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The Tastemaker

Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America

By: Edward White

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The Tastemaker

Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America

By: Edward White

A revealing biography of the influential and controversial cultural titan who embodied an era The Tastemaker explores the many lives of Carl Van Vechten, the most influential cultural impresario of the early twentieth century: a patron and dealmaker of the Harlem Renaissance, a photographer who captured the era's icons, and a novelist who created some of the Jazz Age's most salacious stories. A close confidant of Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, George Gershwin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the Knopfs, Van Vechten frolicked in the 1920s Manhattan demimonde, finding himself in Harlem's jazz clubs, Hell's Kitchen's speakeasies, and Greenwich Village's underground gay scene. New York City was a hotbed of vice as well as creativity, and Van Vechten was at the center of it all.Edward White's biography—the first comprehensive biography of Carl Van Vechten in nearly half a century, and the first to fully explore Van Vechten's tangled relationship to race and sexuality—depicts a controversial figure who defined an age. Embodying many of the contradictions of modern America, Van Vechten was a devoted husband with a coterie of boys by his side, a supporter of difficult art who also loved lowbrow entertainment, and a promoter of the Harlem Renaissance whose bestselling novel—and especially its title—infuriated many of the same African-American artists he championed. Van Vechten's defense of what many Americans considered bad taste—modernist literature, African-American culture, and sexual self-expression—created a popular appetite for these quintessential elements of American art. The Tastemaker encompasses its subject's private fears and longings, as well as Manhattan's raucous, taboo-busting social scene of which he was such a central part. It is a remarkable portrait of a man whose brave journeys across boundaries of race, sexuality, and taste helped make America fully modern.

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Macmillan + ORM

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0374708819

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Writing and Postcolonialism in the Early Republic

By: Edward Watts

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Writing and Postcolonialism in the Early Republic

By: Edward Watts

Writing and Postcolonialism in the Early Republic is the first book-length analysis of early American literature through the lens of postcolonial theory. Although the United States represented a colonizing presence that displaced indigenous peoples and exported imperial culture, American colonists also found themselves exiled, often exploited and abused by the distant metropolitan center. In this innovative book, Edward Watts demonstrates how American post-Revolutionary literature exhibits characteristics of a post-colonial society.

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246

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University of Virginia Press

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0813917611

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9780813917610

Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution

By: Edward James Kolla

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Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution

By: Edward James Kolla

The advent of the principle of popular sovereignty during the French Revolution inspired an unintended but momentous change in international law. Edward James Kolla explains that between 1789 and 1799, the idea that peoples ought to determine their fates in international affairs, just as they were taking power domestically in France, inspired a series of new and interconnected claims to territory. Drawing on case studies from Avignon, Belgium, the Rhineland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Italy, Kolla traces how French revolutionary diplomats and leaders gradually applied principles derived from new domestic political philosophy and law to the international stage. Instead of obtaining land via dynastic inheritance or conquest in war, the will of the people would now determine the title and status of territory. However, the principle of popular sovereignty also opened up new justifications for aggressive conquest, and this history foreshadowed some of the most controversial questions in international relations today.

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353

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Cambridge University Press

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1316843823

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9781316843826

Transactions of the Worcester County Horticultural Society for the Year 1893-1894

By: Edward Winslow Lincoln

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Transactions of the Worcester County Horticultural Society for the Year 1893-1894

By: Edward Winslow Lincoln

Reprint of the original, first published in 1894.

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118

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385136938

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9783385136939

The Evolution of Political Knowledge

Democracy, Autonomy, and Conflict in Comparative and International Politics

By: American Political Science Association. Annual Meeting,Edward D. Mansfield,Richard Sisson

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The Evolution of Political Knowledge

Democracy, Autonomy, and Conflict in Comparative and International Politics

By: American Political Science Association. Annual Meeting,Edward D. Mansfield,Richard Sisson

Over the course of the last century, political scientists have been moved by two principal purposes. First, they have sought to understand and explain political phenomena in a way that is both theoretically and empirically grounded. Second, they have analyzed matters of enduring public interest, whether in terms of public policy and political action, fidelity between principle and practice in the organization and conduct of government, or the conditions of freedom, whether of citizens or of states. Many of the central advances made in the field have been prompted by a desire to improve both the quality and our understanding of political life. Nowhere is this tendency more apparent than in research on comparative politics and international relations, fields in which concerns for the public interest have stimulated various important insights. This volume systematically analyzes the major developments within the fields of comparative politics and international relations over the past three decades. Each chapter is composed of a core paper that addresses the major puzzles, conversations, and debates that have attended major areas of concern and inquiry within the discipline. These papers examine and evaluate the intellectual evolution and natural history of major areas of political inquiry and chart particularly promising trajectories, puzzles, and concerns for future work. Each core paper is accompanied by a set of shorter commentaries that engage the issues it takes up, thus contributing to an ongoing and lively dialogue among key figures in the field.

