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Victorian poet and critic Matthew Arnold wrote the essays that constitute Culture and Anarchy between 1867 and 1869, a time of rapid social change and uncertainty. Defining culture as "the best that has been thought and said," Arnold offers concrete suggestions for its role as a corrective to the chaos of materialism, industrialism, and self-interest. Acclaimed by Commentary as "the classic defense of high culture against the depredations of modernity,"...
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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"Women played an essential role in the development of the West. Women of the American West takes a look at the daring, inventive, and determined women that helped shape the nation."--Publisher's website.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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"The names of the Wild West's top lawmen have become famous. Famous Lawmen shows how Wyatt Earp, "Wild Bill" Hickok, and many others worked to enforce the law in a nearly lawless frontier."--Publisher's website.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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"The expansion of the United States in the 1800s led to good fortune and success for some, and crime and lawlessness for others. Notorious Outlaws explains how people like Butch Cassidy, Billy the Kid, and many more turned to a life of crime."--Publisher's website.
5) Walden
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IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 21
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"In honor of the bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau's birth, this edition of Walden features an introduction and annotations by renowned environmentalist Bill McKibben. 'We need to understand that when Thoreau sat in the dooryard of his cabin 'from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around or flitted noiseless through the house,' he was offering counsel and example exactly suited for our...
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Jacob Riis's classic is an open window into a world unknown to most. Originally published in 1890, this classic inditement of slum life remains an outstanding example of the value of investigative journalism and its potential to change the world for the better.
Riis was one of the earliest "muck-rakers," which President Theodore Roosevelt defined as, "taking the rake to uncover the most unpleasant conditions in American society." In the case of Riis,...
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These acerbic, poignant, and thought-provoking essays concern mankind, its relationship with God, and how the mind works. Twain himself considered them dark and cynical, delaying their publication for many years before finally releasing them as an anonymous, limited-edition collection.
The title essay constitutes a deeply felt blow against religious hypocrisy, written in the form of a Socratic dialogue between a young idealist and an elderly, world-weary...
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"Classic analysis of America's unique political character, quoted heavily by politicians and perennially popping up on history professors' reading lists. The book's enduring appeal lies in the eloquent, prophetic voice of Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), a French aristocrat who visited the United States in 1831. A thoughtful young man in a still-young country, he succeeded in penning this penetrating study of America's people, culture, history,...
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"A vivid and immersive history of Georgian England that gives its reader a firsthand experience of life as it was truly lived during the era of Jane Austen, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Duke of Wellington. This is the age of Jane Austen and the Romantic poets; the paintings of John Constable and the gardens of Humphry Repton; the sartorial elegance of Beau Brummell and the poetic license of Lord Byron; Britain's military triumphs at Trafalgar and...
10) The Oregon trail
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Excitement over the West inspired thousands of Americans in the mid-1800s to start new lives on the other side of the continent. The Oregon Trail follows the trials and hopes of the emigrant's journeys.
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Sheds new light on both pro and antislavery politics in the nineteenth-century Americas.
The creation of new frontiers of slave commodity production and the expansion and intensification of slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the southern United States were an integral part of the expansion of the world economy during the nineteenth century. Beginning from this vantage point, The Politics of the Second Slavery brings together a group of international scholars...
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Chronicles of the filth, foulness, and public health disasters found by "inspectors of nuisances" in a newly industrialized world.
In the nineteenth century, as towns grew, Britain became increasingly grimy. The causes of dirt and pollution were defined legally as "nuisances" and, in 1835, the new local authorities very rapidly appointed an army of "inspectors of nuisances."
This book reveals the Victorian era from a very different point of view:...
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"A Shepherd's Life" is a 1910 novel by Argentinian naturalist and author William Henry Hudson. It is the story of a shepherd called Caleb Bawcombe whose sheep roam the Wiltshire, Dorset, and Hampshire borders. Through his wanderings, Caleb meets many different people ranging from poachers and gypsies, to farmers and laborers – all of whom are trying to live on the land. A masterful blend of fiction, memoir, reminiscence and oral history, "A Shepherd's...
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Vegetarianism has been practiced in the United States since the country's founding, yet the early years of the movement have been woefully misunderstood and understudied. Through the Civil War, the vegetarian movement focused on social and political reform, but by the late nineteenth century, the movement became a path for personal strength and success in a newly individualistic, consumption-driven economy. This development led to greater expansion...
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Extrait: "Dans tous les temps de ma vie, la jeunesse a été pour moi un objet d'études; je l'observais déjà même alors que je figurais dans ses rangs, et que je me livrais, avec mes émules, aux distractions et aux plaisirs de notre âge. Je me rappellerai toujours ma surprise en voyant des pères de famille envoyer chaque année leurs fils dans cette grande capitale o souvent ils se trouvaient abandonnés à eux-mêmes sans appui, sans conseil...
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Extrait : "Il existerait une immense lacune dans cette immense galerie de portraits, o figurent tous les types qui particularisent les diverses classes de la société française, si nous omettions d'y comprendre celui qui les embrasse et les reflète tous, celui du détenu, autrement dit de l'habitué de nos prisons et de nos bagnes."
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Extrait : "Un ouvrage o l'on se proposait de peindre les mœurs des Français au dix-neuvième siècle ne devait point se borner à les considérer dans leurs divers états. Les modèles, toujours pris à Paris, n'auraient représenté que Paris au lieu de la France, et auraient achevé d'accorder à la capitale une prépondérance qui, Dieu merci, n'a rien encore de si bien établi."
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Extrait: "De toutes les professions calomniées, celle-ci est la plus calomniée, la plus méconnue. Ceux qui en parlent, l'outrage à la bouche, sont presque tous des trembleurs, des vanités froissées, des grands hommes ignorés, des gloires bâtardes ; ils se vengent, avec de petites morsures obscures, des grands coups de pied qu'ils ont reçus à la face du ciel."
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Extrait: "On a dit avec raison que la Statistique est l'arsenal des sciences économiques. Elles lui empruntent, en effet, tous leurs arguments: il n'est pas un fait social ou politique de quelque importance qui puisse être démontré sans le secours des documents qu'elle fournit. Toutefois la relation intime de l'Économie et de la Statistique est fondée sur le besoin qu'elles ont mutuellement l'une de l'autre."
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