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  The State We're In : Reflections on Minnesota History

  Annette Atkins and Deborah L. Miller

  On the occasion of Minnesota's 150th anniversary of statehood, over a hundred historians and other writers assembled to discuss the subjects they had been studying, thinking, and writing about. This book presents the best of that work.

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  The Very Nature of God : Baroque Catholicism and Religious Reform in Bourbon Mexico City

  Brian R. Larkin

  The changing practices and meanings of Catholicism in Bourbon Mexico are the subject of this study, based on research in the last wills and testaments of the faithful of Mexico City as well as contemporary devotional literature and ecclesiastical documentation. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, baroque Catholicism, with its exuberant ornamentation of sacred space and lavish rituals, dominated both ecclesiastical and lay religious practice in New Spain. During the second half of the eighteenth century, a group of reforming bishops attempted to remake religious culture, to move the faithful away from baroque Catholicism to a simpler, and in their minds, more interior piety. The reform movement distanced God from the physical world as reformers sought to redefine the balance in Catholic religious practice to emphasize pious contemplation over ritual action.

  Larkin examines baroque Catholicism, the project to reform religious culture in Mexico, and the new pious practices that reformers and the faithful negotiated as the colonial period moved toward a close. He argues that baroque and reformed Catholicism rested on different understandings of the very nature of God. Baroque Catholicism privileged a corporeal conception of God; whereas reformed piety promoted a more spiritual one. Religious reform, he argues, coincided with secular reforming projects, all of which participated in and influenced new forms of epistemology and subjectivity that established the conditions for the contested beginnings of the modern era in eighteenth-century Mexico.

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  Creating Minnesota : A History from the Inside Out

  Annette Atkins

  Historian Annette Atkins Presents a fresh understanding of how a complex and modern Minnesota came into being in Creating Minnesota. Each chapter of this innovative state history focuses on a telling detail, a revealing incident, or a meaningful issue that illuminates a larger event, social trends, or politics during a period in our past." "A three-act play about Minnesota's statehood vividly depicts the competing interests of Natives, traders, and politicians who lived in the same territory but moved in different worlds. Oranges are the focal point of a chapter about railroads and transportation: how did a St. Paul family manage to celebrate their 1898 Christinas with fruit that grew no closer than 1,500 miles from their home? A photo essay brings to life communities of the 1920s, seen through the lenses of local and itinerant photographers. The much-sought state fish helps to explain the new Minnesota, where pan-fried walleye and walleye quesadillas coexist on the same north woods menu." "In Creating Minnesota, Atkins invites readers to experience the texture of people's lives through the decades, offering a fascinating and unparalleled approach to the history of our state."

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  The Work of the Heart: Young Women and Emotion, 1780-1830

  Martha Tomhave Blauvelt

  How did young American women construct and express their emotions between
  1780 and 1830? Before Oprah and therapy, how did they reconcile society’s demanding and often contradictory expectations? In The Work of the Heart:
  Young Women and Emotion, 1780-1830, Martha Tomhave Blauvelt looks to the often spirited diaries written by young women in America’s early republic,
  arguing that the continuous, demanding, and often unnoticed emotional labor of women exemplified their uneasy position within society.

  Employing the concept of "emotion work," Blauvelt argues that despite the fact that the amount of physical labor may have declined for these young women, the popularity of fiction, desire to display genteel refinement, need to deflect criticism of women’s academy education, and resignation in marriage created multiple emotional tasks requiring highly skilled labor. In her detailed examination of fifty young northern women’s diaries during this time period, the author shows that while this work entailed attempts at suppressing inappropriate feeling, it also invited self-consciousness and a sense of competence as these women addressed society’s often contradictory expectations. In a variety of settings, emotion work was the means through which women constructed a fluid and negotiated self,
  while their diaries provided a mirror and tool of this labor.

  Showing work where none seemed to exist, The Work of the Heart
  suggests emotion work as a key measure of women’s status, whether for the twenty-first century or the eighteenth, and offers an analytical tool for historians exploring the self.

