books by Jane Kamensky (1600-1760 blindspot governing)

books by Jane Kamensky

books:

The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse

3 reviews
Jane Kamensky

Viking Adult, 2008

4.5 stars-Speculation leads to widespread destruction
Kamensky has done an excellent job in this book.The book is a detailed study of the events leading up to the first bank failure in American history.In March,1809,the Farmers Exchange Bank of Gloucester,Rhode Island,collapsed.The story starts in late 1807 as a real estate speculator named Andrew Dexter,Jr.,is able to convincingly persuade many investors to financially back his Exchange Coffee ...

Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England
Jane Kamensky

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

Governing the Tongue explains why the spoken word assumed such importance in the culture of early New England. In a work that is at once historical, socio-cultural, and linguistic, Jane Kamensky explores the little-known words of unsung individuals, and reconsiders such famous Puritan events as the banishment of Anne Hutchinson and the Salem witch trials, to expose the ever-present fear of what the Puritans called "sins of the tongue." But even ...

Blindspot: By a Gentleman in Exile & a Lady in Disguise (Library
Kamensky, Jane

Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc., 2008

Set in Boston on the eve of the American Revolution, Blindspot is the story of a Scottish portrait painter and his apprentice, a fallen woman from one of Bostons most powerful families who has disguised herself as a boy.

Blindspot: A Novel

3 reviews
Jane Kamensky, Jill Lepore

Spiegel & Grau, 2008

Reader, I loved it
A blind spot, the authors of this novel tell us, is when you can't see something that's right in front of your face. I nearly had my own blind spot when deciding whether to order this book. Love in the midst of the American Revolution? A case of mistaken identity and an audacious young woman dressing as a boy? Ho-hum, I thought. But I swallowed my reservations and succumbed to "Blindspot's" ...

The Colonial Mosaic: American Women 1600-1760 (Young Oxford History of Women in the United States Series ))
Jane Kamensky

Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

Colonial "women's work" was hard, physical labor. In the South, the urgency of farming crops for export stretched a woman's workday from sunrise to sunset. It was not much different in New England, though the goal was more often to maintain the family and set aside enough to get through the harsh winter. In the 17th and early 18th century, nearly endless toil marked the lives of the majority of American women, regardless of their region, color, ...

Blindspot: By a Gentleman in Exile & a Lady in Disguise
Kamensky, Jane and Lepore, ...

Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc., 2008

Written with wit and exuberance by longtime friends and accomplished historians, Blindspot is at once fiction and history, mystery and love story, tragedy and farce.