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The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American ...

The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American ...

Paul V. Murphy

I owe a great debt to the members of my dissertation committee, which included Casey Blake, Steven Stowe, Michael McGerr, and David Nordloh. They sharpened my analysis at all points. In particular, Steven Stowe infused me with ...
Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity

Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity

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Ina study of the American slaveowningclass, Steven Stowe showsthat the society's structurepredisposed men of that class to particular forms of social behaviour. Steven Stowe, The “Touchiness” of theGentleman Planter: The Senseof Esteem ...
Intimacy and Power in the Old South: Ritual in the Lives of ...

Intimacy and Power in the Old South: Ritual in the Lives of ...

Steven Stowe

Stowe examines three types of rituals central to the elite planter culture ofthe pre-Civil war south as played out by three families.
West's South Eastern Reporter

West's South Eastern Reporter

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Loretta Stowe Chrostowski, as administratrix of the estate of Robert Gene Stowe and as guardian of Sara Renee Stowe and Robert Adam Stowe, filed suit against G & MSS Trucking, Inc., Billy Wayne Milam, and Royal Indemnity Company ...
A Shared Experience: Men, Women, and the History of Gender

A Shared Experience: Men, Women, and the History of Gender

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On the importance of correspondence in the South, see Steven M. Stowe, “ Rhetoric of Authority: The Making of Social Values in Planter Family Correspondence,” Journal of Family History 73 (March 1987): 916–33; and Stowe, “Singleton's ...
Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the ...

Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the ...

Georgia. Court of Appeals

Loretta Stowe Chrostowski, as administratrix of the estate of Robert Gene Stowe and as guardian of Sara Renee Stowe and Robert Adam Stowe, filed suit against G & MSS Trucking, Inc., Billy Wayne Milam, and Royal Indemnity Company ...
The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe

Cindy Weinstein

This collection of specially commissioned essays provides new perspectives on the frequently read classic Uncle Tom's Cabin, as well as on topics of perennial interest, such as Stowe's representation of race, her attitude to reform, and her ...
Bowing to Necessities: A History of Manners in America, ...

Bowing to Necessities: A History of Manners in America, ...

C. Dallett Hemphill

Steven Stowe's study of antebellum planter families, Intimacy and Power in the Old South: Ritual in the Lives of the Planters (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1987) is useful in exploring the interplay between cultural conventions and individual ...
Italian Cinema and Modern European Literatures, 1945-2000

Italian Cinema and Modern European Literatures, 1945-2000

Carlo Testa

5 of his Theatre complet (Paris: Calmann-Levy, n.d. [ca. 1866]), pp. 101-212. Useful information on the author can be gleaned from Richard S. Stowe, Alexandre Dumas pere (Boston: Twayne, 1976). Stowe discusses Kean on pp. 55-58. 35.
Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Argued and Determined ...

Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Argued and Determined ...

Alabama. Supreme Court

RICHARDS vs. uszmnn. RICHARD S versus HAZZARD. ... Richards answered, admitting that he was indebted to Stowe, but stated that before service of the garnishment, he had received notice of an assignment, made by Stowe, in trust, ...
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life

Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life

Nancy Koester

"So you're the little woman who started this big war," Abraham Lincoln is said to have quipped when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe.
House and Home Papers

House and Home Papers

Harriet Beecher Stowe

This 1865 volume by Harriet Beecher Stowe was originally published under the psuedonym Christopher Crowfield. The volume contains short stories and essays revolving around subjects of cookery and domestic economy.
Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Voice of Humanity in White America

Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Voice of Humanity in White America

Henry Elliot

Details the life and achievements of abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe whose book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin", is said to have started the Civil War.
The Limits of Sisterhood: The Beecher Sisters on Women's ...

The Limits of Sisterhood: The Beecher Sisters on Women's ...

Jeanne Boydston

9. Harriet Beecher Stowe to Henry Ward Beecher, June n, 1870, SML. Stowe's dilletantish suffrage leader, Mrs. Cerulean, was recognized by many suffragists to be a highly satirical portrait of Isabella. See, for example, Ellen Garrison's letter to  ...
The Best Books for Academic Libraries: Language and literature

The Best Books for Academic Libraries: Language and literature

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B78 1991 Burton, Richard D. E., Baudelaire and the Second Republic : writing and revolution / Richard D.E. Burton. Oxford [England] .... PQ2230.S84 Stowe, Richard S. Alexandre Dumas (pere) / by Richard S. Stowe. Boston : Twayne ...
Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum ...

Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum ...

Marie Jenkins Schwartz

Steven M. Stowe, Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), pp. 24, 69. 8.J. Marion Sims, The Story of My Life (New York: Da Capo, ...
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life

Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life

Joan D. Hedrick

" In this landmark book, the first full-scale biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe in over fifty years, Joan D. Hedrick tells the absorbing story of this gifted, complex, and contradictory woman.
Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet. Beecher. Stowe: A. Brief. Chronology. 1811 Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, seventh of nine children, is born on June 14 to the Reverend Lyman Beecher (a prominent Presbyterian minister) and Roxana Beecher of Litchfield, Connecticut  ...
Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Illness in the Antebellum South

Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Illness in the Antebellum South

Marli F. Weiner

... Steven M. Stowe, “Seeing Themselves at Work: Physicians and the Case Narrative in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century American South,” American Historical Review 101 (February 1996): 41–79; W. F. Bynum, Stephen Lock, and Roy Porter , eds., ...
Journal of the Civil War Era: Summer 2012 Issue

Journal of the Civil War Era: Summer 2012 Issue

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He did not practice medicine again. Steven M. Stowe notes 1. James Henry Gooding, On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front, ed. Virginia M. Adams (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1991); and ...
Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Its historical impact was so great that it spawned the mythical story that Abraham Lincoln, upon meeting Stowe near the start of the Civil War, was heard to say, ""So this is the little lady who started this great war.""
The Publishing History of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852–2002

The Publishing History of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852–2002

Claire Parfait

According to Barbara Hochman, Stowe's novel subtly challenged and modified the Era's habitual norms for fiction. Before Uncle Tom's Cabin, slavery was rarely taken up in the Era's fiction, which was mainly of the moral type. Stowe's novel ...
Warner Bros.: Hollywood's Ultimate Backlot

Warner Bros.: Hollywood's Ultimate Backlot

Steven Bingen

Hollywood's Ultimate Backlot Steven Bingen ... 211 Rosenstein, Sophie, 80–81 The Rosie O'Donnell Show, 139 Ross, Steven J., 193, 201; Steven J. Ross Plaza, 85; Steven J. Ross Theater, 97, 147, 153 Rounder, Albert, 24, 68 Rowling, J. K., ...
Bossy Steven

Bossy Steven

Molly Mia Stewart

When Elizabeth and Jessica lose a bet to their brother, Steven, they must do his chores for a week, and while Steven gloats, the twins plot their revenge.
Right Living: An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help ...

Right Living: An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help ...

Library Company of Philadelphia

An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene Library Company of Philadelphia, College of Physicians of Philadelphia Charles E. Rosenberg. STEVEN STOWE. Conflict. and. Self-Sufficiency. Domestic. Medicine . in. the.
Glyph-Breaker

Glyph-Breaker

Steven R. Fischer

Steven R. Fischer. Hachette. Fischer, Steven Roger. 1988a. Evidence for Hellenic Dialect in the Phaistos Disk. Berne: Peter Lang. Fischer, Steven Roger. 1988b. Meersburg im Mittelalter. Aus der Geschichte einer Bodenseestadt undihrer ...
Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday ...

Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday ...

Steven M. Stowe

''Catalogue. . . .'' Charleston, S.C.: J. B. Nixon, Printer, 1848. ———. ''Catalogue. . . .'' Charleston, S.C.: Steam Power-Press of Walker and James, 1851. ———. '' Catalogue. . . .'' Charleston, S.C.: Steam Power-Press of Walker and James, ...
Steven Spielberg: Interviews

Steven Spielberg: Interviews

Steven Spielberg

Interviews Steven Spielberg, Lester D. Friedman, Brent Notbohm. would have to try ... The movie will be dedicated to former Time Warner chairman Steven J. Ross, who became a father figure for Spielberg before he died in 1992. "Steve Ross ...
A Southern Practice: The Diary and Autobiography of Charles ...

A Southern Practice: The Diary and Autobiography of Charles ...

Charles Arnould Hentz

The Diary and Autobiography of Charles A. Hentz, M.D. Charles Arnould Hentz Steven M. Stowe. "Readers of Charles Hentz's diary and autobiography will find themselves immersed in the world of the mid-nineteenth-century South as seen ...

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