A New Literary History of America

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

A wonderful new collection of Henry James's short stories about Americans in Europe Daisy Miller is one of Henry James's great heroines: a young, i...

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. from unincorporated territory hacha] is the first book of native Chamorro poet Craig Santos Perez's ongoing series about his homeland, the Western ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized America's imagination. A "spirit photographe...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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. Based on the true story of a modern-day lynching in America, Ravi Howard's widely acclaimed debut novel exposes one of the most tragic chapters in ...

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

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...

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

Description*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the case *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of...

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...

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

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...

Set in Macedonia at the beginning of the twentieth century, the novel Infidelity draws on myth and history to tell an unusual story of star-crossed...

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. 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,...

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

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...

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

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. 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. 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 ...

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

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...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's News of a Kidnapping is a powerful retelling of actual events from a turbulent period of Colombian history. 'She looked ov...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Reducere. F. Scott Fitzgerald's cherished debut novel announced the arrival of a brilliant young writer and anticipated his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. Pu...

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

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. This cherished classic of rural American life was a popular success when it first appeared in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. By the ea...

Reducere. DescriptionNearly lost after its anonymous publication in 1926 and only recently rediscovered, When Washington Was in Vogue is an acclaimed love st...

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. This complete guide to wooden clock making shows how to construct a wide variety of traditional, Shaker and contemporary clocks. Plans, parts lists...

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...

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

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. 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...

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 ...

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. 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...