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When hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, and other disasters strike, we count our losses, search for causes, commiserate with victims, and initiate relief efforts. Amply illustrated and expansively researched, Inventing Disaster explains the origins and development of this predictable, even ritualized, culture of calamity over three centuries, exploring its roots in the revolutions in science, information, and emotion that were part of the Age...

A microhistory in the form of a biography of Jane Welborn Spurgin, an outspoken supporter of the Revolution whose husband was a Tory who bore arms for the king during the American war. Her story illustrates the rifts and conflicts but also the opportunities the Revolutionary War created for Americans, male and female, as they fought for and thought through independence"--

Rethinking American Disasters is a pathbreaking collection of essays on hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, and other calamities in the United States and British colonial America over four centuries. Proceeding from the premise that there is no such thing as a "natural" disaster, the collection invites readers to consider disasters and their aftermaths as artifacts of and vantage points onto their historical contexts.

When hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, and other disasters strike, we count our losses, search for causes, commiserate with victims, and initiate relief efforts. Amply illustrated and expansively researched, 'Inventing Disaster' explains the origins and development of this predictable, even ritualized, culture of calamity over three centuries, exploring its roots in the revolutions in science, information, and emotion that were part of the A...

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As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph (1772-1836) was extremely well educated, traveled in the circles of presidents and aristocrats, and was known on two continents for her particular grace and sincerity. Yet, as mistress of a large household, she was not spared the tedium, frustration, and great sorrow that most women of her time faced. Though Patsy's name is familiar because of her famous...

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Explores the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. This collection recovers the stories and voices of a diverse group of women, from the seventeenth century to the Civil War era. Placing their subjects in their larger historical contexts, the authors show how the experiences of Virginia women varied by race, class, age, and marital status, and also across both space and time.

With annotated footnotes, this work explores the debate over manners, morals, and cultural authority in the decades following American Revolution. It includes an introduction that provides readers with a background on life and politics in the United States in 1787, when Americans were in the midst of nation-building.

With annotated footnotes, this work explores the debate over manners, morals, and cultural authority in the decades following American Revolution. It also includes an introduction that provides readers with a background on life and politics in the United States in 1787, when Americans were in the midst of nation-building.

This second of two volumes continues the exploration of the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. Seventeen essays recover the stories and voices of a diverse group of women, from the transition from slavery to freedom in the period following the Civil War to the struggle to secure rights for gay and lesbian women in the late twentieth century.

This second of two volumes continues the exploration of the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. Seventeen essays recover the stories and voices of a diverse group of women, from the transition from slavery to freedom in the period following the Civil War to the struggle to secure rights for gay and lesbian women in the late twentieth century.

Much has been written about the "southern lady", that pervasive and enduring icon of antebellum regional identity. But how did the lady get on her pedestal -- and were the lives of white southern women always so different from those of their northern contemporaries? In her ambitious new book, Cynthia A. Kierner charts the evolution of the lives of white southern women through the colonial, revolutionary, and early republican eras. Using the la...

Cynthia A. Kierner is Professor of History at George Mason University. She is the author of Beyond the Household: Women's Place in the Early South, 1700�35, also from Cornell, Scandal at Bizarre: Rumor and Reputation in Jefferson's America, Revolutionary America, and Southern Women in Revolution, 1776�00: Personal and Political Narratives.

In the early 1790s Richard Randolph was accused of fathering a child by his sister-in-law, Nancy, and murdering the baby shortly after its birth. Randolph found himself on trial fro the crime largely because of public outrage fueled by rumors about the alleged crime. A tale of family passion, betrayal, and deception, Cynthia Kierner's Scandal at Bizarre is a fascinating historical portrait of the social and political realities of a world long ...