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  • Eliza Lucas Pinckney

    An Independent Woman in the Age of Revolution

    de Lorri Glover ...
    The enthralling story of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, an innovative, highly regarded, and successful woman plantation owner during the Revolutionary eraEliza Lucas Pinckney (1722'Äì1793) reshaped the colonial South Carolina economy with her innovations in indigo production and became one of the wealthiest and most respected women in a world dominated by men. Born on the Caribbean island of Antigua, she ... Leer más

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  • The Fate of the Revolution

    Virginians Debate the Constitution

    de Lorri Glover ...
    Series series Witness to History
    The history of the 1788 Virginia Ratification Convention explores the Constitutional debates that decided the nation's fate and still resonate today.In May 1788, elected delegates from every county in Virginia gathered in Richmond where they would either accept or reject the highly controversial United States Constitution. The rest of the country kept an anxious vigil, keenly aware that without ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown

    The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America

    "A rip-snortin' story of shipwreck, intrigue, horror, courage, risk, luck and will . . . The authors have brought the drama in the Chesapeake alive." — Publishers WeeklyThe English had long dreamed of colonizing America, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids in the Caribbean. Ambitions of finding gold and planting a New World colony ... Leer más

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  • Founders as Fathers

    The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries

    de Lorri Glover ...
    Surprisingly, no previous book has ever explored how family life shaped the political careers of America's great Founding Fathers—men like George Mason, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. In this original and intimate portrait, historian Lorri Glover brings to life the vexing, joyful, arduous, and sometimes tragic experiences of the architects of the American ... Leer más

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  • The Gendered Republic

    Reimagining Identity in the New Nation

    Series series Jeffersonian America
    An authoritative assessment of the early American republic through the lens of genderWhat does it mean to study early American history through gender? The essays in this collection, written by the best emerging and established historians in the field, bring together women’s history with masculinity studies to showcase the transformative impact of gender history on our understanding of the early ... Leer más

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  • Women Waging War in the American Revolution

    America’s War for Independence dramatically affected the speed and nature of broader social, cultural, and political changes including those shaping the place and roles of women in society. Women fought the American Revolution in many ways, in a literal no less than a figurative sense. Whether Loyalist or Patriot, Indigenous or immigrant enslaved or slave-owning, going willingly into battle or ... Leer más

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  • Southern Sons

    Becoming Men in the New Nation

    de Lorri Glover ...
    Between the generations of Thomas Jefferson and Jefferson Davis, the culture of white Southerners experienced significant changes, including the establishment of a normative male identity that exuded confidence, independence, and power. Southern Sons, the first work in masculinity studies to concentrate on the early South, explores how young men of the southern gentry came of age between the 1790s ... Leer más

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  • Death and the American South

    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American South
    This rich collection of original essays illuminates the causes and consequences of the South's defining experiences with death. Employing a wide range of perspectives, while concentrating on discrete episodes in the region's past, the authors explore topics from the seventeenth century to the present, from the death traps that emerged during colonization to the bloody backlash against emancipation ... Leer más

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    The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown

    The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America

    Completo

    10 hora 1 minutos

    The English had long dreamed of colonizing America, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids in the Caribbean. Ambitions of finding gold and planting a New World colony seemed within reach when, in 1606, Thomas Smythe extended overseas trade with the launch of the Virginia Company. But from the beginning the American enterprise was a ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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    The Gettysburg Gospel

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    The literature of the Gettysburg Address tends to fall into one of two extremes. At one end are those books that maintain that Lincoln wrote his speech hastily, even on a scrap of paper on the train en route from Washington to Gettysburg. In this version, Lincoln delivered his remarks to an uncomprehending public, which applauded politely, failing to appreciate his genius. Many of the books that ... Leer más

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    Impossible Monsters

    Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion

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    "Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary" (Tom Holland), this on-the-ground, must-listen narrative weaves together the chance discovery of dinosaurs and the rise of the secular age.When the twelve-year-old daughter of a British carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from the country's southern shoreline in 1811, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate history of the world. But ... Leer más

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