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The Hermaphrodite

By: Julia Ward Howe

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Written in the 1840s and published here for the first time, Julia Ward Howe's novel about a hermaphrodite is unlike anything of its time--or, in truth, of our own. Narrated by Laurence, who is raised and lives as a man, is loved by men and women alike, and can respond to neither, this unconventional story explores the understanding "that fervent hearts must borrow the disguise of art, if they would win the right to express, in any outward form, the internal fire that consumes them." Laurence describes his repudiation by his family, his involvement with an attractive widow, his subsequent wanderings and eventual attachment to a sixteen-year-old boy, his own tutelage by a Roman nobleman and his sisters, and his ultimate reunion with his early love. His is a story unique in nineteenth-century American letters, at once a remarkable reflection of a largely hidden inner life and a richly imagined tale of coming of age at odds with one's culture. Howe wrote "The Hermaphrodite" when her own marriage was challenged by her husband's affection for another man--and when prevailing notions regarding a woman's appropriate role in patriarchal structures threatened Howe's intellectual and emotional survival. The novel allowed Howe, and will now allow her readers, to occupy a speculative realm otherwise inaccessible in her historical moment.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803204272

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9780803204270

The Rough Guide History of the USA

By: Greg Ward

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The Rough Guide History of the USA

By: Greg Ward

The USA has become the wealthiest and most powerful nation on earth, and the Rough Guide Historygives you a full overview of the country's remarkable evolution, in accessible style and handy format. Covering everything from the beginnings of human settlement to the aftermath of September 11, it features a continuous time-line, plus sidebars on Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Malcolm X, the Iran-Contra affair and many other figures and topics. Illustrated throughout, and packed with illuminating quotations, the Rough Guide Historyis a vital reference for travellers and students alike.

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Rough Guides

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1858287774

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9781858287775

A Trip to Cuba

By: Ward Howe Julia

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A Trip to Cuba

By: Ward Howe Julia

A Trip to Cuba" written by Julia Ward Howe is a compilation of tour and exploration narratives that the author has carefully assembled in a single, low cost version, inviting readers into the captivating tapestry of her thoughts and reports. With a combination of exciting and awe-inspiring stories, the collection has the electricity to subtly enthrall its target market. Julia Ward Howe, identified for her iconic composition "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," skillfully weaves testimonies that variety from fascinating to subtly immersive. The book, with its fascinating new cowl and professionally typeset manuscript, gives a modern and accessible version for cutting-edge readers. The testimonies inside "A Trip to Cuba" recount Julia Ward Howe's 1859 adventure, supplying a glimpse into an era marked by using controversy. Notably, the author's evolving stance on abolitionism, prompted via familial ideals, is contemplated inside the narratives. The book delves into the complexities of social and racial dynamics, portraying a nuanced attitude that captures the historical context of the time. This version presents readers with an opportunity to interact with Howe's reflections, dropping light on each the interesting travelogue and the author's evolving socio-political views.

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9359958360

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9789359958361

Ken Burns's The Civil War Deluxe eBook (Enhanced Edition)

An Illustrated History

By: Geoffrey C. Ward,Ric Burns,Ken Burns

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Ken Burns's The Civil War Deluxe eBook (Enhanced Edition)

An Illustrated History

By: Geoffrey C. Ward,Ric Burns,Ken Burns

Combining video and audio from Ken Burns’s beloved film with animated maps and hundreds of images—rare photographs as well as paintings, lithographs, and maps in full color—this deluxe eBook brings the Civil War to life in a new way. The acclaimed, best-selling companion volume to the celebrated PBS series—the highest-rated series in the history of public television—has now been enhanced to create one of the richest eBook experiences available today. This new edition includes: • Nearly an hour of video and audio from the original film. We get wonderful footage re-creating what life was like during the war, Shelby Foote’s peerless storytelling and analysis, and informed commentary from other prominent historians. • Completely new and original animated maps of the three days at Gettysburg that make it easier than ever to follow this legendary and complicated battle. • Hundreds of illustrations carefully placed to maximize the reading experience without impeding the narrative flow of the text. As we mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, this deluxe eBook allows us to better understand and appreciate the greatest challenge our nation has ever faced.

