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Martha Tomhave Blauvelt
Work of the Heart

How did young American women construct and express their emotions between 1780 and 1830? Before Oprah and therapy, how did they reconcile society's demanding and often contradictory expectations? In The W…

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Michael David Cohen
Reconstructing the Campus

The Civil War transformed American life. Not only did thousands of men die on battlefields and millions of slaves become free; cultural institutions reshaped themselves in the context of the war and its a…

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Clare Cushman,
Of Courtiers and Kings

Supreme Court justices have long relied on law clerks to help process the work of the Court. Yet few outside the Court are privy to the behind-the-scenes bonds that form between justices and their clerks.…

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Marie Frank
Fiske and Marie Kimball

The fascinating journey of one of the art world's great midcentury power couples The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore how Fiske and Marie Kimball, together and in their own respective ways,…

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Maurice Godelier
In and Out of the West

Is anthropology simply a continuation of colonial domination and cultural imperialism by other means, or has it--since its nineteenth-century rebirth as a purportedly scientific discipline--produced relia…

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Kevin J Hayes
Mind of a Patriot

The Mind of a Patriot presents an intellectual life of a major figure who has traditionally been seen as an anti-intellectual "child of nature." This was the view of Patrick Henry that William W…

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Tanya Kevorkian
Music and Urban Life in Baroque Germany

Music and Urban Life in Baroque Germany offers a new narrative of Baroque music, accessible to non-music specialists, in which Tanya Kevorkian defines the era in terms of social dynamics rather than style…

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Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine
Burial and Other Short Prose, 1963-1994

A collection of works by one of twentieth-century Morocco's greatest writers Appearing for the first time in English translation, this is the only career-spanning collection of short prose by the fiery, r…

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Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine
Burial and Other Short Prose, 1963-1994

A collection of works by one of twentieth-century Morocco's greatest writers Appearing for the first time in English translation, this is the only career-spanning collection of short prose by the fiery, r…

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Cynthia A Kierner
Tory's Wife

Finalist for the 2024 George Washington Prize The Spurgin family of North Carolina experienced the cataclysm of the American Revolution in the most dramatic ways--and from different sides. This engrossing…

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Kathryn K. Lasdow
Wharfed Out

How urban waterfront development in the early republic displaced working-class communities, creating lasting patterns of inequality and resistance In the early years of American nationhood, civic leaders …

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Ian Marshall
Peak Experiences

Nature's ability to satisfy deep human needs is familiar to anyone who has hiked up a mountain, canoed a river, or hung a bird feeder outside the kitchen window. In Story Line, his groundbreaking work of …

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Kieran J O'Keefe
Suffering for the Crown

A groundbreaking look at the chaos and carnage of the American Revolution at the local level In many respects, the American Revolution was a civil war, pitting Americans loyal to the Crown against other A…

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Kieran J. O'Keefe
Suffering for the Crown

A groundbreaking look at the chaos and carnage of the American Revolution at the local level In many respects, the American Revolution was a civil war, pitting Americans loyal to the Crown against other A…

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Lyndal Roper
Witch in the Western Imagination

In an exciting new approach to witchcraft studies, The Witch in the Western Imagination examines the visual representation of witches in early modern Europe. With vibrant and lucid prose, Lyndal Roper mov…

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Leonard J Sadosky
Revolutionary Negotiations

Revolutionary Negotiations examines early American diplomatic negotiations with both the European powers and the various American Indian nations from the 1740s through the 1820s. Sadosky interweaves previ…

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Mark Wahlgren Summers
To Save Us All from Slavery's Power

A dramatic reappraisal and retelling of the destruction of the American Union To Save Us All from Slavery's Power is a novel assessment of the culmination of the sectional crisis before the Civil War. It …

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Daniel B Thorp
In the True Blue's Wake

In 1759, William Preston purchased sixteen enslaved Africans brought to America aboard the True Blue, an English slave ship. Over the next century, the Preston family enslaved more than two hundred indivi…

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Alexis De Tocqueville,
Recollections

Alexis de Tocqueville's Souvenirs was his extraordinarily lucid and trenchant analysis of the 1848 revolution in France. Despite its bravura passages and stylistic flourishes, however, it was not intended…

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Gendered Republic

An authoritative assessment of the early American republic through the lens of gender What does it mean to study early American history through gender? The essays in this collection, written by the best e…

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