Gunfighter Nation: Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America, the, Paperback - Richard Slotkin

Reducere. Gunfighter Nation completes Richard Slotkin's trilogy, begun in Regeneration Through Violence and continued in Fatal Environment, on the myth of th...

Reducere. In The Fatal Environment, Richard Slotkin demonstrates how the myth of frontier expansion and subjugation of the Indians helped to justify the cour...

Reducere. In Regeneration Through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, Richard Slotkin shows how the attitudes and tradi...

Reducere. Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders--lawyers provided by the go...

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Reducere. Popular perceptions of American writers as either godless radicals or God-fearing reactionaries overlook a vital tradition of Christian leftist tho...

Reducere. A historical biography of a radical relationship at the dawn of the 20th Century The opening years of the twentieth century saw a grand cast of rad...

A new edition of this seminal survey on the history of graphic design in the twentieth century.Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Richard Hol...

In the 1960s biologists and social scientists engaged in a public debate about human nature. The question-whether humans are innately aggressive or...

In 1918, Rebecca Goldberg--a Jewish immigrant from the Russian Empire living in rural Wilmington, Massachusetts--lost her husband, Nathan, to a rai...

English radicalism has been a persistent and important, though minority, strand in English political culture since at least the English Civil War. ...

DescriptionRecent events--the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and efforts to increase the minimum wage, am...

This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverma...

Reducere. Whether or not we've come a long way since then, this engaging study of courtship shows that at least half the fun is in reading about getting ther...

Deals with the toothpaste and toothbrush industries from 1900 to 2008. This book shows that during these years, America moved from a nation of peop...

Contributor(s): Author: Margot CanadayThe Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Uneart...

* A significant contribution to our understanding of how politics affects real people, and abrilliant blend of sweeping narrative and detailed anal...

A major history of the impact of Caribbean migration to the United States.

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In A Nation Divided by History and Memory a prominent Hungarian historian sheds light on how Hungary's historical image has become split as a conse...

Reducere. In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century America...

As Lillian Faderman writes, there are "no constants with regard to lesbianism, " except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, sh...

The celebrated music writer looks back on how great British music has often had a connection with the landscape. Takes in the work of musicians div...

The gunfighter was a man bred in a lawless and violent era of civil war, range wars, and greed for land and gold. He played a real and deadly part ...

Contributor(s): Author: Furio JesiTranslator: Richard BraudeIn the decades before the rise of the Third Reich, "Secret Germany" was a phrase used b...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Claire ZimmermanNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 256 x 179 x 26Cover type: ...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe Significance of the Frontier in American History is a classic essay about the importance of the frontier.

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Reducere. This work provides an overview of Irish theatre, read in the light of Ireland's self-definition. Mediating between history and its relations with p...

Reducere. Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Richard (Professor of musicology, Professor of musicology, University of California, Berkeley) Tar...

This book examines the array of financial crises, slumps, depressions and recessions that happened around the globe during the twentieth and early ...

From The Hobbit to Harry Potter, how fantasy harnesses the cultural power of magic, medievalism, and childhood to re-enchant the modern world Why a...

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Final volume of the seven-volume Cambridge History of the Book in Britain series, focusing on the twentieth century and beyond. The book is for stu...

A study of Communism and a history of the myth of Communism as perpetuated by its admirers. This book illuminates how the support for Communism and...

Examines the history of the mapping sciences in the twentieth century and their relationship to the history of territory

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Aaron Rock-SingerIllustration(s): 1 b-w illustrationNumber of pages: 278Publication date: 2022D...