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Understandings of Russian Foreign Policy by Ted Hopf
Booksplease Price: $78.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780271019154Author Ted HopfPage Count 320Imprint Pennsylvania State University PressPublisher... -
Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms: Social and Literary Manipulations of a Religious Myth. Revised Edition by Wilson Jeremiah Moses
RRP: $73.40Booksplease Price: $63.61"Martin Luther King is dead and the millenarian integrationalism that he symbolized sleeps with him," but messianic Christian rhetoric still characterizes black oratory both from the pulpit and on... -
Liberalizing the Mind: Two Centuries of Liberal Education at Franklin & Marshall College by Sally F. Griffith
Booksplease Price: $76.82With its roots in the German Reformed denomination of Protestantism, Franklin & Marshall College has the distinction of being the first institution of higher learning in America founded (in 1787) for... -
Private Lives Made Public: The Invention of Biography in Early Modern England by Andrea Walkden 9780271092973
RRP: $65.00Booksplease Price: $61.76Following the trial and execution of Charles I in 1649, the seventeenth century witnessed an explosion of print culture in England, including an unprecedented boom in biographical writing. Andrea... -
DisOrientations: German-Turkish Cultural Contact in Translation, 1811–1946 by Kristin Dickinson 9780271089850
Booksplease Price: $76.27The fields of comparative and world literature tend to have a unidirectional, Eurocentric focus, with attention to concepts of “origin” and “arrival.” DisOrientations challenges this viewpoint... -
Why Budgets Matter: Budget Policy and American Politics by Dennis S. Ippolito 9780271022604
RRP: $71.30Booksplease Price: $66.42This is a comprehensive account of how conflicts over the powers to tax, spend and borrow have been at the centre of American politics and how these budgetary conflicts have shaped national politics... -
Charlemagne and Louis the Pious: Lives by Einhard, Notker, Ermoldus, Thegan, and the Astronomer by Professor Thomas F. X. Noble 9780271035734
Booksplease Price: $183.83Carolingian historical texts have long stood at the base of our modern knowledge about the eighth and ninth centuries. The ninth century gave birth to a new revival of secular biography, which has... -
Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib by Abbey Stockstill 9780271096766
RRP: $172.18Booksplease Price: $153.41Over the course of the Almoravid (1040–1147) and Almohad (1121–1269) dynasties, medieval Marrakesh evolved from an informal military encampment into a thriving metropolis that attempted to translate... -
Georg Forster: German Cosmopolitan by Todd Kontje 9780271093277
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $52.00Georg Forster (1754–1794) was famous during his lifetime, notorious after his death, and largely forgotten by the later nineteenth century. Remembered today as the young man who sailed around the... -
The Fruit of Her Hands: Jewish and Christian Women’s Work in Medieval Catalan Cities by Sarah Ifft Decker 9780271093314
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $68.31In the thriving urban economies of late thirteenth-century Catalonia, Jewish and Christian women labored to support their families and their communities. The Fruit of Her Hands examines how gender,... -
The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua by Yael Halevi-Wise 9780271087863
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $55.63Once referred to by the New York Times as the “Israeli Faulkner,” A. B. Yehoshua’s fiction invites an assessment of Israel’s Jewish inheritance and the moral and political options that the country... -
At Work in Penn's Woods: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Pennsylvania by Joseph M. Speakman 9780271062402
Booksplease Price: $76.19The Civilian Conservation Corps was one of the most popular programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Over the nine years of the program, from 1933 to 1942, over two and one-half... -
African Venice: A Guide to Art, Culture, and People Paul Kaplan 9780271099934
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $55.63African Venice is the first guidebook to the extensive historical and contemporary African presence in the city of the lagoons. A set of ten walking tours highlights images of Black people in... -
