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History and Nostalgia in Video Games

By Dana Frank

£12.99 26 Jun 2008 Paperback City Lights Books

A historians nostalgic trip to a series of local day trip sites takes an unexpected turn as she explores the mysterious draw of these places. Writing in a personal, humorous, and engaging style, Dana Frank brings the reader along on her process of discovery. Each essay is accompanied by a map and illustrated with photos, news clippings, and memorabilia.

Writings for a Democratic Society

26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Tom Hayden Reader

By Tom Hayden

£16.99 26 Jun 2008 Paperback City Lights Books

Oral History and Public Memories

15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Paula Hamilton, Linda Shopes

£16.99 15 Jun 2008 Paperback Temple University Press,U.S.

Explores the relationship between the well-established practice of oral history and the burgeoning field of memory studies. This work explains the processes by which oral histories move beyond interviews with individual people to become articulated memories shared by others.

Oral History and Public Memories

15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Paula Hamilton, Linda Shopes

£48.00 15 Jun 2008 Hardback Temple University Press,U.S.

Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Whalen, Zach Taylor, Laurie N.

£19.50 01 Jun 2008 Paperback Vanderbilt University Press

Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

History and Nostalgia in Video Games

By Whalen, Zach Taylor, Laurie N.

£40.95 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Vanderbilt University Press

Thinking Impossibilities: The Intellectual Legacy of Amos Funkenstein

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Intellectual Legacy of Amos Funkenstein

By Westman, Robert S. Biale, David

£42.00 01 Jun 2008 Hardback University of Toronto Press

Amos Funkenstein (1937-1995) displayed an intellectual range that encompassed several disciplines and broke ground across scholarly boundaries. This volume includes essays which take up themes in European intellectual history, and examine them through the lens that Funkenstein himself employed during his career.

Books without Borders (v. 1)

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Cross-national Dimension in Print Culture

By James Currey, Robert Fraser, Matthew Gibson, Mary Hammond, Patricia May B. Jurilla, Roshni Mooneeram, Father Ivan Page, Lynda Prescott

£45.00 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Palgrave Macmillan

Offers different approaches to the global circulation of print culture across five centuries, ranging from Bulgaria to Brazil and from popular magazines to Shakespeare. It argues for the necessity of finding new methods and conceptual frameworks for the analysis of book history. It also includes contributions from key scholars in the field.

Local Girl Makes History

24 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Dana Frank

£12.99 24 May 2008 Paperback City Lights Books

Strict Wildness

15 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Peter Viereck

£27.50 15 May 2008 Hardback Transaction Publishers,U.S.

Explores questions of modernism and poetic craft with respect to American poetry. This book discusses the controversy over Ezra Pound's politics and its relation to his poetics, as well as the poet Vachel Lindsay. It offers views on poetics, including the tensions between form and content, and the impact of modern technology on poetic expression.

Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Solnit, Rebecca

£9.31 01 May 2008 Paperback University of California Press

This anthology of Solnits essential essays from the past ten years takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the U.S.-Mexican border, from open sky to the deepest mines and offers a panoramic world view enriched by the authors characteristically provocative, inspiring, and hopeful observations.

The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict: Seventh Revised and Updated E

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Laqueur, Walter Rubin, Barry

£9.89 01 May 2008 Paperback Penguin Books

An essential resourceacompletely revised and updated for the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of Israel
In print for forty years, "The Israel-Arab Reader" is a thorough and up-to-date guide to the continuing crisis in the Middle East. It covers the full spectrum of the Israel-Arab conflictaincluding a new chapter recounting the Gaza withdrawal, the Hamas election victory, and the Lebanon-Israel War. Featuring a new introduction that provides an overview of the past 115 years of conflict, and arranged chronologically and without bias, this comprehensive reference includes speeches, letters, articles, timelines, and reports dealing with all the major interests in the area.

