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UNINA9910970515403321 |
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Newlin Keith |
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Titolo |
Hamlin Garland : a life / / Keith Newlin |
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Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, 2008 |
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9786611241391 |
9781281241399 |
1281241393 |
9780803217713 |
0803217714 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 490 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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Authors, American - 19th century |
Authors, American - 20th century |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. Return of the Private, 1860-68; 2. Boy Life on the Prairie, 1868-81; 3. Dakota Homesteader, 1881-84; 4. Boston Mentors, 1884-85; 5. The Earnest Apprentice, 1886-87; 6. Single-Tax Realist, 1888; 7. Life Under the Wheel, 1888-89; 8. Main-Travelled Roads, 1889-91; 9. Table Rapper, 1890-92; 10. The Campaign for Realism, 1893; 11. The Iconoclast, 1893-94; 12. Western Horizons, 1895; 13. ""Ho, For the Klondike!"" 1896-98; 14. The End of the Trail, 1899-1902; 15. Adrift, 1903-7 |
16. ""A Born Promoter,"" 1907-1417. A Son of the Middle Border, 1914-17; 18. Out of Step with the Moderns, 1918-30; 19. The Historian, 1919-29; 20. Fortunate Exile, 1929-40; Notes; Index; Index of Works by Hamlin Garland |
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The first and only other biography of Hamlin Garland was published more than forty years ago; since then, letters, manuscripts, and family memoirs have surfaced to provide, along with changing literary scholarship, a more evaluative and critical interpretation of Garland's |
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life and times. Hamlin Garland: A Life is an exploration of Garland's contributions to American literary culture and places his work within the artistic context of its time. |
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UNINA9910955433503321 |
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Autore |
Burns Eric |
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Titolo |
The smoke of the gods : a social history of tobacco / / Eric Burns |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2007 |
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9786611093723 |
9781281093721 |
1281093726 |
9781592134823 |
1592134823 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Tobacco use - History |
Tobacco - Social aspects |
Tobacco - United States - History |
Smoking - History |
Antismoking movement - History |
Antismoking movement - United States - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-264) and index. |
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CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION The Ancient World; ONE The Old World; TWO The Enemies of Tobacco; THREE The Politics of Tobacco; FOUR The Rise of Tobacco; FIVE Rush to Judgment; SIX Ghost, Body, and Soul; SEVEN The Cigarette; EIGHT The Carry Nation of Tobacco; NINE The Last Good Time; TEN The Case against Tobacco; ELEVEN The Turning Point; EPILOGUE "The Ten O'Clock People"; Acknowledgments; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index |
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""Fox News Watch"" host Eric Burns, who chronicled the social history of alcohol in The Spirits of America turns to tobacco in The Smoke of the |
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Gods. Ranging from ancient times to the present day, The Smoke of the Gods is a lively history of tobacco, especially in the United States. Although tobacco use is controversial in the U.S. today, Burns reminds us that this was not always the case. For centuries tobacco was generally thought to have medicinal and even spiritual value. Most of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were tobacco users or growers, or bot |
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