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Hanover: University Press of New England. As New. 1998. Paperback. 0.91 x 8.47 x 5.5 Inches. 304 pages. A shrewd observer of 19th-century America, Harriet Hanson Robinson's participation in important events and her salty comments, preserved and recorded in the poetry and books she wrote during her lifetime, offer a dramatic account of how one strong-minded woman, who first worked as a textile worker in the industrial town of Lowell, MA, turned to writing and politics to sustain her family after her husband's early death. Harriet's personal papers shed light on such topics as labor history, state politics, and the mechanics of writing and publication. Her best-known publications, Loom and Spindle, which deals with early factory life, and Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement, are often quoted today. .
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"A Good Poor Man's Wife": Being a Chronicle of Harriet Hanson Robinson and Her Family in Nineteenth-Century New England
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"April Queen" Eleanor of Aquitaine
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Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press. Fine. 2011. Trade Paperback. No spine crease.. 360 pages. Eleanor of Aquitaine was the only person ever to sit on the thrones of both France and England. In this account of the turbulent adventures of the extraordinary mother of Richard the Lionheart and King John, author Douglas Boyd takes us into the heart and mind of the woman who changed the shape of Europe for 300 years by marrying Henry of Anjou to make him England's Henry II. Brought up in the comfort- and culture-loving Mediterranean civilisation of southern France, she was a European with a continent-wide vision and a peculiarly 'modern' woman who rejected the subordinate female role decreed by the Church. In this biography, using French, Old French, Latin and Occitan sources, Douglas Boyd lays bare Eleanor's relationship and vividly brings her world to life .
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Benjamin Franklin : An American Life
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New York: Simon & Schuster. Very Good. 2004. 1st Simon & Schuster Edition. Trade Paperback. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 586 pages .
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Book of Ages: The Life and Opions of Jane Franklin
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New York: Vintage Books. Fine. 2014. Trade Paperback. No spine crease.. 442 pages. From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians--a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister, Jane, whose obscurity and poverty were matched only by her brother's fame and wealth but who, like him, was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator. Making use of an astonishing cache of little-studied material, including documents, objects, and portraits only just discovered, Jill Lepore brings Jane Franklin to life in a way that illuminates not only this one extraordinary woman but an entire world .
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Catherine the Great: A Short History
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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Very Good. 1993. Trade Paperback. Minor wear at corners. Genealogical table . 248 pages. This brief account of Catherine's reign incorporates the research findings of the last twenty years, (1970-1990). Isabel de Madariaga has written an account of Catherine's life which disentangles myth from the verifiable reality and focusses on her 34 year reign. De Madariaga places the changes and reforms of Catherine's reign in the context of the prevailing trends and political climate of Europe, and examines Russia's military activity to demonstrate Catherine's part in building Russia into a formidable European power. The book also points to the problems Catherine faced, the resources upon which she could draw, and the intellectual climate in which she operated. .
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Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age
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New York: Harper Perennial. Near Fine. 2007. Paperback. Extremely minor edgewear at head and tail of spine. . Genealogical table. 1.3 x 8 x 5.3 Inches. 640 pages. P.S. .
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The Exiled Collector: William Bankes and the Making of an English Country House
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London: John Murray. Fine. 2005. First Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 308 pages. On August 30th 1841 William John Bankes, former Tory MP, pioneer Egyptologist and renowned traveller, was caught in compromising circumstances with a guardsman in London's Green Park. Faced with the death penalty, he fled to exile in Venice, leaving forever his beloved house, Kingston Lacy in Dorset. It was the vicarious embellishment of this house that was to be his only enduring passion. Brilliantly written and highly readable, The Exiled Collector is the first ever biography of William Bankes, recounting his dramatic life story. It examines the psychology of collecting, the pain and creativity of exile and affords a revealing insight into the minds of a hypocritical ruling elite in early Victorian Britain .
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Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872
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Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Very Good. 1989. 1st Bison Book Edition. Trade Paperback. Cover laminate is beginning to loosen at edges . 388 pages .
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Frederick Jackson Turner: Strange Roads Going Down
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Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable archival cover. . 557 pages .
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From Slave to Statesman: The Legacy of Joshua Houston, Servant to Sam Houston
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Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press. Very Good. 1995. First Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. 276 pages .
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Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake who Wrote the Constitution
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New York: Free Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. 251 pages .
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In History's Shadow
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New York: Hyperion. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Price-clipped. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Beige boards quarter bound in tan with title and author imprinted on spine in gold. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 386 pages. The late John Connally learned the ropes of rural Texas politics under Lyndon Johnson and worked his way up, getting wounded along the way allegedly by the same bullet that killed JFK. Connally's story is an essential contribution to our understanding of recent American history. Photographs. .
