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Backlash - Libel, Impeachment, And Populism In The Reign Of Queen Anne

by Rachel Carnell

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 In her engagingly written Backlash, Rachel Carnell tells the entertaining account of the reign of Queen Anne and the true story behind the fall of the Whig government depicted in the 2018 film The Favourite. As Carnell shows, the truth was significantly different and in many ways more interesting than what the film depicted.
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American Abolitionism - Its Direct Political Impact From Colonial Times Into Reconstruction

by Stanley Harrold

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 Provides a systematic examination of the American abolition movement's direct impacts on antislavery politics from colonial times to the Civil War and after. Stanley Harrold focuses on abolitionists' political tactics - petitioning, lobbying, establishing bonds with sympathetic politicians - and on their disruptions of slavery itself.
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Prose Immortality, 1711-1819

by Jacob Sider Jost

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 Documents the transformation of British literary culture, spanning the eighteenth century and linking journalism, literature, theology, and philosophy. In recovering the centrality of the afterlife to eighteenth-century culture, this prizewinning book offers a wide-ranging argument that will speak to all readers interested in the power of literature to preserve human experience through time.
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Intimate Reconstructions - Children In Postemancipation Virginia

by Catherine A. Jones

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 In Intimate Reconstructions, Catherine Jones considers how children shaped, and were shaped by, Virginia’s Reconstruction. Jones argues that questions of how to define, treat, reform, or protect children were never far from the surface of public debate and private concern in post-Civil War Virginia. Through careful examination of governmental, institutional, and private records, the author traces the unpredictable paths black and white children traveled through this tumultuous period. Putting children at the center of the narrative reveals the unevenness of the transitions that defined Virginia in the wake of the Civil War: from slavery to freedom, from war to peace, and from secession to a restored but fractured union. While some children emerged from the war under the protection of families, others navigated treacherous circumstances on their own. The reconfiguration of postwar households, and disputes over children’s roles within them, fueled broader debates over public obligations to protect all children.The reorganization of domestic life was a critical proving ground for Reconstruction. Freedpeople’s efforts to recover children strained against white Virginians’ efforts to retain privileges formerly undergirded by slavery. At the same time, orphaned children, particularly those who populated the streets of Virginia’s cities, prompted contentious debate over who had responsibility for their care, as well as rights to their labor. By revisiting conflicts over the practices of orphan asylums, apprenticeship, and adoption, Intimate Reconstructions demonstrates that race continued to shape children’s postwar lives in decisive ways. In private and public, children were at the heart of Virginians’ struggles over the meanings of emancipation and Confederate defeat.
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Apostles Of Disunion - Southern Secession Commissioners And The Causes Of The Civil War

by Charles B. Dew

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 In late 1860 and early 1861, state-appointed commissioners traveled the length and breadth of the slave South carrying a fervent message in pursuit of a clear goal: to persuade the political leadership and the citizenry of the uncommitted slave states to join in the effort to destroy the Union and forge a new Southern nation.Directly refuting the neo-Confederate contention that slavery was neither the reason for secession nor the catalyst for the resulting onset of hostilities in 1861, Charles B. Dew finds in the commissioners'' brutally candid rhetoric a stark white supremacist ideology that proves the contrary. The commissioners included in their speeches a constitutional justification for secession, to be sure, and they pointed to a number of political "outrages" committed by the North in the decades prior to Lincoln''s election. But the core of their argument—the reason the right of secession had to be invoked and invoked immediately—did not turn on matters of constitutional interpretation or political principle. Over and over again, the commissioners returned to the same point: that Lincoln''s election signaled an unequivocal commitment on the part of the North to destroy slavery and that emancipation would plunge the South into a racial nightmare.Dew''s discovery and study of the highly illuminating public letters and speeches of these apostles of disunion—often relatively obscure men sent out to convert the unconverted to the secessionist cause--have led him to suggest that the arguments the commissioners presented provide us with the best evidence we have of the motives behind the secession of the lower South in 1860-61.Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century after the Civil War, Dew challenges many current perceptions of the causes of the conflict. He offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were absolutely critical factors in the outbreak of war—indeed, that they were at the heart of our great national crisis.
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A Strife Of Tongues - The Compromise Of 1850 And The Ideological Foundations Of The American Civil War

by Stephen E. Maizlish

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Victorians On Broadway - Literature, Adaptation, And The Modern American Musical

by Sharon Aronofsky Weltman

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 Provides a wide-ranging interdisciplinary study of live stage musicals from the mid- to late-twentieth century adapted from British literature written between 1837 and 1886. Investigating musical dramatizations of a range of works, Sharon Aronofsky Weltman reveals what these musicals teach us about the Victorian books from which they derive.
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Colonizing The Past - Mythmaking And Pre-Columbian Whites In Nineteenth-Century American Writing

by Edward Watts

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 Explores the idea of â€œprimordialismâ€ and reveals its consistent presence over the span of nineteenth-century American print culture in writers ranging from Washington Irving to Mark Twain.
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Slavery And War In The Americas - Race, Citizenship, And State Building In The United States And Brazil, 1861-1870

by Vitor Izecksohn

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 Sheds new light on the American Civil War by comparing it to a strikingly similar campaign in South America - the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864-70, which galvanized four countries and became the longest large-scale international conflict in the history of the Americas.
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The Cacophony Of Politics - Northern Democrats And The American Civil War

