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  • Andrew Jackson

    A Rhetorical Portrayal of Presidential Leadership

    by Amos Kiewe ...
    Andrew Jackson’s presidency and legacy have been the subject of much study. His career and life, particularly his actions as America’s seventh president, still reverberate in our culture today. Yet Amos Kiewe mounts a groundbreaking intervention into Jackson studies by focusing his critical lens on a little-studied aspect of the populist leader’s 1830–31 campaign and subsequent presidency: his ... Read more

    $28.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rhetoric of the "Corrupt Bargain" in the 1824 Election

    Clay, Jackson, and Democratic Strategy

    by Amos Kiewe ...
    In The Rhetoric of the “Corrupt Bargain” in the 1824 Election: Clay, Jackson, and Democratic Strategy, Amos Kiewe explores the story of the 1824 presidential election, when the House of Representatives elected the president after no candidate won outright the majority of the Electoral College. Though most in the nation assumed that Andrew Jackson, who won the popular vote and the plurality of the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Rhetoric of Antisemitism

    From the Origins of Christianity and Islam to the Present

    by Amos Kiewe ...
    The Rhetoric of Antisemitism focuses on the initial struggle Christianity experienced with Judaism, intensifying a hatred thereof, and settling on a religious dogma of eternal guilt meant to perpetuate antisemitism for eternity. Kiewe tackles the similar approach Islam has taken in its tension with Judaism and how it was turned centuries later into the Arab-Israeli conflict, significantly with the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Framing Public Memory

    by Stephen Howard Browne, Charles E. Morris III, Kendall R. Phillips, Bradford Vivian, Amos Kiewe, Barry Schwartz, Horst-Alfred Heinrich, Edward S. Casey, Charles E. Scott, Rosa A. Eberly, Professor Barbara Biesecker, Professor Barbie Zelizer ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    A collection of essays by prominent scholars from many disciplines on the construction of public memoriesThe study of public memory has grown rapidly across numerous disciplines in recent years, among them American studies, history, philosophy, sociology, architecture, and communications. As scholars probe acts of collective remembrance, they have shed light on the cultural processes of memory. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • One in a Thousand

    The Life and Death of Captain Eddie McKay, Royal Flying Corps

    by Graham Broad ...
    This short microhistory details the life and death of Eddie McKay, a varsity athlete at Western University, who flew with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War. Graham Broad switches creatively from telling McKay's fascinating story to teaching valuable lessons on how to do history: why the past matters, why historians take different approaches, how to pose historical questions, how to ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Joe Gould's Teeth

    by Jill Lepore ...
    From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called “The Oral History of Our Time.”Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant historian of the twentieth century. So did some of his friends, a group of modernist writers and artists that included E ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Who's Bigger?

    Where Historical Figures Really Rank

    by Charles B. Ward, Steven Skiena ...
    Is Hitler bigger than Napoleon? Washington bigger than Lincoln? Picasso bigger than Einstein? Quantitative analysts are rapidly finding homes in social and cultural domains, from finance to politics. What about history? In this fascinating book, Steve Skiena and Charles Ward bring quantitative analysis to bear on ranking and comparing historical reputations. They evaluate each person by ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The African Dispersal in the Deccan

    by Shanti Sadiq Ali ...
    One of the few studies of kind, this book provides a historical overview of the African heritage in Indiafrom medieval to modern time. It focusses on the African dispersal in the Deccan region covering modern Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, the Coromandel Coast and western coastal India. Beginning with their inception into the Deccan as slaves or mercenaries in local armies, we see how the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Contested Histories in Public Space

    Memory, Race, and Nation

    Edited by Lisa Maya Knauer, Daniel J. Walkowitz ...
    Series series Radical Perspectives
    Contested Histories in Public Space brings multiple perspectives to bear on historical narratives presented to the public in museums, monuments, texts, and festivals around the world, from Paris to Kathmandu, from the Mexican state of Oaxaca to the waterfront of Wellington, New Zealand. Paying particular attention to how race and empire are implicated in the creation and display of national ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Sea

    Thalassography and Historiography

    Edited by Peter N. Miller ...
    Series series The Bard Graduate Center Cultural Histories of the Material World
    The Seabrings together a group of noted contributors to evaluate the different ways in which seas have served as subjects in historiography and asks how this has changed---and will change---the way history is written. The essays in this volume provide exemplary demonstrations of how a sea-based history-writing that focuses on connectivity, networks, and individuals describes the horizons and the ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Hitler's Followers (RLE Nazi Germany & Holocaust)

    Studies in the Sociology of the Nazi Movement

    by Detlef Muhlberger ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
    When originally published in 1991, this book was the first systematic, detailed evaluation of the social structure of the Nazi Party in several regions of Germany during its so-called Kampfzeit phase.Based on extensive archival material, much of it left untouched since the end of the war until Detlef Mühlberger uncovered it, the book demonstrates that the Nazi Party and its major auxiliaries, the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • A Companion to Intellectual History

    Edited by Richard Whatmore, Brian Young ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
    A Companion to Intellectual History provides an in-depth survey of the practice of intellectual history as a discipline.Forty newly-commissioned chapters showcase leading global research with broad coverage of every aspect of intellectual history as it is currently practicedPresents an in-depth survey of recent research and practice of intellectual historyWritten in a clear and accessible manner, ... Read more

    $46.00 USD