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  • - The Culture of Calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood
    af Cynthia A. Kierner
    343,95 kr.

    When hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, and other disasters strike, we count our losses, search for causes, commiserate with victims, and initiate relief efforts. Amply illustrated and expansively researched, Inventing Disaster explains the origins and development of this predictable, even ritualized, culture of calamity over three centuries.

  • - Her Life and Times
    af Cynthia A. Kierner
    408,95 kr.

    Though Martha OPatsyO Jefferson Randolph's name is familiar because of her famous president father, Kierner is the first historian to place Patsy at the center of her own story, taking readers into the largely ignored private spaces of the founding era.

  • af Cynthia A. Kierner
    364,95 - 565,95 kr.

    In the early 1790s Richard Randolph was accused of fathering a child by his sister-in-law Nancy and murdering the baby shortly after its birth. Rumors about the incident, which occurred during a visit to the plantation of close family friends, spread like wildfire. Randolph found himself on trial for the crime largely because of the public outrage fueled by these rumors.A tale of family passion, betrayal, and deception, Scandal at Bizarre is a fascinating historical portrait of the social and political realities of a world long vanished.

  • - Women's Place in the Early South, 1700-1835
    af Cynthia A. Kierner
    548,95 - 1.853,95 kr.

    Much has been written about the "southern lady," that pervasive and enduring icon of antebellum regional identity. But how did the lady get on her pedestal-and were the lives of white southern women always so different from those of their northern...

  • - The Livingstons of New York, 1675-1790
    af Cynthia A. Kierner
    618,95 - 833,95 kr.

    Kierner vividly recreates the history of four generations of Livingstons and sheds new light on the development of both the elite ideology they represented and of the wider culture of early America.

  • - Manners, Morals, and Authority in the Early American Republic
    af Cynthia A. Kierner
    299,95 - 1.143,95 kr.

    With annotated footnotes, this work explores the debate over manners, morals, and cultural authority in the decades following American Revolution. It also includes an introduction that provides readers with a background on life and politics in the United States in 1787, when Americans were in the midst of nation-building.