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Politics without a Past: The Absence of History in Postcommunist Nationalism by Shari J. Cohen 9780822323785 [USED COPY]
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $13.77In Politics without a Past Shari J. Cohen offers a powerful challenge tocommon characterizations of postcommunist politics as either a resurgence ofaggressive nationalism or an evolution toward... -
En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives by Sangeeta Ray 9780822324539 [USED COPY]
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $41.67En-Gendering India offers an innovative interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing on both British and Indian... -
Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution by Sibylle Fischer 9780822332527 [USED COPY]
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $11.06Modernity Disavowed is a pathbreaking study of the cultural, political, and philosophical significance of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). Revealing how the radical antislavery politics of this... -
Street of Dreams: The Nature and Legacy of the 1960s by Douglas M. Knight 9780822309024 [USED COPY]
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $7.02The 1960s are well documented but not well understood; the rhetoric of and reaction to the decade continues to trouble American public discourse. This work by Douglas Knight, who served as president... -
God of Many Names: Play, Poetry and Power in Hellenic Thought, From Homer to Aristotle by Mihai I. Spariosu 9780822311270 [USED COPY]
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $17.55Tracing the interrelationship among play, poetic imitation, and power to the Hellenic world, Mihai I. Spariosu provides a revisionist model of cultural change in Greek antiquity. Challenging the... -
On Humor: The Best from American Literature by Edwin H. Cady 9780822311737 [USED COPY]
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $7.16From 1929 to the latest issue, American Literature has been the foremost journal expressing the findings of those who study our national literature. American Literature has published the best work of... -
Economic Policy Making in Mexico: Factors Underlying the 1982 Crisis by Robert Looney 9780822305576 [USED COPY]
RRP: $187.20Booksplease Price: $18.72This volume argues that the Mexican crisis of August 1982, in which the country was left facing the prospect of national default and zero economic growth, was not only the result of some fundamental... -
How Many Doctors Do We Need? by Duncan Yaggy 9780822305774 [USED COPY]
RRP: $187.20Booksplease Price: $2.07This volume addresses the public and private policies affecting physician supply in the United States, focusing on the physician surplus, market forces, and geographic distribution of physicians,... -
On Faulkner: The Best from American Literature by Edwin H. Cady 9780822309604 [USED COPY]
RRP: $187.20Booksplease Price: $4.95From 1929 to the latest issue, American Literature has been the foremost journal expressing the findings of those who study our national literature. The journal has published the best work of... -
Inventing High and Low: Literature, Mass Culture, and Uneven Modernity in Spain by Stephanie A. Sieburth 9780822314448 [USED COPY]
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $17.55Dire word of the cultural threat of the lowbrow goes back at least to the ancient Greeks, and yet, Stephanie Sieburth suggests, no division between "high" and "low" culture will stand up to logical... -
American Indian Persistence and Resurgence by Karl Kroeber 9780822314875 [USED COPY]
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $5.27This collection celebrates the resurgence of Native Americans within the cultural landscape of the United States. During the past quarter century, the Native American population in the United States... -
All Is True: The Claims and Strategies of Realist Fiction by Lilian R. Furst 9780822316329 [USED COPY]
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $17.55"All is true," realist writers would say of their work, to which critics now respond: All is art and artifice. Offering a new approach to reading nineteenth-century realist fiction, Lilian R. Furst... -
The Body in Late-Capitalist USA by Donald M. Lowe 9780822316602 [USED COPY]
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $17.16In The Body in Late-Capitalist USA, Donald M. Lowe explores the varied social practices that code and construct the body. Arguing that our bodily lives are shaped by a complex of daily and ongoing... -
New Perspectives on Keynes by Allin F. Cottrell 9780822317050 [USED COPY]
