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An Age of Extremesby Joy HakimISBN 0195077601 (0-19-507760-1)
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All the Peopleby Joy HakimISBN 0195077644 (0-19-507764-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All the People'Book summary:In the years after World War II, America became the world's greatest power. All the People discusses the U.S.A.'s uneasiness with its postwar role as global policeman even as we fought to keep countries across the world from becoming part of the Soviet Union's communist empire. There were battles at home, too, with the Civil Rights movement and opposition to the Vietnam War. Truman, Stalin, Khrushchev, Ho Chi Minh, Thrugood Marshall, JFK, LBJ, Malcolm X, Cesar Chavez, Bill Clinton--even the Beatles--star in this exciting final chapter of A History of US. [via]
American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New Worldby David E. StannardISBN 0195085574 (0-19-508557-4)
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The American Indian in Western Legal Thought: The Discourses of Conquestby Robert A. WilliamsISBN 0195080025 (0-19-508002-5)
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American Political Culturesby Richard EllisISBN 0195079000 (0-19-507900-0)
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American Women Writers to 1800by Sharon M. HarrisISBN 0195084535 (0-19-508453-5)
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Art from Ashesby Lawrence L. LangerISBN 0195077326 (0-19-507732-6)
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Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacyby Jules TygielISBN 0195078268 (0-19-507826-8)
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Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstitionby Stuart A. VyseISBN 0195078829 (0-19-507882-9)
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Betrayals: Fort William Henry and the "Massacre"by Ian Kenneth SteeleISBN 0195084268 (0-19-508426-8)
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Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North Americaby James AxtellISBN 0195080335 (0-19-508033-5)
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Beyond the Blue Horizon: Myths and Legends of the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Planetsby Edwin C. KruppISBN 0195078004 (0-19-507800-4)
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Butterflies Through Binoculars: A Field Guide to Butterflies in the Boston, New York, Washington Regionby Jeffrey GlassbergISBN 0195079833 (0-19-507983-3)
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The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwellby Robert Motherwell, Stephanie TerenzioISBN 0195077008 (0-19-507700-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell'Book summary:In the history of art, only a handful of great artists have been able to articulate the nature of the creative process. Robert Motherwell was one such artist. Not only a seminal painter in the movement eventually referred to as abstract expressionism, he was also a primary theorist and spokesperson for the avant-garde art that developed mainly in New York City during the Second World War. Throughout the formative years of abstract expressionism, Motherwell's presence as artist, editor of a series of pioneering books on modern art, lecturer, and teacher was influential in both illuminating and shaping the development of what he termed "The Enterprise" of abstract art.
This book brings together a representative selection of Motherwell's writings about art, dating from 1941 to 1988. It contains more than sixteen essays, a number of pieces from exhibition catalogs, more than a dozen public lectures, and all the artist's vanguard editorial work. The last includes his introductions to several volumes of the pioneering series Documents of Modern Art, which he began directing and editing in 1944; his contribution to possibilities, the first magazine devoted to modern art and culture in the United States, and his work on Modern Artists in America, a book designed to bring balanced attention to modern art in the conservative political climate that prevailed in 1951. Excerpts from four interviews, a number of letters, and lectures, some never before published, bring the collection to within three years of the artist's death. A new chronology and an updated bibliography provide much new information.
In a New York Times tribute shortly after Motherwell's death, Hilton Kramer memorialized the artist as the "eloquent and articulate champion of the entire Abstract Expressionist movement, an archivist of the modernist movement as a whole" and expressed regret that Motherwell's "long-awaited" collected works had not yet appeared. Here at last is that definitive collection, nearly eighty pieces by the leading spokesperson for abstract expressionism. [via]More editions of The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell:
The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Povertyby Jill QuadagnoISBN 0195079191 (0-19-507919-1)
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Discovering the History of Psychiatryby Mark S. Micale, Roy PorterISBN 0195077393 (0-19-507739-3)
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The European Discovery of America Vol. 1: The Northern Voyages, A. D. 500 - 1600by Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0195082710 (0-19-508271-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The European Discovery of America Vol. 1: The Northern Voyages, A. D. 500 - 1600'Book summary:The late Samuel Eliot Morison, a former U.S. Navy admiral, was also one of America's premier historians. Combining a first-hand knowledge of the sea and transatlantic travel with a brilliantly readable narrative style, he produced what has become nothing less than the definitive account of the great age of European exploration. In his riveting and richly illustrated saga, Morison offers a comprehensive account of all the known voyages by Europeans to the New World from 500 A.D. to the seventeenth century. Together, the two volumes of The European Discovery of America tell the compelling stories of the many intrepid explorers who made what was then a journey frought with danger--figures as diverse as Leif Ericsson, Columbus, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, Martin Frobisher, Magellan, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Sir Francis Drake to name but a few. They also follow the adventures of lesser-known but no less interesting mariners and offer a detailed look at those who set them forth on their travels.
