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Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers
ISBN: 9780820325514 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this slim, lively book our foremost historian of country music recalls the lost worlds of pioneering fiddlers and pickers, balladeers and yodelers. As he looks at "hillbilly" music's pre-commercial era and its early popular growth through radio and recordings, Bill C. Malone shows us that it was a product not only of the British Isles but of diverse African, German, Spanish, French, and Mexican influences.
In this slim, lively book our foremost historian of country music recalls the lost worlds of pioneering fiddlers and pickers, balladeers and yodelers....
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117,84 |
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Pure Fire: Self-Defense as Activism in the Civil Rights Era
ISBN: 9780820326870 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Pure Fire" is a history of self-defense as it was debated and practiced during the civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s. Moving beyond the realm of organized protests and demonstrations, Christopher B. Strain reframes self-defense as a daily concern for many African Americans as they faced the continual menace of white aggression. In such circumstances, deciding to defend oneself and one's family was to assert a long-denied right and, consequently, to adopt a liberating new attitude. To grasp the subtleties of this activist approach to self-defense in the struggle for black equality,... "Pure Fire" is a history of self-defense as it was debated and practiced during the civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s. Moving beyond the real... |
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174,52 |
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Shared Histories : Transatlantic Letters Between Virginia Dickinson Reynolds and Her Daughter, Virginia Potter, 1929-1966
ISBN: 9780820327938 / Angielski / Twarda / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A mother writes to her faraway daughter: "I keep all your letters. Someday you might want to do something with them." Those words foretold "Shared Histories," although neither woman would live to see the book. This is the first known published collection of letters to include correspondence between civilian family members on both sides of the Atlantic during World War II. Separated for most of their adult lives, Virginia Dickinson Reynolds and her daughter, Virginia Potter, wrote to each other for nearly forty years. This selection from their long exchange is filled with unguarded... A mother writes to her faraway daughter: "I keep all your letters. Someday you might want to do something with them." Those words foretold "Shared ... |
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338,88 |
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Shared Histories: Transatlantic Letters Between Virginia Dickinson Reynolds and Her Daughter, Virginia Potter, 1929-1996
ISBN: 9780820328027 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A mother writes to her faraway daughter: "I keep all your letters. Someday you might want to do something with them." Those words foretold "Shared Histories," although neither woman would live to see the book. This is the first known published collection of letters to include correspondence between civilian family members on both sides of the Atlantic during World War II. Separated for most of their adult lives, Virginia Dickinson Reynolds and her daughter, Virginia Potter, wrote to each other for nearly forty years. This selection from their long exchange is filled with unguarded... A mother writes to her faraway daughter: "I keep all your letters. Someday you might want to do something with them." Those words foretold "Shared ... |
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183,96 |
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Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis
ISBN: 9780820329659 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Religion has permeated nearly every aspect of modern southern culture, with results that range from portraits of Jesus on black velvet to the soul-stirring orations of Martin Luther King Jr. In "Judgment and Grace in Dixie," Charles Reagan Wilson makes a lively appraisal of religion's influence on such expressions of regional life as literature, music, and folk art, as well as on such public spectacles as football games and beauty pageants. Wilson's focus is on popular religion--evangelical Protestantism as embraced at the grassroots level, where distinctions between the sacred and... Religion has permeated nearly every aspect of modern southern culture, with results that range from portraits of Jesus on black velvet to the soul-... |
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136,73 |
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Way's Packet Directory 1848-1994: Passenger Steamboats of the Mississippi River System Since the Advent of Photography in Mid-Continent America
ISBN: 9780821411063 / Angielski / Miękka / 643 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first Mississippi steamboat was a packet, the "New Orleans," a sidewheeler built at Pittsburgh in 1811, designed for the New Orleans-Natchez trade. Packets dominated during the first forty years of steam, providing the quickest passenger transportation throughout mid-continent America. The packets remained fairly numerous even into the first two decades of the twentieth century when old age or calamity overtook them. By the 1930s, the flock was severely depleted, and today the packet is extinct.
Containing almost 6,000 entries, "Way s Packet Directory" includes a majority of... The first Mississippi steamboat was a packet, the "New Orleans," a sidewheeler built at Pittsburgh in 1811, designed for the New Orleans-Natchez trade...
