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Buying into the World of Goods

Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia

By: Ann Smart Martin

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Buying into the World of Goods

Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia

By: Ann Smart Martin

Cowinner, 2008 Fred Kniffen Book Award. Pioneer America Society/Association for the Preservation of Landscapes and Artifacts How did people living on the early American frontier discover and then become a part of the market economy? How do their purchases and their choices revise our understanding of the market revolution and the emerging consumer ethos? Ann Smart Martin provides answers to these questions by examining the texture of trade on the edge of the upper Shenandoah Valley between 1760 and 1810. Reconstructing the world of one country merchant, John Hook, Martin reveals how the acquisition of consumer goods created and validated a set of ideas about taste, fashion, and lifestyle in a particular place at a particular time. Her analysis of Hook's account ledger illuminates the everyday wants, transactions, and tensions recorded within and brings some of Hook's customers to life: a planter looking for just the right clock, a farmer in search of nails, a young woman and her friends out shopping on their own, and a slave woman choosing a looking glass. This innovative approach melds fascinating narratives with sophisticated analysis of material culture to distill large abstract social and economic systems into intimate triangulations among merchants, customers, and objects. Martin finds that objects not only reflect culture, they are the means to create it.

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JHU Press

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080189848X

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9780801898488

Makers and Users

American Decorative Arts, 1630-1820, from the Chipstone Collection

By: Ann Smart Martin

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American Decorative Arts, 1630-1820, from the Chipstone Collection

By: Ann Smart Martin

Here, American furniture and prints as well as English ceramics from a Milwaukee collection tell stories of stylistic change, regional preference, solutions of technological problems, and how Americans responded to English, European, Asian, and African influences.

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Chazen Museum of Art

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0932900461

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9780932900463

A Historical Archaeology of Delaware

People, Contexts, and the Cultures of Agriculture

By: Lu Ann De Cunzo

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A Historical Archaeology of Delaware

People, Contexts, and the Cultures of Agriculture

By: Lu Ann De Cunzo

By analyzing what she describes as richly detailed archaeological site biographies, De Cunzo reconstructs how Delaware's farming people actively created their identities and shaped their interactions at home, at work, at church, and in the marketplace as they began to confront industrial capitalism. Informed by a contextual, interpretive perspective, this valuable work reveals the complex interrelationships among environment, technology, economy, social order, and cultural praxis that defined the "cultures of agriculture" in Delaware during the last three centuries."--Jacket.

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512

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572332492

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9781572332492

Abraham in Arms

War and Gender in Colonial New England

By: Ann M. Little

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Abraham in Arms

War and Gender in Colonial New England

By: Ann M. Little

In 1678, the Puritan minister Samuel Nowell preached a sermon he called "Abraham in Arms," in which he urged his listeners to remember that "Hence it is no wayes unbecoming a Christian to learn to be a Souldier." The title of Nowell's sermon was well chosen. Abraham of the Old Testament resonated deeply with New England men, as he embodied the ideal of the householder-patriarch, at once obedient to God and the unquestioned leader of his family and his people in war and peace. Yet enemies challenged Abraham's authority in New England: Indians threatened the safety of his household, subordinates in his own family threatened his status, and wives and daughters taken into captivity became baptized Catholics, married French or Indian men, and refused to return to New England. In a bold reinterpretation of the years between 1620 and 1763, Ann M. Little reveals how ideas about gender and family life were central to the ways people in colonial New England, and their neighbors in New France and Indian Country, described their experiences in cross-cultural warfare. Little argues that English, French, and Indian people had broadly similar ideas about gender and authority. Because they understood both warfare and political power to be intertwined expressions of manhood, colonial warfare may be understood as a contest of different styles of masculinity. For New England men, what had once been a masculinity based on household headship, Christian piety, and the duty to protect family and faith became one built around the more abstract notions of British nationalism, anti-Catholicism, and soldiering for the Empire. Based on archival research in both French and English sources, court records, captivity narratives, and the private correspondence of ministers and war officials, Abraham in Arms reconstructs colonial New England as a frontier borderland in which religious, cultural, linguistic, and geographic boundaries were permeable, fragile, and contested by Europeans and Indians alike.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812202643

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9780812202649

Cat Cora's Classics with a Twist

Fresh Takes on Favorite Dishes

By: Cat Cora,Ann Krueger Spivack

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Cat Cora's Classics with a Twist