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $9.36Interest in John Maynard Keynes has increased significantly over the past decade with the publication of his collected writings, increased access to his unpublished papers, and the resulting... -
Liberty, Equality, and Justice: Civil Rights, Women's Rights, and the Regulation of Business, 1865-1932 by Ross Evans Paulson 9780822319825 [USED COPY]
RRP: $179.40Booksplease Price: $1.97Liberty, equality, and justice have long been treasured in American culture as core values. In Liberty, Equality, and Justice, Ross Evans Paulson studies social and intellectual changes in a critical... -
Talkin' With Your Mouth Full: Conversations with the Videos of Steve Fagin by Steve Fagin 9780822320692 [USED COPY]
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $4.49Steve Fagin is an artist whose videos incorporate, challenge, and cross over into the realm of literary and cultural studies. Talkin' with Your Mouth Full includes not only scripts of Fagin's works... -
Rural Revolt in Mexico: U.S. Intervention and the Domain of Subaltern Politics by Daniel Nugent 9780822320869 [USED COPY]
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $19.50Rural Revolt in Mexico is a historical investigation of how subaltern political activity engages imperialism, capitalism, and the United States. In this volume, Daniel Nugent has gathered a group of... -
Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Truth by Pamela Brandwein 9780822322849 [USED COPY]
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $17.55Was slavery over when slaves gained formal emancipation? Was it over when the social, economic, and political situation for African Americans no longer mimicked the conditions of slavery? If the... -
Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema by Linda Mizejewski 9780822323037 [USED COPY]
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $2.40In the first decades of the twentieth century, Broadway teemed with showgirls, but only the Ziegfeld Girl has survived in American popular culture-as a figure of legend, nostalgia, and camp. Featured... -
Rocking My Life Away: Writing about Music and Other Matters by Anthony DeCurtis 9780822324195 [USED COPY]
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $7.16Rocking My Life Away represents nearly twenty years of writing by one of the premier critics of popular music in America today. In these pieces from Rolling Stone, the New York Times, and other... -
Mediterranean Security at the Crossroads: A Reader by Nikolaos A. Stavrou 9780822324591 [USED COPY]
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $7.80The Mediterranean is a diverse and volatile region, especially in its post-Cold War state, and it is entering a new phase of uncertainty. Twenty-two sovereign states surround this body of water: six... -
Religions/Globalizations: Theories and Cases by Dwight N. Hopkins 9780822327851 [USED COPY]
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $21.84For the majority of cultures around the world, religion permeates and informs everyday rituals of survival and hope. But religion also has served as the foundation for national differences, racial... -
Premier Issue: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas by Leon Fink 9780822365938 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $2.44The inaugural issue of Labor offers an example of what readers can expect to find on a regular basis-full coverage of new trends in labor history. It features an extensive interview with retired Yale... -
Confessions of a Prosaic Dreamer: Charles Lamb's Art of Autobiography by Gerald Monsman 9780822305965 [USED COPY]
RRP: $187.20Booksplease Price: $18.72More than Charles Lamb himself could ever know, the creation of Elia as his personal artistic voice was his way to endure the memories of September 22, 1796, a day of primal horror when his sister... -
Blood and Fire: La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946-1953 by Mary Roldan 9780822329039 [USED COPY]
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $2.15Between 1946 and 1966a surge of violence in Colombia left 200,000 dead in one of the worst conflicts the western hemisphere has ever experienced. the first seven years of this little-studied period... -
Imago Musicae: v. 1 by Tilman Seebass 9780822304616 [USED COPY]
RRP: $95.55Booksplease Price: $2.44Each volume in this series for the study of pictorial documents on musical subjects contains articles, a catalog (published in installments) devoted to the complete documentation of specific sources,... -
Living with the East Florida Shore by Dinesh C. Sharma 9780822305149 [USED COPY]
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $15.60More than one transplanted Floridian has paid $150,000 for a beautiful condominium with a sea view only to learn that, to keep the building from becoming part of the view, considerable additional... -
