University of California Press, 2016. - 281 p.
Making Los Angeles Home examines the different integration strategies implemented by Mexican immigrants in the Los Angeles region. Relying on statistical data and ethnographic information, the authors analyze four different dimensions of the immigrant integration process (economic, social, cultural, and political) and show that...
University of North Carolina Press, 2016. -256 p.
Nineteenth-century America was rife with Protestant-fueled anti-Catholicism. Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez reveals how Protestants nevertheless became surprisingly and deeply fascinated with the Virgin Mary, even as her role as a devotional figure who united Catholics grew. Documenting the vivid Marian imagery that suffused popular...
Northwestern University Press, 2020. — 228 p. Precarious Forms: Performing Utopia in the Neoliberal Americas explores how performance art and poetry convey utopian desires even in the bleakest of times. Candice Amich argues that utopian longing in the neoliberal Americas paradoxically arises from the material conditions of socioeconomic crisis. Working across national,...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 400 p. Although the decades following World War II stand out as an era of rapid growth and construction in the United States, those years were equally significant for large-scale destruction. In order to clear space for new suburban tract housing, an ambitious system of interstate highways, and extensive urban renewal development, wrecking companies...
Random House, 2017. — 480 p. — ISBN10: 1400067219; ISBN13: 978-1400067213. “The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States...nothing less than the most important book that I have read this year.”—Lawrence O’Donnell How did we get here? In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen...
Random House, 2017. — 480 p. — ISBN10: 1400067219; ISBN13: 978-1400067213. “The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States...nothing less than the most important book that I have read this year.”—Lawrence O’Donnell How did we get here? In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 168 p. The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: these are the words, images, and sounds that populate American cultural history. From the Boston Tea Party to the Dodgers, from the blues to Andy Warhol, dime novels to Disneyland, the history of...
New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1932. — 136 p.; ill. Bruce Bairnsfather: British cartoonist. Famous British humorist and cartoonist. His most famous cartoon character is old Bill. Bill and his buddies Beret and Alf featured in Barnsfather's cartoons "Fragments from France", published weekly in the magazine "Witness" during the First World War.
Washington, DC, 2009. - 306p. Foreword The History Of The NEA Hope and Inspiration A NewWorld Beckons A Fresh Direction A Long Summer The Reagan Era CultureWars What Is to Be Done? Broadening the Agency’s Reach In DarkHours Building a New Consensus A Great Nation Deserves Great Art The Impact Of The NEA Dance Literature Media Arts Museums and Visual Arts Music and Opera Theater...
University of Illinois Press, 2016. — 264 p. During the Depression, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) dispatched scribes to sample the fare at group eating events like church dinners, political barbecues, and clambakes. Its America Eats project sought nothing less than to sample, and report upon, the tremendous range of foods eaten across the United States. Camille Begin...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. — 272 p. From the 1820s to the 1930s, Christian missionaries and federal agents launched a continent-wide assault against Indian sacred dance, song, ceremony, and healing ritual in an attempt to transform Indian peoples into American citizens. In spite of this century-long religious persecution, Native peoples continued to perform their...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. — 272 p. In recent years, the study and teaching of Native American oral and written art have flourished. During the same period, there has been a growing recognition among historians, anthropologists, and ethnohistorians that Indians must be seen not as the voiceless, nameless, faceless Other but as people who had a powerful impact on...
Countryman Press, 2017. — 320 p. Like a wooden security blanket that Americans reach for when times get tough, the log cabin has endured as a uniquely American symbol of home and hearth. This strain of cabin fever is no fleeting trend: It has struck at regular intervals since the early 1900s, when log cabin vacations first became an option for an increasingly mobile America. Now...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — xii, 212 p. — ISBN 978-0-521-88908-7. Mass Appeal describes the changing world of American popular culture from the first sound movies through the age of television. In short vignettes, the book reveals the career patterns of people who became big movie, TV, or radio stars. Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson symbolize the early stars of sound movies....
New York University Press, 2012. — 288 p. — (America and the Long 19th Century). American Arabesque examines representations of Arabs, Islam and the Near East in nineteenth-century American culture, arguing that these representations play a significant role in the development of American national identity over the century, revealing largely unexplored exchanges between these two...
New York University Press, 2012. — 288 p. — (America and the Long 19th Century). American Arabesque examines representations of Arabs, Islam and the Near East in nineteenth-century American culture, arguing that these representations play a significant role in the development of American national identity over the century, revealing largely unexplored exchanges between these two...
New York Iniversity Press, 2011. — 329 p. — (America and the Long 19th Century) In Racial Innocence, Robin Bernstein argues that the concept of "childhood innocence" has been central to U.S. racial formation since the mid-nineteenth century. Children--white ones imbued with innocence, black ones excluded from it, and others of color erased by it--figured pivotally in sharply...
Springer, 2023. — 362 p. - Offers a new and novel way of exploring the influence of Italy upon the United States - Argues that if we wish to understand the United States it is vital to examine how they imagine themselves - Demonstrates that one of the most powerful stimulants shaping the imaginary world of Americans has been Italy It is almost impossible to imagine the United...
Springer, 2023. — 362 p. - Offers a new and novel way of exploring the influence of Italy upon the United States - Argues that if we wish to understand the United States it is vital to examine how they imagine themselves - Demonstrates that one of the most powerful stimulants shaping the imaginary world of Americans has been Italy It is almost impossible to imagine the United...
Routledge, 1996. — 336 p. One hundred members of NatChat, an electronic mail discussion group concerned with Native American issues, responded to the recent Disney release Pocahontas by calling on parents to boycott the movie, citing its historical inaccuracies and saying that "Disney has let us down in a cruel, irresponsible manner." Their anger was rooted in the fact that,...
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood Press/ABC-CLIO, 2010. — 180 p. Drawing on extensive research to show just how profound an impact the Beats had on American culture, politics, and literature, Beatniks: A Guide to an American Subculture gets readers past the caricature of the “beatnik” as a goateed, beret-wearing, bongo- playing poseur. Beatniks conveys the complexity,...
University of North Carolina Press, 2019. — 288 p. Installed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1921 to commemorate the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Cyrus Dallin's statue Massasoit was intended to memorialize the Pokanoket Massasoit (leader) as a welcoming diplomat and participant in the mythical first Thanksgiving. But after the statue's unveiling, Massasoit began...
University of North Carolina Press, 2019. — 288 p. Installed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1921 to commemorate the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Cyrus Dallin's statue Massasoit was intended to memorialize the Pokanoket Massasoit (leader) as a welcoming diplomat and participant in the mythical first Thanksgiving. But after the statue's unveiling, Massasoit began to...
The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London, 1988. — 322 p. From 1840 until 1940, freak shows by the hundreds crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and other oddities. By today's standards such displays would be considered...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 318 p. From Hollywood films to novels by Louis L'Amour and television series like Gunsmoke and Deadwood , the Wild West has exerted a powerful hold on the cultural imagination of the United States. Beginning with Theodore Roosevelt's founding of the Boone and Crockett Club in 1887, Christine Bold traces the origins and evolution of the western...
The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, 2014. — 296 p.
We live in a profoundly spiritual age--but in a very strange way, different from every other moment of our history. Huge swaths of American culture are driven by manic spiritual anxiety and relentless supernatural worry. Radicals and traditionalists, liberals and conservatives, together with politicians, artists,...
Princeton University Press, 2005. - 312 p.
Is the United States "the land of equal opportunity" or is the playing field tilted in favor of those whose parents are wealthy, well educated, and white? If family background is important in getting ahead, why? And if the processes that transmit economic status from parent to child are unfair, could public policy address the problem?...
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2011. — xl, 317 p. : ill., map. The imagined ghosts of Native Americans have been an important element of colonial fantasy in North America ever since European settlements were established in the seventeenth century. Native burial grounds and Native ghosts have long played a role in both regional and local folklore and in the national...
