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  • Bibliography and the Book Trades

    Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England

    af Hugh Amory ...
    Serier serie Material Texts
    Hugh Amory (1930-2001) was at once the most rigorous and the most methodologically sophisticated historian of the book in early America. Gathered here are his essays, articles, and lectures on the subject, two of them printed for the first time. An introduction by David D. Hall sets this work in context and indicates its significance; Hall has also provided headnotes for each of the essays.Amory ... Læs mere

    446,24 kr.

  • Bibliography and the Book Trades

    Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England

    af Hugh Amory ...
    Serier serie Material Texts
    Hugh Amory (1930-2001) was at once the most rigorous and the most methodologically sophisticated historian of the book in early America. Gathered here are his essays, articles, and lectures on the subject, two of them printed for the first time. An introduction by David D. Hall sets this work in context and indicates its significance; Hall has also provided headnotes for each of the essays.Amory ... Læs mere

    525,00 kr.

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    Four British Folkways in America

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    This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ... Læs mere

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  • The Trials of Phillis Wheatley

    America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers

    In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley was the most famous black woman in the West. But Thomas Jefferson, unlike his contemporaries Ben Franklin and George Washington, refused to acknowledge ... Læs mere

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  • The Fearless Benjamin Lay

    The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist

    The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of lifeIn The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular man—a Quaker dwarf who demanded the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. Mocked and scorned by his ... Læs mere

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  • The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley

    A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence

    A New York Times notable book of 2023 | A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography | Winner of the 2024 George Washington Prize“[An] erudite, enlightening new biography . . . [Waldstreicher’s] interpretations equal Wheatley’s own intentional verse, making it a joy to follow along as he unpacks her words and their arrangement.” —Tiya Miles, The Atlantic“Thoroughly researched, ... Læs mere

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  • Between Two Worlds

    How the English Became Americans

    In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants -- entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike -- faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away.In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill ... Læs mere

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    The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man-a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. He performed public guerrilla theatre to shame slave masters, insisting that human bondage violated the fundamental principles of Christianity. He wrote a ... Læs mere

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  • "Myne Owne Ground"

    Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676

    Ever since its publication twenty-five years ago, Myne Owne Ground has challenged readers to rethink much of what is taken for granted about American race relations. During the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and women who arrived in the New World as slaves achieved freedom and formed a stable community on the Eastern shore. Holding their own with white neighbors for much of the ... Læs mere

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  • John Winthrop

    America's Forgotten Founding Father

    The preeminent figure of early New England, John Winthrop was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. More than anyone else, he shaped the culture of New England and his effort to create a Puritan "City on a Hill" has had a lasting effect on American values. In John Winthrop, Francis J. Bremer draws on over a decade of research in England, Ireland, and the United States to offer a ... Læs mere

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  • Doubting Thomas?

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    A religious historian argues that historical revisionism has distorted the religious views of Thomas Jefferson, making him appear far more skeptical than he was.Thomas Jefferson and the founding fathers intended a strict separation of church and state, right? He would have been very upset to find out about a child praying in a public school or a government building used for religious purposes, ... Læs mere

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  • Worlds Of Wonder, Days Of Judgment

    Popular Religious Belief in Early New England

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