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Product Description: The history of the American city is, in many ways, the history of the United States. Although rural traditions have also left their impact on the country, cities and urban living have been vital components of America for centuries, and an understanding of the urban experience is essential to comprehending Americaâs past...read more
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9780415537582 | Routledge, November 12, 2014, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: The history of the American city is, in many ways, the history of the United States.
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9780415537605 | Routledge, November 13, 2014, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: The history of the American city is, in many ways, the history of the United States.
Product Description: The Tempest is one of Shakespeare's most suggestive, yet most elusive plays. It is a magical romance, yet deeply embedded in seventeenth-century debates about authority and power. This edition attends to the implications of Prospero's magic, his political and paternal ambitions, and the controversial issue of his "colonialist" control of Caliban...read more
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9780521853941 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 31, 2006, cover price $108.00 | About this edition: Eight topics about the unit cubes are introduced within this textbook: cross sections, projections, inscribed simplices, triangulations, 0/1 polytopes, Minkowski's conjecture, Furtwangler's conjecture, and Keller's conjecture.
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9781107407633 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, September 13, 2012), cover price $42.00 | About this edition: The Tempest is one of Shakespeare's most suggestive, yet most elusive plays.
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9780262017213 | Mit Pr, February 24, 2012, cover price $27.95
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9780262525329 | 1 edition (Mit Pr, August 16, 2013), cover price $15.95
Product Description: In his compelling reinterpretation of American history, "The Public and Its Possibilities, "John Fairfield" "argues that our unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus on private interests...read more
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9781439902103 | Temple Univ Pr, April 28, 2010, cover price $74.50 | About this edition: In his compelling reinterpretation of American history, "The Public and Its Possibilities, "John Fairfield" "argues that our unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus on private interests.
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9780226385075 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $32.50
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9780226385082 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 10, 2005, cover price $30.00
Product Description: The Human Tradition in Urban America offers an intimate telling of America's evolution into an urban nation through the experiences of individuals. This book considers the growth of American cities by carefully looking at the lives of those people-some famous, some not so well known-who contributed to this important transition in the country's history...read more
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9780842029926 | Scholarly Resources Inc, August 1, 2002, cover price $98.00 | About this edition: The Human Tradition in Urban America offers an intimate telling of America's evolution into an urban nation through the experiences of individuals.
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9780842029933 | Scholarly Resources Inc, August 1, 2002, cover price $33.00 | About this edition: The Human Tradition in Urban America offers an intimate telling of America's evolution into an urban nation through the experiences of individuals.
Investigates the rise of movie culture in rural areas from the early 1900s to the 1920s
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9781560986393 | Smithsonian Inst Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Investigates the rise of movie culture in rural areas from the early 1900s to the 1920s
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9780813920825 | Univ of Virginia Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $25.00
Product Description: For the vast majority of Americans who lived in rural settings from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth century, the small town provided the most important context for their lives. The town was a focal point and trade center chiefly for farmers but also for fishermen, loggers, miners, and even industrial workers as long as industrial production depended upon waterpower...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781566633482 | Ivan R Dee, June 1, 2001, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: For the vast majority of Americans who lived in rural settings from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth century, the small town provided the most important context for their lives.
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9780761410515 | Benchmark Books, December 1, 2000, cover price $35.64
Product Description: Does American have a sense of community and a vital civic culture?Are disparate groups capable of uniting as a single people who can call themselves Americans? Do Americans help each other for the common good?Daniel J. Monti, Jr. addresses these questions in this wide-ranging volume spanning three hundred years of American urban life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781557869173 | Blackwell Pub, August 1, 1999, cover price $62.95 | About this edition: Does American have a sense of community and a vital civic culture?
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9781557869180 | Blackwell Pub, August 1, 1999, cover price $68.95
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9781565500372 | Vision Books Intl, November 1, 1996, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Book by Epstein, Howard V.
Product Description: First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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9780815321903 | Routledge, January 1, 1996, cover price $195.00 | About this edition: First Published in 1996.
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9780820702391 | Duquesne Univ Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $39.50
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9780472094592 | Univ of Michigan Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $44.50 | About this edition: Unique perspectives on the automobile's impact on urban life and the American city
Looks at the experiences of immigrants adjusting to their new lives in American industrial cities, and discusses unions, social mobility, religion, folk life, and politics
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9780253313478 | Indiana Univ Pr, May 1, 1985, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Looks at the experiences of immigrants adjusting to their new lives in American industrial cities, and discusses unions, social mobility, religion, folk life, and politics
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9780253204165 | Reprint edition (Indiana Univ Pr, February 1, 1987), cover price $22.00
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