A New Literary History of America, Paperback

Reducere. Latinos in the U.S. are a major political, economic, and cultural force that is fast changing the national identity of this country. Mexican Americ...

Reducere. 'This is as essential reference to anyone in the field of housing, beautifully illustrated in the hand of the author.' --Moshe Safdie and Associate...

Reducere. This book, designed to give a survey history of American labor from colonial times to the present, is uniquely well suited to speak to the concerns...

Reducere. This literary work is an update of the History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. for the period 1960 to 2008. This book humbly takes up where Omega ...

DescriptionOver the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in...

Reducere. Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the A...

No ancient poet has a wider following today than Sappho; her status as the most famous woman poet from Greco-Roman antiquity, and as one of the mos...

Reducere. DescriptionOn April 16, 1972, ten thousand people gathered in Central Park to protest New York's liberal abortion law. Emotions ran high, reflectin...

This core textbook gathers an international team of historians to present a comprehensive account of the central themes in the histories of Britain...

Cumbia is a musical form that originated in northern Colombia and then spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans travel and sett...

Few milestones in human history are as momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. The fully r...

DescriptionFor centuries the Western view of the Iroquois was clouded by the myth that they were the supermen of the frontier--"the Romans of this ...

This book unravels the ethnic history of California since the late nineteenth-century Anglo-American conquest and the institutionalization of "whit...

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Reducere. Taking into account recent historic changes, this second edition updates the essays on the Supreme Court, same-sex marriage, the Right, and trans h...

Description Monsters arrived in 2011--and now they are back. Not only do they continue to live in our midst, but, as historian Scott Poole shows, t...

Reducere. A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820 explores the idea that strong linkages exist in the histories of Africa, Europe, and North and ...

DescriptionAn unprecedented examination of class-bridging reform and U.S. literary history at the turn of the twentieth century Reading for Reform ...

Opening a window onto a fascinating new world for English-speaking readers, this anthology offers popular and influential stories from over ten cou...

Reducere. The 1970s looks at an iconic decade when the cultural left and economic right came to the fore in American society and the world at large. While ma...

Reducere. Stories from the history of the United States beginning with a full account of exploration and settlement and ending with the presidency of Woodrow...

Reducere. Description The Other Side of the Sea, the first novel by this major Haitian author to be translated into English, is riveted on the other shore--w...

LGBT activism is often imagined as a self-contained struggle, inspired by but set apart from other social movements. Lavender and Red recounts a fa...

Reducere. DescriptionIn America, fraud has always been a key feature of business, and the national worship of entrepreneurial freedom complicates the task of...

"Historians of migration will welcome Mark Wyman's new book on the elusive subject of persons who returned to Europe after coming to the United Sta...

Reducere. In making this selection, writes William Cookson in his introduction to this paperback edition of early and out-of-print writings, my aim has been ...

Reducere. This book explains the history of US/Central American relations, explaining why these countries have remained so overpopulated, illiterate and viol...

DescriptionFor many, "going back to the land" brings to mind the 1960s and 1970s-hippie communes and the Summer of Love, The Whole Earth Catalog an...

Fascinating and highly readable, this is the definitive social history of the world's most romantic, flamboyant, glamorous, and politically influen...

Reducere. In this definitive biography of Sinclair Lewis (Main Street, Babbitt), Lingeman presents an empathetic, absorbing, and balanced portrait of an ecce...

DescriptionMeetings with remarkable activists since the 1960s American social change movements dominated the 1960s and 1970s, an era brought about ...

Reducere. DescriptionA new understanding of the post World War II era, showing what occurred when the British Empire wouldn't step aside for the rising Ameri...

Reducere. Originally published in 1904 and dedicated to "the young people of America, " this is the complete Bible story, including the Old Testament and New...

Reducere. In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million peo...

Reducere. The European discovery of the northwest coast of America is fully and dramatically recorded in this journal, an invaluable historical and scientifi...

Reducere. From the two-time winner of the prestigious Lincoln Prize, a stirring and surprising account of the debates that made Lincoln a national figure and...

Reducere. "This book mounts perhaps the most impressive argument ever made that there exists a viable and desirable alternative to the continued reliance on ...

