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Lifelines: The Bowen Love Letters

By: Susan Lee Ward

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Lifelines: The Bowen Love Letters

By: Susan Lee Ward

Lifelines: The Bowen Love Letters By: Susan Lee Ward “Katie Bowen was literate, observant, curious, compassionate, lucid, and philosophical. Her letters are informative, affectionate, and delightful to read. These letters constitute one of the finest pre-Civil War collections about military life.” Dr. Leo E. Oliva, Santa Fe Trail Historian Catherine “Katie” Bowen (nee Cary) was born and raised in Houlton, Maine, where her family ran a lumber and mercantile business. After a whirlwind courtship, Katie married a dashing young West Point graduate, Second Lieutenant Isaac Bowen, who left soon after the wedding for the Mexican War. When he returned safely from the war, Katie and Isaac embarked on the adventure of a lifetime: enjoying tea and discussing philosophy with Ralph Waldo Emerson; drinking a soldier’s cracker toddy and smoking cigars with General Zachary Taylor, Colonel Jefferson Davis, and Second Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant, one of Isaac’s West Point classmates; chatting fireside with Susan Shelby Magoffin, another well-known Santa Fe Trail traveler; sipping champagne at the White House with family friend, President Millard Fillmore; hearing crucial military intelligence from frontier scout, Kit Carson; and, being entertained with tall tales about Mississippi River life by steamboat Cub Pilot, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, later known as Mark Twain. The Bowen Love Letters reveal intimate details about young lives full of passion and adventure - lives that ended tragically in 1858 when Katie and Isaac were still in their early thirties.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1646106431

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9781646106431

The Man who was Cyrano

A Life of Edmond Rostand, Creator of Cyrano de Bergerac

By: Sue Lloyd,Susan M. Lloyd

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The Man who was Cyrano

A Life of Edmond Rostand, Creator of Cyrano de Bergerac

By: Sue Lloyd,Susan M. Lloyd

The first English biography of Edmond Rostand, creator of _Cyrano de Bergerac_. Thoroughly researched and annotated, but written for non-specialists, it shows how Rostand strove in his plays to revive idealism in the modern world.

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394

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Unlimited Publishing LLC

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1588320723

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9781588320728

Caribbean Exchanges

Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, 1640-1700

By: Susan Dwyer Amussen

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Caribbean Exchanges

Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, 1640-1700

By: Susan Dwyer Amussen

English colonial expansion in the Caribbean was more than a matter of migration and trade. It was also a source of social and cultural change within England. Finding evidence of cultural exchange between England and the Caribbean as early as the seventeenth century, Susan Dwyer Amussen uncovers the learned practice of slaveholding. As English colonists in the Caribbean quickly became large-scale slaveholders, they established new organizations of labor, new uses of authority, new laws, and new modes of violence, punishment, and repression in order to manage slaves. Concentrating on Barbados and Jamaica, England's two most important colonies, Amussen looks at cultural exports that affected the development of race, gender, labor, and class as categories of legal and social identity in England. Concepts of law and punishment in the Caribbean provided a model for expanded definitions of crime in England; the organization of sugar factories served as a model for early industrialization; and the construction of the "white woman" in the Caribbean contributed to changing notions of "ladyhood" in England. As Amussen demonstrates, the cultural changes necessary for settling the Caribbean became an important, though uncounted, colonial export.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807888834

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9780807888834

The Siblys of London

A Family on the Esoteric Fringes of Georgian England

By: Susan Sommers

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The Siblys of London

A Family on the Esoteric Fringes of Georgian England

By: Susan Sommers

Ebenezer Sibly was a quack doctor, plagiarist, and masonic ritualist in late eighteenth-century London; his brother Manoah was a respectable accountant and a pastor who ministered to his congregation without pay for fifty years. The inventor of Dr. Sibly's Reanimating Solar Tincture, which claimed to restore the newly dead to life, Ebenezer himself died before he turned fifty and stayed that way despite being surrounded by bottles of the stuff. Asked to execute his will, which urged the continued manufacture of Solar Tincture, and left legacies for multiple and concurrent wives as well as an illegitimate son whose name the deceased could not recall, Manoah found his brother's record of financial and moral indiscretions so upsetting that he immediately resigned his executorship. Ebenezer's death brought a premature conclusion to a colorfully chaotic life, lived on the fringes of various interwoven esoteric subcultures. Drawing on such sources as ratebooks and pollbooks, personal letters and published sermons, burial registers and horoscopes, Susan Mitchell Sommers has woven together an engaging microhistory that offers useful revisions to scholarly accounts of Ebenezer and Manoah, while placing the entire Sibly family firmly in the esoteric byways of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Siblys of London provides fascinating insight into the lives of a family who lived just outside our usual historical range of vision.

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361

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Oxford University Press

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0190687347

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9780190687342

British Overseas Territories Law

By: Ian Hendry,Susan Dickson

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British Overseas Territories Law

By: Ian Hendry,Susan Dickson

This is a manual of law and practice relating to the 14 remaining British overseas territories: Anguilla; Bermuda; British Antarctic Territory; British Indian Ocean Territory; Cayman Islands; Falkland Islands; Gibraltar; Montserrat; Pitcairn Islands; St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha; South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands; Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus; Turks and Caicos Islands; and Virgin Islands. Most, if not all, of these territories are likely to remain British for the foreseeable future, and many have agreed modern constitutional arrangements with the British Government. This book provides a comprehensive description of the main elements of their governance in law and practice, and of the constitutional and international status of the territories. This long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive update on the law governing overseas territories. It reflects the post-Brexit landscape, and covers the Extradition Act 2003 (Overseas Territories) Order 2016 and the Emergency Powers (Overseas Territories) Order 2017. In addition, it explores case law developments from Chagos Islanders v The United Kingdom to the Mauritius case concerning British Overseas Territory waters.

