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A Curious Land: Stories from Home
Susan Muaddi DarrajCurrent price €22.28Original price €27.50Susan Muaddi Darraj's short story collection about the inhabitants of a Palestinian West Bank village, Tel al-Hilou, spans generations and continen...
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A History of Hands: A Novel
Rod Val MooreCurrent price €22.09Original price €25.99This powerful novel begins with the ambiguities of illness and moves on to explore both the reasonable and the absurd actions of those who suffer a...
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A Living Exhibition: The Smithsonian and the Transformation of the Universal Museum
William S. WalkerCurrent price €77.39Original price €85.99Since its founding in 1846 for the increase and diffusion of knowledge, the Smithsonian Institution has been an important feature of the American c...
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A Publisher''s Paradise: Expatriate Literary Culture in Paris, 1890-1960
Colette ColliganCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50From 1890 to 1960, some of Anglo-Americas most heated cultural contests over books, sex, and censorship were staged not at home, but abroad in the ...
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A Shadow on Our Hearts: Soldier-Poetry, Morality, and the American War in Vietnam
Adam GilbertCurrent price €81.89Original price €90.99The American war in Vietnam was one of the most morally contentious events of the twentieth century, and it produced an extraordinary outpouring of...
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A Union Like Ours: The Love Story of F. O. Matthiessen and Russell Cheney
Scott BaneCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50After a chance meeting aboard the ocean liner Paris in 1924, Harvard University scholar and activist F. O. Matthiessen and artist Russell Cheney fe...
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A Union Like Ours: The Love Story of F. O. Matthiessen and Russell Cheney
Scott BaneCurrent price €81.89Original price €90.99After a chance meeting aboard the ocean liner Paris in 1924, Harvard University scholar and activist F. O. Matthiessen and artist Russell Cheney fe...
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Alice Morse Earle and the Domestic History of America
Susan Reynolds WilliamsCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99Author, collector, and historian Alice Morse Earle (1851-1911) was among the most important and prolific writers of her day. Between 1890 and 1904,...
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All the News I Need: a novel
Joan FrankCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99All The News I Need probes the modern American response to inevitable, ancient riddles of love and sex and mortality. Frances Ferguson is a lonely,...
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American Intelligence: Small-Town News and Political Culture in Federalist New Hampshire
Ben P. LaffertyCurrent price €81.89Original price €90.99The rapid expansion of the newspaper business in the first decade of the American republic had crucial consequences for cultural, commercial, and p...
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American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory
Matthew DennisCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50The gold epaulettes that George Washington wore into battle. A Union soldiers bloody shirt in the wake of the Civil War. A crushed wristwatch after...
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American Tomboys, 1850-1915
Renee M. SentillesCurrent price €75.36Original price €88.66A lot of women remember having had tomboy girlhoods. Some recall it as a time of gender-bending freedom and rowdy pleasures. Others feel the word i...
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Amherst Rotary Goes to War: Amherst Rotary Club in World War II
University of Massachusetts PressCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50Between 1941 and 1945, over sixteen million men and women served in the U.S. armed forces. In an effort to deepen our understanding of the Second W...
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Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815--1852
David SchuylerCurrent price €22.54Original price €24.50Through his many books and in the pages of the Horticulturist, the nation''s first journal about landscape gardening, Andrew Jackson Downing (1815-...
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Arthur A. Shurcliff: Design, Preservation, and the Creation of the Colonial Williamsburg Landscape
Elizabeth Hope CushingCurrent price €43.99Original price €51.75In 1928 the landscape architect Arthur A. Shurcliff (1870-1957) began what became one of the most important examples of the American Colonial Reviv...
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Bewildered: Stories
Carla PancieraCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50This is a world of secret-sharers, a noisy world full of unimaginable silence, claims one of the characters in this compelling debut collection. Th...
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Black Bostonians and the Politics of Culture, 1920-1940
Lorraine Elena RosesCurrent price €75.36Original price €88.66In the 1920s and 1930s Boston became a rich and distinctive site of African American artistic production, unfolding at the same time as the Harlem ...
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Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England
Jared Ross HardestyCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area's indigenous peopl...
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Blood and Ink: The Barbary Archive in Early American Literary History
Jacob CraneCurrent price €32.12Original price €36.50In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Algerian piracy in the Mediterranean loomed large in the American imagination. An estimated ...
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Blood and Ink: The Barbary Archive in Early American Literary History
Jacob CraneCurrent price €87.11Original price €98.99In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Algerian piracy in the Mediterranean loomed large in the American imagination. An estimated ...
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Bob Dylan in the Attic: The Artist as Historian
Freddy Cristobal DominguezCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50Bob Dylan is an iconic American artist, whose music and performances have long reflected different musical genres and time periods. His songs tell ...
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Bob Dylan in the Attic: The Artist as Historian
Freddy Cristobal DominguezCurrent price €81.89Original price €90.99Bob Dylan is an iconic American artist, whose music and performances have long reflected different musical genres and time periods. His songs tell ...
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Boston''s Cycling Craze, 1880-1900: A Story of Race, Sport, and Society
Lorenz J. FinisonCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50From 1877 to 1896, the popularity of bicycles increased exponentially, and Boston was in on it from the start. The Boston Bicycle Club was the firs...
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Buying the Farm: Peace and War on a Sixties Commune
Tom FelsCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50This book tells the story of Montague Farm, an early back-to-the land communal experiment in western Massachusetts, from its beginning in 1968 thro...
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