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The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That ...
Oscar Handlin"Oscar Handlin was the scholar most responsible for establishing the legitimacy of immigration history."--Gary Gerstle, author of
The Distortion of America
Oscar HandlinThis book is a methodological primer on how historians gather evidence, presume reliability of witnesses, and develop forms of verification in the conduct of analysis and research.
Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1880: A Study in Acculturation
Oscar HandlinA generation of students and scholars has profited from its insights, and general readers have enjoyed its lively style. A new preface by the author reflects upon the book's intellectual origins.
Truth in History
Oscar HandlinThis is a work in both the social history of professional historians, and a sociology of knowledge study of how and why a discipline surrenders the search for truth in favor of assertions of ideological purity.
Abraham Lincoln and the Union
Oscar HandlinA compassionate account of Lincoln's life focuses on his struggle for intellectual development, his early years as a lawyer and his election to Congress, and the successes and sorrows of his later years.
PROCESS OF ELIMINATION: A MIDWESTERN MURDER MYSTERY
BONNIE J. THOMPSONJOYCE SUTTON, 20, is seated at the witness stand. HANDLIN Miss Sutton, I will direct your attention to October 1, 1975, and ask if you were in the neighborhood of the Kroger store on that day? JOYCE SUTTON Yes. HANDLIN Would you ...
New Migrants in the Marketplace: Boston's Ethnic Entrepreneurs
PreviewBoston's Ethnic Entrepreneurs Marilyn Halter. More than fifty years after publication of Oscar Handlin's pioneering work, Boston's Immigrants, this book takes a fresh look at the city's most recent arrivals. Although Massachusetts ranks high in ...
A restless people: Americans in rebellion, 1770-1787
Oscar Handlin... The Common Soldier under Washington (New York, 1902); Thomas Fleming, 1776: Year of Illusion (New York, 1975); Don Higginbotham, War of American Independence (New York, 1971); Arnold Pavlovsky, "Between Hawk and Buzzard," ...
Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend
PreviewOscar Wilde, Lady Gregory, and late-Victorian table-talk / Lucy McDiarmid -- Sexuality in the age of technological reproducibility: Oscar Wilde, photography, and identity / Daniel A. Novak -- Salomé as bombshell, or, How Oscar Wilde became ...
Liberty in America 1600 to the present: Liberty in expansion ...
Oscar HandlinJohn Robert Schott, Frances' Town, A History (Francestown, N.H., 1972), pp. 45, 47, 57; Wheeler, Newport, p. 148; Roger H. Taylor, "Hamburg," North Carolina Historical Review, 2 (January 1934): 20-38; Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge ...
Truth in History
Previewi Ann Douglas, Feminization of American Culture (New York, 1977), 6; Leo Marx, Machine in the Garden (New York, 1964) . 2 Oscar Handlin, "Man and Magic: First Encounters with the Machine," American Scholar, XXXIII (Summer 1964) , 408 ...
Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death: Oscar Wilde Mystery: 2
Gyles BrandrethOscar Wilde Mystery: 2 Gyles Brandreth. doorway facing him. 'Good luck, my friend. I've no doubt tonight the better man will win.' 'Thank you,' rasped the boxer. 'And by breakfast, Oscar, all your worries willbe over.Iwill have survived and you'll ...
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile: Oscar Wilde Mystery: 3
Gyles BrandrethOscar Wilde Mystery: 3 Gyles Brandreth. 11. A. Mother's. Touch. C lutching a single capacious handbag in one hand and holding the biscuit tin containing Traquair's remains under his arm with the other, Oscar left Paris for London by the two ...
The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
Oscar WildePresents a collection of Oscar Wilde's book reviews.
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde, 1875-1895: A ...
Lady WildeThis book presents Lady Wilde's letters to her son, Oscar Wilde, correspondence which began when Oscar left Trinity College, Dublin, to attend Oxford University and ended just before Oscar was charged in 1895 with offenses under Section ...
Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations
Oscar WildeAmusing, thought-provoking epigrams, aphorisms, and other jests from the plays, essays, and lively conversation of Oscar Wilde offer a feast of humorous and profound quips. Nearly 400 quotes.
Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British ...
Dominic JanesThat there is a queeras opposed to merely homosexualhistory before Oscar Wilde will come as news to many in the sexuality studies field. Oscar Wilde Prefigured.
Corn Palaces and Butter Queens: A History of Crop Art and ...
Pamela Hemenway SimpsonThe complete letter is reproduced in Jeanne Snodgrass King, “The Preeminence of Oscar Howe,” in Dockstader, Oscar Howe. A lengthier analytical treatment of this shift is in White, “Oscar Howe and the Transformation.” Karen Iverson ...
Oscar Wilde: Reminiscences
André GidePersonal recollections from André Gide on a man who profoundly influenced his work—Oscar Wilde André Gide, a towering figure in French letters, draws upon his friendship with Oscar Wilde to sketch a compelling portrait of the tragic, ...
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian ...
Oscar Wilde90 Whistler, James Abbott McNeill 368-9, 424 Whitechapel 1 8, 1 1 9, 1 8 1 , 203, 287, 375, 429 White's 32, 192,379,430 Whitman, Walt xxxix Wilde, Jane Francesca ('Speranza') 365 Wilde, Oscar 'Art at Willis's Rooms' 435 'Ave Imperatrix' 373 ...
Oscar Niemeyer Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2003
Oscar NiemeyerThe Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2003, designed by seminal Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, will be his first completed structure in the United Kingdom.
A Talent for Genius: The Life and Times of Oscar Levant
Sam KashnerOscar Levant was one of the wildly self-destructive personalities ever to become a household name.
Oscar Peterson: The Will to Swing
Gene LeesAn engaging biography of a living musical legend, Oscar Peterson.
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