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What exactly can we learn about America by examining its paper bills? This title answers this question by exploring the social, cultural and historical contexts of paper money. It covers topics such as origin, design, creative and subversive usages, and counterfeiting.
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"In this first-of-its-kind treatment, Heinz Tschachler offers an account of Edgar Allan Poe's relation to the... Læs mere
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Tracks political fatherhood throughout world history. Often using George Washington as a paradigm, this book explores presidential iconography in the U.S., propaganda and the role of paternal rhetoric in shaping American sociopolitical history.
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George Washington has been the most popular and widely used subject on coins, medals, tokens, paper money, and postage stamps in America. This numismatic history of George Washington traces examines why his image remains so persistent on American currency.
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Sitting at the intersection of literary studies and masculinity studies, this reading reconstructs Washington Irving’s life-long struggle to somehow win a place among other men. The book is the first of its kind to encompass and examine Irving’s writings.