In the first volume, The Nrthern Voyages--winner of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for History--Morison re-creates the lives and perilous times of those who claimed to have seen the shores of North America in the 600 years after the Norsemen first landed. He brings to his account a rare immediacy, making the drama and unpredictability of their voyages as significant in relation to the people of their era as the astronauts' journeys have been for our own times. Morison also offers a fascinating look at the imaginary lands reported by early travelers (such mythical places as Antilia and the Seven Cities, the glorious Kingdoms of Norumbega and Saguenay, and Hy-Brasil the Isle of the Blest) and examines as well the alleged discoverers of these lands. With warmth and wit he distinguishes fact from fiction, and imaginary explorers and their exploits from actual men and events.
In the second volume, Morison turns his attention to the navigators who negotiated the waters of the Caribbean and the treacherous coasts of South America, even following them as they ventured ashore to the dark inland of the southern continent. The Southern Voyages begins with the events leading up to Columbus's arrival in San Salvador in 1492 and concludes with the discovery of the southernmost bit of land, Cape Horn, by Dutch explorers in 1616. In between, Morison retraces the routes of all the great mariners, including a step-by-step account of Magellan's voyage that would take him around the world. Morison has enlivened his narrative with a wide range of source material from Italy, Spain, Portugal, and South America, in the process shedding new light on questions that have divided scholars througout history: Did Sir Francis Drake discover San Francisco Bay? Was Amerigo Vespucci a great explorer or a fraud--or a little of both? What role did the French have in the European discovery of Brazil?
Each volume brims with contemporary illustrations, maps (many of them specially drawn for this history) and photographs (often taken by Morison himself as he flew at low altitude along the coastal routes of explorers), which together identify virtually every allusion to land and sea made by the great European navigators in their ship logs and their later accounts.
With the 500th anniversary of the European arrival in America came much controversy over Columbus's true legacy. With its lively and engaging style, and with its unsurpassed understanding of the age, The European Discovery of America helps put the era of exploration in much-needed perspective. Anyone interested in the history of America, indeed, in the history of Western Civilization, will find these volumes absolutely essential. [via]More editions of The European Discovery of America Vol. 1: The Northern Voyages, A. D. 500 - 1600:
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The European Discovery of America Vol. 2 : The Southern Voyages, A. D. 1492 - 1616by Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0195082729 (0-19-508272-9)
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Evaluating Social Science Researchby Paul C. Stern, Linda KalofISBN 0195079701 (0-19-507970-1)
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Eyewitness to Discovery: First-Person Accounts of More Than Fifty of the World's Greatest Archaeological Discoveriesby Brian M. FaganISBN 0195081412 (0-19-508141-2)
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The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Libertiesby Mark E. NeelyISBN 0195080327 (0-19-508032-7)
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The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncannyby Terry CastleISBN 019508098X (0-19-508098-X)
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The First Americansby Joy HakimISBN 0195077466 (0-19-507746-6)
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Four Sociological Traditionsby Randall CollinsISBN 0195082087 (0-19-508208-7)
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Frederick II: A Medieval Emperorby David AbulafiaISBN 0195080408 (0-19-508040-8)
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Free at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggleby Sara BullardISBN 0195083814 (0-19-508381-4)
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From Colonies to Countryby Joy HakimISBN 0195077504 (0-19-507750-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Colonies to Country'Book summary:The Revolutionary War! The Americans fight for freedom in From Colonies to Country. In this enthralling story we meet George Washington, King George III, Sam Adams, Patrick Henry, Eliza Pinckney, and Alexander Hamilton. The French and Indian War, the writing and signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitutional Convention where the government of the United States is created--these are major events in A History of US. [via]