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401

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Ohio State University Press

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0814209343

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9780814209349

American Legal History: A Very Short Introduction

By: G. Edward White

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American Legal History: A Very Short Introduction

By: G. Edward White

A concise examination of the central role of legal decisions in shaping key social issues explores topics ranging from Native American affairs and slavery to business and home life as well as how criminal and civil offenses have been addressed in positive and negative ways. Original.

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Oxford University Press

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0199766002

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9780199766000

Gibraltar, Identity and Empire

By: Edward G. Archer

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Gibraltar, Identity and Empire

By: Edward G. Archer

The principal argument in Gibraltar and Empire is that Gibraltarians constitute a separate and distinctive people, notwithstanding the political stance taken by the government of Spain. Various factors - environmental, ethnic, economic, political, religious, linguistic, educational and informal - are adduced to explain the emergence of a sense of community on the Rock and an attachment to the United Kingdom. A secondary argument is that the British empire has left its mark in Gibraltar in various forms - such as militarily - and for a number of reasons. Gilbraltar and Empire's exploration of the manifold reasons why the Gibraltarians have bucked the trend in the history of decolonization comes at a time when the issues in question have come to the fore in diplomatic and political areas.

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241

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Psychology Press

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0415347963

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9780415347969

An Introduction to the Old Testament

By: Edward J. Young

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An Introduction to the Old Testament

By: Edward J. Young

This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. A scholarly conservative study of the literary characteristics of the books of the Old Testament. Young argues for the inner harmony and underlying unity of the literary units that make up the Old Testament. Includes special bibliographies for each chapter, a general bibliography, and three indexes.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802803393

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9780802803399

Protecting the Ozone Layer

Science and Strategy

By: Edward A. Parson

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Protecting the Ozone Layer

Science and Strategy

By: Edward A. Parson

This book is the first comprehensive history of international efforts to protect the ozone layer, the greatest success yet achieved in managing human impacts on the global environment. Its arguments about how this success was achieved are both theoretically novel and of great significance for the management of other global problems, particularly global climate change. The book provides an account of the ozone-depletion issues from the first attempts to develop international action in the 1970s to the mature functioning of the present international regime. It examines the parallel developments of politics and negotiations, scientific understanding and controversy, technological progress, and industry strategy that shaped the issue's development and its effective management. In addition, the book offers important new insights into how the interactions among these domains influenced the formation and adaptation of the ozone regime. Addressing the initial formation of the regime, the book argues that authoritative scientific assessments were crucial in constraining policy debates and shaping negotiated agreements. Assessments gave scientific claims an ability to change policy actors' behavior that the claims themselves, however well known and verified, lacked. Concerning subsequent adaptation of the regime, the book identifies a series of feedbacks between the periodic revision of chemical controls and the strategic responses of affected industries, which drove rapid application of new approaches to reduce ozone-depleting chemicals. These feedbacks, promoted by the regime's novel technology assessment process, allowed worldwide use of the chemicals to decline further and faster than even the boldest predictions, by nearly 95 percent within ten years.

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400

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Oxford University Press

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019028871X

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9780190288716

Representing Algerian Women

Kateb, Dib, Feraoun, Mammeri, Djebar

By: Edward John Still

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Representing Algerian Women

Kateb, Dib, Feraoun, Mammeri, Djebar

By: Edward John Still

This monograph explores the ways in which canonical Francophone Algerian authors, writing in the late-colonial period (1945–1962), namely Kateb Yacine, Mohammed Dib, Mouloud Feraoun, Mouloud Mammeri and Assia Djebar, approached the representation of Algerian women through literature. The book initially argues that a masculine domination of public fields of representation in Algeria contributed to a postcolonial marginalization of women as public agents. However, it crucially also argues that the canonical writers of the period, who were mostly male, both textually acknowledged their inability to articulate the experiences and subjectivity of the feminine Other and deployed a remarkable variety of formal and conceptual innovations in producing evocations of Algerian femininity that subvert the structural imbalance of masculine symbolic hegemony. Though it does not shy from investigating those aspects of its corpus that produce ideologically conditioned masculinist representations, the book chiefly seeks to articulate a shared reluctance concerning representativity, a pessimism regarding the revolution's capacity to deliver change for women, and an omnipresent subversion of masculine subjectivity in its canonical texts.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110583860

