American Snobs: Transatlantic Novelists, Liberal Culture and the Genteel Tradition, Hardcover - Emily Coit

Reassesses American elitisms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Arguing that Henry Adams, Henry James and Edith Wharton articulated...

DescriptionOur fascination with the trickster figure, whose presence is global, stems from our desire to break free from the tightly regimented str...

A brand-new Baby-sitters Club graphic novel adapted by Eisner-nominated artist Chan Chau!Kristy's mom got remarried and their family moved to the r...

Reducere. DescriptionHartz's influential interpretation of american political thought since the Revolution. He contends that americanca gave rise to a new co...

Pillars of Justice explores the purpose and possibilities of life in the law through moving accounts of thirteen lawyers who shaped the legal world...

Reducere. DescriptionOur fascination with the trickster figure, whose presence is global, stems from our desire to break free from the tightly regimented str...

This second collection of essays for the Societas series by Tom Rubens continues the author's discussion of contemporary issues contained in "Progr...

A brand-new Baby-sitters Club graphic novel adapted by Eisner-nominated artist Chan Chau!Kristy's mom got remarried and their family moved to the r...

While there are still occasional uses of it today, the term "Central Europe" carries little of the charge that it did in the 1980s and early 1990s,...

Reducere. Hartz's influential interpretation of american political thought since the Revolution. He contends that americanca gave rise to a new concept of a ...

David Harrison has contributed to the academic study of tourism over the last thirty years. This book brings together a collection of his published...

A wonderful and inspiring collection of eloquent prose, beautiful poetry and ancestral wisdom from Chiefs, Medicine Men and ordinary members of man...

The third volume of Granta's renowned and prescient, Best of Young American NovelistsEvery ten years, Granta devotes an issue to new American ficti...

A reissue of the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling novel, from the award-winning creator of DOWNTON ABBEY and Oscar-winning writer of GOSFORD PARK.

Reducere. America's favorite series returns with a new look and a Netflix tv show. Kristy's mom got married again last summer and now Kristy and her family l...

Liberal democracies very rarely fight wars against each other, even though they go to war just as often as other types of states do. John M. Owen I...

Architect Gil Schafer illustrates how he blends classical architecture, interior decoration, and landscapes to create homes with a feeling of histo...

This book is a comprehensive survey of African American Christian Religious Education (AACRE). It addresses historical, theological, and ministeria...

The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literatureIslamic book culture dates back...

DescriptionThis book examines the powerful influence of civil law on understandings and responses to madness in England and in New Jersey. The infl...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Amanda SiglerIllustration(s): 20 bw illusNumber of pages: 280Collection: Historicizing ModernismPubl...

Reducere. When Buffalo Bill's Wild West show traveled to Paris in 1889, the New York Times reported that the exhibition would be "managed to suit French idea...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Jaroslav Pelikan begins this volume with the crisis of orthodoxy that confronted all Christian denominations by the beginning of the eighteenth cen...

How the Golden Age of transatlantic travel between the wars transformed women's lives across all classes - a vivid portrait of life on-board the ic...

Reducere. Defines these brews in modern and historical terms while guiding today's brewers towards credibile and enjoyable reproductions of these old world c...

This social history of Byzantine law offers an introduction to one of the world's richest yet hitherto understudied legal traditions. The first stu...

Takes the reader across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas and then back in pursuit of the music we call jazz. This first volume explores the...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Dan McKananNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 150 x 221 x 29Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressIllustration(s): 20 b&w illustrationsNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 141 x 214 x 24Co...

Reducere. In this remarkable book, Collin Cleary defends Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen against the claim that it "distorts" Germanic mythology. Wa...

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Reducere. The American Tradition of Descent/Dissent: The Underground, the Countercultural, the (Anti)Utopian Editie in limba engleza From Contents: - the Ame...

Reducere. The American Political Tradition isone of the most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time. First published in 1948, its eleganc...