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023. — 336 p. The unexpected and unexplored ways that ice has transformed a nation—from the foods Americans eat, to the sports they play, to the way they live today—and what its future might look like on a swiftly warming planet. Ice is everywhere: in gas stations, in restaurants, in hospitals, in our homes. Americans think nothing of dropping a few ice...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 306 p. - Holds that the liminality of U.S. cultural production is the key to understanding the resilience of American culture - Suggests that the motif of boundary transgression is integral to the nation’s cultural designs, themes, and motifs - Analyses literary & cultural texts with approaches from design theory to suggest America literally designs...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 306 p. - Holds that the liminality of U.S. cultural production is the key to understanding the resilience of American culture - Suggests that the motif of boundary transgression is integral to the nation’s cultural designs, themes, and motifs - Analyses literary & cultural texts with approaches from design theory to suggest America literally designs...
Wiley, 2004. — 416 p.
Hollywood, Interrupted is a sometimes frightening, occasionally sad, and frequently hysterical odyssey into the darkest realms of showbiz pathology, the endless stream of meltdowns and flameouts, and the inexplicable behavior on the part of show business personalities.Charting celebrities from rehab to retox, to jails, cults, institutions, near-death...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 137 p. — (Very Short Introductions). Written by a leading expert on the Puritans, this brief, informative volume offers a wealth of background on this key religious movement. This book traces the shaping, triumph, and decline of the Puritan world, while also examining the role of religion in the shaping of American society and the role of the...
Peter Lang, 2015. — 304 p. Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll analyzes the cultural, political, and social revolution that took place in the U.S. (and in time the world) after World War II, crystalizing between 1955 and 1970. During this era, the concept of the American teenager first came into being, significantly altering the relationship between young people and adults. As the...
The University of Chicago Press, 2010. — 227 p. List of Illustrations Strange Travelogues: Charles Longfellow in the Orient Domesticating the Orient: Edward Morse, Art Amateur, and the American Interior Disseminating Empire: Representing the Philippine Colony Mapping Empire: Cartography and American Imperialism in the Philippines Celebrating Empire: New York City’s Victory...
Dartmouth College Press, 2007. — 232 p. — (Reencounters with Colonialism: New Perspectives on the Americas). — ISBN: 978-1-58465-617-3, 978-1-58465-618-0, 978-1-61168-684-5. Folded Selves radically refigures traditional portraits of seventeenth-century New England literature and culture by situating colonial writing within the spatial, transnational, and economic contexts that...
Dartmouth College Press, 2007. — x, 222 p. — (Reencounters with Colonialism: New Perspectives on the Americas). — ISBN: 978-1-58465-617-3, 978-1-58465-618-0, 978-1-61168-684-5. True PDF Folded Selves radically refigures traditional portraits of seventeenth-century New England literature and culture by situating colonial writing within the spatial, transnational, and economic...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. — 248 p. When Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show traveled to Paris in 1889, the New York Times reported that the exhibition would be "managed to suit French ideas". But where had those "French ideas" of the American West come from? And how had they, in turn, shaped the notions of "cowboys and Indians" that captivated the French imagination during the...
London: Routledge, 2000. — 303 p. An exceptional place or what is America? What is American Studies? Using the book Critical approaches A culture of many voices Cultural politics/cultural studies Power and position Dialogism The continuous ‘play’ of culture, history and power Notes References and further reading New beginnings: American culture and identity Reading Columbus The...
University of Illinois Press, 2015. — 209 p.
When the United States acquired the Philippines and Puerto Rico, it reconciled its status as an empire with its anticolonial roots by claiming that it would altruistically establish democratic institutions in its new colonies. Ever since, Filipino and Puerto Rican artists have challenged promises of benevolent assimilation and...
Zondervan, 2012. — 224 p. What is America becoming? Or, more importantly, what can she be if we reclaim a vision for the things that made her great in the first place? In America the Beautiful, Dr. Ben Carson helps us learn from our past in order to chart a better course for our future. From his personal ascent from inner-city poverty to international medical and humanitarian...
University Press of Kentucky, 2010. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-0813126562. The distinctive beverage of the Western world, bourbon is Kentucky's illustrious gift to the world of spirits. Although the story of American whiskey is recorded in countless lively pages of our nation's history, the place of bourbon in the American cultural record has long awaited detailed and objective...
University of North Carolina Press, 2018. — 455 p. Nineteenth-century American authors, critics, and readers believed that biography had the power to shape individuals' characters and to help define the nation's identity. In an age predating radio and television, biography was not simply a genre of writing, says Scott Casper; it was the medium that allowed people to learn about...
The Museum of Modern Art, 1991. — 169 p. The incentive to revive some past period is often as opportunistic as it is imperative. Nostalgia, as a motivator, is no match for the need to recall a historical moment that has embedded within it a spirit lacking in the present. Sometimes an unexpected or unthinkable event occurs which completes a series of past events with such...
Routledge, 2015. — 1135 p.
This specialized encyclopedia groups a tremendously wide range of topics under the general rubric of “culture wars.” Among the more than 600 entries will be found coverage of the American Civil Liberties Union; Barbie doll; Coulter, Ann; Fur; Gangs; Hispanic Americans; Moore, Michael; and Smoking in public. Each entry includes see also references and a...
Translated from the French by Eugene V. LaPlante, A.A. — Valley Forge, PA.: Judson Press, 2003. — 320 p. — ISBN-10: 0817014489; ISBN-13: 978-0817014483. Bruno Chenu provides an extraordinary record of the origin and history of Negro spirituals and offers exceptional historical and sociological insights into their meaning. Section One focuses on the origin of the spiritual by...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. — 264 p. When William F. Cody introduced his Wild West exhibition to European audiences in 1887, the show soared to new heights of popularity and success. With its colorful portrayal of cowboys, Indians, and the taming of the North American frontier, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West popularized a myth of American national identity and shaped European...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 615 p. The study of the reciprocal relationship between the Bible and popular culture has blossomed in the past few decades, and the time seems ripe for a broadly-conceived work that assesses the current state of the field, offers examples of work in that field, and suggests future directions for further study. This Handbook includes a wide...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 220 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture).
The years after World War Two have seen a widespread fascination with the free market. Michael W. Clune considers this fascination in postwar literature. In the fictional worlds created by works ranging from Frank O'Hara's poetry to nineties gangster rap, the market is...
University of Nebraska Press, 2014. — 456 p. In colonial North and South America, print was only one way of communicating. Information in various forms flowed across the boundaries between indigenous groups and early imperial settlements. Natives and newcomers made speeches, exchanged gifts, invented gestures, and inscribed their intentions on paper, bark, skins, and many other...
Yale University Press, 2000. — 256 p. The Library of Congress, considered by many to be the greatest library on earth, holds over 110 million items—books in 450 languages, irreplaceable national documents, priceless art works, and objects of cultural fascination. From a modest collection of 740 books purchased by the Congress in 1800, the Library has grown to house hundreds of...
Routledge, 2022. — 425 p. Recently, the U.S. has seen a rise in misogynistic and race-based violence perpetrated by men expressing a sense of grievance, from "incels" to alt-right activists. Grounding sociological, historical, political, and economic analyses of masculinity through the lens of cultural narratives in many forms and expressions, The Routledge Companion to...
Temple University Press, 2004. — 272 p. Though the United States emerged from World War II with superpower status and quickly entered a period of economic prosperity, the stresses and contradictions of the Cold War nevertheless cast a shadow over American life. The same period marked the heyday of the western film. "Cowboys as Cold Warriors" shows that this was no coincidence....
University of Illinois Press, 2014. — 272 p. This wide-ranging history synthesizes scholarship and media sources to give the reader an inside view of the television contracts, labor issues, and other off-the-field forces that shaped the National Football League. Historian Richard Crepeau shows how Commissioner Pete Rozelle's steady leadership guided the league's explosive...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. — 360 p.
