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Paperback. The Horatio Alger myth has worked itself deeply into American culture. Even those who have never read one of his stories and many who could not identify him have come to believe that honest, industrious adolescents can easily rise from poverty to respectability. That conviction has reinforced notions of capitalism and the Protestant work ethic. Editor(s): Cook, Charles Orson. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 10. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781881089667
- ISBN
- 9781881089667
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Condition: New
€ 36.22
€ 36.22
Paperback. These two slave narratives expand our knowledge of the differing ways males and females coped with enslavement and later ordeals in flight. This popularly-priced anthology contains the often taught Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and the recently discovered A True Tale of Slavery by John S. Editor(s): Hendrick, George; Hendrick, Willene. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781881089650
- ISBN
- 9781881089650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.50
€ 37.50
Paperback. These 29 eyewitness accounts provide a unique entrance into the diversity of American society. Diaries and letters are the most reliable of firsthand sources, more so than memoirs that are long removed from the fresh experience of the past. Editor(s): Markman, Marsha; Boe, Jonathan; Corey, Susan. Num Pages: 232 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781881089612
- ISBN
- 9781881089612
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.59
€ 42.59
Paperback. The popular media have portrayed the Black Panthers mainly for the rhetoric of violence some members employed and for the associations between the Panthers and a black militancy drawing on racial hostility to whites in general. Num Pages: 240 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781881089605
- ISBN
- 9781881089605
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.22
€ 36.22
Paperback. An introduction synthesizes the latest anthropological, archaeological, historical, and sociological scholarship and the 95 carefully edited selections provide students with an overview of Native American history from the earliest migrations to the present. Editor(s): Mintz, Steven. Num Pages: 264 pages, 61 illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781881089599
- ISBN
- 9781881089599
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.69
€ 47.69
Paperback. Agrarian; confident champion of freedom and uneasy slaveholder; advocate of a government strictly limited to the needs of his time - Thomas Jefferson remains a force in our political and social thought. Editor(s): Onuf, Peter. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781881089575
- ISBN
- 9781881089575
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.50
€ 37.50
Paperback. Turning Points: Making Decisions in American History uses documents to reintroduce students to the contingency, the adventure of the American past. The decisions examined here all had complex historical roots, multiple causes that could have led to quite differing outcomes. Editor(s): Burner, David; Marcus, Anthony. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781881089544
- ISBN
- 9781881089544
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.59
€ 42.59
Paperback. The student rebellions of the 1960s caught through the eyes of a Columbia College undergraduate during the spring of 1968. A classic that sold 35,000 copies in hardcover, The Strawberry Statement retains its appeal to college students sensitive to the world's injustices while confronting their own adult future. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 9. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781881089520
- ISBN
- 9781881089520
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.87
€ 43.87
Paperback. Fredrick Douglass (1818-1895), a fugitive slave who became the best-known black abolitionist orator and autobiographer, and Herman Melville (1819-1891), a fiction writer recognized for the elusiveness of his meanings, both composed stories about slave revolts at sea. Editor(s): Hendrick, George; Hendrick, Willene. Num Pages: 152 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 10. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781881089452
- ISBN
- 9781881089452
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.95
€ 34.95
Paperback. Charles Lindbergh was the biggest celebrity of the first half of the twentieth century, and the first to be exposed to the full and unrelenting glare of the modern mass media. Editor(s): Roberts, Randy W.; Welky, David. Num Pages: 176 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 7. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781881089421
- ISBN
- 9781881089421
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.95
€ 34.95
Paperback. Editor(s): Pruitt, Bernadette; Kossie-Chernyshev, Karen. Num Pages: 208 pages, 35 illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 195 x 13. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd Canada
- Edition
- Volume I
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781881089353
- ISBN
- 9781881089353
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.02
€ 26.02
Paperback. The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 was at the beginning of the long struggle for women's rights in the United States. This anthology includes documents which shed light on the anger and the excitement of a moment when a small but determined group of women dared to challenge the laws and customs of a society dominated by men. Editor(s): Bernhard, Virginia; Prof Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. Num Pages: 240 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781881089346
- ISBN
- 9781881089346
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.05
€ 40.05
Paperback. The Civil War confronted all Americans with the weightiest moral and political issues since the American Revolution. In diaries and journals they argued and agonized with themselves; in sermons and speeches, in poems and love letters, they revealed to one another their own interior war. Editor(s): Bodden, Donna; Lang, Eleanor. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 10. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781881089315
- ISBN
- 9781881089315
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.95
€ 34.95
Paperback. The trials and hearings presented in the two volumes of On Trial capture much of American history in the intensity of courtroom confrontation and argument. Judicial proceedings have long fascinated both historians and the general public. Editor(s): Marcus, Robert D.; Marcus, Anthony. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781881089261
- ISBN
- 9781881089261
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.59
€ 42.59
Paperback. The trials and hearings presented in the two volumes of On Trial capture much of American history in the intensity of courtroom confrontation and argument. Judicial proceedings have long fascinated both historians and the general public. Editor(s): Marcus, Robert D.; Marcus, Anthony. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781881089247
- ISBN
- 9781881089247
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.59
€ 42.59
Paperback. The struggle for civil rights was one of the most powerful movements in American history. This title features 64 selections. The materials are grouped and presented so as to explain the logic, the strategies, and the conflicts within a movement that has recast much of the nation's mind and culture. Editor(s): West, Thomas; Mooney, James. Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: HB; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781881089209
- ISBN
- 9781881089209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.22
€ 36.22
Paperback. Richly informative on American manners and morals in the early ninteenth century, this famous travel account also reveals much about the contrast between British and American culture. Editor(s): Larson, John. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 14. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781881089131
- ISBN
- 9781881089131
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.22
€ 36.22
Paperback. The novelist William Dean Howells described autobiography as the most democratic of American literary genres. Autobiography has offered a voice to women, African Americans, Native Americans, and others whose writings have often been excluded from the literary canon. Editor(s): Morton, Marian; Duncan, Russell. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd Canada
- Edition
- Volume 1
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781881089070
- ISBN
- 9781881089070
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.32
€ 41.32
Paperback. Contains 18 selections from Margaret Leech, Helen Hunt Jackson, Edward Bellamy, Frederick Jackson Turner, Andy Adams, Jane Addams, Lincoln Steffens, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, John Dos Passos, Ruth McKenney, John Steinbeck, Henry Roth, Ralph Ellison, the Port Huron Statement, the Walker Report, and Greil Marcus. Editor(s): Marcus, Robert D. Num Pages: 448 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781881089056
- ISBN
- 9781881089056
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.32
€ 41.32
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization United Kingdom
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781874774426
- ISBN
- 9781874774426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.80
€ 42.80