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  • The Godefroy Family of Scholars, 1580–1880

    The Genealogy of Erudition in France

    by Caroline R. Sherman ...
    The Godefroy Family of Scholars, 1580–1880 gives an inside look at the workings of a scholarly dynasty: the roles played by wives, its training methods for children, their habits of correspondence, and the struggles that broke out when the family fought about the direction of their work.Beginning with their influential editions of the Corpus Iuris Civilis and the Codex Theodosianus, the Godefroy ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Fountain Inn

    by Caroline Smith Sherman, Dianne Gault Bailey ...
    Series series Images of America
    Before there was an inn and a fountain, the present town of Fountain Inn was half Indian Territory bisected by the "Old Indian Boundary Line." It was established in 1766 by a treaty made between Old Hop, the head of the Cherokees, and Gov. James Glen of the province of South Carolina. The Cherokees used this area--a region of dense forests, canebrakes, and springs of water--for hunting deer, ... Read more

    $17.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The College Lecture Today

    An Interdisciplinary Defense for the Contemporary University

    by Karen Burke, Paul Corey, Monika Dix, Warren Fincher, James Fiste, Eric Michael French, Emily Kelley, Paul Krause, Hyrum Lewis, Mike Mosher, Taryn Okuma0, Elizabeth Rich1, Caroline Sherman2, Brendon Westler3, John Craig4, Lee Trepanier5 ...
    In an age of online education and educational philosophies like “flipping the classroom,” does the lecture have any role in today’s university? Drawing from the humanities and social sciences and from a range of different types of schools, The College Lecture Today makes the affirmative case for the lecture in the humanities and social and political sciences. These essays explore how to lecture ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Scotch-Irish Life in the South Carolina Piedmont

    Why They Wore Five Petticoats on Sunday

    by Millie Huff Coleman, Caroline Smith Sherman ...
    "Five Petticoats on Sunday" was originally published in 1962. The book was a collection of columns written by Caroline S. Coleman containing stories her grandmother told about the Fairview community and the South Carolina Piedmont. Coleman's granddaughters, Millie Coleman and Caroline Sherman, have expanded the book with recipes, history and genealogical resources for an enthralling look at the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Return of Martin Guerre

    by Natalie Zemon Davis ...
    The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse when, on a summer’s day in 1560, a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the continent. Told and retold over the centuries, the story of ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • Little Heathens

    Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression

    by Mildred Armstrong Kalish ...
    I tell of a time, a place, and a way of life long gone. For many years I have had the urge to describe that treasure trove, lest it vanish forever. So, partly in response to the basic human instinct to share feelings and experiences, and partly for the sheer joy and excitement of it all, I report on my early life. It was quite a romp.So begins Mildred Kalish’s story of growing up on her ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Information Master

    Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System

    by Jacob Soll ...
    Series series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    "Colbert has long been celebrated as Louis XIV's minister of finance, trade, and industry. More recently, he has been viewed as his minister of culture and propaganda. In this lively and persuasive book, Jake Soll has given us a third Colbert, the information manager."---Peter Burke, University of Cambridge"Jacob Soll gives us a road map drawn from the French state under Colbert. With a stunning ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Cross Creek

    by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ...
    Cross Creek has become a classic in modern American literature. For the millions of readers raised on The Yearling,here is the story of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's experiences in the remote Florida hamlet of Cross Creek, where she lived for thirteen years. From the daily labors of managing a seventy-two-acre orange grove to bouts with runaway pigs and a succession of unruly farmhands, Rawlings ... Read more

    $2.50 CAD

  • Demonic Possession and Exorcism

    In Early Modern France

    by Sarah Ferber ...
    This is a highly original study of demon possession and the ritual of exorcism, both of which were rife in early modern times, and which reached epidemic proportions in France. Catholics at the time believed that the Devil was everywhere present, in the rise of the heretics, in the activities of witches, and even in the bodies of pious young women. The rite of exorcism was intended to heal the ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • One For Sorrow Two For Joy

    by Mary Cook ...
    Mary Cook has published almost a dozen books, all of which have become Canadian best sellers! These are books compiled of memories of a more gentle time in our history..an era called the Dirty Thirties. Cook transports us back to that time with humour and sometimes pathos, but always with a warmth unmatched by writings of that genre. She introduces us to characters, who turn out to be real people ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Louis XVI and the French Revolution, 1789–1792

    by Ambrogio A. Caiani ...
    The experience, and failure, of Louis XVI's short-lived constitutional monarchy of 1789–92 deeply influenced the politics and course of the French Revolution. The dramatic breakdown of the political settlement of 1789 steered the French state into the decidedly stormy waters of political terror and warfare on an almost global scale. This book explores how the symbolic and political practices which ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Mrs. Whaley and Her Charleston Garden

    by Emily Whaley ...
    In conversation with William Baldwin. Emily Whaley's garden on Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina, may be the most visited private garden in the country. And no wonder. It is the life's work of a vibrant, sociable, opinionated, determined, forceful woman who has spent the last eighty-five years cultivating whatever life offered her. MRS. WHALEY AND HER CHARLESTON GARDEN captures and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD