civilization

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Gates of Eden

American culture in the sixties
1997

The world that made New Orleans

from Spanish silver to Congo Square
2008

River of dreams

imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain
2007

The nineteen seventies (1970s)

2000
Essays cover the Camp David Accords, Iran hostage situation, Busing and school integration, Watergate, Love Canal, Three Mile Island, abortion rights, the women's movement, etc.

British English, A to Zed

2001
Lists more than five thousand British words and phrases with their definitions and equivalent Americanisms, as well as comments and usage examples. Also provides an Americanism index, and includes several appendixes on such topics as currency, units of measure, food names, automotive terms, and the differences between American and English syntax, punctuation, and spelling.

In and out of place

contemporary art and the American social landscape
1993

A clearing in the distance

Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the nineteenth century
1999

Facing facts

realism in American thought and culture, 1850-1920
1995

African achievements

leaders, civilizations, and cultures of ancient Africa
1992

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