by J. Matthew Gallman

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 Charts the trajectory of the Democratic Party as the party of opposition in the North during the Civil War. The book reveals the myriad complications and contingencies of political life in the Northern states and explains the objectives of the nearly half of eligible Northern voters who cast a ballot against Abraham Lincoln in 1864.
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Colossal Ambitions - Confederate Planning For A Post-Civil War World

by Adrian Brettle

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 An impressive and complex undertaking, Colossal Ambitions concludes that while some Confederate commentators saw wartime industrialization as pointing towards a different economic future, most Confederates saw their society as revolving once more around coercive labor, staple crop production, and exports in the war's wake.
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Victorians On Broadway - Literature, Adaptation, And The Modern American Musical

by Sharon Aronofsky Weltman

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 Provides a wide-ranging interdisciplinary study of live stage musicals from the mid- to late-twentieth century adapted from British literature written between 1837 and 1886. Investigating musical dramatizations of a range of works, Sharon Aronofsky Weltman reveals what these musicals teach us about the Victorian books from which they derive.
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Newest Born Of Nations - European Nationalist Movements And The Making Of The Confederacy

by Ann L. Tucker

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 Utilizes print sources such as newspapers and magazines to reveal how elite white southerners developed an international perspective on nationhood that helped them clarify their own national values, conceive of the South as distinct from the North, and ultimately define and legitimize the Confederacy.
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Colonizing The Past - Mythmaking And Pre-Columbian Whites In Nineteenth-Century American Writing

by Edward Watts

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 Explores the idea of â€œprimordialismâ€ and reveals its consistent presence over the span of nineteenth-century American print culture in writers ranging from Washington Irving to Mark Twain.
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The Worst Passions Of Human Nature - White Supremacy In The Civil War North

by Paul D. Escott

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 Lays bare the contrast between progress on emancipation and the persistence of white supremacy in the Civil War North. Paul Escott analyses northern politics, as well as the racial attitudes revealed in the era's literature, to expose the nearly ubiquitous racism that flourished in all of American society and culture.
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Sweet Negotiations - Sugar, Slavery, And Plantation Agriculture In Early Barbados

by Russell R. Menard

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 Reveals that black slaveryâ€™s emergence in Barbados preceded the rise of sugar; in doing so Russell Menard both reverses the long-held understanding of slavery as a consequence of the islandâ€™s economic boom and repositions the impact that this surge of slavery had on Americaâ€™s slave trade.
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Lincoln'S Dilemma - Blair, Sumner, And The Republican Struggle Over Racism And Equality In The Civil War Era

by Paul D. Escott

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 The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery. At the center of this historic confrontation was Abraham Lincoln. In this fascinating new book Paul Escott considers the evolution of the president's thoughts on race in relation to three other, powerful - and often conflicting - voices.
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Apostles Of Disunion - Southern Secession Commissioners And The Causes Of The Civil War

by Charles B. Dew

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 Charles Dew's Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states' secession from the Union. Addressing topics still hotly debated more than a century and a half after the Civil War, the book offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were at the heart of Americaâ€™s great national crisis.
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Avoiding War With China - Two Nations, One World

by Amitai Etzioni

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 Contending that conflict is inevitable when an established power does not make sufficient room for a rising power, some conclude that the United States and China are on a collision course. In this timely new work, renowned professor of international relations Amitai Etzioni points to the paths by which the two nations can avoid war.
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Biography Of A Tenement House In New York City - An Architectural History Of 97 Orchard Street

by Andrew S. Dolkart

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 In this revised edition of his classic book, Dolkart presents for us a precise and informative biography of a typical tenement house in New York City that became, in 1988, the site for the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. It is a lasting tribute to the legacy of immigrants and their children, who were part of the transformation of New York City and the fabric of everyday American urban life.
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The Key To The Door - Experiences Of Early African American Students At The University Of Virginia

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 Frames and highlights the stories of some of the first black students of the University of Virginia. This inspiring account of resilience and transformation offers a diversity of experiences and perspectives through firstperson narratives of black students during the University of Virginia's era of incremental desegregation.
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Daydreams And Nightmares - A Virginia Family Faces Seccession And War

by Brent Tarter

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 The decision of the eventual Confederate states to secede from the Union set in motion perhaps the most dramatic chapter in American history, and one that has typically been told on a grand scale. In Daydreams and Nightmares, however, historian Brent Tarter shares the story of one Virginia family who found themselves in the middle of the secession debate and saw their world torn apart.
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Apostles Of Disunion - Southern Secession Commissioners And The Causes Of The Civil War

by Charles B. Dew

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 Charles Dew's Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states' secession from the Union. Addressing topics still hotly debated more than a century and a half after the Civil War, the book offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were at the heart of Americaâ€™s great national crisis.
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The Law School At The University Of Virginia - Architectural Expansion In The Realm Of Thomas Jefferson

by Philip Mills Herrington

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 Traces the history of one of the eight original schools of the University to study the development of the University Grounds over nearly two hundred years. In this book, Philip Mills Herrington relates the remarkable story of how the Law School and the University have used architecture to reconcile a desire for progress and expansion with a veneration for the past.
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