Download or read book A Catalogue of an Important Collection of Books Manuscripts Maps Charts and Engravings From the Libraries of William Penn and of His Descendants with Autographs Bookplates Etc Which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs Puttick and Simpson on Thursday February 29 1872 Etc written by William Penn and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalog written by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library. Rare Book Room and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Book Catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legislative Documents Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania During the Session of written by Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Library Book Catalogues 1801 1875 written by Robert Singerman and published by University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library & Information Science. This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue or alphabetical index written by New York city, Astor libr and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliotheca Lindesiana written by James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selling the Sights written by Will B. Mackintosh and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating journey through the origins of American tourism In the early nineteenth century, thanks to a booming transportation industry, Americans began to journey away from home simply for the sake of traveling, giving rise to a new cultural phenomenon —the tourist. In Selling the Sights, Will B. Mackintosh describes the origins and cultural significance of this new type of traveler and the moment in time when the emerging American market economy began to reshape the availability of geographical knowledge, the material conditions of travel, and the variety of destinations that sought to profit from visitors with money to spend. Entrepreneurs began to transform the critical steps of travel—deciding where to go and how to get there—into commodities that could be produced in volume and sold to a marketplace of consumers. The identities of Americans prosperous enough to afford such commodities were fundamentally changed as they came to define themselves through the consumption of experiences. Mackintosh ultimately demonstrates that the cultural values and market forces surrounding tourism in the early nineteenth century continue to shape our experience of travel to this day.
Download or read book Documents of the Senate of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book James Fenimore Cooper written by Wayne Franklin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive new biography of James Fenimore Cooper, early nineteenth century master of American popular fiction American author James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) has been credited with inventing and popularizing a wide variety of genre fiction, including the Western, the spy novel, the high seas adventure tale, and the Revolutionary War romance. America’s first crusading novelist, Cooper reminds us that literature is not a cloistered art; rather, it ought to be intimately engaged with the world. In this second volume of his definitive biography, Wayne Franklin concentrates on the latter half of Cooper’s life, detailing a period of personal and political controversy, far-ranging international travel, and prolific literary creation. We hear of Cooper’s progressive views on race and slavery, his doubts about American expansionism, and his concern about the future prospects of the American Republic, while observing how his groundbreaking career management paved the way for later novelists to make a living through their writing. Franklin offers readers the most comprehensive portrait to date of this underappreciated American literary icon.
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual report of the trustees 1st 44th 46th written by New York city, Astor libr and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Celebrated Elizabeth Smith written by Lucia McMahon and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2022-10-21 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Smith, a learned British woman born in the momentous year 1776, gained transnational fame posthumously for her extensive intellectual accomplishments, which encompassed astronomy, botany, history, poetry, and language studies. As she navigated her place in the world, Smith made a self-conscious decision to keep her many talents hidden from disapproving critics. Therefore, her rise to fame began only in 1808, when her posthumous memoir appeared. In this elegantly written biography, Lucia McMahon reconstructs the places and social constellations that enabled Smith’s learning and adventures in England, Wales, and Ireland, and traces her transatlantic fame and literary afterlife across Britain and the United States. Through re-telling Elizabeth Smith’s fascinating life story and retracing her posthumous transatlantic fame, McMahon reveals a larger narrative about women’s efforts to enact learned and fulfilling lives, and the cultural reactions such aspirations inspired in the early nineteenth century. Although Smith was cast as "exceptional" by her contemporaries and modern scholars alike, McMahon argues that her scholarly achievements, travel explorations, and posthumous fame were all emblematic of the age in which she lived. Offering insights into Romanticism, picturesque tourism, celebrity culture, and women’s literary productions, McMahon asks the provocative question, "How many seemingly exceptional women must we uncover in the historical record before we are no longer surprised?"
Download or read book Proceedings American Philosophical Society vol 95 no 3 written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sex among the Rabble written by Clare A. Lyons and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing sexual culture at the center of power relations in Revolutionary-era Philadelphia, Clare A. Lyons uncovers a world where runaway wives challenged their husbands' patriarchal rights and where serial and casual sexual relationships were commonplace. By reading popular representations of sex against actual behavior, Lyons reveals the clash of meanings given to sex and illuminates struggles to recast sexuality in order to eliminate its subversive potential. Sexuality became the vehicle for exploring currents of liberty, freedom, and individualism in the politics of everyday life among groups of early Americans typically excluded from formal systems of governance--women, African Americans, and poor classes of whites. Lyons shows that men and women created a vibrant urban pleasure culture, including the eroticization of print culture, as eighteenth-century readers became fascinated with stories of bastardy, prostitution, seduction, and adultery. In the post-Revolutionary reaction, white middle-class men asserted their authority, Lyons argues, by creating a gender system that simultaneously allowed them the liberty of their passions, constrained middle-class women with virtue, and projected licentiousness onto lower-class whites and African Americans. Lyons's analysis shows how class and racial divisions fostered new constructions of sexuality that served as a foundation for gender. This gendering of sexuality in the new nation was integral to reconstituting social hierarchies and subordinating women and African Americans in the wake of the Revolution.
