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Scholars hail the find as ""the most important discovery in Civil War scholarship in the last half century."" The invaluable cache of Confederate General John Bell Hood's personal papers includes wartime and postwar letters from comrades, subordinates, former enemies and friends, exhaustive medical reports relating to Hood's two major wounds, and dozens of touching letters exchanged between Hood and his wife, Anna. This treasure trove of information is being made available for the first time for both professional and amateur Civil War historians in Stephen ""Sam"" Hood's The Lost Papers of Con
Generals --- Armed Forces --- Officers --- Hood, John Bell, --- Hood, J. B. --- United States --- History --- Campaigns.
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Tulchinsky employs historical sources not used before to explain how Salsberg's family life and surrounding religious and social milieu influenced his evolution as a Zionist, an important labour union leader, a member of the Communist Party of Canada, and a prominent member of Toronto's Jewish community.
Communists --- Labor union members --- Politicians --- Jews --- Salsberg, J. B. --- Toronto (Ont.) --- Ontario --- Social conditions
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This new guide to the English renaissance's most erudite and yet most street-wise dramatist strongly asserts the theatrical brilliance of his greatest plays in performance, then and now. It traces the sources of that phenomenon to Jonson's vision of himself as a poet in the Roman tradition, and to his commitment to the sane and progressive ideals of humanism in a city where a rampant free-market and political authoritarianism made life conflicted, dangerous, and yet darkly, hilariously absurd. In his best plays, all of these forces are crafted into formal structures glittering with wit and pro
English drama. --- English literature --- Jonson, Ben, --- Dzhonson, Ben, --- Джонсон, Бен, --- B. J. --- J., B. --- Iohnson, Ben, --- Johnson, Ben, --- Jonson, Benjamin, --- דזשאָנסאָנ, בענ --- Criticism and interpretation.
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Although there has been a general revival of interest in Ben Jonson's dramatic work in the past twenty years, little critical effort has been directed to his late plays -- dismissed by John Dryden as the ""dotages"" of an aging mind. Through a close reading of The Devil Is an Ass, The Staple of News, The New Inn, and The Magnetic Lady in light of Jonson's own theories of comedy, author Larry S. Champion demonstrates that they reveal the same precise construction and dramatic control found in his acclaimed masterpieces. Furthermore, these works reflect Jonson's continued emphasis upon reali
English drama --- History and criticism. --- Jonson, Ben, --- Dzhonson, Ben, --- Джонсон, Бен, --- B. J. --- J., B. --- Iohnson, Ben, --- Johnson, Ben, --- Jonson, Benjamin, --- דזשאָנסאָנ, בענ --- Dramatic works.
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Ben Jonson has frequently been maligned for his antitheatricalism and inability to conceive of his plays as anything other than a reading experience. Staging Ben: A Collection of Essays on the Theatricality of Jonson's Plays offers a rebuttal of this mischaracterization of Jonson's work. Featuring contributions from both Renaissance literature scholars and theatre practitioners, this volume of essays demonstrates the prodigious theatrical imagination of one of the world's most underappreciated dramatists. It explores the problems associated with producing a Jonson play - from length to topical
Jonson, Ben, --- Dzhonson, Ben, --- Джонсон, Бен, --- B. J. --- J., B. --- Iohnson, Ben, --- Johnson, Ben, --- Jonson, Benjamin, --- דזשאָנסאָנ, בענ --- Criticism and interpretation.
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The Invasion of Canada by the Americans, 1775–1776 offers two significant, insightful, and intriguing first-hand accounts of the Revolutionary War. These previously untranslated and unpublished primary sources provide contrasting viewpoints from a Loyalist French-Canadian administrative official, Jean-Baptiste Badeaux, and a Patriot Continental officer, William Goforth. Compelling personal interactions with friends and neighbors, and local and provincial-level leaders—as occupier and occupied—are documented. Their stories climax during the two-month period in early 1776 when Goforth was military governor of Three Rivers and Badeaux served as his somewhat reluctant interpreter and unofficial advisor. Including their experiences with Benedict Arnold and Quebec's Governor Guy Carleton, as well as letters to Benjamin Franklin and John Jay, this unique book provides diverse insights into the invasion of Canada and its immediate impact on the people on both sides of the revolution.
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"The author-editors of Seen/unseen: hidden lives in a Georgia slave community draw upon the letters and documents left behind by the Cobb-Lamar family to uncover the lost histories of enslaved peoples in the South. Each of the book's three sections begins with an introductory essay that provides context regarding the primary documents and letters included in the section. The first two sections explore the daily lives and relationships of slaves on several of the Cobb-Lamar plantations and their attempts to exert agency over their enslaved conditions. The last section examines closely the life of Aggy, Howell and Mary Ann Cobb's most trusted house servant"--
Plantation life --- African Americans --- Enslaved persons --- History --- Social conditions --- Lamar, J. B. --- Cobb, Howell, --- Cobb, Mary Ann Lamar, --- Mills, Aggy Carter, --- Georgia.
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Haldane, Mayr, and Beanbag Genetics presents a summary of the classic exchange between two great biologists - J.B.S. Haldane and Ernst Mayr - regarding the value of the contributions of the mathematical school represented by J.B.S. Haldane, R.A. Fisher and S. Wright to the theory of evolution. Their pioneering contributions from 1918 to the 1960s dominated and shaped the field of population genetics, unique in the annals of science. In 1959, Mayr questioned what he regarded as the beanbag genetic approach of these pioneers to evolutionary theory, ""an input or output of genes, as the adding of
Evolutionary genetics --- Population genetics --- Genetics --- Heredity --- Genetic evolution --- Evolution (Biology) --- History. --- Haldane, J. B. S. --- Mayr, Ernst, --- Kholden, Dzh. B. S., --- Kholdeĭn, Dzhon Bėrdon Sanderson, --- Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson, --- Maĭr, Ė., --- Evolution. --- Genetics, Population --- History, 20th Century.
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