Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion


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Examines the ways in which religion was constructed as a category and region of experience in nineteenth-century literature and culture.




Two Wars: an Autobiography of General Samuel G. French ...


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Two Wars : An Autobiography of General Samuel G. French Mexican War; War between the States, A Diary; Reconstruction Period, His Experience; Incidents, Reminiscences, etc. Samuel Gibbs French (November 22, 1818 - April 20, 1910) was an officer in the U.S. Army, wealthy plantation owner, author, and a major general in the Confederate army during the American Civil War. He commanded a division in the Army of Tennessee in the Western Theater.




Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800


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Women have engaged in healing from the beginning of history, often within the context of the home. This book studies the role, contributions and challenges faced by women healers in France, Spain, Italy and England, including medical practice among women in the Jewish and Muslim communities, from the later Middle Ages to approximately 1800.







Kirkwall in the Orkneys


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Timelines of Nearly Everything


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This book takes readers back and forth through time and makes the past accessible to all families, students and the general reader and is an unprecedented collection of a list of events in chronological order and a wealth of informative knowledge about the rise and fall of empires, major scientific breakthroughs, groundbreaking inventions, and monumental moments about everything that has ever happened.




A Calculus of Suffering


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Analyzes the impact of anesthesia on nineteenth-century medicine, discusses the advantages and disadvantages of anesthesia, and explains how rules for its use were developed