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In Hock
Author | : Wendy A. Woloson |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2009-12-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780226905693 |
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The definitive history of pawnbroking in the United States from the nation’s founding through the Great Depression, In Hock demonstrates that the pawnshop was essential to the rise of capitalism. The class of working poor created by this economic tide could make ends meet only, Wendy Woloson argues, by regularly pawning household objects to supplement inadequate wages. Nonetheless, businessmen, reformers, and cultural critics claimed that pawnshops promoted vice, and employed anti-Semitic stereotypes to cast their proprietors as greedy and cold-hearted. Using personal correspondence, business records, and other rich archival sources to uncover the truth behind the rhetoric, Woloson brings to life a diverse cast of characters and shows that pawnbrokers were in fact shrewd businessmen, often from humble origins, who possessed sophisticated knowledge of a wide range of goods in various resale markets. A much-needed new look at a misunderstood institution, In Hock is both a first-rate academic study of a largely ignored facet of the capitalist economy and a resonant portrait of the economic struggles of generations of Americans.
The Perfect Edge
Author | : Ron Hock |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2009-12-17 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 9781440310218 |
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Sharp Tools Work Better! If you've never experienced the pleasure of using a really sharp tool, you're missing one of the real pleasures of woodworking. In The Perfect Edge, the mystery of the elusive sharp edge is solved by long-time sharpening expert and tool maker Ron Hock. You'll soon find how easy and safe hand tools are to use. This book covers all the different sharpening methods so you can either improve your sharpening techniques using your existing set-up, or determine which one will best suit you needs and budget. Ron shows you the tricks and offers expert advice to sharpen all your woodworking tools, plus a few around-the-house tools that also deserve a perfect edge.
A Dictionary of Slang Jargon Cant Embracing English American and Anglo Indian Slang Pidgin English Gypsies Jargon and Other Irregular Phraseology
Author | : Albert Barrère,Charles Godfrey Leland |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : IND:39000005875880 |
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The Erotics of Materialism
Author | : Jessie Hock |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2021-01-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780812252729 |
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In The Erotics of Materialism, Jessie Hock maps the intersection of poetry and natural philosophy in the early modern reception of Lucretius and his De rerum natura. Subtly revising an ancient atomist tradition that condemned poetry as frivolous, Lucretius asserted a central role for verse in the practice of natural philosophy and gave the figurative realm a powerful claim on the real by maintaining that mental and poetic images have material substance and a presence beyond the mind or page. Attending to Lucretius's own emphasis on poetry, Hock shows that early modern readers and writers were alert to the fact that Lucretian materialism entails a theory of the imagination and, ultimately, a poetics, which they were quick to absorb and adapt to their own uses. Focusing on the work of Pierre de Ronsard, Remy Belleau, John Donne, Lucy Hutchinson, and Margaret Cavendish, The Erotics of Materialism demonstrates how these poets drew on Lucretius to explore poetry's power to act in the world. Hock argues that even as classical atomist ideas contributed to the rise of empirical scientific methodologies that downgraded the capacity of the human imagination to explain material phenomena, Lucretian poetics came to stand for a poetry that gives the imagination a purchase on the real, from the practice of natural philosophy to that of politics. In her reading of Lucretian influence, Hock reveals how early modern poets were invested in what Lucretius posits as the materiality of fantasy and his expression of it in a language of desire, sex, and love. For early modern poets, Lucretian eroticism was poetic method, and De rerum natura a treatise on the poetic imagination, initiating an atomist genealogy at the heart of the lyric tradition.
A Dictionary of Slang Jargon Cant
Author | : Albert Barrère,Charles Godfrey Leland |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Cant |
ISBN | : HARVARD:HWKL3Y |
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Toward a Social History of American English
Author | : Joey L. Dillard |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2015-11-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110885002 |
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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Code book of Gymnastic Exercises
Author | : Ludwig Puritz |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Calisthenics |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105046878505 |
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The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
Author | : Sonny Liew |
Publsiher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2016-03-01 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 9781101870709 |
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a bestselling graphic novelist comes “a hugely ambitious, stylistically acrobatic work” (The New York Times Book Review) that brings us on a uniquely moving, funny, and thought-provoking journey through the life of an artist and the history of a nation. Meet Charlie Chan Hock Chye. Now in his early 70s, Chan has been making comics in his native Singapore since 1954, when he was a boy of 16. As he looks back on his career over five decades, we see his stories unfold before us in a dazzling array of art styles and forms, their development mirroring the evolution in the political and social landscape of his homeland and of the comic book medium itself. With The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, Sonny Liew has drawn together a myriad of genres to create a thoroughly ingenious and engaging work, where the line between truth and construct may sometimes be blurred, but where the story told is always enthralling.