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The sheltering sky
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ISBN: 0912946431 Year: 1978 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Ecco press

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Islands in the stream
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ISBN: 0002213443 Year: 1970 Publisher: London Collins

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The Postwar Yankees : Baseball's Golden Age Revisited
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ISBN: 1281958328 9786611958329 0803218753 9780803218758 9781281958327 9780803217898 0803217897 Year: 2008 Publisher: Lincoln : Baltimore, Md. : University of Nebraska Press, Project MUSE,

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In The Postwar Yankees: Baseball's Golden Age Revisited, David G. Surdam deconstructs this idyllic period to show that while the Yankees piled on pennants and World Series titles through the 1950s, Major League Baseball attendance consistently declined and gate-revenue disparity widened through the mid-1950s. Contrary to popular belief, the era was already experiencing many problems that fans of today's game bemoan, including a competitive imbalance and callous owners who ran the league like a cartel. Fans also found aging, decrepit stadiums ill-equipped for the burgeoning automobile culture,


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Bridging two dynasties : the 1947 New York Yankees
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ISBN: 0803246099 1299132391 9780803246096 9780803240940 1496210182 Year: 2013 Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,

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""An exceptional piece of work.""-C70 at the Bat

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Meeting the dead : a novel
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ISBN: 0826339832 9780826339836 Year: 2007 Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press,

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Drama rises with the floodwaters as two friends struggle with feuds and romantic entanglements on a plantation in northern Peru.


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Chinese and Americans
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ISBN: 0674966902 067473629X 9780674736290 9780674052536 0674052536 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Chinese-American relations are often viewed through the prism of power rivalry and civilization clash. But China and America's shared history is much more than a catalog of conflicts. Using culture rather than politics or economics as a reference point, Xu Guoqi highlights significant yet neglected cultural exchanges in which China and America have contributed to each other's national development, building the foundation of what Zhou Enlai called a relationship of "equality and mutual benefit." Xu begins with the story of Anson Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln's ambassador to China, and the 120 Chinese students he played a crucial role in bringing to America, inaugurating a program of Chinese international study that continues today. Such educational crosscurrents moved both ways, as is evident in Xu's profile of the remarkable Ge Kunhua, the Chinese poet who helped spearhead Chinese language teaching in Boston in the 1870s. Xu examines the contributions of two American scholars to Chinese political and educational reform in the twentieth century: the law professor Frank Goodnow, who took part in making the Yuan Shikai government's constitution; and the philosopher John Dewey, who helped promote Chinese modernization as a visiting scholar at Peking University and elsewhere. Xu also shows that it was Americans who first introduced to China the modern Olympic movement, and that China has used sports ever since to showcase its rise as a global power. These surprising shared traditions between two nations, Xu argues, provide the best roadmap for the future of Sino-American relations.

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Americans --- Chinese --- Ethnology --- Yankees --- History. --- United States --- China --- Relations


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Conversations with strangers
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ISBN: 1009340921 1009340913 1009340948 100934093X Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press,

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This Element documents the evolution of a research program that began in the early 1960s with the author's first investigation of language change on Martha's Vineyard. It traces the development of what has become the basic framework for studying language variation and change. Interviews with strangers are the backbone of this research: the ten American English speakers appearing here were all strangers to the interviewer at the time. They were selected as among the most memorable, from thousands of interviews across six decades. The speakers express their ideas and concerns in the language of everyday life, dealing with their way of earning a living, getting along with neighbors, raising a family - all matters in which their language serves them well. These people speak for themselves. And you will hear their voices. What they have to say is a monument to the richness and variety of the American vernacular, offering a tour of the studies that have built the field of sociolinguistics.


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The Colonel and Hug
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ISBN: 0803284136 0803284152 9780803284159 9780803248656 0803248652 9780803284135 9780803284142 Year: 2015 Publisher: Lincoln

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From the team's inception in 1903, the New York Yankees were a floundering group that played as second-class citizens to the New York Giants. With four winning seasons to date, the team was purchased in 1915 by Jacob Ruppert and his partner, Cap "Til" Huston. Three years later, when Ruppert hired Miller Huggins as manager, the unlikely partnership of the two figures began, one that set into motion the Yankees' run as the dominant baseball franchise of the 1920s and the rest of the twentieth century, capturing six American League pennants with Huggins at the helm and four more during Ruppert's


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The Mosquito Coast
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ISBN: 0241106885 Year: 1981 Publisher: London Hamilton

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Les Américains de Paris
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ISBN: 2719304352 Year: 1975 Volume: 17 Publisher: Paris Mouton

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