Architectural Revolution on the Ottoman Frontier: Greece and Albania in the Age of Ali Pasha Emily Neumeier 9780271097749
RRP: $188.98Booksplease Price: $169.55In the early nineteenth century, the most consequential developments in Ottoman architecture were taking place not in Istanbul but in the farthest reaches of imperial territory. Emily Neumeier... -
America's Longest Run: A History of the Walnut Street Theatre by Andrew Davis 9780271030531
RRP: $58.70Booksplease Price: $52.63America’s Longest Run: A History of the Walnut Street Theatre traces the history of America’s oldest theater. The Philadelphia landmark has been at or near the center of theatrical activity since it... -
The Impossible Craft: Literary Biography by Scott Donaldson 9780271065298
Booksplease Price: $69.30In The Impossible Craft, Scott Donaldson explores the rocky territory of literary biography, the most difficult that biographers try to navigate. Writers are accustomed to controlling the narrative,... -
Unlocked Books: Manuscripts of Learned Magic in the Medieval Libraries of Central Europe by Benedek Lang 9780271033785
RRP: $79.70Booksplease Price: $62.90During the Middle Ages, the Western world translated the incredible Arabic scientific corpus and imported it into Western culture: Arabic philosophy, optics, and physics, as well as alchemy,... -
Lydia Bailey: A Checklist of Her Imprints by Karen Nipps 9780271055718
Booksplease Price: $166.74Little known today, Lydia Bailey was a leading printer in Philadelphia for decades. Her career began in 1808—when her husband, Robert, died, leaving her with the family business to manage—and ended... -
Elections in Pennsylvania: A Century of Partisan Conflict in the Keystone State by Jack M. Treadway 9780271027036
Booksplease Price: $159.73The most comprehensive state election study ever undertaken, Elections in Pennsylvania provides data and analysis for more than 13,000 general elections and more than 6,000 primary elections held in... -
Art for Animals: Visual Culture and Animal Advocacy, 1870-1914 by J. Keri Cronin 9780271080109
Booksplease Price: $29.38Animal rights activists today regularly use visual imagery in their efforts to shape the public's understanding of what it means to be "kind," "cruel," and "inhumane" toward animals. Art for Animals... -
Damming the Delaware: The Rise and Fall of Tocks Island Dam by Richard C. Albert 9780271027456
Booksplease Price: $92.46First published in 1987 and named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book the following year, Damming the Delaware is the definitive study of two hundred years of water management history along the... -
Creating a Democratic Public: The Struggle for Urban Participatory Democracy During the Progressive Era by Kevin Mattson 9780271017228
RRP: $130.18Booksplease Price: $124.32During America's Progressive Era at the beginning of the twentieth century, democracy was more alive than it is today. Social activists and intellectuals of that era formed institutions where... -
The Aesthete in the City: The Philosophy and Practice of American Abstract Painting in the 1980s by David Carrier 9780271009438
RRP: $165.88Booksplease Price: $157.88In the 1980s, when the American art market flourished, critics were heavily concerned with theory. In The Aesthete in the City David Carrier offers a personal view on the artistic activity of that... -
Loss of Confidence: Politics and Policy in the 1970s by David Brian Robertson 9780271018454
RRP: $65.08Booksplease Price: $64.26As the oil shortages, inflation, and unemployment of the 1970s disrupted American lives and the Watergate scandal rocked the presidency, faith in the future of the nation and its leaders was severely... -
Lost Worlds: The Emergence of French Social History, 1815–1970 by Jonathan Dewald 9780271028903
RRP: $119.68Booksplease Price: $114.62Today’s interest in social history and private life is often seen as a twentieth-century innovation. Most often Lucien Febvre and the Annales school in France are credited with making social history... -
Contested Treasure: Jews and Authority in the Crown of Aragon by Thomas W. Barton 9780271064727
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $119.13In Contested Treasure, Thomas Barton examines how the Jews in the Crown of Aragon in the twelfth through fourteenth centuries negotiated the overlapping jurisdictions and power relations of local... -
