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Language: en
Pages: 242
Pages: 242
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press
In this study of American 19th-century secret orders, the author argues that religious practices and gender roles became increasingly feminized in Victorian Ame
Language: en
Pages: 352
Pages: 352
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-06-06 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This book documents the potency of Manifest destiny in the antebellum era.
Language: en
Pages: 362
Pages: 362
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-10-14 - Publisher: Duke University Press
National Manhood explores the relationship between gender, race, and nation by tracing developing ideals of citizenship in the United States from the Revolution
Language: en
Pages: 258
Pages: 258
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-08-25 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This book contributes to what has recently been called a 'new social history of seafaring'. This new maritime history places sailors themselves at the center, n
Language: en
Pages: 296
Pages: 296
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990-11-06 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
The stereotype of the Victorian man as a flinty, sexually repressed patriarch belies the remarkably wide variety of male behaviors and conceptions of manhood du