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Authors:Jane Kamensky Published on: 2016-10-04 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 352 ISBN:0393608611 ISBN13: 9780393608618 Category:History Books Rating: 5.01 Total Buying 28 “A sensory tour de force.” —Caitlin Fitz, The Atlantic In this intimate portrait of the painter John Singleton Copley and his extraordinary times, award-winning Harvard historian Jane Kamensky gives “a wonderfully fresh and surprising perspective on the American Revolution” (Stephen Greenblatt), a world riven by divided loyalties and tangled sympathies. Though Copley’s prodigious talent earned him the patronage of Boston’s patriot leaders, including Samuel Adams and Paul Revere, he did not share their politics and lamented America’s provincialism. When painting portraits failed to satisfy his lofty ambitions and colonial resistance escalated, Copley looked longingly across the Atlantic, repatriating to London where he gained renown as the painter of Britain’s American War. With a “vibrant prose style, K...

Authors:Alfred Louis Kroeber Published on: 1925 Publisher: Courier Corporation Pages: 995 ISBN:0486233685 ISBN13: 9780486233680 Category:History Books Rating: Total Buying 19 A major ethnographic work by a distinguished anthropologist contains detailed information on the social structures, homes, foods, crafts, religious beliefs, and folkways of California's diverse tribesA major ethnographic work by a distinguished anthropologist contains detailed information on the social structures, homes, foods, crafts, religious beliefs, and folkways of California's diverse tribes “If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson More info about Popular tattoo's

Authors:John Dececco, Phd,Michael Williams Published on: 2013-04-15 Publisher: Routledge Pages: 214 ISBN:1135022976 ISBN13: 9781135022976 Category:History Books Rating: 4.01 Total Buying 15 Explore the dark subculture of 1950s tattoos! In the early 1950s, when tattoos were the indelible mark of a lowlife, an erudite professor of English--a friend of Gertrude Stein, Thomas Mann, Andre Gide, and Thornton Wilder--abandoned his job to become a tattoo artist (and incidentally a researcher for Alfred Kinsey). Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos tells the story of his years working in a squalid arcade on Chicago’s tough State Street. During that time he left his mark on a hundred thousand people, from youthful sailors who flaunted their tattoos as a rite of manhood to executives who had to hide their passion for well-ornamented flesh. Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos is anything but politically correct. The gritty, film-noir details of Skid Row life are rendered with unflinching honesty and furtive tenderne...

Authors:Karl Fugelso Published on: 2011 Publisher: DS Brewer Pages: 193 ISBN:184384267X ISBN13: 9781843842675 Category:History Books Rating: Total Buying 23 Continues: Defining neomedievalism(s). 2010.Continues: Defining neomedievalism(s). 2010. “Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.” –Jeremy Collier More info about Popular tattoo's