Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368733788
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society at the Hall of the American Academy in Boston, April 24, 1961
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368733788
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.
Johnny Tremain
Author: Esther ForbesPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395900116
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
After injuring his hand, a silvermith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
The Rights of the Defenseless
Author: Susan J. PearsonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022676060X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
In 1877, the American Humane Society was formed as the national organization for animal and child protection. Thirty years later, there were 354 anticruelty organizations chartered in the United States, nearly 200 of which were similarly invested in the welfare of both humans and animals. In The Rights of the Defenseless, Susan J. Pearson seeks to understand the institutional, cultural, legal, and political significance of the perceived bond between these two kinds of helpless creatures, and the attempts made to protect them. Unlike many of today’s humane organizations, those Pearson follows were delegated police powers to make arrests and bring cases of cruelty to animals and children before local magistrates. Those whom they prosecuted were subject to fines, jail time, and the removal of either animal or child from their possession. Pearson explores the limits of and motivation behind this power and argues that while these reformers claimed nothing more than sympathy with the helpless and a desire to protect their rights, they turned “cruelty” into a social problem, stretched government resources, and expanded the state through private associations. The first book to explore these dual organizations and their storied history, The Rights of the Defenseless will appeal broadly to reform-minded historians and social theorists alike.
Index to the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 1812-1961
Author: Clifford Kenyon ShiptonPublisher: Worcester, MA : American Antiquarian Society
ISBN:
Category : American Antiquarian Society. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society--Indexes
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Creating the Commonwealth
Author: Stephen InnesPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393035841
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Describes how the Puritan culture of New England gave rise to capitalism, and recounts how the small colony developed an international economy.
19th-century America: Paintings and Sculpture
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870990063
Category : Art, American
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Chiefly illustrated catalog of an exhibition held in celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 16 through September 7, 1970.
Catalog of the Library of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Author: Whitney Museum of American Art. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
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