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  • - Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age
    af Cornell University) Kline & Ronald R. (Bovay Professor in History and Ethics of Engineering
    318,95 - 538,95 kr.

    Ultimately, he reveals the crucial role played by the cybernetics moment-when cybernetics and information theory were seen as universal sciences-in setting the stage for our current preoccupation with information technologies.

  • - American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer
    af Kathleen G. (Central Michigan University) Donohue
    288,95 kr.

    Deftly combining intellectual, cultural, and political history, Freedom from Want sheds new light on the ways in which Americans reconceptualized the place of the consumer in society and the implications of these shifting attitudes for the philosophy ofliberalism and the role of government in safeguarding the material welfare of the people.

  • - Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America
    af Peter Knight
    318,95 - 488,95 kr.

    From the rise of ticker-tape technology to the development of conspiracy theories, Reading the Market argues that commentary on the Stock Exchange between 1870 and 1915 changed how Americans understood finance-and explains what our pervasive interest in Wall Street says about us now.

  • - The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America
    af David (Franklin and Marshall College) Schuyler
    367,95 kr.

  • - The Origins of Unbelief in America
    af James C. (Director Turner
    398,95 kr.

  • - Ritual in the Lives of the Planters
    af Steven Stowe
    382,95 kr.

  • - Language, Race, and Natural Theology in the Nineteenth Century
    af Stephen G. (Gordon College) Alter
    401,95 kr.

    Alter examines how comparative philology provided a genealogical model of language that Darwin, as well as other scientists and language scholars, used to construct rhetorical parallels with the common-descent theory of evolution.

  • - War and the Making of Liberal America, 1790-1820
    af Steven (University of Missouri) Watts
    356,95 kr.

  • - Fallen Drunkards and Redeeming Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States
    af Elaine Frantz Parsons
    344,95 kr.

    Entering a distinctively male space-the saloon-to rescue fathers, brothers, and sons, women at the same time began to enter another male bastion-politics-again justifying their transgression in terms of rescuing the nation's manhood.

  • - Propaganda, Progressivism, and American Public Opinion
    af Jonathan (Professor of English Auerbach
    488,95 kr.

    Truly interdisciplinary in both scope and method, this book will appeal to students and scholars in American studies, history, political theory, media and communications, and rhetoric and literary studies.

  • af Douglas (Sterling-Goodman Professor of English Anderson
    346,95 kr.

    "The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin brings us a much fuller understanding of Franklin's intellectual and literary roots and his later influence among common readers.

  • - Slavery, Cruelty, and the Rise of Humanitarianism
    af Margaret (Department of History) Abruzzo
    568,95 kr.

    Polemical Pain shows how the debate over slavery's cruelty played a large, unrecognized role in shaping moral categories that remain pertinent today.

  • - The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature
    af Bryan (New York University) Waterman
    583,95 kr.

    Voluntary association and print culture helped these young New Yorkers, Waterman concludes, to produce a broader and more diverse post-revolutionary public sphere than scholars have yet recognized.

  • - Imagining Public Opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction
    af Mark G. (Associate Professor Schmeller
    488,95 kr.

    Ranging across a wide variety of historical fields, Invisible Sovereign traces a shift over time from early "political-constitutional" concepts, which identified public opinion with a sovereign people and wrapped it in the language of constitutionalism, to more modern, "social-psychological" concepts, which defined public opinion as a product of social action and mass communication.

  • - The Political Culture of American Slavery
    af Kenneth S. Greenberg
    398,95 kr.

  • - Modernization Theory in Cold War America
    af Nils Gilman
    383,95 kr.

    Because it provided the dominant framework for the "development" of poor, postcolonial countries, modernization theory ranks among the important constructs of twentieth-century social science. This title offers the intellectual history of a movement that has had far-reaching, and often unintended, consequences.