America’s research universities consistently dominate global rankings but may be entrenched in a model that no longer accomplishes their purposes. With their multiple roles of discovery, teaching, and public service, these institutions represent the gold standard in American higher education, but their evolution since the...
Basic Books, 2000. — xvii, 475 p. — ISBN 0-465-01485-2. In this book Robert Crunden puts the “jazz” back in the Jazz Age. Jazz was America’s greatest contribution to the Modernist movement, yet it is much overlooked. When we hear the term “Jazz Age,” we conjure the ghosts of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Eliot, not Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters, George Gershwin,...
Oxford University Press, Inc. Madison Avenue, New York. 2003. This book explores a few varieties of the American Dream: their origins, their dynamics, their ongoing relevance. It does so by describing a series of specific American dreams in a loosely chronological, overlapping order.
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 288 p. This book is a study of the impact of industrialization and urbanization on the environment of New England in general and the Connecticut River Valley in particular, and of the varied public responses the impact engendered. The narrative engages the reader with biographical vignettes woven into the larger narrative and crosses several...
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. — 224 р. — (Twentieth-Century American Culture). In the decade following the end of World War I, the United States rose to its current seat as the leading world superpower matched by an emerging cultural dominance that would come to characterize the second half of the twentieth century. American Culture in the 1920s is an engaging...
TwoDot, 2021. — 184 p. Buffalo Bill and the Birth of American Celebrity commemorates the rise of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show and tells the tale of a visionary whose real-life experiences (and embellishments) created an entertainment phenomenon that became a worldwide sensation. From Bill Cody's earliest ideas of entertainment spectacles using Indians and examples of frontier...
TwoDot, 2021. — 184 p. Buffalo Bill and the Birth of American Celebrity commemorates the rise of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show and tells the tale of a visionary whose real-life experiences (and embellishments) created an entertainment phenomenon that became a worldwide sensation. From Bill Cody's earliest ideas of entertainment spectacles using Indians and examples of frontier...
The History Press, 2010. — 144 p. New England is rich in history and mystery. Numerous sleepy little towns and farming communities distinguish the regions scenic tranquility. But not long ago, New Englanders lived in fear of spectral ghouls believed to rise from their graves and visit family members in the night to suck their lives away. Although the word «vampire» was never...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 243 p. Introduction: New England, Puritans, and American History Protestant Reform Pilgrim Beginnings The Great Migration New England Blossoms Subduing the Land Subduing the Devil Women in a Man’s World Men and Women Subduing the Indians The Devil Strikes Back Epilogue: A Strange Legacy
4th edition. — Pearson Education ESL, 2014. — 333 p. American Ways: An Introduction to American Culture, Third Edition, by Maryanne Kearny Datesman, JoAnn Crandall, and Edward N. Kearny, focuses on the traditional values that have attracted people to the United States for well over 200 years and traces the effects of these values on American life. Chapter themes include...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. — 248 p. William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, star of the American West, began his journey to fame at age twenty-three, when he met writer Ned Buntline. The pulp novels Buntline later penned were loosely based on Cody’s scouting and bison-hunting adventures and sparked a national sensation. Other writers picked up the living legend of “Buffalo...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. — 248 p. William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, star of the American West, began his journey to fame at age twenty-three, when he met writer Ned Buntline. The pulp novels Buntline later penned were loosely based on Cody’s scouting and bison-hunting adventures and sparked a national sensation. Other writers picked up the living legend of “Buffalo...
Princeton University Press, 2012. — 248 p. As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience--an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and...
Harvard University Press, 2012. — 224 p. The abolitionists of the mid-nineteenth century have long been painted in extremes--vilified as reckless zealots who provoked the catastrophic bloodletting of the Civil War, or praised as daring and courageous reformers who hastened the end of slavery. But Andrew Delbanco sees abolitionists in a different light, as the embodiment of a...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. - 176 p. - (Studies in American Thought and Culture).
Every work of art has a story behind it. In 1886 the German American artist Robert Koehler painted a dramatic wide-angle depiction of an imagined confrontation between factory workers and their employer. He called this oil painting The Strike. It has had a long and tumultuous...
Left Coast Press, 2011. — 256 p. The 1876 events known as Custer’s Last Stand, Battle of Little Big Horn, or Battle of Greasy Grass have been represented over 1000 times in various artistic media, from paintings to sculpture to fast food giveaways. Norman Denzin shows how these representations demonstrate the changing perceptions - often racist - of Native America by the...
Routledge, 2015. — 228 p. In Indians in Color , noted cultural critic Norman K. Denzin addresses the acute differences in the treatment of artwork about Native America created by European-trained artists compared to those by Native artists. In his fourth volume exploring race and culture in the New West, Denzin zeroes in on painting movements in Taos, New Mexico over the past...
Routledge, 2016. — 236 p. Even as their nations and cultures were being destroyed by colonial expansion across the continent, American Indians became a form of entertainment, sometimes dangerous and violent, sometimes primitive and noble. Creating a fictional wild west, entrepreneurs then exported it around the world. Exhibitions by George Catlin, paintings by Charles King, and...
Routledge, 2008. — 256 p. Yellowstone. Sacagawea. Lewis & Clark. Transcontinental railroad. Indians as college mascots. All are iconic figures, symbols of the West in the Anglo-American imagination. Well-known cultural critic Norman Denzin interrogates each of these icons for their cultural meaning in this finely woven work. Part autoethnography, part historical narrative, part...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. — 408 p. — (William F. Cody Series on the History and Culture of the American West 5). — ISBN 9780806160108, 0806160101. The average American today is bombarded with as many as 5,000 advertisements a day. The sophisticated and persuasive marketing tactics that companies use may seem a recent phenomenon, but Pioneers of Promotion tells a...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. - 355 p. - (Studies in American Thought and Culture). Emerson’s Liberalism explains why Ralph Waldo Emerson has been and remains the central literary voice of American culture: he gave ever-fresh and lasting expression to its most fundamental and widely shared liberal values. Liberalism, after all, is more than a political philosophy: it is...
Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 330 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture).
Writing America Black examines the African American press and selected literary works by black authors. By viewing the journalist's role as historian, reporter, tastemaker, and propagandist, C.K. Doreski reveals the close bond to a larger African American literary tradition....
Edinburgh University Press, 2008. - 289p. List of Figures List of Case Studies Acknowledgements Chronology of 1930s American Culture Introduction: The Intellectual Context Literature and Drama Film and Photography Music and Radio Art and Design New Deal Culture Conclusion: The Cultural Legacy of the 1930s Notes
University of California Press, 2016. - 251 p.
Why do religion and science often appear in conflict in America’s public sphere? In Seeking Good Debate, Michael S. Evans examines the results from the first-ever study to combine large-scale empirical analysis of some of our foremost religion and science debates with in-depth research into what Americans actually want in the...
Edinburgh University Press, 2017. — 256 p. This new Companion surveys the traditions and conventions of the dark side of American culture – its repressed memories, its anxieties and panics, its fears and horrors, its obsessions and paranoias. Featuring new critical essays by established and emerging academics from a range of national backgrounds, this collection offers new...
Three Rivers Press, 2006. — 594 p. Skillfully Probing the Attack on Women’s Rights. “Opting-out,” “security moms,” “desperate housewives,” “the new baby fever”—the trend stories of 2006 leave no doubt that American women are still being barraged by the same backlash messages that Susan Faludi brilliantly exposed in her 1991 bestselling book of revelations. Now, the book that...
Edinburgh University Press, 2012. — x, 230 p. — (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture). — ISBN 978-0-7486-3965-6. Examines the Spiritualist movement's role in disseminating eugenic and hard hereditarian thoughtStudying transatlantic spiritualist literature from the mid-19th to the early 20th century, Christine Ferguson focuses on its incorporation and dissemination...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 208 p. The reactionary Comics gate campaign against alleged “forced” diversity in superhero comics revealed the extent to which comics have become a key battleground in America's Culture Wars. In the first in-depth scholarly study of Marvel Comics' most recent engagement with progressive politics, Superhero Culture Wars explores how the drive...
