Author: Mark Pencil
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Category : Health resorts
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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The White Sulphur Papers
Author: Mark Pencil
Publisher:
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Category : Health resorts
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Publisher:
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Category : Health resorts
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Ladies and Gentlemen on Display
Author: Charlene M. Boyer Lewis
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813920795
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Each summer between 1790 and 1860, hundreds and eventually thousands of southern men and women left the diseases and boredom of their plantation homes and journeyed to the healthful and entertaining Virginia Springs. While some came in search of a cure, most traveled over the mountains to enjoy the fashionable society and participate in an array of social activities. At the springs, visitors, as well as their slaves, interacted with one another and engaged in behavior quite different from the picture presented by most historians. In the leisurely and pleasure-filled environment of the springs, plantation society's hierarchies became at once more relaxed and more contested; its rituals and rules sometimes changed and reformed; and its gender divisions often softened and blurred. In Ladies and Gentlemen on Display, Charlene Boyer Lewis argues that the Virginia Springs provided a theater of sorts, where contests for power between men and women, fashionables and evangelicals, blacks and whites, old and young, and even northerners and southerners played out -- away from the traditional roles of the plantation. In their pursuit of health and pleasure, white southerners created a truly regional community at the springs. At this edge of the South, elite southern society shaped itself, defining what it meant to be a "Southerner" and redefining social roles and relations.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813920795
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Each summer between 1790 and 1860, hundreds and eventually thousands of southern men and women left the diseases and boredom of their plantation homes and journeyed to the healthful and entertaining Virginia Springs. While some came in search of a cure, most traveled over the mountains to enjoy the fashionable society and participate in an array of social activities. At the springs, visitors, as well as their slaves, interacted with one another and engaged in behavior quite different from the picture presented by most historians. In the leisurely and pleasure-filled environment of the springs, plantation society's hierarchies became at once more relaxed and more contested; its rituals and rules sometimes changed and reformed; and its gender divisions often softened and blurred. In Ladies and Gentlemen on Display, Charlene Boyer Lewis argues that the Virginia Springs provided a theater of sorts, where contests for power between men and women, fashionables and evangelicals, blacks and whites, old and young, and even northerners and southerners played out -- away from the traditional roles of the plantation. In their pursuit of health and pleasure, white southerners created a truly regional community at the springs. At this edge of the South, elite southern society shaped itself, defining what it meant to be a "Southerner" and redefining social roles and relations.
Geological Survey Water-supply Paper
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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Publisher:
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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Water-supply Paper
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Publisher:
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Contributions to Economic Geology (short Papers and Preliminary Reports) 1917
Author: F. L. Ransome
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Category : Geology, Economic
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Category : Geology, Economic
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Salmon P. Chase
Author: Walter Stahr
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501199234
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
From an acclaimed, New York Times bestselling biographer, a timely reassessment of Abraham Lincoln's indispensable Secretary of the Treasury: a leading proponent for black rights both before and during his years in cabinet and later as Chief Justice of the United States. Salmon P. Chase is best remembered as a rival of Lincoln's for the Republican nomination in 1860--but there would not have been a national Republican Party, and Lincoln could not have won the presidency, were it not for the vital groundwork Chase laid over the previous two decades. Starting in the early 1840s, long before Lincoln was speaking out against slavery, Chase was forming and leading antislavery parties. He represented fugitive slaves so often in his law practice that he was known as the attorney general for runaway negroes, and he furthered his reputation as an outspoken federal senator and progressive governor of Ohio. Tapped by Lincoln to become Secretary of the Treasury, Chase would soon prove vital to the Civil War effort, raising the billions of dollars that allowed the Union to win the war, while also pressing the president to emancipate the country's slaves and recognize black rights. When Lincoln had the chance to appoint a chief justice in 1864, he chose his faithful rival, because he was sure Chase would make the right decisions on the difficult racial, political, and economic issues the Supreme Court would confront during Reconstruction. Drawing on previously overlooked sources, Walter Stahr sheds new light on a complex and fascinating political figure, as well as on the pivotal events of the Civil War and its aftermath. Salmon P. Chase tells the forgotten story of a man at the center of the fight for racial justice in 19th century America.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501199234
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
From an acclaimed, New York Times bestselling biographer, a timely reassessment of Abraham Lincoln's indispensable Secretary of the Treasury: a leading proponent for black rights both before and during his years in cabinet and later as Chief Justice of the United States. Salmon P. Chase is best remembered as a rival of Lincoln's for the Republican nomination in 1860--but there would not have been a national Republican Party, and Lincoln could not have won the presidency, were it not for the vital groundwork Chase laid over the previous two decades. Starting in the early 1840s, long before Lincoln was speaking out against slavery, Chase was forming and leading antislavery parties. He represented fugitive slaves so often in his law practice that he was known as the attorney general for runaway negroes, and he furthered his reputation as an outspoken federal senator and progressive governor of Ohio. Tapped by Lincoln to become Secretary of the Treasury, Chase would soon prove vital to the Civil War effort, raising the billions of dollars that allowed the Union to win the war, while also pressing the president to emancipate the country's slaves and recognize black rights. When Lincoln had the chance to appoint a chief justice in 1864, he chose his faithful rival, because he was sure Chase would make the right decisions on the difficult racial, political, and economic issues the Supreme Court would confront during Reconstruction. Drawing on previously overlooked sources, Walter Stahr sheds new light on a complex and fascinating political figure, as well as on the pivotal events of the Civil War and its aftermath. Salmon P. Chase tells the forgotten story of a man at the center of the fight for racial justice in 19th century America.
Catalogue of the American Library of the Late Mr. George Brinley of Hartford, Conn
Author: George Brinley
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Catalogue of the American library of ... George Brinley [by J.H. Trumbull]. (Special ed.).
Author: James Hammond Trumbull
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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The South on Paper
Author: James C. Kelly
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780963283634
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Explores forty-four southern artists and eighty of their works.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780963283634
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Explores forty-four southern artists and eighty of their works.