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  • The London Foundling Hospital and Eighteenth-Century Objects of Charity

    Recovering the Digital Archive

    by Hilary E. Wyss ...
    Series series Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections
    The Foundling Hospital was established in London in 1739 to save impoverished infants from destitution and abandonment by separating them from their mothers and raising them in an institutional setting. The Hospital, which also housed an art collection, concert series, and fashionable park, became a monument to the largess of the benefactors willing to support the reshaping of supposedly unwanted ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • English Letters and Indian Literacies

    Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 175-183

    by Hilary E. Wyss ...
    Series series
    As rigid and unforgiving as the boarding schools established for the education of Native Americans could be, the intellectuals who engaged with these schools—including Mohegans Samson Occom and Joseph Johnson, and Montauketts David and Jacob Fowler in the eighteenth century, and Cherokees Catharine and David Brown in the nineteenth—became passionate advocates for Native community as a political ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • English Letters and Indian Literacies

    Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 175-183

    by Hilary E. Wyss ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    As rigid and unforgiving as the boarding schools established for the education of Native Americans could be, the intellectuals who engaged with these schools—including Mohegans Samson Occom and Joseph Johnson, and Montauketts David and Jacob Fowler in the eighteenth century, and Cherokees Catharine and David Brown in the nineteenth—became passionate advocates for Native community as a political ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

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    Indians and the Shaping of American Literature

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  • The Social Life of Books

    Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

    by Abigail Williams ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    "A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books."—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book ReviewTwo centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which ... Read more

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  • The Name of War

    King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity

    by Jill Lepore ...
    BANCROFF PRIZE WINNER • King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war—colonists against Indigenous peoples—that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific to "deserve the name of a war."The war's brutality compelled the colonists to defend themselves against ... Read more

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  • Vagabonds

    Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-century London – by BBC New Generation Thinker

    by Oskar Jensen ...
    A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARCompelling, moving and unexpected portraits of London's poor from a rising star British historian - the Dickensian city brought to real and vivid life.Until now, our view of bustling late Georgian and Victorian London has been filtered through its great chroniclers, who did not themselves come from poverty – Dickens, Mayhew, Gustave Doré. Their visions were dazzling in ... Read more

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  • Good Wives

    Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750

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  • Cruelty & Laughter

    Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century

    by Simon Dickie ...
    Eighteenth-century British culture is often seen as polite and sentimental—the creation of an emerging middle class. Simon Dickie disputes these assumptions in Cruelty and Laughter, a wildly enjoyable but shocking plunge into the forgotten comic literature of the age. Beneath the surface of Enlightenment civility, Dickie uncovers a rich vein of cruel humor that forces us to recognize just how ... Read more

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  • Firsting and Lasting

    Writing Indians out of Existence in New England

    by Jean M. O’Brien ...
    Series series Indigenous Americas
    Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote hundreds of local histories about the founding and growth of their cities and towns. Ranging from pamphlets to multivolume treatments, these narratives shared a preoccupation with establishing the region as the cradle of an Anglo-Saxon nation and the center of a modern American culture. They also insisted, often in ... Read more

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  • London's Forgotten Children

    Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital

    by Gillian Pugh ...
    In 1739, the London Foundling Hospital opened its doors to take in the abandoned children of the city. It was the culmination of seventeen years of campaigning by Captain Thomas Coram, driven by his horror at seeing children die in the streets. He was supported in his endeavours by a royal charter and by William Hogarth and George Frideric Handel. The Hospital would continue as both home and ... Read more

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  • Southern Honor

    Ethics and Behavior in the Old South

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