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The House of Godwin

The Rise and Fall of an Anglo-Saxon Dynasty

By: Michael John Key

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The House of Godwin

The Rise and Fall of an Anglo-Saxon Dynasty

By: Michael John Key

The most powerful dynasty behind the throne of Anglo-Saxon England, shedding new light on events such as the Battle of Hastings.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445694077

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9781445694078

Bridging Deep South Rivers

The Life and Legend of Horace King

By: John S. Lupold,Thomas L. French Jr.

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Bridging Deep South Rivers

The Life and Legend of Horace King

By: John S. Lupold,Thomas L. French Jr.

Horace King (1807-1885) built covered bridges over every large river in Georgia, Alabama, and eastern Mississippi. That King, who began life as a slave in Cheraw, South Carolina, received no formal training makes his story all the more remarkable. This is the first major biography of the gifted architect and engineer who used his skills to transcend the limits of slavery and segregation and become a successful entrepreneur and builder. John S. Lupold and Thomas L. French Jr. add considerably to our knowledge of a man whose accomplishments demand wider recognition. As a slave and then as a freedman, King built bridges, courthouses, warehouses, factories, and houses in the three-state area. The authors separate legend from facts as they carefully document King’s life in the Chattahoochee Valley on the Georgia-Alabama border. We learn about King’s freedom from slavery in 1846, his reluctant support of the Confederacy, and his two terms in Alabama’s Reconstruction legislature. In addition, the biography reveals King’s relationship with his fellow (white) contractors and investors, especially John Godwin, his master and business partner, and Robert Jemison Jr., the Alabama entrepreneur and legislator who helped secure King’s freedom. The story does not end with Horace, however, because he passed his skills on to his three sons, who also became prominent builders and businessmen. In King’s world few other blacks had his opportunities to excel. King seized on his chances and became the most celebrated bridge builder in the Deep South. The reader comes away from King’s story with respect for the man; insight into the problems of financing, building, and maintaining covered bridges; and a new sense of how essential bridges were to the southern market economy.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820355380

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9780820355382

Reassessing Anglo-Saxon England

By: Eric John

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Reassessing Anglo-Saxon England

By: Eric John

Brilliantly and entertainingly written, this new and original analysis is the fruit of 30 years of scholarship and therefore has something of the nature of a testament. Mr. John uses anthropological insight to understand the Anglo-Saxon nature.

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228

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Manchester University Press

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0719050537

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9780719050534

The Real Shelley

Volume 2

By: John Cordy Jeaffreson

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The Real Shelley

Volume 2

By: John Cordy Jeaffreson

Reproduction of the original: The Real Shelley by John Cordy Jeaffreson

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3734010527

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9783734010521

Five Long Winters

The Trials of British Romanticism

By: John Bugg

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Five Long Winters

The Trials of British Romanticism

By: John Bugg

This book argues that the British government's repression of the 1790s rivals the French Revolution as the most important historical event for our understanding the development of Romantic literature. Romanticism has long been associated with both rebellion and escapism, and much Romantic historicism traces an arc from the outburst of democratic energy in British culture triggered by the French Revolution to a dwindling of enthusiasm later in the 1790s, when things in France turned violent. Writers such as Wordsworth and Coleridge can then be seen as "apostates" who turned from radical politics to a poetics of transcendence. Bugg argues instead for a poetics of silence, and his book is set against the backdrop of the so-called Gagging Acts and other legislation of William Pitt, which in literature manifests itself stylistically as silence, stuttering, fragmentation, and encoding. Mining archives of unpublished documents, including manuscripts, diaries, and letters, where authors were more candid, as well as rereading the work of both major and minor figures, a number of whom were subject to prison sentences, Five Long Winters offers a new way of approaching the literature of the Romantic era.

