wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women's Activism in Modern America
ISBN: 9780252042676 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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478,37 zł |
Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women's Activism in Modern America
ISBN: 9780252084515 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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126,12 zł |
Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal
ISBN: 9780801871108 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. William Wirt practiced law in Virginia and Maryland in the early national period and served as attorney general under James Monroe and John Quincy Adams. Elizabeth Wirt managed the household and cared for the Wirts' large family during her husband's frequent work-related absences. For more than three decades, the couple struggled to reconcile different daily pursuits with a commitment to marriage as a partnership of equals. In Marriage in the Early Republic, Anya Jabour provides detailed analysis of a marital relationship so thoroughly documented that it illuminates gender relations... William Wirt practiced law in Virginia and Maryland in the early national period and served as attorney general under James Monroe and John Quincy ... |
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154,94 zł |
Scarlett's Sisters: Young Women in the Old South
ISBN: 9780807859605 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Scarlett's Sisters explores the meaning of nineteenth-century southern womanhood from the vantage point of the celebrated fictional character's flesh-and-blood counterparts: young, elite, white women. Anya Jabour demonstrates that southern girls and young women faced a major turning point when the Civil War forced them to assume new roles and responsibilities as independent women.
Examining the lives of more than 300 girls and women between ages fifteen and twenty-five, Jabour traces the socialization of southern white ladies from early adolescence through young adulthood.... Scarlett's Sisters explores the meaning of nineteenth-century southern womanhood from the vantage point of the celebrated fictional character's...
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208,87 zł |
Weirding the War: Stories from the Civil War's Ragged Edges
ISBN: 9780820334134 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "It is well that war is so terrible," Robert E. Lee reportedly said, "or we would grow too fond of it." The essays collected here make the case that we have grown too fond of it, and therefore we must make the war ter-rible again. Taking a "freakonomics" approach to Civil War studies, each contributor uses a seemingly unusual story, incident, or phenomenon to cast new light on the nature of the war itself. Collectively the essays remind us that war is always about "damage," even at its most heroic and even when certain people and things deserve to be damaged.Here then is not only the...
"It is well that war is so terrible," Robert E. Lee reportedly said, "or we would grow too fond of it." The essays collected here make the case that w...
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754,82 zł |
Family Values in the Old South
ISBN: 9780813036762 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Will become a useful addition to our understanding of antebellum Southern families, especially in demonstrating their multiple forms, definitions, and functions."--Sally McMillen, Davidson College
This collection of essays on family life in the nineteenth-century American South reevaluates the concept of family by looking at mourning practices, farming practices, tavern life, houses divided by politics, and interracial marriages. Individual essays examine cross-plantation marriages among slaves, white orphanages, childhood mortality, miscegenation and inheritance, domestic activities... "Will become a useful addition to our understanding of antebellum Southern families, especially in demonstrating their multiple forms, definitions, an...
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179,28 zł |