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American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century (09 Edition) by Christine Stansell Publisher Comments In the early twentieth century, an exuberant brand of gifted men and women moved to New York City, not to get rich but to participate in a cultural revolution. For them, the city's immigrant neighborhoods--home to art, poetry, cafes, and cabarets in the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Americans, a collision of histories by Edward Countryman Publisher Comments In this social history, Edward Countryman shows how interactions among America's different ethnic groups have contributed to our sense of nationality. From the earliest settlements along the Atlantic seaboard to the battle over our nation's destiny in... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.75 Used - Hardcover
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A Is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States by Jill Lepore Publisher Comments What ties Americans to one another? What unifies a nation of citizens with different racial, religious and ethnic backgrounds? These were the dilemmas faced by Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as they sought ways to bind the newly... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Americans by Hugo Münsterberg Publisher Comments The Americans by Hugo Munsterberg stands alongside Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America as one of the great works on the New World written by a scholar deeply familiar with the Old World. When originally published, it gave the German public a... (read more) List Price $31.96 Your price: $28.36 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Twenty Years at Hull-House (Signet Classics) by Jane Addams Publisher Comments Addams's account about the founding and development of her famed settlement house in Chicago's West Side slums stands as the immortal testament of a woman who lived and worked among those in need.... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Seaway to the Future: American Social Visions and the Construction of the Panama Canal (Studies in American Thought and Culture) by Alexander Missal Publisher Comments Realizing the century-old dream of a passage to India, the building of the Panama Canal was an engineering feat of colossal dimensions, a construction site filled not only with mud and water but with interpretations, meanings, and social visions... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States by Jill Lepore Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references and index.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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We Called Each Other Comrade: Charles H. Kerr & Company, Radical Publishers by Allen Ruff Publisher Comments Featuring a new foreword and comprehensive bibliography of all titles published by Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, this updated record chronicles the history of the most significant translator, publisher, and distributor of left-wing literature in... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Morality of Spending by Daniel Horowitz Publisher Comments A brilliant history of American misgivings about the consequences of their comfort, affluence, and luxury. An illuminating study, intelligent and perceptive...full of interesting insights. --Reviews in American... (read more) List Price $16.75 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States by Stephen Mihm Publisher Comments Listen to a short interview with Stephen Mihm Host: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane Few of us question the slips of green paper that come and go in our purses, pockets, and wallets. Yet confidence in the money supply is a recent phenomenon... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.95 Sale - Hardcover
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When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age by Justin Kaplan Publisher Comments This newest book by Pulitzer Prize winner Kaplan is a sparkling combination of biography, social history, architectural appreciation, and pure pleasure, as he looks at the Astor familys dynasty and its contributions to the city of New York.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Framing American Divorce: From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians by Norma Basch Publisher Comments Divorce has become one of the most widely discussed issues in America. In this innovative exploration of the phenomenon of divorce in American society, Norma Basch uses a variety of analytic perspectives to enrich our understanding of the meaning of... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age by Justin Kaplan Publisher Comments Traces the public and private lives of cousins William Waldorf Astor and John Jacob Astor IV, nineteenth-century heirs and rivals who pursued separate ambitions, built the original Waldorf-Astoria hotel, and influenced social behavior before John Jacob... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes (Prairie State Books) by Jane Addams Publisher Comments This is the first annotated edition of Jane Addams's superb autobiography. "An indispensable classic of American intellectual and social history." - Berenice A. Carroll, editor of "Liberating Women's History: Theoretical and Critical Essays". "After... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bowing to Necessities: A History of Manners in America, 1620-1860 by C Dallett Hemphill Publisher Comments Anglo-Americans wrestled with some profound cultural contradictions as they shifted from the hierarchical and patriarchal society of the seventeenth-century frontier to the modern and fluid class democracy of the mid-nineteenth century. How could... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $10.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century by Christine Stansell Publisher Comments A brilliant account of the legary American bohemians, hailed as "the best book ever written about this era, these people, and the ways they shook up our national culture for good" (Michael Kazin) In the early years of the twentieth century, an exuberant... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities by Richard L Bushman Publisher Comments This lively and authoritative volume makes clear that the quest for taste and manners in America has been essential to the serious pursuit of a democratic culture. Spanning the material world from mansions and silverware to etiquette books, city planning,... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities by Richard Lyman Bushman Publisher Comments This lively and authoritative volume makes clear that the quest for taste and manners in America has been essential to the serious pursuit of a democratic culture. Spanning the material world from mansions and silverware to etiquette books, city planning,... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America by John Kasson Publisher Comments With keen insight and subtle humor, John F. Kasson explores the history and politics of etiquette from America's colonial times through the nineteenth century. He describes the transformation of our notion of "gentility," once considered a birthright to... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Americans: A Collision of Histories by Edward Countryman Publisher Comments In this social history, Edward Countryman shows how interactions among America's different ethnic groups have contributed to our sense of nationality. From the earliest settlements along the Atlantic seaboard to the battle over our nation's destiny in... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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