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Gender and Conversational Interactionby Deborah TannenISBN 0195081943 (0-19-508194-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gender and Conversational Interaction'Book summary:The author of the best-selling You Just Don't Understand, Deborah Tannen, has collected twelve papers about gender-related patterns in conversational interaction. The theoretical thrust of the collection, like that of Tannen's own work, is anthropological and sociolinguistic: female and male styles are approached as different "cultural" practice. Beginning with Tannen's own essay arguing for the relativity of discourse strategies, the volume challenges facile generalizations about gender-based styles and explores the complex relationship between gender and language use. The chapters, some previously unpublished and some classics in the field, address discourse across the lifespan, including preschool, junior high school, and adult interaction. They explore such varied discourse contexts as preschool disputes, romantic and sexual teasing among adolescent girls, cooperative competition in adolescent "girl talk," conversational storytelling, a faculty committee meeting, children in an urban black neighborhood at play, and a legal dispute in a Tenejapan village in Mexico. Two chapters review and evaluate the literature on key areas of gender-related linguistic phenomena: interruption and amount of talk. Gender and Conversational Interaction will interest general readers as well as students and scholars in a variety of disciplines including linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology, sociology, psychology, women's studies, and communications. [via]
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The Geronimo Campaignby Odie B. FaulkISBN 0195083512 (0-19-508351-2)
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Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in Historyby Barbara A. HanawaltISBN 0195084055 (0-19-508405-5)
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A Guide to the Elementsby Albert StwertkaISBN 0195080831 (0-19-508083-1)
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Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reichby Omer BartovISBN 0195079035 (0-19-507903-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich'Book summary:As the Cold War followed on the heels of the Second World War, as the Nuremburg Trials faded in the shadow of the Iron Curtain, both the Germans and the West were quick to accept the idea that Hitler's army had been no SS, no Gestapo, that it was a professional force little touched by Nazi politics. But in this compelling account Omer Bartov reveals a very different history, as he probes the experience of the average soldier to show just how thoroughly Nazi ideology permeated the army.
In Hitler's Army, Bartov focuses on the titanic struggle between Germany and the Soviet Union--where the vast majority of German troops fought--to show how the savagery of war reshaped the army in Hitler's image. Both brutalized and brutalizing, these soldiers needed to see their bitter sacrifices as noble patriotism and to justify their own atrocities by seeing their victims as subhuman. In the unprecedented ferocity and catastrophic losses of the Eastrn front, he writes, soldiers embraced the idea that the war was a defense of civilization against Jewish/Bolshevik barbarism, a war of racial survival to be waged at all costs. Bartov describes the incredible scale and destruction of the invasion of Russia in horrific detail. Even in the first months--often depicted as a time of easy victories--undermanned and ill-equipped German units were stretched to the breaking point by vast distances and bitter Soviet resistance. Facing scarce supplies and enormous casualties, the average soldier sank to ta a primitive level of existence, re-experiencing the trench warfare of World War I under the most extreme weather conditions imaginable; the fighting itself was savage, and massacres of prisoners were common. Troops looted food and supplies from civilians with wild abandon; they mercilessly wiped out villages suspected of aiding partisans. Incredible losses led to recruits being thrown together in units that once had been filled with men from the same communities, making Nazi ideology even more important as a binding force. And they were further brutalized by a military justice system that executed almost 15,000 German soldiers during the war. Bartov goes on to explore letters, diaries, military reports, and other sources, showing how widespread Hitler's views became among common fighting men--men who grew up, he reminds us, under the Nazi regime. In the end, they truly became Hitler's army.