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  We Grew Up Together : Brothers and Sisters in Nineteenth-century America

  Annette Atkins

  "While much attention has been devoted to connections in American families between husbands and wives and between parents and children, We Grew Up Together speaks to an area that has been largely neglected until now: the emotional relationships among siblings." "Through close readings of the letters brothers and sisters wrote to each other over the course of nearly a century (1840-1920), Annette Atkins reveals the inner workings, everyday lives, and central relationships of ten nineteenth-century families. She looks at families located in various regions, families headed to the frontier, obscure families, and prominent families such as the Blairs of Washington, D.C. Drawing on the insights of Alfred Adler and others, Atkins examines the varying dynamics of "warm" and "cool" families and shows how siblings tutored each other in friendship, authority, cooperation and competition, dependence and independence."--BOOK JACKET.

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  When I First Began My Life Anew : Middle-Class Widows in Nineteenth-Century Britain

  Cynthia Curran

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  On the Social Origins of Medieval Institutions : Essays in Honor of Joseph F. O'Callaghan

  Theresa Vann and Donald J. Kagay

  A collection of essays celebrating the career of Joseph F. O'Callaghan, a noted historian of Spanish history. Written by his students and colleagues, they explore the relationship between human society and the institutions it produces.
  The first part of the book, The Influence of Law on Society, contains essays exploring the laws and customs regarding such social institutions as marriage, the care of the sick, and Jews. The second part, The Relationship between Government and War, focuses on the institutional and technological innovations that the crown and parliament in Spain and England developed to wage war.

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  The Loaf That Became a Legend : A History of Saint John's Bread

  Kenneth M. Jones and Diane Veale Jones

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  Queens, Regents, and Potentates

  Theresa Vann

  This series focuses on the exercise of power, influence and authority by particular categories, ranks and types of women in medieval societies, and by individual women; on the limitations, restrictions and inhibitions placed or assumed on such activity; on the opportunities open to women, and on the strategems by which women were able to give effect to these possibilities. Queens, Regents and Potentatesconcentrates on the theme of women and royal power, examining the available information about specific royal women and reassessing their access to and use of power and authority, and drawing significant new conclusions about internal politics and international relations in medieval Europe

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  Lafayette, Hero of Two Worlds : The Art and Pageantry of His Farewell Tour of America, 1824-1825 : Essays

  Stanley J. Idzerda, Anne C. Loveland, and Marc H. Miller

  Produced to accompany an exhibition commemorating General Gilbert du Motier Lafayette's triumphal visit to America nearly 50 years after the outbreak of the American Revolution--in which his participation proved indispensable--this felicitous mesh of history and art presents such curiosities as a coach that carried Lafayette from Albany to Buffalo and a breast pin con taining locks of Lafayette's and George Washington's hair. Idzerda (co-editor of Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution ) contributes a biographical essay. Loveland ( Emblem of Liberty: The Image of Lafayette in the American Mind ) captures the reactions of the populace to this hero of two revolutions and defines the manner in which his visit acted as ``a crucial impetus to American nationalism.'' Miller, curator of the Queens (N.Y.) Museum, distinguishes the styles of portraits and busts of the period, examines Lafayette's influence on the restoration of Revolutionary War sites and traces the shapes of monuments to their classical origins.

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  Harvest of Grief : Grasshopper Plagues and Public Assistance in Minnesota, 1873-78

  Annette Atkins

  Atkins eloquently portrays the extreme hardships of Minnesota farmers during the grasshopper plagues of the 1870s. She examines local, state, and national relief efforts, which she reviews in the context of nineteenth-century social welfare philosophy.

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  Philip Mazzei : Selected Writings and Correspondence

  Stanley J. Idzerda, Filippo Mazzei, Marghertia Marchione, and S. Eugene Scalia

  Vol. 1. 1765-1788 : Virginia's agent during the American Revolution --
  v. 2. 1788-1791 : Agent for the King of Poland during the French Revolution --
  v. 3. 1792-1816 : World citizen.

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  Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution : Selected Letters and Papers, 1776-1790

  Stanley J. Idzerda and Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier Lafayette marquis de

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  Bicentennial Convocations at Sage Chapel

  Stanley J. Idzerda, Robert Neelly Bellah, and Milton R. Konvitz

  "Three sermons on the nation's bicentennial delivered at Sage Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York."

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  France and the American War for Independence

  Stanley J. Idzerda and Roger Everett Smith

  Discusses the moral, financial, and military support of the American Revolution by France which, after being ejected from North America in 1763, became an ally of the new nation.

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  The Historical Thought of Frederic Ozanam

  Emmanuel Renner OSB

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  The Background of the French Revolution

  Stanley J. Idzerda