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20,000 Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 067143473X (0-671-43473-X)
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Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africaby Lamin O. SannehISBN 0674000609 (0-674-00060-9)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideasby Isaiah BerlinISBN 0670109444 (0-670-10944-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Age of Napoleonby Will Durant, Ariel DurantISBN 067121988X (0-671-21988-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Anarchy Of Empire In The Making Of U.S. Cultureby Amy KaplanISBN 0674009134 (0-674-00913-4)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Ageby Daniel T. RodgersISBN 0674002016 (0-674-00201-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age'Book summary:The title Atlantic Crossings refers to the cross-pollination of social thinking between the United States and Europe (primarily Britain) in the first half of the 20th century. Princeton history professor Daniel T. Rodgers's extensive narrative shows that while many Americans saw themselves as essentially isolationist, many ideas that influenced their daily lives, such as city planning and concepts of social security, were not homegrown. A network of government planners, academics, and concerned citizens communicated back and forth across the Atlantic; their correspondence was marked by controversy, and an aversion to "non-American" ideas persists in American social planning to this day (Rodgers notes the scuffles over health care reform in the early 1990s as one example). Rodgers has assembled a prodigious mountain of facts, and he's written a credible and comprehensive account of how people on both sides of the Atlantic contributed in sometimes surprising ways to the social reforms we consider utterly American. --Robert McNamara [via]
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The Awakeningby Kate ChopinISBN 0671015478 (0-671-01547-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening'Book summary:When The Awakening was first published in 1899, critical outcry proved so vociferous that the novel was banished for decades. Now praised as a classic of early feminist literature, Kate Chopin's last work rejects conventional female roles and celebrates a woman's journey toward self-awareness. As Chopin's heroine, Edna Pontellier, awakens to her own desires she begins to question her ideas about marriage, motherhood, society, art, and the nature of love itself. A milestone in American fiction, The Awakening is an unforgettably poignant novel of self-discovery that has inspired generations of readers.
Washington Square Press Enriched Classics presents the world's greatest literature in timeless editions designed for modern readers. Special features include a lively introduction with essential biographical and historical background, critical perspectives, and a unique visual essay composed of authentic period illustrations and photographs that help bring every word to life. [via]
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The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Raceby John StaufferISBN 0674006453 (0-674-00645-3)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Black Odyssey: The Case of the Slave Ship Amistadby Mary CableISBN 0670172820 (0-670-17282-0)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Britain Yesterday and Todayby Smith, ArnsteinISBN 0669244600 (0-669-24460-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Britain Yesterday and Today: 1830 To the Presentby Walter L. ArnsteinISBN 0618001042 (0-618-00104-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Britain Yesterday and Today: 1830 To the Present'Book summary:This text, which is the fourth volume in the best-selling History of England series, tells how a small and insignificant outpost of the Roman empire evolved into a nation that has produced and disseminated so many significant ideas and institutions. This is the only comprehensive text available for the History of England survey course that has been revised and updated to include coverage of the entire 20th century. [via]
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Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div - Britain Yesterday and Today: 1830 To the Present: ISBN 0669134244 (0-669-13424-4)
Hardcover, D.C. Health - Britain Yesterday and Today 1830 to the Present: ISBN 0669979643 (0-669-97964-3)
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Coleridge: Early Visionsby Richard HolmesISBN 0670804444 (0-670-80444-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Talesby Brothers GrimmISBN 0613718933 (0-613-71893-3)
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Death Of Ivan Ilych And Other Storiesby Leo TolstoyISBN 0613185692 (0-613-18569-2)
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Die Leiden Des Jungen Werthersby E.L. Stahl, Johann Wolfgang GoetheISBN 0631019006 (0-631-01900-6)
Softcover, B. Blackwell
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The Dominion Of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000by Fred Anderson, Andrew CaytonISBN 0670033707 (0-670-03370-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dominion Of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000'Book summary:Americans often think of their nations history as a movement toward ever-greater democracy, equality, and freedom. Wars in this story are understood both as necessary to defend those values and as exceptions to the rule of peaceful progress. In The Dominion of War, historians Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton boldly reinterpret the development of the United States, arguing instead that war has played a leading role in shaping North America from the sixteenth century to the present.
