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Till Death Do Us Part

The Letters of Emory and Emily Upton, 1868-1870

By: Salvatore G. Cilella

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Till Death Do Us Part

The Letters of Emory and Emily Upton, 1868-1870

By: Salvatore G. Cilella

An edited collection of personal correspondence of Major General Emory Upton and his wife, Emily Norwood Martin, forming a poignant narrative of love and affection as they attempted to create a normal life together despite her declining health"--

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0806164891

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9780806164892

Infantry Tactics Double and Single Rank

By: Emory Upton

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Infantry Tactics Double and Single Rank

By: Emory Upton

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385227550

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9783385227552

A "topping People"

The Rise and Decline of Virginia's Old Political Elite, 1680-1790

By: Emory G. Evans

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A "topping People"

The Rise and Decline of Virginia's Old Political Elite, 1680-1790

By: Emory G. Evans

A "Topping People" is the first comprehensive study of the political, economic, and social elite of colonial Virginia. Evans studies twenty-one leading families from their rise to power in the late 1600s to their downfall over one hundred years later. These families represented the upper echelons of power, serving in the upper and lower houses of the General Assembly, often as speaker of the House of Burgesses. Their names--Randolph, Robinson, Byrd, Carter, Corbin, Custis, Nelson, and Page, to note but a few--are still familiar in the Old Dominion some three hundred years later. Their decline was due to a variety of factors--economic, social, and demographic. The third generations showed an inability to adapt their business philosophies to the changing economic climate. Their inclination was to mirror the English landed gentry, living off the income of their landed estates. Economic diversification was the norm early on, but it became less effective after 1730. Scots traders, for example, introduced chain stores, making it more difficult to continue family-run stores. And land speculation was no substitute for diversification. An increase in population resulted in the creation of new counties, which weakened the influence of the Tidewater region. These leading families began to spend more than they earned and became heavily indebted to British mercantile firms. The Revolution only served to make matters worse, and by 1790 these families had lost their political and economic status, although their social status remained. A "Topping People" is a thorough and engrossing study of the way families came to gain and, eventually, lose great power in this turbulent and progressive period in American history.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813927900

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9780813927909

A Treatise on the American Law of Real Property

Vol. 1

By: Emory Washburn

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A Treatise on the American Law of Real Property

Vol. 1

By: Emory Washburn

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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818

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3368720244

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9783368720247

Historical Sketches of the Town of Leicester

By: Emory Washburn

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Historical Sketches of the Town of Leicester

By: Emory Washburn

Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.

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486

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3375103786

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9783375103781

The Columbia Literary History of the United States

By: Emory Elliott

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The Columbia Literary History of the United States

By: Emory Elliott

For the first time in four decades, there exists an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the literature of the United States, from prehistoric cave narratives to the radical movements of the sixties and the experimentation of the eighties. This comprehensive volume—one of the century's most important books in American studies—extensively treats Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, Hemingway, and other long-cherished writers, while also giving considerable attention to recently discovered writers such as Kate Chopin and to literary movements and forms of writing not studied amply in the past. Informed by the most current critical and theoretical ideas, it sets forth a generation's interpretation of the rise of American civilization and culture. The Columbia Literary History of the United States contains essays by today's foremost scholars and critics, overseen by a board of distinguished editors headed by Emory Elliott of Princeton University. These contributors reexamine in contemporary terms traditional subjects such as the importance of Puritanism, Romanticism, and frontier humor in American life and writing, but they also fully explore themes and materials that have only begun to receive deserved attention in the last two decades. Among these are the role of women as writers, readers, and literary subjects and the impact of writers from minority groups, both inside and outside the literary establishment.

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0585041520

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9780585041520

The Columbia History of the American Novel

By: Emory Elliott

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The Columbia History of the American Novel

By: Emory Elliott

Designed as a companion to The Columbia Literary History of the United States, this compilation of 31 major essays covers the American novel from the 1700s to the present, although the majority deal with the 20th century. Within each era, themes, genres, and topics such as realism, gender, romance, and technology are discussed in depth, as well as modern Canadian, Caribbean, and Latin American fiction. Each essayist selects only the authors who best illustrate the topic, thus subtly skewing the view of the literary scene at that time. The volume also covers women, minorities, popular fiction, and the book marketplace. ISBN 0-231-07360-7: $59.95.

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940

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0231073607

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9780231073608

How Myth Became History

Texas Exceptionalism in the Borderlands

By: John Emory Dean

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How Myth Became History

Texas Exceptionalism in the Borderlands

By: John Emory Dean

The myth of Texas origin often begins at the Alamo. This story is based on ideology rather than on truth, yet ideology is the foundation for the U.S. American cultural memory that underwrites official history. The Alamo, as a narrative of national progress, supports the heroic acts that have created the “Lone Star State,” a unified front of U.S. American liberty in the face of Mexican oppression. How Myth Became History explores the formation of national, ethnic, racial, and class identities in the Texas borderlands. Examining Mexican, Mexican American, and Anglo Texan narratives as competing representations of the period spanning the Texas Declaration of Independence to the Mexican Revolution, John E. Dean traces the creation and development of border subjects and histories. Dean uses history, historical fiction, postcolonial theory, and U.S.-Mexico border theory to disrupt “official” Euro-American histories. Dean argues that the Texas-Mexico borderlands complicate national, ethnic, and racial differences. He makes this clear in his discussion of the Mexican Revolution, when many Mexican Americans who saw themselves as Mexicans fought for competing revolutionary factions in Mexico, while others who saw themselves as U.S. Americans tried to distance themselves from Mexico altogether. Analyzing literary representations of the border, How Myth Became History emphasizes the heterogeneity of border communities and foregrounds narratives that have often been occluded, such as Mexican-Indio histories. The border, according to Dean, still represents a contested geographical entity that destabilizes ethnic and racial groups. Border dynamics provide critical insight into the vexed status of the contemporary Texas-Mexico divide and point to broader implications for national and transnational identity.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816533709

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9780816533701

Book's by Emory Upton

Till Death Do Us Part

Till Death Do Us Part

Infantry Tactics Double and Single Rank

Infantry Tactics Double and Single Rank

A "topping People"

A "topping People"

A Treatise on the American Law of Real Property

A Treatise on the American Law of Real Property

Historical Sketches of the Town of Leicester

Historical Sketches of the Town of Leicester

The Columbia Literary History of the United States

The Columbia Literary History of the United States

The Columbia History of the American Novel

The Columbia History of the American Novel

How Myth Became History

How Myth Became History

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