A New Literary History of America

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

Reducere. I Should Have Known Better is a sequel to the sleeper hit I'm Open to Anything (2019), expanding the original's scope and ambition. The new book ha...

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...

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

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

"Dazzling...Riveting." --New York Times Book Review "Chen has one of the year's big debut books." --Philadelphia Inquirer "Gripping and illuminatin...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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. Hnefatafl, the ancient Norse game of strategy, has intrigued scholars for more than a century. It was played not only in Scandinavia, but in the ot...

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...

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...

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. 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. 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...

Description*Includes pictures *Includes accounts written by CCC workers *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes...

Reducere. DescriptionInvaluable and rare material on the war for North AmericaThis book is the third volume in an ongoing series published by Leonaur for all...

Reducere. "Fascinating.... A major work by a leading historian at the top of his game--at once engaging and tightly argued." --The New York Times Book Review...

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...

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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...

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. 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...

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...

Reducere. We're back again, overflowing with great new material for a third volume of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. No more frantic searches at the last minu...

Reducere. In 1848 famine gripped Ireland. Nearly a million people would die of starvation and typhoid fever. A million more Irish would abandon their homelan...

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 ...

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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...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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, ...

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

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 provocative new book that shows us why we must put American history firmly in a global context--from 1492 to todayAmericans like to tell their co...