LIBROS DEL AUTOR: heinz tschachler

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  • Washington Irving and the Fantasy of Masculinity
    Heinz Tschachler
    Washington Irving remains one of the most recognized American authors of the 19th century, remembered for short stories like Rip van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. He also accomplished other writing feats, including penning George Washington’s biography and other life stories. Throughout his life, Irving was at odds with socially-approved ways of 'being a man.' Irvi...
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    64,59 €

  • George Washington on Coins and Currency
    Heinz Tschachler
    George Washington is the most popular subject on coins, medals, tokens, paper money and postage stamps in America. Attempts to eliminate one-dollar bills from circulation, replacing them with coins, have been unsuccessful. Americans’ reluctance to part with their 'Georges' are beyond rational considerations but tap into deep-felt emotions. To discard one-dollar bills means d...
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    73,23 €

  • George Washington and Political Fatherhood
    Heinz Tschachler
    More than two hundred years after his death, George Washington is still often considered the metaphorical father of the United States. He was first known as the 'Father of His Country' during his lifetime, when the American people bestowed the title upon him as a symbolic act of resistance and rebirth. Since then, presidents have stood as paternal figureheads for America, of...
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    66,06 €

  • The Monetary Imagination of Edgar Allan Poe
    Heinz Tschachler
    In this first-of-its-kind treatment, Heinz Tschachler offers an account of Edgar Allan Poe’s relation to the world of banking and money in antebellum America. He contends that Poe gave the full force of his censure to the acrimonious debates about America’s money, Andrew Jackson’s bank war, the panic of 1837 and the ensuing depression, and the nation’s inability to furnish a...
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    58,56 €

  • The Greenback
    Heinz Tschachler
    What can we learn about America by examining its paper bills? This illuminating text answers that question by exploring the social, cultural and historical contexts of paper money. Predicated on the assumption that paper bills speak to us through the deliberate use of symbols--letters, verbal and visual elements, as well as symbols of civic values--this book examines what ha...
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    58,67 €