A New Literary History of America, Paperback

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

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

Reducere. It's 1966, and young Heywood Gould, a Brooklyn boy with literary ambitions, has his dream job. He is a reporter at the ultra liberal (that's right ...

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

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Reducere. An early masterwork among American literary treatments of miscegenation, Chesnutt's story is of two young African Americans who decide to pass for ...

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Afoot in Connecticut, is a love letter to this often overlooked region of America, an inspirational story that will have you taking to the trails a...

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. Zero Hour and Other Documentary Poems brings together in English translation eight of the longer poems by Nicaragua's impassioned Marxist priest, E...

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. 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...

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

Reducere. This is the fascinating story of music. How it started with a song and became one of our most beloved arts.Learn how early composers added modal rh...

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

Reducere. Minnesota is often associated with its Scandinavian heritage, but in fact Germans are the largest single immigrant group in Minnesota history and w...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Whitman's Leaves of Grass, a novel of poems that has become a c...

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 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 ...

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

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

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

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Reducere. In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct ...

Reducere. DescriptionThese poems consider the history of the Americas and their uncertain future, particularly regarding the danger of climate change, and su...

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

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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...

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This collection of essays by scholar-activist W. E. B. Du Bois is a masterpiece in the African American canon. Du Bois, arguably the most influenti...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore the Captivating Life of Martin Van Buren History chiefly remembers Martin Van Buren as the eighth president of the United States...

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

Reducere. James Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping novel is a landmark in black literary history and, more than eighty years after its original anonymous ...

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. 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 ...

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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...

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...

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

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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. DescriptionEngaging and accessibly written, Strange New Land explores the history of slavery and the struggle for freedom before the United States ...

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. 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...

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...

"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...

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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...

Description"An important beginning to understanding the truth over myth about Judaism in American history" (New York Journal of Books), Steven R. W...

Reducere. When it first appeared in hardcover, Which Side Are You On? received widespread critical accolades, and was nominated for a National Book Critics C...

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