Selling the Sights: The Invention of the Tourist in American Culture 9781479833146, 1479833142

Selling the Sights: The Invention of the Tourist in American Culture 9781479833146

A fascinating journey through the origins of American tourism In the early nineteenth century, thanks to a booming tran

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Selling the Sights: The Invention of the Tourist in American Culture 1479826170, 9781479826179

A fascinating journey through the origins of American tourism In the early nineteenth century, thanks to a booming tran

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Gunn Sights : Taking Aim on Selling in the High-Stakes Industry of International Aerospace 9781612514154, 9781591143468

In 1975, Tom Gunn had a life-altering career change when he went from an eight-year stint as staff lawyer with the U. S.

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Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture 9780822378761

Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was “invented” as a category of identity

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Yankee Yarns: Storytelling and the Invention of the National Body in Nineteenth-Century American Culture 9781474477468

A systematic study of the most iconic national character in the US in nineteenth-century literature and culture Yankee Y

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The Invention of Native American Literature 9781501724664

In an original, widely researched, and accessibly written book, Robert Dale Parker helps redefine the study of Native Am

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The Rise of Tea Culture in China: The Invention of the Individual 1442251786, 9781442251786

This distinctive and enlightening book explores the invention and development of tea drinking in China, using tea cultur

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Sights On The Sixties 9780813569147

Barbara Tischler's goal is to understand the historical and cultural legacy of the 1960s. During the Gulf War, as p

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The Feminization of American Culture

This modern classic by one of our leading scholars seeks to explain the values prevalent in today's mass culture by

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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War 0807822558

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