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9783110583861

Book of Isaiah

By: Edward J. Young

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Book of Isaiah

By: Edward J. Young

A classic in conservative Old Testament scholarship, this three-volume commentary concentrates primarily on the meaning of the text of Isaiah rather than on specific textual problems. Volume 1 covers chapters 1-18; Volume 2 looks at chapters 19-39; Volume 3 surveys chapters 40-66.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802895514

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9780802895516

The Breast - E-Book

Comprehensive Management of Benign and Malignant Diseases

By: Kirby I. Bland,Edward M. Copeland,V. Suzanne Klimberg,William J Gradishar

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The Breast - E-Book

Comprehensive Management of Benign and Malignant Diseases

By: Kirby I. Bland,Edward M. Copeland,V. Suzanne Klimberg,William J Gradishar

Multidisciplinary in scope and fully up to date with the latest advances in medical oncology and more, Bland and Copeland's The Breast, 6th Edition, covers every clinically relevant aspect of the field: cancer, congenital abnormalities, hormones, reconstruction, anatomy and physiology, benign breast disease, and more. In a practical, easy-to-use format ideal for today's busy practitioners, this truly comprehensive resource is ideal for surgical oncologists, breast surgeons, general surgeons, medical oncologists, and others who need to stay informed of the latest innovations in this complex and fast-moving area. - Offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date information on the diagnosis and management of, and rehabilitation following, treatment for benign and malignant diseases of the breast. - Updates include an extensively updated oncoplastic section and extended medical and radiation oncology sections. - Delivers step-by-step clinical guidance highlighted by hundreds of superb illustrations that depict relevant anatomy and pathology, as well as medical and surgical procedures. - Reflects the collaborative nature of diagnosis and treatment among radiologists, pathologists, breast and plastic surgeons, radiation and medical oncologists, geneticists and other health care professionals who contribute to the management of patients with breast disease. - Includes access to procedural videos that provide expert visual guidance on how to execute key steps and techniques. - An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.

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1196

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323833667

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9780323833660

Foreign Employees In Nineteenth Century Japan

By: Edward R Beauchamp

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Foreign Employees In Nineteenth Century Japan

By: Edward R Beauchamp

The product of research by US and Japanese scholars, this book is an assessment of the work of individual "yatoi", and their contributions to the rapid development that characterized Meiji Japan (1868-1912).

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304

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Routledge

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0429713258

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9780429713255

Antichrist: The Beast Revealed

By: Edward Hendrie

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Antichrist: The Beast Revealed

By: Edward Hendrie

The antichrist is among us, here and now. This book proves it by comparing the biblical prophecies about the antichrist with the evidence that those prophecies have been fulfilled. This book documents the man of sin?s esoteric confession that he is the antichrist. You will learn how the antichrist has changed times and laws as prophesied by Daniel, and how he is today sitting in the temple of God, ?shewing himself that he is God,? in fulfillment of Paul?s prophesy in 2 Thessalonians 2:4. The beast of Revelation has come into the world, ?after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness,? as prophesied in 2 Thessalonians 2:10.

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Edward Hendrie

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0983262780

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9780983262787

Book's by Edward Boehmer

The Tastemaker

The Tastemaker

Writing and Postcolonialism in the Early Republic

Writing and Postcolonialism in the Early Republic

Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution

Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution

Transactions of the Worcester County Horticultural Society for the Year 1893-1894

Transactions of the Worcester County Horticultural Society for the Year 1893-1894

The Evolution of Political Knowledge

The Evolution of Political Knowledge

American Legal History: A Very Short Introduction

American Legal History: A Very Short Introduction

Gibraltar, Identity and Empire

Gibraltar, Identity and Empire

An Introduction to the Old Testament

An Introduction to the Old Testament

Protecting the Ozone Layer

Protecting the Ozone Layer

Representing Algerian Women

Representing Algerian Women

Book of Isaiah

Book of Isaiah

The Breast - E-Book

The Breast - E-Book

Foreign Employees In Nineteenth Century Japan

Foreign Employees In Nineteenth Century Japan

Antichrist: The Beast Revealed

Antichrist: The Beast Revealed

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