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This monograph explores transatlantic literary culture by tracing the proliferation of ‘new media,’ such as the anthology, the literary history and the maga
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-11-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Through innovative use of little used archival material, Rothenberg finds that the relevant economic magnitudes - farm commodity prices, wages for day and month
Technoscience in History
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Authors: Ursula Klein
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The relationship of the current technosciences and the older engineering sciences, examined through the history of the “useful” sciences in Prussia. Do toda
The Urban Social History of the Middle East, 1750-1950
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The Invention of Celebrity
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