Author: John Mein
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382306190
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 666

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Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. Library
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Author: John Appleton (M.D.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Author: New York Free Circulating Library. Ottendorfer Branch
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Author: New York Free Circulating Library. Ottendorfer Branch
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Author: Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498290221
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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A Colonial Woman’s Bookshelf represents a significant contribution to the study of the intellectual life of women in British North America. Kevin J. Hayes studies the books these women read and the reasons why they read them. As Hayes notes, recent studies on the literary tastes of early American women have concentrated on the post-revolutionary period, when several women novelists emerged. Yet, he observes, women were reading long before they began writing and publishing novels, and, in fact, mounting evidence now suggests that literacy rates among colonial women were much higher than previously supposed. To reconstruct what might have filled a typical colonial woman’s bookshelf, Hayes has mined such sources as wills and estate inventories, surviving volumes inscribed by women, public and private library catalogs, sales ledgers, borrowing records from subscription libraries, and contemporary biographical sketches of notable colonial women. Hayes identifies several categories of reading material. These range from devotional works and conduct books to midwifery guides and cookery books, from novels and travel books to science books. In his concluding chapter, he describes the tensions that were developing near the end of the colonial period between the emerging cult of domesticity and the appetite for learning many women displayed. With its meticulous research and rich detail, A Colonial Woman’s Bookshelf makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the complexities of life in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America.

Author: Colonial Society of Massachusetts
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 582

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Author: Jose R Torre
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317315286
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Situates changes in the nature of money and the rise of sophisticated financial structures at the centre of the Enlightenment. This work argues that paper credit instruments were causal - critical to the larger epistemological and psychological changes associated with the Enlightenment's reconstruction of value.

Author: Charles Knowles Bolton
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Category : Boston (Mass)
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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