Bennett's New York Herald and the Rise of the Popular Press
James L. Crouthamel;James L. Crouthamel
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With the founding of the New York Herald in 1835, James Gordon Bennett began what was ...
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Bennett's New York Herald and the Rise of the Popular Press
2018
With the founding of the New York Herald in 1835, James Gordon Bennett began what was to become the most successful and widely circulated newspaper of mid-nineteenth-century America. He did not invent the cheap popular newspaper, but his innovations—a combination of sensationalism, technological improvements, and comprehensive news coverage—made the Herald the prototype of modern journalism and the best newspaper of its time. Subsequent yellow journalists like Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst merely carried Bennett's techniques to new heights—or depths.Bennett championed the masses and created a newspaper for them. Priced cheaply enough for most New Yorkers to afford, the Herald served up information that was useful, educational, and entertaining. Articles covered the whole range of human activity—sex, crime, tragedy, medicine, religion, culture.This book is not a biography of Bennett but rather an account of him as editor and publisher. His editorials were notorious for their rhetorical extremism, and his public identity was based on negatives—Anglophobia, anti-Catholicism, and anti-abolitionism in particular. He misled his unsophisticated readers with simplistic explanations of events and forces that affected their lives. He claimed to be politically independent, above party, but he was constantly enmeshed in the party battles of the period. His contemporaries envied his success but detested the means by which he achieved it; they respected his power but hated him personally.Former accounts of Bennett have been anecdotal and superficial. Crouthamel has based his research primarily on a day-by-day reading of over three decades of the Herald and thus provides useful facts and assessments of a major period in the history of journalism.
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Journalism--United States--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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AIA Guide to New York City
Norval White;Elliot Willensky;Fran Leadon;Norval White;Elliot Willensky;Fra...
Hailed as'extraordinarily learned'(New York Times),'blithe in spirit and unerring in v...
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AIA Guide to New York City
2010
Hailed as'extraordinarily learned'(New York Times),'blithe in spirit and unerring in vision,'(New York Magazine), and the'definitive record of New York's architectural heritage'(Municipal Art Society), Norval White and Elliot Willensky's book is an essential reference for everyone with an interest in architecture and those who simply want to know more about New York City. First published in 1968, the AIA Guide to New York City has long been the definitive guide to the city's architecture. Moving through all five boroughs, neighborhood by neighborhood, it offers the most complete overview of New York's significant places, past and present. The Fifth Edition continues to include places of historical importance--including extensive coverage of the World Trade Center site--while also taking full account of the construction boom of the past 10 years, a boom that has given rise to an unprecedented number of new buildings by such architects as Frank Gehry, Norman Foster, and Renzo Piano. All of the buildings included in the Fourth Edition have been revisited and re-photographed and much of the commentary has been re-written, and coverage of the outer boroughs--particularly Brooklyn--has been expanded. Famed skyscrapers and historic landmarks are detailed, but so, too, are firehouses, parks, churches, parking garages, monuments, and bridges. Boasting more than 3000 new photographs, 100 enhanced maps, and thousands of short and spirited entries, the guide is arranged geographically by borough, with each borough divided into sectors and then into neighborhood. Extensive commentaries describe the character of the divisions. Knowledgeable, playful, and beautifully illustrated, here is the ultimate guided tour of New York's architectural treasures. Acclaim for earlier editions of the AIA Guide to New York City:'An extraordinarily learned, personable exegesis of our metropolis. No other American or, for that matter, world city can boast so definitive a one-volume guide to its built environment.'-- Philip Lopate, New York Times'Blithe in spirit and unerring in vision.'-- New York Magazine'A definitive record of New York's architectural heritage... witty and helpful pocketful which serves as arbiter of architects, Baedeker for boulevardiers, catalog for the curious, primer for preservationists, and sourcebook to students. For all who seek to know of New York , it is here. No home should be without a copy.'-- Municipal Art Society'There are two reasons the guide has entered the pantheon of New York books. One is its encyclopedic nature, and the other is its inimitable style--'smart, vivid, funny and opinionated'as the architectural historian Christopher Gray once summed it up in pithy W & W fashion.'-- Constance Rosenblum, New York Times'A book for architectural gourmands and gastronomic gourmets.'-- The Village Voice
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Architecture--New York (State)--New York--GuidebooksContent provider:
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Rural Indigenousness : A History of Iroquoian and Algonquian Peoples of the Adirondacks
Melissa Otis;Melissa Otis
The Adirondacks have been an Indigenous homeland for millennia, and the presence of Na...
