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What is the role of sex in the age of democratic beginnings? Despite the sober republican ideals of the Enlightenment, the literature of America's early years speaks of unruly, carnal longings. Elizabeth Dill argues that the era's proliferation of texts about extramarital erotic intimacy man...

44.57€ (42.86€ sin IVA)

New Continent of Liberty

Hamilton, Geoff

978-0-8139-4245-2

The first book to chart autonomy's conceptual growth in Native American literature from the late eighteenth to the early twenty-first century, A New Continent of Liberty examines, against the backdrop of Euro-American literature, how Native American authors have sought to reclaim and redefine di...

33.05€ (31.78€ sin IVA)

Liberty Without Anarchy

Myers, Minor

978-0-8139-2311-6

Founded in May 1783 at Steuben's headquarters near Newburg, N.Y., by officers of the Continental army and navy, the Society of the Cincinnati was at one time one of America's most controversial organizations. In Liberty without Anarchy, Minor Myers relates how the officers, who had not been...

26.43€ (25.41€ sin IVA)

Pulpit and Nation

McBride, Spencer W

978-0-8139-3956-8

In Pulpit and Nation, Spencer McBride highlights the importance of Protestant clergymen in early American political culture, elucidating the actual role of religion in the founding era. Beginning with colonial precedents for clerical involvement in politics and concluding with false rumors of Thoma...

52.23€ (50.22€ sin IVA)

Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain

978-1-64453-015-3

Although scholars often depict early modern Spanish women as victims, history and fiction of the period are filled with examples of women who defended their God-given right to make their own decisions and to define their own identities. The essays in Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain examine many...

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The Papist Represented

Carnes, Geremy

978-1-64453-019-1

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Sol Plaatje

Willan, Brian

978-0-8139-4209-4

While the story of modern South Africa has long captured global attention, the story of one of its key forefathers has been eclipsed by those of more iconic political figures. In Sol Plaatje: A Life, Brian Willan restores to history the importance of a remarkable man whose contributions as an intel...

59.14€ (56.87€ sin IVA)