The Effective Republic: Administration and Constitution in the Thought of Alexander Hamilton by Harvey Flaumenhaft 9780822312147 [USED COPY]
RRP: $187.20Booksplease Price: $18.72The United States has been distinguished among free governments as a "presidential" republic. In The Effective Republic, Harvey Flaumenhaft shows how the study of Alexander Hamilton's political... -
Shards of Love: Exile and the Origins of the Lyric by Maria Rosa Menocal 9780822314059 [USED COPY]
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $18.33With the Spanish conquest of Islamic Granada and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the year 1492 marks the exile from Europe of crucial strands of medieval culture. It also becomes a symbolic... -
Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers in Central North Carolina and Northeast Mississippi by Charles C. Bolton 9780822314288 [USED COPY]
RRP: $154.05Booksplease Price: $2.44In Poor Whites of the Antebellum South, Charles C. Bolton gives a distinct voice to one of the most elusive groups in the society of the Old South. Bolton's detailed examination reveals much about... -
Arrogant Beggar by Anzia Yezierska 9780822317524 [USED COPY]
RRP: $193.05Booksplease Price: $2.13The target of intense critical comment when it was first published in 1927, Arrogant Beggar's scathing attack on charity-run boardinghouses remains one of Anzia Yezierska's most devastating works of... -
Deciding to Intervene: The Reagan Doctrine and American Foreign Policy by James M. Scott 9780822317807 [USED COPY]
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $18.33Whether to intervene in conflicts in the developing world is a major and ongoing policy issue for the United States. In Deciding to Intervene, James M. Scott examines the Reagan Doctrine, a policy... -
Three Civilizations, Two Cultures, One State: Canada's Political Traditions by Douglas Verney 9780822306542 [USED COPY]
RRP: $148.20Booksplease Price: $14.82This volume examines 150 years of Canadian political life in light if one of the country's most intractable problems, its cultural identity. Although many thoughtful Canadians remain dubious about... -
Domination and Cultural Resistance: Authority and Power Among an Andean People by Roger Neil Rasnake 9780822308096 [USED COPY]
RRP: $187.20Booksplease Price: $18.72Domination and Cultural Resistance examines the social life of the Yura, a Quechua-speaking Andean ethnic group of central Bolivia, and focuses especially on their indigenous authorities, the... -
The Journals of Charles W. Chesnutt by Charles W. Chesnutt 9780822314240 [USED COPY]
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $4.86Born on the eve of the Civil War, Charles W. Chesnutt grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a county seat of four or five thousand people, a once-bustling commercial center slipping into postwar... -
Germany and the Politics of Europe's Money by Karl Kaltenthaler 9780822320623 [USED COPY]
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $16.38As countries in the European Union struggle to comply with the Maastricht Treaty, the question of monetary integration is at the forefront of European politics. Germany and the Politics of Europe's... -
The North Carolina Shore and Its Barrier Islands: Restless Ribbons of Sand by Orrin H. Pilkey 9780822322085 [USED COPY]
RRP: $179.40Booksplease Price: $1.97The North Carolina Shore and Its Barrier Islands is the latest volume in the series, Living with the Shore. Replacing an earlier volume, this thoroughly new book provides a diverse guide to one of... -
The Dictator Next Door: The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1945 by Eric Paul Roorda 9780822322344 [USED COPY]
RRP: $249.60Booksplease Price: $24.96The question of how U.S. foreign policy should manage relations with autocratic governments, particularly in the Caribbean and Latin America, has always been difficult and complex. In The Dictator... -
Foundations of World Order: The Legalist Approach to International Relations, 1898-1922 by Francis A. Boyle 9780822323273 [USED COPY]
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $17.55In Foundations of World Order Francis Anthony Boyle provides the first historically comprehensive analysis of U.S. foreign policy regarding international law and organizations. Examining the period... -
The New Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan by Barbara Sato 9780822330080 [USED COPY]
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $17.55Presenting a vivid social history of "the new woman" who emerged in Japanese culture between the world wars, The New Japanese Woman shows how images of modern women burst into Japanese life in the...