Anderson and Cayton bring their sweeping narrative to life by structuring it around the lives of eight menSamuel de Champlain, William Penn, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Ulysses S. Grant, Douglas MacArthur, and Colin Powell. This approach enables them to describe great events in concrete terms and to illuminate critical connections between often-forgotten imperial conflicts, such as the Seven Years War and the Mexican- American War, and better-known events such as the War of Independence and the Civil War. The result is a provocative, highly readable account of the ways in which republic and empire have coexisted in American history as two faces of the same coin. The Dominion of War recasts familiar triumphs as tragedies, proposes an unconventional set of turning points, and depicts imperialism and republicanism as inseparable influences in a pattern of development in which war and freedom have long been intertwined. It offers a new perspective on Americas attempts to define its role in the world at the dawn of the twenty-first century. [via]
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Emancipation and Consciousness: Dogmatic and Dialectical Perspectives in the Early Marxby Erica Sherover-MarcuseISBN 0631141014 (0-631-14101-4)
Hardcover, Blackwell
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Fairy Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers GrimmISBN 0671437925 (0-671-43792-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Kay Rasmus NielsenISBN 0670305650 (0-670-30565-0)
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The Flyers : In Search of Wilbur and Orville Wrightby Noah AdamsISBN 0609810324 (0-609-81032-4)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory: Actualizing Freedomby Frederick NeuhouserISBN 0674011244 (0-674-01124-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory: Actualizing Freedom'Book summary:The author's purpose is to understand the philosophical foundations of Hegel's social theory by articulating the normative standards at work in his claim that the three central social institutions of the modern era--the nuclear family, civil society, and the constitutional state--are rational or good. Its central question is: what, for Hegel, makes a rational social order rational? In addressing this question the book aspires to be faithful to Hegel's texts and to articulate a compelling theory of rational social institutions; its aim is not only to interpret Hegel correctly but also to demonstrate the richness and power that his vision of the rational social order possesses.
Frederick Neuhouser's task is to understand the conceptions of freedom on which Hegel's theory rests and to show how they ground his arguments in defense of the modern social world. In doing so, the author focuses on Hegel's most important and least understood contribution to social philosophy, the idea of "social freedom."
Neuhouser's strategy for making sense of social freedom is to show its affinities with Rousseau's conception of the general will. The main idea that Hegel appropriates from Rousseau is that rational social institutions must satisfy two conditions: first, they must furnish the basic social preconditions of their members' freedom; and, second, all social members must be able subjectively to affirm their freedom-conditioning institutions as good and thus to regard the principles that govern their social participation as coming from their own wills.
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Founder : Meyer Amschel Rothschild, a Man and His Timeby Amos ElonISBN 0670868574 (0-670-86857-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Frege Readerby Gottlob Frege, Michael BeaneyISBN 0631194452 (0-631-19445-2)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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German Idealism: The Struggle Against Subjectivism, 1781-1801by Frederick C. BeiserISBN 0674007697 (0-674-00769-7)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Golden Liliesby Kwei-Li, Eileen GoudgeISBN 0670834386 (0-670-83438-6)
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Grimm's Fairy Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers Grimm, Arthur RackhamISBN 0670355321 (0-670-35532-1)
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 0671465686 (0-671-46568-6)
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Heart of Darkness And the Secret Sharerby Joseph ConradISBN 061399986X (0-613-99986-X)
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Hegel Dictionaryby Michael InwoodISBN 0631175334 (0-631-17533-4)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Henry Adams and the Making of Americaby Garry WillsISBN 0618134301 (0-618-13430-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry Adams and the Making of America'Book summary:One of our greatest historians offers a surprising new view of the greatest historian of the nineteenth century, Henry Adams.[via]
Wills showcases Henry Adams's little-known but seminal study of the early United States and elicits from it fresh insights on the paradoxes that roil America to this day. Adams drew on his own southern fixation, his extensive foreign travel, his political service in Lincoln's White House, and much more to invent the study of history as we know it. His nine-volume chronicle of America from 1800 to 1816 established new standards for employing archival sources, firsthand reportage, eyewitness accounts, and other techniques that have become the essence of modern history.