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261

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Stanford University Press

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0804787301

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9780804787307

Transatlantic Sensations

By: John Cyril Barton,Kristin N. Huston,a Preface by David S. Reynolds

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Transatlantic Sensations

By: John Cyril Barton,Kristin N. Huston,a Preface by David S. Reynolds

Bringing together sensation writing and transatlantic studies, this collection makes a convincing case for the symbiotic relationship between literary works on both sides of the Atlantic. Transatlantic Sensations begins with the 'prehistories' of the genre, looking at the dialogue and debate generated by the publication of sentimental and gothic fiction by William Godwin, Susanna Rowson, and Charles Brockden Brown.Thus establishing a context for the treatment of works by Louisa May Alcott, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Dion Boucicault, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Lippard, Charles Reade, Harriet Beecher Stowe and George Thompson, the volumetakes up a wide range of sensational topics including sexuality, slavery, criminal punishment, literary piracy, mesmerism, and the metaphors of foreign literary invasion and diseased reading. Concluding essays offer a reassessment of the realist and domestic fiction of George Eliot, Charlotte Yonge, and Thomas Hardy in the context of transatlantic sensationalism, emphasizing the evolution of the genre throughout the century and mapping a new transatlantic lineage for this immensely popular literary form. The book's final essay examines an international kidnapping case that was a journalistic sensation at the turn of the twentieth century.

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303

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Routledge

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1317008146

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9781317008149

Who's who in the Middle Ages

By: John Fines

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Who's who in the Middle Ages

By: John Fines

A Dictionary of the lives of men and women who dominated the time between the collapse of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance. Each portrait provides a historical outline of a life and assesses that life in relation to the contemporary background.

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236

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Barnes & Noble Publishing

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1566197163

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9781566197168

Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia

A History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, During the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records

By: John Bennett Boddie

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Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia

A History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, During the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records

By: John Bennett Boddie

This is a comprehensive study of the early history and inhabitants of Isle of Wight County. It begins with a graphic description of the early settlers--including accounts of Quakers and Cavaliers--and is followed by detailed histories of the various Isle of Wight families. Nearly 200 pages of this voluminous work are devoted to abstracts of deeds, land records, and quit rents. Besides a place and subject index, the work further includes a 38-page name index of several thousand entries.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806305592

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9780806305592

Between Self and Society

Inner Worlds and Outer Limits in the British Psychological Novel

By: John Rodden

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Between Self and Society

Inner Worlds and Outer Limits in the British Psychological Novel

By: John Rodden

Between Self and Society explores the psychosocial dramas that galvanize six major British novels written between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. The book challenges an influential misconception that has for too long hindered appreciation of the psychological novel. John Rodden argues that there should be no simplifying antithesis between psychological, “inner” conflicts (within the mind or “soul”) and institutional, “outer” conflicts (within family, class, community). Instead, it is the overarching, dramatic—yet often tortuous—relations between self and society that demand our attention. Rodden presents fresh interpretations of an eclectic group of prose fiction classics, including Tobias Smollett’s The Adventures of Roderick Random, William Godwin’s Caleb Williams, Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge, Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier, Wyndham Lewis’s Tarr, and D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love. Far from being merely admirable experiments, let alone daring though interesting failures, these fictions are shown to possess aesthetic unity, stylistic consistency, and psychic force. Between Self and Society thus impels our careful reconsideration of novels that represent major artistic achievements, yet have been either unjustly neglected or appreciated in limiting ways that do injustice to their psychological aspects. Rodden’s vibrant discussion invites an upward revaluation of these works and encourages the full recognition of their value and significance in British literary history.

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248

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University of Texas Press

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0292756100

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9780292756106

The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Critical Biography

By: John Worthen

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The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Critical Biography

By: John Worthen

Drawing especially on the many scholarly discoveries of recent years, this biography examines the life – and death ‒ of one of the greatest Romantic poets. Based on sceptical historical investigation and featuring an in-depth look at Shelley’s personal, financial and familial situation, it builds a compelling narrative about a controversial writer and thinker whose personal and philosophical convictions caused much turmoil during his short yet extraordinarily influential life. The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley reveals sides of the author not often studied. It looks at Shelley as an intensely loving, thoughtful and responsible man and father, who (except in one case) took exemplary care of the women he loved and who fell in love with him. It shows how significant his status as a gentleman was; it examines his poetry, letters, notebooks and discursive prose so that readers can comprehend the most important concerns of his life; it explores the financial and medical grounds for his years of exile; it is also the first biography to take account of his recently discovered early long poem the Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things. This biography offers readers a unique look at a famous poet, scholar, gentleman, democrat, atheist and tragic icon of English Romanticism.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118534034

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9781118534038

Introduction to Personal Finance

Beginning Your Financial Journey

By: John E. Grable,Lance Palmer

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Introduction to Personal Finance

Beginning Your Financial Journey

By: John E. Grable,Lance Palmer

Every financial decision we make impacts our lives. Introduction to Personal Finance: Beginning Your Financial Journey, 3rd Edition is designed to help students avoid early financial mistakes and provide the tools needed to secure a strong foundation for the future. Using engaging visuals and a modular approach, instructors can easily customize their course with topics that matter most to their students. This course empowers students to define their personal values and make smart financial decisions that help them achieve their goals.

