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  • Death and Danger on the Western Frontier
    Jeremy Agnew
    In modern times, men and women in America expect to lead long and fruitful lives. In the second half of the nineteenth century in the Old West, contrary to what the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia and popular media suggest, daily existence was harsh and filled with perils that dimmed the outlook for a long lifetime. This history chronicles some of the dangers--accident...
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    71,95 €

  • Sensational News
    Jeremy Agnew
    Sensationalistic stories have attracted readers for as long as reading has been a popular form of entertainment. Readers have been frightened, revolted, yet fascinated by stories of death, thievery, kidnapping, murder, rape, scandal, love triangles, and colorful miscreants. Starting in the 1830s this morbid interest in lurid stories fueled the unprecedented growth of sensati...
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    71,93 €

  • Prohibition and Bootlegging in the American West
    Jeremy Agnew
    Prohibition was imposed by eager temperance movements organizers who sought to shape public behavior through alcoholic beverage control in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The success of reformers’ efforts resulted in National Prohibition in America from 1920 to 1933, but it also resulted in a thriving illegal business in the manufacture and distribution of illegal liquor....
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    57,44 €

  • The Electric Corset and Other Victorian Miracles
    Jeremy Agnew
    Through the Victorian and Edwardian eras, various health movements emerged in the transition to the modern age of scientific medicine. Strange medical devices and quack cures were pushed, often using crude remedies based on simplistic beliefs and the placebo effect. Currently, some of these treatments appear absurd, even cruel. Because some were properly used as appropriate ...
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    42,62 €

  • The Landscapes of Western Movies
    Jeremy Agnew
    Western films have often been tributes to place and setting, with the magnificent backdrops mirroring the wildness of the narratives. As the splendid outdoor scenery of Westerns could not be found on a studio back lot or on a Hollywood sound stage, the movies have been filmed in the wide open spaces of the American West and beyond. This book chronicles the history of filmi...
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    58,56 €

  • Healing Waters
    Jeremy Agnew
    Modern spas are wellness resorts that offer beauty treatments, massages and complementary therapies. Victorian spas were sanitariums, providing 'water cure' treatments supplemented by massage, vibration, electricity and radioactivity. Rooted in the palliative health reforms of the early 19th century, spas of the Victorian Age grew out of the hydrotherapy institutions of t...
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    73,24 €

  • The Age of Dimes and Pulps
    Jeremy Agnew
    From the dime novels of the Civil War era to the pulp magazines of the early 20th century to modern paperbacks, lurid fiction has provided thrilling escapism for the masses. Cranking out formulaic stories of melodrama, crime and mild erotica--often by uncredited authors focused more on volume than quality--publishers realized high profits playing to low tastes. Estimates put...
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    58,61 €

  • Crime, Justice and Retribution in the American West, 1850-1900
    Jeremy Agnew
    Western movies are full of images of swaggering outlaws brought to justice by valiant lawmen shooting them down in daring gunfights before riding off into the sunset. In reality it would not have happened that way. Real lawmen did not simply walk away from a gunfight--they had to face the legal system and justify shooting a civilian in the line of duty. Providing a more re...
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    57,30 €

  • Spanish Influence on the Old Southwest
    Jeremy Agnew
    The traditional narrative of the American West tells of a frontier settled by pioneers emigrating from the east to the Pacific coast. Yet Spanish conquistadors arrived in Central America 150 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. With them came missionaries who tried to convert the Pueblo and Plains Indians to Christianity by force, a suppression of native religi...
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    51,36 €

  • The Creation of the Cowboy Hero
    Jeremy Agnew
    As business interests have commercialized the American West and publishers and studios have created compelling imagery, the expectations of readers and moviegoers have influenced perceptions of the cowboy as a hero. This book describes the evolution of the cowboy hero as a mythic persona created by dime novels, television and Hollywood. Much of our concept of the cowboy come...
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    44,01 €

  • Alcohol and Opium in the Old West
    Jeremy Agnew
    This book explores the role and influence of drink and drugs (primarily opium) in the Old West, which for this book is considered to be America west of the Mississippi from the California gold rush of the 1840s to the closing of the Western Frontier in roughly 1900. This period was the first time in American history that heavy drinking and drug abuse became a major social co...
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    42,71 €

  • The Old West in Fact and Film
    Jeremy Agnew
    For many years, movie audiences have carried on a love affair with the American West, believing Westerns are escapist entertainment of the best kind, harkening back to the days of the frontier. This work compares the reality of the Old West to its portrayal in movies, taking an historical approach to its consideration of the cowboys, Indians, gunmen, lawmen and others who po...
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    51,47 €

  • Entertainment in the Old West
    Jeremy Agnew
    Miners, loggers, railroad men, and others flooded into the American West after the discovery of gold in 1848, and entertainers seeking to fill the demand for distraction from the workers’ daily toil soon followed. Actors, actresses and traveling troupes crisscrossed the American frontier, performing in tents, saloons, fancy theaters, and the open air. This exploration of the...
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    42,80 €

  • The Comintern
    Jeremy Agnew / Kevin McDermott
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    76,80 €