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Book An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1989

Download or read book An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1989 written by Joseph Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1989

Download or read book An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1989 written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord

Download or read book An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord written by Joseph Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord

Download or read book An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord written by Joseph Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Almanack for the Year of Our Lord

Download or read book Almanack for the Year of Our Lord written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord

Download or read book An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord written by J. Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An almanack for the year of our Lord 1989   established 1869 by Joseph Whitaker

Download or read book An almanack for the year of our Lord 1989 established 1869 by Joseph Whitaker written by Joseph Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1992

Download or read book An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1992 written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sexual Revolution in Early America

Download or read book Sexual Revolution in Early America written by Richard Godbeer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-02-18 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Alternate Selection of the History Book Club In 1695, John Miller, a clergyman traveling through New York, found it appalling that so many couples lived together without ever being married and that no one viewed "ante-nuptial fornication" as anything scandalous or sinful. Charles Woodmason, an Anglican minister in South Carolina in 1766, described the region as a "stage of debauchery" in which polygamy was "very common," "concubinage general," and "bastardy no disrepute." These depictions of colonial North America's sexual culture sharply contradict the stereotype of Puritanical abstinence that persists in the popular imagination. In Sexual Revolution in Early America, Richard Godbeer boldly overturns conventional wisdom about the sexual values and customs of colonial Americans. His eye-opening historical account spans two centuries and most of British North America, from New England to the Caribbean, exploring the social, political, and legal dynamics that shaped a diverse sexual culture. Drawing on exhaustive research into diaries, letters, and other private papers, as well as legal records and official documents, Godbeer's absorbing narrative uncovers a persistent struggle between the moral authorities and the widespread expression of popular customs and individual urges. Godbeer begins with a discussion of the complex attitude that the Puritans had toward sexuality. For example, although believing that sex could be morally corrupting, they also considered it to be such an essential element of a healthy marriage that they excommunicated those who denied "conjugal fellowship" to their spouses. He next examines the ways in which race and class affected the debate about sexual mores, from anxieties about Anglo-Indian sexual relations to the sense of sexual entitlement that planters held over their African slaves. He concludes by detailing the fundamental shift in sexual culture during the eighteenth century towards the acceptance of a more individualistic concept of sexual desire and fulfillment. Today's moral critics, in their attempts to convince Americans of the social and spiritual consequences of unregulated sexual behavior, often harken back to a more innocent age; as this groundbreaking work makes clear, America's sexual culture has always been rich, vibrant, and contentious.

Book The Emperor s Mirror

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  • Author : Russell Barber
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 1998-10-01
  • ISBN : 0816546029
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book The Emperor s Mirror written by Russell Barber and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russell J. Barber and Frances F. Berdan have created the ultimate guide for anyone doing cross-cultural and/or document-driven research. Presenting the essentials of primary-source methodology, The Emperor's Mirror includes nine chapters on paleography, calendrics, source and quantitative analysis, and the visual interpretation of artifacts such as pictographs, illustrations, and maps. As an introduction to ethnohistory, this book clearly defines terminology and provides practical and accessible examples, effectively integrating the concerns of historians and anthropologists as well as addressing the needs of anyone using primary sources for research in any academic field. A leading theme throughout the book is the importance of a researcher's awareness of the inherent biases of documents while doing research on another culture. Documents are the result of people interpreting reality through the filter of their own experience, personality, and culture. Barber and Berdan's reality mediation model shows students how to analyze documents to detect the implicit biases or subtexts inherent in primary-source materials. Students and scholars working with primary sources will particularly appreciate the case studies that Barber and Berdan use to illustrate the practical implications of using each methodology. These case studies not only apply method to actual research but also are fascinating in their own right: they range from a discussion of the debate over Tupinamba cannibalism to the illustration of Nahuatl, Spanish, and hybrid place names of Tlaxcala, Mexico.

Book Taming Lust

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  • Author : Doron S. Ben-Atar
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2014-02-14
  • ISBN : 0812245814
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Taming Lust written by Doron S. Ben-Atar and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1796, as revolutionary fervor waned and the Age of Reason took hold, an eighty-five-year-old Massachusetts doctor was convicted of bestiality and sentenced to hang. Three years later and seventy miles away, an eighty-three-year-old Connecticut farmer was convicted of the same crime and sentenced to the same punishment. Prior to these criminal trials, neither Massachusetts nor Connecticut had executed anyone for bestiality in over a century. Though there are no overt connections between the two episodes, the similarities of their particulars are strange and striking. Historians Doron S. Ben-Atar and Richard D. Brown delve into the specifics to determine what larger social, political, or religious forces could have compelled New England courts to condemn two octogenarians for sexual misbehavior typically associated with much younger men. The stories of John Farrell and Gideon Washburn are less about the two old men than New England officials who, riding the rough waves of modernity, returned to the severity of their ancestors. The political upheaval of the Revolution and the new republic created new kinds of cultural experience—both exciting and frightening—at a moment when New England farmers and village elites were contesting long-standing assumptions about divine creation and the social order. Ben-Atar and Brown offer a rare and vivid perspective on anxieties about sexual and social deviance in the early republic.

Book Communities of Journalism

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  • 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 Guide to Reference in Essential General Reference and Library Science Sources

Download or read book Guide to Reference in Essential General Reference and Library Science Sources written by Jo Bell Whitlatch and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2014-08-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for public, school, and academic libraries looking to freshen up their reference collection, as well as for LIS students and instructors conducting research, this resource collects the cream of the crop sources of general reference and library science information.

Book The Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance

Download or read book The Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance written by Arthur Versluis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term "Western esotericism" refers to a wide range of spiritual currents including alchemy, Hermeticism, Kabbala, Rosicrucianism, and Christian theosophy, as well as several practical forms of esotericism like cartomancy, geomancy, necromancy, alchemy, astrology, herbalism, and magic. The early presence of esotericism in North America has not been much studied, and even less so the indebtedness to esotericism of some major American literary figures. In this book, Arthur Versluis breaks new ground, showing that many writers of the so-called American Renaissance drew extensively on and were inspired by Western esoteric currents.

Book Rape and Sexual Power in Early America

Download or read book Rape and Sexual Power in Early America written by Sharon Block and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and 1820, Sharon Block exposes the dynamics of sexual power on which colonial and early republican Anglo-American society was based. Block analyzes the legal, social, and cultural implications of more than nine hundred documented incidents of sexual coercion and hundreds more extralegal commentaries found in almanacs, newspapers, broadsides, and other print and manuscript sources. Highlighting the gap between reports of coerced sex and incidents that were publicly classified as rape, Block demonstrates that public definitions of rape were based less on what actually happened than on who was involved. She challenges conventional narratives that claim sexual relations between white women and black men became racially charged only in the late nineteenth century. Her analysis extends racial ties to rape back into the colonial period and beyond the boundaries of the southern slave-labor system. Early Americans' treatment of rape, Block argues, both enacted and helped to sustain the social, racial, gender, and political hierarchies of a New World and a new nation.