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1902rif. 61749Unadilla NY: Sold by the Vestry of St. Matthew’s Church Press of Geroge D. Raitt 1902. 8vo. xv 1 323 pp. plus 3 pp. publisher’s ads for Halsey’s “The Old New York Frontier.” Frontisp. plates 1 folding map. Red publisher’s linen gilt device front cover gilt lettering on spine minor soiling head of spine edgewear rubbing still VG- copy from the library of former California State Librarian Gary Kurutz. First edition one of 650 copies printed and then distributed by St. Matthew’s Church of this uncommon work where the second half of the book consists primarily of Dr. Halsey’s experiences as a member of a 49er Gold Rush “Company” and featuring his diary. Inspired by Horace Greeley’s Tribune trumpeting the California gold discovery Dr. Halsey and several friends after catching a Broadway production of “California and the Gold Diggings” organized pooled their money and set out for Panama. While waiting to sail from Panama City he notes a cargo of 200 gold ingots each weight 150 lbs. enroute from California. After arriving in San Francisco June 4 1849 the group experience the wild gambling dens hyper-inflation and head for Sacramento and the diggings at Big Bar on the Middle Fork of the American River. Even though Halsey tries to break off from the Company and speculate in real estate and set up a medical practice the company refuse to release him and they actually succeed in pulling 20-36 ounces a day from their diggings. After making back their investment and a little more he decides the area is over-saturated with doctors and returns to Unadilla NY. See: Kurutz California Gold Rush 308. Sold by the Vestry of St. Matthew’s Church, [Press of Geroge D. Raitt], unknown
2021rif. 1-0367647893Routledge 2021. Paperback. New. 12 edition. 361 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches. Routledge paperback
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1999rif. BN63008Urachhaus 1999. Hardcover. neuwertig! Urachhaus hardcover
rif. B9781501385520Paperback / softback. New. Realism seems to be everywhere both as a trending critical term and as a revitalized aesthetic practice. This volume brings together for the first time three aspects that are pertinent for a proper understanding of realism: its 19th-century aesthetics committed to making reality into an object of serious art; the experiments with and against realism by 20th-century modernist postmodernist or magical realist writing; and the politics of realism especially its ambitions to map the complex realities produced by global capitalism and climate catastrophe. This juxtaposition of aesthetics experiments and politics unsettles the entrenched opposition between realism and experimental literature that tends to ignore the fact that realism by virtue of its commitment to a changing material and social world cannot be but continuously experimenting. The innovative chapters of this book address some of the pressing questions of literary and cultural studies today like the complex relation between historical materialism and new materialisms between science and art or the different aesthetic and political affordances of making systemic analyses against depicting the specificity of the local. Some of the chapters deal with classically realist authors such as George Eliot Émile Zola and Joseph Conrad to gauge the aesthetic radicalism of their diverse realist projects. Others investigate the experimental engagements with realism by authors such as B.S. Johnson J.M. Coetzee or Rachel Cusk. Yet others analyze the politics of realism found in contemporary anglophone novels by writers like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie David Mitchell or Rohinton Mistry. The readings assembled here are a testament to the diversity of literary realisms from the 19th 20th and 21st centuries and to the ongoing controversies surrounding definitions and deployments of “realism.” paperback
2015rif. 1-1478907150Hachette Audio 2015. Audio CD. New. unabridged edition. 5.75x5.25x0.75 inches. Hachette Audio unknown
rif. B9781501376894Paperback / softback. New. Over the last few decades and from across a spectrum of centrist political thought a variety of academic disciplines and numerous public intellectuals the claim has been that we need to empathize more with marginalized people as a way to alleviate social inequalities. If we all had more skill with empathy so the claim goes we would all be better citizens. But what does it mean to empathize with others How do we develop this skill And what does it offer that older models of solidarity don’t Why empathy—and why now Rereading Empathy takes up these questions examining the uses to which calls for empathy are put in the face of ever expanding economic and social precarity. The contributors draw on a variety of historical and contemporary literary and cultural archives to illustrate the work that empathy is supposed to enable—and to query alternative models of building collective futures. paperback
