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6 produkter
Out of the Ballpark
How to Think About Baseball
Inbunden, 2026
220 kr
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From America's Pastime to a global phenomenon--the life of the spectacular game as it is played and celebrated in communities around the worldAll over the world, masses of people watch, follow, document, and obsess over baseball. Everything remarkable about the impact of baseball derives from the …
Postal Age
The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America
Häftad, 2007
324 kr
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Many of us may not realize that what we now call snail mail was once just as revolutionary as e-mail and text messages are today. As David M. Henkin argues in "The Postal Age", a burgeoning postal network initiated major cultural shifts during the nineteenth century, laying the foundation for the …
Postal Age
The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America
E-bok, 2008
703 kr
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Americans commonly recognize television, e-mail, and instant messaging as agents of pervasive cultural change. But many of us may not realize that what we now call snail mail was once just as revolutionary. As David M. Henkin argues in The Postal Age , a burgeoning postal network initiated major …
Week
A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are
E-bok, 2021
15 kr
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An investigation into the evolution of the seven-day week and how our attachment to its rhythms influences how we liveWe take the seven-day week for granted, rarely asking what anchors it or what it does to us. Yet weeks are not dictated by the natural order. They are, in fact, an artificial …
Week
A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are
Häftad, 2023
185 kr
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An investigation into the evolution of the seven-day week and how our attachment to its rhythms influences how we live “[Henkin] scours American literature, diaries, periodicals, menus and other ephemera from as far back as the 17th century to unearth fascinating evidence of the stickiness of the …
Becoming America ISE
Av David M. Henkin, Rebecca M. McLennan
Häftad, 2022
825 kr
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The way we once learned history is now history. Developed for students and instructors of the twenty-first century, Becoming America excites learners by connecting history to their experience of contemporary life. You can’t travel back in time, but you can be transported, and BecomingAmerica does …