Adams's innovations went beyond the technical; he posited an essentially ironic view of the legacy of Jefferson and Madison. As is well known, they strove to shield the young country from "foreign entanglements," a standing army, a central bank, and a federal bureaucracy, among other hallmarks of "big government." Yet by the end of their tenures they had permanently entrenched all of these things in American society. This is the "American paradox" that defines us today: the idealized desire for isolation and political simplicity battling against the inexorable growth and intermingling of political, economic, and military forces. As Wills compellingly shows, the ironies spawned two centuries ago still inhabit our foreign policy and the widening schisms over economic and social policy.
Ambitious in scope, nuanced in detail and argument, Henry Adams and the Making of America throws brilliant light on how history is made -- in both senses of the term.More editions of Henry Adams and the Making of America:
A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republicby Bruce R. DainISBN 0674009460 (0-674-00946-0)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Imperial Presidencyby Arthur Meier SchlesingerISBN 0618420010 (0-618-42001-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Imperial Presidency'Book summary:From two-time Pulitzer Prizewinning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., comes one of the most important and influential investigations of the American presidency. The Imperial Presidency traces the growth of presidential power over two centuries, from George Washington to George W. Bush, examining how it has both served and harmed the Constitution and what Americans can do about it in years to come. The book that gave the phrase imperial presidency to the language, this is a work of substantial scholarship written with lucidity, charm, and wit (The New Yorker).[via]More editions of The Imperial Presidency:
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In the Heart of the Sea : The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essexby Nathaniel PhilbrickISBN 0670891576 (0-670-89157-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Heart of the Sea : The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex'Book summary:The appeal of Dava Sobel's Longitude was, in part, that it illuminated a little-known piece of history through a series of captivating incidents and engaging personalities. Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea is certainly cast from the same mold, examining the 19th-century Pacific whaling industry through the arc of the sinking of the whaleship Essex by a boisterous sperm whale. The story that inspired Herman Melville's classic Moby-Dick has a lot going for it--derring-do, cannibalism, rescue--and Philbrick proves an amiable and well-informed narrator, providing both context and detail. We learn about the importance and mechanics of blubber production--a vital source of oil--and we get the nuts and bolts of harpooning and life aboard whalers. We are spared neither the nitty-gritty of open boats nor the sucking of human bones dry.
By sticking to the tried and tested Longitude formula, Philbrick has missed a slight trick or two. The epicenter of the whaling industry was Nantucket, a small island off Cape Cod; most of the whales were in the Pacific, necessitating a huge journey around the southernmost tip of South America. We never learn why no one ever tried to create an alternative whaling capital somewhere nearer. Similarly, Philbrick tells us that the story of the Essex was well known to Americans for decades, but he never explores how such legends fade from our consciousness. Philbrick would no doubt reply that such questions were beyond his remit, and you can't exactly accuse him of skimping on his research. By any standard, 50 pages of footnotes impress, though he wears his learning lightly. He doesn't get bogged down in turgid detail, and his narrative rattles along at a nice pace. When the storyline is as good as this, you can't really ask for more. --John Crace, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlby Harriet A. Jacobs, Jean Fagan Yellin, John S. Jacobs, Lydia Maria Francis ChildISBN 0674002784 (0-674-00278-4)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herselfby John Jacobs, Jean Fagan Yellin, John S. JacobsISBN 0674002717 (0-674-00271-7)
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This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative now completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John Jacobs's short slave narrative, A True Tale of Slavery, published in London in 1861, adds a brother's perspective to Harriet Jacobs's own autobiography. It is an exciting addition to this now classic work, as John Jacobs presents additional historical information about family life so well described already by his sister. Importantly, it presents the people, places, and events Harriet Jacobs wrote about from the different perspective of a male narrator. Once more, Jean Yellin, who discovered this long-lost document, supplies annotation and authentication. She has also brought her Introduction up to date.
