Perilous Fight
Title | Perilous Fight PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Budiansky |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 2012-01-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307454959 |
In Perilous Fight, Stephen Budiansky tells the rousing story of the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812, when an upstart American fleet fought off the legendary Royal Navy and established America as a world power for the first time. Through vivid re-creations of riveting and dramatic encounters at sea, Budiansky shows how this underdog coterie of seamen and their visionary secretary of the navy combined bravery and strategic brilliance to defeat the British, who had dominated the seas for more than two centuries. A gripping and essential hsitory, this is the military and political story of how the U.S. Navy became a permanent and essential part of the nation’s defense.
Narrative and Critical History of America Edited by Justin Winsor
Title | Narrative and Critical History of America Edited by Justin Winsor PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 1888 |
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A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed.
Title | A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Waterhouse |
Publisher | Litres |
Pages | 389 |
Release | 2021-03-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 5041205159 |
"A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed" by Benjamin Waterhouse. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Unbecoming British
Title | Unbecoming British PDF eBook |
Author | Kariann Akemi Yokota |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 367 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190217871 |
From household objects to maps and ideas of race, Kariann Yokota examines early US history through the lens of postcolonial theory. While its leaders went to great lengths to establish their "civility,"what really distinguished the new nation were its unlimited natural resources, slavery, and the displacement of native societies.
Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn
Title | Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn PDF eBook |
Author | Rodney Hessinger |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2013-03-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0812202244 |
Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn exposes the fears expressed by elders about young people in the early American republic. Those authors, educators, and moral reformers who aspired to guide youth into respectable stations perceived new dangers in the decades following independence. Battling a range of seducers in the burgeoning marketplace of early America, from corrupt peers to licentious prostitutes, from pornographic authors to firebrand preachers, these self-proclaimed moral guardians crafted advice and institutions for youth, hoping to guide them safely away from harm and toward success. By penning didactic novels and advice books while building reform institutions and colleges, they sought to lead youth into dutiful behavior. But, thrust into the market themselves, these moral guides were forced to compromise their messages to find a popular audience. Nonetheless, their calls for order did have lasting impact. In urban centers in the Northeast, middle-class Americans became increasingly committed to their notions of chastity, piety, and hard work. Focusing on popular publications and large urban centers, Hessinger draws a portrait of deeply troubled reformers, men and women, who worried incessantly about the vulnerability of youth to the perils of prostitution, promiscuity, misbehavior, and revolt. Benefiting from new insights in cultural history, Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn looks at the way the categories of gender, age, and class took rhetorical shape in the early republic. In trying to steer young adults away from danger, these advisors created values that came to define the emerging middle class of urban America.
Sabin & sons' American bibliopolist
Title | Sabin & sons' American bibliopolist PDF eBook |
Author | Sabin J. and sons |
Publisher | |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 1869 |
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Trübner's Bibliographical Guide to American Literature
Title | Trübner's Bibliographical Guide to American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Nicolas Trübner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 738 |
Release | 1859 |
Genre | American literature |
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