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The Public Prints : The Newspaper in Anglo-American Culture, 1665-1740
Charles E. Clark
Hardcover - $235.95
Newspapers reflect the world as perceived by its writers and readers. They illustrate assumptions in a society about the nature of news and history, the practice of certain literary styles, the political and commercial structure of communities, and t ...
German Professions 1800-1950
Geoffrey Cocks
Hardcover - $285.95
The role of the middle class in national development has always been of interest to historians concerned with the "peculiarities" of German history. Recently, the professional sector of the German middle class has come under historical scrutiny as pa ...
Dixie's Daughters : The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confed
Karen L. Cox
Paperback - $51.95
Even without the right to vote, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy proved to have enormous social and political influence throughout the South--all in the name of preserving Confederate culture. Karen L. Cox's history of the UDC, an o ...
Utopia Limited : The Sixties and the Emergence of the Postmodern
Marianne DeKoven
Paperback - $51.95
"Utopia Limited is an original, engaging account of how postmodernism emerged from the political and cultural upheaval of the 19605. Marianne DeKoven argues that aspects of sixties radical politics and culture simultaneously embodied the full, final ...
The Real American Dream : A Meditation on Hope
Andrew Delbanco
Hardcover - $39.95
Since we discovered that, in Tocqueville's words, "the incomplete joys of this world will never satisfy the heart", how have we Americans made do? In The Real American Dream one of the nation's premier literary scholars searches out the symbols and s ...
Social Movements : An Introduction
Donatella Della Porta
Paperback - $86.95
Social Movements is a comprehensive introduction and critical analysis of collective action in society today. In the latter part of the last century, social movements became a permanent feature of modern democracies. The students' and workers' protes ...
Discovering Friendly and Fraternal Societies : Their Badges and Regalia
Victoria Solt Dennis
Paperback - $35.95
Reforming Men and Women : Gender in the Antebellum City
Bruce Dorsey
Paperback - $54.95
Before the Civil War, the public lives of American men and women intersected most frequently in the arena of religious activism. Bruce Dorsey broadens the field of gender studies, incorporating an analysis of masculinity into the history of early Ame ...