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  • The Last of the Mohicans

    par James Fenimore Cooper ...
    Collections series Oxford World's Classics
    The second of Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, this is the one which has consistently captured the imagination of generations since it was first published in 1826. Its success lies partly in the historical role Cooper gives to his Indian characters, against the grain of accumulated racial hostility, and partly in his evocation of the wild beautiful landscapes of North America which the French ... En savoir plus

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  • The Last of the Mohicans

    par James Fenimore Cooper ...
    Collections series Oxford World's Classics
    The second of Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, this is the one which has consistently captured the imagination of generations since it was first published in 1826. Its success lies partly in the historical role Cooper gives to his Indian characters, against the grain of accumulated racial hostility, and partly in his evocation of the wild beautiful landscapes of North America which the French ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

    Aussi disponible en : Livres audio

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  • Revolution and the Historical Novel

    par John McWilliams ...
    John McWilliams has written the first, much needed account of the ways the promise and threat of political revolution have informed masterpieces of the historical novel. The jolting sense of historical change caused by the French Revolution led to an immense readership for a new kind of fiction, centered on revolution, counter-revolution and warfare, which soon came to be called “the historical ... En savoir plus

    $57.99 CAD

  • The Cornish Fishing Industry

    An Illustrated History

    par John McWilliams ...
    Since man first inhabited the United Kingdom, he has fished for food. The rich waters of Cornwall, where the English Channel, Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean meet, have always proved to have a bountiful harvest for the fisherman, with all types of fish - from pilchards to herring, langoustine to crab, and everything in between - being caught in Cornish waters. The variety of fish and crustaceans ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • British Motor Fishing Vessels

    par John McWilliams ...
    British traditional working boats are famous – Morecambe Bay prawners, Manx luggers, Scots fifies and zulus, Lowestoft and Yarmouth drifters, Yorkshire cobles, Colchester smacks, Hastings beach boats, Brixham trawlers, and many others. Over a century ago, progressive fishermen began to install engines in their boats. Motor fishing boats have been part of our coastal scene since then. Local ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon

    par Michael Warner, John McWilliams, Wai Chee Dimock ...
    Collections series New Americanists
    Throughout the era of the Cold War a consensus reigned as to what constituted the great works of American literature. Yet as scholars have increasingly shown, and as this volume unmistakably demonstrates, that consensus was built upon the repression of the voices and historical contexts of subordinated social groups as well as literary works themselves, works both outside and within the ... En savoir plus

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  • Scenes of Subjection

    Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

    par Saidiya Hartman, Marisa J. Fuentes, Sarah Haley, Cameron Rowland, Torkwase Dyson ...
    The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated.Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy” (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). In ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Allegories of America

    Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics

    par Frederick M. Dolan ...
    Collections series Contestations
    Allegories of America offers a bold idea of what, in terms of political theory, it means to be American. Beginning with the question What do we want from a theory of politics? Dolan explores the metaphysics of American-ness and stops along the way to reflect on John Winthrop, the Constitution, 1950s behavioralist social science, James Merrill, and William Burroughs.The pressing problem, in Dolan's ... En savoir plus

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  • Constituent Moments

    Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America

    par Jason Frank ...
    Since the American Revolution, there has been broad cultural consensus that “the people” are the only legitimate ground of public authority in the United States. For just as long, there has been disagreement over who the people are and how they should be represented or institutionally embodied. In Constituent Moments, Jason Frank explores this dilemma of authorization: the grounding of democratic ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Idealism, Pragmatism, and Feminism

    The Philosophy of Ella Lyman Cabot

    par John J. Kaag ...
    Idealism, Pragmatism, and Feminism provides an account of the life and writings of Ella Lyman Cabot (1866-1934), a woman who received formal training, but not formal recognition, in the field of classical American philosophy. It highlights the themes of idealism, pragmatism and feminism as they emerged in the course of career as an educational reformer and ethicist that spanned nearly four decades ... En savoir plus

    $62.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Modifié par Joel Porte, Saundra Morris ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a critical introduction to pastor and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, author of Nature and The Conduct of Life. The tradition of American literature and philosophy as we know it at the end of the twentieth century was largely shaped by Emerson's example and practice. This volume offers students, scholars, and the general reader a collection of ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Conscripts of Modernity

    The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment

    par David Scott ...
    At this stalled and disillusioned juncture in postcolonial history—when many anticolonial utopias have withered into a morass of exhaustion, corruption, and authoritarianism—David Scott argues the need to reconceptualize the past in order to reimagine a more usable future. He describes how, prior to independence, anticolonialists narrated the transition from colonialism to postcolonialism as ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD