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Covered with Night

A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

par Nicole Eustace ...

WINNER • 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYFinalist • National Book Award for NonfictionBest Books of the Year • TIME, Smithsonian, Boston Globe, Kirkus ReviewsThe Pulitzer Prize-winning history that transforms a single event in 1722 into an unparalleled portrait of early America.In the winter of 1722, on the eve of a major conference between the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (also known as the ... En savoir plus

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WINNER • 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYFinalist • National Book Award for NonfictionBest Books of the Year • TIME, Smithsonian, Boston Globe, Kirkus ReviewsThe Pulitzer Prize-winning history that transforms a single event in 1722 into an unparalleled portrait of early America.In the winter of 1722, on the eve of a major conference between the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (also known as the
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Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic

The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis

par Jan Ellen Lewis, Carolyn Eastman, Nicole Eustace, David Waldstreicher ...

Collections series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
One of the finest historians of her generation, Jan Ellen Lewis (1949-2018) transformed our understanding of the early U.S. Republic. Her groundbreaking essays defined the emerging fields of gender and emotions history and reframed traditional understandings of the founding fathers and the U.S. Constitution. As significant as her work was within each of these subfields, her most remarkable ... En savoir plus

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One of the finest historians of her generation, Jan Ellen Lewis (1949-2018) transformed our understanding of the early U.S. Republic. Her groundbreaking essays defined the emerging fields of gender and emotions history and reframed traditional understandings of the founding fathers and the U.S. Constitution. As significant as her work was within each of these subfields, her most remarkable
... En savoir plus
1812

War and the Passions of Patriotism

par Nicole Eustace ...

Collections series Early American Studies
As military campaigns go, the War of 1812 was a disaster. By the time it ended in 1815, Washington, D.C., had been burned to the ground, the national debt had nearly tripled, and territorial gains were negligible. Yet the war gained so much popular support that it ushered in what is known as the "era of good feelings," a period of relative partisan harmony and strengthened national identity. ... En savoir plus

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As military campaigns go, the War of 1812 was a disaster. By the time it ended in 1815, Washington, D.C., had been burned to the ground, the national debt had nearly tripled, and territorial gains were negligible. Yet the war gained so much popular support that it ushered in what is known as the "era of good feelings," a period of relative partisan harmony and strengthened national identity.
... En savoir plus
Passion Is the Gale

Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution

par Nicole Eustace ...

Collections series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
At the outset of the eighteenth century, many British Americans accepted the notion that virtuous sociable feelings occurred primarily among the genteel, while sinful and selfish passions remained the reflexive emotions of the masses, from lower-class whites to Indians to enslaved Africans. Yet by 1776 radicals would propose a new universal model of human nature that attributed the same feelings ... En savoir plus

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At the outset of the eighteenth century, many British Americans accepted the notion that virtuous sociable feelings occurred primarily among the genteel, while sinful and selfish passions remained the reflexive emotions of the masses, from lower-class whites to Indians to enslaved Africans. Yet by 1776 radicals would propose a new universal model of human nature that attributed the same feelings
... En savoir plus
Warring for America

Cultural Contests in the Era of 1812

Modifié par Nicole Eustace, Fredrika J. Teute ...

Collections series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
The War of 1812 was one of a cluster of events that left unsettled what is often referred to as the Revolutionary settlement. At once postcolonial and neoimperial, the America of 1812 was still in need of definition. As the imminence of war intensified the political, economic, and social tensions endemic to the new nation, Americans of all kinds fought for country on the battleground of culture. ... En savoir plus

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The War of 1812 was one of a cluster of events that left unsettled what is often referred to as the Revolutionary settlement. At once postcolonial and neoimperial, the America of 1812 was still in need of definition. As the imminence of war intensified the political, economic, and social tensions endemic to the new nation, Americans of all kinds fought for country on the battleground of culture.
... En savoir plus
1812

War and the Passions of Patriotism

par Nicole Eustace ...

Collections series Early American Studies
As military campaigns go, the War of 1812 was a disaster. By the time it ended in 1815, Washington, D.C., had been burned to the ground, the national debt had nearly tripled, and territorial gains were negligible. Yet the war gained so much popular support that it ushered in what is known as the "era of good feelings," a period of relative partisan harmony and strengthened national identity. ... En savoir plus

$36.99 CAD

As military campaigns go, the War of 1812 was a disaster. By the time it ended in 1815, Washington, D.C., had been burned to the ground, the national debt had nearly tripled, and territorial gains were negligible. Yet the war gained so much popular support that it ushered in what is known as the "era of good feelings," a period of relative partisan harmony and strengthened national identity.
... En savoir plus
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Covered with Night

A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

par Nicole Eustace ...

