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Manly Health and Training

To Teach the Science of a Sound and Beautiful Body

By: Walt Whitman,Zachary Turpin

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Manly Health and Training

To Teach the Science of a Sound and Beautiful Body

By: Walt Whitman,Zachary Turpin

In the fall of 1858, a 13-part essay series appeared in the New York Atlas, under the title Manly Health and Training. This journalistic effort, written by Walt Whitman under the pen name 'Mose Velsor', was lost for more than 150 years, buried in just a handful of library archives. Until it was recently rediscovered. This book is a long-lost health manifesto for men and for America. Its discovery is truly illuminating, revealing much about the man who wrote it and the art of living well in his beloved America.

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Simon and Schuster

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1682450759

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9781682450758

The Decorated Tenement

How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age

By: Zachary J. Violette

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The Decorated Tenement

How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age

By: Zachary J. Violette

Winner of the International Society of Place, Landscape, and Culture Fred B. Kniffen Award A reexamination of working-class architecture in late nineteenth-century urban America As the multifamily building type that often symbolized urban squalor, tenements are familiar but poorly understood, frequently recognized only in terms of the housing reform movement embraced by the American-born elite in the late nineteenth century. This book reexamines urban America’s tenement buildings of this period, centering on the immigrant neighborhoods of New York and Boston. Zachary J. Violette focuses on what he calls the “decorated tenement,” a wave of new buildings constructed by immigrant builders and architects who remade the slum landscapes of the Lower East Side of Manhattan and the North and West Ends of Boston in the late nineteenth century. These buildings’ highly ornamental facades became the target of predominantly upper-class and Anglo-Saxon housing reformers, who viewed the facades as garish wrappings that often hid what they assumed were exploitative and brutal living conditions. Drawing on research and fieldwork of more than three thousand extant tenement buildings, Violette uses ornament as an entry point to reconsider the role of tenement architects and builders (many of whom had deep roots in immigrant communities) in improving housing for the working poor. Utilizing specially commissioned contem-porary photography, and many never-before-published historical images, The Decorated Tenement complicates monolithic notions of architectural taste and housing standards while broadening our understanding of the diversity of cultural and economic positions of those responsible for shaping American architecture and urban landscapes. Winner of the International Society of Place, Landscape, and Culture Fred B. Kniffen Award

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452960461

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The Price of Peace

Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

By: Zachary D. Carter

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The Price of Peace

Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

By: Zachary D. Carter

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “outstanding new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes [that moves] swiftly along currents of lucidity and wit” (The New York Times), illuminating the world of the influential economist and his transformative ideas “A timely, lucid and compelling portrait of a man whose enduring relevance is always heightened when crisis strikes.”—The Wall Street Journal WINNER: The Arthur Ross Book Award Gold Medal • The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism FINALIST: The National Book Critics Circle Award • The Sabew Best in Business Book Award NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times • The Economist • Bloomberg • Mother Jones At the dawn of World War I, a young academic named John Maynard Keynes hastily folded his long legs into the sidecar of his brother-in-law’s motorcycle for an odd, frantic journey that would change the course of history. Swept away from his placid home at Cambridge University by the currents of the conflict, Keynes found himself thrust into the halls of European treasuries to arrange emergency loans and packed off to America to negotiate the terms of economic combat. The terror and anxiety unleashed by the war would transform him from a comfortable obscurity into the most influential and controversial intellectual of his day—a man whose ideas still retain the power to shock in our own time. Keynes was not only an economist but the preeminent anti-authoritarian thinker of the twentieth century, one who devoted his life to the belief that art and ideas could conquer war and deprivation. As a moral philosopher, political theorist, and statesman, Keynes led an extraordinary life that took him from intimate turn-of-the-century parties in London’s riotous Bloomsbury art scene to the fevered negotiations in Paris that shaped the Treaty of Versailles, from stock market crashes on two continents to diplomatic breakthroughs in the mountains of New Hampshire to wartime ballet openings at London’s extravagant Covent Garden. Along the way, Keynes reinvented Enlightenment liberalism to meet the harrowing crises of the twentieth century. In the United States, his ideas became the foundation of a burgeoning economics profession, but they also became a flash point in the broader political struggle of the Cold War, as Keynesian acolytes faced off against conservatives in an intellectual battle for the future of the country—and the world. Though many Keynesian ideas survived the struggle, much of the project to which he devoted his life was lost. In this riveting biography, veteran journalist Zachary D. Carter unearths the lost legacy of one of history’s most fascinating minds. The Price of Peace revives a forgotten set of ideas about democracy, money, and the good life with transformative implications for today’s debates over inequality and the power politics that shape the global order. LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE

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666

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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0525509054

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9780525509059

The Battle of New Orleans

By: Zachary F. Smith

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The Battle of New Orleans

By: Zachary F. Smith

Reproduction of the original: The Battle of New Orleans by Zachary F. Smith

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752423455

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9783752423457

Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa

A Study of Trans-Imperial Cultural Flows

By: Zachary Kingdon

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Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa

A Study of Trans-Imperial Cultural Flows

By: Zachary Kingdon

The early collections from Africa in Liverpool's World Museum reflect the city's longstanding shipping and commercial links with Africa's Atlantic coast. A principal component of these collections is an assemblage of several thousand artefacts from western Africa that were transported to institutions in northwest England between 1894 and 1916 by the Liverpool steam ship engineer Arnold Ridyard. While Ridyard's collecting efforts can be seen to have been shaped by the steamers' dynamic capacity to connect widely separated people and places, his Methodist credentials were fundamental in determining the profile of his African networks, because they meant that he was not part of official colonial authority in West Africa. Kingdon's study uncovers the identities of many of Ridyard's numerous West African collaborators and discusses their interests and predicaments under the colonial dispensation. Against this background account, their agendas are examined with reference to surviving narratives that accompanied their donations and within the context of broader processes of trans-imperial exchange, through which they forged new identities and statuses for themselves and attempted to counter expressions of British cultural imperialism in the region. The study concludes with a discussion of the competing meanings assigned to the Ridyard assemblage by the Liverpool Museum and examines the ways in which its re-contextualization in museum contexts helped to efface signs of the energies and narratives behind its creation.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501337939

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9781501337932

Manly Health and Training

To Teach the Science of a Sound and Beautiful Body

By: Walt Whitman,Zachary Turpin

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To Teach the Science of a Sound and Beautiful Body

By: Walt Whitman,Zachary Turpin

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Book's by Zachary Turpin

Manly Health and Training

Manly Health and Training

The Decorated Tenement

The Decorated Tenement

The Price of Peace

The Price of Peace

The Battle of New Orleans

The Battle of New Orleans

Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa

Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa

Manly Health and Training

Manly Health and Training

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