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Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of the “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson” (1682). Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637-1711), nee Mary White, was born in Somerset, England.
Stanford: Stanford UP, 1993. . Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American Revolution against Patriarchal Authority, 1750-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1982. Hambrick-Stowe, Charles E. The Practice of Piety. Chapel Hill: U. Foucault, Michel.
This collection includes well known pieces such as Mary Rowlandson's "A True History" (1682), Cotton Mather's version of Hannah Dunstan's infamous captivity and escape (after scalping her captors!), and the "Panther Captivity", as well as ...
Stories of Europeans held captive in the Middle East, America, Africa, and Southeast Asia appeared in the British press from the late sixteenth through the late eighteenth centuries, and captivity narratives were frequently featured during ...
Throughout the book, Perdue and Green stress the great diversity of indigenous peoples in America, who spoke more than 400 different languages before the arrival of Europeans and whose ways of life varied according to the environments they ...
Now Rebecca Stefoff, who adapted Howard Zinn's best-selling A People's History of the United States for younger readers, turns the updated 2008 edition of Takaki's multicultural masterwork into A Different Mirror for Young People.
Bearheart, Gerald Vizenors first novel, overturns OC terminal creedsOCO and violence in a decadent material culture.
Griffin, Kimberly A. 2006. “Striving for Success: A Qualitative Exploration of Competing Theories of High-Achieving Black College Students' Academic Motivation.” Journal of College Student Development 47, no. 4 (July–August): 384–400.
. The book convincingly brings into relief the anxieties of those at the margins of American economic and civic life, their perceptions of state power, and the narrative continuities that bond them to histories of violence and expansion in ...
Film at the Intersection of High and Mass Culture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Deloria, Vine. “American Fantasy.” In The Pretend Indians: Images of Native Americans in the Movies ix—xvi. Gretchen M. Bataille and Charles ...