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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Early America"”.
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BELKNAP OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: HUMAN EXPERIENCE IN EARLY AMERICA
<p>This study is a personal analysis of the eighteenth-century historian-scientist-minister, Jeremy Belknap (1744-1798). Belknap's life is used to illustrate a type of history denoted "humanist" history. The goal of humanism is to uncover general truths from specific experiences. Thus, emphasis is …
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The Spy in Early America: The Emergence of a Genre
… spy literature as a much earlier genre, examines American spy fiction as a genre which is both postcolonial and colonizing, reflecting the United States' quirky position as a former colony which began colonizing others even before it won its independence. Anxieties regarding the new social …
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Paul Revere's metallurgical ride : craft and proto-industry in early America
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society, 2001.
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Tracing the Finger of God: The Role of Wonders In Catholic Spirituality In Early America
… in Catholic spirituality in British North America between the founding of colonial Maryland and the early national United States. It argues that the traditional spirituality and theology that stressed God's activity in the natural world--most closely associated with late medieval and early …
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East is East and West is West: Philadelphia Newspaper Coverage of the East-West Divide in Early America
The prominent division in early America between the established eastern populations and communities in the West is evident when viewed through the lens of eighteenth-century Philadelphia newspapers, which themselves employed an East-West paradigm to interpret four events: the Paxton Boys Incident, …
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Remembering Elderly Women in Early America: A survey of how aged women were memorialized in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century tombstone inscriptions, death notices, funeral sermons, and memoirs
… placed on women during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries impacted the reputation of aged women. Specifically, it demonstrates how the ideology of domesticity contributed to the reputation of aged women as women and how advanced age influenced their exemplary place in society. …
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Germans on the Western Waters: Artisans, Material Culture, and Hybridity in Virginia's Backcountry, 1780-1830
… concerned with how a distinct German-American culture manifests over time as seen through these artisans' produced materials and structures. This thesis traces this manifestation through a careful examination of Wythe material culture, wills, probates, inventories, court records, …
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Life on the edge: Community and trade on the Anglo -American periphery, Pemaquid, Maine, 1610--1689
… beginning as a migratory fishing station in the early 1610s. In those early years, Pemaquid benefited and paid for its strategic position on the northern edge of New England. It was situated in a region that was well-endowed with marine and terrestrial resources. As a consequence, the …
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An historical examination of water-powered mill sites and markets using geographic information system analysis: Augusta County, Virginia, 1880-1885
… mills were a very important part of life in early America, and Augusta County, Virginia had an abundance of milling activity. Excellent records of milling activity, farm production, and road and farm locations for the period of 1880-1885 allowed a geographic information system (GIS) database …
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“Smole Trifeles“: The Itinerant in British North America
… among the British colonies in North America occurred with the creation New England confederation in 1643. For the next one hundred thirty-four years various attempts would be made to organize British America colonies into a confederacy. "Smole Trifeles": The Itinerant in British …
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Reciprocities market : John Bartram's 18th century botanical subscription service and the seeds of independence
… economic relationships of 18th-century colonial America through the lens of John Bartram's work and network. Bartram (1699-1777), a Pennsylvanian-born Quaker farmer and naturalist, developed a transatlantic botanical subscription service. An exemplar of the broader shift from traditional …
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Taming Consumer Culture: A Contractarian Ethic for Advertising
… of the social contract and consumer culture in early America. Two examples of advertising as a practice of consumer culture are presented in a chapter on media and the dispersion of food myths to the public and a chapter on childhood obesity and the advertising of junk foods. These chapters …
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Butlers of the Mohawk Valley: Family Traditions and the Establishment of British Empire in Colonial New York
<p>Historians follow those tributaries of early American history and trace their converging currents as best they may in an immeasurable river of human experience. The Butlers were part of those British imperial currents that washed over mid Atlantic America for the better part of the eighteenth …
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The archetypal development of the American woman through literature
… recurrent character types in twentieth century American literature about women. Because of his emphasis on the "collective unconscious," the theories of psychologist Carl Jung are used as the basis for this study. The basic feminine archetype, herself complex, always retains her primary …
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The nutritional quality of the diet of 18th century Moravians (1775-1800) in Salem, North Carolina: a comparison of present dietary trends
… levels were higher due to the lifestyle of early America. The results indicate that history can be a learning tool for nutritionists in predicting trends for the future.
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Accounting for taste: The early American music business and secularization in music aesthetics, 1720--1825
<p>This study redefines popular music in early America as sacred music sung and performed in most churches and, starting in the 1790s, theater music imported from England. Rather than more static secular ballads and traditional dance pieces customarily understood as popular music, sacred and …
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Socio-political contradictions in Brown’s American Gothic: an important historical precursor to the conceptualization of ideology in modernity
<p>Charles Brockden Brown's American Gothic is distinctly American in its dealings with Revolutionary-era culture and distinctly Gothic in its subversion of the foundational aspects of this culture. Brown draws upon his own revolutionary experience, to first connect, then criticize the two main …
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Bvlbancha: Place and power in the early Mississippi Delta
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Caregiving, Crisis and Coercion in the American Revolutionary War
This dissertation uses the health crisis of the American Revolutionary War to interrogate the coercive labour dynamics underpinning care work in early America. It examines the Continental Army’s efforts to utilise existing coercive labour regimes (including enslavement, indentured servitude and …
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Dutch women in New Netherland and New York in the seventeenth century
The European settlers who emigrated to America in the seventeenth century were decidedly patriarchal. Nevertheless, significant cultural differences in expressions of patriarchy among them existed. Specifically, the Dutch of New Netherland defined the gendered roles of women differently than did …
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