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43 produkter
Electronic Hearth
Creating an American Television Culture
Häftad, 1993
392 kr
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We all talk about the "tube" or "box," as if television were simply another appliance like the refrigerator or toaster oven. But Cecilia Tichi argues that TV is actually an environment--a pervasive screen-world that saturates almost every aspect of modern life. In Electronic Hearth, she looks at …
Electronic Hearth
Creating an American Television Culture
E-bok, 1992
244 kr
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We all talk about the "tube" or "box," as if television were simply another appliance like the refrigerator or toaster oven. But Cecilia Tichi argues that TV is actually an environment--a pervasive screen-world that saturates almost every aspect of modern life. In Electronic Hearth , she looks at …
Embodiment of a Nation
Human Form in American Places
Häftad, 2004
443 kr
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From Harriet Beecher Stowe's image of the Mississippi's "bosom" to Henry David Thoreau's Cape Cod as "the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts," the U.S. environment has been recurrently represented in terms of the human body. Exploring such instances of embodiment, Cecelia Tichi exposes the …
Shifting Gears
Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America
Häftad, 1996
661 kr
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Shifting Gears is a richly illustrated exploration of the American era of gear-and-girder technology. From the 1890s to the 1920s machines and structures shaped by this technology emerged in many forms, from automobiles and harvesting machines to bridges and skyscrapers. The most casual onlooker to …
Civic Passions
Seven Who Launched Progressive America (and What They Teach Us)
Häftad, 2011
417 kr
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This book describes the transformative power of citizen action. A gripping and inspiring book, ""Civic Passions"" examines innovative leadership in periods of crisis in American history. Starting from the late nineteenth century, when respected voices warned that America was on the brink of …
Civic Passions
Seven Who Launched Progressive America (and What They Teach Us)
E-bok, 2009
349 kr
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A gripping and inspiring book, Civic Passions examines innovative leadership in periods of crisis in American history. Starting from the late nineteenth century, when respected voices warned that America was on the brink of collapse, Cecelia Tichi explores the wisdom of practical visionaries who …
Exposés and Excess
Muckraking in America, 1900 / 2000
E-bok, 2013
427 kr
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From robber barons to titanic CEOs, from the labor unrest of the 1880s to the mass layoffs of the 1990s, two American Gilded Ages-one in the early 1900s, another in the final years of the twentieth century-mirror each other in their laissez-faire excess and rampant social crises. Both eras have …
Exposés and Excess
Muckraking in America, 1900 / 2000
Häftad, 2005
344 kr
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From robber barons to titanic CEOs, from the labor unrest of the 1880s to the mass layoffs of the 1990s, two American Gilded Ages-one in the early 1900s, another in the final years of the twentieth century-mirror each other in their laissez-faire excess and rampant social crises. Both eras have …
Best of Times, Worst of Times
Contemporary American Short Stories from the New Gilded Age
Av Wendy Martin, Cecelia Tichi
Inbunden, 2011
1413 kr
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Late twentieth and early twenty-first century America has been labeled as "The New Gilded Age," a phrase that embodies the glitz and glamour of one of the wealthiest countries in the world but also suggests the greed, corruption, and inequalities teeming just below the surface. Identifying some of …
Best of Times, Worst of Times
Contemporary American Short Stories from the New Gilded Age
Av Wendy Martin, Cecelia Tichi
Häftad, 2011
445 kr
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Late twentieth and early twenty-first century America has been labeled as "The New Gilded Age," a phrase that embodies the glitz and glamour of one of the wealthiest countries in the world but also suggests the greed, corruption, and inequalities teeming just below the surface. Identifying some of …
Reading Country Music
Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, and Honky Tonk Bars
Häftad, 1998
651 kr
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With its steel guitars, Opry stars, and honky-tonk bars, country music is an American original. The most popular music in America today, it’s also big business. Amazing, then, that country music has been so little studied by critics, given its predominance in American culture. Reading Country Music …
Reading Country Music
Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, and Honky Tonk Bars
E-bok, 1998
671 kr
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With its steel guitars, Opry stars, and honky-tonk bars, country music is an American original. The most popular music in America today, it’s also big business. Amazing, then, that country music has been so little studied by critics, given its predominance in American culture. Reading Country Music …
Civic Passions
Seven Who Launched Progressive America (and What They Teach Us)
E-bok, 2009
881 kr
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A gripping and inspiring book, Civic Passions examines innovative leadership in periods of crisis in American history. Starting from the late nineteenth century, when respected voices warned that America was on the brink of collapse, Cecelia Tichi explores the wisdom of practical visionaries who …
Jack London, Enhanced Ebook
A Writer''s Fight for a Better America
