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Whether in front of the camera or behind it, Candice Vadala
(1950–2015) understood herself both as an artist and
entrepreneur. As Candida Royalle—underground actress, porn star,
producer of adult content, and staunch feminist—she made a
business of pleasure, her life and work crystalizing the broader
hedonistic turn in American life in the second half of the
twentieth century. Drawing extensively from never-before-studied
diaries, letters, photographs, films, and art documenting
Royalle’s private and professional life, historian Jane Kamensky
expands and explodes the conventions of biography. Readers witness
the lives of ordinary women from the inside-out during a period of
seismic change, including the postwar restructuring of gender
roles, the growing popularity of psychoanalysis, and the
mass-marketing of pornography. Written with cinematic verve,
Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution evocatively examines the
rise and ambiguous successes of a heroine who broke the mold and
was herself broken in turn.
Follow history with a spirited narrative that tells the captivating
stories of all people in the United States in Norton's best-selling
A PEOPLE AND A NATION: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, BRIEF
EDITION, 11E. Written by award-winning historians and acclaimed
authors, this revised edition clearly depicts historic change --
from race, gender, economics and public policy to family life,
popular culture, social movements, international relations and
warfare. The first book to focus on U.S. social history, this
edition now emphasizes the place of the U.S. in international
history and the world. Streamlined chapters, new learning features
and more than 90 maps support learning, while a new digital version
and optional MindTap and Infuse digital resources help you envision
what life was like in the past. This edition is available as a
complete edition or split editions: VOLUME I: TO 1877 (Chs. 1-14),
and VOLUME II: SINCE 1865 (Chs. 14-29).
In this life of painter John Singleton Copley, Jane Kamensky
untangles the web of principles and interests that shaped the age
of America's revolution. Copley's talent earned him the patronage
of Boston's leaders but he did not share their politics and
painting portraits failed to satisfy his lofty artistic goals. A
British subject who lamented America's provincialism, Copley looked
longingly across the Atlantic. When resistance escalated into war,
he was in London. A painter of America's revolution as Britain's
American War, the magisterial canvases he created made him one of
the towering figures of the British art scene. Kamensky brings
Copley's world alive and explores the fraught relationships between
liberty and slavery, family duty and personal ambition, legacy and
posterity-tensions that characterised the era of the American
Revolution and that beset us still.
The Brief Edition of A PEOPLE AND A NATION offers a succinct and
spirited narrative that tells the stories of all people in the
United States. The authors' attention to race and racial identity
and their inclusion of everyday people and popular culture brings
history to life, engaging readers and encouraging them to imagine
what life was really like in the past.
In this life of painter John Singleton Copley, Jane Kamensky
untangles the web of principles and interests that shaped the age
of America's revolution. Copley's talent earned him the patronage
of Boston's leaders but he did not share their politics and
painting portraits failed to satisfy his lofty artistic goals. A
British subject who lamented America's provincialism, Copley looked
longingly across the Atlantic. When resistance escalated into war,
he was in London. A painter of America's revolution as Britain's
American War, the magisterial canvases he created made him one of
the towering figures of the British art scene. Kamensky brings
Copley's world alive and explores the fraught relationships between
liberty and slavery, family duty and personal ambition, legacy and
posterity-tensions that characterised the era of the American
Revolution and that beset us still.
Think history is dull? No way, and you're about to find out for
yourself. A PEOPLE AND A NATION offers a lively narrative, telling
the stories of the diverse peoples in the United States. The
authors bring history to life by encouraging you to imagine what
life was really like in the past. Focus questions and key terms
(with definitions, of course) help you concentrate on important
information and easily review it as you prep for tests. And with
MindTap for A People and a Nation, you get convenient digital
access to an ebook with note-taking and other time-saving features
and apps. You'll also explore the people, events and places in the
United States through interactive activities, videos, images and
maps. Enjoy your journey.
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Follow history with a spirited narrative that tells the captivating
stories of all people in the United States in Norton's best-selling
A PEOPLE AND A NATION: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, BRIEF
EDITION, 11E. Written by award-winning historians and acclaimed
authors, this revised edition clearly depicts historic change --
from race, gender, economics and public policy to family life,
popular culture, social movements, international relations and
warfare. The first book to focus on U.S. social history, this
edition now emphasizes the place of the U.S. in international
history and the world. Streamlined chapters, new learning features
and more than 90 maps support learning, while a new digital version
and optional MindTap and Infuse digital resources help you envision
what life was like in the past. This edition is available as a
complete edition or split editions: VOLUME I: TO 1877 (Chs. 1-14),
and VOLUME II: SINCE 1865 (Chs. 14-29).
