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'Dearest Brother'

Lauderdale, Tweedale and Scottish Politics, 1660-1674

by Maurice Lee Jr ...

This book provides the first detailed account of the course of Scottish politics in the reign of Charles II. It focuses on the years from 1667 to 1673, when, for the only time in the Restoration era, Scottish political leaders were able to make policy for Scotland with minimal interference from London and with Scottish interests chiefly in mind.The key players were the secretary of state, John ... Read more

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This book provides the first detailed account of the course of Scottish politics in the reign of Charles II. It focuses on the years from 1667 to 1673, when, for the only time in the Restoration era, Scottish political leaders were able to make policy for Scotland with minimal interference from London and with Scottish interests chiefly in mind.The key players were the secretary of state, John
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Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture

by Jerome McGann, Scott Peeples, Jennifer Rae Greeson, Eliza Richards, Maurice Lee, Betsy Erkkila, Leland S. Person, Anna Brickhouse, Leon Jackson ...

Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849) has long occupied the position of literary outsider. Dismissed as unrepresentative of the main currents of antebellum culture, Poe commented incisively -- in fiction and nonfiction -- on nationalism, science, materialism, popular taste, and cultural ideology. Opposing the pressure to write nationalistic "American" tales or from a restricted New England perspective, he ... Read more

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Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849) has long occupied the position of literary outsider. Dismissed as unrepresentative of the main currents of antebellum culture, Poe commented incisively -- in fiction and nonfiction -- on nationalism, science, materialism, popular taste, and cultural ideology. Opposing the pressure to write nationalistic "American" tales or from a restricted New England perspective, he
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Love & Theft

Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class

by Eric Lott ...

Series series Race and American Culture
For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show appropriated black dialect, music, and dance; at once applauded and lampooned black culture; and, ironically, ... Read more

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For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show appropriated black dialect, music, and dance; at once applauded and lampooned black culture; and, ironically,
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The Royal Stuarts

by Allan Massie ...

An "evocative, visceral [and] haunting" look at one of history's bloodiest and most tumultuous reigns ( Daily Telegraph, UK)."Compelling . . . Seven hundred years of history pass lightly but with absolute assurance under Mr. Massie's hand." — The Wall Street JournalThis panoramic history of one of the world's most fascinating royal families tells the complete story of the Stuarts, from the first ... Read more

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An "evocative, visceral [and] haunting" look at one of history's bloodiest and most tumultuous reigns ( Daily Telegraph, UK)."Compelling . . . Seven hundred years of history pass lightly but with absolute assurance under Mr. Massie's hand." — The Wall Street JournalThis panoramic history of one of the world's most fascinating royal families tells the complete story of the Stuarts, from the first
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The Last Highlander

Scotland’s Most Notorious Clan Chief, Rebel & Double Agent

by Sarah Fraser ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PERFECT FOR FANS OF OUTLANDER The true story of one of Scotland’s most notorious and romantic heroes.He was a spy, a clan-chief, a traitor. A polyglot, a deserter and a man of philosophy.Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, was the last of the great Scottish chiefs – and the last nobleman executed for treason. In life, his wit, ambition and dubious sense of morality kept him in ... Read more

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PERFECT FOR FANS OF OUTLANDER The true story of one of Scotland’s most notorious and romantic heroes.He was a spy, a clan-chief, a traitor. A polyglot, a deserter and a man of philosophy.Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, was the last of the great Scottish chiefs – and the last nobleman executed for treason. In life, his wit, ambition and dubious sense of morality kept him in
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Typecasting

On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality

by Stuart Ewen, Elizabeth Ewen ...