E-bok, 2015
677 kr
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Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. A onetime child laborer, London led a life of poverty in the Gilded Age before rising to worldwide …
Jack London
A Writer''s Fight for a Better America
E-bok, 2015
1315 kr
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Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. A onetime child laborer, London led a life of poverty in the Gilded Age before rising to worldwide …
Jack London
A Writer's Fight for a Better America
Häftad, 2017
384 kr
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Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. A onetime child laborer, London led a life of poverty in the Gilded Age before rising to worldwide …
Shifting Gears
Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America
E-bok, 2017
448 kr
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Shifting Gears is a richly illustrated exploration of the American era of gear-and-girder technology. From the 1890s to the 1920s machines and structures shaped by this technology emerged in many forms, from automobiles and harvesting machines to bridges and skyscrapers. The most casual onlooker to …
Gilded Age Cocktails
History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Golden Age
Inbunden, 2021
275 kr
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A delightful romp through America's Golden Age of CocktailsThe decades following the American Civil War burst with invention—they saw the dawn of the telephone, the motor car, electric lights, the airplane—but no innovation was more welcome than the beverage heralded as the "cocktail." The Gilded …
Jazz Age Cocktails
History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Roaring Twenties
Inbunden, 2021
253 kr
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How the Prohibition law of 1920 made alcohol, savored in secret, all the more delectable when the cocktail shaker was forced to go "underground""Roaring Twenties" America boasted famous firsts: women's right to vote, jazz music, talking motion pictures, flapper fashions, and wondrous new devices …
Midcentury Cocktails
History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Atomic Age
Inbunden, 2022
253 kr
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A delightful history of cocktails from the era of new interstate highways, sprouting suburbs, and atomic engineeringAmerica at midcentury was a nation on the move, taking to wings and wheels along the new interstate highways and in passenger jets that soared to thirty thousand feet. Anxieties …
What Would Mrs. Astor Do?
The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age
Inbunden, 2018
355 kr
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A richly illustrated romp with America's Gilded Age leisure class—and those angling to join it Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. Between 1870 and 1900, the United States' population doubled, accompanied by an unparalleled industrial expansion, and an explosion of wealth unlike any the world had …
On the Town in the Gilded Age
The Essential Guide to Eating and Entertaining at the Turn of the Century
Inbunden, 2027
301 kr
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Maps the amusements, spectacles, and social ambitions of Gilded Age AmericaOn the Town in the Gilded Age tracks the expansion of entertainment venues and delectable edibles that lured Americans into public spaces where good times waited just for them. While the decades following the Civil War to …
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
A Historical Exploration of Literature
Av Wendy Martin Ph.D., Cecelia Tichi
Inbunden, 2016
988 kr
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This book offers a one-stop reference work covering the Gilded Age and Progressive Era that serves teachers and their students.This book helps students to better understand key pieces in literature from the Gilded Age and Progressive Era by putting them in the context of history, society, and …
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
A Historical Exploration of Literature
Av Wendy Martin Ph.D., Cecelia Tichi
E-bok, 2016
1052 kr
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This book offers a one-stop reference work covering the Gilded Age and Progressive Era that serves teachers and their students. This book helps students to better understand key pieces in literature from the Gilded Age and Progressive Era by putting them in the context of history, society, and …
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
A Historical Exploration of Literature
Av Wendy Martin Ph.D., Cecelia Tichi
E-bok, 2016
942 kr
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This book offers a one-stop reference work covering the Gilded Age and Progressive Era that serves teachers and their students. This book helps students to better understand key pieces in literature from the Gilded Age and Progressive Era by putting them in the context of history, society, and …
Shifting Gears
Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America
E-bok, 2017
436 kr
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Shifting Gears is a richly illustrated exploration of the American era of gear-and-girder technology. From the 1890s to the 1920s machines and structures shaped by this technology emerged in many forms, from automobiles and harvesting machines to bridges and skyscrapers. The most casual onlooker to …
Civic Passions
Seven Who Launched Progressive America (and What They Teach Us)
E-bok, 2009
357 kr
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A gripping and inspiring book, Civic Passions examines innovative leadership in periods of crisis in American history. Starting from the late nineteenth century, when respected voices warned that America was on the brink of collapse, Cecelia Tichi explores the wisdom of practical visionaries who …