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Knopf

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0307700224

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9780307700223

The Civil War

An Illustrated History

By: Geoffrey C. Ward,Ric Burns,Ken Burns

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The Civil War

An Illustrated History

By: Geoffrey C. Ward,Ric Burns,Ken Burns

The companion volume to the celebrated PBS television series, with a new preface to mark its twenty-fifth anniversary With more than 500 illustrations: rare Civil War photographs—many never before published—as well as paintings, lithographs, and maps reproduced in full color It was the greatest war in American history. It was waged in 10,000 places—from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in it and more than 600,000 men died in it. Not only the immensity of the cataclysm but the new weapons, the new standards of generalship, and the new strategies of destruction—together with the birth of photography—were to make the Civil War an event present ever since in the American consciousness. Thousands of books have been written about it. Yet there has never been a history of the Civil War quite like this one. A wealth of documentary illustrations and a narrative alive with original and energetic scholarship combine to present both the grand sweep of events and the minutest of human details. Here are the crucial events of the war: the firing of the first shots at Fort Sumter; the battles of Shiloh, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg; the siege of Vicksburg; Sherman’s dramatic march to the sea; the surrender at Appomattox. Here are the superb portraits of the key figures: Abraham Lincoln, claiming for the presidency almost autocratic power in order to preserve the Union; the austere Jefferson Davis, whose government disappeared almost before it could be formed; Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant, seasoned generals of fierce brilliance and reckless determination. Here is the America in which the war was fought: The Civil War is not simply the story of great battles and great generals; it is also an elaborate portrait of the American people—individuals and families, northerners and southerners, soldiers and civilians, slaves and slaveowners, rich and poor, urban and rural—caught up in the turbulence of the times. An additional resonance is provided by four essays, the work of prominent Civil War historians. Don E. Fehrenbacher discusses the causes of the war; Barbara J. Fields writes about emancipation; James M. McPherson looks at the politics of the 1864 election; C. Vann Woodward speculates on how the war has affected the American identity. And Shelby Foote talks to filmmaker Ken Burns about wartime life on the battlefield and at home. A magnificent book. In its visual power, its meticulous research, its textual brilliance, and the humanity of its narrative, The Civil War will stand among the most illuminating and memorable portrayals of the American past.

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0679742778

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9780679742777

Cross Currents in the International Women's Movement, 1848-1948

By: Patricia Ward D'Itri

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Cross Currents in the International Women's Movement, 1848-1948

By: Patricia Ward D'Itri

D'Itri (American thought and language, Michigan State U.) discusses the individuals, organizations, and events that contributed to the development of the world movement for women's rights between 1848, the date of the first Women's Rights Convention in the United States, and 1948, by which time the movement was substantial enough to influence the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. This study traces the movement from its origins in the United States, through its subsequent international development. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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0879727829

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9780879727826

A Dictionary of Quotations From English and American Poets: Based Upon Bohn's Edition

By: Anna Lydia Ward,Henry George Bohn

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A Dictionary of Quotations From English and American Poets: Based Upon Bohn's Edition

By: Anna Lydia Ward,Henry George Bohn

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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3385104084

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9783385104082

A Dictionary of Quotations From English and American Poets: Based Upon Bohn's Edition, Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged. Twelve Hundred Quotations Added From American Authors

By: Anna Lydia Ward,Henry George Bohn

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A Dictionary of Quotations From English and American Poets: Based Upon Bohn's Edition, Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged. Twelve Hundred Quotations Added From American Authors

By: Anna Lydia Ward,Henry George Bohn

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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3385105161