2011rif. 1-3846556564Lap Lambert Academic Publishing 2011. Paperback. New. 104 pages. 8.66x5.91x0.24 inches. Lap Lambert Academic Publishing paperback
2014rif. 1-3642432468Springer 2014. Paperback. New. 2012 edition. 252 pages. 9.25x6.10x0.57 inches. Springer paperback
rif. 1-0899066798Mesorah Publications Ltd. Hardcover. New. 712 pages. Hebrew language. 8.43x5.63x1.42 inches. Mesorah Publications Ltd. hardcover
rif. B9781501393020Paperback / softback. New. New Directions in Print Culture Studies features new methods and approaches to cultural and literary history that draw on periodicals print culture and material culture thus revising and rewriting what we think we know about the aesthetic cultural and social history of transnational America. The unifying questions posed and answered in this book are methodological: How can we make material archival objects meaningful How can we engage and contest dominant conceptions of aesthetic historical and literary periods How can we present archival material in ways that make it accessible to other scholars and students What theoretical commitments does a focus on material objects entail New Directions in Print Culture Studies brings together leading scholars to address the methodological historical and theoretical commitments that emerge from studying how periodicals books images and ideas circulated from the 19th century to the present. Reaching beyond national boundaries the essays in this book focus on the different materials and archives we can use to rewrite literary history in ways that highlight not a canon of “major” literary works but instead the networks dialogues and tensions that define print cultures in various moments and movements. paperback
rif. B9781501363078Hardback. New. As market reforms and migration transformed Albania in the early 1990s Ardit Gjebrea began mixing traditional folk music with world music and Italian pop. The resulting album Projekt Jon 1997 provided a new model for song—Western and cosmopolitan yet firmly rooted in the fertile soil of the nation—against a backdrop of deepening political uncertainty about the very future of Albania. The Ionian Project announced itself with the frenetic beating of the daullë and the traditional cries of Albania’s highland shepherd. This sprawling collaboration between singer-songwriter Ardit Gjebrea folk singer Hysni Zela producer Paul Mazzolini and a team of crack studio musicians in Italy had an outsized ambition: to transcend the small postsocialist nation-state’s borders imaginatively crafting through sound a new home in Europe for its citizens. But as Gjebrea prepared to launch Projekt Jon violence prompted by the collapse of widespread pyramid schemes threatened to tear Albania apart. And for the intellectuals concerned about growing cracks in the symbolic foundations of the Albanian nation-state the album came to serve as a referendum on the nature of postsocialist citizenship. hardcover
1884rif. 60757New York: A.D. Clarke Rm. 26 - 61 Broadway 1884. Two pieces. 4to. 4 pp unpaginated. w/ 1 large woodcut-engraved vignette w/ fold creases and slight creasing; with Oblong 8vo. 9 x 4 in. illustrated envelope small woodcut engraving of gold placer mine in Idaho w/ recipient address in ink on recto of Mary Augusta Gray b. 1853 Olney Clatsop County OR stamped envelope w/ NY postmark minor age toning still a VG pair from the library of her older sister Caroline Augusta Gray Kamm 1840-1932 noted socialite and philanthropist in Portland built home for poor women & girls with the YWCA and was daughter of PNW pioneer William H. Gray 1810-1889 who traveled to the Lapwai Mission in Lewiston ID in 1836 where he was the Nez Perce secular agent and she subsequently later married Jacob Kamm 1823-1912 pioneering Oregon industrialist and entrepreneur. First edition of this exceedingly scarce promotional offprint for the placer gold mining concentrator for “float or flour gold” developed by A.D. Clarke in the early 1880’s at an Idaho gold mining operation. The invention required parallel bars of iron an 1/8th of an inch apart bolted in place allowing water to flow through a sluice from a hydraulic mining operation with good gentle water flow and then would be directed through a series of tanks fitted with sage brush to collect the particles of gold and then across a series of riffles to pick up still finer gold particles. There was a mini gold rush in Clatsop OR in late-1884-1885 after J.M. Weed filed a placer claim for his mine Gertrude on Rock Creek in May 1885 which claimed loose valuable material in gravel on Rock Creek followed by a plethora of gold miners staking claims in the area and by 1889 the Rock Creek Mining District was formed. Maggie Gray b. 1853 was the youngest daughter of William H. Gray and served as postmaster in Olney OR from about 1878-1884 according to government publications but sadly there are no production figures for any of the mines and no further census or government records for Maggie after 1884. No copies in Worldcat; See: The Clark Concentrator for Float or Flour Gold The Engineering and Mining Journal Vol. XXXVII No. 8 Feb. 23 1884 p. 141; Elleda Wilson In One Ear: Golden Dreams The Astorian June 6 2019. A.D. Clarke, Rm. 26 - 61 Broadway, unknown
