Search Results - Civilization

The Cotton Plantation South since the Civil War / by Aiken, Charles S. (Charles Shelton), 1938-

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Aberration of Mind : Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South / by Sommerville, Diane Miller

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State of Ambiguity : Civic Life and Culture in Cuba's First Republic /

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The Citizen's Body : Desire, Health, and the Social in Victorian England / by Gilbert, Pamela K.

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Europe (in Theory) / by Dainotto, Roberto M. (Roberto Maria), 1962-

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Scotland, Britain, Empire : Writing the Highlands, 1760-1860 / by McNeil, Kenneth

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Oriental Shadows : The Presence of the East in Early American Literature / by Egan, Jim, 1961-

Subjects: “…Civilization Asian influences. fast (OCoLC)fst01352334 145425…”
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The Total Work of Art in European Modernism / by Roberts, David, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Ancients and moderns: Rousseau's civil religion ;…”
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Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination : Anglophone Writing from 1600 to 1900 / by Stroh, Silke

Table of Contents: “…The modern nation-state and its others : civilizing missions at home and abroad, ca. 1600 to 1800 -- ch. 2. …”
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The Vanguard of the Atlantic World : Creating Modernity, Nation, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Latin America / by Sanders, James E., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: American republican modernity -- Garibaldi, the Garibaldinos, and the Guerra Grande -- "A pueblo unfit to live among civilized nations" : conceptions of modernity after independence -- The San Patricio Battalion -- Eagles of American democracy: the flowering of American republican modernity -- Francisco Bilbao and the Atlantic imagination -- David Peña and black liberalism -- The collapse of American republican modernity -- Conclusion: a "gift that the New World has sent us."…”
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Humanitarian intervention in the long nineteenth century : Setting the precedent / by Heraclides, Alexis, Dialla, Ada

Table of Contents: “…Introduction ; The origins of the idea of humanitarian intervention : just war and against tyranny ; Eurocentrism, 'civilization' and the 'barbarians' ; International law and humanitarian intervention ; Intervention and non-intervention in international political theory -- Practice. …”
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Uncommon Women : Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing / by Laffrado, Laura

Table of Contents: “…: gender and self-representation in Louisa May Alcott's Hospital sketches -- "I am other than my appearance indicates" : sex-gender representation in women's nineteenth-century Civil War reminiscences -- "I found it hard to preserve my self-control" : race, women, representation.…”
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Figures of the World : The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form / by Hill, Christopher L., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The Degenerate Body -- The Genealogy of the Naturalist Body -- Nerves and Cracks -- The Story of the Leg -- Translating Gervaise -- Jaws and Fists, the Chin and That Hair -- The Civilized Nerve -- The Transformation of Mimesis -- 3. …”
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The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton / by Turner, James, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: The New England Clerisy -- Shady Hill, 1786-1842 -- Cambridge and Boston, 1842-1849 -- The World, 1849-1851 -- A Merchant in the Unmaking, 1851-1855 -- Adrift, 1855-1857 -- A Literary Invalid, 1857-1861 -- Toward "A Science of Ideal Politics," 1861-1865 -- The North American, the Nation, and the Nation, 1865-1868 -- Europe and Erudition, 1868-1872 -- Interlude -- Beginning Again, 1873-1878 -- Fresh Foundations of Learning, 1878-1882 -- Olympus Ascended, 1882-1886 -- Years That Bring the Philologic Mind, 1886-1891 -- To Make Democracy Safe for the World, 1891-1895 -- The Invention of Western Civilization, 1895-1898 -- Shady Hill Again, 1898-1908 -- The Published Writings of Charles Eliot Norton.…”
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La economía mexicana : (siglos XIX-XX) /

Table of Contents: “…Platt -- La fundación del Banco de Avío / Robert Potash -- La industria textil algodonera durante la reforma / Dawn Keremitsis -- El algodón mexicana y la guerra civil norteamericana / Thomas Schoonover -- El liberalismo, los impuestos internos y el Estado federal mexicano, 1858-1911 / Marcello Carmagnani -- Anotaciones sobre la producción de alimentos durante el porfiriato / John H. …”
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Soul Liberty : The Evolution of Black Religious Politics in Postemancipation Virginia / by Turner, Nicole Myers

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Hawthorne and the Real : Bicentennial Essays /

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A Player and a Gentleman : The Diary of Harry Watkins, Nineteenth-Century U.S. American Actor by Hughes, Amy E.

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