American Culture

This book demonstrates how the explosion of distinctly American fiction in the 1920s-including work by authors such as Hemingway, Cather, Dos Passo...

In the United States, people are deeply divided along lines of race, class, political party, gender, sexuality, and religion. Many believe that his...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Carroll QuigleyProfessor Carroll Quigley presents crucial "keys" without which 20th century political, economic, and milita...

DescriptionThe generational and social thinking changes that caused an unprecedented shift toward support for gay marriage How did gay marriage--so...

Reimagines the American 19th century through a sweeping interdisciplinary engagement with oceans, genres, and timeEmergent Worlds re-locates ninete...

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Reducere. DescriptionIn this classic book on the meaning of multiculturalism in larger American society, Gary Okihiro explores the significance of Asian Amer...

Reducere. Esalen is on the edge. Located in Big Sur, California, just off Highway 1, Esalen is, geographically speaking, a literal cliff, hanging rather prec...

Reducere. Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditio...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Jerome McGannIllustration(s): 11 halftonesNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions...

DescriptionSins of Our Masonic Fathers offers a broad but thorough analysis of various historical aspects of Freemasonry as it unfolded in the Unit...

Reducere. An important work in the field of diaspora studies for the past decade, this collection has inspired scholars and others to explore a trail blazed ...

Reducere. In Veil and Vow, Aneeka Ayanna Henderson places familiar, often politicized questions about the crisis of African American marriage in conversation...

Specially-commissioned essays analyse the history, politics, art and literature of Latin America from the nineteenth century to the present day. A ...

Details a five-step process for creating a culture of excellence. Jacqueline Burandt provides ways to use award applications as a benchmark for dev...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Peter TurchinWE ARE ON THE WRONG TRACK Seventy percent of Americans (and counting) think so. The real wage of a US worker t...

Reducere. Millions of Americans take the Bible at its word and turn to like-minded local ministers and TV preachers, periodicals and paperbacks for help in f...

Offers an original theoretical paradigm for thinking through race and nature by showing that diverse constructions of nature are deployed as a mean...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lori Kido LopezChoice Top 25 Academic TitleHow activists and minority communities use media to facilitate social change and...

Jeffrey Dahmer. Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Over the past thirty years, serial killers have become iconic figures in America, the subject of made-f...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather Andrea WilliamsIn this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves ac...

The American prison system has gone off the rails. Originally started in the country by King George III, the pre-American Revolutionary prisons wer...

Reducere. In this study of Christian Science and the culture in which it arose, Amy B. Voorhees emphasizes Mary Baker Eddy's foundational religious text, Sci...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Cathy J. Schlund-VialsEditor: K. Scott WongEditor: Linda Trinh VoBorn out of the Civil Rights and Third World Liberation mo...

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Reducere. The Cultural Front charts the extraordinary upsurge of cultural activity and theory in America that began during the Great Depression and embraced ...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Deanna M. KennedyEditor: Charles F. HarringtonEditor: Amy Klemm VerbosAmerican Indian business is booming. The number of Am...

Reducere. Traces the development of Catholic cultures in the South, the Midwest, the West, and the Northeast, and their contribution to larger patterns of Ca...

From nineteenth-century American art and literature to comic books of the twentieth century and afterwards, Chad A. Barbour examines in From Daniel...

American political thought has been shaped by those who fought back against social inequality, economic exclusion, the denial of political represen...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Paul K. LongmoreEditor: Lauri UmanskyDisability has always been a preoccupation of American society and culture. From anteb...

DescriptionA fascinating journey through the origins of American tourism In the early nineteenth century, thanks to a booming transportation indust...

DescriptionThroughout his prolific career, John Mellencamp has performed more than twenty Top 40 hits, has been nominated for thirteen Grammy Award...

Reducere. A rich potpourri of articles and paintings on Gullah art, history, fiction, recipes, and language along with social commentary which clarifies the ...

Reducere. During the early colonial encounter, children's books were among the first kinds of literature produced by US writers introducing the new colony, i...

Reducere. In the early 1970s, the federal government began recognizing self-determination for American Indian nations. As sovereign entities, Indian nations ...

Reducere. Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Ale...

Focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first full-length narrative film, D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation; th...

A comprehensive, multicultural study of the influential and complex presence of race in American literature by top scholars in African American, La...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Britt RusertExposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism. Traversing t...

Reducere. Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano has described U.S. and Latin American culture as continually hobbled by amnesia--unable, or unwilling, to remember...

Reducere. DescriptionA provocative, must-read investigation that both appreciates the importance of--and punctures the hype around--big-time contemporary Ame...

In Covid-19 and the Transformation of American Society, the first book-length consideration of the Covid-19 pandemic's implications, noted sociolog...

This work explores the development of the early 20th-century circus against developments such as the rise of big business and the genesis of the Un...

Reducere. This wide-ranging archive, capturing more than four centuries of African American history and culture in one essential volume, is at once poignant,...

Taking up the New Hampshire newspaper industry as its case study, American Intelligence unpacks the ways in which an unprecedented quantity of prin...

This book introduces readers to key developments in gender studies and American literary criticism, offers new readings of literary conventions and...

Provides a compelling explanation of something that has bedeviled a number of feminist scholars: why did popular authors like Edna Ferber continue ...

Reducere. The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an ambiguous racial category. Indeed, the 2010 U.S. Census lists twenty-four Asian-et...

Reducere. American Indian customs, stories, and history come to life in this important and authoritative reference, artfully designed and packaged for kids a...

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Reducere. Discusses the role of the theme American dream in great works of literature such as "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "Death of a Salesman", "T...

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Americans have been fascinated by ruins as symbols of the past and now as symbols of the future. Empire of Ruins tells the story of what ruins have...

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In this pioneering work of cultural history, historian Anthony Harkins argues that the hillbilly-in his various guises of "briar hopper, " "brush a...

Reducere. African Americans have made substantial contributions to the sporting world, and vice versa. This wide-ranging collection of new essays explore the...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Karen (University of Southern California, USA) SternheimerIllustration(s): Last edn with tweaks; 65 Halft...

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The supernatural has become extraordinarily popular in literature, television, and film. Vampires, zombies, werewolves, witches, and wizard have be...

Reducere. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish immigrants upended Protestant control of vaudeville and the silent film industry. This book rejec...

The most detailed set of studies ever on all aspects of one of the most beautifully decorated Egyptian non-royal tombs, new in paperback This lavis...

DescriptionLiz Skilton's innovative study tracks the naming of hurricanes over six decades, exploring the interplay between naming practice and wid...

Reducere. DescriptionBlack, White, and in Color offers a long-awaited collection of major essays by Hortense Spillers, one of the most influential and inspir...

This book interrogates the white savior industrial complex by exploring how America continues to present an imagined Africa as a space for salvatio...

DescriptionIn this edited collection, Gioia Woods and her contributors bring together histories, biographies, close readings, and theories about th...