ledochowicz.com

Current Affairs

America

Smith Caleb

ISBN: PB: 9780300171495, Yale University Press, May 2011
258 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm

How did a nation so famously associated with freedom become internationally identified with imprisonment? After the scandals of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, and in the midst of a dramatically escalating prison population, the question is particular...

PB:

£19,00

QTY:

add books to the list

America

Puritan Origins of the American Self

Bercovitch Sacvan

ISBN: PB: 9780300172416, Yale University Press, April 2011
260 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm

Deals with the development of the concept of American identity. Centering upon the interaction of language, myth, and society, this title explores the Puritan achievement in its broadest cultural context.

PB:

£22,00

QTY:

add books to the list

America

Culture Studies

Foul Bodies Cleanliness in Early America

Brown Kathleen M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300171556, Yale University Press, March 2011
464 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 35 black&white illus.

A nation's standards of private cleanliness reveal much about its ideals of civilization, fears of disease, and expectations for public life, says Kathleen Brown in this unusual cultural history. Starting with the shake-up of European practices that...

PB:

£30,00

QTY:

add books to the list

America

Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah A Free Black Man's Encounter with Liberty

Harris J. William

ISBN: PB: 9780300171327, Yale University Press, March 2011
240 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 22 black&white illus.

In 1775, Thomas Jeremiah was one of fewer than 500 'Free Negros' in South Carolina and, with an estimated worth of GBP 1000 (about $200,000), possibly the richest person of African descent in British North America. A slave owner himself, Jeremiah was...

PB:

£21,00

QTY:

add books to the list

America

Liberty Bell

Nash Gary B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300171426, Yale University Press, March 2011
256 pp., 20.1x13.2 cm, 23 black&white illus.

Each year, more than two million visitors line up near Philadelphia's Independence Hall and wait to gaze upon a flawed mass of metal forged more than two and a half centuries ago. Since its original casting in England in 1751, the Liberty Bell has su...

PB:

£17,00

QTY:

add books to the list

America

Political Science

In the Name of God and Country Reconsidering Terrorism in American History

Fellman Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300168020, Yale University Press, January 2011
288 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 9 black&white illus.

With insight and originality, Michael Fellman argues that terrorism, in various forms, has been a constant and driving force in American history. In part, this is due to the nature of American republicanism and Protestant Christianity, which he belie...

PB:

£18,00

QTY:

add books to the list

America

Peter's War A New England Slave Boy and the American Revoultion

Malcolm Joyce Lee

ISBN: PB: 9780300168068, ISBN: HB: 9780300119305, Yale University Press, January 2011
272 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 4 black&white illus., 20 colour illus.

A boy named Peter, born to a slave in Massachusetts in 1763, was sold nineteen months later to a childless white couple there. This book recounts the fascinating history of how the American Revolution came to Peter's small town, how he joined the rev...

PB:

£16,99

QTY:

HB:

£20,00

QTY:

add books to the list

America

William Clark's World Describing America in an Age of Unknowns

Kastor Peter J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300139013, Yale University Press, January 2011
320 pp., 23.6x16 cm, 41 black&white illus.

William Clark, co-captain of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition, devoted his adult life to describing the American West. But this task raised a daunting challenge: how best to bring an unknown continent to life for the young republic? Through the...

HB:

£65,00

QTY:

add books to the list

America

Culture Studies

Encyclopedia of New York City Second Edition

Jackson Kenneth T.

ISBN: HB: 9780300114652, Yale University Press, January 2011
1600 pp., 27.7x21.8 cm, 752 black&white illus.

Covering an exhaustive range of information about the five boroughs, the first edition of "The Encyclopedia of New York City" was a success by every measure, earning worldwide acclaim and several awards for reference excellence, and selling out its f...

HB:

£45,00

QTY:

add books to the list

America

Fruitlands The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia

Francis Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300140415, Yale University Press, November 2010
336 pp., 23.1x16.5 cm, 20 black&white illus.

This is the first definitive account of Fruitlands, one of history's most unsuccessful, but most significant, utopian experiments. It was established in Massachusetts in 1843 by Bronson Alcott (whose ten-year-old daughter Louisa May, future author of...

HB:

£25,00

QTY:

add books to the list