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  • by Harold Salemson
    £26.49

    This facsimile edition makes available in one volume all eight issues of ""Tambour"", a historically important ""little magazine"" published in Paris in 1929 and 1930 that featured a mix of writing by European and American modernists.

  • - Truth, Falsity and Advertisers
    by Ivan L. Preston
    £17.99

    The aim of this text is to demonstrate how advertising can better serve its audience. It points out that advertising is full of legal falsity, and argues that the problem with this falsity is not so much the bald lie, as it is the deception, and so calls for regulatory adjustment.

  • - And Other Essays in the History of Anthropology
    by George W. Stocking
    £21.49

    This work deals with the history of anthropology, setting out to define the historiographer as a composer, responsive to his own lived experience and to those whom he encounters. The essays address the work and influence of Franz Boas and Bronislaw Malinowski.

  • - Essays on the Contextualization of Ethnographic Knowledge
     
    £26.49

    This volume attempts a critical historical consideration of the varying colonial situations in which (and from which) ethnographic knowledge essential to anthropology has been produced. The essays cover regions from Oceania, Southeast Asia and southern Africa to North and South America.

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    £35.99

    With this fourth volume, a history documenting the evolution of political processes in the United States is complete. The four volumes in The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections record the process by which the Confederation Congress and the thirteen original states implemented the electoral provisions of the federal Constitution of 1787. Contemporaries understood that the first federal Congress would "flesh out" the Constitution, and that the first federal elections were therefore an important step in the continuing struggle to shape, influence, and control the central government. The Constitution and the Confederation Congress allowed the states wide latitude in choosing Senators and in framing their laws for the election of the first presidential Electors and Representatives. This latitude encouraged experimentation and a lively public discussion about the entire electoral process. In all the volumes of The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, the reader will find a wide range of sources from official proclamations to contemporary newspaper accounts, from biographical sketches of candidates to the election results. Maps showing electoral districts accompany the political developments in each state. Volume IV contains documents relating to elections in North Carolina and Rhode Island as well as to the election of the president and vice president.

  • - A History
    by Robert Nesbit
    £35.99

    Robert Nesbit's classic single-volume history of Wisconsin was expanded by Wisconsin State Historian William F. Thompson to include the period from 1940 to the late 1980s, along with updated bibliographies and appendices.

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    £35.99

    The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, in four volumes, will bring together the relevant documents concerning these elections--source materials essential for all historians and researchers of eighteenth-century American history. This third volume covers the elections in New Jersey and New York. Contemporaries understood that the first federal Congress would "flesh out" the Constitution, and that the first federal elections were therefore an important step in the continuing struggle to shape, influence, and control the central government. The elections also provided the states with an unusual opportunity to experiment with electoral forms. The Constitution and the Confederation Congress allowed the states wide latitude in choosing Senators and in framing their laws for the election of the first presidential Electors and Representatives. This latitude encouraged experimentation and a lively public discussion about the entire electoral process. The documents presented have been collected from a wide range of sources: state legislative journals, records of debates, compilations of state laws, executive and judicial records, and other official sources, as well as from unofficial sources such as personal letters, diaries, newspapers, pamphlets, and broadsides. The subjects include preelection public and private speculation about all aspects of the elections, the official and unofficial actions of each of the states in establishing the mechanics of the elections for presidential Electors, Representatives, and Senators; election results; and contemporary commentary. Biographical sketches of the principal candidates for office and maps of the electoral districts in each state are provided, and the historical context of the documents is sketched in introductions and editorial notes. Volume I, edited by Merrill Jensen and Robert A. Becker, was published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 1976. It contains the documents concerning the first federal elections in South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, as well as the Confederation Congress's actions related to the Constitution and the elections. Volume II, published in 1984, covers the elections in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and Georgia. Volume IV will cover the election of the president and vice president and the elections in North Carolina and Rhode Island.

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    £31.49

    A collection of essays which seeks to explain the evolution of cinema from a novelty sideline into an industry fought over by corporate empires. The book contains work on the commercial strategies which promoted and sustained this process and on the effect it has had on American society.

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