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  • American Studies in the Age of New Area Studies

    Infinite Space

    by Clare Corbould, Hilary Emmett, Sarah Garland, Malcolm McLaughlin, Thomas Ruys Smith, John Wills ...
    Series series Routledge New Area Studies
    This book explores what it means to study America in the twenty-first century and what the emergence of the field of New Area Studies means for the development of American Studies.By analysing the meaning of interdisciplinarity, aesthetics, temporality, and periodisation, this book reveals both fields of study through the lens of interdisciplinary cases studies, innovative methodologies, and a ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Last Gift

    The Christmas Stories of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

    by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman ...
    Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930) was one of the most popular American writers at the turn of the twentieth century, and her annual Christmas stories appeared in magazines and periodicals across the globe. Since then, the extraordinary stories that once delighted her legions of fans every festive season have gone largely out of print and unread. Now, for the first time, The Last Gift presents a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Christmas Past

    An Anthology of Seasonal Stories from Nineteenth-Century America

    Edited by Thomas Ruys Smith ...
    As the modern celebration of Christmas took shape across the nineteenth century, American writers gave it new meaning in the pages of countless books and magazines. Now, for the first time, this rich anthology brings together some of the most significant of those seasonal stories to retell a forgotten tale of Christmases past.From the authors who helped define a national literary culture, to the ... Read more

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  • Blacklegs, Card Sharps, and Confidence Men

    Nineteenth-Century Mississippi River Gambling Stories

    Edited by Thomas Ruys Smith ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    In 1836 Benjamin Drake, a midwestern writer of popular sketches for newspapers of the day, introduced his readers to a new and distinctly American rascal who rode the steamboats up and down the Mississippi and other western waterways -- the riverboat gambler. These men, he recorded, "dress with taste and elegance; carry gold chronometers in their pockets; and swear with the most genteel precision. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • River of Dreams

    Imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain

    by Thomas Ruys Smith ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    Even in the decades before Mark Twain enthralled the world with his evocative representations of the Mississippi, the river played an essential role in American culture and consciousness. Throughout the antebellum era, the Mississippi acted as a powerful symbol of America's conception of itself -- and the world's conception of America. As Twain understood, "The Mississippi is well worth reading ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

    America changed through music

    Edited by Ross Hair, Thomas Ruys Smith ...
    Released in 1952, The Anthology of American Folk Music was the singular visionof the enigmatic artist, musicologist, and collector Harry Smith (1923–1991). Acollection of eighty-fourcommercial recordings of Americanvernacular and folkmusic originally issued between 1927 and 1932, the Anthology featured an eclecticand idiosyncratic mixture of blues and hillbilly songs, ballads old and new, ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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    by David McCullough ...
    In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot -- "the colossus of independence," as Thomas Jefferson called him -- who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second President of the United States and saved the country ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Megapack

    59 Classic Stories

    by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman ...
    Victorian author Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) is most remembered today for her ghost stories, but she was a prolific and popular author in many genres: not only the supernatural, but mystery and suspense, romance, and especially contemporary fiction were her speciality. She produced more than two dozen volumes of published short stories and novels. For this volume, we have grouped the most ... Read more

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  • The Pioneers

    The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

    by David McCullough ...
    **The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that’s “**as resonant today as ever” (The Wall Street Journal)—the settling of the Northwest Territory by courageous pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would define our country.As part of the Treaty of Paris ... Read more

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  • The Name of War

    King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity

    by Jill Lepore ...
    BANCROFF PRIZE WINNER • King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war—colonists against Indigenous peoples—that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific to "deserve the name of a war."The war's brutality compelled the colonists to defend themselves against ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery

    Anne of Green Gables and Other Works, Free Audiobook Links

    by Lucy Maud Montgomery ...
    Free Audiobook LinksIn all, this volume is comprised of the following works:1 ANNE OF GREEN GABLES2 ANNE OF AVONLEA3 ANNE OF THE ISLAND4 Anne's House of Dreams5 RAINBOW VALLEY6 Rilla of Ingleside7 THE STORY GIRL8 THE GOLDEN ROAD9 KILMENY OF THE ORCHARD10 CHRONICLES OF AVONLEA11 FURTHER CHRONICLES OF AVONLEA12 Short Stories, 1896 to 190113 Short Stories, 1902 to 190314 Short Stories 19... ... Read more

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  • A People's History of the American Revolution

    How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence

    by Ray Raphael ...
    "The best single-volume history of the Revolution I have read." —Howard ZinnUpon its initial publication, Ray Raphael's magisterial A People's History of the American Revolution was hailed by NPR's Fresh Air as "relentlessly aggressive and unsentimental." With impeccable skill, Raphael presented a wide array of fascinating scholarship within a single volume, employing a bottom-up approach that has ... Read more

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