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Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americansby Joyce ApplebyISBN 0674006631 (0-674-00663-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans'Book summary:Born after the Revolution, the first generation of Americans inherited a truly new world--and, with it, the task of working out the terms of Independence. Anyone who started a business, marketed a new invention, ran for office, formed an association, or wrote for publication was helping to fashion the world's first liberal society. These are the people we encounter in Inheriting the Revolution, a vibrant tapestry of the lives, callings, decisions, desires, and reflections of those Americans who turned the new abstractions of democracy, the nation, and free enterprise into contested realities.
Through data gathered on thousands of people, as well as hundreds of memoirs and autobiographies, Joyce Appleby tells myriad intersecting stories of how Americans born between 1776 and 1830 reinvented themselves and their society in politics, economics, reform, religion, and culture. They also had to grapple with the new distinction of free and slave labor, with all its divisive social entailments; the rout of Enlightenment rationality by the warm passions of religious awakening; the explosion of small business opportunities for young people eager to break out of their parents' colonial cocoon. Few in the nation escaped the transforming intrusiveness of these changes. Working these experiences into a vivid picture of American cultural renovation, Appleby crafts an extraordinary--and deeply affecting--account of how the first generation established its own culture, its own nation, its own identity.
The passage of social responsibility from one generation to another is always a fascinating interplay of the inherited and the novel; this book shows how, in the early nineteenth century, the very idea of generations resonated with new meaning in the United States. [via]
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Journey to the Center of the Earthby Billy AronsonISBN 0613052846 (0-613-05284-6)
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Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essaysby Gillian RoseISBN 0631189718 (0-631-18971-8)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophyby John Rawls, Barbara HermanISBN 0674004426 (0-674-00442-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Liberalism With Honorby Sharon R. KrauseISBN 0674007565 (0-674-00756-5)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, James PrunierISBN 0670877069 (0-670-87706-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:"Little Women" is an American classic, adored for Louisa May Alcott's lively and vivid portraits of the endearing March sisters: talented tomboy Jo, pretty Meg, shy Beth, temperamental Amy. Millions have shared in their joys, hardships, and adventures as they grow up in Civil War New England, separated by the war from their father and beloved mother, "Marmee", blossoming from "little women" into adults. Jo searches for her writer's voice and finds unexpected love... Meg prepares for marriage and a family... Beth reaches out to the less fortunate, tragically... and Amy travels to Europe to become a painter. Based on Louisa May Alcott's own Yankee childhood, "Little Women" is a treasure-- a story whose enduring values of patience, loyalty, and love have kept this extraordinary family close to the hearts of generation after generation of delighted readers. [via]
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Little Womenby Janet Allison Brown, Dinah DryhurstISBN 0670899127 (0-670-89912-7)
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Little Womenby Laurie Lawlor, Louisa May AlcottISBN 0671519026 (0-671-51902-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Lyrical Ballads and Related Writings: Complete Text With Introduction Contexts, Reactionsby William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Daniel Robinson, William RicheyISBN 0618107320 (0-618-10732-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Major English Romantic Poets: An Anthologyby William Harvey MarshallISBN 0671440306 (0-671-44030-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Mercy Seatby Rilla AskewISBN 0670874671 (0-670-87467-1)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mercy Seat'Book summary:The Mercy Seat is a powerful novel, rich with biblical allusions and authoritative, haunting depictions of the landscape and life of the American West in the second half of the 19th century. The story begins as a young girl, Mattie, is called from sleep to help her father prepare for her family's flight from their Kentucky home, its pie safe and its oak bed frames. Reasons for their sudden departure are only slowly revealed and never completely explained.
