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Card Sharps and Bucket Shops
In a highly readable work that engages topics in American cultural, social and business history, Ann Fabian details the place of gambling in industrializing America. Card Sharps …
Hemispheres and Stratospheres
Recognizing distance as a central concern of the Enlightenment, this volume offers eight essays on distance in art and literature; on cultural transmission and exchange over …
Prologue to Revolution
This comprehensive documentary source book on the Stamp Act provides a case-study approach to American colonial history and serves as a problems source book on the key event in …
A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, Towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its …
Islam and Healing
Traces the Islamic healing tradition's interaction with Indian society and politics as these evolved in tandem from 1600 to 1900, and demonstrates how an in-house struggle for …
History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James Vi. Till His Accession to the Crown of England
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with …
Antebellum Crisis and America's First Bohemians
Cultural politics and American bohemians in pre-Civil War New York Amid the social and political tensions plaguing the United States in the years leading up to the Civil War, the …
Social Control and the Education of Adults in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Memories of Revolution
Preserving the childhood memories of some of the last generation of White Russian women to experience the revolution first-hand, this poignant collection of interviews and …
Them and Us
The period between 1910 and 1939 was one of thess most explosive in British working class history. As all the main political parties chorus their commitment to continuing cuts and …
Male Same-Sex Relations and the Court of Peter I
This book explores Peter I’s same-sex relations, men’s sociability and male favoritism at the royal court in the context of the Petrine myth, scenarios of power, propaganda and …