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rif. B9781501369650Paperback / softback. New. What does it mean in a polarized political climate that feminism was popular in mainstream popular music of the 2010s Engaging with feminist theory and previous research about gender and music this book investigates the meaning of current trends relating to gender feminism and woman-identified artists in mediated popular music. The examples discussed throughout the book include Netflix documentaries by Beyoncé Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift the Swedish music industry #MeToo petition #närmusikentystnar music streaming services’ gender equality work and the project Keychange striving to bring underrepresented genders to the stage. The volume discusses the media specificity of the different examples introduces and explains feminist theories and concepts and analyzes the position of women gender politics and feminisms in popular music. paperback
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1991rif. 4320Houndmills Hampshire: Macmillan 1991. First Edition. Hardback in original unclipped dust jacket. Boyle was widely respected for his intellectual ability and integrity. Loved for having a generous nature and rather eccentric personality he was once tipped as possible British Prime Minister but he left politics to work in education. With contributions from: Elizabeth Longford; Michael Howard; John Grigg; David Lane; Tony Benn; Robert Neild; Robert Rhodes James; Maurice Kogan; Christopher Chataway; John Boyd-Carpenter; Edward Heath; William Rees-Mogg; Christine Challis; Sue Slipman; William Walsh; Jean Orr; Alexander Goehr; Fanny Waterman; Georgina Dunlop. Both book and dust jacket are in a very good clean condition. The only original hardback copy for sale online that we are aware of. xiv 184 pages: including b/w photographs. 225 x 145 mm 8¾ x 5¾ inches . Première édition. Reliure rigide avec jaquette d'origine non décousue. Boyle était largement respecté pour ses capacités intellectuelles et son intégrité. Aimé pour sa nature généreuse et sa personnalité plutôt excentrique il fut un temps pressenti pour devenir Premier ministre britannique mais il quitta la politique pour travailler dans l'éducation. Avec des contributions de : Elizabeth Longford ; Michael Howard ; John Grigg ; David Lane ; Tony Benn ; Robert Neild ; Robert Rhodes James ; Maurice Kogan ; Christopher Chataway ; John Boyd-Carpenter ; Edward Heath ; William Rees-Mogg ; Christine Challis ; Sue Slipman ; William Walsh ; Jean Orr ; Alexander Goehr ; Fanny Waterman ; Georgina Dunlop. Le livre et la jaquette sont en très bon état. A notre connaissance il s'agit du seul exemplaire original relié en vente en ligne. xiv 184 pages : y compris des photographies en noir et blanc. 225 x 145 mm. Macmillan hardcover
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1904rif. 61076Chicago & New York: Union Book & Publishing Company ca. 1904. Folio. 12 x 13.75 in. pp. 201-216. With photo illustrations throughout. Illustrated printed khaki-coloured softcovers edgewear chipping to head of spine still VG copy. First edition thus of this installment in the bi-monthly “America Her Grandeur” released by Union Book during the opening decade of the 20th Century. This installment focuses on the Alaska and Yukon Territory with excellent gold mining Alaska & Yukon steamships and railroads and more. Although undated the work does specifically mention that the Tenana Railroad will be started in 1905 and that the gold rush had just recently launched with most miners trekking into the Cleary Fairbanks and Ester Creeks in the Fall of 1903. Worldcat locates 3 copies U of GA Clarke Hist. Lib. UTX Austin. Union Book & Publishing Company, paperback
rif. B9798765245804Hardback. New. hardcover
rif. DADAX1628990252New unknown
rif. B9781501380082Paperback / softback. New. Taking Mary Shelley’s novel as its point of departure this collection of essays considers how her creation has not only survived but thrived over 200 years of media history in music film literature visual art and other cultural forms. In studying monstrous figures torn from the deepest and darkest imaginings of the human psyche the essays in this book deploy the latest analytical approaches drawn from such fields as musicology critical race studies feminist studies queer theory and psychoanalysis. The book interweaves the manifold sounds sights and stories of monstrosity into a conversation that sheds light on important social issues aesthetic trends and cultural concerns that are as alive today as they were when Shelley’s landmark novel was published 200 years ago. paperback
rif. A9781240173884Paperback. New. paperback
2006rif. 1-0323041388Mosby Inc 2006. Paperback. New. 2nd paperback/cd-rom edition. 224 pages. 10.25x7.25x0.50 inches. Mosby Inc paperback