The Americas
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The Americas
The Drama of Possibility. Experience as Philosophy of Culture.
McDermott, John J.. Ed(S): Anderson, Douglas ...
Hardback. Traces the trajectory of the author's philosophical career through a selection of his essays. This work addresses specific issues in American thought and culture. It constitutes a mosaic of his philosophy, showing its roots in an American conception of experience. Editor(s): Anderson, Douglas R. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPCF; HPS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 231 x 36. Weight in Grams: 891.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823226627
- ISBN
- 9780823226627
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.20
€ 122.20
Hardback. Offers the study of a largely ignored legacy. Scouring archives, discovering diaries, and memoirs in private houses and forgotten drawers, this title recovers the voices of the generation - bootblacks and poets, film directors and farmers, miners, anarchists, and seamstresses - compelled to tell their stories. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1KBB; BGA; DSB; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823226788
- ISBN
- 9780823226788
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.30
€ 113.30
Hardback. In the Election of 1872 the conflict between President US Grant and Horace Greeley has been typically understood as a battle for the soul of the ruling Republican Party. This book argues that the campaign was more than a narrow struggle between Party elites and a class-based radical reform movement. Series: Reconstructing America. Num Pages: 306 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JPL; JPQB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 148 x 226 x 32. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823227099
- ISBN
- 9780823227099
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.70
€ 98.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 292 pages, 35 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 443.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823228966
- ISBN
- 9780823228966
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.08
€ 35.08
Hardback. In this innovative book, Edmund L. Drago tells the first full story of white children and their families in the most militant Southern state, and the state where the Civil War erupted. Series: Reconstructing America. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBFS; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823229376
- ISBN
- 9780823229376
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.56
€ 103.56
Paperback. Fordham University is the quintessential American-Catholic institution - and one now looked upon as among the best Catholic universities ion the country. This book offers an account of Fordham's one hundred thirty-seven years. Num Pages: 300 pages, 16 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBT; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 29. Weight in Grams: 633.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823229772
- ISBN
- 9780823229772
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.75
€ 42.75
Hardback. Offers a portrait of home front Ohio, and how a young boy, his sister, and his mother waited out their war, scanning newspapers and magazines for news of Dad and devouring letters full of humor and expressions of love for and pride in his family and dreams of a good life after the war. Series: World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension. Num Pages: 280 pages, 8 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; BJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 25. Weight in Grams: 559.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823229796
- ISBN
- 9780823229796
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.97
€ 53.97
Hardback. For two weeks in the fall of 1909, New York City threw itself the biggest party it had ever seen - attracting millions of people to a sprawling festival, from Brooklyn up the Hudson River to Albany. This event, the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, was meant to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Henry Hudson's discovery of the river bearing his name. Num Pages: 204 pages, 17 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJC; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 221 x 23. Weight in Grams: 973.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823230211
- ISBN
- 9780823230211
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.64
€ 68.64
Paperback. Analyzes the ways in which literature and philosophy draw boundaries around identity. This book features the works of Gloria Anzaldua, Cherrie Moraga, and Ana Castillo that enable us to examine how identities shift and intersect with others through processes of 'incarnation'. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSB; JFFG; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823230853
- ISBN
- 9780823230853
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.57
€ 47.57
Hardback. Tracks the crises of sovereign power as it migrates out of the state to become a constitutive feature of the public sphere. Bringing together literature and political theory, this title argues that the antebellum public sphere emerges as a spectacle with investments in both punishment and entertainment. Series: American Literature Initiative. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 519.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823230990
- ISBN
- 9780823230990
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.27
€ 98.27
Hardback. Tells the story of one man's odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional athlete and banker in Europe, but it is also provides a vantage point on the history of the Bronx and sheds light on a neglected period in American urban history. Num Pages: 224 pages, 11 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 3 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823231027
- ISBN
- 9780823231027
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.18€ 65.11
€ 76.18
€ 65.11
The United States and the Second World War. New Perspectives on Diplom...
Pash, Sidney. Ed(S): Piehler, G. Kurt
Hardback. Offers a fresh examination of American participation in the Second World War Editor(s): Piehler, G. Kurt. Series: World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension. Num Pages: 356 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 163 x 36. Weight in Grams: 695.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823231201
- ISBN
- 9780823231201
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.20
€ 88.20
Hardback. Traces the historically specific, intertextual pathways of a single, if polyvalent, philosophical term, emptiness, as it is transformed within 20th-century American poetry and poetics. Formulating interpretive frames as hybrid as the texts being read, this book unveils one of important yet largely unknown stories of American poetry and poetics. Series: American Literature Initiative. Num Pages: 292 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823231447
- ISBN
- 9780823231447
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.57
€ 92.57
Paperback. All Around the Town brings the city's history to life, street by street, building by building, in all its diversity. What other book leads us to the birthplace of the "Twist," or where Patty Hearst hid out, or the site of the country's first traffic fatality? Series: Empire State Editions. Num Pages: 432 pages, 154 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823231744
- ISBN
- 9780823231744
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 31.02
€ 35.99
€ 31.02
Hardback. Victorian-era divas who were better paid than some corporate chairmen, the boy soprano who grew up to give Bing Crosby a run for his money, music directors who were literally killed by the job-the plot of a Broadway show or a dime-store novel? No, the unique and colorful history of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Num Pages: 366 pages, 36 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AVGD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 36. Weight in Grams: 740.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 366
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823231874
- ISBN
- 9780823231874
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.39€ 65.57
€ 74.39
€ 65.57
The Great Task Remaining Before Us. Reconstruction as America's Contin...
Miller, Randall M.. Ed(S): Cimbala, Paul A.
Hardback. Through informative case studies, this illuminating book remaps considerations of the Civil War and Reconstruction era by charting the ways in which the needs, interests, and experiences of going to war, fighting it, and making sense of it informed and directed politics, public life, social change, and cultural memory after the war's end. Editor(s): Cimbala, Paul A. Series: Reconstructing America. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823232024
- ISBN
- 9780823232024
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.50
€ 113.50
Paperback. Sunday dinners, basement kitchens, and backyard gardens are everyday cultural entities long associated with Italian Americans, yet the general perception of them remains superficial and stereotypical at best. Editor(s): Sciorra, Joseph. Series: Critical Studies in Italian America. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823232666
- ISBN
- 9780823232666
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.13
€ 53.13
hardcover. Num Pages: 432 pages, 24 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HRCC7; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 721.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823233045
- ISBN
- 9780823233045
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.54
€ 99.54
Hardback. Editor(s): Pappas, Gregory Fernando. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823233670
- ISBN
- 9780823233670
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.38
€ 109.38
Paperback. Editor(s): Pappas, Gregory Fernando. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823233687
- ISBN
- 9780823233687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 35.75
€ 37.99
€ 35.75