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Simon Baruch

Rebel in the Ranks of Medicine, 1840-1921

By: Patricia Spain Ward

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Simon Baruch

Rebel in the Ranks of Medicine, 1840-1921

By: Patricia Spain Ward

Recounts the remarkable life of a Prussian/Polish Jew who immigrated to the United States as a teenager in the 1850s and became one of the nation’s best-known physicians by the turn of the century After medical study in South Carolina and Virginia on the eve of the Civil War, Simon Baruch served the Confederacy as a surgeon for three years, twice undergoing capture and internment. Despite economic hardships while practicing in South Carolina during Reconstruction, he helped to reactivate the State Medical Association and served as president of the State Board of Health. In 1881 he joined the exodus of southern physicians and scientists of that period, taking up residence in New York City, where he rose to prominence through his advocacy of surgery in one of the early operations for appendicitis and through is role as the protective physician in a widely publicized “child cruelty” case involving the musical prodigy, Josef Hofmann. Baruch became a leader in the nationwide movement to establish free public baths for tenement dwellers and in the development of expert medical journalism. Although his advocacy of such natural remedies as water, fresh air, and diet often made him appear unaccountably iconoclastic to his contemporaries, he has gained posthumous recognition as a pioneer in physical medicine. Bernard N. Baruch, one of his four sons, has memorialized this work through endowments for research and instruction in physical medicine and rehabilitation. Ward reconstructs the life of a medical student in the South at the opening of the Civil War, the adventures of a Confederate surgeon, and the difficulties of a practitioner in Reconstruction South Carolina. Simon Baruch’s physician’s registers and his correspondence with colleagues afford the reader an immediate sense of the therapeutic dilemmas facing physicians and patients of his era. Baruch’s experiences while establishing himself in New York City after 1881 reflect the challenges facing those trying to break into what was then the nation’s medical capital—as well as that city’s rich opportunities and heady intellectual atmosphere. His energetic campaign for free public baths illustrates one of the most colorful chapters of American social history, as immigrants flooded the cities at the turn of the century. As medical editor of the New York Sun from 1912 to 1918, Baruch touched on most of the health concerns of that period and a few—such as handgun control—that persist to this day.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817357955

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9780817357955

Citizen Lincoln

By: Ward McAfee

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Citizen Lincoln

By: Ward McAfee

In modern times, some critics have belittled Abraham Lincoln's antislavery resolve as shallow. Some have portrayed him as a passive president, waiting upon the bold initiatives of others. 'Citizen Lincoln' regards him differently. First, it portrays Lincoln's animus against slavery as rooted in the highest ideals of the American Revolution, which he saw as being corrupted in his own time. Second, it analyses Lincoln's supposed 'passivity' as more aptly defined as wise caution. Lincoln learned as a legislator, first in Illinois and later in the United States Congress, that bold initiatives often backfire and fail to fulfil original intentions. In the state legislature, Lincoln supported a dramatic internal-improvements project that collapsed in the midst of a national depression. Lincoln also boldly opposed the Mexican War in Congress, only to see his cause evaporate as soon as a peace treaty was drafted with Mexico. In both instances, his timing was faulty. He had rushed into taking rigid policy positions when greater caution would have reaped better results. But in both instances, he learned lessons that would hold him in good stead later. Lincoln as president was wisely cautious, knowing that bold action could only disrupt the delicate coalition that kept the Union cause moving forward to victory. Harriet Beecher Stowe described Lincoln's unique strength as "swaying to every influence, yielding on this side and on that to popular needs, yet tenaciously and inflexibly bound to carry its great end". She wisely added that no other kind of strength could have seen the nation through the worst trial in its history. In filling this role, Abraham Lincoln fulfilled that which he had long regarded as his personal mission within the larger context of his nation's providential destiny.

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1594541124

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The Hermaphrodite

The Hermaphrodite

The Rough Guide History of the USA

The Rough Guide History of the USA

A Trip to Cuba

A Trip to Cuba

Ken Burns's The Civil War Deluxe eBook (Enhanced Edition)

Ken Burns's The Civil War Deluxe eBook (Enhanced Edition)

The Civil War

The Civil War

Cross Currents in the International Women's Movement, 1848-1948

Cross Currents in the International Women's Movement, 1848-1948

A Dictionary of Quotations From English and American Poets: Based Upon Bohn's Edition

A Dictionary of Quotations From English and American Poets: Based Upon Bohn's Edition

A Dictionary of Quotations From English and American Poets: Based Upon Bohn's Edition, Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged. Twelve Hundred Quotations Added From American Authors

A Dictionary of Quotations From English and American Poets: Based Upon Bohn's Edition, Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged. Twelve Hundred Quotations Added From American Authors

Simon Baruch

Simon Baruch

Citizen Lincoln

Citizen Lincoln

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