A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century [1 ed.] 0684824639, 0684865750, 9781439125106, 9780684824635

FLO, a biography of Frederick Law Olmsted 9780801830181

Olmsted's youth and intellectual development are discussed in addition to the diversity of his career and his lifel

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Family and Population in 19th Century America 9781400869398

Representing new approaches to the study of the family and historical demography, this collection of essays analyzes the

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Frederick Law Olmsted: Writings on Landscape, Culture, and Society 9781598534603, 9781598534528, 1598534602

The biggest and best single-volume collection ever published of the fascinating and wide-ranging writings of a vitally i

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The Nativist Movement in America : Religious Conflict in the 19th Century 9781136176036, 9780415807470

By the mid nineteenth century, anti-Catholicism had become a central conflict in America. Fueling the dissent were Prote

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Democracies in America : Keywords for the 19th Century and Today 9780192635174, 9780198865698, 9780192871879

Ask someone their thoughts about "democracy" and you'll get many different responses. Some may presume it

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Bankrupt in America: A History of Debtors, Their Creditors, and the Law in the Twentieth Century 9780226679730

In 2005, more than two million Americans—six out of every 1,000 people—filed for bankruptcy. Though personal bankruptcy

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Inside the Castle: Law and the Family in 20th Century America [Course Book ed.] 9781400839773

Inside the Castle is a comprehensive social history of twentieth-century family law in the United States. Joanna Grossma

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Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century America 0691227454, 9780691227450

Drawing on legal cases, legal debates, and fiction including works by James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane,

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A descriptive analysis of the position the théâtre libre occupied in the 19th century French drama

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Working women of Manila in the 19th century 9789715420594

The work documents the life of gainfully employed women in the 19th century. Seven occupations of women were studied, na

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