Author: Isabella Strange TrotterPublisher: London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
First Impressions of the New World on Two Travellers
Author: Isabella Strange TrotterPublisher: London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
First Impressions of the New World
Author: Isabella Strange TrotterPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
The letters contained within the book were written during a journey through Canada and the United States, taken by the author's father, mother, and brother William, during the autumn of the previous year. While at first these letters were meant for private correspondence, the author has managed to convince the parents to publish them. For these letters, according to the author, will be able to give a better way of introducing the people of America to a British audience, and it is hoped that the perspectives and experiences offered by these letters will provide a different view of the country.
The Athenæum
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: Catalogue of the Walsall Free Lending Library, Etc
Author: Free Lending Library (WALSALL)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Prisons, Asylums, and the Public
Author: Janet MironPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442661623
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The prisons and asylums of Canada and the United States were a popular destination for institutional tourists in the nineteenth-century. Thousands of visitors entered their walls, recording and describing the interiors, inmates, and therapeutic and reformative practices they encountered in letters, diaries, and articles. Surprisingly, the vast majority of these visitors were not members of the medical or legal elite but were ordinary people. Prisons, Asylums, and the Public argues that, rather than existing in isolation, these institutions were closely connected to the communities beyond their walls. Challenging traditional interpretations of public visiting, Janet Miron examines the implications and imperatives of visiting from the perspectives of officials, the public, and the institutionalized. Finding that institutions could be important centres of civic activity, self-edification, and 'scientific' study, Prisons, Asylums, and the Public sheds new light on popular nineteenth-century attitudes towards the insane and the criminal.
Catalogue
Author: Cadmus Book ShopPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: A Slave in the White House
Author: Elizabeth Dowling TaylorPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 113700018X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller: A “fascinating portrait” of one of the men enslaved by James and Dolley Madison, and his journey toward freedom (Publishers Weekly). Paul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, later becoming part of the Madison household staff at the White House. Once he was finally emancipated by Senator Daniel Webster later in life, he would give an aged and impoverished Dolley Madison, his former owner, money from his own pocket, write the first White House memoir, and see his sons fight with the Union Army in the Civil War. He died a free man in northwest Washington at seventy-five. Based on correspondence, legal documents, and journal entries rarely seen before, this amazing portrait of the times reveals the mores and attitudes toward slavery of the nineteenth century, and sheds new light on famous figures such as James Madison, who believed the white and black populations could not coexist as equals; General Lafayette, who was appalled by this idea; Dolley Madison, who ruthlessly sold Paul after her husband’s death; and many other since-forgotten slaves, abolitionists, and civil right activists. “A portrait of a remarkably willful, ambitious, opportunistic, and in his own way well-connected American. You could also call it the American dream.” —Fortune “A great historical biography.” —Houston Style Magazine “A must-read.” —The Daily Beast “Thorough research . . . an important story of human struggle, determination, and triumph.” —The Dallas Morning News
Athenaeum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description