Reducere. Famous for iconic images of the rural Midwest such as American Gothic, Politics in Missouri, and Baptism in Kansas Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, ...

DescriptionA lost literary relic of the First World War, Common Cause tells the story of Jeremy Robson, a crusading newspaper editor in the fiction...

From the clamshell razors and homemade lye depilatories used in colonial America to the diode lasers and prescription pharmaceuticals available tod...

David Lurie learns that all beginnings are hard. He must fight for his place against the bullies in his Depression-shadowed Bronx neighborhood and ...

Reducere. In 2013, James Perloff published his landmark primer on the New World Order Truth Is a Lonely Warrior. In the years since, online, he has expanded ...

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American...

Reducere. 50th Anniversary of The Beatles in America. The Beatles' performance at New York's Shea Stadium on August 15, 1965 is one of the most exciting and ...

Reducere. This is a new edition of the the first Masonic book printed in America, which was originally produced in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin in 1734,...

Reducere. The passing, on January 4, 2011, of Peter Dyck, following the death of his wife, Elfrieda, in 2004, marks the end of a remarkable chapter in Mennon...

Reducere. George R. Stewart's classic study of place-naming in the United States was written during World War II as a tribute to the varied heritage of the n...

Continuing in the vein of his ever questioning the conventions of race melodrama through the lens of which so much American racial and cultural his...

Reducere. The first complete and balanced history of the Black Panther Party--powerful and provocative"Until The Shadow of the Panther there have been no ser...

As one of the earliest literary forms of colonial America, the Indian captivity narrative is important not only in the history of American letters ...

Contributor(s): Author: Jean-Pierre TorrellTranslator: Benedict M. GuevinIn this concise new volume by the acclaimed author of the biography of Sai...

Reducere. DescriptionBefore European incursions began in the seventeenth century, the Western Abenaki Indians inhabited present-day Vermont and New Hampshire...

Reducere. For over 2, 500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads for armies and has witnessed history-shaping clashe...

Reducere. The images of the 1920s have been indelibly imprinted on the American imagination-from jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, the Model T Ford, Babe...

Reducere. A literary tour de force, a magnificent chronicle of a remarkable era and a place of dreamsIn a stunning work of imagination and memory, author Kev...

Reducere. DescriptionA unique and comprehensive collection of 26 literary essays that provides real evidence of the rich cultural history of black women in A...

Reducere. Description*A New York Times Notable Book* *A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year* From the bestselling National Book Award finalist and author of...

Reducere. "One of the 100 best books of the year." --The Times Literary Supplement Christopher Columbus is reevaluated as a man of deep passion, patience, an...

Reducere. Gain braids together two stories on very different scales. In one, Laura Body, divorced mother of two and a real-estate agent in the small town of ...

Reducere. ..".Just as the company's members good-naturedly bash the Bard in THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED), so do they cheerfully run r...

Reducere. The rescue of a literary manuscript results in a war of words over the interpretation of 107 haiku about New York's Central Park. In the battle of ...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and winner of a Lambda Literary Award, The Gay Metropolis is a landmark saga of struggle and triumph that...

Reducere. A New York Times bestseller, The Year We Left Home is National Book Award finalist Jean Thompson's mesmerizing, decades-spanning saga of one ordina...

Reducere. Dashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane, James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, David Goodis ... these are a few of the masters of noir responsib...

Reducere. DescriptionTwenty-five frightening tales about Gettysburg ghosts, the haunted Chesapeake, and much more, in an all-new addition to the bestselling ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe second "wave" of U.S. immigration, from 1870 to 1920, brought more than 26 million men, women, and children onto American shores. Ju...

DescriptionIn 1979, the Sandinista government established itself in power in Managua, the capitol of Nicaragua. It found the country ruined by the ...

Reducere. Julia Alvarez has suitcases full of history (public and private), trunks full of insights into what it means to be a Latina in the United States, b...

DescriptionANOTHER TRUE CRIME STORY FROM J. NORTH CONWAY--NOW IN PAPERBACK The riveting story of one of America's most notorious crimes and the mys...

Reducere. "Ka is a beautiful, often dreamlike late masterpiece." --Los Angeles Times "One of our country's absolutely finest novelists." --Peter Straub, New ...