cornell university press mär 2007 (12 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Refusing to side with either the Union or the Confederacy, Great Britain officially declared neutrality in the U.S. Civil War, thereby putting into effect the Foreign Enlistment Act, which forbade all belligerents to arm ships in her ports. Unofficially, many British citizens sympathized with the Confederacy because the Union's naval blockade stopped the flow of cotton from Southern fields to English textile mills. For this reason, the Confederate representative James Bulloch found British shipbuilders willing to fill his orders for battle-ready vessels without inquiring too closely into his intentions.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Told by the grandson of the head of the family, this is the gripping odyssey of another Frank family from the deceptively good life of Berlin in the 1920s, through the rise of Hitler and their flight to apparently safe Holland, the nightmarish ordeal.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Teri L. Caraway is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Amid the flurry of debates about immigration, poverty, and education in the United States, the stories in Mi Voz, Mi Vida allow us to reflect on how young people who might be most affected by the results of these debates actually navigate through.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Darren Wershler-Henrys 'The Iron Whim' is a pure delight. This 'fragmented history of typewriting' provides fascinating glimpses into the history, culture, and poetics of the typewriter, that instrument that controlled our writing for so many decades and for which nostalgia is currently at a high point. Himself a poet and critic, Wershler-Henry recounts, with great panache, how the typewriter works of such writers as Henry James and Charles Olson were actually produced. The role of the amanuensis, the dictation process, the production and reception of typed text: all these topics, clearly and vividly detailed, insure the wide reception 'The Iron Whim' is sure to get. I cannot imagine a reader who would not find this book intriguing and compelling.' --Marjorie Perloff, author of 'Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strageness of the Ordinary' and 'The Futurist Movement' 'I have been waiting years for just such a book on the cultural imagination of the typewriter, and Darren Wershler-Henry makes the wait well worthwhile. 'The Iron Whim 'combines historical rigor, theoretical sophistication, and an amazing breadth of literary knowledge from the canonical to the avant-garde -- not to mention a palpable sense of mischievous fun. Wershler-Henry, one of today's most provocative scholars and poets, undertakes this medial archaeology with unerring precision: revealing the most surprising arcana to be central to our cultural history and making the most familiar facts of the modern writing machine seem suddenly new and strange and extravagantly unlikely. This book is necessary, intelligent, and fun.'--Craig Dworkin, Associate Professor at the University of Utah, and authorof 'Reading the Illegible' 'Who connects the typewriter with vampires, ghosts, sex, drugs, and money Poet, theorist, and culture critic Wershler-Henry, has produced a surprising book that is nothing short of a cultural history of the complex writing machine. Richly researched, the text is composed with elan and wit. A must-read for students of contemporary literature, media studies, and anyone interested in the interconnections of modern life and technology. This book will find its place next to Henry Petroski's book 'The Pencil' as a marvel of transformative prose by which a mundane and under-appreciated invention rises from humble beginnings to a starring role in the history of culture.' --Johanna Drucker, Robertson Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Women now comprise the majority of the working class. Yet this fundamental transformation has gone largely unnoticed. This book is about how the sex of workers matters in understanding the jobs they do, the problems they face at work, and the new.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Who ruled the countryside in late Imperial Russia On the rare occasions that tsarist administrators dared pose the question so boldly, their discouraged answer was that peasants ruled. This title challenges this dominant paradigm of the closed village by investigating the ways peasants engaged tsarist laws and the local institutions.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jorge J. E. Gracia is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Samuel P. Capen Chair in Philosophy at the University at Buffalo. He is the author of many books, including Individuality: An Essay on the Foundations of Metaphysics and Philosophy and Its History: Issues in Philosophical Historiography.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A major figure in American legal history during the first half of the twentieth century, Felix Solomon Cohen (1907-1953) is best known for his realist view of the law and his efforts to grant Native Americans more control over their own cultural.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Women now comprise the majority of the working class. Yet this fundamental transformation has gone largely unnoticed. This book is about how the sex of workers matters in understanding the jobs they do, the problems they face at work, and the new.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.