A New Literary History of America

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

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 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 ...

Reducere. In 1906, fifteen-year old Elizabeth Gurley Flynn mounted a soapbox in Times Square to denounce capitalism and proclaim a new era for women's freedo...

This volume covers a variety of authors and topics related to the New Criticism school of the 1920s-1950s in America. Contributors trace the histor...

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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 ...

A definitive collection of railway posters showcasing the history of poster development during the past 120 years. Written in association with Swan...

Reducere. Have you heard of Charles Leslie? Thomas Mann pinched his butt. He has the biggest penis collection in the world. He is one of the fathers of moder...

Reducere. DescriptionAlbert James Pickett's History of Alabama, and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the Earliest Period first appeared in Montg...

Reducere. A glimpse into the diverse stories of Black Jews in the United States What makes a Jew? This book traces the history of Jews of African descent in ...

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...

From novelists and professors to suffragists and Irish revolutionaries, Shakespeare's women editors lived extraordinary lives and produced editions...

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...

Making History/Making Blintzes is a chronicle of the political and personal lives of progressive activists Richard (Dick) and Miriam (Mickey) Flack...

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...

From the longest-running, most influential book review in America, here is its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past...

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

DescriptionBruce Ackerman offers a sweeping reinterpretation of our nation's constitutional experience and its promise for the future. Integrating ...

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...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Spanish Craze is the compelling story of the centuries-long U.S. fascination with the history, literature, art, culture, and archite...

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...

How New York's Lower East Side inspired new ways of seeing AmericaNew York City's Lower East Side, long viewed as the space of what Jacob Riis noto...

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. As the modern celebration of Christmas took shape across the nineteenth century, American writers gave it new meaning in the pages of countless boo...

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

DescriptionAn award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from di...

"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. DescriptionA dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made and unmade nations, continents, and e...

Reducere. Description""In this wonderfully insightful book, Joan Walsh shows how America built a large and vibrant (although mostly white) middle class that ...

Reducere. During the early twentieth century, Sicilian and Southern Italian immigrants poured into New York City. Looking to escape poverty and persecution a...

Reducere. DescriptionAndover, geographically one of the largest townships in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, has a long and illustrious history. Founded m...

Reducere. Few cities boast a heritage as rich and a local color as dynamic as that of New Orleans. Known the world round for its unique architecture, exquisi...

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. "A fascinating window on the evolution of Jewish integration into American society and culture." - Alan M. Kraut, American UniversityAbout the Auth...

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...

If you were asked when America became polarized, your answer would likely depend on your age: you might say during Barack Obama's presidency, or wi...

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...

Title: A new account of some parts of Guinea, and the slave-trade: containing I. The history of the late conquest of the kingdom of Whidaw by the k...

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

DescriptionAfter the Enlightenment is the first attempt at understanding modern political realism as a historical phenomenon. Realism is not an ete...

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...

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Reducere. In this dazzling collection of short fiction, the National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love--"one o...

DescriptionBritain yesterday; America today. The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian an...

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, ...

Reducere. DescriptionHow beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food complexBy the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor ha...

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

A literary novel set on the coast of Maine during the 1960s, tracing the life of a family and its matriarch as they negotiate sharing a home.Eleano...

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 ...