Author: Gouverneur Morris
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 690

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A biography of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816) by his granddaughter, making extensive use of his letters and diary.

Author: Anya Seton
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544222881
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 609

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John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford, Chaucer's sister-in-law, fall in love in the 14th century.

Author: Charles Austin Beard
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Author: Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584771372
Category : Common law
Languages : en
Pages : 828

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Originally published: 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956.

Author: Sir William Petty
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Author: Brian Cowan
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300133502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.

Author: Edward Dupré Atkinson
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Category : Dioceses
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Author: James Godkin
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
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Category : 1853
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: Frederick Douglass
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Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 628

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Frederick Douglass recounts early years of abuse, his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil rights for former slaves. It is also the only of Douglass's autobiographies to discuss his life during and after the Civil War, including his encounters with American presidents such as Lincoln, Grant, and Garfield.