The American West. The Invention of a Myth, Paperback - David H. Murdoch

States that the Wild West of Hollywood and American folklore is nothing more than a functional myth. The author presents a sustained analysis of ho...

Unpicking the ever-changing myth of the West in photography, from the 19th century to nowPublished for an exhibition at the Figge Art Museum in Dav...

Reducere. DescriptionGeneral Jan Christian Smuts (1870-1950) was an heroic icon for many. But over the decades, he was regarded in another light. For Afrikan...

Reducere. DescriptionFifty years ago Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith and the Rhodesian Front party declared independence from Great Britain unilaterally. A ...

Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): David SchneiderPublication date: 2020Dimensions: 153 x 233 x 39Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul le...

A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times-bestselling author sets a new standard for histories of the American WestIllustrations: 24 Ha...

Reducere. We are what we eat, as the saying goes, but we are also how we eat, and when, and where. Our eating habits reveal as much about our society as the ...

Have you ever wondered what would happen if your favourite characters from fairy tales might stumble into the world of Greek mythology?Publisher: O...

Reducere. Winner of the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame Oklahoma Book Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book Spur Award fro...

With fresh appraisals of popular Westerns, this book examines the history of the genre with a focus on definitional aspects of canon, adaptation an...

Publisher: University of California PressIllustration(s): 74 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 183 x 263 x 17C...

Reducere. A companion to such acclaimed works as The Age of Wonder, A Clockwork Universe, and Darwin's Ghosts--a groundbreaking examination of the greatest e...

The story of Alan Turing, the persecuted genius who helped break the Enigma code and create the modern computer, and who received a royal pardon in...

Reducere. In Children of Rus', Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. The ...

A leading series of study guides for students of Edexcel GCSE History, developed by expert educators who know how to instil deep subject knowledge ...

Reducere. The ethnically and geographically heterogeneous countries that comprise Latin America have each produced music in unique styles and genres - but ho...

Reducere. The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNei...

The Invention of Tradition - Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger

Reducere. The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's...

The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's...

Reducere. Between 1842 and 1854 John C. Fr mont, renowned as the nineteenth century's greatest explorer, and Kit Carson, the legendary scout and Indian fight...

Reducere. DescriptionBuilding on the best-selling tradition of previous editions, The World of Myth, Third Edition, offers a uniquely comprehensive collectio...

Reducere. It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last. The river that flows through Tom Stoppard s ``The Inv...

Reducere. From Paul Auster, author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel his very first book, a moving and personal meditation on fatherhood This debut work by...

A new American creed has reconstructed the social contract. Generations from 1890 to 1940 took for granted that citizenship entailed voting, volunt...

Reducere. In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization ...

Reducere. 2008 Caldecott Medal winnerThe groundbreaking debut novel from bookmaking pioneer, Brian Selznick Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in th...

Identical twin sisters take turns swapping places over the course of a summer in order to pursue their secret ambitions in Samantha Hastings' Victo...

The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages - Geraldine Heng

Reducere. From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women. Sarah ...

Reducere. Before the charismatic John Duval Gluck, Jr. came along, letters from New York City children to Santa Claus were destroyed, unopened, by the U.S. P...

Description#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the Amer...

Reducere. From deserts to ghost towns, from national forests to California bungalows, many of the features of the western American landscape are well known t...

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016 How did a country that liberated itself from seventy years of Soviet rule end up as one of the biggest threats to t...

A new account of innovative French poet, novelist, essayist and film writer Blaise Cendrars.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Eric RobertsonIllus...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): G BlancNumber of pages: 180Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 137 x 216 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedesc...

For many Americans of both right and left political persuasions, the Russian bear is more of a bugbear. On the right, the country is still mentally...

DescriptionWhat does it mean to have a constitutional right in an era in which most rights must yield to 'compelling governmental interests'? After...

Reducere. A fascinating history of the practice of surgery from one of the leading figures in the field, chronicling centuries of scientific breakthroughs by...

Reducere. Caldecott Honor artist Brian Selznick's lavishly illustrated debut novel is a cinematic tour de force not to be missed! ORPHAN, CLOCK KEEPER, AND T...

Reducere. The Invention of the Kaleidoscope is a book of poetic elegies that discuss failures: failures of love, both sexual and spiritual; failures of the b...

DescriptionA historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Je...

A provocative account showing that "China"-and its 5, 000 years of unified history-is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jacqueline M. BattaloraBirth of a White Nation is a fascinating new book on race in America that begins with an exploration...

Reducere. After the Civil War, four geological and geographical surveys, later called the Great Surveys, Undertook the massive task of finding out what lay w...

A fascinating cultural history of this most magical of islands Sicily has always acted as a gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Fough...