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  • Picturing Black History

    Photographs and Stories that Changed the World

    par Daniela Edmeier, Damarius Johnson, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Steven Conn ...
    **** Nominated for a NAACP Image Award **A groundbreaking collection of photographs and essays that shed new light on the history of Black America, from the Picturing Black History project.**“Stunning . . . Provides fresh perspective on historical photographs and snapshots of Black life.” —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW“An astonishing work." —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Picturing Black History uncovers ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Lies of the Land

    Seeing Rural America for What It Is—and Isn't

    par Steven Conn ...
    A "piercing, unsentimental" history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis ( The New Yorker).It seems everyone has an opinion about rural America. Is it gripped in a tragic decline? Or is it on the cusp of a glorious revival? Is it the key to understanding America today? Steven Conn argues that we're missing the real question: Is rural America even a thing? No, says Conn, who ... En savoir plus

    $25.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

  • Nothing Succeeds Like Failure

    The Sad History of American Business Schools

    par Steven Conn ...
    Collections series Histories of American Education
    Do business schools actually make good on their promises of "innovative," "outside-the-box" thinking to train business leaders who will put society ahead of money-making? Do they help society by making better business leaders? No, they don't, Steven Conn asserts, and what's more they never have.In throwing down a gauntlet on the business of business schools, Conn's Nothing Succeeds Like Failure ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

  • Do Museums Still Need Objects?

    par Steven Conn ...
    Collections series The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
    "We live in a museum age," writes Steven Conn in Do Museums Still Need Objects? And indeed, at the turn of the twenty-first century, more people are visiting museums than ever before. There are now over 17,500 accredited museums in the United States, averaging approximately 865 million visits a year, more than two million visits a day. New museums have proliferated across the cultural landscape ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Americans Against the City

    Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century

    par Steven Conn ...
    It is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. An aversion to urban density and all that it contributes to urban life, and a perception that the city was the place where "big government" first took root in America fostered what historian Steven Conn terms the "anti-urban impulse." In response, anti-urbanists called for ... En savoir plus

    $28.79 CAD

  • Metropolitan Philadelphia

    Living with the Presence of the Past

    par Steven Conn ...
    Collections series Metropolitan Portraits
    As America's fifth largest city and fourth largest metropolitan region, Philadelphia is tied to its surrounding counties and suburban neighborhoods. It is this vital relationship, suggests Steven Conn, that will make or break greater Philadelphia.The Philadelphia region has witnessed virtually every major political, economic, and social transformation of American life. Having once been an ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Do Museums Still Need Objects?

    par Steven Conn ...
    Collections series The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
    "We live in a museum age," writes Steven Conn in Do Museums Still Need Objects? And indeed, at the turn of the twenty-first century, more people are visiting museums than ever before. There are now over 17,500 accredited museums in the United States, averaging approximately 865 million visits a year, more than two million visits a day. New museums have proliferated across the cultural landscape ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Metropolitan Philadelphia

    Living with the Presence of the Past

    par Steven Conn ...
    Collections series Metropolitan Portraits
    As America's fifth largest city and fourth largest metropolitan region, Philadelphia is tied to its surrounding counties and suburban neighborhoods. It is this vital relationship, suggests Steven Conn, that will make or break greater Philadelphia.The Philadelphia region has witnessed virtually every major political, economic, and social transformation of American life. Having once been an ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • To Promote the General Welfare

    The Case for Big Government

    Modifié par Steven Conn ...
    Americans love to hate their government, and a long tradition of anti-government suspicion reaches back to debates among the founders of the nation. But the election of Barack Obama has created a backlash rivaled only by the anti-government hysteria that preceded the Civil War. Lost in all the Tea Party rage and rhetoric is this simple fact: the federal government plays a central role in making ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Building the Nation

    Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape

    Modifié par Steven Conn, Max Page ...
    Moving away from the standard survey that takes readers from architect to architect and style to style, Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape suggests a wholly new way of thinking about the history of America's built environment and how Americans have related to it.Through an enormous range of American voices, some famous and some obscure, ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • Building the Nation

    Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape

    Modifié par Steven Conn, Max Page ...
    Moving away from the standard survey that takes readers from architect to architect and style to style, Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape suggests a wholly new way of thinking about the history of America's built environment and how Americans have related to it.Through an enormous range of American voices, some famous and some obscure, ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

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    The Lies of the Land

    Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn’t

    par Steven Conn ...
    Lu par Tom Perkins ...

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    10 heure 1 min

    A "piercing, unsentimental" (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis.It seems everyone has an opinion about rural America. Is it gripped in a tragic decline? Or is it on the cusp of a glorious revival? Is it the key to understanding America today? Steven Conn argues that we're missing the real question: Is rural America even a thing? No, says Conn, who ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

    Aussi disponible en : eBook

    Aussi disponible en : eBook