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373 produkter

1. 

   Wieland, or the Transformation

   Av The Kent State University Press, Sydney J. Krause

   Häftad, 1987

   307 kr

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   Fort Laurens, 1778-79

   The Revolutionary War in Ohio

   Av The Kent State University Press

   Häftad, 1980

   210 kr

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   Edgar Huntly

   Or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker

   Av The Kent State University Press

   Häftad, 1987

   348 kr

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   Photo Album of Ohio's Canal Era, 1825-1913

   Av The Kent State University Press

   Inbunden, 1988

   605 kr

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5. 

   Krill Cave

   A Stratified Rockshelter in Summit Country

   Av The Kent State University Press

   Häftad, 1989

   165 kr

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   Compromise Formations

   Current Directions in Psychoanalytic Criticism

   Av The Kent State University Press, Vera J. Camden

   Häftad, 1989

   219 kr

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   Keepers of Culture

   Art-thought of Kenyon Cox, Royal Cortissoz and Frank Jewett Mather Jr.

   Av The Kent State University Press

   Inbunden, 1989

   322 kr

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   The conflict between modern and traditional art is one of the best known episodes in American cultural history. The modernists won the war in the sense that their styles and attitudes of mind dominated the discussion and production of new art. But the traditionalists remained strong in the arenas …

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   Letters to Lalage

   Letters of Charles Williams to Lois Lang-Sims

   Av The Kent State University Press

   Häftad, 1990

   201 kr

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   Pattern in the Web

   Mythical Poetry of Charles Williams

   Av The Kent State University Press

   Inbunden, 1990

   364 kr

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   Charles Williams has achieved considerable reputation for his novels. He has been recognized as a brilliant theologian and a sensitive literary critic. But Williams himself wished most to be remembered as a poet, and trusted his future literary reputation to the two-volume series of poems on the …

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    Death Throes of a Dynasty

    Letters and Diaries of Charles and Bessie Ewing, Missionaries to China

    Av The Kent State University Press, Ruoff m. fl.

    Inbunden, 1990

    381 kr

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    The letters of Charles and Bessie Ewing provide eyewitness accounts of the social upheaval and warfare that shook turn-of-the century China. In addition to discussing their missionary activities in the villages of North China and their struggle to master the Chinese Mandarin dialect, the Ewings …

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    Science Fiction

    The Early Years

    Av The Kent State University Press

    Inbunden, 1991

    1062 kr

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    In this volume the author describes more than 3000 short stories, novels, and plays with science fiction elements, from earliest times to 1930. He includes imaginary voyages, utopias, Victorian boys' books, dime novels, pulp magazine stories, British scientific romances and mainstream work with …

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    Indispensable Harp

    Historic Development, Modern Roles, Configurations and Performance Practices in Ecuador and Latin America

    Av The Kent State University Press

    Inbunden, 1992

    401 kr

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    A musical instrument that has played a vital role in Latin American music cultures - the harp - is the subject of this work. John Schechter presents a history of the harp in Spain, traces its introduction into colonial Latin America, and describes its modern roles in the diverse cultural centres of …

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    Myopic Grandeur

    Ambivalence of French Foreign Policy Toward the Far East, 1919-45

    Av The Kent State University Press

    Inbunden, 1992

    448 kr

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    France's effort to maintain its presence as a great world power is the subject of ""Myopic Grandeur"", a study of French foreign policy initiatives in the Far East from World War I until the conclusion of World War II. France emerged from World War I as the dominant power in Europe and one of the …

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    Space Between

    Literary Epiphany in the Work of Annie Dillard

    Av The Kent State University Press

    Inbunden, 1992

    395 kr

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    Annie Dillard, a practitioner of the literary epiphany, has become a representative of a neoromantic movement that combines the ecological interest of wilderness literature with the aesthetics of a highly stylized literature. This study of the Pulitzer prize-winning essayist considers her as …

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    Way of the Pipa

    Structure and Imagery of Chinese Lute Music

    Av The Kent State University Press

    Inbunden, 1992

    448 kr

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    Two thousand years ago, the lute was imported to China via overland trade routes from Central Asia and was adopted quickly in many of the regions. Ancient court documents describe how generations of talented musicians developed its music. John E. Myers translates one of these documents to introduce …

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    First Day at Gettysburg

    Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership

    Av The Kent State University Press

    Häftad, 1992

    243 kr

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    The Battle of Gettysburg exerts a unique hold on the national imagination. Many writers have argued that it represented the turning point of the Civil War, after which Confederate fortunes moved inexorably toward defeat. Successive generations of historians have not exhausted the topic of …

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    Anthology of Western Reserve Literature

    Av The Kent State University Press

    Häftad, 1992

    342 kr

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    The story of the history and culture of a people is often told through regional literature. ""Anthology of Western Reserve Literature"", a companion volume to ""Ohio's Western Reserve"", presents writings associated with northeast Ohio. Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities …

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    Affectionately, Rachel

    Letters from India, 1860-84

    Av The Kent State University Press

    Inbunden, 1992

    426 kr

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    Rachel Kerr Johnson's lifetime collection of letters offers the perspective of a 19th-century woman, wife, mother and American abroad. Besides showcasing her talent for storytelling, they portray both the ordinary and extraordinary observations of a woman who spent more than 20 years travelling in …

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    Uses of Force and Wilsonian Foreign Policy

    Av The Kent State University Press

    Häftad, 1993

    328 kr

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    Frederick S. Calhoun examines the policies Woodrow Wilson pursued during the seven military interventions he undertook between 1914 and 1919 to develop a specialised vocabulary describing how force is employed as a function of international policy. Calhoun categorises uses of force in five ways: …

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    Bloody Versicles

    Rhymes of Crime

    Av The Kent State University Press

    Häftad, 1993

    272 kr

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    An updated and enlarged edition of an annotated collection originally published more than 20 years ago. ""Bloody Versicles"" serves as two books in one: an anthology of ribald, moralistic, sad, yet amusing and entertaining verse relating to specific crimes; and a small encyclopaedia of select …

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    Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixth

    Av The Kent State University Press, Beer m. fl.

    Inbunden, 1993

    462 kr

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    In this book, Barrett Beer presents a scholarly edition of Sir John Hayward's ""Life and Raigne of King Edward VI"", the earliest biography of the last Tudor king. Originally published in 1630 and again in 1636, Hayward's account was reprinted in White Kennett's ""Complete History of England"" in …

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    Bloody Dawn

    The Story of the Lawrence Massacre

    Av The Kent State University Press

    Häftad, 1992

    291 kr

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    On August 21, 1863, William Quantrill led 400 Confederate irregulars to a rise on the outskirts of Lawrence, Kansas. For two years, the 3,000 inhabitants of this prosperous frontier community had managed to escape the Civil War which raged in the East. At Quantrill's command, the horrors of that …

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    Landmarks

    Reflections on Anthropology

    Av The Kent State University Press

    Häftad, 1993

    221 kr

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    Landmarks addresses a wide range of questions relevant to the recent history of anthropology and its importance to contemporary issues. These questions include the significance of anthropology for Third World studies; the debate on whether anthropology is a scientific or a humanistic subject; …

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    As Befits a Legend

    Building a Tomb for Napoleon, 1840-61

    Av The Kent State University Press

    Inbunden, 1994

    401 kr

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    This work is an examination of the tomb of Napoleon - its construction process, historical context, and political and social meanings. It documents the problems inherent in building an appropriate monument and the debate it generated.

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    Kenyon Cox, 1856-1919

    A Life in American Art

    Av The Kent State University Press

    Inbunden, 1994

    413 kr

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    This is a biography of Kenyon Cox, one of the best-known cultural figures in the United States from 1900 to 1920. His reputation was earned chiefly as a painter of murals and as a critic. His large allegorical works can be found in Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, the Library of Congress, and New York.

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    Red River Campaign

    Politics and Cotton in the Civil War

    Av The Kent State University Press

    Häftad, 1993

    456 kr

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    First published in 1958, ""Red River Campaign"" examines how partisan politics, economic needs and personal profit determined military policy and operations in Louisiana and Arkansas during the spring of 1864. In response to the demands of Free-Soil interests in Texas and the New England textiles …

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    Arthur Machen and Montgomery Evans

    Letters of a Literary Friendship, 1923-47

    Av The Kent State University Press, Hassler m. fl.

    Inbunden, 1994

    348 kr

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    Arthur Machen (1863-1947), who achieved significant fame in the 1920s, was a general man of letters with echoes of Samuel Johnson, an important influence on later fantasy writers from H.P. Lovecraft to Ray Bradbury, and a great adventurer of the spirit. Montgomery Evans II, a wealthy book …

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    Dragon, the Lion and the Eagle

    Chinese-British-American Relations, 1949-58

    Av The Kent State University Press

    Inbunden, 1994

    401 kr

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    A study in international history and comparative analysis of the relations between China, Britain and America, in the period from 1949 to 1958. The author draws upon previously-classified documents and private papers to give a view of the Cold War from Chinese and Western standpoints.

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    Cleveland

    A Metropolitan Reader

    Av The Kent State University Press, Keating m. fl.

    Häftad, 1995

    558 kr

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    After enjoying exceptional growth at the turn of the last century, Cleveland's fortunes, like that of many metropolitan centers, have sharply declined. How much of this change is due to characteristics of growth and development, the outmigration of population and investment' technological advances, …

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    Being Present

    Growing Up in Hitler's Germany

    Av The Kent State University Press

    Häftad, 1993

    234 kr

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    When Professor Schumann was six years old, Hitler came to power in Germany. Growing up in a small town far from the centres of power and corruption - and without concentration camps - Schumann became a Nazi believer. In this memoir, the author aims to ""show young Americans how easy it is, given …