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The Founding of New England
This Pulitzer Prize awarded history interrogates the discovery and first settlement of the region; the genesis of the religious and political ideas which there took root and flourished; the geographic and other factors which shaped its economic development; the beginnings of that English overseas empire, of which it formed a part; and the early formulation of thought-on both sides of the Atlantic-regarding imperial problems. _x000D_ Contents:_x000D_ The American Background_x000D_ Staking Out Claims_x000D_ The Race for Empire_x000D_ Some Aspects of Puritanism_x000D_ The First Permanent Settlement_x000D_ New England and the Great Migration_x000D_ An English Opposition Becomes a New England Oligarchy_x000D_ The Growth of a Frontier_x000D_ Attempts to Unify New England_x000D_ Cross-Currents in the Confederacy_x000D_ The Defeat of the Theocracy_x000D_ The Theory of Empire_x000D_ The Reassertion of Imperial Control_x000D_ The Inevitable Conflict_x000D_ Loss of the Massachusetts Charter_x000D_ An Experiment in Administration_x000D_ The New Order
Faraway Women and the Atlantic Monthly
In the first decades of the twentieth century, famed Atlantic Monthly editor Ellery Sedgwick chose to publish a group of nontraditional writers he later referred to as Faraway Women, working-class authors living in the western United States far from his base in Boston. Cathryn Halverson surveys these enormously popular Atlantic contributors, among them a young woman raised in Oregon lumber camps, homesteaders in Wyoming, Idaho, and Alberta, and a world traveler who called Los Angeles and Honolulu home. Faraway Women and the Atlantic Monthly examines gender and power as it charts an archival journey connecting the least remembered writers and readers of the time with one of its most renowned literary figures, Gertrude Stein. It shows how distant friends, patrons, publishers, and readers inspired, fostered, and consumed the innovative life narratives of these unlikely authors, and it also tracks their own strategies for seizing creative outlets and forging new protocols of public expression. Troubling binary categories of east and west, national and regional, and cosmopolitan and local, the book recasts the coordinates of early twentieth-century American literature.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The first biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe in over fifty years tells the absorbing story of this gifted, complex and contradictory woman. Hedrick takes readers into the world of 19th century morals, exploring the influence of then-popular ideas of "true womanhood" on Stowe's upbringing as a member of the outspoken Beecher clan, and her eventful life as a writer and shaper of public opinion.
The Forgotten Man
The Forgotten Man is a biography of Walter Hines Page (1855–1918), a turn of the nineteenth-century North Carolinian writer, newspaper and magazine editor, political and educational reformer, and U.S. ambassador to Britain during the first World War. Page stood up to self-serving Southern politicians, helped defeat the antebellum myth entrenched in the legacy of slavery, was one of America's preeminent magazine editors, and campaigned for public school systems in the South. Andrew R. Parnell’s biography sheds new light on Page’s quest to improve the lives of fellow Americans, particularly those living in the South. For many, improvement and opportunity were impeded by the question of r...
Wild People
The author describes his experiences living among the Iban, and recounts his attempts to understand their culture.
Battle of Okinawa
A landmark text on the greatest land battle of the Pacific War.