Local Girl Makes History

24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Dana Frank

£12.99 24 Apr 2008 Paperback City Lights Books

More Than a Contest Between Armies

15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal

By James Marten, A.Kristen Foster

£23.95 15 Apr 2008 Hardback Kent State University Press

Features lecturers chosen from among the best-known Civil War historians. This work offers readers an impressive array of topics, approaches, and perspectives. It features twelve essays that include lectures presented by Edward L Ayers, William Blair, David W Blight, Catherine Clinton, Gary W Gallagher, George Rable, John Y Simon, and Joan Waugh.

Americanism

15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Michael Kazin, Joseph A. McCartin

£14.95 15 Apr 2008 Paperback The University of North Carolina Press

A collection of essays which recognize Americanism in all its complexity - as an ideology, an articulation of the nation's rightful place in the world, a set of traditions, a political language, and a cultural style imbued with political meaning.

Strict Wildness

15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Peter Viereck

£27.50 15 Apr 2008 Hardback Transaction Publishers,U.S.

The Prince

01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Machiavelli, Niccolo

£7.42 01 Apr 2008 Paperback Saint Bob Press

You might think that Machiavelli's "The Prince," the definitive guide to becoming a 16th century despot has no place in the modern world. If you are running for office, occupying a foreign country, planning an hostile merger, or have a job, this study of the realpolitik is an indispensable as it was 500 years ago. The modern relevance of this ancient text is spelled out in a through and hilariously to-the--point introduction.

Local Girl Makes History

21 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Dana Frank

£12.99 21 Mar 2008 Paperback City Lights Books

More Than a Contest Between Armies

15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal

By James Marten, A.Kristen Foster

£23.95 15 Mar 2008 Hardback Kent State University Press

Americanism

15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Michael Kazin, Joseph A. McCartin

£14.95 15 Mar 2008 Paperback The University of North Carolina Press

Strict Wildness

15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Peter Viereck

£27.50 15 Mar 2008 Hardback Transaction Publishers,U.S.

I Wish I'd Been There, Book Two: European History

01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Hollinshead, Byron Rabb, Theodore K.

£15.36 01 Mar 2008 Hardback Doubleday Books

Twenty distinguished American historians vividly re-imagine 20 events of great drama and significance in America's past. Contributors include Mary Beth Norton, Joseph Ellis, Carol Berkin, Kevin Baker, Robert Cowley, Carolyn Gilman, Geoffrey Ward, and William Leuchtenburg.

The Best American History Essays

01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Organization of American Historians Roediger, David

£14.81 01 Mar 2008 Paperback Palgrave MacMillan

The Best American History Essays

01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Organization of American Historians Roediger, David

£43.93 01 Mar 2008 Hardback Palgrave MacMillan

Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 150 Biographical Memoirs of (Vol. 150)

28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

£50.00 28 Feb 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

More Than a Contest Between Armies

15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal

By James Marten, A.Kristen Foster

£23.95 15 Feb 2008 Hardback Kent State University Press

Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal

01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kazin, Michael McCartin, Joseph A.

£14.95 01 Feb 2008 Paperback University of North Carolina Press

Strict Wildness: Discoveries in Poetry and History

01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Sense, Nonsense, and the American Political Imaginary

By Viereck, Peter Robert Edwin

£23.95 01 Feb 2008 Hardback Transaction Publishers

This is Not a President

15 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Diane Rubenstein

£15.95 15 Jan 2008 Paperback New York University Press

Looks at the postmodern presidency - from Reagan and George H W Bush, through the administration, and including Hillary. The author interrogates symptomatic moments in political rhetoric, popular culture, and presidential behavior to elucidate profound and disturbing changes in the American presidency and the way it embodies a national imaginary.

This is Not a President

15 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Sense, Nonsense, and the American Political Imaginary

By Diane Rubenstein

£48.95 15 Jan 2008 Hardback New York University Press

Love's Fire

01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Hook, Donald D.