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Rural Indigenousness : A History of Iroquoian and Algonquian Peoples of the Adirondacks
2018
The Adirondacks have been an Indigenous homeland for millennia, and the presence of Native people in the region was obvious but not well documented by Europeans, who did not venture into the interior between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries. Yet, by the late nineteenth century, historians had scarcely any record of their long-lasting and vibrant existence in the area. With Rural Indigenousness, Otis shines a light on the rich history of Algonquian and Iroquoian people, offering the first comprehensive study of the relationship between Native Americans and the Adirondacks. While Otis focuses on the nineteenth century, she extends her analysis to periods before and after this era, revealing both the continuity and change that characterize the relationship over time. Otis argues that the landscape was much more than a mere hunting ground for Native residents; rather, it a'location of exchange,'a space of interaction where the land was woven into the fabric oftheir lives as an essential source of refuge and survival. Drawing upon archival research, material culture, and oral histories, Otis examines the nature of Indigenous populations living in predominantly Euroamerican communities to identify the ways in which some maintained their distinct identity while also making selective adaptations exemplifying the concept of'survivance.'In doing so, Rural Indigenousness develops a new conversation in the field of Native American studies that expands our understanding of urban and rural indigeneity.
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Iroquoian Indians--New York (State)--Adirondack Mountains--History - Algonquian Indians--New York (State)--Adirondack Mountains--HistoryContent provider:
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Inside U.S.A.
John Gunther;John Gunther
The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of Gunther's classic portrait of America John Gu...
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Inside U.S.A.
2021
The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of Gunther's classic portrait of America John Gunther's Inside series were among the most popular books of reportage of the 1930s and 1940s. For Inside U.S.A., his magnum opus, Gunther set out from California and visited every state in the country, offering frank, lucid, and humorous observations along the way in what legendary publisher Robert Gottlieb, writing in the New York Times, calls Gunther's “fluent, personal, casual, snappy” voice. Gunther's insights on race, labor, the impact of massive New Deal public works projects, rural life, urbanization, and much more yield fascinating insight into life in a postwar America that had vaulted into the status of the world's preeminent superpower. This seventy-fifth-anniversary edition of Inside U.S.A. provides an invaluable picture of America as it was and is both a delight to read and filled with insights that remain deeply relevant today.
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The Encyclopedia of New York City
Jackson, Kenneth T.;Keller, Lisa;Jackson, Kenneth T.;Keller, Lisa
Covering an exhaustive range of information about Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bro...
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The Encyclopedia of New York City
2010
Covering an exhaustive range of information about Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island, the first edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City was a success by every measure, earning worldwide acclaim and several awards for reference excellence, and selling out its first printing before it was officially published.But much has changed since the volume first appeared in 1995: the World Trade Center no longer dominates the skyline, a billionaire businessman became an unlikely three-term mayor, and urban regeneration—Chelsea Piers, the High Line, DUMBO, Williamsburg, the South Bronx, the Lower East Side—has become commonplace. To reflect such innovation and change, this definitive, one-volume resource on the city has been completely revised and expanded.The revised edition includes 800 new entries that help complete the story of New York : from Air Train to E-ZPass, from September 11 to public order. The new material includes broader coverage of subject areas previously underserved as well as new maps and illustrations. Virtually all existing entries—spanning architecture, politics, business, sports, the arts, and more—have been updated to reflect the impact of the past two decades.The more than 5,000 alphabetical entries and 700 illustrations of the second edition of The Encyclopedia of New York Cityconvey the richness and diversity of its subject in great breadth and detail, and will continue to serve as an indispensable tool for everyone who has even a passing interest in the American metropolis.
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Upstate Cauldron : Eccentric Spiritual Movements in Early New York State
Joscelyn Godwin;Joscelyn Godwin
Bronze Medalist, 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the US Northeast -Best Regi...
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Upstate Cauldron : Eccentric Spiritual Movements in Early New York State
2015
Bronze Medalist, 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the US Northeast -Best Regional Non-Fiction CategoryHonorable Mention, 2015 Foreword Reviews INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards in the Religion CategoryFrom 1776 to 1914, an amazing collection of prophets, mediums, sects, cults, utopian communities, and spiritual leaders arose in Upstate New York . Along with the best known of these, such as the Shakers, Mormons, and Spiritualists, this book explores more than forty other spiritual leaders or groups, some of them virtually unknown, but all of them fascinating. The author uncovers common threads that characterize these homegrown spiritualities, including roots in Western esoteric traditions, liberation from the psychological pressures of dogmatic Christianity, a preoccupation with sex, and involvement in the radical reform movements of the day. In addition to maps and photographs of surviving buildings and monuments, the book also features a gazetteer of sites listing 150 locations connected to these groups, which may be used as a helpful travel guide to the region.
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The California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Brian C. Wilson;Brian C. Wilson
“A vivid and painstakingly researched account of Emerson's late-in-life, seven-week tr...
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The California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson
2022
“A vivid and painstakingly researched account of Emerson's late-in-life, seven-week trek across the North American continent in 1871.” —New York Review of BooksIn the spring of 1871, Ralph Waldo Emerson boarded a train in Concord, Massachusetts, bound for a month-and-a-half-long tour of California—an interlude that became one of the highlights of his life. On their journey across the American West, he and his companions would take in breathtaking vistas in the Rockies and along the Pacific Coast, speak with a young John Muir in the Yosemite Valley, stop off in Salt Lake City for a meeting with Brigham Young, and encounter a diversity of communities and cultures that would challenge their Yankee prejudices.Based on original research employing newly discovered documents, The California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson maps the public story of this group's travels onto the private story of Emerson's final years, as aphasia set in and increasingly robbed him of his words. Engaging and compelling, this travelogue makes it clear that Emerson was still capable of wonder, surprise, and friendship, debunking the presumed darkness of his last decade.“Wilson effectively conveys Emerson's cultural myopia, along with its late-Victorian context.” —Times Literary Supplement“Deeply researched, enjoyably readable.” —San Francisco Chronicle“What Wilson offers the Emersonian reader today is a unique story of Emerson in motion, having a particularly American experience in looking westward.” —Emerson Society Papers“A welcome addition to Emerson scholarship and the first comprehensive treatment of his journey westward to the Pacific state.” —Ronald A. Bosco, general editor of The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Majestic Nature of the North : Thomas Kelah Wharton’s Journeys in Antebellum America Through the Hudson River Valley and New England
Steven A. Walton;Michael J. Armstrong;Steven A. Walton;Michael J. Armstrong
Thomas Kelah Wharton's travel diaries provide an intimate glimpse into the society of ...
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The Majestic Nature of the North : Thomas Kelah Wharton’s Journeys in Antebellum America Through the Hudson River Valley and New England
2019
Thomas Kelah Wharton's travel diaries provide an intimate glimpse into the society of early nineteenth-century America. As a young immigrant from England, the eldest son of a wealthy merchant who fell on hard times, Wharton (1814–1862) navigated the complex world of New York and the Hudson River Valley in the early 1830s and his diaries reveal a vibrant cultural and social scene. Wharton's details of encounters with the Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole; the author Washington Irving; Sylvanus Thayer, superintendent of the US Military Academy at West Point; the Greek Revival architect Martin E. Thompson, and many others enliven his story. Skipping two decades to 1853, Wharton—now an established professional living in New Orleans—brought his young family from New Orleans to Boston. The trip to and from Boston illuminates the joys and hazards of traveling aboard steamboats and trains, and touches on the tensions growing between North and South. The diary entries show an inquisitive, observant mind at work. A gifted pen-and-ink artist, the inclusion of Wharton's faithful drawings provide rare and wonderful views of an America from a very unique and personal perspective.
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Moses Hazen and the Canadian Refugees in the American Revolution
Allan S. Everest;Allan S. Everest
Moses Hazen, commander of the Second Canadian Reiment, was an unusual and influential ...
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Moses Hazen and the Canadian Refugees in the American Revolution
2018
Moses Hazen, commander of the Second Canadian Reiment, was an unusual and influential man during the period of the American Revolution. The Tories who fled to Canada have received careful study, but little attention has been paid to the Canadians who came south to aid the colonists in their fight against the British.Hazen was one of the leading agents of the Continental Congress in the efforts to recruit Canadians from Quebec and Nova Scotia. This book is more than a biography of Hazen; it is also the story of the Canadians who left their homes, farms, and businesses to join the Continental Army. Allan Everest analyzes the war, in particular its norther theater, and discusses the shabby treatment the Canadians and their families received during and right after the war. In addition, he provides new information on frontier land grants as a reward for army service, the vast speculation in land, and finances of the young republic. Hazen, a prime example of the speculators right after the war, stuck by his Canadian troops until they, too, were rewarded with land grants on the northern frontiers of New York State.This book was published for the New York State American Revolution Bicentennial Commission. The Commission was created by the New York State legislature in 1968 to plan and conduct statewide commemorative programs for the 200th anniversary of the American Revolution and the birth of New York State.
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Generals--United States--BiographyContent provider:
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Principles and Practice of Palliative Care and Support Oncology
Ann Berger;Joseph F. O'Neill;Ann Berger;Joseph F. O'Neill
The only book on the market to cover palliative care for both adults and children, Ped...
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Principles and Practice of Palliative Care and Support Oncology
2022
The only book on the market to cover palliative care for both adults and children, Pediatric and Adult Palliative Care and Support Oncology offers an easy-to-read, interdisciplinary approach to supportive oncology as well as end-of-life care. Ideal for oncologists, residents, fellows, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, the fifth edition provides important updates for conventional topics while also featuring several brand new chapters. Covering everything from dermatologic toxicity of cancer treatment to running family meetings for setting goals of care, this unique title is a source of both help and inspiration to all those who care for patients with cancer.
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Cancer pain--Treatment - Cancer--Complications--Treatment - Cancer--Palliative treatment - Palliative treatmentContent provider:
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History of Woman Suffrage
Elizabeth Cady Stanton;Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This file includes all six volumes, told by the heroines who fought for the women's vo...
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History of Woman Suffrage
2018
This file includes all six volumes, told by the heroines who fought for the women's vote.. According to the Preface, this book is'Woven with the threads of this (Woman's suffrage) history, we have given some personal reminiscences and brief biographical sketches.'According to Wikipedia,'Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early woman's movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first women's rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York , is often credited with initiating the first organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage movements in the United States. Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. She traveled the United States, and Europe, and averaged 75 to 100 speeches per year. Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (Cicero, New York , March 24, 1826 – March 18, 1898 in Chicago) was a suffragist, a Native American activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, who was'born with a hatred of oppression. Ida Husted Harper (February 18, 1851 – March 14, 1931) was a prominent figure in the United States women's suffrage movement. She was an American author and journalist who wrote primarily to document the movement and show support of its ideals.'
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Women's rights--United States--History--Sources - Feminism--United States--History--Sources - Women--Suffrage--United States--History - Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States--HistoryContent provider:
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An Ideal Theater : Founding Visions for a New American Art
Todd London;Todd London
An Ideal Theater is a wide-ranging, inspiring documentary history of the American thea...
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An Ideal Theater : Founding Visions for a New American Art
2013
An Ideal Theater is a wide-ranging, inspiring documentary history of the American theatre movement as told by the visionaries who goaded it into being. This anthology collects over forty essays, manifestos, letters and speeches that are each introduced and placed in historical context by the noted writer and arts commentator, Todd London, who spent nearly a decade assembling this collection. This celebration of the artists who came before is an exhilarating look backward, as well as toward the future, and includes contributions from:Jane Addams William Ball Julian Beck Herbert Blau Angus Bowmer Bernard Bragg Maurice Browne Robert Brustein Alison Carey Joseph Chaikin Harold Clurman Dudley Cocke Alice Lewisohn Crowley Gordon Davidson R. G. Davis Doris Derby W . E. B. Du Bois Zelda Fichandler Hallie Flanagan Eva Le Gallienne Robert E. Gard Susan Glaspell André Gregory Tyrone Guthrie John Houseman Jules Irving Margo Jones Frederick H. Koch Lawrence Langner W . McNeil Lowry Charles Ludlam Judith Malina Theodore Mann Gilbert Moses Michaela O'Harra John O'Neal Joseph Papp Robert Porterfield José Quintero Bill Rauch Bernard Sahlins Richard Schechner Peter Schumann Maurice Schwartz Gary Sinise Ellen Stewart Lee Strasberg Luis Miguel Valdez Nina Vance Douglas Turner WardAs well as the founding visions of theatres from across the country:The Actors Studio The Actor's Workshop Alley Theatre American Conservatory Theater American Repetory Theater Arena Stage Barter Theatre Bread and Puppet Theater The Carolina Playmakers The Chicago Little Theater Circle in the Square Theatre The Civic Repertory Theatre Cornerstone Theater Company The Federal Theatre Project Ford Foundation Program in Humanities and the Arts The Free Southern Theater The Group Theatre The Hull-House Dramatic Association KRIGWA Players The Living Theatre La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club The Mark Taper Forum The Mercury Theatre Minnesota Theater Company (Guthrie Theater) The National Theatre of the Deaf The Negro Ensemble Company The Negro Theatre Project, Federal Theatre Project The Neighborhood Playhouse New Dramatists The New York Shakespeare Festival The Open Theater Oregon Shakespeare Festival The Performance Group The Provincetown Players The Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center The Ridiculous Theatrical Company Roadside Theater The San Francisco Mime Troupe The Second City Steppenwolf Theatre Company El Teatro Campesino Theater'47 The Theatre Guild The Theatre of the Living Arts The Washington Square Players The Wisconsin Idea Theater Yale Repertory Theatre The Yiddish Art TheatreTodd London is in his 18th season as artistic director of New Dramatists, the nation's oldest center for the creative and professional development of American playwrights. In 2009 Todd became the first recipient of Theatre Communications Group's (TCG) Visionary Leadership Award for an individual who has gone above and beyond the call of duty to advance the theater field as a whole, nationally and/or internationally.” He's the author of The Importance of Staying Earnest: Writings from Inside the American Theatre, 1988-2013 (NoPassport Press), Outrageous Fortune: The Life and Times of the New American Pl
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Theater--United States--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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Garrison Nelson;Garrison Nelson
In the first biography of U.S. House Speaker John W. McCormack, author Garrison Nelson...
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2017
In the first biography of U.S. House Speaker John W . McCormack, author Garrison Nelson uncovers previously forgotten FBI files, birth and death records, and correspondence long thought lost or buried. For such an influential figure, McCormack tried to dismiss the past, almost erasing his legacy from the public's mind. John William McCormack: A Political Biography sheds light on the behind-the-curtain machinations of American politics and the origins of the modern-day Democratic party, facilitated through McCormack's triumphs.McCormack overcame desperate poverty and family tragedy in the Irish ghetto of South Boston to hold the second-most powerful position in the nation. By reinventing his family history to elude Irish Boston's powerful political gatekeepers, McCormack embarked on a 1928 - 1971 House career and from 1939-71, the longest house leadership career. Working with every president from Coolidge to Nixon, McCormack's social welfare agenda, which included Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, immigration reform, and civil rights legislation helped commit the nation to the welfare of its most vulnerable citizens. By helping create the Austin-Boston Connection, McCormack reshaped the Democratic Party from a regional southern white Protestant party to one that embraced urban religiously and racially diverse ethnics. A man free of prejudice, John McCormack was the Boston Brahmin's favorite Irishman, the South's favorite northerner, and known in Boston as'Rabbi John ,'the Jews'favorite Catholic.
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Legislators--United States--BiographyContent provider:
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Yankee Colonies Across America : Cities Upon the Hills
Chaim M. Rosenberg;Chaim M. Rosenberg
The arrival in 1620 of the Mayflower and Puritan migration occupy the first pages of t...
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Yankee Colonies Across America : Cities Upon the Hills
2015
The arrival in 1620 of the Mayflower and Puritan migration occupy the first pages of the history of colonial America. Less known is the exodus from New England, a century and a half later, of their Yankee descendants. Yankees engaged in whaling and the China Trade, and settled in Canada, the American South, and Hawaii. Between 1786 and 1850, some 800,000 Yankees left their exhausted New England farms and villages for New York State, the Northwest Territory and all the way to the West Coast. With missionary zeal the Yankees planted their institutions, culture and values deep into the rich soil of the Western frontier. They built orderly farming communities and towns, complete with church, library, school and university. Yankee values of self-labor, temperance, moral rectitude, respect for the law, democratic town government, and enterprise helped form the American character. New England was the hotbed of reform movements. Yankee-inspired religious movements spread across the nation and beyond. The Anti-Slavery and the Anti-Imperialism movements started in New England. Susan B. Anthony campaigned for women's suffrage, Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross, Dorothea Dix established asylums for the mentally ill, and May Lyon was a pioneer in women's education. Yankees spread the Industrial Revolution across America, using waterpower and then stream power. Opposing slavery and advocating education for all children, the Yankee pioneers clashed with Southerners moving north. In Kansas the dispute between Yankee and Southerner erupted into armed conflict. In time the Yankee enclaves in Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, Minneapolis, and San Francisco fused with others to form the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite (WASPs), to dominate American commerce, industry, academia and politics. By the close of the nineteenth century, industry began to leave New England. Yankees felt threatened by the rising political power of immigrants. In an effort to keep the nation predominantly white and Protestant, prominent Yankees sought to restrict immigration from Asia, and from eastern and southern Europe, and impose quotas on American-Catholics and Jews seeking admission to elite universities and clubs. Despite barriers, the American-born children of the immigrants benefited from their education in public schools and colleges, entered the American mainstream, and steadily eroded the authority of the Protestant elite. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 opened the United States to immigrants from Asia, Africa and South America. The great mix of races, religions, ethnicity and individual styles is forming a pluralistic America with equally shared rights and opportunities.
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WASPs (Persons)--Biography - Migration, Internal--United States--History - WASPs (Persons)--United States--History - Pioneers--United States--Biography - New Englanders--Middle West - New Englanders--Migrations - New Englanders--West (U.S.)Content provider:
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Rebecca Harding Davis : A Life Among Writers
Sharon M. Harris;Sharon M. Harris
2018 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Rebecca Harding Davis is best known for her gri...
