The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America, Paperback - Margot Canaday

Contributor(s): Author: Margot CanadayThe Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Uneart...

Reveals how constructions of sovereignty shed light on a host of concerns including regional and sectional tensions; territorial expansion and juri...

Reducere. Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders--lawyers provided by the go...

In 1918, Rebecca Goldberg--a Jewish immigrant from the Russian Empire living in rural Wilmington, Massachusetts--lost her husband, Nathan, to a rai...

Reducere. Whether or not we've come a long way since then, this engaging study of courtship shows that at least half the fun is in reading about getting ther...

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Reducere. In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century America...

As Lillian Faderman writes, there are "no constants with regard to lesbianism, " except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, sh...

Zuck argues that, in the decades between the ratification of the Constitution and the publication of Sutton Griggs's novel Imperium in Imperio in 1...

Reducere. Popular perceptions of American writers as either godless radicals or God-fearing reactionaries overlook a vital tradition of Christian leftist tho...

Reducere. A historical biography of a radical relationship at the dawn of the 20th Century The opening years of the twentieth century saw a grand cast of rad...

In the 1960s biologists and social scientists engaged in a public debate about human nature. The question-whether humans are innately aggressive or...

Reducere. Gunfighter Nation completes Richard Slotkin's trilogy, begun in Regeneration Through Violence and continued in Fatal Environment, on the myth of th...

A rigorous and incisive study of combat trauma and American militarismPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Nadia Abu El-HajNumber of pages: 352Publicat...

DescriptionRecent events--the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and efforts to increase the minimum wage, am...

Analyses literary depictions of sexual policing of the colour line across multiple spaces with diverse colonial histories: Mississippi through Will...

A Poverty of Rights is an investigation of the knotty ties between citizenship and inequality during the years when the legal and institutional bas...

A major history of the impact of Caribbean migration to the United States.

Description"Muslim Americans are at a political crossroads, " write editors Brian Calfano and Nazita Lajevardi. Whereas Muslims are now widely inco...

Deals with the toothpaste and toothbrush industries from 1900 to 2008. This book shows that during these years, America moved from a nation of peop...

Reducere. Award NameIndependent Publisher Book AwardsAward categoryAnthologiesTaken from the pages of South Dakota History, these essays explore modern Ameri...

How Catholic religious activism shaped the language and outcome of San Francisco's debates about over the common good and the public interestPublis...

This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverma...

Revisits the theme of alienation in modernist literature, finding an alternative aesthetic centered on the experience of double exile. Explores exa...

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Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): John Rennie ShortNumber of pages: 182Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 235 x 20Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Mukulika (Associate Professor of Anthropology, Associate Professor of Anthropology, London School ...

"[This book] charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonizat...

A new edition of this seminal survey on the history of graphic design in the twentieth century.Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Richard Hol...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 234 x 157 x 30Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

English radicalism has been a persistent and important, though minority, strand in English political culture since at least the English Civil War. ...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Andreas (Leuphana Universitat Luneburg) BroeckmannIllustration(s): 74 b&w illus., 16 color plates; 90 Illustrati...

El Alto, Rebel City combines ethnography and political theory to explore the astonishing political power exercised by the indigenous citizens of El...

Reducere. DescriptionBetween 1900 and 1950, Americans built the most powerful steam locomotives of all time--enormous engines that powered a colossal industr...