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Book Communities of Journalism

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Paul Nord
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780252026713
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Communities of Journalism written by David Paul Nord and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely acknowledged as one of our most insightful commentators on the history of journalism in the United State, David Paul Nord offers a lively and wide-ranging discussion of journalism as a vital component of community. In settings ranging from the religion-infused towns of colonial America to the rrapidly expanding urban metropolises of the late nineteenth century, Nord explores the cultural work of the press.

Book The Plight of Feeling

Download or read book The Plight of Feeling written by Julia A. Stern and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American novels written in the wake of the Revolution overflow with self-conscious theatricality and impassioned excess. In The Plight of Feeling, Julia A. Stern shows that these sentimental, melodramatic, and gothic works can be read as an emotional history of the early republic, reflecting the hate, anger, fear, and grief that tormented the Federalist era. Stern argues that these novels gave voice to a collective mourning over the violence of the Revolution and the foreclosure of liberty for the nation's noncitizens—women, the poor, Native and African Americans. Properly placed in the context of late eighteenth-century thought, the republican novel emerges as essentially political, offering its audience gothic and feminized counternarratives to read against the dominant male-authored accounts of national legitimation. Drawing upon insights from cultural history and gender studies as well as psychoanalytic, narrative, and genre theory, Stern convincingly exposes the foundation of the republic as an unquiet crypt housing those invisible Americans who contributed to its construction.

Book Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General s Office  United States Army

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General s Office United States Army written by United States Army. Library of the Surgeon General's Office (Washington). and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 1218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Author Catalog

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  • Author : Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1873
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 968 pages

Download or read book Author Catalog written by Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Short Title Catalogue of Eighteenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine

Download or read book A Short Title Catalogue of Eighteenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General s Office  United States Army

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General s Office United States Army written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Conquest of Epidemic Disease

Download or read book The Conquest of Epidemic Disease written by Charles-Edward Amory Winslow and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Conquest of Epidemic Disease, Charles-Edward Amory Winslow's classic study in the history of medicine and public health, returns to print in this attractive paperback editon for students, scholars, and practitioners.

Book Philadelphia Stories

Download or read book Philadelphia Stories written by Samuel Otter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Philadelphia Stories, Samuel Otter finds literary value, historical significance, and political urgency in a sequence of texts written in and about Philadelphia between the Constitution and the Civil War. Historians such as Gary B. Nash and Julie Winch have chronicled the distinctive social and political space of early national Philadelphia. Yet while individual writers such as Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, and George Lippard have been linked to Philadelphia, no sustained attempt has been made to understand these figures, and many others, as writing in a tradition tied to the city's history. The site of William Penn's "Holy Experiment" in religious toleration and representative government and of national Declaration and Constitution, near the border between slavery and freedom, Philadelphia was home to one of the largest and most influential "free" African American communities in the United States. The city was seen by residents and observers as the laboratory for a social experiment with international consequences. Philadelphia would be the stage on which racial character would be tested and a possible future for the United States after slavery would be played out. It would be the arena in which various residents would or would not demonstrate their capacities to participate in the nation's civic and political life. Otter argues that the Philadelphia "experiment" (the term used in the nineteenth-century) produced a largely unacknowledged literary tradition of peculiar forms and intensities, in which verbal performance and social behavior assumed the weight of race and nation.

Book The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker

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  • Author : Elaine Forman Crane
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2011-10-11
  • ISBN : 0812206827
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker written by Elaine Forman Crane and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journal of Philadelphia Quaker Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker (1735-1807) is perhaps the single most significant personal record of eighteenth-century life in America from a woman's perspective. Drinker wrote in her diary nearly continuously between 1758 and 1807, from two years before her marriage to the night before her last illness. The extraordinary span and sustained quality of the journal make it a rewarding document for a multitude of historical purposes. One of the most prolific early American diarists—her journal runs to thirty-six manuscript volumes—Elizabeth Drinker saw English colonies evolve into the American nation while Drinker herself changed from a young unmarried woman into a wife, mother, and grandmother. Her journal entries touch on every contemporary subject political, personal, and familial. Focusing on different stages of Drinker's personal development within the domestic context, this abridged edition highlights four critical phases of her life cycle: youth and courtship, wife and mother, middle age in years of crisis, and grandmother and family elder. There is little that escaped Elizabeth Drinker's quill, and her diary is a delight not only for the information it contains but also for the way in which she conveys her world across the centuries.

Book Over the Threshold

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  • Author : Christine Daniels
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-04-08
  • ISBN : 1135250235
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Over the Threshold written by Christine Daniels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the Threshold is the first in-depth work to explore the topic of intimate violence in the American colonies and the early Republic. The essays examine domestic violence in both urban and frontier environments, between husbands and wives, parents and children, and masters and slaves. This compelling collection puts commonly held notions about intimate violence under strict historical scrutiny, often producing surprising results.

Book Elements of the Practice of Physic

Download or read book Elements of the Practice of Physic written by David Craigie and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  On Second Thought  and Other Essays in the History of Medicine and Science

Download or read book On Second Thought and Other Essays in the History of Medicine and Science written by Owsei Temkin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-01-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of a career spanning most of the twentieth century, distinguished historian Owsei Temkin has argued passionately for the necessity of chronicling and analyzing the history of medicine. The essays presented in this book span Dr. Temkin's career, bringing together new pieces and many previously unavailable outside the journals in which they were originally published. Here the reader will find new thoughts and ideas that deviate from Dr. Temkin's earlier beliefs and reflect a lifetime of research into the historical and ethical foundations of modern medicine.

Book Elements of the practice of physic  presenting a view of the present state of special pathology and therapeutics

Download or read book Elements of the practice of physic presenting a view of the present state of special pathology and therapeutics written by David Craigie (M.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue Of The Books Belonging To The Library Company Of Philadelphia  To Which Is Prefixed A Short Account Of The Institution  With The Charter Laws And Regulations

Download or read book A Catalogue Of The Books Belonging To The Library Company Of Philadelphia To Which Is Prefixed A Short Account Of The Institution With The Charter Laws And Regulations written by Library Company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The William and Mary Quarterly

Download or read book The William and Mary Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia written by Library. Library Company and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Gentleman of Color

Download or read book A Gentleman of Color written by Julie Winch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-05 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winch has written the first full-length biography of James Forten, a hero of African American history and one of the most remarkable men in 19th-century America. Born into a free black family in 1766, Forten served in the Revolutionary War as a teenager. By 1810 he had earned the distinction of being the leading sailmaker in Philadelphia. Soon after Forten emerged as a leader in Philadelphia's black community and was active in a wide range of reform activities. Especially prominent in national and international antislavery movements, he served as vice-president of the American Anti-Slavery Society and became close friends with William Lloyd Garrison to whom he lent money to start up the Liberator. His family were all active abolitionists and a granddaughter, Charlotte Forten, published a famous diary of her experiences teaching ex-slaves in South Carolina's Sea Islands during the Civil War. This is the first serious biography of Forten, who stands beside Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Martin Luther King, Jr., in the pantheon of African Americans who fundamentally shaped American history.