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Bungalow Kid

A Catskill Mountain Summer

By: Philip Ratzer

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Bungalow Kid

A Catskill Mountain Summer

By: Philip Ratzer

Vividly and lovingly recreates a city kid's summer in the Catskills in the 1950s.

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143843300X

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9781438433004

The Jarring Interests

New York's Boundary Makers, 1664-1776

By: Philip J. Schwarz

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The Jarring Interests

New York's Boundary Makers, 1664-1776

By: Philip J. Schwarz

Focusing on the men who fought, schemed, argued, petitioned, and maneuvered at all levels of government to resolve the intercolonial disputes over land in America, the author analyzes the tangled webs of interest involved in the conflicts. These controversies are seen to necessitate the use of all available legal and political techniques. Meticulously researched in nearly a dozen manuscript repositories as well as the "public record" and with maps to illustrate the varied interests and entanglements with neighboring colonies. Territorial conflicts between colonies convincingly bear out historian Bernard Bailyn's characterization of much of eighteenth-century provincial politics as the "almost unchartable chaos of competing groups." But the key to New York's boundary disputes is that their settlement required the successful harmonization of discordant interest groups on the local, intercolonial, and Anglo-American levels. This study shows how New York's boundary makers, who had long experience with their province's particularly factionalized politics and with the ever-shifting politics of the Anglo-American connection, managed frequently "to conciliate the jarring interests." The major methodological error of the very few previous studies of boundary quarrels was to rely too heavily on the public record, which was so amply, if not always accurately, made available in nineteenth-century publications of the state of New York. It would be equally mistaken to take private records as the sole repository of a hidden truth, however. The nature of New York's boundary disputes can be made apparent from the public records if they are interpreted with the help of the private sources.

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State University of New York Press

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143844575X

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Bungalow Kid

A Catskill Mountain Summer

By: Philip Ratzer

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A Catskill Mountain Summer

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Vividly and lovingly recreates a city kid's summer in the Catskills in the 1950s.

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Indignation

By: Philip Roth

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Indignation

By: Philip Roth

Nous sommes en 1951, seconde année de la guerre de Corée. Marcus Messner, jeune homme de dix-neuf ans, intense et sérieux, d'origine juive, poursuit ses études au Winesburg College, dans le fin fond de l'Ohio. Il a quitté l'école de Newark, dans le New Jersey, où habite sa famille. Il espère par ce changement échapper à la domination de son père, boucher de sa profession, un homme honnête et travailleur, mais qui est depuis quelque temps la proie d'une véritable paranoïa au sujet de son fils bien-aimé. Fierté et amour, telles sont les sources de cette peur panique. Marcus, en s'éloignant de ses parents, va tenter sa chance dans une Amérique encore inconnue de lui, pleine d'embûches, de difficultés et de surprises. Indignation, le vingt-neuvième livre de Philip Roth, propose une forme de roman d'apprentissage : c'est une histoire d'audace et de folie, d'erreurs et de tâtonnements, de résistances et de révélations, tant sur le plan sexuel qu'intellectuel. Renonçant à sa description minutieuse de la vieillesse et de son cortège de maux, Philip Roth poursuit avec l'énergie habituelle son analyse de l'histoire de l'Amérique - celle des années cinquante, des tabous et des frustrations sexuelles - et de son impact sur la vie d'un homme jeune, isolé, vulnérable.

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207012309X

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