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John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
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David S Reynolds
This biographical study of the famed abolitionist places John Brown in the context of the antislavery movement prior to the Civil War, and also examines his very complicated legacy for his immediate heirs and for the generations that followed. A pivotal figure in American history, Brown is seen by many as either a madman or a terrorist, and there ...
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Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography
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David S Reynolds
This comprehensive, original portrait of the life and work of one of America's greatest poets--set in the social, cultural, and political context of his time--considers the full range of writings by and about Whitman, his early poems and stories, his conversations, letters, journals, newspaper writings, and daybooks. "A remarkably informative ...
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Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson
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David S Reynolds
The Bancroft Prize-winning author offers a fascinating history of Jacksonian America. "Waking Giant" captures the turbulence of a democracy caught in the throes of the slavery controversy, the rise of capitalism, and the birth of urbanization. 40 b&w illustrations throughout.
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A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman
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David S Reynolds (Editor)
Few authors are so well suited to historical study as Whitman, who is widely considered America's greatest poet. This Guide combines contemporary cultural studies and historical scholarship to illuminate Whitman's diverse contexts. The essays explore dimensions of Whitman's dynamic relationship to working-class politics, race and slavery, sexual ...
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From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World War
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David Reynolds, M.S
This World War II pre-history covers the period from the 1938 Munich agreement between England and Germany to the events of December 7, 1941 when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Historian Reynolds examines Roosevelt's efforts to shift American sentiment from an isolationist view to one in which the United States would be a participant in ...
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Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville
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David S Reynolds
Analyses American literature from the first half of the nineteenth century, including many lesser known works, and discusses writings of various geographical regions and both sexes.
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International Handbook of School Effectiveness Research: An International Survey of Research on School Effectiveness
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Reynolds David, Dr. Charles Teddlie (Editor), David Reynolds, M.S (Editor)
What constitutes quality schooling? What are the implications for educational practice and administration? The text looks at these questions and examines international research evidence and reform initiatives with particular emphasis on North America, UK, Australasia and the Third World. It offers a synopsis of the Third World School Effects ...
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Walt Whitman
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David S Reynolds
From the great events of the day to the patient workings of a spider, few poets responded to the life around them as powerfully as Walt Whitman. Now, in this brief but bountiful volume, David S. Reynolds offers a wealth of insight into the life and work of Whitman, examining the author through the lens of nineteenth-century America. Reynolds shows ...
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Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination
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David S Reynolds
Seven American writers--Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson--are studied together in their literary and social context in this major work of literary criticism and cultural history. 16-page black-and-white insert.
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Venus in Boston and Other Tales of Nineteenth-Century City Life
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George Thompson, David S Reynolds (Editor), Kimberly R Gladman (Editor)
This volume reprints three short works by George Thompson, one of antebellum America's most successful authors of sensational fiction. There are two novels, "Venus in Boston" and "City Crimes", which depict the American city as a place of dark mystery, along with Thompson's autobiography.
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Quaker City: Monks of Monk Hal
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George Lippard, David S Reynolds (Editor)
America's best-selling novel in its time, "The Quaker City", published in 1845, is a sensational expose of social corruption, personal debauchery and the sexual exploitation of women in antebellum Philadelphia. This new edition, with an introduction by David S. Reynolds, brings back into print this important work by George Lippard (1822-1854), a ...
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Serpent in the Cup
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David S Reynolds (Editor), Debra J Rosenthal (Editor)
An exploration of America's battle with the bottle through an analysis of literature on temperance. The ten essays in this book include topics ranging from the cultural role of the tavern in the 18th century, to the emergence of the "disease paradigm" of alcoholism in the 20th century.
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The A-Z of Classic Children's Television: From Alberto Frog to Zebedee
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Simon Sheridan, Reynolds & Hearn (Creator), David Jason (Foreword by)
Are you a Jamie and the Magic Torch junkie? Do you suffer from Moomin mania? Do you go boss-eyed over Bagpuss or get turned-on by Trumpton? "The A-Z of Classic Children's Television" will help you relive your misspent youth. Unwrap the very best programs from the golden age of kids' telly and get to the root of all your childhood obsessions. Simon ...
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Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723-1792 : Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 7 octobre-16 décembre 1985 : Royal Academy of Arts, Londres, 16 janvier-30 mars 1986.
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Sir Joshua Reynolds, David Mannings, Nicholas Penny, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France), Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
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Phytoplankton Productivity: Carbon Assimilation Inmarine and Freshwater Ecosystems
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Peter J Le B Williams (Editor), Colin S Reynolds, David N Thomas (Editor)
This landmark publication takes the 50th anniversary of the publication of the seminal paper by the Danish scientist, Einer Steemann Nielsen, as an occasion to assess the development, present state and future of the major aspects in freshwater and marine plankton productivity. Each chapter of this important work has been written by internationally ...
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George Lippard
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Faith in Fiction: The Emergence of Religous Literature in America
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David S Reynolds
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The R.B. Adam library relating to Dr. Samuel Johnson and his era.
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R. B. Adam, Samuel Johnson
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The Serpent in the Cup: Temperance in American Literature
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David S Reynolds (Editor), Debra J Rosenthal (Editor)
An exploration of America's battle with the bottle through an analysis of literature on temperance. The ten essays in this book include topics ranging from the cultural role of the tavern in the 18th century, to the emergence of the "disease paradigm" of alcoholism in the 20th century.
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The Quaker City, or, The monks of Monk Hall : a romance of Philadelphia life, mystery, and crime
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George Lippard, David S Reynolds
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Reaching Across the Racial Divide Frederick Douglass's 1894 Letter to Benjamin F. Auld
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Frederick & David S. Reynolds Douglass
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