In six years of warfare, the vast majority of German men passed through the Wehrmacht and almost every family had a relative who fought in the East. Bartov's powerful new account of how deeply Nazi ideology penetrated the army sheds new light on how deeply it penetrated the nation. Hitler's Army makes an important correction not merely to the historical record but to how we see the world today. [via]More editions of Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich:
Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Lifeby Janet HaddaISBN 0195084209 (0-19-508420-9)
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The Jazz Traditionby Martin WilliamsISBN 0195078160 (0-19-507816-0)
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Journey Through the Twelve Forests: An Encounter With Krishnaby David L. HabermanISBN 0195084799 (0-19-508479-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Journey Through the Twelve Forests: An Encounter With Krishna'Book summary:A lively account of the Ban Yatra, a circular pilgrimage that takes place in the northern Indian land of Braj, this anthropological chronicle offers an appealing mixture of personal anecdote, religious theory, Indian history, and tales of the gods. Based on personal experience in the field, a combination of primary sources in Sanskrit, Hindi, and Bengali--many never before translated into Western languages--and a wide range of secondary literature, Haberman places the pilgrimage in its cultural and historical context. He interweaves his account with retellings of the tales of Krishna, perhaps the most popular of Indian deities and the entity around which the journey revolves. In the process, Haberman explores the effects of the Ban-Yatra upon its participants and weighs its particular implications for current theories about pilgrimage in general. The first thorough study of this kind of cyclical Hindu pilgrimage, Journey through the Twelve Forests will interest any student of South Asian culture and pilgrimage. [via]
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Liberty for Allby Joy HakimISBN 0195077547 (0-19-507754-7)
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Living the Jazz Life: Conversations With Forty Musicians About Their Careers in Jazzby W. Royal StokesISBN 0195081080 (0-19-508108-0)
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Lone Star Rising : Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960by Robert DallekISBN 0195079043 (0-19-507904-3)
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Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Classby Eric LottISBN 0195078322 (0-19-507832-2)
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The Lupus Book: A Guide for Patients and Their Familiesby Daniel J. WallaceISBN 0195084438 (0-19-508443-8)
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MMPI-2: Assessing Personality and Psychopathologyby John R. GrahamISBN 0195079221 (0-19-507922-1)
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Naming the Antichrist : The History of an American Obsessionby Robert C. FullerISBN 0195082443 (0-19-508244-3)
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The Nature of the Firm: Origins, Evolution, and Developmentby Oliver E. Williamson, Sidney G. WinterISBN 0195083563 (0-19-508356-3)
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The New Nationby Joy HakimISBN 0195077520 (0-19-507752-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Nation'Book summary:Covering the years between Washington's inauguration and the first quarter of the 19th century, The New Nation shows how our new government was tested within and without. Events such as the Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark's expeditions, the War of 1812, Tecumseh's effort to form an Indian confederacy, the growth of Southern plantations, and the beginnings of the abolitionist movement made this a turbulent and exciting period in A History of US. [via]
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The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writingsby Bart D. EhrmanISBN 0195084810 (0-19-508481-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings'Book summary:This lucid introduction approaches the New Testament from a consistently historical and comparative perspective, emphasizing the rich diversity of the earliest Christian literature. Rather than shying away from the critical problems presented by these books, Ehrman addresses the historical and literary challenges they pose and shows why scholars continue to argue over such significant issues as how the books of the New Testament came into being, who produced them, what they mean, how they relate to contemporary Christian and non-Christian literature, and how they came to be collected into a canon of Scripture. Distinctive to this study is its emphasis on the historical, literary, and religious milieu of the Greco-Roman world, including early Judaism. As part of its historical orientation, this text also discusses works by other Christian writers who were roughly contemporary with the New Testament, such as the Gospel of Thomas, the Apocalypse of Peter, and the letters of Ignatius. Instead of simply setting forth scholarly views without explanations, Ehrman includes the evidence that scholars have found persuasive for their views, engaging students and demonstrating why scholars have taken the positions they have. Ideal for undergraduate and seminary classes in the New Testament, biblical studies, and Christian origins, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings is an accessible, clearly written introduction that encourages students to consider the historical issues surrounding these writings. [via]
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Nicholas II: Last of the Tsarsby Marc Ferro, Brian PearceISBN 0195081927 (0-19-508192-7)
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The Oxford Book of the American Southby Edward L. Ayers, Bradley C. MittendorfISBN 0195085221 (0-19-508522-1)
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The Oxford Companion to United States Historyby David M. Oshinsky, Ronald L. Numbers, Melvyn Dubofsky, Eric H. Monkkonen, Paul S. Boyer, Emily S. RosenbergISBN 0195082095 (0-19-508209-5)
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People's China: A Brief Historyby Craig DietrichISBN 0195081854 (0-19-508185-4)
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The Physiology and Biochemistry of Prokaryotesby David WhiteISBN 019508439X (0-19-508439-X)
