The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America 9780374201579, 9780374708818, 0374201579

The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946 9780231063098, 9780231519014, 0231063091

This monumental collection of correspondence between Gertrude Stein and critic, novelist, and photographer Carl Van Vech

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Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White 9780300183290

Carl Van Vechten was a white man with a passion for blackness who played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissanc

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Carl Van Vechten, 'The Blind Bow-Boy' [62, 1 ed.] 9781781882900

Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) was a key advocate for modernism across the arts in America in the first half of the twenti

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Devil Himself: A Tale of Honor, Insanity, and the Birth of Modern America 0190210788, 9780190210786

Nicholas Dukes and Captain Adam Nutt were two men with much in common. Both were prominent members of Pennsylvanian soci

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Modern Muslim India and the Birth of Pakistan

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Freemasonry and the Birth of Modern Science 1592330649

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The Conquest of Death: Violence and the Birth of the Modern English State 9780300227864

A fresh and fascinating history of crime and violence in England through the office of the coroner In his fascinating

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Not Even Past: Race, Historical Trauma, and Subjectivity in Faulkner, Larsen, and Van Vechten 9780823292226

Not Even Past highlights references to nineteenth-century U.S. slavery and anti-Black racism in literary and photographi

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Rethinking the Age of Revolutions: France and the Birth of the Modern World 0190674806, 9780190674809

Much of the historiography on the age of democratic revolutions has seemed to come to a halt until recent years. Histori

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The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia 9780674293519

Sheila Miyoshi Jager returns to the three-cornered contest among imperial Russia, China, and Japan over the Korean Penin

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