University of Alabama Press, 2016. — 401 p. Throughout its dramatic history, the American South has wrestled with issues such as poverty, social change, labor reform, civil rights, and party politics, and Flynt’s writing reaffirms religion as the lens through which southerners understand and attempt to answer these contentious questions. In Southern Religion and Christian...
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008. — 280 р. — (Twentieth-Century American Culture). This book explores the major cultural forms of 1940s America - fiction and non-fiction; music and radio; film and theatre; serious and popular visual arts - and key texts, trends and figures, from Native Son to Citizen Kane, from Hiroshima to HUAC, and from Dr Seuss to Bob Hope. After...
University Press of New England, 2014. — 296 p. — (New England in the World). A highly original and much-needed collection that explores the impact of Asian and Indian Ocean trade on the art and aesthetic sensibilities of New England port towns in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This diverse, interdisciplinary volume adds to our understanding of visual...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 214 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture).
By examining the unique problems that "blackness" signifies in Moby-Dick, Pierre, "Benito Cereno," and "The Encantadas," Christopher Freeburg analyzes how Herman Melville grapples with the social realities of racial difference in nineteenth-century America. Where Melville's...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. - 264 p. - (Studies in American Thought and Culture). The University and the People chronicles the influence of Populism—a powerful agrarian movement—on public higher education in the late nineteenth century. Revisiting this pivotal era in the history of the American state university, Scott Gelber demonstrates that Populists expressed a...
University of Georgia Press, 2014. — 400 p. While much has been written about the impact of Darwin's theories on U.S. culture, and countless scholarly collections have been devoted to the science of evolution, few have addressed the specific details of Darwin's theories as a cultural force affecting U.S. writers. America's Darwin fills this gap and features a range of critical...
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 412 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture).
Peter Gibian explores the key role played by Oliver Wendell Holmes, senior, in what was known as America's ''Age of Conversation''. Holmes' multivoiced writings can serve as a key to open up the closed interiors of Victorian America, whether in saloons or salons, parlors or...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2017. — 152 p. Civil War soldiers enjoyed unprecedented access to obscene materials of all sorts, including mass-produced erotic fiction, cartes de visite, playing cards, and stereographs. A perfect storm of antebellum legal, technological, and commercial developments, coupled with the concentration of men fed into armies, created a demand...
NYU Press, 2011. — 288 p. — (America and the Long 19th Century) Sites Unseen examines the complex intertwining of race and architecture in nineteenth and early-twentieth century American culture, the period not only in which American architecture came of age professionally in the U.S. but also in which ideas about architecture became a prominent part of broader conversations about...
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2016. — 399 p. — ISBN: 9783631644621, ASIN 3631644620. This encyclopedia aims to provide a ready reference to various aspects of American culture. The time frame is from the colonial period to the end of the 20th century. The areas covered are fine arts (painting, sculpture, photography); performing arts (music,...
Princeton University Press, 2016. - 784 p.
In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel, air conditioning, and television transformed households and workplaces. With medical advances, life expectancy between 1870...
University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 366 p. Every June the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, celebrates Franco-American Day, raising the Franco-American flag and hosting events designed to commemorate French culture in the Americas. Though there are twenty million French speakers and people of French or francophone descent in North America, making them the fifth-largest ethnic...
University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 366 p. Every June the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, celebrates Franco-American Day, raising the Franco-American flag and hosting events designed to commemorate French culture in the Americas. Though there are twenty million French speakers and people of French or francophone descent in North America, making them the fifth-largest ethnic...
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. — 270 р. — (Twentieth Century American Culture). This book looks beyond the common label of 'Ronald Reagan's America' to chart the complex intersection of cultures in the 1980s. In doing so it provides an insightful account of the major cultural forms of 1980s America—literature and drama; film and television; music and performance;...
Metropolitan Books, 2009. — 377 p.
The stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the AmazonIn 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. His intention was to grow rubber, but the project rapidly evolved into a more ambitious bid to...
Edited and with an introduction by Chris Dixon — University of Nebraska Press, 2010. — 159 p. William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody was the entertainment industry’s first international celebrity, achieving worldwide stardom with his traveling Wild West show. For three decades he operated and appeared in various incarnations of "the western world’s greatest traveling attraction",...
University Press of New England, 2014. — 204 p. Maud Howe Elliott (1854–1948), the daughter of Julia Ward Howe, was a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer and a tireless supporter of the arts, particularly in her adopted city of Newport, Rhode Island. An art historian and the author of over twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, including countless articles and short stories, Elliott is...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 242 p. — (Oxford History of Art).
This innovative introduction examines the profession of the nineteenth-century American artist and audience reception of their work. Works of art by familiar names such as Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer are discussed in detail within the larger arena of visual culture, as are key works by recently discovered...
Rutgers University Press, 2015. — 194 p. Amid controversies surrounding the team mascot and brand of the Washington Redskins in the National Football League and the use of mascots by K-12 schools, Americans demonstrate an expanding sensitivity to the pejorative use of references to Native Americans by sports organizations at all levels. In Indian Spectacle, Jennifer Guiliano...
Rutgers University Press, 2015. — 194 p. Amid controversies surrounding the team mascot and brand of the Washington Redskins in the National Football League and the use of mascots by K-12 schools, Americans demonstrate an expanding sensitivity to the pejorative use of references to Native Americans by sports organizations at all levels. In Indian Spectacle, Jennifer Guiliano...
New York University Press, 2015. — 304 p. Ethnology and Empire tells stories about words and ideas, and ideas about words that developed in concert with shifting conceptions about Native peoples and western spaces in the nineteenth-century United States. Contextualizing the emergence of Native American linguistics as both a professionalized research discipline and as popular...
Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press — 2014 — 496 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-226-12861-0 (e-book) Exhilaration and anxiety, the yearning for community and the quest for identity: these shared, contradictory feelings course through Outside the Gates of Eden, Peter Bacon Hales’s ambitious and intoxicating new history of America from the atomic age to the virtual age. Born under...
The University of Alabama Press, 2010. — 229 p.
The first in-depth study of the Freemasons during the Civil War
One of the enduring yet little examined themes in Civil War lore is the widespread belief that on the field of battle and afterward, members of Masonic lodges would give aid and comfort to wounded or captured enemy Masons, often at great personal sacrifice and...
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. — 336 р. — (Twentieth Century American Culture). This book provides a stimulating account of the dominant cultural forms of 1950s America: fiction and poetry; theatre and performance; film and television; music and radio; and the visual arts. Through detailed commentary and focused case studies of influential texts and events -- from...
Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008. - 471p. Notes on Contributors Karen Halttunen Early America The Nineteenth Century The Twentieth Century Thematic and Methodological Approaches The Cultural Turn in Other Fields
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 281 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture).
In Henry James and Queer Modernity, Eric Haralson examines far-reaching changes in gender politics and the emergence of modern male homosexuality as depicted in the writings of Henry James and three authors who were greatly influenced by him: Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and...
University Of Chicago Press, 2015. — 384 p. When Patrick Buchanan took the stage at the Republican National Convention in 1992 and proclaimed, There is a religious war going on for the soul of our country,” his audience knew what he was talking about: the culture wars, which had raged throughout the previous decade and would continue until the century’s end, pitting...
Routledge, 2022. — 405 p. The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream: Volume 2 explores the social, economic, and cultural aspects of the American Dream in both theory and reality in the twenty-first century. This collection of essays brings together leading scholars from a range of fields to further develop the themes and issues explored in the first volume. The concept of...
