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Series
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Language
English
Description
A quarter-century after its first publication, A Shopkeeper's Millennium remains a landmark work--brilliant both as a new interpretation of the intimate connections among politics, economy, and religion during the Second Great Awakening, and as a surprising portrait of a rapidly growing frontier city. The religious revival that transformed America in the 1820s, making it the most militantly Protestant nation on earth and spawning reform movements...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. In Harlem he was a rising young poet--at the center of the "Harlem Renaissance."
15) Pages of promise
Author
Series
American century volume 6
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
17) Winds of change
Author
Series
American century volume no. 5
Publisher
Fleming H. Revell
Pub. Date
2007, 1997
Language
English