Author: Stanley Kunitz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 846

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Author: Stanley Kunitz
Publisher: New York : The H. W. Wilson Company
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 874

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Complete in one volume with 1300 biographies and 400 portraits.

Author: Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520321871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2816

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Author: Annika Bautz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429952392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387

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This book presents the collectors’ roles as prominently as the collections of books and texts which they assembled. Contributors explore the activities and networks shaping a range of continental and transcontinental European public and private collections during the Renaissance, Enlightenment and modern eras. They study the impact of class, geographical location and specific cultural contexts on the gathering and use of printed and handwritten texts and other printed artefacts. The volume explores the social dimension of book collecting, and considers how practices of collecting developed during these periods of profound cultural, social and political change.

Author: Elizabeth H. Oakes
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108095
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 449

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"American Writers focuses on the rich diversity of American novelists

Author: Library of Congress
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 584

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Presents a portait of America's social and cultural history between 1600 and 1900, told through letters, diaries, memoirs, tracts, and other articles and first-hand accounts found in the collections of the Library of Congress.

Author: Dorceta E. Taylor
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822392240
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 641

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In The Environment and the People in American Cities, Dorceta E. Taylor provides an in-depth examination of the development of urban environments, and urban environmentalism, in the United States. Taylor focuses on the evolution of the city, the emergence of elite reformers, the framing of environmental problems, and the perceptions of and responses to breakdowns in social order, from the seventeenth century through the twentieth. She demonstrates how social inequalities repeatedly informed the adjudication of questions related to health, safety, and land access and use. While many accounts of environmental history begin and end with wildlife and wilderness, Taylor shows that the city offers important clues to understanding the evolution of American environmental activism. Taylor traces the progression of several major thrusts in urban environmental activism, including the alleviation of poverty; sanitary reform and public health; safe, affordable, and adequate housing; parks, playgrounds, and open space; occupational health and safety; consumer protection (food and product safety); and land use and urban planning. At the same time, she presents a historical analysis of the ways race, class, and gender shaped experiences and perceptions of the environment as well as environmental activism and the construction of environmental discourses. Throughout her analysis, Taylor illuminates connections between the social and environmental conflicts of the past and those of the present. She describes the displacement of people of color for the production of natural open space for the white and wealthy, the close proximity between garbage and communities of color in early America, the cozy relationship between middle-class environmentalists and the business community, and the continuous resistance against environmental inequalities on the part of ordinary residents from marginal communities.

Author: Margaret I. Nichols
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788123580
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 77

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Identifies a small number of sources which will meet the basic needs of libraries of all sizes. Designed specifically to help small libraries select a reference collection which will meet their essential needs. Focuses on 105 annotated sources, and 68 notes citing another 75 reference titles which may be substituted for those recommended in the text or purchased in addition to them. Section II is designed to help small libraries in the acquisition process. Also contains 9 exercises on using basic types of sources and is intended for new reference workers.

Author: Emma S. Etuk
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1449086349
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Author: Ruth Clifford Engs
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313051852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Religious, political, social, and health reform earmarked the Progressive Era. The era's health reform movement—like today's clean living movement—saw campaigns against alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and sexuality. It included crusades for exercise, vegetarian diets, and alternative health care and concerns about eugenics and new diseases. Covering the years leading up to the Progressive Era through the 1920s, this book provides entries on the central figures, events, crusades, legislation, publications and terms of the health reform movements, while a detailed timeline ties health reform to political, social, and religious movements. A valuable resource for scholars, students, and laymen interested in earlier health reform movements.