Rutgers University Press, 2015. — 256 p. — (Asian American Studies Today). Histories of civil rights movements in America generally place little or no emphasis on the activism of Asian Americans. Yet, as this fascinating new study reveals, there is a long and distinctive legacy of civil rights activism among foreign and American-born Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino students,...
Rutgers University Press, 2015. — 212 p. Current public health literature suggests that the mentally ill may represent as much as half of the smokers in America. In Smoking Privileges, Laura D. Hirshbein highlights the complex problem of mentally ill smokers, placing it in the context of changes in psychiatry, in the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries, and in the experience...
University of Virginia Press, 2018. — 320 p. For roughly a century, the log cabin occupied a central and indispensable role in the rapidly growing United States. Although it largely disappeared as a living space, it lived on as a symbol of the settling of the nation. In her thought-provoking and generously illustrated new book, Alison Hoagland looks at this once-common dwelling as...
Scribner, 2014. — 406 p.
Peace was a talented young African-American man who escaped the slums of Newark for Yale University, only to succumb to the dangers of the streets -- and of one's own nature -- when he returned home. When Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with Peace, his college roommate for four years. Peace's life was rough from the beginning in...
Transl. by Alan J. Singerman. — University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. — 254 p. — ISBN-10: 0271080086; ISBN-13: 978-0271080086 For writers such as John Hector St. John de Crèvecœur and Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia, America was never more potent as a driving ideal than in its loss. Examining the paradoxical American paradise depicted in Crèvecœur’s...
Henry Holt and Co., 2016. — 336 p.
A sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885
In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorized by someone equally as vicious...
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2016. — 321 p. — ISBN: 0805097678, ISBN13: 9780805097672. A sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer — America's first — who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885. In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884,...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. - 430 p. - (Studies in American Thought and Culture). "Who are we?" is the question at the core of these fascinating essays from one of the nation's leading intellectual historians. With old identities increasingly destabilized throughout the world—the result of demographic migration, declining empires, and the quickening integration of the...
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. - 430 p.
The role played by the humanities in reconciling American diversity -- a diversity of both ideas and peoples -- is not always appreciated. This volume of essays, commissioned by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, examines that role in the half century after World War II, when exceptional prosperity and population...
Princeton University Press, 2013. - 228 p.
The role of liberalized, ecumenical Protestantism in American history has too often been obscured by the more flamboyant and orthodox versions of the faith that oppose evolution, embrace narrow conceptions of family values, and continue to insist that the United States should be understood as a Christian nation. In this book, one of...
Princeton University Press, 2013. - 228 p.
The role of liberalized, ecumenical Protestantism in American history has too often been obscured by the more flamboyant and orthodox versions of the faith that oppose evolution, embrace narrow conceptions of family values, and continue to insist that the United States should be understood as a Christian nation. In this book, one of...
Greenwood Press, 1999. — 496p. Colonial American Wars, 1565-1765 The American Revolution The War of 1812 Indian Wars East of the Mississippi, 1783-1845 The Texas Revolution and the War with Mexico, 1836-1848 The Civil War Indian Wars West of the Mississippi, 1862-1890 The Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection World War I and the 1920s World War II The Korean War...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 384 p. Across North America, Islam is portrayed as a religion of immigrants, converts, and cultural outsiders. Yet Muslims have been part of American society for much longer than most people realize. This book documents the history of Islam in Detroit, a city that is home to several of the nation's oldest, most diverse Muslim communities. In the...
Cornell University Press, 2001. — 240 p. Since the 1800's, many European Americans have relied on Native Americans as models for their own national, racial, and gender identities. Displays of this impulse include world's fairs, fraternal organizations, and films such as Dances with Wolves . Shari M. Huhndorf uses cultural artifacts such as these to examine the phenomenon of "going...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2007. — 305 p. — (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 136). This book sets out to shed light on what is specific to American Transcendentalism by comparing it with the atheistic vision of German philosophers and theologians like Ludwig Feuerbach and Arthur Schopenhauer. The study argues that atheism was part of the discursive and religious...
Harvard University Press, 2018. — 569 p. Every day, Americans make decisions about their privacy: what to share and when, how much to expose and to whom. Securing the boundary between one’s private affairs and public identity has become a central task of citizenship. How did privacy come to loom so large in American life? Sarah Igo tracks this elusive social value across the...
Yale University Press, 2005. — 320 p. From the 1920s through the 1950s, two individuals, Joseph Urban and Norman Bel Geddes, did more, by far, to create the image of “America” and make it synonymous with modernity than any of their contemporaries. Urban and Bel Geddes were leading Broadway stage designers and directors who turned their prodigious talents to other projects,...
University of Alabama Press, 2015. - 208 p. Hunt the Devil is a timely and illuminating exploration of demonic imagery in US war culture. In it, authors Robert L. Ivie and Oscar Giner examine the origins of the Devil figure in the national psyche and review numerous examples from US history of the demonization of America’s perceived opponents. Their analysis demonstrates that...
Oxford University Press, 2016. - 248 p. A restaurant critic can tell you about the chef. A menu can tell you about the farm-sourced ingredients. Now who's going to tell you about the people preparing your meal? From James Beard Leadership Award winner Saru Jayaraman, Forked is an enlightening examination of what we don't talk about when we talk about restaurants: Is the line...
Columbia University Press, 2016. - 288 p.
This anthology draws bold comparisons between secularist strategies to contain, privatize, and discipline religion and the treatment of racialized subjects by the American state. Specializing in history, literature, anthropology, theology, religious studies, and political theory, contributors expose secularism’s prohibitive practices in...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 240 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture).
Edith Wharton is not ordinarily associated with racial issues. But using ideas from feminist literary criticism, Kassanoff finds in Wharton's characters, circumstances, and story lines racial concerns of the comfortable white urban society of the early 1900s. Mixed in with...
Texas A&M University Press, 2001. — 256 p. The land along the U.S.-Mexican border is often portrayed as the place where two separate cultures meet - or indeed collide. Yet this is not the first meeting of the two cultures, not their first collision, and not their first confluence. Their respective ancestral cultures in England and Spain, argue scholars Milo Kearney and Manuel...
NYU Press, 2020. — 336 p. Enables a reckoning with the legacy of the Forgotten War through literary and cinematic works of cultural memory. Though often considered “the forgotten war,” lost between the end of World War II and the start of the Cold War, the Korean War was, as Daniel Y. Kim argues, a watershed event that fundamentally reshaped both domestic conceptions of race...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. — 240 p. Ursula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: “If I’m ninety and believe I’m forty-five, I’m headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub.” On cultural perceptions of fantasy: “The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of?” On breakfast: “Eating an egg from the shell takes not...
Penguin, 2004. — 408 p.
Jackson Lears has won accolades for his skill in identifying the rich and unexpected layers of meaning beneath the familiar and mundane in our lives. Now, he challenges the conventional wisdom that the Protestant ethic of perseverance, industry, and disciplined achievement is what made America great. Turning to the deep, seldom acknowledged reverence for...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 233 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture).
Examining the literature of slavery and race before the Civil War, Maurice Lee, in this 2005 book, demonstrates how the slavery crisis became a crisis of philosophy that exposed the breakdown of national consensus and the limits of rational authority. Poe, Stowe, Douglass,...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 288 p.
Living Oil is a work of environmental cultural studies that engages with a wide spectrum of cultural forms, from museum exhibits and oil industry tours to poetry, documentary film, fiction, still photography, novels and memoirs. The book's unique focus is the aesthetic, sensory and emotional legacies of petroleum, from its rise to the...
TrineDay, 2011. — 371 p. The roots of coincidence and conspiracy in American politics, crime, and culture are examined in this first volume of a three-part set, exposing new connections between religion, political conspiracy, and occultism. Based on the premise that there is a satanic undercurrent to American affairs, this study examines the sinister forces at work throughout...
