Mary Townsend: 8 books

In this book, Mary Townsend proposes that, contrary to the current scholarship on Plato's Republic, Socrates does not in fact set out to prove the weakness of women. Rather, she argues that close attention to the drama of the Republic reveals that Plato dramatizes the reluctance of men to allow women...

Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4  Mary Ashley Townsend was a novelist, newspaper columnist, and poet laureate of New Orleans who made several trips to Mexico with her daughter Cora during the last two decades of the 19th century. She collected her impressions of many aspects...

A German-born Union officer in the American Civil War, Maj. Gen. Peter Osterhaus served from the first clash in the western theater until the final surrender of the war. Osterhaus made a name for himself within the army as an energetic and resourceful commander who led his men from the front. He was...

The Brother Clerks Mary Ashley Townsend, american poet and writer (1836-1901) This ebook presents «The Brother Clerks», from Mary Ashley Townsend. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. TABLE OF CONTENTS -01- ABOUT THIS BOOK -02- THE BROTHER CLERKS

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” - Niccolò Machiavelli.   A study of legendary Russian military force The Cossacks, an essay on Thomas Jefferson, a history of The Knights Templar, a biography of Louis...

Owners of Mt. Pleasant Plantation had farmed the rich James River soil for over two hundred years. None of its residents, white or black, could picture any other way of life. Then, within the space of a year, the Civil War blew all of them adrift like dandelion seeds, to land who knew where. Some...

This indispensable text reader provides a broad-ranging and thoughtfully organized feminist introduction to the ongoing controversies of development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Designed for use in a variety of college courses, the volume collects an influential group of essays first published...

'This new edition helps the reader better understand their role in the school and classroom, in the complex and constantly changing world of education. It provides excellent support for helping the reader develop greater effectiveness in their classroom practice, both through exploring the theory...