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Adult Education in the American Experience: From the Colonial Period to the Present (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education) by Harold W. Stubblefield

Ancient Inventions by Peter James

Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman

The Reconstruction of Southern Debtors: Bankruptcy After the Civil War (Studies in the Legal History of the South) by Elizabeth Lee Thompson

The Dawn's Early Light by Walter Lord

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About meI like learning, travel, museums, history, and meeting new people. I believe in karma, the big bang, and evolution.

Most of my reading is in American history, particularly slavery and the Civil War; however, I also read ancient and medieval history, and some fiction.

I enjoy the political, social, and economic aspects of history. Although I like to know who won the battles, I hate arguments about tactics or strategy. ("Lee could have won at Gettysburg if..." Yuk!).

I have a BA in History and Political Science.

My better half (David), our cat, and I live in the Manayunk neighborhood of Philadelphia.

About my libraryIf a subject interests me, I buy a book on the topic. Unfortunately, I buy more books than I have time to read. Luckily, my better half tolerates (mostly) the books.

If I have not yet read a book, it's unrated. My rating is totally subjective: a combination of how knowledgeable, well-written, informative, and interesting that the book/author was, with three stars being "average."

I own all the books listed here, except for the ones tagged as "Culled." Almost all my history books are listed; most reference and foreign language books; and some religion, business, and technical books.

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Real nameNoel Lytle

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The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-C) by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy

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The Failure of Popular Sovereignty: Slavery, Manifest Destiny, and the Radicalization of Southern Politics (American Political Thought) (American Political Thought (University Press of Kansas)) by Christopher Childers

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The Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion (The Lamar Series in Western History) by Jay Gitlin

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The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640-1661 by Carla Gardina Pestana

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The Black Infantry in the West, 1869-1891 by Arlen L. Fowler

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Metals, Culture and Capitalism: An Essay on the Origins of the Modern World by Jack Goody

Thanks Noel! So glad to hear that you and David both enjoyed the book. And sorry for the late response. I can't remember the last time I was on LibraryThing. I need to stop by more often! :)

Best wishes,

Jay Bell

posted by Jay_Bell at 1:51 pm (EST) on May 22, 2012

The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought looks interesting. Have you had much time with it yet? What are the boundaries of its ancient world?

posted by Muscogulus at 4:04 pm (EST) on May 17, 2012

Yes, Levy's Jefferson book is still very relevant. It wears its iconoclasm on its sleeve, but will always be worth reading I think. There has been lots of scholarship since that book on press and politics in the early republic, in law and history. In law, check out Robert Tsai's Eloquence and Reason, in history, check out Jeffrey Pasley's Tyranny of Printers.

posted by mattcrow at 3:44 am (EST) on May 7, 2011

Thanks! I have 6 weeks off in June and July to spend in Croatia and Greece and London and not worry about my thesis or work- cant wait!

posted by rcss67 at 4:51 pm (EST) on Jan 28, 2010

Re: Civil War Draft Resistance in the Middle West

Old dissertations are available through University Microfilms, which I think is now owned by Proquest. If you are affiliated with a university I think you will want to go through your university library web page. If not, I'm not sure, but I'd be surprised if they wouldn't have some way to take your money. I'd try to find their web page and poke around. Price will depend on format, but don't be surprised if its around $50.

If you do have access to a university library, many dissertations are also available through inter-library loan, so you could check it out before buying.

I have not read this book yet, but I understand it to be a social history of draft resistors in a set of mid-west counties; ethnic, economics, geographic, political party background and how those correlate to reasons for resisting and how the resistance changed as the Union draft escalated. I think it was notable for being one of the first studies show the draft resistors in a sympathetic light.

posted by eromsted at 8:54 pm (EST) on Sep 29, 2009