Marcus Cunliffe writes America

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Marcus Cunliffe was an important figure in American studies and in the early part of his academic career he helped to find the subject area in Britain where he was later awarded professional appointments at the Universities of Manchester and Sussex. Cuncliffe wrote George Washington: Man and Monument is a perceptive breezy chronological outline of Washington's life which is based on judicious examination of primary and especially secondary sources, very compact and informative.

Analysis, Political aspects, Criticism and interpretation, Works, Washington, George (American president), American studies, George Washington: Man and Monument (Book), Cunliffe, Marcus Falkner

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Masterful women: Colonial women slaveholders in the urban low country

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A vital first step in redrawing the portrait of colonial slavery so that it includes women slaveholders is to acknowledge the key role they performed in directly contributing to the continuation of slavery by managing, buying and hiring slaves. Urban women slaveholders variously negotiated, adapted and conformed to prevailing ideas regarding white women's place and role in colonial slave society as mothers, wives, widows and ultimately as masterful women with slaves.

History, Slavery, Slaveholders, Women in public life

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Easterners go west: English sparrows, immigrants, and the nature of fear

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The sparrow and starling highlight a significant form of meaning beyond imaginative journeys and the nature that features in the adventures is American where there is no distinction between native and other birds. One of the most intriguing ways in which the Americans come to know nature is through nationality, and nature by looking at the English sparrow's tale.

Immigrants, English sparrow

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