TrineDay, 2011. — 358 p. The roots of coincidence and conspiracy in American politics, crime, and culture are investigated in this analysis that exposes new connections between religion, political conspiracy, terrorism, and occultism. Readers are provided with strange parallels between supernatural forces such as shaminism, ritual magic, and cult practices, and contemporary...
TrineDay, 2011. — 492 p. The roots of coincidence and conspiracy in American politics, crime, and culture are investigated in this examination of the connections between religion, political conspiracy, and occultism. Readers are presented with detailed insight into how Charlie Manson became a national bogeyman as well as startling connections between Nobel Prize�winning physicist...
The University of Chicago Press, 2004. — xiv, 382 p. — ISBN 0-226-47378-3. For much of the twentieth century, Americans had a love/hate relationship with France. While many admired its beauty, culture, refinement, and famed joie de vivre , others thought of it as a dilapidated country populated by foul-smelling, mean-spirited anti-Americans driven by a keen desire to part...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 304 p. This collected volume of original essays proposes to address the state of scholarship on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of Americans responses to wilderness from first contact to the present. While not bringing a synthetic narrative to wilderness, the volume will gather competing interpretations of wilderness in...
Greenwood (An Imprint of ABC-CLIO), 2011. — 250 p. — ISBN: 978–0–313–37698–6. A fascinating survey of American food trends that highlights the key inventions, brands, restaurant chains, and individuals that shaped the American diet and palate in the 20th century. In the United States today, how and what we eat—with all of its myriad ethnic varieties and endless choices—is...
University Press of Mississippi, 2019. — 192 p. Jockomo: The Native Roots of Mardi Gras Indians celebrates the transcendent experience of Mardi Gras, encompassing both ancient and current traditions of New Orleans. The Mardi Gras Indians are a renowned and beloved fixture of New Orleans public culture. Yet very little is known about the indigenous roots of their cultural...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 236 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture).
In this major new book John Limon examines the various ways American authors have written in an age increasingly dominated by science. He focuses in particular on Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allen Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne--three highly articulate and alarmed witnesses to...
University of Illinois Press, 2017. — 159 p. Home to established African American institutions and communities, Washington, D.C., offered women in the New Negro movement a unique setting for the fight against racial and gender oppression. Colored No More traces how African American women of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century made significant strides toward making the...
New York University Press, 2007. — 368 p. 2008 Winner, MLA First Book PrizeCharting the proliferation of forms of mourning and memorial across a century increasingly concerned with their historical and temporal significance, Arranging Grief offers an innovative new view of the aesthetic, social, and political implications of emotion. Dana Luciano argues that the cultural...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 232 p. This book defines the previously unaddressed, early evolution of the American frontier hero in literature and popular culture. Denise MacNeil resituates the literary origins of this hero from the nineteenth century to the seventeenth century by tracing its roots to Mary Rowlandson’s narration of her experiences as a prisoner. This study...
Scarecrow Press, 2007. — 449 p. — (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts). Postmodernist literature embraces a wide range of forms and perspectives, including texts that are primarily self-reflexive; texts that use pastiche, burlesque, parody, intertextuality and hybrid forms to create textual realities that either run in opposition to or in parallel with an...
Princeton University Press, 2009. — 248 p.
No Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world today. Acclaimed historian Mark Mazower forces us to set aside the popular myth that the UN miraculously rose from the ashes of World War II as the guardian of a...
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009. — 220 p. He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western explores the construction and representation of masculinity in low-budget western movies made from the 1930s to the early 1950s. These films contained some of the mid-twentieth-century’s most familiar names, especially for youngsters: cowboys such as Roy Rogers, Hopalong...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 380 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture).
John McWilliams' book is an ambitious attempt to review New England history and literature from the Puritans through the Revolutionary period to the antebellum era. McWilliams demonstrates how successive narratives of crises, real or imagined, reflected historical realities...
Columbia University Press, 2005. — 386 p. — ISBN 0-231-12992-0. Sugar, pork, beer, corn, cider, scrapple, and hoppin' John all became staples in the diet of colonial America. The ways Americans cultivated and prepared food and the values they attributed to it played an important role in shaping the identity of the newborn nation. In A Revolution in Eating , James E. McWilliams...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. — 454 p.
The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Well Holmes, Jr., future associate justice of the United States Supreme Court; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and the...
Lexington Books, 2024. — 283 p. During the twentieth century, Route 66 became a national icon and was commonly associated with classic American cuisine, road trips, and the golden age of postwar American prosperity. This conception, however, is mythic. The reality of Route 66 travel was congestion, danger, and racism. Route 66 and the Formation of a National Cultural Icon:...
Lexington Books, 2024. — 283 p. During the twentieth century, Route 66 became a national icon and was commonly associated with classic American cuisine, road trips, and the golden age of postwar American prosperity. This conception, however, is mythic. The reality of Route 66 travel was congestion, danger, and racism. Route 66 and the Formation of a National Cultural Icon:...
Edinburgh University Press, 2008. — 273 p. List of Figures List of Case Studies Acknowledgements Chronology of 1960s American Culture Introduction: The Intellectual Context Music and Performance Film and Television Fiction and Poetry Art and Photography New Social Movements and Creative Dissent Conclusion: The Sixties and its Cultural Legacy Notes
Routledge, 2019. — 401 p. The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies provides scholars and students of American Studies with theoretical and applied essays that help to define Transnational American Studies as a discipline and practice. In more than 30 essays, the volume offers a history of the concept of the "transnational" and takes readers from the Barbary...
Harvard University Press, 2013. - 326 p.
Seventeenth-century New Englanders were not as busy policing their neighbors’ behavior as Nathaniel Hawthorne or many historians of early America would have us believe. Keeping their own households in line occupied too much of their time. Under Household Government reveals the extent to which family members took on the role of watchdog...
Simon & Schuster, 2021. — 336 p. It was one of the most reliable jokes in Charlie Hill’s stand-up routine: "My people are from Wisconsin. We used to be from New York. We had a little real estate problem". In We Had a Little Real Estate Problem , acclaimed comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff focuses on one of comedy’s most significant and little-known stories: how, despite having...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 262 p. Our Common Dwelling explores why America's first literary circle turned to nature in the 1830s and '40s. When the New England Transcendentalists spiritualized nature, they were reacting to intense class conflict in the region's industrializing cities. Their goal was to find a secular foundation for their social authority as an intellectual elite....
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 9781421420943; ISBN13: 978-1421420943 — (Hopkins Studies in Modernism) The intellectual migration to the United States of European writers, intellectuals, and artists in the 1930s and 1940s has often been narrowly seen as a clash between a rarefied European modernist sensibility and a debased American mass...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. — 346 p. — (Creating the North American Landscape). What does it mean to be from somewhere? If most people in the United States are "from some place else" what is an American homeland? In answering these questions, the contributors to Homelands: A Geography of Culture and Place across America offer a geographical vision of territory and the...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. — 208 p. From early in the twentieth century, the state park movement sought to expand public access to scenic American places. During the 1930s those efforts accelerated as the National Park Service used New Deal funding and labor to construct parks nationwide. However, under severe Jim Crow restrictions in the South, African Americans...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2004. — 1375 p. — ISBN: 0-8078-2800-9. In this magisterial history of intellectual life, Michael O'Brien analyzes the lives and works of antebellum Southern thinkers and reintegrates the South into the larger tradition of American and European intellectual history. O'Brien finds that the evolution of Southern intellectual life paralleled...
Indiana University Press, 2020. — 272 p. How do works from film and literature―Sister Carrie, Native Son, Meet Me in St. Louis, Halloween, and A History of Violence, for example―imagine, reify, and reproduce Midwestern identity? And what are the repercussions of such regional narratives and images circulating in American culture? In The American Midwest in Film and Literature:...
University of Chicago Press, 2018. — 272 pp. From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of the period, mesmerism embraced a variety of phenomena, including mind control, spirit...
