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Inventing Disaster
The Culture of Calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood
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CA$37.95
ISBN: 9781469679327
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: University of North Carolina Press
When hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, and other disasters strike, we count our losses, search for causes, commiserate with victims, and initiate relief efforts. Amply illustrated and expansively...
The Tory's Wife
A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780813949918
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: University of Virginia Press
The Spurgin family of North Carolina experienced the cataclysm of the American Revolution in the most dramatic ways?and from different sides. This engrossing book tells the story of Jane Welborn Spurgin,...
Rethinking American Disasters
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CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780807179932
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: LSU Press
Rethinking American Disasters is a pathbreaking collection of essays on hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, and other calamities in the United States and British colonial America over four centuries. Proceeding...
Virginia Women
Their Lives and Times, Volume 2
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CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780820342658
Pub Date: August 2016
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
This second of two volumes continues the exploration of the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. Seventeen essays written by established and emerging...
Virginia Women
Their Lives and Times, Volume 1
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CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780820342634
Pub Date: April 2015
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Virginia Women is the first of two volumes exploring the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. This collection of seventeen essays, written by established...
Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello
Her Life and Times
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CA$48.95
ISBN: 9781469619026
Pub Date: August 2014
Imprint: University of North Carolina Press
As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph (1772-1836) was extremely well educated, traveled in the circles of presidents and aristocrats, and was known...
North Carolina Women
Their Lives and Times, Volume 1
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CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780820340005
Pub Date: February 2014
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
This collection of essays examines the lives and times of pathbreaking North Carolina women from the late eighteenth century into the early twentieth century, offering important new insights into the variety of North Carolina women’s experiences across time, place, race, and class.
Beyond the Household
Women's Place in the Early South, 1700-1835
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CA$53.95
ISBN: 9780801484629
Pub Date: September 1998
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Much has been written about the "southern lady," that pervasive and enduring icon of antebellum regional identity. But how did the lady get on her pedestal?and were the lives of white southern women always so different from those of their northern...
The Contrast
Manners, Morals, and Authority in the Early American Republic
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CA$15.98
CA$31.95
ISBN: 9780814747933
Pub Date: April 2007
Imprint: New York University Press
“The Contrast“, which premiered at New York City's John Street Theater in 1787, was the first American play performed in public by a professional theater company. The play, written by New England-born,...
Traders and Gentlefolk
The Livingstons of New York, 1675-1790
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CA$60.95
ISBN: 9780801476679
Pub Date: October 2010
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Kierner vividly recreates the history of four generations of Livingstons and sheds new light on the development of both the elite ideology they represented and of the wider culture of early America.
Inventing Disaster
The Culture of Calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9781469679327
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: University of North Carolina Press
The Tory's Wife
A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780813949918
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: University of Virginia Press
Rethinking American Disasters
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780807179932
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: LSU Press
Virginia Women
Their Lives and Times, Volume 2
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780820342658
Pub Date: August 2016
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Virginia Women
Their Lives and Times, Volume 1
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780820342634
Pub Date: April 2015
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello
Her Life and Times
CA$48.95
ISBN: 9781469619026
Pub Date: August 2014
Imprint: University of North Carolina Press
North Carolina Women
Their Lives and Times, Volume 1
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780820340005
Pub Date: February 2014
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Beyond the Household
Women's Place in the Early South, 1700-1835
CA$53.95
ISBN: 9780801484629
Pub Date: September 1998
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Much has been written about the "southern lady," that pervasive and enduring icon of antebellum regional identity. But how did the lady get on her pedestal?and were the lives of white southern women always so different from those of their northern...
The Contrast
Manners, Morals, and Authority in the Early American Republic
CA$15.98 CA$31.95
ISBN: 9780814747933
Pub Date: April 2007
Imprint: New York University Press
Traders and Gentlefolk
The Livingstons of New York, 1675-1790
CA$60.95
ISBN: 9780801476679
Pub Date: October 2010
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Kierner vividly recreates the history of four generations of Livingstons and sheds new light on the development of both the elite ideology they represented and of the wider culture of early America.