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Principles of Biomedical Ethicsby James F. Childress, Tom L. BeauchampISBN 019508537X (0-19-508537-X)
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The Public Prints: The Newspaper in Anglo-American Culture, 1665-1740by Charles E. ClarkISBN 0195082338 (0-19-508233-8)
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Radio Comedyby Arthur Frank WertheimISBN 0195079183 (0-19-507918-3)
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Reconstruction and Reformby Joy HakimISBN 019507758X (0-19-507758-X)
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Recursion Theory for Metamathematicsby Raymond M. SmullyanISBN 019508232X (0-19-508232-X)
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Reinterpreting Russian History: Readings 860-180sby Daniel H. Kaiser, Gary MarkerISBN 0195078586 (0-19-507858-6)
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Runaway Slaves : Rebels on the Plantationby John H. Franklin, Loren SchweningerISBN 0195084497 (0-19-508449-7)
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Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantationby John Hope Franklin, Loren SchweningerISBN 0195084519 (0-19-508451-9)
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The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship: Sources and Methods for the Study of Early Liturgyby Paul F. BradshawISBN 0195080513 (0-19-508051-3)
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Secession Debated: Georgia's Showdown in 1860by William W. Freehling, Craig M. SimpsonISBN 0195079450 (0-19-507945-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Secession Debated: Georgia's Showdown in 1860'Book summary:The critical northern antebellum debate matched the rhetorical skills of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in an historic argument over the future of slavery in a westward-expanding America. Two years later, an equally historic oratorical showdown between secessionists and Unionists in Georgia generated as much popular interest south of the Mason-Dixon line, and perhaps had an even more profound immediate effect on the future of the United States.
With Abraham Lincoln's "Black Republican" triumph in the presidential election of 1860 came ardent secessionist sentiment in the South. But Unionists were equally zealous and while South Carolina--a bastion of Disunionism since 1832--seemed certain to secede; the other fourteen slave states were far from decided. In the deep South, the road to disunion depended much on the actions of Georgia, a veritable microcosm of the divided South and geographically in the middle of the Cotton South. If Georgia went for the Union, secessionist South Carolina could be isolated. So in November of 1860 all the eyes of Dixie turned to tiny Milledgeville, pre-war capital of Georgia, for a legislative confrontation that would help chart the course toward civil war.
In Secession Debated, William W. Freehling and Craig M. Simpson have for the first time collected the seven surviving speeches and public letters of this greatest of southern debates over disunion, providing today's reader with a unique window into a moment of American crisis. Introducing the debate and debaters in compelling fashion, the editors help bring to life a sleepy Southern town suddenly alive with importance as a divided legislature met to decide the fate of Georgia, and by extension, that of the nation. We hear myriad voices, among them the energetic and self-righteous governor Joseph E. Brown who, while a slaveholder and secessionist, was somewhat suspect as a native North Georgian; Alexander H. Stephens, the eloquent Unionist whose "calm dispassionate approach" ultimately backfired; and fiery secessionist Robert Toombs who, impatient with Brown's indecisiveness and the caution of the Unionists, shouted to legislators: "Give me the sword! but if you do not place it in my hands, before God! I will take it." The secessionists' Henry Benning and Thomas R.R. Cobb as well as the Unionists Benjamin Hill and Herschel Johnson also speak to us across the years, most with eloquence, all with the patriotic, passionate conviction that defined an era. In the end, the legislature adopted a convention bill which decreed a popular vote on the issue in early January, 1861. The election results were close, mirroring the intense debate of two months before: 51% of Georgians favored immediate secession, a slim margin which the propaganda-conscious Brown later inflated to 58%. On January 19th the Georgia Convention sanctioned secession in a 166-130 vote, and the imminent Confederacy had its Southern hinge.
Secession Debated is a colorful and gripping tale told in the words of the actual participants, one which sheds new light on one of the great and hitherto neglected verbal showdowns in American history. It is essential to a full understanding of the origins of the war between the states. [via]More editions of Secession Debated: Georgia's Showdown in 1860:
Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Cultureby R. Laurence MooreISBN 0195082281 (0-19-508228-1)
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Sex, Gender, and the Politics of Era: A State and the Nationby Donald G. Mathews, Jane Sherron De HartISBN 0195078527 (0-19-507852-7)
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The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the Ussr, and the Successor Statesby Ronald Grigor SunyISBN 0195081056 (0-19-508105-6)
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The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the U. S. S. R., and the Successor Statesby Ronald G. SunyISBN 0195081048 (0-19-508104-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the U. S. S. R., and the Successor States'Book summary:The West has always had difficulty understanding the Soviet Union. For decades, analyses of America's Cold War foe were clouded by ideological passions and a shear dearth of information. Then came the flood of dramatic revelations under glasnost, followed by the sudden, shocking collapse of the Communist empire. Today, with the stunning secrets of newly opened archives and the excitement of political revolution still fresh in our minds, and we can look back at this remarkable nation and see it whole, see Soviet history as a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end. In The Soviet Experiment, Ronald Grigor Suny does just that, in a landmark work that gives us the fullest account yet of the most remarkable story of our century.
With a clear-eyed mastery of the historical issues and literature, Suny combines gripping detail with insightful analysis in a narrative that propels the reader from the last tsar of the Russian empire to the first president of the Russian republic. He focuses in particular on four revolutions, each identified with a single individual: the tumultuous year of 1917, when Vladimir Lenin led the Bolshevik takeover of the tsarist empire; the 1930s, when Joseph Stalin refashioned the economy, the society, and the state; Mikhail Gorbachev's ambitious, and catastrophic, attempt at sweeping reform and revitalization; and the breakup of the Soviet Union led by Boris Yeltsin. Never have we had a more complete, nuanced, and crystal-clear examination of the complex themes running through Soviet history. Suny confidently moves from party debates and personal rivalries, to centuries-old ethnic tensions, to vast economic and social developments. He unravels tangled issues with ease, explaining "deeply contradictory" policies toward the various Soviet nationalities; Moscow's ambivalence over its own New Economic Policy of the 1920s; and the attempts at reform that followed Stalin's death. Suny's treatment of the Soviet break-up warrants particular attention, as he details precisely how Gorbachev's program unleashed forces that had built up during the previous decades--particularly the nationalism that had been shaped, ironically, by the Soviet structure of ethnically defined republics. Along the way, he offers a fresh telling of familiar as well as little-known events--capturing, for example, the movement of the crowds on the streets of St. Petersburg in the February revolution; Stalin's collapse into a near-catatonic state after Hitler's much-predicted invasion; or Yeltsin's political maneuvering and public grandstanding as he pushed the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and then faced down his rivals.
The Soviet Experiment provides a rich, multilayered, seamlessly woven account of one of the great forces of modern history. With dispassionate insight and human detail, Suny has constructed a masterful work. [via]More editions of The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the U. S. S. R., and the Successor States:
Talons of the Eagle: Dynamics of U.S.-Latin American Relationsby Peter H. SmithISBN 0195083040 (0-19-508304-0)
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Television: The Critical Viewby Horace NewcombISBN 0195085280 (0-19-508528-0)
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Theorists of Economic Growth from David Hume to the Present: With a Perspective on the Next Centuryby W.W. RostowISBN 0195080432 (0-19-508043-2)
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There's No Such Thing As Free Speech : And It's a Good Thing, Tooby Stanley Eugene FishISBN 0195080181 (0-19-508018-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'There's No Such Thing As Free Speech : And It's a Good Thing, Too'Book summary:In an era when much of what passes for debate is merely moral posturing--traditional family values versus the cultural elite, free speech versus censorship--or reflexive name-calling--the terms "liberal" and "politically correct," are used with as much dismissive scorn by the right as "reactionary" and "fascist" are by the left--Stanley Fish would seem an unlikely lightning rod for controversy. A renowned scholar of Milton, head of the English Department of Duke University, Fish has emerged as a brilliantly original critic of the culture at large, praised and pilloried as a vigorous debunker of the pieties of both the left and right. His mission is not to win the cultural wars that preoccupy the nation's attention, but rather to redefine the terms of battle.
In There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, Fish takes aim at the ideological gridlock paralyzing academic and political exchange in the nineties. In his witty, accessible dissections of the swirling controversies over multiculturalism, affirmative action, canon revision, hate speech, and legal reform, he neatly eviscerates both the conservatives' claim to possession of timeless, transcendent values (the timeless transcendence of which they themselves have conveniently identified), and the intellectual left's icons of equality, tolerance, and non-discrimination. He argues that while conservative ideologues and liberal stalwarts might disagree vehemently on what is essential to a culture, or to a curriculum, both mistakenly believe that what is essential can be identified apart from the accidental circumstances (of time and history) to which the essential is ritually opposed.
In the book's first section, which includes the five essays written for Fish's celebrated debates with Dinesh D'Souza (the author and former Reagan White House policy analyst), Fish turns his attention to the neoconservative backlash. In his introduction, Fish writes, "Terms that come to us wearing the label 'apolitical'--'common values', 'fairness', 'merit', 'color blind', 'free speech', 'reason'--are in fact the ideologically charged constructions of a decidedly political agenda. I make the point not in order to level an accusation, but to remove the sting of accusation from the world 'politics' and redefine it as a synonym for what everyone inevitably does." Fish maintains that the debate over political correctness is an artificial one, because it is simply not possible for any party or individual to occupy a position above or beyond politics. Regarding the controversy over the revision of the college curriculum, Fish argues that the point is not to try to insist that inclusion of ethnic and gender studies is not a political decision, but "to point out that any alternative curriculum--say a diet of exclusively Western or European texts--would be no less politically invested."
In Part Two, Fish follows the implications of his arguments to a surprising rejection of the optimistic claims of the intellectual left that awareness of the historical roots of our beliefs and biases can allow us, as individuals or as a society, to escape or transcend them. Specifically, he turns to the movement for reform of legal studies, and insists that a dream of a legal culture in which no one's values are slighted or declared peripheral can no more be realized than the dream of a concept of fairness that answers to everyone's notions of equality and jsutice, or a yardstick of merit that is true to everyone's notions of worth and substance. Similarly, he argues that attempts to politicize the study of literature are ultimately misguided, because recharacterizations of literary works have absolutely no impact on the mainstream of political life. He concludes his critique of the academy with "The Unbearable Ugliness of Volvos," an extraordinary look at some of the more puzzing, if not out-and-out masochistic, characteristics of a life in academia.
Penetrating, fearless, and brilliantly argued, There's No Such Thing as Free Speech captures the essential Fish. It is must reading for anyone who cares about the outcome of America's cultural wars. [via]More editions of There's No Such Thing As Free Speech : And It's a Good Thing, Too:
The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War IIby William H. ChafeISBN 0195082796 (0-19-508279-6)
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Unpredictable Pastby Lawrence W. LevineISBN 0195082966 (0-19-508296-6)
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The Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural Historyby Lawrence W. LevineISBN 0195082974 (0-19-508297-4)
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The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Homeby Reid MitchellISBN 0195078934 (0-19-507893-4)
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War, Peace, and All That Jazzby Joy HakimISBN 0195077628 (0-19-507762-8)
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War, Peace, and All That Jazz/Book 9by Joy HakimISBN 019507761X (0-19-507761-X)
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War, Terrible Warby Joy HakimISBN 0195077563 (0-19-507756-3)
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Warpaths: Invasions of North Americaby Ian K. SteeleISBN 0195082230 (0-19-508223-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Warpaths: Invasions of North America'Book summary:In 1513, only a few years before Cortes conquered the Aztec empire, Juan Ponce de Leon and three shiploads of conquistadores landed just south of what is now St. Augustine, Florida. The Spanish adventurers, however, were quickly driven away by the Timucua people; further landings were similarly defeated by the extraordinary archers of the Calusa, who ultimately took the lives of Hernandez de Cordoba and Ponce de Leon himself. Clearly, the European experience in North America would be a far cry from their swift victories over the Aztecs and Incas.
A panoramic history of the numerous European invasions of North America, this book paints a dramatic new portrait of the centuries of warfare that shook the continent. From the defeat of Ponce de Leon in 1513 to a negotiated peace with the British in 1765, Steele's fascinating account destroys the old image of technologically advanced Europeans overrunning primitive savages, and reveals how Amerindians rose to the challenge of each successive invasion with martial and diplomatic skill. In war after war, the Amerindians and Europeans battled in a precarious balance, adapting each other's technology and tactics and seeking each other out as allies and supply sources for food and weapons. Steele follows the experience of the Spanish at San Agustín, the English at Jamestown and Plymouth, the French at Québec, and the Dutch at Albany, revealing the vast range of Amerindian strategies for coping with the invaders.
The conflicts that erupted with the European arrival have long been distorted by myth and self-congratulatory folklore. Warpaths offers students of American history and Native American studies a startling new look at this pivotal era, combining social, cultural, and military history to provide a more nuanced portrait of the violence that gave birth to modern North America. [via]More editions of Warpaths: Invasions of North America:
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Warrant: The Current Debateby Alvin PlantingaISBN 0195078624 (0-19-507862-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Warrant: The Current Debate'Book summary:Known for distinguished work in the fields of metaphysics and philosophy of religion, Alvin Plantinga ventures further into epistemology in this book and its companion volume, Warrant and Proper Function. Plantinga examines the nature of epistemic warrant; whatever it is that when added to true belief yields knowledge. This present volume surveys current contributions to the debate and paves the way for his own positive proposal in Warrant and Proper Function. This first volume serves as a good introduction to the central issues in contemporary epistemology. [via]
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Why the Civil War Cameby Glenna Matthews, Gabor S. Boritt, William W. Freehling, David W. Blight, Charles Royster, Mark Wahlgren Summers, William E. Gienapp, G. S. BorittISBN 0195079418 (0-19-507941-8)
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Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionaryby Robert E. BellISBN 0195079779 (0-19-507977-9)
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The World's Writing Systemsby William Bright, Peter T. DanielsISBN 0195079930 (0-19-507993-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World's Writing Systems'Book summary:Ranging from cuneiform to shorthand, from archaic Greek to modern Chinese, from Old Persian to modern Cherokee, this is the only available work in English to cover all of the world's writing systems from ancient times to the present. Describing scores of scripts in use now or in the past around the world, this unusually comprehensive reference offers a detailed exploration of the history and typology of writing systems. More than eighty articles by scholars from over a dozen countries explain and document how a vast array of writing systems work--how alphabets, ideograms, pictographs, and hieroglyphics convey meaning in graphic form.
The work is organized in thirteen parts, each dealing with a particular group of writing systems defined historically, geographically, or conceptually. Arranged according to the chronological development of writing systems and their historical relationships within geographical areas, the scripts are divided into the following sections: the ancient Near East, East Asia, Europe, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. Additional parts address the ongoing process of decipherment of ancient writing systems; the adaptation of traditional scripts to new languages; new scripts invented in modern times; and graphic symbols for numerical, music, and movement notation.
Each part begins with an introductory article providing the social and cultural context in which the group of writing systems was developed. Articles on individual scripts detail the historical origin of the writing system, its structure (with tables showing the forms of the written symbols), and its relationship to the phonology of the corresponding spoken language. Each writing system is illustrated by a passage of text, and accompanied by a romanized version, a phonetic transcription, and a modern English translation. A bibliography suggesting further reading concludes each entry.
Matched by no other work in English, The World's Writing Systems is the only comprehensive resource covering every major writing system. Unparalleled in its scope and unique in its coverage of the way scripts relate to the languages they represent, this is a resource that anyone with an interest in language will want to own, and one that should be a part of every library's reference collection. [via]More editions of The World's Writing Systems:
The Young Oxford Companion to the Congress of the United Statesby Donald A. RitchieISBN 0195077776 (0-19-507777-6)
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The Young Oxford Companion to the Presidency of the United Statesby Richard M. PiousISBN 0195077997 (0-19-507799-7)
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The Young Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United Statesby John J. PatrickISBN 0195078772 (0-19-507877-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Young Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States'Book summary:Here is an encyclopedia of the Supreme Court--exactly the kind of sourcebook that students, teachers, and librarians need to comlplement the available material about the history and current operations of the Court. This authoritative and comprehensive treatment includes:
* biographical sketches of all 107 justices
* detailed discussions of 100 landmark Supreme Court cases
* concepts of constitutional law
* legal terms and phrases associated with the Court's operations
* procedures and practices in the daily operations of the Court
* essays on key topics and issues in American constitutional law
* excerpts from notable Supreme Court opinions
* tables of terms of Supreme Court justices
The essay on current constitutional issues (abortion rights, affirmative action, censorship, school prayer, libel, and employment discrimination) and essays that illuminate procedural topics (the right to a trial, the right to counsel, and protection against self-incrimination) demonstrate the relationships of the Court to the lives and concerns of individuals in American society. A complete index and table of justices are included.
In an easy-to-use alphabetical format, with extensive cross-referencing, suggestions for further reading, and many photographs and other illustrations, The Young Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States is an invaluable and ready reference for students, teachers, and librarians. [via]More editions of The Young Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States:
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