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Hardback. This book argues that political democracy has not fulfilled its promise and that we should therefore re-examine literature's long conservative hostility to it. It offers new accounts of the ethos of refusing political democracy, as well as innovative readings of writers including Tocqueville, Disraeli, George Eliot, E.M. Forster and Saul Bellow. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823242542
ISBN
9780823242542
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.32

Hardback. Proceedings of a colloquium, the 8th in a series of colloquia, held in 2008 at the Theological School of Drew University. Editor(s): Isasi-Diaz, Ada Maria. Series: Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAM; HRLM; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823241354
ISBN
9780823241354
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.52

hardcover. From the dawn of organized conflict, sub-standard men--the inverse of the elites that get the lion's share of our attention-- have served their countries. This is their untold history. OR The untold story of the use of sub-standard men in militaries, from the American Civil War to the dawn of the Cold War Editor(s): Marble, Sanders. Num Pages: 372 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBW; TTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 604.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823239771
ISBN
9780823239771
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.23

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
€ 33.91

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

€ 111.93

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

€ 101.61

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

€ 54.11

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

€ 115.67

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

€ 78.80
€ 66.81

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

€ 37.99
€ 31.57

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

€ 94.72

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

€ 90.24

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

€ 80.70
€ 66.34

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

€ 100.16

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

€ 48.46

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

€ 69.94

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

€ 55.20

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

€ 105.55

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

€ 35.71

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

€ 100.58

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

€ 115.67

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

€ 124.55

Hardback. Finally available in one volume, these ten classic essays by a leading scholar track the way key political, factional, and legal struggles, shaped by popular commitment to constitutional principles, affected the framing, interpretation, and enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. With a major introduction and updates throughout. Series: Reconstructing America. Num Pages: 316 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 579.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823225538
ISBN
9780823225538
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.57

Hardback. This book offers an alternative way of taking up the American Philosophical tradition as a way of doing philosophy and a way of life. Douglas Anderson explores the relationship between American philosophy and other features of American culture, including where in that culture thinking that could be called "philosophical" is to be found. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPCF; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 545.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823225507
ISBN
9780823225507
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.83

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