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Puzzles Of The Past: The Life Of Josiah Parker (1751-1810) And The Revolutionary Generation, William Mark Hains Jan 2008

Puzzles Of The Past: The Life Of Josiah Parker (1751-1810) And The Revolutionary Generation, William Mark Hains

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History, Memory, And [Archaeological?] Heritage At Nombre De Dios, Panama, Meghan Habas Siudzinski Jan 2008

History, Memory, And [Archaeological?] Heritage At Nombre De Dios, Panama, Meghan Habas Siudzinski

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Negotiating The Companionate Ideal: Religion, Emotion, And Power In The Courtships Of Louisa Maxwell Holmes Cocke, Lindsay Mitchell Keiter Jan 2008

Negotiating The Companionate Ideal: Religion, Emotion, And Power In The Courtships Of Louisa Maxwell Holmes Cocke, Lindsay Mitchell Keiter

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Conflict Amid Conversion: Mormon Proselytizing In Russian Finland, 1860-1914, Zachary R. Jones Jan 2008

Conflict Amid Conversion: Mormon Proselytizing In Russian Finland, 1860-1914, Zachary R. Jones

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A World In Miniature: James Butcher And The Transformation Of African American Politics & Society In Washington, D.C, 1900-1940, Maria Alexandria Kane Jan 2008

A World In Miniature: James Butcher And The Transformation Of African American Politics & Society In Washington, D.C, 1900-1940, Maria Alexandria Kane

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No abstract provided.


Accounting For Political Virtue: Consumer Choice And The Non-Consumption Movement In Revolutionary New York City, Melissa Faith Gray Jan 2008

Accounting For Political Virtue: Consumer Choice And The Non-Consumption Movement In Revolutionary New York City, Melissa Faith Gray

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A Second Eden: The Promotion And Perception Of Virginia, 1584-1624, Jennifer Lynn Blahnik Jan 2008

A Second Eden: The Promotion And Perception Of Virginia, 1584-1624, Jennifer Lynn Blahnik

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Celebrity And The National Body: Encounters With The Exotic In Late Nineteenth-Century America, Caroline Carpenter Nichols Jan 2008

Celebrity And The National Body: Encounters With The Exotic In Late Nineteenth-Century America, Caroline Carpenter Nichols

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This project uses the remarkable careers of anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing, stunt reporter Nellie Bly, anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells, and war correspondent Richard Harding Davis, as well as literary texts by Davis and Henry James, to frame a set of questions about the politics and implications of cultural crossover at the end of the nineteenth century. Through their work as participant observers of racial, ethnic and social Others, these reporters, reformers, and authors were gradually transformed into charismatic exotics. More than simply mediating between a mainstream (usually white, middle-class) audience and a more exotic people or place, these individuals …