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When it appeared in 1983, Caroline Humphrey's Karl Marx Collective was the first detailed study of the Soviet collective farm system. Through careful ethnographic work on two collective farms operated in Buryat communities in Siberia, the author presented an absorbing--if dispiriting--account of the actual functioning of a planned economy at the local level...

In The Search for Sunken Treasure more than 100 photographs of treasure from 70 shipwrecks are complemented by historical etchings and paintings of the ships before they sank.

Jeffrey Hammond’s Little Big World: Collecting Louis Marx and the American Fifties is the story of a middle-aged man’s sudden compulsion to collect the toys of his childhood: specifically themed playsets produced by the Louis Marx Toy Company...

Two outstanding authorities offer a unique survey of American folk art from the 1680s to the 1980s, covering painting, furniture, pottery, textiles, and landscape, and complemented by more than two hundred full-color photographs...

First Edition (stated); First Printing (10 to 1 print number line); E. P. Dutton, 1979, hardcover with price intact dust jacket; black & white photo section; no remainder mark; no previous owners name, no writing, no highlighting, no underlining; no page corners folded as place markers; dust jacket edge wear--one repaired tear on the top edge of the rear; dust jacket edge tanning; foxing on the top page edges and on the cloth of the white spine binding; lower fore-edge board corners are bumped; actually not in bad shape for a thirty-one year-old book; no bookstore stickers, stamps or labels, this is NOT an ex-library copy; this is NOT a book club edition; smoke-free; ships quickly in a protective cardboard book box mailer, for even quicker delivery, the expedited shipping option is available; SKUa5327

In this highly original study, Szporluk examines the relationship between the two dominant ideologies of the 19th century--communism and nationalism--and their enduring legacy in the 20th century. Szporluk argues that both Karl Marx's theory of communism and Friedrich List's theory of nationalism arose in response to the sweeping changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution, and that both sought to promote industrialization as a means of reforming the modern world...