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Rebecca Harding Davis : A Life Among Writers
2018
2018 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Rebecca Harding Davis is best known for her gritty short story “Life in the Iron-Mills,” set in her native Wheeling, West Virginia. Far less is known of her later career among elite social circles in Philadelphia, New York , and Europe, or her relationships with American presidents and leading international figures in the worlds of literature and the stage. In the first book-length biography of Davis, Sharon M. Harris traces the extraordinary life of this pioneering realist and recovers her status as one of America's notable women journalists. Harris also examines Rebecca's role as the leading member of the Davis family, a unique and nationally recognized family of writers that shaped the changing culture of later nineteenth-century literature and journalism. This accessible treatment of Davis's life, based on deep research in archival sources, provides new perspective on topics ranging from sectional tensions in the border South to the gendered world of nineteenth-century publishing. It promises to be the authoritative treatment of an important figure in the literary history of West Virginia and the wider world.
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Literature and society--History--19th century - Women and literature--United States--History--19th century - Women authors, American--Biography - Authors, American--19th century--HistoryContent provider:
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Antipodean America : Australasia and the Constitution of U. S. Literature
Paul Giles;Paul Giles
Although North America and Australasia occupy opposite ends of the earth, they have ne...
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Antipodean America : Australasia and the Constitution of U. S. Literature
2013
Although North America and Australasia occupy opposite ends of the earth, they have never been that far from each other conceptually. The United States and Australia both began as British colonies and mutual entanglements continue today, when contemporary cultures of globalization have brought them more closely into juxtaposition. Taking this transpacific kinship as his focus, Paul Giles presents a sweeping study that spans two continents and over three hundred years of literary history to consider the impact of Australia and New Zealand on the formation of U.S. literature. Early American writers such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Joel Barlow and Charles Brockden Brown found the idea of antipodes to be a creative resource, but also an alarming reminder of Great Britain's increasing sway in the Pacific. The southern seas served as inspiration for narratives by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville. For African Americans such as Harriet Jacobs, Australia represented a haven from slavery during the gold rush era, while for E.D.E.N. Southworth its convict legacy offered an alternative perspective on the British class system. In the 1890s, Henry Adams and Mark Twain both came to Australasia to address questions of imperial rivalry and aesthetic topsy-turvyness. The second half of this study considers how Australia's political unification through Federation in 1901 significantly altered its relationship to the United States. New modes of transport and communication drew American visitors, including novelist Jack London. At the same time, Americans associated Australia and New Zealand with various kinds of utopian social reform, particularly in relation to gender politics, a theme Giles explores in William Dean Howells, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Miles Franklin. He also considers how American modernism in New York was inflected by the Australasian perspectives of Lola Ridge and Christina Stead, and how Australian modernism was in turn shaped by American styles of iconoclasm. After World War II, Giles examines how the poetry of Karl Shapiro, Louis Simpson, Yusef Komunyakaa, and others was influenced by their direct experience of Australia. He then shifts to post-1945 fiction, where the focus extends from Irish-American cultural politics (Raymond Chandler, Thomas Keneally) to the paradoxes of exile (Shirley Hazzard, Peter Carey) and the structural inversions of postmodernism and posthumanism (Salman Rushdie, Donna Haraway). Ranging from figures like John Ledyard to John Ashbery, from Emily Dickinson to Patricia Piccinini and J. M. Coetzee, Antipodean America is a truly epic work of transnational literary history.
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Geography in literature - American literature--History and criticismContent provider:
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Kerouac on Record : A Literary Soundtrack
Simon Warner;Jim Sampas;Simon Warner;Jim Sampas
He was the leading light of the Beat Generation writers and the most dynamic author of...
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Kerouac on Record : A Literary Soundtrack
2018
He was the leading light of the Beat Generation writers and the most dynamic author of his time, but Jack Kerouac also had a lifelong passion for music, particularly the mid-century jazz of New York City, the development of which he witnessed first-hand during the 1940s with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk to the fore. The novelist, most famous for his 1957 book On the Road, admired the sounds of bebop and attempted to bring something of their original energy to his own writing, a torrent of semi-autobiographical stories he published between 1950 and his early death in 1969. Yet he was also drawn to American popular music of all kinds – from the blues to Broadway ballads – and when he came to record albums under his own name, he married his unique spoken word style with some of the most talented musicians on the scene. Kerouac's musical legacy goes well beyond the studio recordings he made himself: his influence infused generations of music makers who followed in his work – from singer-songwriters to rock bands. Some of the greatest transatlantic names – Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead, Van Morrison and David Bowie, Janis Joplin and Tom Waits, Sonic Youth and Death Cab for Cutie, and many more – credited Kerouac's impact on their output. In Kerouac on Record, we consider how the writer brought his passion for jazz to his prose and poetry, his own record releases, the ways his legacy has been sustained by numerous more recent talents, those rock tributes that have kept his memory alive and some of the scores that have featured in Hollywood adaptations of the adventures he brought to the printed page.
