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  • Visual Shock

    A History of Art Controversies in American Culture

    par Michael Kammen ...
    In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He illuminates America’s obsession with public memorials and the changing role of art and museums in our society. From Thomas Eakins’s 1875 masterpiece The Gross Clinic, (considered “too big, bold, and gory” when ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $14.99 CAD Maintenant $6.99 CAD

  • American Culture, American Tastes

    Social Change and the 20th Century

    par Michael Kammen ...
    Americans have a long history of public arguments about taste, the uses of leisure, and what is culturally appropriate in a democracy that has a strong work ethic. Michael Kammen surveys these debates as well as our changing taste preferences, especially in the past century, and the shifting perceptions that have accompanied them.Professor Kammen shows how the post-traditional popular culture that ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $14.99 CAD Maintenant $6.99 CAD

  • Mystic Chords of Memory

    The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture

    par Michael Kammen ...
    Mystic Chords of Memory"Illustrated with hundreds of well-chosen anecdotes and minute observations . . . Kammen is a demon researcher who seems to have mined his nuggets from the entire corpus of American cultural history . . . insightful and sardonic."—Washington Post Book WorldIn this ground-breaking, panoramic work of American cultural history, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Machine ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $19.99 CAD Maintenant $6.99 CAD

  • A Machine That Would Go of Itself

    The Constitution in American Culture

    par Michael Kammen ...
    In this volume, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen explores the U.S. Constitution's place in the public consciousness and its role as a symbol in American life, from ratification in 1788 to our own time. As he examines what the Constitution has meant to the American people (perceptions and misperceptions, uses and abuses, knowledge and ignorance), Kammen shows that although there are ... En savoir plus

    $96.18 CAD

  • A Rope of Sand

    par Michael Kammen ...
    During the twenty years before the American Revolution, thirty-seven men acted as paid agent or lobbyists for the American colonies in England. The most famous among them were Benjamin Franklin, who represented four different colonies and served for seventeen years as agenet for Pennsylvania, and Edmund Burke, who accepted the position to further his own career. Yet the other thirty-five were also ... En savoir plus

    $5.99 CAD

  • Spheres of Liberty

    Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture

    par Michael Kammen ...
    Liberty, one of the most consequential words in our language, is one of the most treasured concepts in American thought--and one of the most intensely debated. Its meaning is constantly shifting, changing not only from one culture to another but also, over time, within the same culture. No two definitions of liberty seem alike.In this subtle and illuminating work Michael Kammen traces the evolving ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Spheres of Liberty

    Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture

    par Michael Kammen ...
    Collections series Banner Books
    Liberty, one of the most consequential words in our language, is one of the most treasured concepts in American thought—and one of the most intensely debated. Its meaning is constantly shifting, changing not only from one culture to another but also, over time, within the same culture. No two definitions of liberty seem alike.In this subtle and illuminating work Michael Kammen traces the evolving ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • People of Paradox (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization

    par Michael Kammen ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • In this major interpretive work Mr. Kammen argues that most attempt to understand America’s history and culture have minimized its complexity, and he demonstrates that, from our beginnings, what has given our culture its distinctive texture, pattern, and thrust is the dynamic interaction of the imported and the indigenous. He shows now, during the years of colonization, ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $21.99 CAD Maintenant $16.99 CAD

  • The Glorious Revolution in America

    Documents on the Colonial Crisis of 1689

    Modifié par Michael G. Hall, Lawrence H. Leder, Michael Kammen ...
    Collections series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    England’s Glorious Revolution of 1688 created a major crisis among the British colonies in America. Following news of the English Revolution, a series of rebellions and insurrections erupted in colonial America from Massachusetts to Carolina. Although the upheavals of 1689 were sparked by local grievances, there were also general causes for the repudiation of Stuart authority.Originally published ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • Science, Society and the Environment

    Applying Anthropology and Physics to Sustainability

    par Michael Dove, Daniel Kammen ...
    In an era when pressing environmental problems make collaboration across the divide between sciences and arts and humanities essential, this book presents the results of a collaborative analysis by an anthropologist and a physicist of four key junctures between science, society, and environment. The first focuses on the systemic bias in science in favour of studying esoteric subjects as distinct ... En savoir plus

    $116.79 CAD

  • Smut: An 1883 Obscenity Trial and Its Echoes Today

    par Carol Kammen ...
    “An engrossing tale well told.”—Mary Beth Norton, author of Liberty’s Daughters and The Devil’s Snare“Kammen’s writing is engaging throughout, and her argument connecting 1883 to the present day is persuasive. A narrow slice of local history that opens, unexpectedly, onto the present.”—Kirkus ReviewsIn June, 1883, Jefferson and Helen Beardsley of Ithaca, Ne... ... En savoir plus

    $13.73 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Annie Top Skye

    par Robert Kammen ...
    Annie Top Skye: Big City Attorney Returning To Her RootsJerome Two-Bulls, a young Lakota Indian from Wyoming, was found guilty of the murder of his girlfriend, Cassandra Madison. Convicted in a white man's court and sentenced to execution for a crime he did not commit. The odds and evidence were both stacked against him. His only hope of being exonerated lies in a cousin who walked away from her ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus