Hawthorne's "unhumorous fictions"). In his introduction, Robert S. Levine considers biographical and historical contexts and offers a fresh appreciation of the novel's ironic first-person narrator.The John Harvard Library edition reproduces the authoritative text of The Blithedale Romance in The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave, Written By Himself

by Frederick Douglass

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 No book more vividly explains the horror of American slavery and the emotional impetus behind the antislavery movement than Douglass's Narrative. In his Introduction, Robert B. Stepto reexamines the extraordinary life and achievement of a man who escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist and one of America's most important writers.
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On Religious Liberty - Selections From The Works Of Roger Williams

by Roger Williams

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 Davis gathers together important selections from Williamsâ€™s public and private writings on religious liberty, illustrating how this renegade Puritan radically reinterpreted Christian moral theology and the events of his day in a powerful argument for freedom of conscience and the separation of church and state.
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Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave, Written By Himself

by Frederick Douglass

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 No book more vividly explains the horror of American slavery and the emotional impetus behind the antislavery movement than Douglass's Narrative. In his Introduction, Robert B. Stepto reexamines the extraordinary life and achievement of a man who escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist and one of America's most important writers.
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Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl - Written By Herself, With “A True Tale Of Slavery” By John S. Jacobs

by Harriet A. Jacobs

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 This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John S. Jacobsâ€™s short slave narrative, A True Tale of Slavery, published in London in 1861, adds a brother's perspective to Harriet A. Jacobsâ€™s autobiography.
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Pudd'Nhead Wilson

by Mark Twain

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 The unsolved riddle at the heart of Puddâ€™nhead Wilson is less the identity of the murderer than the question of whether nature or nurture makes the man. In his introduction, Werner Sollors illuminates the complex web of uncertainty that is the switched-and-doubled-identity world of Mark Twainâ€™s novel.
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Jim Crow, American - Selected Songs And Plays

by T. D. Rice

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 Jim Crow has long represented Americaâ€™s imperfect union. This edition of the earliest Jim Crow plays and songs presents essential performances assembling backtalk, banter, masquerade, and dance into the diagnostic American style. They celebrate blackness in a Republic that failed to unite until Americans agreed to disagree over Jim Crowâ€™s meaning.
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Pamphlets Of The American Revolution, 1750-1776

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The Life Of Washington

by Mason L. Weems

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 The effect of this "single, immortal, and dubious anecdote," and others like it, has made this book one of the most influential in the history of American folklore. The first republication of the book since 1927, it is unique in its detailed commentary on Weems and other biographers of Washington.
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Bring The War Home - The White Power Movement And Paramilitary America

by Kathleen Belew

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 The white power movement has declared war against the United States and has carried out with military precision an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. Kathleen Belew gives the first full history of a movement that consolidated around a sense of betrayal over Vietnam and made tragic headlines with the Oklahoma City bombing.
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A Foolâ€™S Errand

by Albion W. Tourgee

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 Though the discussion of sectional and racial problems is an important element in the book, A Foolâ€™s Errand has merit as a dramatic narrativeâ€"with its love affair, and its moments of pathos, suffering, and tragedy. This combination of tract and melodrama made it a bestseller in its day.
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Man And Nature - Or, Physical Geography As Modified By Human Action

by George Marsh

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 George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature was the first book to attack the American myth of the superabundance and the inexhaustibility of the earth. It was, as Lewis Mumford said, "the fountainhead of the conservation movement," and few books since have had such an influence on the way men view and use land.
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Puddâ€™Nhead Wilson

by Mark Twain

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 The unsolved riddle at the heart of Puddâ€™nhead Wilson is less the identity of the murderer than the question of whether nature or nurture makes the man. In his introduction, Werner Sollors illuminates the complex web of uncertainty that is the switched-and-doubled-identity world of Mark Twainâ€™s novel.
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The Spirit Of The Ghetto

by Hutchins Hapgood; Illustration: Jacob Epstein

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 First published in 1902, and illustrated by Jacob Epstein, Hutchins Hapgoodâ€™s evocation of the spiritual and cultural life of Yiddish New York remains fresh and relevant, and an invaluable commentary on one aspect of the formation of modern America.
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Russia - People & Empire (Obe) (Paper)

by G Hoskin

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R. H. Tawney And His Times - Socialism As Fellowship

by Ross Terrill

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Puritans Among The Indians - Accounts Of Captivity And Redemption, 1676â€“1724

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 These eight reports by white settlers held captive by Indians have gripped the imaginations of American writers through our history. The book presents the best of the New England narratives, delineating the social and ideological struggle between captors and settlers, and constituting a dramatic rendition of a spiritual struggle for redemption.
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