The center of the evolving story is the conflict between Mattie's father and his brother. John Lodi is skilled in the art of blacksmithing and gun making; Fayette Lodi is anxious to use that skill to turn a profit for himself. Although the brothers travel west together and eventually settle in the same corner of Oklahoma in the valley of the San Bois Mountains, they have no shared ideas on how to create new lives for themselves or their families. Violence eventually erupts, but it goes beyond the two brothers to infect their wives, their children, and the very land they inhabit.
It is a story that mirrors that of Cain and Abel, yet its biblical echo is only one of the features which make this multilayered, beautifully crafted novel so enjoyable. There are hints of Faulkner, too, as Askew employs his technique of using a number of voices to tell the story: there is Mattie herself, mother before her time to her younger siblings, yet refusing to mature into a woman; there is Thula Henry, Choctaw woman who both understands Mattie's gifts and tries to exorcise her demons; and Grady Dewberry, loquacious son of John's employer recalling events that marked his childhood.
This is more than just a simple repositioning of the Snopes from Mississippi to Oklahoma, however. It is a vision of the settling of America with a deep and abiding appreciation for the combustible elements that participated in it. Evangelical preachers riding their circuits, Native Americans pushed farther and farther west, former slaves freed from their masters but not from prejudice, and white men on the run from the law of the more settled East, all figure prominently. Some patience is required as the central tragedy looms, but for the most part, the novel is poignant, gripping, and even heartbreaking. --K.A. Crouch [via]
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The Mill on the Flossby George EliotISBN 061831766X (0-618-31766-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Modernism As a Philosophical Problem: On the Dissatisfactions of European High Cultureby Robert B. PippinISBN 0631214143 (0-631-21414-3)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Monarch Notes on Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Charles LeavittISBN 067100879X (0-671-00879-X)
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My Antoniaby Willa Cather, Sharon O'BrienISBN 0671890867 (0-671-89086-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Napa: The Story of an American Edenby James ConawayISBN 0618257985 (0-618-25798-5)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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A Nation of Agents: The American Path to a Modern Self and Societyby James E. BlockISBN 0674008839 (0-674-00883-9)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Powerby Garry WillsISBN 0618485376 (0-618-48537-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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While Thomas Jefferson does play a significant role in Wills' book, the real heroes are the relatively unknown abolitionist Timothy Pickering and, to a lesser degree, John Quincy Adams. Pickering offered a consistent voice of opposition to Jefferson's often secret campaign against Federalist power. Though he could never match Jefferson's charismatic persona, Pickering succeeded in his battle to undo Jefferson's embargo of England--an embargo that Pickering recognized as Jefferson's attempt to undermine the economic prosperity and power of the North. Pickering's ill-fated attempt to secede from the Union, while misguided, would fuel the latter-day abolitionist John Quincy Adams to threaten a similar revolution as the Civil War loomed.
Ultimately, "Negro President" is a book that recovers slavery as a context for understanding early American political life. At times Willis focuses too much on Jefferson, Pickering, or Adams, and the discussion is derailed by his fascination for the moral successes and failures of each personality. Nevertheless, the book addresses a long-neglected subject in American studies and will prove invaluable to readers interested in understanding America's early struggle to balance Northern versus slave-state power. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Nicholas and Alexandraby Robert K. MassieISBN 0613371623 (0-613-37162-3)
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The Nutcracker/Pop-Up Dimensional Storybookby E.T.A. Hoffman, Michael Welply, Fay AngusISBN 0671686178 (0-671-68617-8)
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Passage of the Republic: An Interdisciplinary History of Nineteenth Century Americaby William L. BarneyISBN 0669047589 (0-669-04758-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Political Theory and Modernityby William E. ConnollyISBN 0631170340 (0-631-17034-0)
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The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfareby John KeeganISBN 0670814164 (0-670-81416-4)
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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memoryby David W. BlightISBN 0674008197 (0-674-00819-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory'Book summary:No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race relations and America's national reunion.
