American Culture

Life in America. An introduction to the study of contemporary american culture. Editia a 2-a - Ovidiu Leonte

Americanisation and demystification of America. 21st century Romanian perceptions of American culture - Irina David

Nature and Culture in the American Gothic - Ioana Baciu

Se spune ca... 100 de legende spaniole si hispano-americane repovestite de Catalina Constantinescu si Diana Lefter. Lumea hispanica este, din pacat...

Reducere. Nature and Culture in the American Gothic - este o carte care se adreseaza unui public divers: studenti ai literaturii americane, profesori, cercet...

Reducere. This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of...

Reducere. This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of...

Reducere. Dictionarul polemic, cuprinzand articole actualizate pentru anul 2011, este primul volum de acest fel realizat de un autor roman, perspectiva europ...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Amanda FrostNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 222 x 143 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbackR...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Maureen H. O'ConnellNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 236 x 32Cover type: HardbackRedes...

From the collages of Romare Bearden and paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison to the music of Louis A...

Zara Dinnen analyzes a range of contemporary novels, films, and artworks to contend that we live in the condition of the "digital banal, " not noti...

Kevin Munger marshals novel data and survey evidence to argue that generational conflict will define the politics of the next decade. He shows that...

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

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

Reducere. With more than 200 photographs and drawings, Edward S. Curtis chronicles the culture, hunts, and traditions of the Native American tribes through t...

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

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...

Kevin Munger marshals novel data and survey evidence to argue that generational conflict will define the politics of the next decade. He shows that...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Andrew BallNumber of pages: 272Collection: New Directions in Religion and LiteraturePublication date...

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

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Dana PolanIllustration(s): 25 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimens...

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...

Reducere. Whet Your Appetites for A Fascinating History of American Food Terrific food journalism. Page uncovers the untold backstories of American food. A g...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): George M. (Francis A. McAnaney Professor Emeritus of History, , Francis A. McAnaney Professor Emer...

Reassesses American elitisms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Arguing that Henry Adams, Henry James and Edith Wharton articulated...

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...

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...

The all-American spirit of midcentury modernism, in three US State Department-sponsored exhibitionsThis revelatory volume recovers and presents the...

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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...

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. Utilizing written sources as well as nationally representative survey data, Daniel H. Krymkowski analyzes the extent and causes of African American...

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

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

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 the 1960s and 1970s, America experienced a sports revolution. New professional sports franchises and leagues were established, new stadiums were...

Reducere. In the summer of 1978, the B-52's conquered the New York underground. A year later, the band's self-titled debut album burst onto the Billboard cha...

How queerness and radical politics intersected--earlier than you thought. Well before Stonewall, a broad cross section of sexual dissidents took ad...

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

*Includes pictures. *Includes a bibliography for further reading. "Neither the Choctaws nor Chicksaws ever engaged in war against the American peop...

Reducere. Alice Echols reveals the ways in which disco transformed popular music, propelling it into new sonic territory and influencing rap, techno, and tra...

Reducere. Many American's today are taking note of the surprisingly strong political force that is the religious right. Controversial decisions by the govern...

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

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

Reducere. Generation Rising traces the development of Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM), a grassroots, LGBTQ+ youth-led organization of Southeast Asi...

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

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

ON SALE FOR A LIMITED TIME ORIGINALLY $12.99 JUST $7.94 A lovely Native American art inspired coloring book with 30 unique illustrations This beaut...

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...

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...

Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture, Paperback

*Includes pictures depicting important Iroquois leaders and art. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading. From the "Trail of Tears" to Wounded...

Reducere. *Includes pictures. *Includes a bibliography for further reading. "Neither the Choctaws nor Chicksaws ever engaged in war against the American peop...

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

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

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

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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Now in an updated edition, this insightful book explores the ways U.S. movies, music, TV, fast food, sports, and even clothing styles have molded a...

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

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

Gunslinging justice examines gun violence in Western films and literature alongside changes in justifiable homicide and gun rights in the United St...

Reducere. DescriptionThis title is a comprehensive resource for understanding all aspects of the American flag and its relationship to the American people. T...

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

Reducere. Internationally known as a writer, hostess, and patron of the arts of the twentieth century, Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879-1962) is not known for her exp...

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

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...