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Ruth Benedict
$60.00Considered one of the most influential and articulate figures in American anthropology, Ruth Benedict (1887–1948) was trained by Franz Boas and Elsie Clews Parsons and collaborated with the equally renowned…
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Shadows on the Rock
$80.00Shadows on the Rock, written after Willa Cather discovered Quebec City during an unplanned stay in 1928, is the second of her “Catholic” historical novels and reflects her fascination with…
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Sounds of Defiance
$24.95Language has frequently been at the center of discussions about Holocaust writing. Yet English, a primary language of neither the persecutors nor the victims, has generally been viewed as marginal…
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Strangers at Home
$60.00Strangers at Home reframes the way we conceive of the modernist literature that appeared in the period between the two world wars. This provocative work shows that a body of…
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The Human Family
$45.00The Human Family is the first complete translation of the cycle of ten novellas that Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861–1937) wrote between 1895 and 1898. This collection contributes to the rediscovery of…
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The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670-1763
$59.95Drawing on archaeological evidence and utilizing often neglected Spanish source material, The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670–1763, explores the political history of the Creek Indians of Georgia and Alabama…
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The Knowledge Contract
$24.95The Knowledge Contract intervenes in the ongoing debates about the changing conditions of higher education in America, with a special focus on English studies and the humanities. This highly original…
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The Life of Elaine Goodale Eastman
$35.00Raised in a sheltered, puritanical household in New England, Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863–1953) followed her conscience and calling in 1885 when she traveled west and opened a school on the…
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The Line Which Separates
$29.95Nations are made and unmade at their borders, and the forty-ninth parallel separating Montana and Alberta in the late nineteenth century was a pivotal Western site for both the United…
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The Miami-Illinois Language
$75.00The Miami-Illinois Language reconstructs the language spoken by the Miami and the Illinois Native Americans. During the latter half of the seventeenth century both Native communities lived in the region…
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The Non-Existent Manuscript
$60.00Published and distributed for the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism The origins of the infamous forgery the Protocols of the Sages of Zion are the subject…
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade
$60.00The transatlantic slave trade played a major role in the development of the modern world. It both gave birth to and resulted from the shift from feudalism into the European…