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1) Family life
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New American fiction volume 12
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English
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In Family Life, Russell Banks's first novel, he transforms the dramas of domesticity into the story of a royal family in a mythical contemporary kingdom. Life inside this kingdom includes the king (dubbed "the Hearty" or "the Bluff"), who squeals angrily as is his wont; the queen, who, while pondering the mirror in her chambers, decides to write a book; three adolescent princes who are, respectively, a superb wrestler, a fanatical sports car driver,...
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Here is English society and government on the eve of the great migration to America. The Crown, the courts, Parliament, the church and the university, town and country, etc. are all brought to life in a book which captures the inner character of the English people of the 17th century.
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Presented bilingually with a new English translation by Man Booker Prize-winning translator Jessica Cohen, these brief fables by Israeli author Daniel Oz engage with vast concepts about human nature. Full of timeless, open-ended parables, Further Up the Path offers no answers, moralizing, or conclusion: only an uneasy bewilderment with the paradoxes of the human-and animal-condition.
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"The Confederate Nation has yet to be superseded as the standard title on the subject. " -Journal of Southern History, 2007
"Incisive and insightful…. As good a short history of the Southern war effort was we have." -T. Harry Williams, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln and His Generals
Emory M. Thomas's critically acclaimed chronicle of the Confederacy remains widely recognized as the standard history of the South during the Civil War....
10) Sister Carrie
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Dissatisfied with life in her rural Wisconsin life, 18-year-old Caroline "Sister Carrie" Meeber moves to Chicago to live with her sister and work in a shoe factory. It doesn't take long for her to realize that factory work is hard and dirty. After becoming ill and losing her job, Carrie is taken in by a rich, handsome man who pays for her apartment and finds her work as an actress. But Carrie soon finds another man to take care of her, who happens...
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This history of early American political thought examines the emergence, evolution, and manipulation of public opinion.
In the early American republic, the concept of public opinion was a recent-and ambiguous-invention. While appearing to promise a new style of democratic politics, the concept was also invoked to limit self-rule, cement traditional prejudices, stall deliberation, and marginalize dissent. As Americans contested the meaning of this...
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Springer International Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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This Open access book is a collection of essays and offers an in-depth analysis of silence as an aesthetic practice and a textual strategy which paradoxically speaks of the unspoken nature of many inconvenient hidden truths of Irish society in the work of contemporary fiction writers. The study acknowledges Ireland's history of damaging silences and considers its legacies, but it also underscores how silence can serve as a valuable, even productive,...
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Overview: With a New Introduction. Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans-black and white-responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. It addresses the quest of emancipated slaves searching for economic autonomy and equal citizenship, and describes the remodeling of Southern society, the evolution of racial attitudes and patterns of race relations, and the emergence of a national state possessing...
16) Korean Americans
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Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"After the September 11th attacks the United States government sought a response to terrorism. The ensuing 'war on terror' brought sweeping new federal regulations and changes in immigration policy. Consequent changes in society's reaction to immigration and the degree to which immigrants have become criminalized are apparent. Hauptman reveals the effects of a moral panic toward immigration after 9/11, explaining social control initiatives like the...
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