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Regional & national history
Paperback. Analyzing economic policy from the New Deal through the Reagan Revolution, Tax and Spend takes a new look at the so-called tax-and-spend liberals of the past. This important study examines why many Americans have come to hate the government but continue to demand the security it provides. Series: Politics & Culture in Modern America. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; KCZ; KFFD1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812222999
- ISBN
- 9780812222999
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€ 32.99€ 29.73
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Paperback. This volume examines patterns of growth, government organization, and cultural representation that created a new region across the nation's southern rim following World War II. Essays explain how ideology and political economy restructured space within the Sunbelt, making the landscape and lives of its inhabitants more uniformly metropolitan. Editor(s): Nickerson, Michelle; Dochuk, Darren. Series: Politics & Culture in Modern America. Num Pages: 480 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJK; HBLW3; HBLX; JP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 703.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223002
- ISBN
- 9780812223002
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€ 41.99€ 37.42
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Paperback. Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians offers a distinctive and original reading of racialization in early America. Focusing on cultural cross-dressing from a wide range of sources, Sophie White shows that material culture-especially dress-was central to discourses about race, as colonization was built on encounters mediated by appearance. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 360 pages, 33 color, 17 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812223088
- ISBN
- 9780812223088
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.25
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Paperback. Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters tells the story of the battle for access to leisure space in cities across the United States. This detailed and eloquent history shows how African Americans fought to enter segregated amusement areas not only in pursuit of happiness but in connection to a wider movement for racial equality. Series: Politics & Culture in Modern America. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 484.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812223286
- ISBN
- 9780812223286
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.15
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Paperback. Early African American Print Culture presents seventeen original essays that demonstrate how the study of African American print culture might enrich the study of print culture, while at the same time expanding the terrain of African American literature beyond authorship to editing, illustration, printing, circulation, and reading. Editor(s): Cohen, Lara Langer; Stein, Jordan Alexander. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 432 pages, 43 illus. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB; HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 703.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223347
- ISBN
- 9780812223347
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.49
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Paperback. As the first major study of Shakespeare's Birthplace during the nineteenth century, Shakespeare's Shrine draws on extensive archival research to describe the invention of the Birthplace in the Victorian period, when the site was purchased for the nation, extensively restored, and transformed into a major tourist attraction. Series: Haney Foundation Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, 22 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKEMW; DSGS; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812223378
- ISBN
- 9780812223378
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
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Paperback. With steady erudition and not infrequent irreverence, Stephanie Trigg ranges from medieval romance to Victorian caricature, from imperial politics to medievalism in contemporary culture, to write a strikingly original cultural history of the Order of the Garter. Num Pages: 336 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780812223415
- ISBN
- 9780812223415
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.15
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Paperback. Originally published by the U.S. Army to provide an overview of the terrain, tribes, history, and course of the war for American troops, Afghanistan Declassified provides an essential background to the war in Afghanistan as well as offering a vivid account of the country's people, history, and geography. Num Pages: 264 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 1KBB; 3JM; HBJF1; HBWS4; JFSL9; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223446
- ISBN
- 9780812223446
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
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Paperback. Historian Elizabeth Tandy Shermer examines how Barry Goldwater and elite Phoenix businessmen used policy and federal funds to fashion a postwar "business climate," setting off an interstate competition for investment that transformed American politics. Series: Politics & Culture in Modern America. Num Pages: 432 pages, 18 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBWZ; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JP; KCZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812223477
- ISBN
- 9780812223477
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.61
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Paperback. In this cultural history of the War of 1812, Nicole Eustace examines the way this expensive, unproductive war won popular support through appeal to the emotions. 1812 looks at the major dramatic events of the war and the subsequent songs, speeches, and images that spoke of opportunity and romantic adventure. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages, 19 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBTB; HBTR; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780812223484
- ISBN
- 9780812223484
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.03
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Paperback. James J. Gigantino II shatters the easy dichotomy between free and slave states in early America. The Ragged Road to Abolition illustrates how slavery in New Jersey persisted until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and reveals the myriad ways this marginalized the state's free blacks. Num Pages: 368 pages, 11 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEJ; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223583
- ISBN
- 9780812223583
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€ 37.99€ 34.25
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Paperback. This fascinating history examines the circumstances of two elderly New Englanders who were prosecuted and sentenced to death for bestiality at the turn of the eighteenth century. Their astonishing cases become a springboard to examine the Enlightenment Era political and religious turmoil of the region. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 216 pages, 21 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 325.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223750
- ISBN
- 9780812223750
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.82
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paperback. Evan Haefeli demonstrates how convoluted and uncertain were the beginnings of religious tolerance in America, by giving them an international context. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 376 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 570.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780812223781
- ISBN
- 9780812223781
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.25
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Paperback. In this sweeping collection of essays, one of America's leading colonial historians reexamines struggles between Native peoples and Europeans in early America in terms of how each understood the material basis of power. Num Pages: 328 pages, 35 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 487.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780812223804
- ISBN
- 9780812223804
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.15
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€ 34.15
Paperback. The definitive history of the Moynihan Report controversy, Beyond Civil Rights examines the cultural assumptions embedded in the report's analysis of "the Negro family" and demonstrates its significance for liberals, conservatives, neoconservatives, civil rights leaders, Black Power activists, and feminists. Series: Politics & Culture in Modern America. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780812223910
- ISBN
- 9780812223910
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.25
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Paperback. From the era of the industrial factory to the age of the microchip, Pivotal Tuesdays explores four twentieth-century elections-1912, 1932, 1968, and 1992-using the election of the American president as a lens through which to explore the broader sweep of the nation's social, economic, and political history. Num Pages: 256 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JPHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780812223934
- ISBN
- 9780812223934
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.70
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Hardback. The book documents thirty cases in which university-trained scholars were condemned for disseminating allegedly erroneous opinions in their teaching or writing. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HRAM7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812233186
- ISBN
- 9780812233186
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Condition: New
€ 71.22
€ 71.22
Hardback. Crete was a Venetian colony from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 19 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 163 x 239 x 28. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812235623
- ISBN
- 9780812235623
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Condition: New
€ 66.45
€ 66.45
Hardback. "Schorman demonstrates in this readable study of 1890s U.S. society how fashion-which he defines as clothing everyone wears and the symbolic system connected to its choice-reflects the cultural dynamics caused by rapid social change and remnants of past attitudes."-Choice Num Pages: 224 pages, 45 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JH; KCZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812237283
- ISBN
- 9780812237283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.34
€ 71.34
Hardback. Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England teases out the double helix of the pathological and the economic in two seemingly disparate spheres of early modern textual production: drama and mercantilist writing. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812237733
- ISBN
- 9780812237733
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.69
€ 86.69