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431

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1509918728

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9781509918720

The Sea Ranch

By: Susan M. Clark

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The Sea Ranch

By: Susan M. Clark

The Sea Ranch, translated from the Spanish "Del Mar Ranch," occupies the northwest corner of Sonoma County and is renowned for its architecture and environmental sensitivity. The development of a second-home community in 1965 was just one more chapter in a long history that began in 1846. The Sea Ranch is part of the German Rancho, the most northern coastal Mexican land grant, which was confirmed by the United States following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. It was home to German cattlemen, loggers, and an early-20th-century Russian Baptist colony. Over the years, shepherds, World War II soldiers, and bootleggers have called it home. Early maps and photographs tell the history of the area, and contemporary photographs reveal remnants of historic buildings and sites on the current Sea Ranch landscape.

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132

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439636575

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9781439636572

New Complete Guide to Gardening

By: Susan A. Roth

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New Complete Guide to Gardening

By: Susan A. Roth

For: Mary A. Reid.

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Better Homes & Gardens Books

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0696214571

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Why Didn't I Think of That?

1,198 Tips from 222 Sailors on 120 Boats from 9 Countries

By: John Roberts,Susan Roberts

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Why Didn't I Think of That?

1,198 Tips from 222 Sailors on 120 Boats from 9 Countries

By: John Roberts,Susan Roberts

Cruising on a small boat is a continuous learning experience. Sometimes you discover answers on your own, but more often the best lessons come from casual conversations with other cruisers. Why Didn't I Think of That? brings together the lessons learned, the tested advice, and the ingenious solutions of more than 200 sailors from around the world. Here you'll find nearly 1,200 tips on everything from anchors to bilge pumps, refrigeration to communication, food preparation to handy gadgets, finding just the right tool to weathering the weather, and cruising with children to making your boat a secure and comfortable home. Whether you're new to cruising or a full-time liveaboard, this book belongs on board.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0070532214

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9780070532212

Lifelines: The Bowen Love Letters

By: Susan Lee Ward

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Introduction to Biomes

By: Susan L. Woodward

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Introduction to Biomes

By: Susan L. Woodward

Introduction to Biomes is both a standalone summary to the concept of biomes and an introduction to the 8-volume series Greenwood Guides to Biomes of the World. The volume covers: • The biome concept and brief descriptions of vegetation, climate and distribution of the terrestrial and of the range of freshwater and aquatic biomes covered in the set. • Classifying life - how scientists discuss the taxonomic hierarchy and how it has been used to determine how to divide the world into regions based on living organisms. • The ecosystem concept - how this and other major concepts from ecology that are key to understanding biomes. • Terrestrial environments - the various climatic variables and climate types, and a discussion of our changing planet • Aquatic environments and life - how lifeforms and food chains make aquatic environments distinct from terrestrial biomes. Maps, photos, diagrams, drawings, and tables accompany the text, as do sidebars that highlight habitats, species, and ecological relationships. The volume includes a bibliography of accessible resources for further research.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313087423

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Gender: A World History

By: Susan Kingsley Kent

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Gender: A World History

By: Susan Kingsley Kent

Gender exists in almost every society as a way of organizing its people. Gender is used to assign certain responsibilities, obligations, and privileges to some, and to deny them to others. In Gender: A World History, Susan Kingsley Kent tells the story of this seemingly simple but in fact quite complex concept. With historical perspective she critically examines our everyday understandings of women and men, masculinity and femininity, and sexual difference in general. Central to this account is the conviction that gender is neither natural nor innocent. What passes for masculinity and femininity in one society might not do so in another. Even the passing of time can change what gender looks like in a particular culture. Thinking about the history of gender can also shed light on other types of relations, such as those between a government and its people, between different social classes, and between a colony and its colonizer. Ranging from prehistory to the present, this book presents a chronological picture of gender across the globe. From Hatshepsut and the rise of patriarchy in the ancient world, to the Bushido code of the samurai in wartime, to Susan B. Anthony and the women's rights movement in the United States, to the gay and trans rights movements of today, the force of gender in world history cannot be denied.

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Oxford University Press

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0190622008

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Book's by Susan Lee Ward

Lifelines: The Bowen Love Letters

Lifelines: The Bowen Love Letters

The Man who was Cyrano

The Man who was Cyrano

Caribbean Exchanges

Caribbean Exchanges

The Siblys of London

The Siblys of London

British Overseas Territories Law

British Overseas Territories Law

The Sea Ranch

The Sea Ranch

New Complete Guide to Gardening

New Complete Guide to Gardening

Why Didn't I Think of That?

Why Didn't I Think of That?

Lifelines: The Bowen Love Letters

Lifelines: The Bowen Love Letters

Introduction to Biomes

Introduction to Biomes

Gender: A World History

Gender: A World History

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