New American Press

The volume is for scholars and researchers interested in African American and American literature and history. Chapters explore African American wr...

Reducere. What makes it so difficult to enact and sustain comprehensive social welfare policy that would aid the disadvantaged in the United States? Addressi...

Brent Salter draws on extensive original archival research to explain how copyright has been negotiated in the American theatre over the previous t...

Reducere. From Pariah to Priority gives a unique, insider perspective that explains the unexpected incorporation of LGBTI rights into the United States and S...

Reducere. Early twentieth-century African American men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, segregation, a biased criminal justi...

Reducere. The American labor movement isn't dead. It's just moving from the bargaining table to the streets. In A New American Labor Movement, William Scheue...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dayna Bowen MatthewJust Medicine offers us a new, effective, and innovative plan to regulate implicit biases and eliminate ...

DescriptionThis work traces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-centu...

DescriptionThe opening decades of the twenty-first century are distinguished by a newly framed and regenerated outlook of Jewish American literary ...

This book traces an unexpected journey to Latin America for South Asian literature in English. It shows how this encounter fundamentally shaped the...

Reveals the important role of Muslim Americans in American politics Since the 1950s, and especially in the post-9/11 era, Muslim Americans have pla...

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 ...

A journey into the experiences of incarcerated women in rural areas, revealing how location can reinforce gendered violenceIncarceration is all too...

A new American creed has reconstructed the social contract. Generations from 1890 to 1940 took for granted that citizenship entailed voting, volunt...

An explanation of the digital practices of the black Internet From BlackPlanet to #BlackGirlMagic, Distributed Blackness places blackness at the ve...

Reducere. An authoritative account by preeminent Egyptologist Miroslav Verner covering over 70 of Egypt's and Sudan's pyramids, their historical and politica...

Reducere. How social security disability law is out of touch with the contemporary American labor market Passing down nearly a million decisions each year, m...

Reducere. Many of us belong to communities that have been scarred by terrible calamities. And many of us come from families that have suffered grievous losse...

Bringing together fifty years of exciting modernisms, The New Anthology of American Poetry, Volume 2 includes over 600 poems by sixty-five American...

The first anthology in over twenty-five years to focus exclusively on American dance practices across a wide span of American culture. This volume ...

Reducere. DescriptionExploring the Yoruba tradition in the United States, Hucks begins with the story of Nana Oseijeman Adefunmi's personal search for identi...

Reducere. Extensive scholarship has emerged within the last twenty-five years on the role of Louisiana Creoles in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuri...

Reducere. The first full-length critical analysis of the paintings of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, this book focuses on Smith's role as a modernist in addition ...

DescriptionThe origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black children The Korean War left hundreds of thous...

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Reducere. Reflecting the growing scholarly interest in transnational and comparative approaches to studying the past, British Atlantic, American Frontier off...

Reducere. Yoga. Humanistic Psychology. Meditation. Holistic Healing. These practices are commonplace today. Yet before the early 1960s they were atypical opt...

Reducere. DescriptionThe dramatic story of Phillis Wheatley, a free, black poet who resisted the pressures of arranged marriage, truly embodying the ideals o...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John Patrick DeveneyThis is the fascinating story of Paschal Beverly Randolph, an African American who carved his own eccen...

Looking into the economics of American Protestantism, this work examines how churches have raised and spent money since colonial times and consider...

Reducere. John Eugene Rodriguez's Spanish New Orleans is the first comprehensive academic analysis of how Spain governed the largest imperial city in its Nor...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Karen Hunger ParshallIllustration(s): 38 b/w illus.Number of pages: 640Publication date: 2022Dimens...

Reducere. When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington's Westward Expansion set a new standard for scholarship in western American his...

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

Conventional wisdom dates the origins of activist federal government to the New Deal. William J. Novak shows that the roots run deeper. Tracing the...

Reducere. In 1929, a small group of men and women threw off their clothes and began to exercise in a New York City gymnasium, marking the start of the Americ...

Publisher: New PressAuthor(s): Lloyd C. GardnerNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 209 x 162 x 28Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): M...

Reducere. DescriptionExamines the critical role of urban taverns in the social and political life of colonial and revolutionary America From exclusive "city ...

Reducere. We need young people to be civically engaged in order to define and address public problems. Their participation is important for democracy, for in...

Reducere. How children and children's literature helped build America's empire America's empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twent...

Reducere. DescriptionChanged Forever is the first study to gather a range of texts produced by Native Americans who, voluntarily or through compulsion, atten...

Reducere. Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema brings together fourteen scholars to analyze Latin American cinema in dialogue with recent theories...

Reducere. From Rumi poetry and Sufi dancing or whirling, to expressions of Africanicity and the forging of transnational bonds to remote locations in Senegal...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom a peace ceremony conducted by Chitimacha diplomats before Governor Bienville's makeshift cabin in 1718 to a stickball match played ...

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

Reducere. The Best of America-Captured in Print for the First TimeSomething powerful happened in New York. We had a rare opportunity to experience the healin...

A History of Financial Technology and Regulation explains business, economic, financial, and legal concepts clearly, while its historical approach ...

Reducere. How did Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and Cubans become known as "Hispanics" and "Latinos" in the United States? How did several distinct cultures and n...

Reducere. This book is the first anthology to explore the connection between race and the suburbs in American cinema from the end of World War II to the pres...

Reducere. In Decolonizing American Philosophy, Corey McCall and Phillip McReynolds bring together leading scholars at the forefront of the field to ask: Can ...

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

In the years between the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution, American gentlemen--the merchants, lawyers, planters, and landowne...

Reducere. In The Other American Dilemma, Rubén Donato and Jarrod Hanson examine the experiences of Mexican immigrants, Mexican Americans, and Hispanos/as in ...

Reducere. Drivers exiting the New Jersey Turnpike for Perth Amboy, and map readers marveling at all the places in Pennsylvania named Lackawanna, need no long...

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles G. WormanThe gun, like the axe and the plow, was an essential tool in the exploration and settlement of the trans-M...

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

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

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. Los Angeles is well-known as a temperate paradise with expansive beaches and mountain vistas, a booming luxury housing market, and the home of glam...

Reducere. A remarkable history of the powerful and influential social gospel movement. The global crises of child labor, alcoholism and poverty were all brou...

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

Reducere. Asian/Pacific Islander American Women is the first collection devoted to the historical study of A/PI women's diverse experiences in America. Cover...

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. In Black Rage in New Orleans, Leonard N. Moore traces the shocking history of police corruption in the Crescent City from World War II to Hurricane...

Reducere. In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands...

Reducere. Description A new vocabulary for African American Studies As the longest-standing interdisciplinary field, African American Studies has laid the fo...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Aaron W. HughesNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 179 x 267 x 31Cover type: Hardb...

Reducere. For decades, scholars have conceived of the coastal city of New Orleans as a remarkable outlier, an exception to nearly every "rule" of accepted U....

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