Lu par Laural Merlington ...

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14 heure 33 min

On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually forgotten today, this act of brutality set into motion a remarkable series of criminal investigations and cross-cultural negotiations that challenged the ... En savoir plus

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On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually forgotten today, this act of brutality set into motion a remarkable series of criminal investigations and cross-cultural negotiations that challenged the
... En savoir plus

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Harlem After Midnight

par Louise Hare ...

Lu par Leonie Elliott ...

Collections Livre audio : 2 - A Canary Club Mystery
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11 heure 30 min

**Named a Must Read by Ebony ∙ Boston Herald ∙ Book Riot ∙ Bookish ∙ Minneapolis Star-Tribune and more!A body falls from a town house window in Harlem, and it looks just like the newest singer at the Apollo...in this evocative, twisting new novel from the authorof Miss Aldridge Regrets.**Harlem, 1936: Lena Aldridge grew up in a cramped corner of London, hearing stories of the bright lights of ... En savoir plus

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**Named a Must Read by Ebony ∙ Boston Herald ∙ Book Riot ∙ Bookish ∙ Minneapolis Star-Tribune and more!A body falls from a town house window in Harlem, and it looks just like the newest singer at the Apollo...in this evocative, twisting new novel from the authorof Miss Aldridge Regrets.**Harlem, 1936: Lena Aldridge grew up in a cramped corner of London, hearing stories of the bright lights of
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A Molecule away from Madness

Tales of the Hijacked Brain

par Sara Manning Peskin ...

Lu par Ann Richardson ...

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5 heure 45 min

A neurologist regales readers with extraordinary stories of the brain under siege.Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds. Here are true accounts of unruly molecules and the diseases that form in their wake, from total loss of inhibitions to florid psychosis to compulsive ... En savoir plus

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A neurologist regales readers with extraordinary stories of the brain under siege.Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds. Here are true accounts of unruly molecules and the diseases that form in their wake, from total loss of inhibitions to florid psychosis to compulsive
... En savoir plus

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Grant and Sherman

The Friendship That Won the Civil War

par Charles Bracelen Flood ...

Lu par Charles Bracelen Flood ...

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5 heure 57 min

""We were as brothers,"" William Tecumseh Sherman said, describing his relationship with Ulysses S. Grant. They were incontestably two of the most important figures in the Civil War, but until now there has been no book about their victorious partnership and the deep friendship that made it possible.Heeding the call to save the Union, each struggled past political hurdles to join the war effort. ... En savoir plus

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""We were as brothers,"" William Tecumseh Sherman said, describing his relationship with Ulysses S. Grant. They were incontestably two of the most important figures in the Civil War, but until now there has been no book about their victorious partnership and the deep friendship that made it possible.Heeding the call to save the Union, each struggled past political hurdles to join the war effort.
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So Much Things to Say

The Oral History of Bob Marley

par Roger Steffens ...

Lu par Roger Steffens ...

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13 heure 11 min

Bob Marley's life is the stuff of legend. Raised in the slums of Kingston, Jamaica, Marley (1945–1981) wrote songs that inspired millions. So Much Things to Say tells Marley's life story like never before. Roger Steffens traveled with the Wailers, interviewed Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer extensively, and took iconic Marley photographs. Now, drawing on forty years of intimate interviews with band ... En savoir plus

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Bob Marley's life is the stuff of legend. Raised in the slums of Kingston, Jamaica, Marley (1945–1981) wrote songs that inspired millions. So Much Things to Say tells Marley's life story like never before. Roger Steffens traveled with the Wailers, interviewed Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer extensively, and took iconic Marley photographs. Now, drawing on forty years of intimate interviews with band
... En savoir plus

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Smashing Statues

The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments

par Erin Thompson ...

Lu par Heather Masters ...

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6 heure 27 min

A leading expert’s exploration of the past, present, and future of public monuments in America.An urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble; others form armed patrols to defend them. Why do we care so much about statues? And who gets to decide which ones should stay up and which should ... En savoir plus

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A leading expert’s exploration of the past, present, and future of public monuments in America.An urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble; others form armed patrols to defend them. Why do we care so much about statues? And who gets to decide which ones should stay up and which should
... En savoir plus

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