The Colonels' Coup and the American Embassy: A Diplomat's View of the Breakdown of Democracy in Cold War Greece by Robert V. Keeley 9780271050119
Booksplease Price: $76.19Robert Keeley was a Foreign Service officer stationed in Greece during one of the most tumultuous events in the country's history, the so-called Colonels' coup of April 21, 1967. This is his... -
The Constitution and Public Policy in U.S. History by Julian E. Zelizer 9780271035345
Booksplease Price: $69.22Despite its crucial importance in U.S. history, the study of the constitutional system fell out of favor with many historians and history departments for several decades during the latter half of the... -
Becoming Human: Romantic Anthropology and the Embodiment of Freedom by Chad Wellmon 9780271048529
RRP: $71.30Booksplease Price: $61.76Immanuel Kant wrote that his infamously academic, arid philosophy posed three questions: What can I know? What can I do? What can I be permitted to hope for? He then added a fourth that he claimed... -
Posthumous America: Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century by Benjamin Hoffmann 9780271080086
Booksplease Price: $76.19Benjamin Hoffmann's Posthumous America examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in the works of French writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For writers such as John... -
A Taste of the Country: A Collection of Calvin Beale's Writings by Peter A. Morrison 9780271022789
Booksplease Price: $69.22In the 1970s, Americans rediscovered rural areas and, in increasing numbers, took up residence there. Many people, it seems, want to be where earlier generations wanted to be from. With the... -
Knowing and Being: A Postmodern Reversal by James Richard Mensch 9780271025773
Booksplease Price: $78.52Everyone knows that "postmodernism" implies pluralism, anti-foundationalism, and, generally,a postnormative view of the self and reality. While many embrace it, few bother to tell us what... -
Journal of William Penn: While Visiting Holland and Germany, in 1677 by William Penn 9780271027548
Booksplease Price: $69.22This volume includes William Penn's firsthand account of his 1677 travels in Holland and Germany while visiting Quaker congregations and preaching his message of religious toleration. It includes... -
Economic Restructuring and Family Well-Being in Rural America by Kristin E. Smith 9780271048628
Booksplease Price: $76.82Rural areas have been hit hard by economic restructuring. Traditionally male jobs with good pay and benefits (such as in manufacturing) have declined dramatically, only to be replaced with low-paying... -
Weaving Narrative: Clothing in Twelfth-Century French Romance by 9780271035659
Booksplease Price: $132.07Enide's tattered dress and Erec's fabulous coronation robe; Yvain's nudity in the forest that prevents maidens who know him well clothed from identifying him; Lanval's fairy-lady parading about in... -
Souls for Sale: Two German Redemptioners Come to Revolutionary America by Susan E. Klepp 9780271028828
Booksplease Price: $76.27In 1773, John Frederick Whitehead and Johann Carl Büttner, two adolescent Germans, were placed on board the same ship headed to colonial America. With few options in Germany, each had been recruited... -
Manekine, John and Blonde, and “Foolish Generosity” by Philippe de Remi 9780271035772
Booksplease Price: $78.58Philippe de Remi (1200/1210–65) holds a remarkable position in the legacy of the thirteenth-century literary world. A layman, landholder, and professional administrator, rather than a court poet or... -
The Light in Their Consciences: Early Quakers in Britain, 1646-1666 by Rosemary Moore
RRP: $56.60Booksplease Price: $53.82Hailed upon its publication as "history at its finest" by H. Larry Ingle and called "the essential foundation to explore early Quaker history" by Sixteenth Century Journal, Rosemary Moore's The Light... -
The Hidden Life of Life: A Walk through the Reaches of Time by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Booksplease Price: $39.92An iconoclast and best-selling author of both nonfiction and fiction, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing, thinking, and writing about the cultures of animals such as lions,... -
Visions and Revisions of Eighteenth-Century France by Christine Adams
RRP: $58.70Booksplease Price: $55.57This volume brings together eight essays (all but one previously unpublished) that offer innovative strategies for studying society and culture in eighteenth-century France. Divided into three...