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The Old Revolutionaries

The Old Revolutionaries

Pauline Maier

" In telling the stories of these men, Pauline Maier shows how the American Revolution was less a collective movement than a committment to an ideal of a republic, which different people interpreted differently, and she describes "not just ...
From Resistance to Revolution

From Resistance to Revolution

Pauline Maier

Maintaining that the outbreak of revolution in 1775 was not the result of secret planning by radicals but rather the end product of years of painful evolution, Pauline Maier brilliantly traces the American colonists’ road to independence ...
Among Empires

Among Empires

Charles S MAIER

Charles S MAIER ... I am indebted to Pauline Maier for this reference. 3. Cited in Anders Stephanson, Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right (New York: Hill and Wang, 1995), p. 40. 4. Foremost among defenders of the ...
Inventing America: A History of the United States

Inventing America: A History of the United States

Pauline Maier

A textbook that describes American history, culture, and innovations.
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence

American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence

Pauline Maier

Finally, she shows how by the very act of venerating the Declaration as we do -- by holding it as sacrosanct, akin to holy writ -- we may actually be betraying its purpose and its power. From the Hardcover edition.
Inventing America

Inventing America

Pauline Maier

In its first edition, ?Inventing America? broke new ground by integrating the cultural, social and political dimensions of the American story with the unifying theme of innovation.
Inventing America, Second Edition (Single-Volume Edition)

Inventing America, Second Edition (Single-Volume Edition)

Pauline Maier

For the Second Edition, the authors have expanded and strengthened the innovation theme and pared some supporting detail to create a more concise and effective teaching text.
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788

Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788

Pauline Maier

Drawing on the speeches and letters of the United States' founders, the author recounts the dramatic period after the Constitutional Convention and before the Constitution was finally ratified, describing the tumultuous events that took ...
The Pauline Effect: The Use of the Pauline Epistles by Early ...

The Pauline Effect: The Use of the Pauline Epistles by Early ...

Jennifer R. Strawbridge

The identification of these most widely cited Pauline texts, based on a comprehensive database which serves as an appendix to this work, allows the study to engage both in exegetical and historical approaches to each pericope while at the ...
The Pauline Effect: The Use of the Pauline Epistles by Early ...

The Pauline Effect: The Use of the Pauline Epistles by Early ...

Jennifer R. Strawbridge

The identification of these most widely cited Pauline texts, based on a comprehensive database which serves as an appendix to this work, allows the study to engage both in exegetical and historical approaches to each pericope while at the ...
Reflections on American Progressivism

Reflections on American Progressivism

Sidney A. Pearson, Jr.

See alsooneof Becker's last essays, “The American Political Tradition,” in CarlL. Becker, Freedom and Responsibility in American Way ofLife(New York:AlfredA. Knopf,1946), 1–22. 38. Pauline Maier, American Scripture: Makingthe Declaration ...
The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings: A Five-Generation ...

The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings: A Five-Generation ...

Thomas Maier

Released to coincide with a documentary adapted from the book, this edition features a new preface, in which Maier explores the dynamics of the three brothers, Ted Kennedy’s legacy, and the 2008 presidential elections that have been ...
Once Within Borders

Once Within Borders

Charles S. Maier

At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding barriers to communication, transportation, and trade, Charles Maier explores the fitful evolution of territories—politically bounded regions whose borders define the ...
The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German ...

The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German ...

Charles S. Maier

Bringing his book up to date with reflections since its first publication a decade ago, Charles Maier writes that the historians' controversy gave Germany a chance to air the issues immediately before unification and, in effect, the ...
Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany

Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany

Charles S. Maier

This book is further bolstered by Maier's extensive knowledge of European history and the Cold War, his personal observations and conversations with East Germans during the country's dramatic transition, and memoirs and other eyewitness ...
Challenging Global Capitalism: Labor Migration, Radical ...

Challenging Global Capitalism: Labor Migration, Radical ...