New York University Press, 2021. — 328 p. In 1688, a leading Quaker thinker and activist in what is now New Jersey penned a letter to one of his closest disciples concerning Kabbalah, or what he called the mystical theology of the Jews. Around that same time, one of the leading Puritan ministers developed a messianic theology based in part on the mystical conversion of the...
Dover Publications, 2012. — 480 p. Hailed as "thoroughly fascinating" and "an excellent account" by The New York Times, this chronicle recaptures the vibrantly eccentric lifestyles of generations of free-spirited Americans. Its evocative profiles range from Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and Ambrose Bierce to lesser-known nonconformists and iconoclasts. Hoboes, starving poets,...
NY: The Metropolitan museum of art, 1976. — 51 p. Uniquely inclusive, "African Americans in the Nineteenth Century: People and Perspectives" offers a wealth of insights into the way African Americans lived and how slave-era experiences affected their lives afterward. Coverage goes beyond well-known figures to focus on the lives of African American men, women, and children across...
Yale University Press, 2010. — 208 p. In this pathbreaking book one of America’s most distinguished philosophers brilliantly explores the status and authority of law and the nature of political allegiance through close readings of three classic Hollywood Westerns: Howard Hawks’ Red River and John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Searchers . Robert Pippin treats...
University of Alabama Press, 2014. - 240 p.
Sacrifice and Survival recounts the history and development of Jesuit higher education in the American South.
R. Eric Platt examines in Sacrifice and Survival the history and evolution of Jesuit higher education in the American South and hypothesizes that the identity and mission of southern Jesuit colleges and universities may...
University of Toronto Press, 2021. — 336 p. The United States of Medievalism contemplates the desires, dreams, and contradictions inherent in experiencing the Middle Ages in a nation that is so temporally, spatially, and at times politically removed from them. The European Middle Ages have long influenced the national landscape of the United States through the medieval sites...
University of Toronto Press, 2021. — 336 p. The United States of Medievalism contemplates the desires, dreams, and contradictions inherent in experiencing the Middle Ages in a nation that is so temporally, spatially, and at times politically removed from them. The European Middle Ages have long influenced the national landscape of the United States through the medieval sites...
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000. — 247 p. — ISBN: 0748608567. This deeply engaging, historically, and culturally informed book provides new perspectives on a wide range of writers, and at the same time provides a radically new development of many of the most pertinent issues in the field of postcolonial writing and theory. It constitutes a major new engagement...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. — 308 p. The discovery of radium by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898 eventually led to a craze for radium products in the 1920s until their widespread use proved lethal for consumers, patients, and medical practitioners alike. Radium infiltrated American culture, Maria Rentetzi reveals, not only because of its potential to treat cancer but...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 320 p. An engaging account of ambition, the forces that drive and constrain it, and whether it serves our deepest needs. Ambition is a dominant force in for human civilization, driving its greatest achievements and most horrific abuses. Our striving has brought art, airplanes, and antibiotics, as well as wars, genocide, and despotism. This mixed...
Greenwood Press, 2003. — 312 p. This book describes the important changes in American society during the 1960s, from feminism and civil rights to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Individual chapters explore various aspects of popular culture, including advertising, fashion, literature, music, visual arts, and travel. Supplemental resources include a timeline of important events, an...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 198 p. Boasting a rich, complex history rooted in Celtic and Christian ritual, Halloween has evolved from ethnic celebration to a blend of street festival, fright night, and vast commercial enterprise. In this colorful history, Nicholas Rogers takes a lively, entertaining look at the cultural origins and development of one of the most popular...
Praeger, 2013. — 323 p. America's often-unspoken morality codes make many topics taboo in "the land of the free." This book analyzes hundreds of popular culture examples to expose how the media both avoids and alludes to how we derive pleasure from our bodies. Flatulence … male nudity … abortion … masturbation: these are just a few of the taboo topics in the United States. What...
Maker Media, 2015. — 292 с.: ил. — ISBN: 978-1457187186 Learn about the role that patent models played in American history - and even learn to build your own replica! Patent models, working models required for US patent filings from 1790 to 1880, offer insight into--and inspiration from--a period of intense technological advancement, the Industrial Revolution. The Rothschild...
University Alabama Press, 2013. — 240 p. Eclipse of Empires analyzes the nineteenth-century American fascination with what Patricia Jane Roylance calls “narratives of imperial eclipse,” texts that depict the surpassing of one great civilization by another. Patricia Jane Roylance’s central claim in Eclipse of Empires is that historical episodes of imperial eclipse, for example...
USA: Oxford University Press, 1992 - 360 p.
Samuels's collection of critical essays gives body and scope to the subject of nineteenth-century sentimentality by situating it in terms of "women's culture" and issues of race. Presenting an interdisciplinary range of approaches that consider sentimental culture before and after the Civil War, these critical studies of American...
Rutgers University Press, 2017. — 248 p. Most Americans take for granted much of what is materially involved in the daily rituals of dwelling. In Dwelling in Resistance, Chelsea Schelly examines four alternative U.S. communities—“The Farm,” “Twin Oaks,” “Dancing Rabbit,” and “Earthships”—where electricity, water, heat, waste, food, and transportation practices differ markedly...
Museum Tusculanum Press, 2004. — 392 p.
The anticommunist crusade of the FBI and its legendary director J. Edgar Hoover during the McCarthy era and the Cold War has attracted much attention from historians, but little is known about the Bureau's political activities during its formative years. This book breaks new ground by tracing the roots of the FBI's political surveillance...
Penguin Books, 2020. — 286 p. — ISBN 978-0525522294, 978-0525522300. Read at school by almost every student, staged in theaters across the land, and long highly valued by both conservatives and liberals alike, Shakespeare's plays are rare common ground in the United States. For well over two centuries now, Americans of all stripes--presidents and activists, writers and...
Counterpoint, 2019. — 336 p. Written from Neil Shister’s perspective as a journalist, student of American culture, and six-time participant in Burning Man, Radical Ritual presents the event as vitally, historically important. Shister contends that Burning Man is a significant player in the avant-garde, forging new social paradigms as liberal democracy unravels. Burning Man’s...
University of Illinois Press, 2015. — 246 p. Now synonymous with Sixties counterculture, LSD actually entered the American consciousness via the mainstream. Time and Life, messengers of lumpen-American respectability, trumpeted its grand arrival in a postwar landscape scoured of alluring descriptions of drug use while outlets across the media landscape piggybacked on their...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 314 p. — ISBN 978-0-19-973495-5. When George Washington bade farewell to his officers, he did so in New York's Fraunces Tavern. When Andrew Jackson planned his defense of New Orleans against the British in 1815, he met Jean Lafitte in a grog shop. And when John Wilkes Booth plotted with his accomplices to carry out an assassination, they...
University of Illinois Press, 2013. — 352 p. — (Music in American Life).
The Creolization of American Culture examines the artworks, letters, sketchbooks, music collection, and biography of the painter William Sidney Mount (1807–1868) as a lens through which to see the multiethnic antebellum world that gave birth to blackface minstrelsy. As a young man living in the multiethnic...
University of Alabama Press, 2014. - 308 p. Elizabeth Stoddard was a gifted writer of fiction, poetry, and journalism; successfully published within her own lifetime; esteemed by such writers as William Dean Howells and Nathaniel Hawthorne; and situated at the epicenter of New York's literary world. Nonetheless, she has been almost excluded from literary memory and importance....
Peter Lang, 2014. — 152 p. This book explores and analyzes the problems and challenges that have resulted from the Civil War, Reconstruction, slavery, and segregation in North America. These painful chapters in American history have continued along racial and regional lines and are of particular interest today when the USA are for the first time governed by an African American...
Penguin Books, 2004. — 312 p. — ISBN: 978-1-101-66266-3 The world as we know it today began in California in the late 1800s, and Eadweard Muybridge had a lot to do with it. This striking assertion is at the heart of Rebecca Solnit’s new book, which weaves together biography, history, and fascinating insights into art and technology to create a boldly original portrait of...