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The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull
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New York: Ballantine Books. Fine. 1994.. Trade Paperback. Inscribed, dated and SIGNED by the AUTHOR. 413 pages. Signed by Author .
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The Last Days of Richard III and the Fate of His DNA
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Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press. Fine. 2013. Revised and Updated. Trade Paperback. 222 pages. The Last Days of Richard III contains a new and uniquely detailed exploration of Richard's last 150 days. By deliberately avoiding the hindsight knowledge that he will lose the Battle of Bosworth Field, we discover a new Richard: no passive victim, awaiting defeat and death, but a king actively pursuing his own agenda. It also re-examines the aftermath of Bosworth: the treatment of Richard's body; his burial; and the construction of his tomb. And there is the fascinating story of why, and how, Richard III's family tree was traced until a relative was found, alive and well, in Canada. Now, with the discovery of Richard's skeleton at the Greyfrairs Priory in Leicester, England, John Ashdown-Hill explains how his book inspired the dig and completes Richard III's fascinating story, giving details of how Richard died, and how the DNA link to a living relative of the king…
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Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster
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Orlando, Florida: Harcourt. As New in As New dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Illus. , index. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Gold boards with gray spine imprinted with title and author in gold. Full letter line K J I H G F E D C B A . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 342 pages. The deepest coal mine in North America was notoriously unpredictable. One late October evening in 1958, it "bumped" - its rock floors heaving up and smashing into rock ceilings. A few miners staggered out, most of the 174 on shift did not. Nineteen men were trapped, plunged into darkness, hunger, thirst, and hallucination. As days and nights passed, the survivors began to hope for death by gas rather than from thirst. Above ground, journalists and families stood in despairing vigil, as rescuers brought out scores of the dead. The hope of finding life undergound faded and families made funeral preparations. Then, a miracle: Rescuers stumbled across a broken…
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Mistress of the Elgin Marbles: A Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin
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New York: William Morrow. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor edgewear at corners of dust jacket. Closed 1/2" tear at top of dust jacket . Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Cream boards with black spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Map on endpapers. Deckle-edged pages, Genealogical table . 294 pages. Filled with romance, danger, and scandal, Mistress of the Elgin Marbles is the intriguing story of Mary Nisbet, the Countess of Elgin -- one of the most influential women of the Romantic era whose exploits enriched world culture immeasurably. The richest heiress in Scotland and the wife of accomplished diplomat Thomas Bruce, the 7th Earl of Elgin, she traveled to Turkey when Elgin was appointed the Ambassador Extraordinaire to the Ottoman Empire -- a journey that would change history.Interweaving extensive details gleaned from primary sources and excerpts from the countess's own letters, Susan Nagel draws a vivid…
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A Mother's War
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New York: Berkley Books. Near Fine. 1992. First Edition Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Ink stamp on bottom of text block . Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 269 pages .
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Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen
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New York: Viking. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. First American Edition. Hardcover. Some wrinkling on back of d j . Genealogical table. 300 pages. In the tradition of her intriguing Hatchepsut, Joyce Tyldesley rescues another female ruler from the shadows of history c. 1350 b.c.: Queen Nefertiti (literally "a beautiful woman has come"). We know her from the exquisite painted bust in the Berlin Museum, discovered in 1912, which has made her ancient Egypt's most recognizable queen and a symbol of her country's history. Until now, however, she has remained largely unknown and unrecognized for her contributions to Egyptian society. Wife of Akhenaten, the monotheistic pharaoh, adored by her family, blessed by the sun god, and worshiped by her people, Nefertiti suddenly and completely vanished from the record. Was she banished by her husband or raised to rule as his equal? Did she reign, under another name, in her own right? Could she have been the eminence grise behind…
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Notable Men and Women of Spanish Texas
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Austin: University of Texas Press. Fine. 1999. First Edition. Trade Paperback. SIGNED on title page by both AUTHORS . 359 pages. Signed by All Authors .
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On Gold Mountain
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New York: Vintage. Very Good. 2012. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. Very minor edgewear at head and tail of spine; reading crease. No spine crease. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Genealogical table . 464 pages. In 1867, Lisa See's great-great-grandfather arrived in America, where he prescribed herbal remedies to immigrant laborers who were treated little better than slaves. His son Fong See later built a mercantile empire and married a Caucasian woman, in spite of laws prohibiting interracial marriage. Lisa herself grew up playing in her family's antiques store in Los Angeles's Chinatown, listening to stories of missionaries and prostitutes, movie stars and Chinese baseball teams. With these stories and her own years of research, Lisa See chronicles the one-hundred-year-odyssey of her Chinese-American family, a history that encompasses racism, romance, secret marriages, entrepreneurial genius, and much more, as two distinctly different cultures meet in…
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