wyszukanych pozycji: 6
George Washington and Political Fatherhood: The Endurance of a National Myth
ISBN: 9781476681092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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277,52 zł |
George Washington on Coins and Currency
ISBN: 9781476681108 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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307,35 zł |
The Greenback: Paper Money and American Culture
ISBN: 9780786449736 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. What exactly can we learn about America by examining its paper bills? This illuminating text answers that question by exploring the social, cultural and historical contexts of paper money. Predicated on the assumption that paper bills speak to us through the deliberate use of symbols - letters, verbal and visual elements, as well as symbols of civic values - this book examines what has been conveyed to Americans via their currency from Colonial times through the present day. Topics covered include origin, design, creative and subversive usages, and counterfeiting.
What exactly can we learn about America by examining its paper bills? This illuminating text answers that question by exploring the social, cultural a...
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247,08 zł |
Washington Irving and the Fantasy of Masculinity: Escaping the Woman Within
ISBN: 9781476686660 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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254,43 zł |
The Monetary Imagination of Edgar Allan Poe: Banking, Currency and Politics in the Writings
ISBN: 9780786475834 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this first-of-its-kind treatment, Heinz Tschachler offers an account of Edgar Allan Poe's relation to the world of banking and money in antebellum America. He contends that Poe gave the full force of his censure to the acrimonious debates about America's money, Andrew Jackson's bank war, the panic of 1837 and the ensuing depression, and the nation's inability to furnish a "sound and uniform currency." Poe's censure is overt in his early satires, more subdued in "The Gold-Bug," and almost an undercurrent in writings that enter into and historicise the discovery of gold in California....
In this first-of-its-kind treatment, Heinz Tschachler offers an account of Edgar Allan Poe's relation to the world of banking and money in antebellum ...
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247,08 zł |
Embodyment of American Culture
ISBN: 9783825867621 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The first part of this book presents cultural studies including: Overweight Subjectivities and Resistances; Penis Envy, Aesthetic Autoplasty and Genital Reconstruction; the Pierced and Tattoed Body; Bruce Springsteen's Working-Class Masculinity in the 1980s; and Demonic Images of Food, Bodies and the Desire to Eat. The second part focuses on textual studies such as: the Repulsive and Eroticized Bodies of Djuna Barnes; the -Feminine- Body in Modern American Poetry; the Surrender of the Body in Mary Oliver and Amy Clampitt's Ecopoetry; Violence in American Opera and Tod Browning's -Freaks.-...
The first part of this book presents cultural studies including: Overweight Subjectivities and Resistances; Penis Envy, Aesthetic Autoplasty and Genit...
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110,61 zł |