Author : Virginia A. McConnell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 20,95 MB
Release : 2005-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803283091
This fascinating examination of two sensational, unsolved murders presents nineteenth-century New Haven as a microcosm of Victorian society, with new insight into the customs, law, medicine, journalism, and language of the day.
Author : Louise Dickinson Rich
Publisher : Parnassus Press (IL)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,99 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 9780940160224
Author : Howard P. Chudacoff
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 2008-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0814716652
Introduction: Play -- Childhood and play in colonial America -- Domesticating children, 1800-1850 -- The arrival of toys, 1850-1900 -- The invasion of children's play culture, 1900-1950 -- The golden age, 1900-1950 -- The commercialization of children's play, 1950 to the present -- Children's play goes underground, 1950 to the present -- Conclusion
Author : Louise Dickinson Rich
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,45 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Country life
ISBN : 9780892724536
Do you people get that way from living here, or were you all peculiar to start with? someone once asked Louise Dickinson Rich. In her early thirties, she took to the woods with her husband. They found their livelihood and raised a family in the remote Maine backcountry. Louise made time after morning chores to write about their lives, and these magnificent books are the result. They are still captivating readers a half-century later.
Author : Melanie Louise Simo
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 26,37 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813925004
"In Literature of Place Melanie Simo looks beyond crowded malls and boarded-up storefronts on Main Street to our collective memory, finding answers to these questions in stories, novels, memoirs, poetry, essays, diaries, travel writing, and nature writing that range in origin from New England and the Southern Highlands to Hawaii and in subject from little gardens to lost or reinhabited places in cities, mill towns, deserts, and woodlands. In her consideration of selected American works from 1890 to 1970 - years that mark the closing of the Western frontier and later openings in space exploration, environmental protection, genetic engineering, and cyberspace - Simo uncovers a literature of place and the often-surprising relationship of place to our daily lives."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : David R. Moore
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738513379
Not long after the Pilgrims came ashore, Bridgewater became the first inland settlement to branch out from the Plymouth Colony, incorporating in 1656. Its fertile soil and bountiful rivers provided for a rich agricultural community. As the Industrial Revolution forced farmers into factories, Bridgewater experienced rapid social and economic growth and change. Iron, shoe, and paper manufacturing flourished, and the railroad brought European immigrants in search of the American Dream. In Bridgewater, vintage images tell the stories of the Bridgewater Academy, the normal school, the changes in and around the common, the business pursuits of local proprietors, and the spiritual and civic life of Bridgewater residents.
Author : Alice Arlen
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1608934357
Longtime fans of Rich's writing will welcome this engaging and thoughtful biography of her life. There is also a wonderful section that includes many of Rich's essays and stories — which were published in magazines but never appeared in book form — as well as excerpts from her journal and letters.
Author : James S. Vass Jr
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 49,33 MB
Release : 2003-05-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0595279805
This book is a study of UW men's basketball fans during the 2001-2002 season and explores their proclivity to 'cheering for self' during basketball events. The term 'basketball event' is used rather than 'basketball game' to make clear that everything connected to and seen, heard, or experienced before, during and after a basketball game is included. The actual game itself is only part of the 'basketball event. An undercurrent runs throughout this participant observation mini-ethnography dealing with access, and the relative quality of that access, to basketball events being affected by ones age, class, race, and gender. The prominent role of advertising in shaping basketball events and helping to construct fans as consumers of products (both commercial and institutional) during the process of cheering for self is central to this idea. Cheering for self is the activity engaged in by individual fans after they find things to identify or connect with through personal investment. Fans cheer for self indirectly. Fans cheer for the team that they identify with. Through the process of cheering for self while attending the basketball event people are taught how to become fans, to consume a UW product--the basketball event and to consume advertisers' products. People have a tendency to spend their entire life trying to impress others.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Copyright
ISBN :
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Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 37,46 MB
Release : 1955-07
Category :
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Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.
