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The Democratic Soul: A Wilson Carey McWilliams Reader

The Democratic Soul: A Wilson Carey McWilliams Reader

Wilson Carey McWilliams

The first comprehensive volume of Wilson Carey McWilliams' collected writings, The Democratic Soul will be welcomed by scholars of political science and American political thought as a long-overdue contribution to the field.
A Mask for Privilege: Anti-Semitism in America

A Mask for Privilege: Anti-Semitism in America

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Carey McWilliams, California: the Great Exception (New York: A.A. Wyn, 1949); the best biographical study of my father known to me is Lee Ann Meyer, Great Exception: Carey McWilliams' Path to Activism (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation.
American Prophet: The Life & Work of Carey McWilliams

American Prophet: The Life & Work of Carey McWilliams

Peter Richardson

Not only will this book introduce McWilliams to a new generation of readers, it will also assure his place as one of our most influential and prescient progressive political writers."--Jacket.
California, the Great Exception

California, the Great Exception

Carey McWilliams

This edition is graced by a new foreword by Lewis Lapham.
California: The Great Exception

California: The Great Exception

Carey McWilliams

Lewis Lapham has written a new foreword for this edition.
Friends and Citizens: Essays in Honor of Wilson Carey McWilliams

Friends and Citizens: Essays in Honor of Wilson Carey McWilliams

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This is an important book for anyone interested in modern politics.
Southern California: An Island on the Land

Southern California: An Island on the Land

Carey McWilliams

This book was originally published in 1946. This reprint edition has been continuously in print from Gibbs Smith, Publisher since 1973.
David McWilliams' Follow the Money: David McWilliams Ireland 2

David McWilliams' Follow the Money: David McWilliams Ireland 2

David McWilliams

This book is about real people and how good people can be broken by bad economics. But it doesn’t have to be like this. There is a way out.
Language in the USA: Themes for the Twenty-first Century

Language in the USA: Themes for the Twenty-first Century

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Pp. 165–83. Kanellos, Nicolás.1995. Chronology of HispanicAmericanHistory. Detroit:GaleResearch. McWilliams, Carey. 1990. North from Mexico. New edn., updatedby MattS. Meier. New York: Greenwood. Meier, Matt S. andFelicianoRivera.
Margaret McWilliams: An Interwar Feminist

Margaret McWilliams: An Interwar Feminist

Mary Kinnear

Margaret McWilliams, the woman, was an exemplary model of women in post-suffrage public life.
Why Marijuana Should Be Legal

Why Marijuana Should Be Legal

Ed Rosenthal

For example, DEA agents raided Steve McWilliams, co-director of Shelter from the Storm, on Septemher 22, 2002. The first raid of its kind in San Diego, it came after McWilliams received a handwrinen lener warning him to destroy his small ...
Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story

Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story

Mollie Gregory

(movie, 1963) McQueen, Steve McWilliams, Carey Menzer, Russell Merkel, Una Meryl, Angela Meteor (movie, 1979) Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) Micheaux, Oscar Micheli, Amanda Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (TV show, 1990s) Miles,  ...
Margaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman

Margaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman

Ellen McWilliams

Making extensive use of unpublished manuscripts in the Atwood Collection at the University of Toronto, McWilliams uncovers influences that shaped Atwood's fashioning of identity in her early novels, paying particular attention to Atwood's ...
"The relative merits of goodness and originality": the ...

"The relative merits of goodness and originality": the ...

Christer Larsson

Hassall, Huggan and Woodcock include a chronology of Carey's life and career, and in their acknowledgments Carey is commended for having assisted them with comments. 3 Carolyn Bliss, "Book on Peter Carey Breaks Ground," Antipodes ...
Dancing on Hot Macadam: Peter Carey's Fiction

Dancing on Hot Macadam: Peter Carey's Fiction

Anthony J. Hassall

Susan Wyndham, "Peter Carey: An Unusual Life", The Australian Magazine (20- 21 August 1994), p.45. 2. Peter Carey, jack Maggs (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1997), p.332. Subsequent references are to this edition and are ...
The Journal and Selected Letters of William Carey

The Journal and Selected Letters of William Carey

William Carey

William Carey Terry G. Carter. The Joutnal and Selected Lettets ,\WCUNOORUA Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc. 6316PeakeRoad Macon, Georgia 31210-3960 1 -800-747-3016. Collecred and Edired by Terry G. Carter.
The Essential Paradise Lost

The Essential Paradise Lost

John Carey

In this fascinating reinterpretation, Carey reveals new insights about Milton's sources of inspiration, while exploring divided readings of the work's key characters.
William Carey: Father of Missions

William Carey: Father of Missions

Sam Wellman

A shoemaker turned missionary, William Carey was one of the first missionaries to India.
Peter Carey

Peter Carey

Graham Huggan

Huggan argues that Carey's fictions present both a satire on destructive material values and a defence of the right to change, to invent new pasts and futures.
Peter Carey: the genesis of fame

Peter Carey: the genesis of fame

Karen Lamb

A concise commentary on the fiction of Peter Carey, author of TBliss', TIllywhacker', TOscar and Lucinda' and TThe Tax Inspector'.
Collected Stories

Collected Stories

Peter Carey

The stories, persuasive and precisely crafted, reveal Carey to be a moralist with a sense of humour, a surrealist interested in naturalism and an urban poet delighting in paradox.
Peter Carey

Peter Carey

Bruce Woodcock

This is a revised and expanded edition of Woodcock's accessible study, now including detailed readings of Carey's latest novels, 'Jack Maggs' and 'True History of the Kelly Gang'.
Peter Carey: A Literary Companion

Peter Carey: A Literary Companion

Mary Ellen Snodgrass

"This book provides an introduction to the author's life, as well as a guided overview of his body of work. This text features an alphabetized, fully-annotated listing of major terms in the Carey canon.
The Life of William Carey, D.D: Shoemaker and Missionary

The Life of William Carey, D.D: Shoemaker and Missionary

George Smith

A fascinating account of the life of William Carey, one of the nineteenth century's pioneers of Protestant mission in India.
Barbara Heathcote's Trial

Barbara Heathcote's Trial

Rosa Nouchette Carey

Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840-1909) was well-known for her novels, often described as domestic melodrama. She also wrote short stories for the Girls' Own Paper and the Religious Tract Society.

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