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Clerk's Tale
Young Men and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America
Av Thomas Augst
Häftad, 2003
357 kr
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Thousands of men left their families for the bustling cities of nineteenth-century America, where many of them found work as clerks. The Clerk's Tale recounts their remarkable story, describing the struggle of aspiring businessmen to come of age at the dawn of the modern era. How did these young …
Drunkard's Story
Life on the Nineteenth-Century Public Stage
Av Thomas Augst
Inbunden, 2026
1012 kr
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An unparalleled portrait of nineteenth-century social reform and the magnetic oratory that gave it force, told through the career of temperance advocate John B. Gough.John B. Gough was perhaps nineteenth-century America’s most famous ex-drunkard—a man who had hit rock bottom but then found the …
Clerk's Tale
Young Men and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America
Av Thomas Augst
E-bok, 2020
781 kr
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Thousands of men left their families for the bustling cities of nineteenth-century America, where many of them found work as clerks. The Clerk''s Tale recounts their remarkable story, describing the struggle of aspiring businessmen to come of age at the dawn of the modern era. How did these young …
Drunkard's Story
Life on the Nineteenth-Century Public Stage
Av Thomas Augst
Häftad, 2026
247 kr
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An unparalleled portrait of nineteenth-century social reform and the magnetic oratory that gave it force, told through the career of temperance advocate John B. Gough.John B. Gough was perhaps nineteenth-century America’s most famous ex-drunkard—a man who had hit rock bottom but then found the …
Libraries As Agencies of Culture
Av Thomas Augst, Thomas Augst m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
215 kr
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Libraries - public, school, and academic - are ubiquitous cultural agencies. Yet how much do we know about the multiple ways that they serve and enrich our culture? These essays explore the role of the library in the life of the reader and the library as a place in the life of its users.
Institutions of Reading
The Social Life of Libraries in the United States
Av Thomas Augst, Kenneth Carpenter
Häftad, 2007
448 kr
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Tracing the evolution of the library as a modern institution from the late eighteenth century to the digital era, this book explores the diverse practices by which Americans have shared reading matter for instruction, edification, and pleasure. Writing from a rich variety of perspectives, the …
Clerk's Tale
Young Men and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America
Av Thomas Augst
Inbunden, 2003
872 kr
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Thousands of men left their families for the bustling cities of nineteenth-century America, where many of them found work as clerks. The Clerk's Tale recounts their remarkable story, describing the struggle of aspiring businessmen to come of age at the dawn of the modern era. How did these young …
