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  • Freedom Seekers

    Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London

    by Simon P. Newman ...
    Winner of the 2024 ACLS Open Access Book Prize & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award, and joint winner of the prestigious 2023 Frederick Douglass Book Prize from Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London reveals the hidden stories of enslaved and bound people who attempted to escape ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Parades and the Politics of the Street

    Festive Culture in the Early American Republic

    by Simon P. Newman ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Simon P. Newman vividly evokes the celebrations of America's first national holidays in the years between the ratification of the Constitution and the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson. He demonstrates how, by taking part in the festive culture of the streets, ordinary American men and women were able to play a significant role in forging the political culture of the young nation. The creation of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Embodied History

    The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia

    by Simon P. Newman ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Offering a new view into the lives and experiences of plebeian men and women, and a provocative exploration of the history of the body itself, Embodied History approaches the bodies of the poor in early national Philadelphia as texts to be read and interpreted. Through a close examination of accounts of the bodies that appeared in runaway advertisements and in seafaring, almshouse, prison, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • A New World of Labor

    The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic

    by Simon P. Newman ...
    Series series The Early Modern Americas
    The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. However, by 1650 it had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center of an exchange of people and goods between the British Isles, the Gold Coast of West Africa, and the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • A New World of Labor

    The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic

    by Simon P. Newman ...
    Series series The Early Modern Americas
    The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. However, by 1650 it had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center of an exchange of people and goods between the British Isles, the Gold Coast of West Africa, and the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Embodied History

    The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia

    by Simon P. Newman ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Offering a new view into the lives and experiences of plebeian men and women, and a provocative exploration of the history of the body itself, Embodied History approaches the bodies of the poor in early national Philadelphia as texts to be read and interpreted. Through a close examination of accounts of the bodies that appeared in runaway advertisements and in seafaring, almshouse, prison, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Parades and the Politics of the Street

    Festive Culture in the Early American Republic

    by Simon P. Newman ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Simon P. Newman vividly evokes the celebrations of America's first national holidays in the years between the ratification of the Constitution and the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson. He demonstrates how, by taking part in the festive culture of the streets, ordinary American men and women were able to play a significant role in forging the political culture of the young nation. The creation of ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Benjamin Franklin's Intellectual World

    by Carla Mulford, Simon P. Newman, Jurgen Overhoff, Jerry Weinberger, Lorraine Smith Pangle, Michael Zuckerman ...
    This volume attempts to throw fresh light on two areas of Benjamin Franklin’s intellectual world, namely: his self-fashioning and his political thought. It is an odd thing that for all of Franklin’s voluminous writings—a fantastically well-documented correspondence over many years, scientific treatises that made his name amongst the brightest minds of Europe, newspaper articles, satires, and of ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Basic Helicopter Aerodynamics

    by John M. Seddon, Simon Newman, Peter Belobaba, Jonathan Cooper, Allan Seabridge ...
    Series Book 40 - Aerospace Series
    Basic Helicopter Aerodynamics is widely appreciated as an easily accessible, rounded introduction to the first principles of the aerodynamics of helicopter flight. Simon Newman has brought this third edition completely up to date with a full new set of illustrations and imagery. An accompanying website www.wiley.com/go/seddon contains all the calculation files used in the book, problems, solutions ... Read more

    $82.00 USD

  • Best New Horror #26

    by Stephen Jones, Helen Marshall, Dale Bailey, Richard Gavin, Ron Weighell, Simon Kurt Unsworth, Angela Slatter, Rebecca Lloyd, Robert Shearman, Steve Rasnic Tem, Derek John, Dennis Etchison, Clint Smith, Nathan Ballingrud, Ian Tregillis, Ramsey Campbell, Lavie Tidhar, Stephen Volk, Peter Straub, Simon Strantzas, Kim Newman ...
    This 26th edition of Best New Horror showcases some of the very best short stories and novellas published in 2014. So get ready to spread your wings and take a bite out of this latest anthology of agony. And don't forget to tell your fellow fiends about our new series of Best New Horror reprints. Just let them know who sent you . . .The Old Hag ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paine and Jefferson in the Age of Revolutions

    Edited by Simon P. Newman, Peter S. Onuf ...
    Series series Jeffersonian America
    The enormous popularity of his pamphlet Common Sense made Thomas Paine one of the best-known patriots during the early years of American independence. His subsequent service with the Continental Army, his publication of The American Crisis (1776–83), and his work with Pennsylvania’s revolutionary government consolidated his reputation as one of the foremost radicals of the Revolution. Thereafter, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Dream of Gerontius (UNABRIDGED)

    by John Henry NEWMAN ...
    Narrated by Simon Kace ...

    Unabridged

    55 min

    As a rule, when Cardinal Newman's poetry is mentioned, people think of "The Pillar of the Cloud," better known as "Lead, Kindly Light." This lyric is only one of the many beautiful poems written by an author whose fame as a writer of the finest modern prose in the English language has eclipsed his reputation as a poet. Nevertheless, he wrote a very great poem, "The Dream of Gerontius"—a poem which ... Read more

    $4.99 USD