H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series – serie
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32 produkter
Good Child's River
Av Thomas Wolfe, Suzanne Stutman
Häftad, 1994
529 kr
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For the last eight years of his life, Thomas Wolfe worked periodically on a series of chapters that were part of a huge work-in-progress. The work was based loosely on the early life of New York stage and costume designer Aline Bernstein, with whom Wolfe was engaged in a tempestuous love affair for …
Religion and American Education
Rethinking a National Dilemma
Häftad, 1995
687 kr
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Warren Nord's thoughtful book tackles an issue of great importance in contemporary America: the role of religion in our public schools and universities. According to Nord, public opinion has been excessively polarized by those religious conservatives who would restore religious purposes and …
Meaning Over Memory
Recasting the Teaching of Culture and History
Häftad, 1994
635 kr
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In the midst of the heated battles swirling around American humanities education, Peter Stearns offers a reconsideration not of what we teach but of why and how we teach it. A humanities program, says Stearns, should teach students not just memorized facts but analytical skills that are vital for a …
Rascally Signs in Sacred Places
The Politics of Culture in Nicaragua
Häftad, 1995
1011 kr
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David Whisnant provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamic relationship between culture, power, and policy in Nicaragua over the last 450 years. Spanning a broad spectrum of popular and traditional expressive forms--including literature, music, film, and broadcast media--the book explores the …
Struggle for Democratic Politics in the Dominican Republic
Häftad, 1998
531 kr
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Over the past several decades, the Dominican Republic has experienced striking political stagnation in spite of dramatic socioeconomic transformations. In this work, Jonathan Hartlyn offers a new explanation for the country's political evolution, based on a broad comparative perspective. Hartlyn …
Evangelizing the Chosen People
Missions to the Jews in America, 1880 - 2000
Av Yaakov Ariel
Häftad, 2000
531 kr
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With this book, Yaakov Ariel offers the first comprehensive history of Protestant evangelization of Jews in America to the present day. Based on unprecedented research in missionary archives as well as Jewish writings, the book analyzes the theology and activities of both the missions and the …
Revolt of the Provinces
The Regionalist Movement in America, 1920-1945
Häftad, 2003
545 kr
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Joy of Teaching
A Practical Guide for New College Instructors
Av Peter Filene
Häftad, 2005
377 kr
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Gathering concepts and techniques borrowed from outstanding college professors, The Joy of Teaching provides helpful guidance for new instructors developing and teaching their first college courses. Award-winning professor Peter Filene proposes that teaching should not be like a baseball game in …
School Resegregation
Must the South Turn Back?
Av Gary Orfield
Häftad, 2005
487 kr
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Public education at the crossroads Confronting a reality that many policy makers would prefer to ignore, contributors to this volume offer the latest information on the trend toward the racial and socioeconomic resegregation of southern schools. In the region that has achieved more widespread …
Community Journalism
Relentlessly Local
Häftad, 2006
705 kr
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The essential handbook for successful small newspapers No matter how ambitious they may be, most novice journalists don't get their start at the New York Times. They get their first jobs at smaller local community newspapers that require a different style of reporting than the detached, impersonal …
Wilhelm II
Volume 2, Emperor and Exile, 1900-1941
Av Lamar Cecil
Häftad, 2009
705 kr
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Wilhelm II (1859-1941), King of Prussia and German Emperor from 1888 to 1918, reigned during a period of unprecedented economic, cultural, and intellectual achievement in Germany. This volume completes Lamar Cecil's prize-winning scholarly biography of the Kaiser, one of modern history's most …
To Die in Cuba
Suicide and Society
Häftad, 2007
516 kr
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For much of the nineteenth century and all of the twentieth, the per capita rate of suicide in Cuba was the highest in Latin America and among the highest in the world - a condition made all the more extraordinary in light of Cuba's historic ties to the Catholic church. In this richly illustrated …
On Becoming Cuban
Identity, Nationality, and Culture
Häftad, 2008
589 kr
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Rich cultural ties between Cuba and the United States influence Cuban's sense of themselves.With this masterful work, Louis A. Perez Jr. transforms the way we view Cuba and its relationship with the United States. ""On Becoming Cuban"" is a sweeping cultural history of the sustained encounter …
American Liberalism
An Interpretation for Our Time
Av John McGowan
Häftad, 2009
446 kr
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This title presents a citizen's working definition of liberalism. What are the basic values and commitments of American liberals? John McGowan sets out to answer that question in this lively and provocative book. Tracing a tradition that extends from James Madison through Franklin Delano Roosevelt …
In the Beginning
Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement
Häftad, 2009
460 kr
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This title presents the political origins of the creationist movement. Reaching back to the origins of antievolutionism in the 1920s, and continuing to the promotion of intelligent design today, Michael Lienesch skillfully analyzes the creationism movement, one of the most formidable political …