In 1865, confronted with a ravaged landscape and a torn America, the North and South began a slow and painful process of reconciliation. The ensuing decades witnessed the triumph of a culture of reunion, which downplayed sectional division and emphasized the heroics of a battle between noble men of the Blue and the Gray. Nearly lost in national culture were the moral crusades over slavery that ignited the war, the presence and participation of African Americans throughout the war, and the promise of emancipation that emerged from the war. Race and Reunion is a history of how the unity of white America was purchased through the increasing segregation of black and white memory of the Civil War. Blight delves deeply into the shifting meanings of death and sacrifice, Reconstruction, the romanticized South of literature, soldiers' reminiscences of battle, the idea of the Lost Cause, and the ritual of Memorial Day. He resurrects the variety of African-American voices and memories of the war and the efforts to preserve the emancipationist legacy in the midst of a culture built on its denial.
Blight's sweeping narrative of triumph and tragedy, romance and realism, is a compelling tale of the politics of memory, of how a nation healed from civil war without justice. By the early twentieth century, the problems of race and reunion were locked in mutual dependence, a painful legacy that continues to haunt us today. [via]
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Rajby Gita MehtaISBN 0671432486 (0-671-43248-6)
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Revolutionary France, 1770-1880by Francois Furet, Antonia NevillISBN 0631198083 (0-631-19808-3)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Robert Browningby Robert BrowningISBN 0613643186 (0-613-64318-6)
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Romanticism: An Anthologyby Duncan WuISBN 0631191968 (0-631-19196-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romanticism: An Anthology'Book summary:This anthology provides the following works in addition to those offered in the first edition: Anna Laetitia Barbauld's "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"; Byron's "Don Juan", "Canto 2", "Stanzas to Augusta", "Epistle to Augusta", "When We Two Parted" and "Fare Thee Well"; John Clare's "The Badger" and "The Flitting"; canonical versions of S.T. Coleridge's "The Eolian Harp", "Dejection: An Ode", "Kubla Khan", "The Pains of Sleep", "This Lime-Tree Bower", "Frost at Midnight"; John Keats's "Lamia"; and William Wordsworth's "The Ruined Cottage", "The Brothers" and "Michael". A new introduction has been written designed specifically to help students orientate themselves in the field, and expanded introductory headnotes to the major writers are provided. [via]
Rudyard Kiplingby Martin FidoISBN 0670610267 (0-670-61026-7)
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Russian Thinkersby Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, Aileen KellyISBN 0670613711 (0-670-61371-1)
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The Senses of Waldenby Stanley CavellISBN 0670633577 (0-670-63357-7)
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Shadow of the Winter Palaceby Edward CrankshawISBN 0670637823 (0-670-63782-3)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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Sister Carrieby Theodore DreiserISBN 0613175131 (0-613-17513-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Carrie'Book summary:Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900--sort of. The story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what Dreiser's wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version. Times change, and we now have a restored "author's cut" of Sister Carrie that shows how truly ahead of his time Dreiser was. First and foremost, he has written an astute, nonmoralizing account of a woman and her limited options in late-19th-century America. That's impressive in and of itself, but Dreiser doesn't stop there. Digging deeply into the psychological underpinnings of his characters, he gives us people who are often strangers to themselves, drifting numbly until fate pushes them on a path they can later neither defend nor even remember choosing.
Dreiser's story unfolds in the measured cadences of an earlier era. This sometimes works brilliantly as we follow the choices, small and large, that lead some characters to doom and others to glory. On the other hand, the middle chapters--of which there are many--do drag somewhat, even when one appreciates Dreiser's intentions. If you can make it through the sagging midsection, however, you'll be rewarded by Sister Carrie's last 150 pages, which depict the harrowing downward spiral of one of the book's central characters. Here Dreiser portrays with brutal power how the wrong decision--or lack of decision--can lay waste to a life. --Rebecca Gleason [via]
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Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Marketby Walter JohnsonISBN 0674005392 (0-674-00539-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Stagolee Shot Billyby Cecil BrownISBN 0674010566 (0-674-01056-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stagolee Shot Billy'Book summary:Although his story has been told countless times--by performers from Ma Rainey, Cab Calloway, and the Isley Brothers to Ike and Tina Turner, James Brown, and Taj Mahal--no one seems to know who Stagolee really is. Stack Lee? Stagger Lee? He has gone by all these names in the ballad that has kept his exploits before us for over a century. Delving into a subculture of St. Louis known as "Deep Morgan," Cecil Brown emerges with the facts behind the legend to unfold the mystery of Stack Lee and the incident that led to murder in 1895.