£8.79 01 Jan 2008 Paperback Donald D. Hook, Publisher

Something from the Cellar: More of This & That: Selected Essays from the Colonial Williamsburg Journal

01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Hume, Ivor Noel

£16.46 01 Jan 2008 Paperback Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Something From the Cellar includes selected essays by Ivor Noel Hume, who headed Colonial Williamsburg's archeological program for thirty years. In this eclectic collection from the pages of Colonial Williamsburg, the popular history journal, Noel Hume ventures beyond Williamsburg to such historic places as Jamestown

Lincoln's Smile and Other Enigmas

01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Trachtenberg, Alan

£9.34 01 Jan 2008 Paperback Hill & Wang

""Lincoln's Smile" demonstrates why Alan Trachtenberg has been the leading scholar in American studies for more than four decades." --Casey Nelson Blake, Columbia University Alan Trachtenberg has always been interested in cultural artifacts that register meanings and feelings that Americans share even when they disagree about them. Some of the most beloved ones--like the famous last photograph of Abraham Lincoln, taken at the time of his second inaugural--are downright puzzling, and it is their obscure, riddlelike aspects that draw his attention in the scintillating essays of "Lincoln's Smile and Other Enigmas," With matchless authority, Trachtenberg moves from daguerreotypes to literary texts to subjects as diverse as Louis Sullivan's Auditorium Building, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the early works of Lewis Mumford.

Local Girl Makes History

31 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Dana Frank

£12.99 31 Dec 2007 Paperback City Lights Books.,U.S.

Writings for a Democratic Society

31 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The Tom Hayden Reader

By Tom Hayden

£14.99 31 Dec 2007 Paperback City Lights Books.,U.S.

More Than a Contest Between Armies

15 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues

By James Marten, A.Kristen Foster

£22.95 15 Dec 2007 Hardback Kent State University Press

The Practice of U.S. Women's History

15 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By S.Jay Kleinberg, Eileen Boris, Vicki L. Ruiz

£45.50 15 Dec 2007 Hardback Rutgers University Press

A collection of seventeen original essays on women's lives since the colonial period, this work takes the competing forces of race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, and region into account.

More Than a Contest Between Armies

15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Memories of the Asia-Pacific War in U.S.-East Asian Relations

By James Marten, A.Kristen Foster

£23.50 15 Nov 2007 Hardback Kent State University Press

The Unpredictability of the Past

15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Marc Gallicchio

£12.99 15 Nov 2007 Paperback Duke University Press

Examines how collective memories of Asia-Pacific War continue to affect relations among China, Japan, and United States. This book explores how American ideas about Japanese history shaped US occupation policy following Japan's surrender in 1945.

The Unpredictability of the Past

15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Memories of the Asia-Pacific War in U.S.-East Asian Relations

By Marc Gallicchio

£51.00 15 Nov 2007 Hardback Duke University Press

The Practice of U.S. Women's History

15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues

By S.Jay Kleinberg, Eileen Boris, Vicki L. Ruiz

£19.50 15 Nov 2007 Paperback Rutgers University Press

A collection of seventeen original essays on women's lives from the colonial period onwards. This title takes into account the competing forces of race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, and region.

The Practice of U.S. Women's History

15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues

By S.Jay Kleinberg, Eileen Boris, Vicki L. Ruiz

£44.95 15 Nov 2007 Hardback Rutgers University Press

A collection of seventeen original essays on women's lives since the colonial period, this work takes the competing forces of race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, and region into account.

Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory

15 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Essays from the Sawyer Seminar

By Francis X. Blouin, William G. Rosenberg

£22.50 15 Oct 2007 Paperback The University of Michigan Press

Explores the importance of archives as artifacts of culture. This work features essays that conceive of archives not simply as historical repositories but as a complex of structures, processes, and epistemologies situated at a critical point of the intersection between scholarship, cultural practices, politics, and technologies.

Living Dangerously

15 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

On the Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

By Barbara A. Hanawalt, Anna Grotans

£17.95 15 Oct 2007 Paperback University of Notre Dame Press

Examines the lives of those who lived on the margins of medieval and early modern European society. This book explores obvious marginalized classes, such as criminals, gypsies, and prostitutes. It also challenges traditional understandings of the margin by showing that female mystics could fall into the margins.

More Than a Contest Between Armies: Essays on the Civil War Era

01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT