Author: Mason Locke Weems
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Category : Mariticide
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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The Bad Wife's Looking Glass Or, God's Revenge Against Cruelty to Husbands
Author: Mason Locke Weems
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Category : Mariticide
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Publisher:
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Category : Mariticide
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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The Bad Wife's Looking Glass: Or, God's Revenge Against Cruelty to Husbands
Author: Mason Locke Weems
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Category : Domestic relations
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Category : Domestic relations
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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The Americana
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
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The Americana
Author: Frederick Converse Beach
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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The United Editors Perpetual Encyclopedia
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Languages : en
Pages : 830
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Languages : en
Pages : 830
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The WPA Guide to Maryland
Author: Federal Writers' Project
Publisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN: 1595342184
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The WPA Guide to Maryland has some of the most thorough driving tours in the series. From the Allegheny Plateau to the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Coast, the guide details Maryland’s diverse geography. The essays on the state’s two major cities—Baltimore and Annapolis—are especially engaging. Known as the Old Line State for its pivotal role in the American Revolution, Maryland’s rich history is also extensively detailed in the guide.
Publisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN: 1595342184
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The WPA Guide to Maryland has some of the most thorough driving tours in the series. From the Allegheny Plateau to the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Coast, the guide details Maryland’s diverse geography. The essays on the state’s two major cities—Baltimore and Annapolis—are especially engaging. Known as the Old Line State for its pivotal role in the American Revolution, Maryland’s rich history is also extensively detailed in the guide.
Beauty and the Brain
Author: Rachel E. Walker
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226822575
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Examining the history of phrenology and physiognomy, Beauty and the Brain proposes a bold new way of understanding the connection between science, politics, and popular culture in early America. Between the 1770s and the 1860s, people all across the globe relied on physiognomy and phrenology to evaluate human worth. These once-popular but now discredited disciplines were based on a deceptively simple premise: that facial features or skull shape could reveal a person’s intelligence, character, and personality. In the United States, these were culturally ubiquitous sciences that both elite thinkers and ordinary people used to understand human nature. While the modern world dismisses phrenology and physiognomy as silly and debunked disciplines, Beauty and the Brain shows why they must be taken seriously: they were the intellectual tools that a diverse group of Americans used to debate questions of race, gender, and social justice. While prominent intellectuals and political thinkers invoked these sciences to justify hierarchy, marginalized people and progressive activists deployed them for their own political aims, creatively interpreting human minds and bodies as they fought for racial justice and gender equality. Ultimately, though, physiognomy and phrenology were as dangerous as they were popular. In addition to validating the idea that external beauty was a sign of internal worth, these disciplines often appealed to the very people who were damaged by their prejudicial doctrines. In taking physiognomy and phrenology seriously, Beauty and the Brain recovers a vibrant—if largely forgotten—cultural and intellectual universe, showing how popular sciences shaped some of the greatest political debates of the American past.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226822575
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Examining the history of phrenology and physiognomy, Beauty and the Brain proposes a bold new way of understanding the connection between science, politics, and popular culture in early America. Between the 1770s and the 1860s, people all across the globe relied on physiognomy and phrenology to evaluate human worth. These once-popular but now discredited disciplines were based on a deceptively simple premise: that facial features or skull shape could reveal a person’s intelligence, character, and personality. In the United States, these were culturally ubiquitous sciences that both elite thinkers and ordinary people used to understand human nature. While the modern world dismisses phrenology and physiognomy as silly and debunked disciplines, Beauty and the Brain shows why they must be taken seriously: they were the intellectual tools that a diverse group of Americans used to debate questions of race, gender, and social justice. While prominent intellectuals and political thinkers invoked these sciences to justify hierarchy, marginalized people and progressive activists deployed them for their own political aims, creatively interpreting human minds and bodies as they fought for racial justice and gender equality. Ultimately, though, physiognomy and phrenology were as dangerous as they were popular. In addition to validating the idea that external beauty was a sign of internal worth, these disciplines often appealed to the very people who were damaged by their prejudicial doctrines. In taking physiognomy and phrenology seriously, Beauty and the Brain recovers a vibrant—if largely forgotten—cultural and intellectual universe, showing how popular sciences shaped some of the greatest political debates of the American past.
Outlook and Independent
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Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Languages : en
Pages : 510
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The Outlook
Author: Lyman Abbott
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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Outlook
Author: Alfred Emanuel Smith
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Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Languages : en
Pages : 644
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