How the legend grew is a story in itself, and Brown tracks it through variants of the song "Stack Lee"--from early ragtime versions of the '20s, to Mississippi John Hurt's rendition in the '30s, to John Lomax's 1940s prison versions, to interpretations by Lloyd Price, James Brown, and Wilson Pickett, right up to the hip-hop renderings of the '90s. Drawing upon the works of James Baldwin, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison, Brown describes the powerful influence of a legend bigger than literature, one whose transformation reflects changing views of black musical forms, and African Americans' altered attitudes toward black male identity, gender, and police brutality. This book takes you to the heart of America, into the soul and circumstances of a legend that has conveyed a painful and elusive truth about our culture.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis Stevenson, Barry V. QuallsISBN 0671532103 (0-671-53210-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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The Study of Public Policyby Richard I. HofferbertISBN 0672514559 (0-672-51455-9)
Hardcover, Bobbs-Merrill
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Tess of the D'urbervillesby Thomas Hardy, Alan Richardson, Linda M. ShiresISBN 0618333460 (0-618-33346-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'urbervilles'Book summary:At the time of its publication in 1891, Tess of the d'Urbervilles was scorned by readers for what was then considered its indictment of Victorian society and its unconventional heroine, Tess Durbeyfield. Now considered one of the major classic novels of nineteenth-century literature, Tess is the compelling story of an extraordinary woman and her tragic destiny -- a brilliant, transcendent work of compassion and courage by one of the finest English novelists, Thomas Hardy.
Washington Square Press Enriched Classics presents the world's greatest literature in timeless editions designed for modern readers. Special features include a lively introduction with essential biographical and historical background, critical perspectives, and a unique visual essay composed of authentic period illustrations and photographs that help bring every word to life. [via]
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Thomas Hardy's the Return of the Nativeby Thomas HardyISBN 0671006185 (0-671-00618-5)
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A Treasury of the Theatre.by Gassner, John, EdISBN 0671756109 (0-671-75610-9)
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 0671555782 (0-671-55578-2)
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W.E.B. Dubois: Biography of a Raceby David Levering LewisISBN 0613630866 (0-613-63086-6)
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Waldenby Henry David Thoreau, Scot MillerISBN 0618457178 (0-618-45717-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden'Book summary:Published in association with the Walden Woods Project, this beautiful commemorative edition of Thoreau's masterpiece features spectacular color photographs that capture Walden as vividly as Thoreau's words do.
Henry David Thoreau was just a few days short of his twenty-eighth birthday when he built a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond and began one of the most famous experiments in living in American history. Originally he was not, apparently, intending to write a book about his life at the pond, but nine years later, in August of 1854, Houghton Mifflin's predecessor, Ticknor and Fields, published Walden; or, a Life in the Woods. At the time the book was largely ignored, and it took five years to sell out the first printing of two thousand copies. It was not until 1862, the year of Thoreau's death, that the book was brought back into print, and it has never been out of print since. Published in hundreds of editions and translated into virtually every modern language, it has become one of the most widely read and influential books ever written. [via]
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The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writingsby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 0613501438 (0-613-50143-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings'Book summary:"There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver."--Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), a leading figure in the women's movement of the early twentieth century, is a pillar of the American feminist canon. This edition of her work includes her best-known story, "The Yellow Wall-paper," a terrifying tale about a woman driven to the brink of insanity by the "rest cure" she is ordered to follow by her doctor to relieve her postpartum depression. Also included is a wide range of other short stories; an abridged version of her little-known but brilliant utopian novel, Herland, about a peaceful all-female world; and selections from her landmark treatise, Women and Economics, first published in 1898 to universal acclaim. [via]More editions of The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings:
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