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Cuture Studies and Social History
Aries, Philippe. The Hour of Our Death. New York: Knopf, 1981. First
U.S. 24.4 cm, 651 pp. Very good in very good price-clipped
dustjacket. A history of Western attitudes toward death over the
last thousand years. $16.50
Blake, Nelson Manfred. The Road to Reno: A History of Divorce in the
United States. New York: Macmillan, 1962. First. 21.6 cm, 269 pp. A
bit slanted; front endpaper marked; otherwise good+ in good+,
price-clipped dustjacket. $10.00
Braddock, Joseph. The Bridal Bed. New York: John Day, 1961. First
U.S. 21 cm, 255 pp. Pages yellow; boards smudged; otherwise good+ in
good+, price-clipped dustjacket. A social history of courtship &
marriage customs. $10.00
Braudy, Leo. Native Informant: Essays on Film, Fiction, and Popular
Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 24.1 cm, 304 pp.
Near fine in near fine dustjacket. $11.50
Braudy, Leo. The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1986. First. 24.2 cm, 649 pp. Very good+ in
very good+ dustjacket. $16.50
Brophy, Brigid. Black Ship to Hell. New York: Harcourt, Brace &
World, 1962. First U.S. 23.3 cm, 492 pp. Very good- in rubbed,
chipped, price-clipped dustjacket. Analyzes the origins, history, and
manifestations of the destructive impulse that exists in human
beings. $18.50
De Camp, L. Sprague. The Ape-Man Within. Amherst, NY: Prometheus
Books, 1995. First. 23.5 cm, 266 pp. Little bumping to extremities;
otherwise very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. On the need to
overcome the competitiveness and combativeness used as survival
mechanisms by our pre-human ancestors. $15.00
Degler, Carl N. In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of
Darwinism in American Social Thought. New York: Oxford Univesity
Press, 1991. First. 24 cm, 400 pp. Very good+ in very good
dustjacket. $8.50
Dumenil, Lynn. The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the
1920s. New York: Hill and Wang, 1995. First. 21.6 cm, 351 pp. Near
fine in near fine dustjacket. $15.00
Engelhardt, Tom. The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the
Disillusioning of a Generation. New York: BasicBooks, 1995. First.
24.2 cm, 351 pp. Rem mark bottom edge; dent to bottom edge; otherwise
very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. $9.00
Fussell, Paul. Class: A Guide through the American Status System. New
York: Summit Books, 1983. 2nd printing. 22.2 cm, 202 pp. Very good in
very good dustjacket. $8.50
Gans, Herbert J. Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and
Evaluation of Taste. New York: Basic Books, 1974. First. 21.8 cm, 179
pp. Very good in lightly worn dustjacket with few small stains. $9.00
Gardella, Peter. Innocent Ecstasy: How Christianity Gave America an
Ethic of Sexual Pleasure. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
First. 24 cm, 202 pp. Very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. $10.00
Gattey, Charles Neilson. Excess in Food, Drink, and Sex. London:
Harrap, 1986. First U.K. 22.2 cm, 248 pp. Very good in very good+
dustjacket. Examines the effects of excess with colorful examples
from antiquity to the present. $9.50
Gordon, Linda. Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of
Family Violence, Boston 1880-1960. New York: Viking, 1988. 24 cm, 383
pp. Very good+ in very good dustjacket. $11.00
Guthke, Karl S. Last Words: Variations on a Theme in Cultural
History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. 22.4 cm, 250
pp. Very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. Revised, expanded, and
translated by the author. $12.50
Kahn, Bonnie Menes. Cosmopolitan Culture: The Gilt-Edged Dream of a
Tolerant City. New York: Atheneum, 1987. First. 24.2 cm, 312 pp. Very
good+ in very good dustjacket. Explores the roots of social tolerance
in big cities, drawing from history, literature, and myth. $9.50
Kasson, John F. Rudeness & Civility: Manners in Nineteenth Century
Urban America. New York: Hill and Wang, 1990. First. 23.6 cm, 305 pp.
Very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. $10.00
Keen, Sam. Faces of the Enemy: Reflections of the Hostile
Imagination. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986. First. 24.1 cm, 199
pp. Minor shelfwear; about very good in very good- dustjacket with
crease to front flap. Explores propaganda's power to manipulate
ordinary human beings into dehumanizing and hating as "the enemy"
other ordinary human beings. Illustrated throughout. $13.50
Kendrick, Walter. The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture.
