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Movie Crazy: Fans, Stars, and the Cult of Celebrity
ISBN: 9781403960450 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While the impact that legendary actors and actresses have had on the development of the Hollywood film industry is well known, few have recognised the power of movie fans on shaping the industry. This books redresses that balance, and is the first study of Hollywood's golden era to examine the period from the viewpoint of the fans. Using fan club journals, fan letters, studio production records, and other previously unpublished archival sources, Samantha Barbas reveals how the passion, enthusiasm, and ongoing activism of film fans in Hollywood's golden era transformed early cinema, the modern...
While the impact that legendary actors and actresses have had on the development of the Hollywood film industry is well known, few have recognised the...
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201,24 |
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Woodrow Wilson and the Press: Prelude to the Presidency
ISBN: 9781403963727 / Angielski / Twarda / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Esteemed journalism historian James Startt has crafted an intriguing case study of the relationship between political leadership and the mass media during its early days, using the political ascendancy of Woodrow Wilson as its focus. Wilson's emergence as a major political figure coincided with the arrival of a real mass media and a more independent, less partisan style of political coverage. While most Nineteenth-century presidents remained aloof from the press, Wilson understood it could no longer be ignored: 'The public man who fights the daily press won't be a public man very long'.
Esteemed journalism historian James Startt has crafted an intriguing case study of the relationship between political leadership and the mass media du...
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201,24 |
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American Protestants and TV in the 1950s: Responses to a New Medium
ISBN: 9781403965738 / Angielski / Twarda / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Americans in the 1950s faced the challenge of negotiating the new medium's place in the home and in American culture in general. Using the American Protestant experience of the introduction of television, Rosenthal illustrates the importance of the interplay between a new medium and its users.
Americans in the 1950s faced the challenge of negotiating the new medium's place in the home and in American culture in general. Using the American Pr...
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201,24 |
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Van Loon: Popular Historian, Journalist, and FDR Confidant
ISBN: 9781403970497 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Upon his death, Hendrik van Loon was described in The Times obituary as 'one of the most engaging products of the marriage between Holland and the United States'. One of FDR's true and closest friends, van Loon emigrated from the Netherlands to the United States at age 20, in 1902. Working as a historian, journalist, illustrator, and radio commentator, van Loon immersed himself in American cultural life from the 1920s through the '40s, until his death three months before D-Day. Van Loon's professional relationships and friendships with such distinguished persons as Sinclair Lewis, Van Wyck...
Upon his death, Hendrik van Loon was described in The Times obituary as 'one of the most engaging products of the marriage between Holland and the Uni...
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201,24 |
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Power, Community, and Racial Killing in East St. Louis
ISBN: 9781403970787 / Angielski / Twarda / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Malcolm McLaughlin's work presents a detailed analysis of the East St. Louis race riot in 1917, offering new insights into the construction of white identity and racism. He illuminates the "world of East St Louis," life in its factories and neighborhoods, its popular culture, and City Hall politics, to place the race riot in the context of the city's urban development.
Malcolm McLaughlin's work presents a detailed analysis of the East St. Louis race riot in 1917, offering new insights into the construction of white i...
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201,24 |
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Radicalism in the South Since Reconstruction
ISBN: 9781403974099 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book broadly frames the scholarly conversation about southern radicalism, putting essays covering a range of historical periods and topics in dialogue with each other so as to get a sense of the range of southern politics and history.
This book broadly frames the scholarly conversation about southern radicalism, putting essays covering a range of historical periods and topics in dia...
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201,24 |
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John Spargo and American Socialism
ISBN: 9781403975003 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first complete biography of John Spargo, a key popularizer of evolutionary socialism in the Socialist Party of America in the early Twentieth century. One of the earliest forerunners of neoconservatism, he played a central role in constructing American anticommunism after 1917.
This is the first complete biography of John Spargo, a key popularizer of evolutionary socialism in the Socialist Party of America in the early Twenti...