The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution draws on a wealth of
new scholarship to create a vibrant dialogue among varied
approaches to the revolution that made the United States. In
thirty-three essays written by authorities on the period, the
Handbook brings to life the diverse multitudes of colonial North
America and their extraordinary struggles before, during, and after
the eight-year-long civil war that secured the independence of
thirteen rebel colonies from their erstwhile colonial parent. The
chapters explore battles and diplomacy, economics and finance, law
and culture, politics and society, gender, race, and religion. Its
diverse cast of characters includes ordinary farmers and artisans,
free and enslaved African Americans, Indians, and British and
American statesmen and military leaders. In addition to expanding
the Revolution's who, the Handbook broadens its where, portraying
an event that far transcended the boundaries of what was to become
the United States. It offers readers an American Revolution whose
impact ranged far beyond the thirteen colonies. The Handbook's
range of interpretive and methodological approaches captures the
full scope of current revolutionary-era scholarship. Its authors,
British and American scholars spanning several generations, include
social, cultural, military, and imperial historians, as well as
those who study politics, diplomacy, literature, gender, and
sexuality. Together and separately, these essays demonstrate that
the American Revolution remains a vibrant and inviting a subject of
inquiry. Nothing comparable has been published in decades.
Think history is dull? No way, and you're about to find out for
yourself. A PEOPLE AND A NATION offers a lively narrative, telling
the stories of the diverse peoples in the United States. The
authors bring history to life by encouraging you to imagine what
life was really like in the past. Focus questions and key terms
(with definitions, of course) help you concentrate on important
information and easily review it as you prep for tests. And with
MindTap for A People and a Nation, you get convenient digital
access to an ebook with note-taking and other time-saving features
and apps. You'll also explore the people, events and places in the
United States through interactive activities, videos, images and
maps. Enjoy your journey.
"Tis a small canvas, this Boston," muses Stewart Jameson, a
Scottish portrait painter who, having fled his debtors in
Edinburgh, has washed up on America's far shores. Eager to begin
anew in this new world, he advertises for an apprentice, but the
lad who comes knocking is no lad at all. Fanny Easton is a lady in
disguise, a young, fallen woman from Boston's most prominent
family. "I must make this Jameson see my artist's touch, but not my
woman's form," Fanny writes, in a letter to her best friend. "I
would turn my talent into capital, and that capital into liberty."
Liberty is what everyone's seeking in boisterous, rebellious Boston
on the eve of the American Revolution. But everyone suffers from a
kind of blind spot, too. Jameson, distracted by his haunted past,
can't see that Fanny is a woman; Fanny, consumed with her own
masquerade, can't tell that Jameson is falling in love with her.
The city's Sons of Liberty can't quite see their way clear, either.
"Ably do they see the shackles Parliament fastens about them,"
Jameson writes, "but to the fetters they clasp upon their own
slaves, they are strangely blind."
Written with wit and exuberance by longtime friends and
accomplished historians Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore, "Blindspot"
weaves together invention with actual historical documents in an
affectionate send-up of the best of eighteenth-century fiction,
from epistolary novels like Richardson's "Clarissa" to Sterne's
picaresque "Tristram Shandy," Prodigiously learned, beautifully
crafted, and lush with the bawdy, romping sensibility of the age,"
Blindspot" celebrates the art of the Enlightenment and the passion
of the American Revolution by telling stories we know andthose we
don't, stories of the everyday lives of ordinary people caught up
in an extraordinary time.
The riveting story of the country's first banking scandal in the
first decades of the American republic
This enthralling historical narrative of the birth of speculative
capitalism in America opens in the 1790s when financial
pioneer-turned-confidence-man Andrew Dexter, Jr. created a pyramid
scheme founded on real estate speculation and the greed of banks,
who freely printed the paper money he needed to finance the then
tallest building in the United States-the Exchange Coffee House, a
153-room, seven-story colossus in downtown Boston. The story of
Dexter's rise and eventual collapse offered an object lesson to the
rising young nation, and presents striking parallels to the
subprime mortgage meltdown and looming economic collapse of today.
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Follow history with a spirited narrative that tells the captivating
stories of all people in the United States in Norton's best-selling
A PEOPLE AND A NATION: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, BRIEF
EDITION, 11E. Written by award-winning historians and acclaimed
authors, this revised edition clearly depicts historic change --
from race, gender, economics and public policy to family life,
popular culture, social movements, international relations and
warfare. The first book to focus on U.S. social history, this
edition now emphasizes the place of the U.S. in international
history and the world. Streamlined chapters, new learning features
and more than 90 maps support learning, while a new digital version
and optional MindTap and Infuse digital resources help you envision
what life was like in the past. This edition is available as a
complete edition or split editions: VOLUME I: TO 1877 (Chs.
1–14), and VOLUME II: SINCE 1865 (Chs. 14–29).
The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution introduces scholars,
students and generally interested readers to the formative event in
American history. In thirty-three individual essays, by
thirty-three authorities on the Revolution, the Handbook provides
readers with in-depth analysis of the Revolution's many sides,
ranging from the military and diplomatic to the social and
political; from the economic and financial, to the cultural and
legal. Its cast of characters ranges far, including ordinary
farmers and artisans, men and women, free and enslaved African
Americans, Indians, and British and American statesmen and military
leaders. Its geographic scope is equally broad. The Handbook offers
readers an American Revolution whose geo-political and military
impact ranged from the West Indies to the Mississippi Valley; from
the British Isles to New England and from Nova Scotia to Florida.