New York: Viking, 1987. First. 23.5 cm, 288 pp. Near fine in very
good+ dustjacket with crease to front flap. A scholarly history of
the modern sensibility as seen through the "dirty book". $11.50
Kuryluk, Ewa. Salome and Judas in the Cave of Sex; The Grotesque:
Origins, Iconography, Techniques. Evanston: Northwestern University,
1987. 26 cm, 371 pp. Near fine in near fine dustjacket. The grotesque
as a cultural phenomenon and as a mode of revolt against moral and
cultural standards. Illustrated. $19.00
Linden, Eugene. Affluence and Discontent: The Anatomy of Consumer
Societies. Seaver/Viking, 1979. First. 22.1 cm, 178 pp. Very good- in
lightly worn, lightly creased dustjacket. Consumerism as a way of
being. $6.50
Lowenthal, Leo. Critical Theory and Frankfurt Theorists: Lectures -
Correspondence - Conversations. Transaction Publishers, 1989. 23.6
cm, 262 pp. Faint stain to front endpaper; otherwise very good+ in
sunned dustjacket. Communication in Society, volume 4. $17.50
Lystra, Karen. Searching the Heart: Women, Men, and Romantic Love in
Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
24.2 cm, 336 pp. Near fine in near fine dustjacket. $11.50
Martinez, Ruben. The Other Side: Fault Lines, Guerrilla Saints and
the True Heart of Rock 'n' Roll. London: Verso, 1992. First. 24.1 cm,
168 pp. Near fine in near fine dustjacket. $11.00
McKibben, Bill. The Age of Missing Information. New York: Random
House, 1992. First. 24 cm, 261 pp. Very good+ in very good+
dustjacket. Television vs. nature: guess which one offers more
authentic information?. $8.00
Mellencamp, Patricia. High Anxiety: Catastrophe, Scandal, Age, &
Comedy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992. 23.4 cm, 414 pp.
Very good+ paperback. Framed by a critique of the temporality of U.S.
television, this is a narrative journey between Freud's texts on
obsession and the cult of anxiety pervading contemporary culture.
$12.00
Miller, Ross. American Apocalypse: The Great Fire and the Myth of
Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1990. First. 24.1 cm, 287
pp. Spine bumped; otherwise near fine in very good+ dustjacket.
Examines how the Chicago Fire of 1871 achieved mythic proportions, &
how, in a larger sense, modern myths are created. $10.00
Montagu, Ashley and Edward Darling. The Prevalence of Nonsense. New
York: Harper & Row, 1967. First. 21.8 cm, 300 pp. Very good- in
good+, price-clipped dustjacket. The myths we (still) live by. $9.00
Perin, Constance. Belonging in America: Reading between the Lines.
University of Wisconsin, 1988. First. 23.5 cm, 285 pp. Very good+ in
very good+ dustjacket. How Americans try to reduce the ambiguities of
human existence and find meanings they can live by; how American
ideologies and practices respond to encounters with ambiguities, and
how these encounters relate to the American sense of community.
$10.00
Rathje, William and Cullen Murphy. Rubbish: The Archaeology of
Garbage. HarperCollins, 1992. First. 24 cm, 250 pp. Very good+ in
very good+ dustjacket. What our garbage tells us about ourselves.
$10.00
Rosenbaum, Ron. Travels with Dr. Death and Other Unusual
Investigations. Viking, 1991. First. 22.3 cm, 482 pp. Very good in
dustjacket with a few small creased tears along edges. Clandestine
subcultures and unsolved mysteries. $9.00
Sanders, Barry. Sudden Glory: Laughter as Subversive History. Boston:
Beacon Press, 1995. First. 23.4 cm, 328 pp. Near fine in near fine
dustjacket. $16.50
Sprawson, Charles. Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1992. First U.S. 21.6 cm, 307 pp. A bit
slanted; about very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. $10.00
Tabori, Paul. The Art of Folly. Philadelphia: Chilton, 1961. First.
24.2 cm, 259 pp. Shelfwear; fading along edges; about very good in
faded, chipped, price-clipped dustjacket. The three Fs: Fad, Fashion,
& Folly. $11.00
Tabori, Paul. The Natural Science of Stupidity. Philadelphia:
Chilton, 1960. 3rd printing. 23.6 cm, 288 pp. Very good in worn
dustjacket with small chips & tears along edges & spotting to back
cover. Cupidity, quackery, mass hysteria, & general muddleheadedness
through the ages. $11.00
Toulmin, Stephen. Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity. New
York: The Free Press, 1990. First. 24.2 cm, 228 pp. Near fine in very
good+ dustjacket. Toulmin argues that the idolization of a narrow
rationality (the vision of "cosmopolis" as ideal rational society)
has distracted people from the concrete and practical demands of
human life and nature. $12.50
Williams, Martin. Hidden in Plain Sight: An Examination of the
American Arts. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. First. 21.7
cm, 153 pp. Very good+ in near fine dustjacket. Williams examines the
uniquely American genius of such figures as D.W. Griffith, Fred
Astaire, and Duke Ellington. $8.50
Woodforde, John. The History of Vanity. New York: St. Martin's, 1992.
First U.S. 25.4 cm, 135 pp. Tiny pink stain to front edge; otherwise
fine in near fine dustjacket. Review copy with publisher's material
laid in. Illustrated. $17.50
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