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201,24 |
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Transatlantic Stage Stars in Vaudeville and Variety: Celebrity Turns
ISBN: 9781403975362 / Angielski / Twarda / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It was a strange notion in 1900, that leading lights of the legitimate stage would ever join a bill of "turns" or short acts, everything from, and in between, song-and-dance, trained animals, blackface, aerialists, criminals regaling crowds with their exploits, eating fire. Transatlantic Stage Stars in Vaudeville and Variety shows renowned actors showing rough fare in rough times. Celebrity will be seen changing, always, even to twisting its foremost exemplars in the wind.
It was a strange notion in 1900, that leading lights of the legitimate stage would ever join a bill of "turns" or short acts, everything from, and in ...
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201,24 |
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Calvin Coolidge - The Man from Vermont
ISBN: 9781406756739 / Angielski / Miękka / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republ...
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176,91 |
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Dividends of Development: Securities Markets in the History of U.S. Capitalism, 1865-1922
ISBN: 9780199584444 / Angielski / Twarda / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The unprecedented importance of finance in our societies, as well as its central role in provoking economic crises, has generated an enormous interest in understanding the historical origins and evolution of modern financial systems. Today the U.S. economy is seen as an archetype of a capitalist system in which securities markets play a central role. Moreover, these markets have had a high profile in some of the most dramatic moments in U.S. history, often in the context of crises.
Dividends of Development: Securities Markets in the History of U.S. Capitalism, 1865-1922, explains... The unprecedented importance of finance in our societies, as well as its central role in provoking economic crises, has generated an enormous interest...
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493,50 |
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The Deportations Delirium of Nineteen-Twenty: A Personal Narrative of an Historic Official Experience
ISBN: 9781410205537 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of that delirious outburst in the United States against resident aliens which closely followed the World War and was generally known as "the Red Crusade, " is a careful condensation, by the author, of an unpublished manuscript of his in which the events, described in greater detail, are verified by citations in support of every important statement. The personal phases of the narrative are necessitated by the circumstances, as readers will readily see. Its appalling facts are pregnant with wholesome lessons in the fundamental principles of Americanism.Louis Freeland Post was a well...
The story of that delirious outburst in the United States against resident aliens which closely followed the World War and was generally known as "the...
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140,27 |
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A Certain Arrogance: U.S. Intelligence's Manipulation of Religious Groups and Individuals in Two World Wars and the Cold War -And the Sacri
ISBN: 9781413464771 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Certain Arrogance is a reticulation of eight essays on the history of international intelligence (primarily U.S. espionage), on Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles and their manipulation of religious groups and individuals to achieve U.S. elitist goals, on the development of U.S. psychological warfare operations, and on the sacrifice of Lee Harvey Oswald in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
American Spymaster Allen Dulles, based in Switzerland, had abused religious (largely Protestant) individuals and institutions for U.S. intelligence through two World Wars and the subsequent... A Certain Arrogance is a reticulation of eight essays on the history of international intelligence (primarily U.S. espionage), on Allen Dulles and Joh...
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114,60 |
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A Certain Arrogance: U.S. Intelligence's Manipulation of Religious Groups and Individuals in Two World Wars and the Cold War -And the Sacri
ISBN: 9781413464788 / Angielski / Twarda / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Certain Arrogance is a reticulation of eight essays on the history of international intelligence (primarily U.S. espionage), on Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles and their manipulation of religious groups and individuals to achieve U.S. elitist goals, on the development of U.S. psychological warfare operations, and on the sacrifice of Lee Harvey Oswald in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
American Spymaster Allen Dulles, based in Switzerland, had abused religious (largely Protestant) individuals and institutions for U.S. intelligence through two World Wars and the subsequent... A Certain Arrogance is a reticulation of eight essays on the history of international intelligence (primarily U.S. espionage), on Allen Dulles and Joh...
