Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America
10 best books like Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (Linda K. Kerber): Swann's Way, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race, By the Pricking of My Thumbs, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750, That They May Face The Rising Sun, Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology, Rodinsky's Room
| Author | Marcel Proust |
| ISBN | 0142437964 |
Swann's Way tells two related stories, the first of which revolves around Marcel, a younger version of the narrator, and his experiences in, and memories of, the French town Combray. Inspired by the "gusts of memory" that rise up within him as he dips a Madeleine into hot tea, the narrator discusses his...
The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
| Author | Jill Lepore |
| ISBN | 0375702628 |
Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society
King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres...
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
| Author | Kathleen M. Brown |
| ISBN | 0807846236 |
Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery in Virginia....
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
| Author | Shoshana Zuboff |
| ISBN | 1610395697 |
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.
In this masterwork of original thinking and research,...
Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race
| Author | Thomas Chatterton Williams |
| ISBN | 0393608867 |
A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics.
A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is the searching story of one American family’s multigenerational transformation from what is called black...
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0451200527 |
While visiting Tommy's Aunt Ada at Sunny Ridge Nursing Home, Tuppence encounters some odd residents including Mrs. Lancaster who mystifies her with talk about "your poor child" and "something behind the fireplace".
When Aunt Ada dies a few weeks later, she leaves Tommy and Tuppence a painting...
Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
| Author | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
| ISBN | 0679732578 |
This enthralling work of scholarship strips away those abstractions to reveal the hidden -- and not always stoic -- face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens -- and the considerable power -- of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her...
| Author | John McGahern |
| ISBN | 0571212212 |
Widely considered to be the finest Irish writer of fiction at work today, John McGahern gives us a new novel that, with insight, humor, and deep sympathy, brings to vivid life the world and the people of a contemporary Irish village.
It is a village flirting with the more sophisticated trappings...
A treasure trove of unusual fiction spanning authors from Gogol and Kafka through Woolf and Nabokov to Calvino, Garcia Marquez, and Barthelme. A poet's companion, a student's delight, great bedside reading.
Magical Realist Fiction includes:
The nose by Nikolai Gogol
The...
| Author | Rachel Lichtenstein |
| ISBN | 1862073295 |
David Rodinsky lived above a synagogue in the heart of the old Jewish East End of London, and sometime in the late 1960s he disappeared. His room, a chaos of writings, annotated books and maps, gramophone records and clothes, was left undisturbed for 20 years. Rodinsky's world captured the imagination...
The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835
| Author | Nancy F. Cott |
| ISBN | 0300072988 |
This twentieth anniversary edition of Nancy F. Cott’s acclaimed study includes a new preface in which Cott assesses her own and other historian’s development of the concept of domesticity from the 1970s to the 1990s.
“Nancy Cott’s Bonds of Womanhood is not just a pioneer...
Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence
| Author | Carol Berkin |
| ISBN | 1400075327 |
The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. In this groundbreaking history, Carol Berkin shows us how women played a vital role throughout the conflict.
The women of the Revolution were most active at home, organizing...
West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776
| Author | Claudio Saunt |
| ISBN | 0393351157 |
In this unique history of 1776, Claudio Saunt looks beyond the familiar story of the thirteen colonies to explore the many other revolutions roiling the turbulent American continent. In that fateful year, the Spanish landed in San Francisco, the Russians pushed into Alaska to hunt valuable sea otters,...
The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization
In this groundbreaking book, Martin Puchner leads us on a remarkable journey through time and around the globe to reveal the powerful role stories and literature have played in creating the world we have today. Puchner introduces us to numerous visionaries as he explores sixteen foundational texts...
A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
The New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time
Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our era has produced a crisis...