Wilhelm II
Volume 1: Prince and Emperor, 1859-1900
Av Lamar Cecil
Häftad, 2009
705 kr
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Wilhelm II (1859-1941), King of Prussia and German Emperor from 1888 to 1918, reigned during a period of unprecedented economic, cultural, and intellectual achievement in Germany. Unlike most European sovereigns of his generation, Wilhelm was no mere figurehead, and his imprint on imperial Germany …
Beyond Blackface
African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930
Häftad, 2011
516 kr
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This collection of thirteen essays, edited by historian W. Fitzhugh Brundage, brings together original work from sixteen scholars in various disciplines, ranging from theater and literature to history and music, to address the complex roles of black performers, entrepreneurs, and consumers in …
Worried Sick
A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America
Häftad, 2012
356 kr
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Nortin Hadler's clearly reasoned argument surmounts the cacophony of the health care debate. Hadler urges everyone to ask health care providers how likely it is that proposed treatments will afford meaningful benefits and he teaches how to actively listen to the answer. Each chapter of Worried Sick …
Worried Sick
A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America
Häftad, 2012
589 kr
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Nortin Hadler's clearly reasoned argument surmounts the cacophony of the health care debate. Hadler urges everyone to ask health care providers how likely it is that proposed treatments will afford meaningful benefits and he teaches how to actively listen to the answer. Each chapter of Worried Sick …
Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power
British Guiana's Struggle for Independence
Häftad, 2014
458 kr
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Colin Palmer, one of the foremost chroniclers of twentieth-century British and U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean, here tells the story of British Guiana's struggle for independence. At the center of the story is Cheddi Jagan, who was the colony's first premier following the institution of universal …
Say We Are Nations
Documents of Politics and Protest in Indigenous America Since 1887
Häftad, 2015
473 kr
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In this wide-ranging and carefully curated anthology, Daniel M. Cobb presents the words of Indigenous people who have shaped Native American rights movements from the late nineteenth century through the present day. Presenting essays, letters, interviews, speeches, government documents, and other …
Building the British Atlantic World
Spaces, Places, and Material Culture, 1600-1850
Av Daniel Maudlin, Bernard L. Herman
Häftad, 2016
516 kr
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Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions. In this groundbreaking study, thirteen leading scholars explore the idea of transatlanticism-or a shared ""Atlantic …
Give My Poor Heart Ease
Voices of the Mississippi Blues
Häftad, 2016
353 kr
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Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Illustrated with Ferris’s photographs of the …
South in Color
A Visual Journal
Inbunden, 2016
435 kr
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One man’s power to capture his world in all its colours, surprises, and troubles. Since the moment William Ferris’s parents gave their twelve-year-oldson a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera for Christmas in 1954, Ferris passionatelybegan to photograph his world. He has never stopped. The sixtiesand …
American Inquisition
The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II
Häftad, 2017
356 kr
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When the U.S. government forced 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative tribunals to pass judgment on who was loyal and who was disloyal. In American Inquisition, Eric Muller relates the untold story of exactly how military and civilian …
Life of William Apess, Pequot
Häftad, 2018
367 kr
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The Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess (1798-1839) was one the most important voices of the nineteenth century. Here, Philip F. Gura offers the first book-length chronicle of Apess's fascinating and consequential life. After an impoverished childhood marked by …
Atlantic Bonds
A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa
Häftad, 2019
472 kr
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A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (1828–1893) set out to fulfill his formerly enslaved father's dying wish that he should leave America to start a new life in Africa. Over the next forty years, Vaughan was taken captive, fought in African wars, built and rebuilt a …
With Masses and Arms
Peru's Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
Inbunden, 2020
1229 kr
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Miguel La Serna's gripping history of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) provides vital insight into both the history of modern Peru and the link between political violence and the culture of communications in Latin America. Smaller than the well-known Shining Path but just as …
With Masses and Arms
Peru's Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
Häftad, 2020
473 kr
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Miguel La Serna's gripping history of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) provides vital insight into both the history of modern Peru and the link between political violence and the culture of communications in Latin America. Smaller than the well-known Shining Path but just as …
Ecological Revolutions
Nature, Gender, and Science in New England
Inbunden, 1989
641 kr
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By exploring the stages of ecological transformation that took place in New England as European settlers took control of the land, Carolyn Merchant develops a fresh approach to environmental history. Her analysis of how human communities are related to their environment opens a perspective that …