N. Pizzolato

CharlesS.Maier, “The PoliticsofProductivity: FoundationsofAmerican InternationalEconomic Policy afterWorldWarII,” in CharlesS.Maier, InSearch of Stability.Explorations in HistoricalPolitical Economy (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, ...
Leviathan 2.0

Leviathan 2.0

Charles S. Maier

Charles Maier's Leviathan 2.0 updates this classic to explain how modern statehood took shape between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, before it unraveled into the political uncertainty that persists today.
Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and ...

Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and ...

Thomas Maier

Highlighting interviews with the notoriously private Masters and the ambitious Johnson, critically acclaimed biographer Maier shows how this unusual team changed the way people thought about sex.
Conversations with Pauline Kael

Conversations with Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael Talks About Violence, Sex, Eroticism and Women & Men in the Movies Leo Lerman / 1972 From Mademoiselle July 1972: 132-33, 173-78. Courtesy Mademoiselle. Copyright (c) 1972 by the Cond6 Nast Publications, Inc. Editor's ...
Writing in Our Time: Canada’s Radical Poetries in English ...

Writing in Our Time: Canada’s Radical Poetries in English ...

Pauline Butling

Susan Rudy 11 Robin Blaser's “thousand and one celebrations” Pauline Butling 12 “From Radical to Integral” Daphne Marlatt's “Booking Passage” Pauline Butling 13 “But Is It Politics?” Jeff Derksen's “Rearticulatory Poetics” Susan Rudy 14 ...
Bottega Veneta: Art of Collaboration

Bottega Veneta: Art of Collaboration

Thomas Maier

This richly illustrated book features some of today's brightest visionaries working in fashion photography, interpreting Bottega Veneta's modernist aesthetic and material elegance. In 2005, Bottega Veneta's creative director, Tomas Maier ...
Character Counts: Freemasonry Is a National Treasure and a ...

Character Counts: Freemasonry Is a National Treasure and a ...

Michael Glenn Maness

Freemasonry Is a National Treasure and a Source of Our Founders' Constitutional Original Intent Michael Glenn Maness .... 259 Maier, Pauline, 364 Malden, Henry Elliot, 264 Malkavich, John, 142 Mancini, Henry, 93 Maness, Michael G., xv, ...
Ethnicity, Identity, and History: Essays in Memory of Werner ...

Ethnicity, Identity, and History: Essays in Memory of Werner ...

Joseph B. Maier

Werner. J. Cahnman: An. Introduction. to. His. Life. and. Work. Joseph B. Maier and Chaim I. Waxman Many social scientists regard system-building as the chief mark of genuine scholarship. Werner Cahnman's achievement was of a different  ...
The Unknown Pauline Smith: Unpublished and Out of Print ...

The Unknown Pauline Smith: Unpublished and Out of Print ...

Pauline Smith

Unpublished and Out of Print Stories, Diaries and Other Prose Writings (including Her Arnold Bennett Memoir) Pauline Smith Ernest Pereira. THE UNKNOWN PAULINE SMITH Unpublished and Out of Print Stories, Diaries and Other Prose ...
Weber and Toennies: Comparative Sociology in Historical ...

Weber and Toennies: Comparative Sociology in Historical ...

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Joseph B. Maier and Chaim I. Waxman, “Werner J. Cahnman: An Introduction to His Life and Work,” in Joseph B. Maier and Chaim I. Waxman, eds., Ethnicity, Identity, and History. Essays in Memory of Werner J. Cahnman (New Brunswick, ...
Saisir le merveilleux dans l'instant

Saisir le merveilleux dans l'instant

Pauline Bebe

À la lumière de la sagesse ancienne et contemporaine du judaïsme, le rabbin Pauline Bebe pose un regard éclairé sur les grandes questions de l'existence.
Talking about Pauline Kael: Critics, Filmmakers, and ...

Talking about Pauline Kael: Critics, Filmmakers, and ...

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This collection of essays on Pauline Kael investigates the range, scope, and influence of Kael’s film criticism over the years (1968-81) that she wrote for The New Yorker.
The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael

The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael

Here in this career spanning collection are her appraisals of the films that defined an era-among them Breathless, Bonnie and Clyde, The Leopard, The Godfather, Last Tango in Paris, Nashville-along with many others, some awaiting ...

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