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19 produkter
Twentieth-Century Multiplicity
American Thought and Culture, 1900-1920
Inbunden, 2008
1560 kr
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Twentieth-Century Multiplicity explores the effect of the culture-wide sense that prevailing syntheses failed to account fully for the complexities of modern life. As Daniel H. Borus documents the belief that there were many truths, many beauties, and many values—a condition that the historian …
Twentieth-Century Multiplicity
American Thought and Culture, 1900-1920
Häftad, 2011
600 kr
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Twentieth-Century Multiplicity explores the effect of the culture-wide sense that prevailing syntheses failed to account fully for the complexities of modern life. As Daniel H. Borus documents the belief that there were many truths, many beauties, and many values—a condition that the historian …
Reluctant Modernism
American Thought and Culture, 1880–1900
Inbunden, 2004
1897 kr
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In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Americans were faced with the challenges and uncertainties of a new era. The comfortable Victorian values of continuity, progress, and order clashed with the unsettling modern notions of constant change, relative truth, and chaos. Attempting to …
Reluctant Modernism
American Thought and Culture, 1880–1900
Häftad, 2004
734 kr
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In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Americans were faced with the challenges and uncertainties of a new era. The comfortable Victorian values of continuity, progress, and order clashed with the unsettling modern notions of constant change, relative truth, and chaos. Attempting to …
Voices of the Marketplace
American Thought and Culture, 1830–1860
Av Anne C. Rose
Inbunden, 2004
1752 kr
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The three decades before the Civil War have long been recognized as a time of crucial change in American society. In this comprehensive and insightful reinterpretation of antebellum culture, Anne C. Rose analyzes the major shifts in intellectual life that occurred between 1830 and 1860 while …
Voices of the Marketplace
American Thought and Culture, 1830–1860
Av Anne C. Rose
Häftad, 2004
807 kr
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The three decades before the Civil War have long been recognized as a time of crucial change in American society. In this comprehensive and insightful reinterpretation of antebellum culture, Anne C. Rose analyzes the major shifts in intellectual life that occurred between 1830 and 1860 while …
Roots of Democracy
American Thought and Culture, 1760–1800
Inbunden, 2004
1607 kr
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The last half of the eighteenth century was a period of enormous cultural and intellectual ferment in America-an era of fundamental transformation in law, politics, and religion, as well as deep changes in the American social order. At the center of the turmoil was the American Revolution, an event …
Roots of Democracy
American Thought and Culture, 1760–1800
Häftad, 2004
618 kr
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The last half of the eighteenth century was a period of enormous cultural and intellectual ferment in America-an era of fundamental transformation in law, politics, and religion, as well as deep changes in the American social order. At the center of the turmoil was the American Revolution, an event …
Era of Persuasion
American Thought and Culture, 1521–1680
Inbunden, 2004
1897 kr
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Pre-eighteenth century America was a uniquely pragmatic, utopian society—a new world in which the expectations of a new beginning brought by explorers, traders, and settlers often conflicted violently the Native Americans they encountered. In Era of Persuasion: American Thought and Culture …
Era of Persuasion
American Thought and Culture, 1521–1680
Häftad, 2004
632 kr
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Pre-eighteenth century America was a uniquely pragmatic, utopian society—a new world in which the expectations of a new beginning brought by explorers, traders, and settlers often conflicted violently the Native Americans they encountered. In Era of Persuasion: American Thought and Culture …
Postmodernist Turn
American Thought and Culture in the 1970s
Häftad, 2004
734 kr
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During the 1970s, the United States became the world's preeminent postindustrial society. The new conditions changed the way Americans lived and worked, and even their perceptions of reality. Americans struggled to find their place in a world where symbol became more important than fact, appearance …
World Turned Inside Out
American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century
Inbunden, 2009
880 kr
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The World Turned Inside Out explores American thought and culture in the formative moment of the late twentieth century in the aftermath of the fabled Sixties. The overall argument here is that the tendencies and sensibilities we associate with that earlier moment of upheaval decisively shaped …
World Turned Inside Out
American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century
Häftad, 2011
531 kr
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The World Turned Inside Out explores American thought and culture in the formative moment of the late twentieth century in the aftermath of the fabled Sixties. The overall argument here is that the tendencies and sensibilities we associate with that earlier moment of upheaval decisively shaped …
Postmodernist Turn
American Thought and Culture in the 1970s
Inbunden, 2004
1897 kr
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During the 1970s, the United States became the world's preeminent postindustrial society. The new conditions changed the way Americans lived and worked, and even their perceptions of reality. Americans struggled to find their place in a world where symbol became more important than fact, appearance …
New Era
American Thought and Culture in the 1920s
Häftad, 2016
531 kr
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In the 1920s, Americans talked of their times as “modern,” which is to say, fundamentally different, in pace and texture, from what went before—a new era. With the end of World War I, an array of dizzying inventions and trends pushed American society from the Victorian era into modernity.The New …
Twentieth-Century Multiplicity
American Thought and Culture, 1900-1920
E-bok, 2008
639 kr
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Twentieth-Century Multiplicity explores the effect of the culture-wide sense that prevailing syntheses failed to account fully for the complexities of modern life. As Daniel H. Borus documents the belief that there were many truths, many beauties, and many values—a condition that the historian …
New Era
American Thought and Culture in the 1920s
E-bok, 2011
566 kr
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In the 1920s, Americans talked of their times as “modern,” which is to say, fundamentally different, in pace and texture, from what went before—a new era. With the end of World War I, an array of dizzying inventions and trends pushed American society from the Victorian era into modernity. The New …
At the Center
American Thought and Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Av Casey Nelson Blake, Daniel H. Borus m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1461 kr
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At a time when American political and cultural leaders asserted that the nation stood at “the center of world awareness,” thinkers and artists sought to understand and secure principles that lay at the center of things. From the onset of the Cold War in 1948 through 1963, they asked: What defined …
At the Center
American Thought and Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Av Casey Nelson Blake, Daniel H. Borus m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
574 kr
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At a time when American political and cultural leaders asserted that the nation stood at “the center of world awareness,” thinkers and artists sought to understand and secure principles that lay at the center of things. From the onset of the Cold War in 1948 through 1963, they asked: What defined …
