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Book The British Almanac  for the Year of Our Lord

Download or read book The British Almanac for the Year of Our Lord written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Literate South

    Book Details:
  • Author : Beth Barton Schweiger
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2019-06-25
  • ISBN : 030011253X
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book A Literate South written by Beth Barton Schweiger and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative examination of literacy in the American South before emancipation, countering the long-standing stereotype of the South's oral tradition Schweiger complicates our understanding of literacy in the American South in the decades just prior to the Civil War by showing that rural people had access to a remarkable variety of things to read. Drawing on the writings of four young women who lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Schweiger shows how free and enslaved people learned to read, and that they wrote and spoke poems, songs, stories, and religious doctrines that were circulated by speech and in print. The assumption that slavery and reading are incompatible--which has its origins in the eighteenth century--has obscured the rich literate tradition at the heart of Southern and American culture.

Book Music in New Jersey  1655 1860

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles H. Kaufman
  • Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN : 9780838622704
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Music in New Jersey 1655 1860 written by Charles H. Kaufman and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employs nearly 4,000 names of music teachers, performers, instrument, makers, and tradesmen who contributed to the musical upbringing of one of our nation's earliest-settled regions. Also includes a study of sacred and secular music, concert life, music education, publications, and the music trades in New Jersey in this period.

Book The Farmer s Age

Download or read book The Farmer s Age written by Paul W. Gates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume examines the aspects and problems of land policies and the growth in farming during the mid-1800s.

Book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901  Author index

Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901 Author index written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ohio Cultivator vol  3 No  1 Columbus  Ohio  January 1  1847

Download or read book Ohio Cultivator vol 3 No 1 Columbus Ohio January 1 1847 written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Preliminary Checklist of Lexington  Ky   Imprints  1821 1850

Download or read book A Preliminary Checklist of Lexington Ky Imprints 1821 1850 written by Roscoe Mitchell Pierson and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901  Main part

Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901 Main part written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Observing God

    Book Details:
  • Author : William J. Astore
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2017-07-05
  • ISBN : 1351914189
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Observing God written by William J. Astore and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish theologian, educator, astronomer and popularizer of science, Thomas Dick (1774-1857) promoted a Christianized form of science to inhibit secularization, to win converts to Christianity, and to persuade evangelicals that science was sacred. His devotional theology of nature made radical claims for cultural authority. This book presents the first detailed analysis of his life and works. After an extended biographical introduction, Dick's theology of nature is examined within the context of natural theology, and also his views on the plurality of worlds, the nebular hypothesis and geology. Other chapters deal with Dick's use of aesthetics to shape social behaviour for millennial purposes, and with the publishing history of his works, their availability and their reception. In the final part, the author explores Dick's influence in America. His pacifism won him Northern evangelical supporters, while his writings dominated the burgeoning field of popular science, powerfully shaping science's cultural meaning and its uses.

Book Lydia Bailey

Download or read book Lydia Bailey written by Karen Nipps and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little known today, Lydia Bailey was a leading printer in Philadelphia for decades. Her career began in 1808—when her husband, Robert, died, leaving her with the family business to manage—and ended in 1861, when she retired at the age of eighty-two. During her career, she operated a shop that at its height had more than forty employees, acted as city printer for over thirty years, and produced almost a thousand imprints bearing her name. Not surprisingly, sources reveal that she was closely associated with many of her now better-known contemporaries both in the book trade and beyond, people like her father-in-law, Francis Bailey; Mathew Carey; Philip Freneau; and Harriet Livermore. Through a detailed examination and analysis of various sources, Karen Nipps portrays Bailey’s experience within the context of her social, political, religious, and book environments. Lydia Bailey is the first monograph on a woman printer during the handpress period. It consists of a historical essay detailing Bailey’s life and analyzing her role in the contemporary book trade, followed by a checklist of her known imprints. In addition, appendixes offer further statistical information on the activities of her shop. Together, these provide rich material for other book historians as well as for historians of the early Republic, gender, and technology.

Book The Cultivator

Download or read book The Cultivator written by and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C  Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform

Download or read book An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform written by Christopher Hoolihan and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of rare books dealing with 'popular medicine' in early America which is housed at the University of Rochester Medical School library. The books described in the catalogue were written by physicians and other professionals to provide information for the non-medical audience. The books taught human anatomy, hygiene, temperance and diet, how to maintain health, and how to cope with illness especially when no professional help was available. The books promoted a healthy lifestyle for the readers, giving guidance on everything from physical fitness and recreation to the special health needs of women. The collection consists of works dealing with reproduction (from birth control to delivering and caring for a baby), venereal disease, home-nursing, epidemics, and the need for public sex education.