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642

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John Wiley & Sons

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1394244002

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9781394244003

Imagining the King's Death

Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-1796

By: John Barrell

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Imagining the King's Death

Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-1796

By: John Barrell

It is high treason in British law to imagine the king's death. But after the execution of Louis XVI in 1793, everyone in Britain must have found themselves imagining that the same fate might befall George III. How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George and imagining it, in the legal sense of intending or designing? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. He shows how the law of treason was adapted in the years following Louis's death to punish what was acknowledged to be a "modern" form of treason unheard of when the law had been framed. The result, he argues, was the invention of a new and imaginary reading, a "figurative" treason, by which the question of who was imagining the king's death, the supposed traitors or those who charged them with treason, became inseparable.

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860

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0198112920

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9780198112921

Battleground Sussex

By: John Grehan,Martin Mace

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Battleground Sussex

By: John Grehan,Martin Mace

From its south-eastern tip Sussex is little more than sixty miles from continental Europe and the countys coastline, some seventy-six miles long, occupies a large part of Britains southern frontier. Before the days of Macadam and the Turnpike, water travel could prove more certain than land transportation and the seas that define the borders of our nation aided, rather than deterred, the invader.

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241

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Casemate Publishers

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1848846614

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9781848846616

POPULATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT

By: John Scales Avery

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POPULATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT

By: John Scales Avery

This book describes the steps needed to stabilize global population in order to avoid an environmental catastrophe. It also presents a history of the struggle for women's rights and for their representation in politics, science, literature, music and the visual arts.

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360

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Lulu.com

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0359031277

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9780359031276

Defense Acquisition Reform, 1960-2009

An Elusive Goal

By: John Ronald Fox

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Defense Acquisition Reform, 1960-2009

An Elusive Goal

By: John Ronald Fox

Center of Military History Publication 51-3-1. By J. Ronald Fox, et al. Discusses reform initiatives from 1960 to the present and concludes with prescriptions for future changes to the acquisition culture of the services, DoD, and industry.

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288

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Government Printing Office

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0160866979

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9780160866975

Virginia Historical Genealogies

By: John Bennett Boddie

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Virginia Historical Genealogies

By: John Bennett Boddie

This work, naming 4,000 related individuals, contains the lineages of about fifty families, the main branches of which were located in Virginia, Maryland, and North and South Carolina. Genealogies of the following families are given: Allen, Aston, Barker-Bradford-Taylor, Berkeley-Ligon-Norwood, Binns, Butler, Claiborne, Clark, Colclough, Crafford, Crayfford-Crafford, Davis, Doniphan, Eldridge, Flood, Godwyn, Gray, Gregg, Griffis, Grigsby, Harris, Haynes, Jones, Mallory, Mason, Moore, Mumford-DeJarnette-Perryman, Newton, Norwood, Pace, Peche-Cornish-Everard-Mildmay-Harcourt-Crispe, Reade, Ruffin, Sledge, Smith, Sowerby-Sorsby, Stone-Smallwood-Smith, Stover, Thomas, Travis, Warren, Woodliffe, Wynne, and Wythe.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806300426

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9780806300429

British Romanticism and Peace

By: John Bugg

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British Romanticism and Peace

By: John Bugg

This is the first book to bring perspectives from the interdisciplinary field of Peace Studies to bear on the writing of the Romantic period. Particularly significant is that field's attention not only to the work of anti-war protest, but more purposefully to considerations of how peace can actively be fostered, established, and sustained. Bravely resisting discourses of military propaganda, writers such as Amelia Opie, Helen Maria Williams, William Wordsworth, William Cobbett, John Keats, and Jane Austen embarked on the challenging and urgent rhetorical work of imagining—and inspiring others to imagine—the possibility of peace. The writers formulate a peace imaginary in various registers. Sometimes this means identifying and eschewing traditional militaristic tropes in order to craft alternative images for a patriotism compatible with peace. Other times it means turning away from xenophobic discourse to write about relations with other nations in terms other than those of conflict. If historically informed literary criticism has illustrated the importance of writing about war during the Romantic period, this volume invites readers to redirect critical attention to move beyond discourses of war, and to recognize the era's complex and vibrant writing about and for peace.

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Oxford University Press

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019257602X

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9780192576026

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