wyszukanych pozycji: 5
Imagined Empires: Incas, Aztecs, and the New World of American Literature, 1771-1876
ISBN: 9780521110075 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A study of the influence of South American culture on early American culture, in particular literature.
A study of the influence of South American culture on early American culture, in particular literature.
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218,26 zł |
Imagined Empires: Incas, Aztecs, and the New World of American Literature, 1771-1876
ISBN: 9780521622295 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Imagined Empires demonstrates that early American culture took great interest in South American civilizations, especially the Incas and Aztecs, and in so doing made a statement about the role of the United States as an empire in the emerging political order of New World colonies and states. By examining the work of Philip Freneau, Joel Barlow, William Prescott, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman, the long-contested concept of "indigenous origins" is given expanded meaning beyond traditional critiques of American culture.
Imagined Empires demonstrates that early American culture took great interest in South American civilizations, especially the Incas and Aztecs, and in...
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456,00 zł |
Underwriting: The Poetics of Insurance in America, 1722-1872
ISBN: 9780804750899 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the way literary texts articulate embedded cultural assumptions about monetary value and reflect the logic of certain economic practices. In its simplest formulation, Underwriting is an investigation of the cultural history of insurance in early America. It seeks a large part of that cultural history in the lives and works of five American authors of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, Noah Webster, Herman Melville, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. It hinges on an odd-sounding assumption: that insurance, as a textual procedure...
This book focuses on the way literary texts articulate embedded cultural assumptions about monetary value and reflect the logic of certain economic pr...
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302,58 zł |
Critical Trauma Studies: Understanding Violence, Conflict and Memory in Everyday Life
ISBN: 9781479896561 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Trauma is a universal human experience. While each person responds differently to trauma, its presence in our lives nonetheless marks a continual thread through human history and prehistory. In Critical Trauma Studies, a diverse group of writers, activists, and scholars of sociology, anthropology, literature, and cultural studies reflects on the study of trauma and how multidisciplinary approaches lend richness and a sense of deeper understanding to this burgeoning field of inquiry. The original essays within this collection cover topics such as female suicide bombers from the...
Trauma is a universal human experience. While each person responds differently to trauma, its presence in our lives nonetheless marks a continual thre...
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386,05 zł |
Critical Trauma Studies: Understanding Violence, Conflict and Memory in Everyday Life
ISBN: 9781479822515 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Trauma is a universal human experience. While each person responds differently to trauma, its presence in our lives nonetheless marks a continual thread through human history and prehistory. In Critical Trauma Studies, a diverse group of writers, activists, and scholars of sociology, anthropology, literature, and cultural studies reflects on the study of trauma and how multidisciplinary approaches lend richness and a sense of deeper understanding to this burgeoning field of inquiry. The original essays within this collection cover topics such as female suicide bombers from the...
Trauma is a universal human experience. While each person responds differently to trauma, its presence in our lives nonetheless marks a continual thre...
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130,37 zł |