The American Revolution of the Handbook is, simply put, an event
that far transcended the boundaries of what was to become the
United States. In addition to a breadth of subject matter, the
Handbook offers a broad range of interpretive and methodological
approaches. Its authors include social historians, historians of
politics and institutions, cultural historians, historians of
diplomacy, imperial historians, ethnohistorians, and historians of
gender and sexuality. Instead of privileging a single or even
several interpretive perspectives, the Handbook attempts to capture
the full scope of current revolutionary-era scholarship. Nothing
comparable has been published in decades.
Governing the Tongue examines the special nature and power of speech in Puritan New England, where the twin desires to promote godly speech and suppress deviant words dominated everyday culture. The crimes of the accused at such famous events as the Salem witch trials and the banishment of Anne Hutchinson were all related to so-called "sins of the tongue". By placing speech at the heart of her examination of these and other moments in Puritan history, Kamensky develops new ideas about the relationship between speech and power both in colonial New England and, by extension, in our world today.
Colonial New Englanders would have found our modern notions of free
speech very strange indeed. Children today shrug off harsh words by
chanting "sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never
hurt me," but in the seventeenth century people felt differently.
"A soft tongue breaketh the bone," they often said.
Governing the Tongue explains why the spoken word assumed such
importance in the culture of early New England. Author Jane
Kamensky re-examines such famous Puritan events as the Salem witch
trials and the banishment of Anne Hutchinson to expose the
ever-present fear of what the puritans called "sins of the tongue."
But even while dangerous or deviant speech was restricted, Kamensky
points out, godly speech was continuously praised and promoted.
Congregations were told that one should ones voice "like a trumpet"
to God and "cry out and cease not."
By placing speech at the heart of familiar stories of Puritan New
England, Kamensky develops new ideas about the relationship between
speech and power both in Puritan New England and, by extension, in
our world today.
Harvard College's 18th-century Philosophy Chamber consisted of
paintings, prints, sculptures, scientific instruments, natural
specimens, and various indigenous artifacts-it was a rich and
varied representation of not only artistic and cultural achievement
but also contemporary understandings of the natural world.
Dispersed and hidden away for nearly 200 years, this unrivaled
collection has been reunited for the first time since it was
originally assembled, providing an invaluable window into the art
and culture of early America. It attests to the wide-ranging spirit
of inquiry that characterized the late 18th and early 19th
centuries. With an insightful look at conservation efforts and
detailed examination of specific objects, including works by
artists such as John Singleton Copley and John Trumbull, this
publication explores the social and political stakes that
underpinned one of the most remarkable assemblages of artifacts,
images, and objects in the Atlantic World, and introduces readers
to many long-forgotten icons of American culture. Distributed for
the Harvard Art Museums Exhibition Schedule: Harvard Art Museums
(05/19/17-12/31/17) The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
(03/23/18-06/24/18)
Developed to meet the demand for a low-cost, high-quality history
book, this economically priced version of A PEOPLE AND A NATION,
Tenth Edition, offers readers the complete narrative while limiting
the number of features, photos, and maps. All volumes feature a
paperback, two-color format that appeals to those seeking a
comprehensive, trade-sized history book. A PEOPLE AND A NATION is a
best-selling text offering a spirited narrative that tells the
stories of all people in the United States. The authors' attention
to race and racial identity and their inclusion of everyday people
and popular culture brings history to life, engaging readers and
encouraging them to imagine what life was really like in the past.
A PEOPLE AND A NATION is a best-selling text offering a spirited
narrative that tells the stories of all people in the United
States. The authors' attention to race and racial identity and
their inclusion of everyday people and popular culture brings
history to life, engaging readers and encouraging them to imagine
what life was really like in the past.
Developed to meet the demand for a low-cost, high-quality history
book, this economically priced version of A PEOPLE AND A NATION,
Tenth Edition, offers readers the complete narrative while limiting
the number of features, photos, and maps. All volumes feature a
paperback, two-color format that appeals to those seeking a
comprehensive, trade-sized history book. A PEOPLE AND A NATION is a
best-selling text offering a spirited narrative that tells the
stories of all people in the United States. The authors' attention
to race and racial identity and their inclusion of everyday people
and popular culture brings history to life, engaging readers and
encouraging them to imagine what life was really like in the past.
Think history is dull? No way, and you're about to find out for
yourself. A PEOPLE AND A NATION offers a lively narrative, telling
the stories of the diverse peoples in the United States. The
authors bring history to life by encouraging you to imagine what
life was really like in the past. Focus questions and key terms
(with definitions, of course) help you concentrate on important
information and easily review it as you prep for tests. And with
MindTap for A People and a Nation, you get convenient digital
access to an ebook with note-taking and other time-saving features
and apps. You'll also explore the people, events and places in the
United States through interactive activities, videos, images and
maps. Enjoy your journey.
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The Brief Edition of A PEOPLE AND A NATION offers a succinct and
spirited narrative that tells the stories of all people in the
United States. The authors' attention to race and racial identity
and their inclusion of everyday people and popular culture brings
history to life, engaging readers and encouraging them to imagine
what life was really like in the past.
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