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c 1800 to c 1900

Paperback. In this cultural history of the War of 1812, Nicole Eustace examines the way this expensive, unproductive war won popular support through appeal to the emotions. 1812 looks at the major dramatic events of the war and the subsequent songs, speeches, and images that spoke of opportunity and romantic adventure. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages, 19 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBTB; HBTR; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780812223484
ISBN
9780812223484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.48

Hardback. Taking a look at the work of war writers and examining public records, journalism, and medical writing, this book brings the study of the Civil War into conversation with the critical work on bodily ontology and epistemology and theories of narrative and history. Num Pages: 344 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBWJ; MB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 654.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812237481
ISBN
9780812237481
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.57

Hardback. Innovative in its scope and conceptual frameworks, Creole America reveals how literary culture in the New Republic is formed by a push for commercial empire in the hemisphere via the routes of the treacherous West Indian trades and, in turn, aestheticizes U.S.-West Indian relations as an integral aspect of the national imaginary. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 3JH; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9780812239300
ISBN
9780812239300
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.78

hardcover. Unearths an unexpected bloom of liberty in an ex-slave's journal Num Pages: 219 pages, 8 figures/1 table/ 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JH; BJ; HBTS; TVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 161 x 14. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814705100
ISBN
9780814705100
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.72

Paperback. In 1800 the Jeffersonian Republicans, decisive victors over what they considered elitist Federalism, seized the potential for change in the new American nation. This book examines the fusion of ideas and circumstances which made possible this triumph of America's popular political movement. Num Pages: 122 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; JPF; JPL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 149 x 9. Weight in Grams: 182.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
122
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814705834
ISBN
9780814705834
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 26.87

hardcover. Examines American Jews' long and complicated relationship to alcohol during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Series: The Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 14 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; JFFH1; JFSR1; KNSH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 22. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814720288
ISBN
9780814720288
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.72

Paperback. A stirring street-level account of the growth of New York, growth made possible by the efforts of the cartmen and other unskilled labourers Num Pages: 240 pages, 23 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 163 x 13. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780814724613
ISBN
9780814724613
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.95

Paperback. This work considers the visual languages, politics and poetics of personal appearance. "Dandyism" has been most closely associated with the 19th-century style of men such as Oscar Wilde. This book examines the wider influence of dandyism and considers its destablizing aesthetic effect. Editor(s): Fillin-Yeh, Susan. Num Pages: 304 pages, 27 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBTB; JFCA; JFCK; WJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814726969
ISBN
9780814726969
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.24

Paperback. Examines the complex intertwining of race and architecture in nineteenth and early-twentieth century American culture Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 288 pages, 25 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJC; AMX; DSBF; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 16. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780814732472
ISBN
9780814732472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.13

Paperback. Reveals the ambiguous, often contested nature of marital law, showing that husbands' superior status and wives' dependence were fluid and negotiable Num Pages: 171 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBTB; LAZ; LNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 259.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
171
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814740651
ISBN
9780814740651
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 26.87

Paperback. Reveals that New York's interlocking network of private benevolence and municipal relief promoted a racialized and gendered definition of poverty and citizenship Num Pages: 349 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSL3; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
349
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814741078
ISBN
9780814741078
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.18

Paperback. This work offers a reconstruction of the dialogue between leading socialist theoreticians and Jewish intellectuals from the 1880s until world War II. It focuses in detail on the attitude towards Jews through three personalities - Karl Kautsky, Eduard Bernstein and Rosa Luxemburg. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; JFSR1; JPFF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780814742136
ISBN
9780814742136
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.18

paperback. John Brown Russwurm (1799-1851) played a pioneering role as an educator, abolitionist, editor, government official, emigrationist and colonizationist. He is the first African American graduate of Maine's Bowdoin College, and co-founder of "Freedom's Journal". This title presents an account of Russwurm's life. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814742907
ISBN
9780814742907
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.70

Paperback. Provides a new model of comparative race studies by situating contemporary questions of differential racial formations within a long genealogy of anti-racist discourse constrained by liberal notions of inclusion Series: Nation of Nations. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814742983
ISBN
9780814742983
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 29.02

Paperback. Examines representations of Arabs, Islam and the Near East in nineteenth-century American culture Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBJK; JFC; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814745182
ISBN
9780814745182
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.18

Hardback. Offers a new way of thinking about the largely unacknowledged "productivity of the unproductive" Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; JFC; JFSJ2; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814748909
ISBN
9780814748909
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.80

Paperback. An examination of the misogynist writings in the commonplace books of William Byrd II and Thomas Jefferson. This work explores the structures, contexts and significance of these writings in the wider historical contexts of gender and power. Num Pages: 148 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JF; 3JH; BG; DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 148 x 10. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
148
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780814750896
ISBN
9780814750896
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 29.02

Paperback. Presents a story of the postwar experiences of Union and Confederate Civil War veterans. This work gives the reader a perspective on the challenges of readjustment for ex-soldiers and American society. Editor(s): Logue, Larry M.; Barton, Michael. Num Pages: 457 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 44. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
457
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814752043
ISBN
9780814752043
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.10

Paperback. This title examines America's first foreign war, the Mexican War of 1846-1848, through the daily experiences of the American soldier in battle, in camp and on the march. Series: Army of Manifest Destiny. Num Pages: 294 pages, 2 black and white drawings, 4 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 3JH; HBJK; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780814755051
ISBN
9780814755051
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.18

Paperback. Shows that Western suffrage came about as the result of the unsettled state of regional politics, the complex nature of Western race relations, broad alliances between suffragists and farmer-labor-progressive reformers, and sophisticated activism by Western women. This book highlights suffrage racism and elitism as major problems for the movement. Num Pages: 273 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJK; HBLL; JFSJ1; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780814757222
ISBN
9780814757222
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.10

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