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  • Living Death in Early Modern Drama

    de James Alsop ...
    Series series Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
    This book explores historical, socio-political, and metatheatrical readings of a whole host of dying bodies and risen corpses, each part of a long tradition of living death on stage.Just as zombies, ghouls, and the undead in modern media often stand in for present-day concerns, early modern writers frequently imagined living death in complex ways that allowed them to address contemporary anxieties ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • You Can't Do That

    Conducting a Life Against the Odds

    de Marin Alsop, James Dale ...
    A moving, energetic memoir by the pioneering conductor Marin Alsop, the first woman to head major orchestras in the United States, Berlin, and elsewhere.When she was nine years old, Marin Alsop’s father took her to see Leonard Bernstein conduct the New York Philharmonic. She watched the famous conductor onstage and knew that someday she would be up there too.You Can’t Do That: Conducting a Life ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • North Carolina Women

    Their Lives and Times, Volume 1

    de Angela Robbins, Corey Stewart, Cynthia A. Kierner, Elizabeth Lundeen, James Alsop, Jim Downs, John C. Inscoe, Margaret Smith, Robert Hunt Ferguson, Sarah Wilkerson Freeman, Sarah H. Hill, Sheila R. Phipps, Suzanne Cooper Guasco, Terrell Armistead Crow, Vivian M. May, William A. Link, Jon F. Sensbach ...
    North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished, influential women—women who have expanded their sphere of influence or broken through barriers that had long defined and circumscribed their lives, women such as Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, the widow and tavern owner who supported the American Revolution; Harriet Jacobs, runaway slave, abolitionist, and author of Incidents in the Life of a ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Colonial Chesapeake

    New Perspectives

    de James D. Alsop, Angelo Angelis, Thomas Brown, Catherine Cardno, Kate Fawver, Seth William Mallios, Sarah Hand Meacham ...
    In Colonial Chesapeake: New Perspectives leading scholars offer interdisciplinary revisionist essays on the political, cultural and social history of early Maryland and Virginia, calling special attention to the importance of power relations, reproductive politics, and identity politics in the shaping of the area. Using primary documents, which are included with the essays, this collection ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

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  • Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies

    How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

    de Elizabeth Winkler ...
    An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be.The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, unspeakable subject in the history of English ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • William Shakespeare

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to the life and writings of the world's greatest and best-known dramatists: William Shakespeare. Looking at his early life and education, Wells explores Shakespeare's social and intellectual background and the literary traditions on which Shakespeare drew. Examining the theatres and ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Bound for the Promised Land

    Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero

    de Kate Clifford Larson ...
    The essential, “richly researched”* biography of Harriet Tubman, revealing a complex woman who “led a remarkable life, one that her race, her sex, and her origins make all the more extraordinary” (*The New York Times Book Review).Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history—a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

    Edición de Margreta De Grazia, Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book contains stimulating chapters on ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • From Midnight to Dawn

    The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad

    de Jacqueline L. Tobin ...
    From Midnight to Dawn presents compelling portraits of the men and women who established the Underground Railroad and traveled it to find new lives in Canada. Evoking the turmoil and controversies of the time, Tobin illuminates the historic events that forever connected American and Canadian history by giving us the true stories behind well-known figures such as Harriet Tubman and John Brown. She ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • A Shining Thread of Hope

    The History of Black Women in America

    de Darlene Clark Hine, Kathleen Thompson ...
    At the greatest moments and in the cruelest times, black women have been a crucial part of America's history. Now, the inspiring history of black women in America is explored in vivid detail by two leaders in the fields of African American and women's history.A Shining Thread of Hope chronicles the lives of black women from indentured servitude in the early American colonies to the cruelty of ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • 30 Great Myths about Shakespeare

    de Laurie Maguire, Emma Smith ...
    Think you know Shakespeare? Think again . . .Was a real skull used in the first performance of Hamlet? Were Shakespeare's plays Elizabethan blockbusters? How much do we really know about the playwright's life? And what of his notorious relationship with his wife? Exploring and exploding 30 popular myths about the great playwright, this illuminating new book evaluates all the evidence to show how ... Leer más

    $23.00 USD

  • Help Me to Find My People

    The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery

    de Heather Andrea Williams ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant “information wanted” advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide readers back to devastating moments of family separation during slavery when people were sold away from parents, ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD