LIBROS DEL AUTOR: kirsten e wood

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  • Accommodating the Republic
    Kirsten E. Wood
    People have gathered in public drinking places to drink, relax, socialize, and do business for hundreds of years. For just as long, critics have described taverns and similar drinking establishments as sources of individual ruin and public disorder. Examining these dynamics as Americans surged westward in the early nineteenth century, Kirsten E. Wood argues that entrepreneurial...
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  • Masterful Women
    Kirsten E. Wood
    Many early-nineteenth-century slaveholders considered themselves 'masters' not only over slaves, but also over the institutions of marriage and family. According to many historians, the privilege of mastery was reserved for white males. But as many as one in ten slaveholders--sometimes more--was a widow, and as Kirsten E. Wood demonstrates, slaveholding widows between the Ameri...
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