Author: Josiah Quincy
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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Author: Josiah Quincy
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Author: JOSIAH. QUINCY
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ISBN: 9781033601099
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Joseph Stancliffe Davis
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Author: Charles Allcott Flagg
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Author: United States. Congress
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1108

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Author: Peter C. Baldwin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226036022
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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Before skyscrapers and streetlights, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries, new technologies began to light up the city. This text depicts the changing experiences of the urban night over this period, visiting a host of actors in the nocturnal city.

Author: Elisabeth Gitter
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429931299
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 471

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The resurrected story of a deaf-blind girl and the man who brought her out of silence. In 1837, Samuel Gridley Howe, director of Boston's Perkins Institution for the Blind, heard about a bright, deaf-blind seven-year-old, the daughter of New Hampshire farmers. At once he resolved to rescue her from the "darkness and silence of the tomb." And indeed, thanks to Howe and an extraordinary group of female teachers, Laura Bridgman learned to finger spell, to read raised letters, and to write legibly and even eloquently. Philosophers, poets, educators, theologians, and early psychologists hailed Laura as a moral inspiration and a living laboratory for the most controversial ideas of the day. She quickly became a major tourist attraction, and many influential writers and reformers visited her or wrote about her. But as the Civil War loomed and her girlish appeal faded, the public began to lose interest. By the time Laura died in 1889, she had been wholly eclipsed by the prettier, more ingratiating Helen Keller. The Imprisoned Guest retrieves Laura Bridgman's forgotten life, placing it in the context of nineteenth-century American social, intellectual, and cultural history. Her troubling, tumultuous relationship with Howe, who rode Laura's achievements to his own fame but could not cope with the intense, demanding adult she became, sheds light on the contradictory attitudes of a "progressive" era in which we can find some precursors of our own.

Author: Michigan State Library
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Author: Jade W. Luiz
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000824683
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 133

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Archaeology of a Brothel in Nineteenth-Century Boston, MA provides an accessible and thought-provoking account of the archaeological understanding of nineteenth-century prostitution in Boston, Massachusetts. The book explores how the practice of nineteenth-century sex work involved a careful construction of fantasy for brothel customers. This fantasy had the potential to provide financial stability and security for the madam of the establishment, if not for the women working for them. Employing theories of embodiment, sexuality, and an archaeology of the senses, this study of the Endicott Street collection contributes a new methodological and theoretical framework for studying the archaeology of prostitution across time, space, and culture. The material culture recovered from brothel sites allows exploration of both the semi-private, "behind the scenes" narrative of sex work, as well as the semi-public, eroticised "performance space" where patrons were entertained. Few books on the archaeology of sex work exist and this volume will both provide an updated perspective on the history of sex work in Boston in the nineteenth century as well as tie advances in gender and embodiment theories to a compelling case study. The book is for students and scholars of historical archaeology, nineteenth-century urban America, and gender studies. Students studying feminist theory and archaeology of the senses will also be interested in the contents.