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170,72 |
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Coal and Culture: Opera Houses in Appalachia
ISBN: 9780821415887 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A critical appreciation of the opera house in the coal-mining region of Appalachia from the mid 1860s to the early 1930s, Coal and Culture demonstrates that these were multipurpose facilities that were used for traveling theater, concerts, religious events, lectures, commencements, boxing matches, benefits, union meetings, and - if the auditorium had a flat floor - skating and basketball.
A critical appreciation of the opera house in the coal-mining region of Appalachia from the mid 1860s to the early 1930s, Coal and Culture demonstrate...
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175,60 |
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Building on a Borrowed Past: Place and Identity in Pipestone, Minnesota
ISBN: 9780821416174 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Building on a Borrowed Past: Place and Identity in Pipestone, Minnesota traces the result when one culture absorbs the heritage of another for civic advantage. Founded in 1874, Pipestone was named for the quarries where regional tribes excavated soft stone for making pipes. George Catlin and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow described the place and its tribal history. Promotion by white residents of the quarries as central to America's Indian heritage helped Pipestone obtain a federal Indian boarding school in the 1890s and a national monument in the 1930s. The annual "Song of Hiawatha" pageant...
Building on a Borrowed Past: Place and Identity in Pipestone, Minnesota traces the result when one culture absorbs the heritage of another for civic a...
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214,62 |
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The Hocking Valley Railway
ISBN: 9780821416587 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first comprehensive history of the Hocking Valley Railway ever published fills a gap in the literature. Miller has written the definitive history of this railroad, says Richard Francaviglia, author of Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts. The Hocking Valley Railway was once Ohio's longest rail line, filled with a seemingly endless string of coal trains. Although coal was the main business, the railroad also carried iron and salt-and kept the finest passenger service in the State of Ohio. Despite the fact that the Hocking Valley was such a large...
The first comprehensive history of the Hocking Valley Railway ever published fills a gap in the literature. Miller has written the definitive history ...
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117,02 |
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Bound for the Promised Land: African American Religion and the Great Migration
ISBN: 9780822319849 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discusses the migration of African-Americans from the south to the north after WWI through the 1940s and the effect this had on African-American churches and religions.
Discusses the migration of African-Americans from the south to the north after WWI through the 1940s and the effect this had on African-American churc...
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624,35 |
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Bound for the Promised Land: African American Religion and the Great Migration
ISBN: 9780822319931 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Bound for the Promised Land" is the first extensive examination of the impact on the American religious landscape of the Great Migration--the movement from South to North and from country to city by hundreds of thousands of African Americans following World War I. In focusing on this phenomenon's religious and cultural implications, Milton C. Sernett breaks with traditional patterns of historiography that analyze the migration in terms of socioeconomic considerations.
Drawing on a range of sources--interviews, government documents, church periodicals, books, pamphlets, and... "Bound for the Promised Land" is the first extensive examination of the impact on the American religious landscape of the Great Migration--the movemen...
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151,21 |
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Living Up to the Ads: Gender Fictions of the 1920s
ISBN: 9780822324119 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Living Up to the Ads" Simone Weil Davis examines commodity culture's impact on popular notions of gender and identity during the 1920s. Arguing that the newly ascendant advertising industry introduced three new metaphors for personhood--the ad man, the female consumer, and the often female advertising model or spokesperson--Davis traces the emergence of the pervasive gendering of American consumerism.
Materials from advertising firms--including memos, manuals, meeting minutes, and newsletters--are considered alongside the fiction of Sinclair Lewis, Nella Larsen, Bruce Barton, F.... In "Living Up to the Ads" Simone Weil Davis examines commodity culture's impact on popular notions of gender and identity during the 1920s. Arguing th...
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439,01 |
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Groove Tube: Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion
ISBN: 9780822326458 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Critics often claim that prime-time television seemed immune--or even willfully blind--to the landmark upheavals rocking American society during the 1960s. "Groove Tube" is Aniko Bodroghkozy's rebuttal of this claim. Filled with entertaining and enlightening discussions of popular shows of the time--such as "The Monkees, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Mod Squad--"this book challenges the assumption that TV programming failed to consider or engage with the decade's youth-lead societal changes.
Bodroghkozy argues that, in order to woo an increasingly lucrative baby boomer... Critics often claim that prime-time television seemed immune--or even willfully blind--to the landmark upheavals rocking American society during the 1...