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160,45 |
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Storming the Court: How a Band of Law Students Fought the President--And Won
ISBN: 9781416535157 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1992, three hundred innocent Haitian men, women, and children who had qualified for political asylum in the United States were detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- and told they might never be freed. Charismatic democracy activist Yvonne Pascal and her fellow refugees had no contact with the outside world, no lawyers, and no hope . . . until a group of inspired Yale Law School students vowed to free them. Pitting the students and their untested professor Harold Koh against Kenneth Starr, the Justice Department, the Pentagon, and Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, this...
In 1992, three hundred innocent Haitian men, women, and children who had qualified for political asylum in the United States were detained at Guantana...
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77,03 |
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A Renaissance in Harlem
ISBN: 9781430321835 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lost for generations in the vaults of The Library of Congress, these remarkable essays by some of the era's finest writers, including Dorothy West and Ralph Ellison, vividly evoke daily life during the Harlem Renaissance.
The Lindy-Hoppers at the Savoy began to practice acrobatic routines, and to do absurd things for the entertainment of the whites, that probably never would have entered into their heads to attempt merely for their own effortless amusement. Some critics say that this is what happened to certain Negro writers, too -- that they ceased to write to amuse themselves and began to... Lost for generations in the vaults of The Library of Congress, these remarkable essays by some of the era's finest writers, including Dorothy West and...
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116,94 |
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Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President
ISBN: 9781557283306 / Angielski / Miękka / 648 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Available for the first time in paperback, "Keeping Faith" is Jimmy Carter s account of the satisfaction, frustration, and solitude that attend the man in the Oval Office. "Keeping Faith" is Jimmy Carter s account of the satisfaction, frustration, and solitude that attend the man in the Oval Offce. Mr. Carter writes candidly about the crises that confronted him during his tenure as President of the United States and leader of the free world, from 1977 to 1981. The President who cared details his anguish over the hostage crisis in Iran, his triumph against all odds at Camp David, his... Available for the first time in paperback, "Keeping Faith" is Jimmy Carter s account of the satisfaction, frustration, and solitude that attend the... |
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156,72 |
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Cry from the Cotton: The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union and the New Deal
ISBN: 9781557285225 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of the biracial movement of sharecroppers who in the 1930s stirred the national conscience to their plight of poverty and servitude.
A study of the biracial movement of sharecroppers who in the 1930s stirred the national conscience to their plight of poverty and servitude.
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102,81 |
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The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781557288639 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At an event honoring Daisy Bates as 1990 s Distinguished Citizen then-governor Bill Clinton called her "the most distinguished Arkansas citizen of all time." Her classic account of the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis, The Long Shadow of Little Rock, couldn't be found on most bookstore shelves in 1962 and was banned throughout the South. In 1988, after the University of Arkansas Press reprinted it, it won an American Book Award. On September 3, 1957, Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to surround all-white Central High School and prevent the entry of nine black students,...
At an event honoring Daisy Bates as 1990 s Distinguished Citizen then-governor Bill Clinton called her "the most distinguished Arkansas citizen of all...
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78,32 |
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History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
ISBN: 9781557530660 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Author of six earlier books about United States railroads, John F. Stover packs this narrative history with careful scholarship and colorful description which will appeal to the railroad buff and the professional historian, as well as to any reader who wishes to travel with the Mother of Railroads through an exciting period in United States history.
Author of six earlier books about United States railroads, John F. Stover packs this narrative history with careful scholarship and colorful descripti...
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115,42 |
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Against the Odds : Scholars Who Challenged Racism in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9781558494749 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the course of the past century the struggle against racism took many forms, from petitions and lawsuits to sit-ins and marches. This book records the testimony of eleven scholar-activists who challenged prevailing racial beliefs and practices while engaging in resistance and reform. Included in this group are nine African Americans (Kenneth B. Clark, John Henrik Clarke, St. Clair Drake, W.E.B. Du Bois, John Hope Franklin, John Glover Jackson, Hylan Lewis, Frank Snowden Jr., and Robert C. Weaver); one Sri Lankan who lives and works in Britain (A. Sivanandan); and one white American... Over the course of the past century the struggle against racism took many forms, from petitions and lawsuits to sit-ins and marches. This book reco... |
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97,90 |
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