Author: Various
Publisher: Abdul Press
Keywords: selections, century, ninteenth, literature
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 2008-05-18
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1409727017
ISBN-13: 9781409727019

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: Gayle R. Nunley
Publisher: Bucknell University Pre
Keywords: century, spanish, authors, ninteenth, writing, geographies, travel, scripted
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-11-30
List price: $52.50
ISBN-10: 0838756336
ISBN-13: 9780838756331

This study offers the first book-length exploration of travel narratives by nineteenth-century Spanish authors. Focusing on texts produced during a crucial period in the development of Spain’s modern consciousness at the close of its imperial age, "Scripted Geographies" shows how writers’ strategies of travel representation reflected and participated in this process of cultural transformation. The first two chapters, devoted to travel within Europe, explore constructions of Spain’s sometimes problematic encounter with Western society and traditions. The final chapters shift t

Authors:Philip F. Gura, James F. Bollman,
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: century, ninteenth, banjo, instrument, america
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1999-09
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0807824844
ISBN-13: 9780807824849

This handsome illustrated history traces the transformation of the banjo from primitive folk instrument to sophisticated musical machine and, in the process, offers a unique view of the music business in nineteenth-century America.Philip Gura and James Bollman chart the evolution of "America’s instrument," the five-stringed banjo, from its origins in the gourd instruments of enslaved Africans brought to the New World in the seventeenth century through its rise to the very pinnacle of American popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century. Throughout, they look at how banjo craftsm