Typecasting chronicles the emergence of the "science of first impression" and reveals how the work of its creators—early social scientists—continues to shape how we see the world and to inform our most fundamental and unconscious judgments of beauty, humanity, and degeneracy. In this groundbreaking exploration of the growth of stereotyping amidst the rise of modern society, authors Ewen & Ewen ... Read more

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Typecasting chronicles the emergence of the "science of first impression" and reveals how the work of its creators—early social scientists—continues to shape how we see the world and to inform our most fundamental and unconscious judgments of beauty, humanity, and degeneracy. In this groundbreaking exploration of the growth of stereotyping amidst the rise of modern society, authors Ewen & Ewen
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Mary Queen of Scots' Downfall

The Life and Murder of Henry, Lord Darnley

by Robert Stedall ...

The story of the Scottish ruler—and the mysterious death of her ambitious and controversial husband.In the early hours of February 10, 1567, a large explosion ripped through the lodgings at Kirk o' Field, Edinburgh, where Mary Queen of Scotland's consort, Henry, Lord Darnley, was staying. Darnley's body was found with that of his valet in a neighboring garden the next morning.The queen's husband ... Read more

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The story of the Scottish ruler—and the mysterious death of her ambitious and controversial husband.In the early hours of February 10, 1567, a large explosion ripped through the lodgings at Kirk o' Field, Edinburgh, where Mary Queen of Scotland's consort, Henry, Lord Darnley, was staying. Darnley's body was found with that of his valet in a neighboring garden the next morning.The queen's husband
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The Reivers

The Story of the Border Reivers

by Alistair Moffat ...

An "exciting and dramatic" history of the raiders who ruled the lawless Anglo-Scottish borderlands for over a century ( Cumberland News).Nowhere else in Britain in the modern era, or indeed in Europe, did civil order break down over such a wide area, or for such a long time, as on the border country between Scotland and England. For more than a century, the hoofbeats of countless raiding parties ... Read more

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An "exciting and dramatic" history of the raiders who ruled the lawless Anglo-Scottish borderlands for over a century ( Cumberland News).Nowhere else in Britain in the modern era, or indeed in Europe, did civil order break down over such a wide area, or for such a long time, as on the border country between Scotland and England. For more than a century, the hoofbeats of countless raiding parties
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Validating Bachelorhood

Audience, Patriarchy and Charles Brockden Brown's Editorship of the Monthly Magazine and American Review

by Scott Slawinski ...

Series series Studies in American Popular History and Culture
This book explores images of single and married men in C.B. Brown's Monthly Magazine and concludes that Brown used his periodical as a vehicle for validating bachelorhood as a viable alternative form of masculinity. ... Read more

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This book explores images of single and married men in C.B. Brown's Monthly Magazine and concludes that Brown used his periodical as a vehicle for validating bachelorhood as a viable alternative form of masculinity.
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Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors

A Guide for Family Historians

by Ian Maxwell ...

Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
This guide to Scottish ancestry records offers detailed social history on how our ancestors lived, as well as resources for family historians.Scotland's history has been influenced by many factors—the division between the Highlands and the Lowlands, the feudal system, the Reformation, the industrial revolution —that have shaped the country's past and impacted on the lives of its people. Tracing ... Read more

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This guide to Scottish ancestry records offers detailed social history on how our ancestors lived, as well as resources for family historians.Scotland's history has been influenced by many factors—the division between the Highlands and the Lowlands, the feudal system, the Reformation, the industrial revolution —that have shaped the country's past and impacted on the lives of its people. Tracing
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The Dream of the Great American Novel

by Lawrence Buell ...

"Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes." —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly ReviewThe idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or ... Read more

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"Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes." —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly ReviewThe idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or
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From Puritanism to Postmodernism

A History of American Literature

by Richard Ruland ...

Series series Routledge Classics
Widely acknowledged as a contemporary classic that has introduced thousands of readers to American literature, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature brilliantly charts the fascinating story of American literature from the Puritan legacy to the advent of postmodernism. From realism and romanticism to modernism and postmodernism it examines and reflects on the work of a ... Read more

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Widely acknowledged as a contemporary classic that has introduced thousands of readers to American literature, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature brilliantly charts the fascinating story of American literature from the Puritan legacy to the advent of postmodernism. From realism and romanticism to modernism and postmodernism it examines and reflects on the work of a
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