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Author : George Pickering Burnham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Counterfeits and counterfeiting
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU55529194
Author : George Pickering Burnham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Counterfeits and counterfeiting
ISBN : MINN:31951002463451L
Author : George Pickering Burnham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Counterfeits and counterfeiting
ISBN : NYPL:33433038838375
Author : George Pickering Burnham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HW2QDU
Author : David Chidester
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520938240
Authentic Fakes explores the religious dimensions of American popular culture in unexpected places: baseball, the Human Genome Project, Coca-Cola, rock 'n' roll, the rhetoric of Ronald Reagan, the charisma of Jim Jones, Tupperware, and the free market, to name a few. Chidester travels through the cultural landscape and discovers the role that fakery—in the guise of frauds, charlatans, inventions, and simulations—plays in creating religious experience. His book is at once an incisive analysis of the relationship between religion and popular culture and a celebration of the myriad ways in which invention can stimulate the religious imagination. Moving beyond American borders, Chidester considers the religion of McDonald’s and Disney, the discourse of W.E.B. Du Bois and the American movement in Southern Africa, the messianic promise of Nelson Mandela’s 1990 tour to America, and more. He also looks at the creative possibilities of the Internet in such phenomena as Discordianism, the Holy Order of the Cheeseburger, and a range of similar inventions. Arguing throughout that religious fakes can do authentic religious work, and that American popular culture is the space of that creative labor, Chidester looks toward a future "pregnant with the possibilities of new kinds of authenticity."
Author : Kirstin Chen
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063119574
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK “A con artist story, a pop-feminist caper, a fashionable romp . . . Counterfeit is an entertaining, luxurious read—but beneath its glitz and flash, it is also a shrewd deconstruction of the American dream and the myth of the model minority. . . . Chen is up to something innovative and subversive here." — Camille Perri, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Recommended by New York Times Book Review • Washington Post • People • Entertainment Weekly • USA Today • Time • Cosmopolitan • Today show • Harper’s Bazaar • Vogue • Good Housekeeping • Parade • New York Post • Town & Country • GMA.com • Buzzfeed • Goodreads • Oprah Daily • Popsugar • Bustle • theSkimm • The Millions • and more! For fans of Hustlers and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, the story of two Asian American women who band together to grow a counterfeit handbag scheme into a global enterprise—an incisive and glittering blend of fashion, crime, and friendship from the author of Bury What We Cannot Take and Soy Sauce for Beginners. Money can’t buy happiness… but it can buy a decent fake. Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home—she’s built the perfect life. But beneath this façade, Ava’s world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degree hasn’t been used in years, and her toddler’s tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point. Enter Winnie Fang, Ava’s enigmatic college roommate from Mainland China, who abruptly dropped out under mysterious circumstances. Now, twenty years later, Winnie is looking to reconnect with her old friend. But the shy, awkward girl Ava once knew has been replaced with a confident woman of the world, dripping in luxury goods, including a coveted Birkin in classic orange. The secret to her success? Winnie has developed an ingenious counterfeit scheme that involves importing near-exact replicas of luxury handbags and now she needs someone with a U.S. passport to help manage her business—someone who’d never be suspected of wrongdoing, someone like Ava. But when their spectacular success is threatened and Winnie vanishes once again, Ava is left to face the consequences. Swift, surprising, and sharply comic, Counterfeit is a stylish and feminist caper with a strong point of view and an axe to grind. Peering behind the curtain of the upscale designer storefronts and the Chinese factories where luxury goods are produced, Kirstin Chen interrogates the myth of the model minority through two unforgettable women determined to demand more from life. "If you appreciate a good caper, you’ll want to pick up Kirstin Chen’s novel . . . Fast-paced and fun, with smart commentary on the cultural differences between Asia and America." — TIME “Propulsive and captivating . . . A provocative story of fashion, friendship, and fakes (in more ways than one).” — VOGUE
Author : Kenneth Scott
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : History
ISBN : 0812217314
Counterfeiting flourished in colonial America and Scott brings to life the many colorful figures who indulged in this nefarious practice.
Author : George Pickering Burnham
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1377010732
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : George Pickering Burnham
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1354788885
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Stephen Mihm
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674041011
Prior to the Civil War, the United States did not have a single, national currency. Counterfeiters flourished amid this anarchy, putting vast quantities of bogus bills into circulation. Their success, Mihm reveals, is more than an entertaining tale of criminal enterprise: it is the story of the rise of a country defined by freewheeling capitalism and little government control. Mihm shows how eventually the older monetary system was dismantled, along with the counterfeit economy it sustained.
Author : Mary McAleer Balkun
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780817314972
Fakery, authenticity, and identity in American literature and culture at the turn of the 20th century Focusing on texts written between 1880 and 1930, Mary McAleer Balkun explores the concept of the “counterfeit,” both in terms of material goods and invented identities, and the ways that the acquisition of objects came to define individuals in American culture and literature. Counterfeiting is, in one sense, about the creation of something that appears authentic—an invented self, a museum display, a forged work of art. But the counterfeit can also be a means by which the authentic is measured, thereby creating our conception of the true or real. When counterfeiting is applied to individual identities, it fosters fluidity in social boundaries and the games of social climbing and passing that have come to be representative of American culture: the Horatio Alger story, the con man or huckster, the social climber, the ethnically ambiguous. Balkun provides new readings of traditional texts such as The Great Gatsby, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The House of Mirth, as well as readings of less-studied texts, such as Walt Whitman’s Specimen Days and Nella Larsen’s Passing. In each of these texts, Balkun locates the presence of manufactured identities and counterfeit figures, demonstrating that where authenticity and consumerism intersect, the self becomes but another commodity to be promoted, sold, and eventually consumed.
Author : John M. Kleeberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : STANFORD:36105130551927
A collection of seven papers, plus two further papers forming the appendices, from the Fourteenth Coinage of the Americas Conference held in 1998. The contributors focus on counterfeits, a relatively neglected field of study in numismatics, in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Counterfeits and counterfeiting
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127343411
Author : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996-05
Category : Money
ISBN : 9780788128905
Of the $380 billion in U.S. currency in circulation, over 60% may be held outside the U.S. The widespread use of U.S. currency abroad, together with outdated security features of the currency, make it a particularly vulnerable target for international counterfeiters. This report provides information on the nature of counterfeiting of U.S. currency abroad; the extent of that counterfeiting and of concerns about this issue, and the status of the U.S. efforts to deter such counterfeiting of U.S. currency abroad. Color illustrations.
Author : Lynn Glaser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Counterfeits and counterfeiting
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041796165