Search Results: Society & culture from The Owl at the Bridge

Seventeen collected essays, all but two written especially for this book. Authors include: James M. McPherson, John L. Thomas, Robin W. Winks, Howard Zinn. x, 508 pages; 20 cm. Stock#NEU424.

Urbana, Illinois UP, 1987. "Takes a close look at working-class women in early nineteenth-century New York." Soft Cover. xiv, 301 pages, 23 cm. Good, some underlining and highlighting that went unnoticed in previous handlings of this copy. Stock#34207.

Heritage of the Ancient World; Foundations of the Middle Ages; Age of Barbarian Invasions; Justinian & Mohammed; Advance of Ecclesiastical Leadership; Making of Carolingian Kingship; Culture & Society in the First Europe; Ecclesia & Mundus; Byzantium, Islam, & the West; Europe in 1050; Gregorian World-Revolution; Anglo-Norman Monarchy & Emergence of the Bureaucratic State; First Crusade & After; Intellectual Expansion of Europe; Moslem & Jewish Thought: The Aristotelian Challenge; Varieties of Religious Experience; Entrenchment of Secular Leadership; Peace of Innocent III; New Consensus & its Limitations; Search for Order; Late Medieval & Renaissance Culture. xv, 604 pages; Very Good+ in VG+ dust jacket; gift quality. Stock#ofc0361.

University of New Mexico Press [c1991; first paperbound printing, 1996. Contents include When New Mexicans Dressed in Skins; On the Trail of the Footless Stockings; Frontier Hairdressing; How Colonial Ladies Painted Their Faces; An Unmentionable Subject [privies & chamberpots]; Of Ink & Pens; Playing-Cards; The Forgotten Dog; Before Supermarkets; Slave Raiding; Apache Exiles; Sabinal Apaches; On Guard; Enough To Eat; Acequias; Carts on the Camino Real; Muleteering; Lore of Sheep & Goats; New Mexico Ciboleros on the Buffalo Plains; Nobility in Mexico; Wills as History; Reading History; Indians & Mission Affairs in 1773; Account of Disorders, 1778; Report of Governor Chacón, 1803; Selected Readings. Soft Cover. xii, 183 p., index, photos; 20 cm. Pictorial paper covers; minor wear; VG+. Stock#38500.

N.Y., Cambridge UP, 1981. Treats gender and family in the context of nineteenth-century Utica, New York. Includes a signed typewritten letter from the author to Professor Jack Thomas of Brown University. Hard Cover. xiv, 321 pages; 23.5 cm. Vg/ dj vg. Stock#31659.

title continues: ...Nouvelle Edition corrigée et disposée dans un ordre plus méthodique, Augmentée d'une exposition des recherches ou des opinions de la Chambre, de Porta, de Camper, de Gall, sur la physionomie; d'une histoire anatomique et physiologique de la face; précédée d'une notice historique sur l'auteur, Par Moreau (de la Sarthe), Professeur à la Faculté de Médecine de Paris. Ornée de 600 gravures en taille-douce, dont 82 tirées en couleur, et exécutées sous l'inspection de Vincent, peintre. Tome Deuxième. Bound in brown mottled boards, leather spine gone, internal foxing; a good using copy. Stock#ofc0878.

Berkeley, Calif. UP [c1986].. Soft Cover. x, 138 p., illus. 21cm. 'In 1455 Lusanna, a beautiful Florentine woman from an artisanal home, brought suit in Archbishop Antoninus' court against her wealthy, high-born lover Giovanni. What makes this bitter legal dispute of special interest to readers today is the rich texture of the material that the case accumulated. Since the lovers inhabited vastly different social milieux, their witnesses came from every stratum of Florentine society. The testimonies provide intriguing glimpses of the attitudes on love and the marriage market, as well as the broader social structures of Renaissance Florence.' Stock# 41,033. Vg/ paper. Italian history, society & culture; family, women; sociology.

"...two brothers... the elder, whose amalgamation of disorders leave him completely unable to function within society; and... the younger, whose own emotional and psychological issues are overshadowed to the point where he becomes little more than a pale and twisted reflection of his brother." Softcover; 178 pages; new from publisher. Stock#ofc0111x.

Newport Review, Middletown, R.I., 1997. Soft Cover. Oblong 4to, 122 p., illus., adverts. at end; 21 cm. 32 poems, 6 short stories, 5 photos, 15 illustrations, one interview, 7 prose vignettes, one drama, 13 essays. Pictorial paper covers; minor wear; VG. stock#40843.

N.Y., John Wiley, 1968. Soft Cover. ix, 316 p. illus., map, 21 cm. "A desriptive analysis of an urban society in its totality, emphasizing the relationships between politics, culture, and religion." Stock #29,589. Vg/ wrappers

N.Y., Barnes & Noble, 1965. Readings in two parts: I, Problems of Historiography, contains 7 articles on social change and 6 on revolution; II, Select Documents contains 21 selections. Soft Cover. xxvi, 186 pages. Vg/ paperback. Stock#100697.

N.Y., Columbia UP, c. 1969. Soft Cover. 236 pages; 25 cm. "A study of the black ghetto of Washington, D.C.by an anthropologist who lived there for two years." Good+, there are marks by a previous owner/ wrappers. Stock#31026.

NY & London, Norton [c1998]. 13th edition. Soft Cover. xvii, 501-1123, A37 p., illus., maps, index; 23.5 cm. Contents: A Century of Crisis for Early-modern Europe (c. 1560-c. 1660); The Economy and Society of Early-modern Europe; The Age of Absolutism (1660-1789); The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment; The French Revolution; The Industrial Revolution; Consequences of industrialization: Urbanization and Class Consciousness (1800-1850); The Rise of Liberalism (1815-1870); Nationalism and Nation-building (1815-1870); The West at the World’s Center; International Industrialization and Imperialism (1870-1914); The Middle Class Challenged; A Delicate Equilibrium (1870-1914); The First World War; Turmoil Between the Wars; The Second World War; The Emergence of a World Civilization; The Postwar Years: Rivalry and Recovery; Fragmentation and Change: the End of Postwar Certainties; Problems of World Civilization. Instructor's copy. Stock#43826… Read More