Fresh Takes on Favorite Dishes

By: Cat Cora,Ann Krueger Spivack

The Iron Chef offers over 100 fast & fresh recipes offering modern, healthy takes on popular favorites. On the wildly popular show Iron Chef America, Cat Cora fires up the imagination of millions of cooks by improvising exciting dishes while the clock is ticking. Now in Cat Cora’s Classics with a Twist, she shares recipes she makes where cooking really counts: at home. If you’re searching for casual fare that looks as if you spent hours on it (but takes a fraction of the time), you’ll want to try tomato-mozzarella skewers with Blood Mary vinaigrette (witch crispy onion rings on the side), fettucine with scallops and lime, and blueberry-lemon poppyseed upside-down cake. And if you need fast, healthful meals, you’ll find delicious inspiration in this book. These are the meals Cat puts together after work for her own family, including her four boys under the age of seven: enchilada pie, easy chicken curry, bucatini pasta with bacon, and crispy baked fish sticks with honey mustard dipping sauce. Wish your favorite dishes were a little faster, fresher, and brighter-flavored? Then you’ll welcome Cat’s take on the classics: baked “fried calamari, soft tacos with grilled flank steak and pineapple salsa, and cherry-filled chocolate cupcakes. Many, like Greek-style nachos, “pulled pork” sloppy joes, and red velvet coconut cake, are Cat’s spins on foods she enjoyed as a child growing up in a Greek family in the South. Cat helps you sneak out a few calories (when it improves the taste) and freshen things up, slipping chipotle chili croutons into Caesar salad or lemongrass into coq au vin. She reveals the secrets she learned over decades of cooking in restaurants. Best of all, Cat shows you how to “twist” these recipes, changing each one in subtle or dramatic ways the next time to make it your very own. Praise for Cat Cora's Classics with a Twist “When . . . Cora sets out to provide unique flavors, she delivers. . . . Her more than 100 recipes touch on every part of the menu, adding not only new tastes, but also new knowledge.” —Booklist “Easily identifiable recipes like Chili and Minestrone are infused with Cora's signature zesty flair . . . and she certainly proves she's got a lot to offer. . . . Readers will easily identify with Cora's laid back, family-style approach to cooking, and find effective and valuable tips throughout. Over seventy full-color photos add style and remind the reader that casual trumps extravagant in Cora's kitchen. Her book will appeal to the home cook who wants to break from the monotony of the weeknight meal.” —Publishers Weekly

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HarperCollins

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0547487495

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9780547487496

Habits of the Creative Mind

A Guide to Reading, Writing, and Thinking

By: Richard E. Miller,Ann Jurecic

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Habits of the Creative Mind

A Guide to Reading, Writing, and Thinking

By: Richard E. Miller,Ann Jurecic

Improve your writing by adjusting the way you think and approach assignments in the instantly accessible and flexible Habits of the Creative Mind.

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Macmillan Higher Education

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1319234437

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9781319234430

Makers and Users

American Decorative Arts, 1630-1820, from the Chipstone Collection

By: Ann Smart Martin

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American Decorative Arts, 1630-1820, from the Chipstone Collection

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Chazen Museum of Art

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Psychology

By: Philip G. Zimbardo,Ann L. Weber

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Psychology

By: Philip G. Zimbardo,Ann L. Weber

Psychology, Third Edition, builds upon the experience and reputations of Phil Zimbardo and Ann Weber with the addition of a new co-author, Bob Johnson, who has a wealth of teaching experience at the community college level. This briefer, less expensive book presents psychology in a meaningful, manageable format that focuses on the key questions and core concepts of psychology. Introductory psychology covers such a wide range of topics and issues that it becomes difficult for readers to see the forest for the trees. To make key psychological concepts more meaningful, the authors found inspiration in a classic chess study. This study showed that experts did no better than novices at remembering the location of pieces on a chess board when they were placed randomly. Only when the patterns represented actual game situations did they make sense and therefore become more easily memorable for the experts. Clearly, meaningful patterns are easier to remember and understand than random arrangements, and Psychology applies this by presenting the field of psychology in meaningful patterns to enhance comprehension. These concepts are then applied to readers' own lives, study skills, and the world around them. Finally, Psychology integrates a cross-cultural and multicultural perspective to make psychology meaningful for everyone. For anyone interested in Introductory Psychology.

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Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers

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0321401697

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9780321401694

Buying into the World of Goods

Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia

By: Ann Smart Martin

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JHU Press

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Inside Out

By: Ann M. Martin

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Inside Out

By: Ann M. Martin

Teased at school about his younger brother, Jonno hopes his life will change when James goes to a school for autistic children. It does, but not in the way he expects.

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Scholastic

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0590335529

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9780590335522

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Buying into the World of Goods

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Makers and Users

A Historical Archaeology of Delaware

A Historical Archaeology of Delaware

Abraham in Arms

Abraham in Arms

Cat Cora's Classics with a Twist

Cat Cora's Classics with a Twist

Habits of the Creative Mind

Habits of the Creative Mind

Makers and Users

Makers and Users

Psychology

Psychology

Buying into the World of Goods

Buying into the World of Goods

Inside Out

Inside Out

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