Bigsby, Christopher

The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. Paperback Octavo. Paperback. illustrated wraps, 496 pp. Very good .

San Francisco Book CompanyProfessional seller

Book number: 71691

Catalogue: Social Sciences

BIRMINGHAM, STEPHEN

The Grandes Dames the Wonderfully Uninhibited Ladies Who Used Their Wealth & Position to Create American Culture in Their Own Images?from the Gilded Age to Modern Times

Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2016. First Edition Thus. Paperback. ISBN: 1493024752. 8.7 X 5.8 X 0.4 inches; 299 pages; Soft cover has purple spine with white lettering. Slight rubbing to covers. Originally printed in 1982. 'Astor. Rockefeller. McCormick. Belmont. All family names that still adorn buildings, streets and charity foundations. While the men blazed across America with their oil, industry, and railways, the matriarchs founded art museums, opera houses, and symphony houses that functioned almost as private clubs. These women ruled American society with a style and impact that make today's socialites seem pale reflections of their forbears. Linked by money, marriage, privilege, power and class, they formed a grand American matriarchy that dominated the social and cultural life of the nation between the 1870s and the Second World War. The Grandes Dames of America knew just what they wanted and precisely how to get it, and when faced with criticism, malice or jealousy, they would rise above their detractors and usually persevere. Preeminent social historian Stephen Birmingham takes us into the drawing rooms of these powerful women, providing keen insights into aspects of an American Society that no longer exists...' Index.. Fine .

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Keywords: 1493024752 9781493024759; Cultural History; Social History; Women's History; Biography; American History; Society; Upper Classes; 19th Century America; Women/Womens' History Cultural History History American History Biography/Memoirs/Journals Judaism/Jewi

Boyer, Paul S.

When Time Shall Be No More : Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture

Cambridge [MA], Harvard University Press, (1992). orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, xiv,468,(16)pp, PAPERBACK.. 16pp photoplates.. Minor rubbing. VG.
¶ Millions of Americans take the Bible at its word and turn to like-minded local ministers and TV preachers, periodicals and paperbacks for help in finding their place in God's prophetic plan for mankind. "When time shall be no more" offers a look at the subtle, pervasive ways in which prophecy belief shapes contemporary American thought and culture. Belief in prophecy dates back to antiquity, and there Paul Boyer begins, seeking out the origins of this particular brand of faith in early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic writings, then tracing its development over time. Against this broad historical overview, the effect of prophecy belief on the events and themes of recent decades emerges. Nuclear war, the Soviet Union, Israel and the Middle East, the destiny of the United States, the rise of a computerized global economic order - Boyer shows how impressive feats of exegesis have incorporated all of these in the popular imagination in terms of the Bible's apocalyptic works. Reflecting finally on the tenacity of prophecy belief in our supposedly secular age, Boyer considers the direction such popular conviction might take - and the forms it might assume - in the post-Cold War era" - Publisher's description.

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Book number: BOOKS019388I

Keywords: American Social History, Religion, United States, Religious Prophecy, Millennialism, Bible Prophecies, Culture Cultural, ,

BOYER, PAUL

When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture

Cambridge, MA, The Belknap Press. 1992. (ISBN: 9780674951297). Paperback. Used, Paperback. Unread shop stock - page block lightly marked and worn - remains very good. (1995 printing.) TS. Very Good.

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Book number: 497135

Catalogue: Culture/Civilization/Society

Keywords: 9780674951297

"Cantor, Norman F."

"The American Century: Varieties of Culture in Modern Times"

"Harper Perennial", "1998, paperback, goed exemplaar, good copy". ISBN: 9780060928766.

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Book number: 224811925

Catalogue: Geschiedenis en politiek

Bigsby Christopher

The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture

Cambridge at the University Press, 2006. 2006. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 496 pages. Texte en anglais.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon. ISBN: 0521601096.

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Dick, J. Harrison, ed

Commercial Carnation Culture; a Practical Guide to Modern Methods of Growing the American Carnation for Market Purposes. Illustrated. Edited by J. Harrison Dick

New York, A.T. DeLaMare Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd. 1915. Hardcover. Extremities slightly worn; rear cover faintly scuffed, with faint stain; painted pictorial decoration on front cover rubbed; personal ownership stamp on pastedown endpapers, bottom edge and title page; date stamp on front free endpaper; pages faintly toned; otherwise very good condition. 262p. Illus. .

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Catalogue: Horticulture/Agriculture

EARLY, GERARD

The culture of bruising - Essays on prizefighting, literature, and modern American culture

Hopewell, The Ecco Press. 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: -) Cloth with dust jacket. 285 pag. Very Good.

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Book number: 018014

Catalogue: Letterkunde

Fisher, Philip:

Making and Effacing Art. Modern American Art in a Culture of Museums.

New York, Oxford University Press Inc. 1991. 267 S.; Ill. Half-cloth Good. Ex-library with usual markings. Clean pages. Free shipping within Germany. Shipping costs to EU-countries: 9.50 EUR, to non-EU-countries: 15.00 EUR.

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Book number: 856980

Catalogue: Kunst

Keywords: Bildende Kunst, Amerika, Moderne Kunst, Museumskultur ISBN: 9780195060461

GIDLEY,MARK (EDITED BY)

Modern American Culture an Introduction

London and New York: Longman Group Limited, 1993. Hardcover. 8vo. This is a Fine Copy of this Book in Publisher's original black hardcover cloth with silver title lettering to spine,in a Fine Dust-Jacket,which has no chips or tears to outer edges of the dust-jacket.Not price clipped and this copy has one small and neat owner's name to the top edge of the front pastedown.Nice firm binding with no hinge weakness and their is no leaning or rolling to spine.This is a very clean copy internally with maps,notes,index etc.This is a strong Academic work on American Modern Culture.Rare title in hard cover format,8vo 407pp First Edition. Fine .

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Book number: 18619

Catalogue: The Arts

Keywords: America Culture

Harding, James Martin

Adorno and "a Writing of the Ruins": Essays on Modern Aesthetics and Anglo-American Literature and Culture

State University of New York Press, 1997. Paperback. 197 pp. Index. Previous owner's scrawls on flyleaf

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Hassan, Ihab

"The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Reflections on Modern Culture, Language and Literature" in American Scholar (Summer, 1963)

American Scholar, 1963. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Near fine in wrappers. Fine.

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Jordy, William H,Bacon, Mardges

"Symbolic Essence" and Other Writings on Modern Architecture and American Culture (Buell Center/Columbia Book of Archite)

Yale University Press. paperback ISBN: 0300094493, Condition: New.

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Lupkin, Paula:

Manhood Factories: YMCA Architecture and the Making of Modern Urban Culture. (Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture).

University of Minnesota Press 2010. 253 S.; Ill.; 28,5 cm, Hardcover Good. Without dust jacket. Cover shows mild wear. Free shipping within Germany. Shipping costs to EU-countries: 9.50 EUR, to non-EU-countries: 15.00 EUR.

Antiquariat Thomas HakerProfessional seller

Book number: 813405

Catalogue: Kulturgeschichte

Keywords: Amerika, USA, amerikanische Kultur, Architektur, Landschaft ISBN: 9780816648344

Lupkin, Paula:

Manhood Factories: YMCA Architecture and the Making of Modern Urban Culture. (Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture).

University of Minnesota Press 2010. 253 S.; Ill.; 28,5 cm, Hardcover Very good. Shrink wrapped. Without dust jacket. Free shipping within Germany. Shipping costs to EU-countries: 9.50 EUR, to non-EU-countries: 15.00 EUR.

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Catalogue: Kulturgeschichte

Keywords: Amerika, USA, amerikanische Kultur, Architektur, Landschaft ISBN: 9780816648344