From Solon to Socrates

From Solon to Socrates

Author: V. Ehrenberg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-05-22

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 1136783938

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From Solon to Socrates is a magisterial narrative introduction to what is generally regarded as the most important period of Greek history. Stressing the unity of Greek history and the centrality of Athens, Victor Ehrenberg covers a rich and diverse range of political, economic, military and cultural issues in the Greek world, from the early history of the Greeks, including early Sparta and the wars with Persia, to the ascendancy of Athens and the Peloponnesian War.


Crimes against Children

Crimes against Children

Author: Stephen Robertson

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2006-03-08

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0807876488

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In the first half of the twentieth century, Americans' intense concern with sex crimes against children led to a wave of public discussion, legislative action, and criminal prosecution. Stephen Robertson provides the first large-scale, long-term study of how American criminal courts dealt with the prosecution of sexual violence against children. Robertson describes how the nineteenth-century approach to childhood as a single phase of innocence began to shift at the end of the century to include several stages of childhood development, prompting reformers to create legal categories such as statutory rape and carnal abuse to protect children. However, while ordinary New Yorkers' involvement in the prosecution of those offenses reshaped their understandings of who was a child and produced a new concern to establish the age of their sexual partners, their beliefs in childhood innocence and in a concept of sexuality centered on sexual intercourse remained unchanged. As a result, families' use of the law and jurors' decisions ultimately diminished the protection the new laws offered to children. Robertson's study, based on the previously unexamined files of the New York County district attorney's office, reveals the importance of child sexuality and sex crimes in twentieth-century American culture.


O Pioneers!

O Pioneers!

Author: Willa Cather

Publisher: Modernista

Published: 2024-07-15

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9181080794

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When the young Swedish-descended Alexandra Bergson inherits her father's farm in Nebraska, she must transform the land from a wind-swept prairie landscape into a thriving enterprise. She dedicates herself completely to the land—at the cost of great sacrifices. O Pioneers! [1913] is Willa Cather's great masterpiece about American pioneers, where the land is as important a character as the people who cultivate it. WILLA CATHER [1873-1947] was an American author. After studying at the University of Nebraska, she worked as a teacher and journalist. Cather's novels often focus on settlers in the USA with a particular emphasis on female pioneers. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the novel One of Ours, and in 1943, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.


The True Women Influencers of the Past

The True Women Influencers of the Past

Author: Willa Cather

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2021-05-07

Total Pages: 19661

ISBN-13:

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Musaicum Books presents to you the world's iconic women characters in fiction and the real-life heroines in this power-packed meticulously edited and formatted collection: Fiction: Camilla (Fanny Burney) Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District (Nikolai Leskov) Hester (Margaret Oliphant) Life in the Iron Mills (Rebecca Davis) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) Wives and Daughter (Elizabeth Gaskell) The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen) The Awakening (Kate Chopin) The Woman Who Did (Grant Allen) Miss Cayley's Adventures (Grant Allen) The Story of a Baby (Ethel Sybil Turner) New Amazonia (Elizabeth Corbett) A Daughter of the Land (Gene Stratton-Porter) The Iron Woman (Margaret Deland) My Ántonia (Willa Cather) The Song of the Lark (Willa Cather) The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton) Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser) Sisters (Ada Cambridge) Hagar (Mary Johnston) Samantha on the Woman Question (Marietta Holley) The Precipice (Elia Wilkinson Peattie) Voyage Out (Virginia Woolf) Parnassus on Wheels (Christopher Morley) The Job (Sinclair Lewis) Miss Lulu Bett (Zona Gale) The Rainbow (D. H. Lawrence) The Enchanted April (Elizabeth von Arnim) Fanny Herself (Edna Ferber) So Big (Edna Ferber)... Memoirs: Madame Vigée Lebrun Jane Austen Caroline Herschel Mrs. Seacole Elizabeth Cady Stanton My Own Story (Emmeline Pankhurst) Mother Jones Margaret Sanger Helen Keller Biographies: Lucretia Sappho Aspasia of Cyrus Portia Octavia Cleopatra Mariamne Julia Domna Zenobia Valeria Hypatia The Lady Rowena Roswitha the Nun Marie de France Laura de Sade Joan of Arc Catharine of Arragon Anne Boleyn Margaret Roper Mary, Queen of Scots The Pocahontas Queen Anne Maria Theresa Marie Antoinette Florence Nightingale Maria Mitchell Harriet Tubman Madame de Stael…


Delphi Collected Works of Willa Cather (Illustrated)

Delphi Collected Works of Willa Cather (Illustrated)

Author: Willa Cather

Publisher: Delphi Classics

Published: 2019-04-12

Total Pages: 3574

ISBN-13: 1788779894

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An American author of the Interwar period, Willa Cather achieved recognition for her nostalgic novels of frontier life on the Great Plains. Her novels are noted for their atmospheric and vivid portrayals of the landscape and the lives of settlers, immortalising Nebraska’s pioneer life. In 1923 Cather achieved international acclaim and financial security when she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for ‘One of Ours’ (1922), a novel set during World War I. This comprehensive eBook presents Cather’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Cather’s life and works* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts* 6 novels, with individual contents tables* Includes the Complete Prairie Trilogy* Features rare short stories appearing for the first time in digital publishing* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts* Excellent formatting of the texts* Includes Cather’s rare poetry collection – available in no other collection* The rare non-fiction work: ‘The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science’* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please note: due to US copyright restrictions, post-1923 works cannot appear in this edition. When new texts become available, they will be added to the eBook as a free update. CONTENTS: The Prairie Trilogy The NovelsAlexander’s BridgeO Pioneers!The Song of the LarkMy ÁntoniaOne of OursA Lost Lady The Short Story CollectionsThe Troll GardenYouth and the Bright MedusaUncollected Short Stories The Short StoriesList of Short Stories in Chronological OrderList of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The PoetryApril Twilights and Other Poems The Non-FictionThe Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks


From Solon to Socrates

From Solon to Socrates

Author: Victor Ehrenberg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-10-04

Total Pages: 628

ISBN-13: 1136922520

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From Solon to Socrates is a magisterial narrative introduction to what is generally regarded as the most important period of Greek history. Stressing the unity of Greek history and the centrality of Athens, Victor Ehrenberg covers a rich and diverse range of political, economic, military and cultural issues in the Greek world, from the early history of the Greeks, including early Sparta and the wars with Persia, to the ascendancy of Athens and the Peloponnesian War.