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Music--United States--20th century--History and criticismContent provider:
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Documents of the LGBT Movement
Chuck Stewart;Chuck Stewart
Beginning from the First People, through the influx of European settlers and the slave...
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Documents of the LGBT Movement
2018
Beginning from the First People, through the influx of European settlers and the slave trade from Africa, to the modern era, this book presents and discusses documents that reflect pivotal moments in the LGBT rights movement in North America.While most would think of the modern Gay Rights Movement as beginning in the 1960s, in reality, the issue of nonheterosexual human behavior within society and the campaign to achieve equality and acceptance have existed far earlier. Beginning with the First People in the Americas and their acceptance of tribal members who did not conform to gender and sexual binary roles, to the expansion west and establishment of the United States as a Republic, to the contentious struggles for equality in the 20th and 21st centuries, this reference traces the development of the Gay Rights Movement through the examination of primary source materials related to the incremental changes toward making America safe for all people.These documents enable readers to reflect on pivotal moments in the LGBT rights and sexual equality movement in the past up to the achievement of marriage equality. A modern chronology traces key events in the Gay Rights Movement across the last 70 years, such as those during the World War II era, the formation of the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles in the 1950s, to the Stonewall Riot in New York in the late 1960s, the elimination of the category of homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1973, the judgment in 2003 by the U.S. Supreme Court that laws criminalizing sodomy are unconstitutional, and the legalization of same-sex marriage in all U.S. states in 2015.
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Gay rights--United States--History - Gay people--United States--History--Sources - Gay people--United States--History - Gay rights--United States--History--SourcesContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Nature, Politics, and the Arts : Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring
Hermione de Almeida;Hermione de Almeida
This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl W...
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Nature, Politics, and the Arts : Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring
2015
This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in conversation with Woodring's teachings on literature and visual art and his commentaries on American culture. A multiple-authored chapter of postscripts on the aesthetic range of Woodring's intellectual interests across cultural disciplines, his contributions to English studies and his informing influence on several generations of scholars, and their areas of interest, follows. A chapter from Woodring's unpublished autobiography, on his childhood in small-town America, then concludes the volume with an ironic retrospection on intercultural origins.Topics addressed among the chapters include portraiture and self-fashioning, landscape art, physiognomy and caricatures, radical print ephemera, illustrated picaresque verse, social and political satire, traditions of the sublime in art and literature, transatlantic influences and aesthetics, chaos theory and the laws of thermodynamics, the Caribbean slave trade, revolutionary history, Napoleonic wars, the politics of multicultural communities, gender and race, marginalia and textual revelations, Native America, historical interchanges in curating museum shows, and contemporary American sculpture and art. Cultural figures of the nineteenth century that are featured in the discussions include Henry Adams, Beethoven, Blake, Byron, Willa Cather, Thomas Cole, Coleridge, James Fenimore Cooper, George Cruikshank, Ugo Foscolo, Washington Irving, Keats, Willibrord Mähler, George Romney, Rowlandson, Shelley, and Wordsworth. Chapter essays, commentaries, and Carl Woodring's unpublished writings function together in Nature, Politics, and the Arts: Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring—with a depth of original perspectives and a multi-voiced and intercultural coherence. The book as a whole testifies to Woodring's living and intellectually potent legacy for future students of nineteenth-century transatlantic culture and twenty-first century scholarship on literature and art.
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Literature--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United StatesContent provider:
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American Heritage History of Young America, 1783-1860
Russell, Francis;Russell, Francis
Young America is a star-spangled account of the perilous, exuberant, dissension-filled...
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American Heritage History of Young America, 1783-1860
2016
Young America is a star-spangled account of the perilous, exuberant, dissension-filled first six decades of the United States. The book opens with George Washington's triumphant journey to New York City for his inauguration as first president of the United States. It ends with Abraham Lincoln's solemn farewell to Springfield as he takes a train to Washington to become the sixteenth - and almost the last - president of a country torn by the secession of seven of its states. In between, historian Francis Russell vividly details the events that first molded the American way of life and gave the young nation the will and ability to survive.
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Berek & Novak's Gynecology
Jonathan S. Berek;Jonathan S. Berek
Covering the entire spectrum of women's healthcare, Berek & Novak's Gynecology, 16th E...
