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1) American notes

Author

Dickens, Charles

Series

Modern library of the world's best books

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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'Like Shakespeare, Dickens was able to embrace a whole world' John Mortimer
When Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842, he was the most famous man of his day to make the journey, and embarked on his travels with an intense curiosity. His frank descriptions cover everything from his comically wretched sea voyage to his sheer astonishment at Niagara Falls, while he also visited hospitals, prisons and law courts. But Dickens's depiction of

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2) The mistress of Tall Acre: a novel

Author

Frantz, Laura

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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In the aftermath of the American Revolution a destitute young woman agrees to a marriage of convenience and becomes Mistress of Tall Acre. But when secrets from her husband's past are revealed, loyalties and ties are torn asunder.

3) The Civil War cookbook

Author

Davis, William C

Publisher

Courage Books

Pub. Date

[1993]

Physical Desc

93 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Language

English

4) The young United States, 1783-1830: a time of change and growth, a time of learning democracy, a time of new ways of living, thinking, and doing

Author

Tunis, Edwin

Physical Desc

159 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm

Language

English

Description

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Describes the history, government, industries, schools, society, culture, and westward expansion during the first fifty years of United States independence.

5) The reshaping of everyday life, 1790-1840

Author

Larkin, Jack

Publisher

Harper & Row

Pub. Date

[1988]

Edition

First edition.

Physical Desc

xvii, 349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Language

English

6) Freedom's ferment; phases of American social history to 1860

Author

Tyler, Alice Felt

Publisher

The University of Minnesota press

Pub. Date

[1944]

Physical Desc

x, 608 pages : illustrations, plates, portraits ; 24 cm

Language

English

7) Whistle for the crossing

Author

De Angeli, Marguerite

Publisher

Doubleday

Pub. Date

[1977]

Edition

First edition.

Physical Desc

107 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Language

English

Description

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A young boy travels with his father, a railroad engineer, on the first train between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

8) Travels between the Hudson & the Mississippi, 1851-1852

Author

Busch, Moritz

Publisher

University Press of Kentucky

Pub. Date

[1971]

Physical Desc

xix, 295 pages ; 24 cm

Language

English

9) The terrible, awful Civil War: the disgusting details about life during America's bloodiest war

Author

Olson, Kay Melchisedech

Series

Fact finders. Disgusting history

Publisher

Capstone Press

Pub. Date

[2010]

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm.

Language

English

Description

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"Describes disgusting details about daily life during the U.S. Civil War, including housing, food, and sanitation"--Provided by publisher.

10) The Cormany diaries: a Northern family in the Civil War

Publisher

University of Pittsburgh Press

Pub. Date

[1982]

Physical Desc

xxvi, 597 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Language

English

11) Everyday life during the Civil War

Author

Varhola, Michael O

Series

Everyday life

Publisher

Writer's Digest Books

Pub. Date

[1999]

Edition

First edition.

Physical Desc

274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Language

English

12) Greek revival America

Author

Kennedy, Roger G

Publisher

Stewart, Tabori & Chang

Pub. Date

1989.

Physical Desc

455 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Language

English

13) An Englishman in the American Civil War: the diaries of Henry Yates Thompson, 1863

Author

Thompson, Henry Yates

Publisher

New York University Press

Pub. Date

[1971]

Physical Desc

xviii, 185 pages : illustrations (1 folded) ; 26 cm

Language

English

14) After the Revolution: the Smithsonian history of everyday life in the eighteenth century

Author

Smith, Barbara Clark

Publisher

Pantheon Books

Pub. Date

[1985]

Physical Desc

xxvi, 214 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Language

English

15) Everyday life in the New Nation, 1787-1860

Author

Wright, Louis B

Series

Life in America

Publisher

Putnam

Pub. Date

[1972]

Physical Desc

256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Discusses the changes in politics, transportation, recreation, city and country life, social customs, education, and religion between the Constitutional Convention and the Civil War.

16) Life on a pioneer homestead

Author

Isaacs, Sally Senzell

Series

Picture the past

Publisher

Heinemann Library

Pub. Date

[2001]

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 27 cm.

Language

English

Description

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An overview of life on a pioneer homestead including building a home, cooking food, clothing, schools, and everyday activities.

17) Daily life in Civil War America

Author

Volo, Dorothy Denneen

Series

Greenwood Press "Daily life through history"

Publisher

Greenwood Press

Pub. Date

1998.

Physical Desc

xviii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Language

English

18) Dancing to the precipice: the life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, eyewitness to an era

Author

Moorehead, Caroline

Publisher

Harper

Pub. Date

[2009]

Edition

First U.S. edition.

Physical Desc

xiv, 480 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

19) Salons colonial and republican

Author

Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth

Publisher

J.B. Lippincott Company

Pub. Date

1900

Physical Desc

xv, 11-286 pages : color front., portraits ; 22 cm.

Language

English

20) Tocqueville in America

Author

Pierson, George Wilson

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Pub. Date

1996.

Edition

Johns Hopkins paperbacks edition.

Physical Desc

xii, 852 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Language

English

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1) American notes

2) The mistress of Tall Acre: a novel

3) The Civil War cookbook

4) The young United States, 1783-1830: a time of change and growth, a time of learning democracy, a time of new ways of living, thinking, and doing

5) The reshaping of everyday life, 1790-1840

6) Freedom's ferment; phases of American social history to 1860

7) Whistle for the crossing

8) Travels between the Hudson & the Mississippi, 1851-1852

9) The terrible, awful Civil War: the disgusting details about life during America's bloodiest war

10) The Cormany diaries: a Northern family in the Civil War

11) Everyday life during the Civil War

12) Greek revival America

13) An Englishman in the American Civil War: the diaries of Henry Yates Thompson, 1863

14) After the Revolution: the Smithsonian history of everyday life in the eighteenth century

15) Everyday life in the New Nation, 1787-1860

16) Life on a pioneer homestead

17) Daily life in Civil War America

18) Dancing to the precipice: the life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, eyewitness to an era

19) Salons colonial and republican

20) Tocqueville in America

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