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131,65 |
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Groove Tube: Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion
ISBN: 9780822326564 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Critics often claim that prime-time television seemed immune--or even willfully blind--to the landmark upheavals rocking American society during the 1960s. "Groove Tube" is Aniko Bodroghkozy's rebuttal of this claim. Filled with entertaining and enlightening discussions of popular shows of the time--such as "The Monkees, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Mod Squad--"this book challenges the assumption that TV programming failed to consider or engage with the decade's youth-lead societal changes.
Bodroghkozy argues that, in order to woo an increasingly lucrative baby boomer... Critics often claim that prime-time television seemed immune--or even willfully blind--to the landmark upheavals rocking American society during the 1...
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546,32 |
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An Absent Presence: Japanese Americans in Postwar American Culture, 1945-1960
ISBN: 9780822327462 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There have been many studies on the forced relocation and internment of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. But "An Absent Presence" is the first to focus on how popular representations of this unparalleled episode in U.S. history affected the formation of Cold War culture. Caroline Chung Simpson shows how the portrayal of this economic and social disenfranchisement haunted--and even shaped--the expression of American race relations and national identity throughout the middle of the twentieth century.
Simpson argues that when popular journals or social theorists... There have been many studies on the forced relocation and internment of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. But "An Absent Presence...
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117,02 |
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An Absent Presence: Japanese Americans in Postwar American Culture, 1945-1960
ISBN: 9780822327561 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discusses the social and political disenfranchisement of Japanese Americans after WWII.
Discusses the social and political disenfranchisement of Japanese Americans after WWII.
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439,01 |
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Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century
ISBN: 9780822331193 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The headlong rush, the rapid montage, the soaring superhero, the plunging roller coaster--Matters of Gravity focuses on the experience of technological spectacle in American popular culture over the past century. In these essays, leading media and cultural theorist Scott Bukatman reveals how popular culture tames the threats posed by technology and urban modernity by immersing people in delirious kinetic environments like those traversed by Plastic Man, Superman, and the careening astronauts of 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Right Stuff. He argues that as advanced...
The headlong rush, the rapid montage, the soaring superhero, the plunging roller coaster--Matters of Gravity focuses on the experience of techn...
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151,21 |
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Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century
ISBN: 9780822331322 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The headlong rush, the rapid montage, the soaring superhero, the plunging roller coaster--Matters of Gravity focuses on the experience of technological spectacle in American popular culture over the past century. In these essays, leading media and cultural theorist Scott Bukatman reveals how popular culture tames the threats posed by technology and urban modernity by immersing people in delirious kinetic environments like those traversed by Plastic Man, Superman, and the careening astronauts of 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Right Stuff. He argues that as advanced...
The headlong rush, the rapid montage, the soaring superhero, the plunging roller coaster--Matters of Gravity focuses on the experience of techn...
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439,01 |
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Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the Emergence of the Postmodern
ISBN: 9780822332695 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Utopia Limited" is an original, engaging account of how postmodernism emerged from the political and cultural upheaval of the 1960s. Marianne DeKoven argues that aspects of sixties radical politics and culture simultaneously embodied the full, final flowering of the modern and the beginning of the postmodern. Analyzing classic sixties texts, DeKoven shows where the utopian master narratives underlying the radical and countercultural movements gave way to the "utopia limited" of the postmodern as a range of competing political values and desires came to the fore. She identifies the pivots...
"Utopia Limited" is an original, engaging account of how postmodernism emerged from the political and cultural upheaval of the 1960s. Marianne DeKoven...
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151,21 |
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Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the Emergence of the Postmodern
ISBN: 9780822332800 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Utopia Limited" is an original, engaging account of how postmodernism emerged from the political and cultural upheaval of the 1960s. Marianne DeKoven argues that aspects of sixties radical politics and culture simultaneously embodied the full, final flowering of the modern and the beginning of the postmodern. Analyzing classic sixties texts, DeKoven shows where the utopian master narratives underlying the radical and countercultural movements gave way to the "utopia limited" of the postmodern as a range of competing political values and desires came to the fore. She identifies the pivots...
"Utopia Limited" is an original, engaging account of how postmodernism emerged from the political and cultural upheaval of the 1960s. Marianne DeKoven...
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487,78 |
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