Fundamentalism and American Culture, Paperback - George M. Marsden

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

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

Reducere. Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) is a towering figure in American history. A controversial theologian and the author of the famous sermon Sinners in th...

DescriptionIn this historical overview of American fundamentalism and evangelicalism, Marsden provides an introduction to the growing religious mov...

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DescriptionOur current less-is-more impulse may have contemporary trappings, says David E. Shi, but the underlying ideal has been around for centur...

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...

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

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

For many Americans of both right and left political persuasions, the Russian bear is more of a bugbear. On the right, the country is still mentally...

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...

This modern classic by one of our leading scholars seeks to explain the values prevalent in today's mass culture by tracing them back to their root...

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

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

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DescriptionSpike Lee's challenging film Bamboozled (2000) is often read as a surface level satire of blackface minstrelsy. Careful analysis, howeve...

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

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. DescriptionToday's Fundamentalist Mormons in the American West resist assimilation like their forefathers. Centered on faith, they survive despite ...

Reducere. A reevaluation of psychoanalytic theory, based on a Freudian interpretation of the history of Western civilization

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

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Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World War II, the vast majority of mov...

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

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...

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

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

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...

Until its use declined in the nineteenth century, Indians of the southeastern United States were devoted to a caffeinated beverage commonly known a...

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Reducere. 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 ...

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...

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