Embodied History SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General This two-volume collection presents these

This two-volume collection presents these English works in their original form

Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease

Though they fell in love in college

and poetry itself to create a collection as full of tantalizing ideas and dilemmas as “an enormous library with a waterbed floor

Lawrence Sager

Embodied History SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General This two-volume collection presents theseOffering a new view into the lives and experiences of plebeian men and women, and a provocative exploration of the history of the body itself, Embodied History approaches the bodies of the poor in early national Philadelphia as texts to be read and interpreted. Through a close examination of accounts of the bodies that appeared in runaway advertisements and in seafaring, almshouse, prison, hospital, and burial records, Simon P. Newman uses physical