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Berek & Novak's Gynecology
2020
Covering the entire spectrum of women's healthcare, Berek & Novak's Gynecology, 16th Edition, provides definitive information and guidance for trainees and practicing physicians. A newly streamlined design and brilliant, full-color illustrations highlight must-know content on principles of practice and initial assessment, including relevant basic science; preventive and primary care for women; and methods of diagnosis and management in general gynecology, operative gynecology, urogynecology and pelvic reconstructive surgery, early pregnancy issues, reproductive endocrinology, and gynecologic oncology.
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GynecologyContent provider:
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Joseph Pulitzer and the New York World
George Juergens;George Juergens
To determine how and why Pulitzer turned the unsuccessful New York World into the most...
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Joseph Pulitzer and the New York World
1966
To determine how and why Pulitzer turned the unsuccessful New York World into the most widely read and probably the most prosperous newspaper in the country, Professor Juergens isolates and analyzes the special qualities of Pulitzer's new style of journalism.Originally published in 1966.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Bonica's Management of Pain
Jane C. Ballantyne;Scott M. Fishman;James P. Rathmell;Jane C. Ballantyne;Sc...
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from 3rd Party sellers are not guaranteed by the ...
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Bonica's Management of Pain
2019
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from 3rd Party sellers are not guaranteed by the Publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. This exhaustively comprehensive edition of the classic Bonica's Management of Pain, first published 65 years ago, expertly combines the scientific underpinnings of pain with clinical management. Completely revised, it discusses a wide variety of pain conditions—including neuropathic pain, pain due to cancer, and acute pain situations—for adults as well as children. An international group of the foremost experts provides comprehensive, current, clinically oriented coverage of the entire field. The contributors describe contemporary clinical practice and summarize the evidence that guides clinical practice.
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Analgesia - Chronic pain--Treatment - Pain--TreatmentContent provider:
eBook Medical Collection (EBSCOhost)
The Oxford History of the Novel in English : Volume 5: The American Novel to 1870
J. Gerald Kennedy;Leland S. Person;J. Gerald Kennedy;Leland S. Person
The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehe...
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The Oxford History of the Novel in English : Volume 5: The American Novel to 1870
2014; Vol. volume five
The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the'literary'novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution, and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements, traditions, and tendencies. In thirty-four essays, this volume reconstructs the emergence and early cultivation of the novel in the United States. Contributors discuss precursors to the U.S. novel that appeared as colonial histories, autobiographies, diaries, and narratives of Indian captivity, religious conversion, and slavery, while paying attention to the entangled literary relations that gave way to a distinctly American cultural identity. The Puritan past, more than two centuries of Indian wars, the American Revolution, and the exploration of the West all inspired fictions of American struggle and self-discovery. A fragmented national publishing landscape comprised of small, local presses often disseminating odd, experimental forms eventually gave rise to major houses in Boston, New York , and Philadelphia and a consequently robust culture of letters.'Dime novels', literary magazines, innovative print technology, and even favorable postal rates contributed to the burgeoning domestic book trade in place by the time of the Missouri Compromise. Contributors weigh novelists of this period alongside their most enduring fictional works to reveal how even the most'American'of novels sometimes confronted the inhuman practices upon which the promise of the new republic had been made to depend. Similarly, the volume also looks at efforts made to extend American interests into the wider world beyond the nation's borders, and it thoroughly documents the emergence of novels projecting those imperial aspirations.
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Social conflict in literature - American literature--European influences - National characteristics, American, in literature - American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - American fiction--19th century--History and criticism - American fiction--18th century--History and criticism - Literature and society--United States--History--19th century - Literature and society--United States--History--18th centuryContent provider:
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Aminoff's Neurology and General Medicine
Michael J. Aminoff;S. Andrew Josephson;Michael J. Aminoff;S. Andrew Josephs...
Aminoff's Neurology and General Medicine is the standard and classic reference providi...
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Aminoff's Neurology and General Medicine
2014
Aminoff's Neurology and General Medicine is the standard and classic reference providing comprehensive coverage of the relationship between neurologic practice and general medicine. As neurologists are asked to consult on general medical conditions, this reference provides an authoritative tool linking general medical conditions to specific neurologic issues and disorders. This is also a valuable tool for the general practitioner seeking to understand the neurologic aspects of their medical practice. Completely revised with new chapters covering metastatic disease, bladder disease, psychogenic disorders, dementia, and pre-operative and post-operative care of patients with neurologic disorders, this new edition will again be the go-to reference for both neurologists and general practitioners. The standard authoritative reference detailing the relationship between neurology and general medicine 100% revised and updated with several new chapters Well illustrated, with most illustrations in full color
