An overview of the history of social welfare and juvenile justice in Boston. This book traces the origins, development and ultimate failure of Protestant and Catholic reformers' efforts to ameliorate working-class poverty and juvenile delinquency.
The Commonplace Books of William Byrd and Thomas Jefferson and the Gendering of Power in the Eighteenth Century
William Byrd II and Thomas Jefferson both kept journals which contained a series of observations revealing their fear and hatred of women. Lockridge leads us through these texts, exploring them in the wider historical context of gender and power, to illustrate early American patriarchal rage.
Camp Floyd and the Mormons traces the history of the sojourn of "Johnston's Army" in Utah Territory from the beginning of the Utah War in 1857 through the abandonment of Camp Floyd in Cedar Valley west of Utah Lake at the outbreak of the Civil War. The book describes the relationship between the invading army and the local Mormon population, gives ......
Political Martyrdom in America From Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Drawing upon eulogies and obituaries, sermons and biographies, poems and public memorials, this book examines political martyrdom in the United States.
This story of one of the Delaware Indian's greatest leaders is a classic of native American studies. Using a psychological/anthropological approach that he largely invented, Wallace clearly demonstrates the tragedy of the Delawares' existence, caught between the English, the French and the Iroquois. Painting a rich tapestry of the history and ......
Illuminates the various ways in which the American Revolution and its aftermath directly and indirectly influenced France before and after the French Revolution. This title includes essays that cluster several basic themes such as: the condition of Native Americans and African-Americans, and more.
The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis
Who were the poor of the world's first metropolises, and how did they survive? This collection of eight original essays proposes a revisionist perspective on poverty and its relief in the nineteenth-century city, emphasizing the position of women and children and the importance of charity and welfare in their lives. Historians have tended to ......
Focusing on the period from 1840 to 1889, the author explores the specific ways in which granting protection, official positions, and other favours in exchange for political and personal loyalty worked to benefit the interests of wealthy Brazilians. The book is based pricipally on both the offical and private correspondence of politicians, judges ......