Cornell University Press, 2018. — 258 p. Sorber's history of the movement and society of the time provides an original framework for understanding the origins of the land-grant colleges and the nationwide development of these schools into the twentieth century. The land-grant ideal at the foundation of many institutions of higher learning promotes the sharing of higher...
The University Press of Kentucky, 2001. — 349 p.
Because central and southern Appalachia’s distinctive Christianity lacks a clearly recognizable “father figure,” religious historians have long struggled to fully explain its origins, traditions and folklore. In this well researched and authoritative account of the region’s religion, John Sparks focuses on Shubal Stearns, an...
University of South Carolina Press, 2022. — 256 p. Selling Andrew Jackson is the first book-length study of the American portrait painter Ralph E. W. Earl, who worked as Andrew Jackson's personal artist from 1817 until Earl's death in 1838. During this period Jackson held Earl in close council, even providing him residence at the Hermitage, Jackson's home in Tennessee, and at...
University of South Carolina Press, 2022. — 256 p. Selling Andrew Jackson is the first book-length study of the American portrait painter Ralph E. W. Earl, who worked as Andrew Jackson's personal artist from 1817 until Earl's death in 1838. During this period Jackson held Earl in close council, even providing him residence at the Hermitage, Jackson's home in Tennessee, and at...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 179 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture).
Why did the figure of ''the girl'' come to dominate the American imagination from the middle of the nineteenth century into the twentieth? Peter Stoneley looks at how women were fictionalized for the girl reader as ways of achieving a powerful social and cultural presence....
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 193 p. — ISBN10: 1137589795; ISBN13: 978-1137589798 — (The New Urban Atlantic) This monograph explores transatlantic literary culture by tracing the proliferation of ‘new media,’ such as the anthology, the literary history and the magazine, in the period between 1750 and 1850. The fast-paced media landscape out of which these publishing...
Routledge, 2016. — 272 p. American Indians and the American Imaginary considers the power of representations of Native Americans in American public culture. The book's wide-ranging case studies move from colonial captivity narratives to modern film, from the camp fire to the sports arena, from legal and scholarly texts to tribally-controlled museums and cultural centres. The...
Baylor University Press, 2007. — 335 p. Escape into the Future analyzes the power of pessimism, showing links between present-day religious pessimism and the nihilism of popular culture. Stroup and Shuck rummage through an interesting and eclectic body of pop culture--from Fight Club to X-Files to the Left Behind series--pointing out the presence of pessimistic themes...
Oxford University Press, 2016. - 321 p. In the last few decades, all major presidential candidates have openly discussed the role of faith in their lives, sharing their religious beliefs and church commitments with the media and their constituencies. And yet, to the surprise of many Americans, God played almost no role in the 2012 presidential campaign. During the campaign,...
The University of Chicago Press, 2007. — xxxiv, 400 p. — ISBN 978- 0- 226- 78944- 6. Anglophilia charts the phenomenon of the love of Britain that emerged after the Revolution and remains in the character of U.S. society and class, the style of academic life, and the idea of American intellectualism. But as Tamarkin shows, this Anglophilia was more than just an elite nostalgia;...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. - 264 p. - (Studies in American Thought and Culture).
During the First World War it was the task of the U.S. Department of Justice, using the newly passed Espionage Act and its later Sedition Act amendment, to prosecute and convict those who opposed America’s entry into the conflict. In Unsafe for Democracy, historian William H. Thomas Jr....
Boston: The MIT Press, 2004. — 510 p. — ISBN10: 0262701065; ISBN13: 978-0262701068. In this history of aural culture in early-twentieth-century America, Emily Thompson charts dramatic transformations in what people heard and how they listened. What they heard was a new kind of sound that was the product of modern technology. They listened as newly critical consumers of aural...
University of Michigan Press, 2021. — 302 p. Fashion Nation argues that popular images of the United States as a place of glitter and lights, of gaudy costumes and dizzying visual surfaces - usually understood as features of technomodernity—were in fact brewed in the rich, strange world of early nineteenth-century British and European folk nationalism when nations were...
Columbia University Press, 2005. — 258 p. — (Religion and American Culture). On a September afternoon in 1853, three African American men from St. Philip's Church walked into the Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and took their seats among five hundred wealthy and powerful white church leaders. Ultimately, and with great reluctance, the Convention had acceded to...
Minneapolis, MN: Compass Point Books, 2005. — 24 p. — ISBN 0-7565-0648-4. Contents What Is Groundhog Day? What Is a Groundhog? Where Does the Main Groundhog Day Event Happen? What Happens on Groundhog Day? How Did Groundhog Day Begin? How Did Groundhog Day Come to the United States? Who Else Predicts the Weather on Groundhog Day? How Often Is the Groundhog Right? What Does...
Abrams Press, 2018. — 272 p. — (With an Preface by Michael Horowitz and Foreword by Zach Leary) The first collection of Timothy Leary’s (1920–1996) selected papers and correspondence opens a window on the ideas that inspired the counterculture of the 1960s and the fascination with LSD that continues to the present. The man who coined the phrase “turn on, tune in, drop out,”...
Greenwood Press, 2002. — 320 p. Series Foreword by Ray B. Browne Timeline of Popular Culture Events Part One Life and Youth During the New Nation Everyday America World of Youth Part Two Popular Culture of the New Nation Advertising Architecture Fashion Food Leisure Activities Literature Music Performing Arts Travel Visual Arts Cost of Products in the New Nation Notes Further...
University Press of Kansas, 2015. — 328 p. Early in the twentieth century, the political humorist Will Rogers was arguably the most famous cowboy in America. And though most in his vast audience didn't know it, he was also the most famous Indian of his time. Those who know of Rogers's Cherokee heritage and upbringing tend to minimize its importance, or to imagine that Rogers...
Lawrence Hill Books, 1999. — 672 p. This comprehensive history of black humor sets it in the context of American popular culture. Blackface minstrelsy, Stepin Fetchit, and the Amos ’n’ Andy show presented a distorted picture of African Americans; this book contrasts this image with the authentic underground humor of African Americans found in folktales, race records, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 189 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). In Time, Tense, and American Literature, Cindy Weinstein examines canonical American authors who employ a range of tenses to tell a story that has already taken place. This book argues that key texts in the archive of American literature are inconsistent in their retrospective...
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2009. — 256 p. — ISBN-10: 0791472787; ISBN-13: 978-0791472781. Decadent Culture in the United States traces the development of the decadent movement in America from its beginnings in the 1890s to its brief revival in the 1920s. During the fin de siècle, many Americans felt the nation had entered a period of decline since the...
Greenwood, 2007. — 1034 p. — ISBN10: 0313337195, 13 978-0313337192. In the United States, social class ranks with gender, race, and ethnicity in determining the values, activities, political behavior, and life chances of individuals. Most scholars agree on the importance of class, although they often disagree on what it is and how it impacts Americans. This A-Z encyclopedia,...
Princeton University Press, 2002 - 207 p. From outlawing polygamy and mandating public education to protecting the rights of minorities, the framing of group life by the state has been a subject of considerable interest and controversy throughout the history of the United States. The subject continues to be important in many countries. This book deals with state responses to...
Edinburgh University Press, 2010. — 257p. List of Figures List of Case Studies Acknowledgements Chronology of 1910s American Culture Film and Vaudeville Visual Art and Photography Fiction and Poetry Performance and Music The Great War and American Culture Notes
Yale University Press, 2023. — 392 p. Historian Ashli White explores the circulation of material culture during the American, French, and Haitian revolutions, arguing that in the late eighteenth century, radical ideals were contested through objects as well as in texts. She considers how revolutionary things, as they moved throughout the Atlantic, brought people into contact...
Fulcrum Publishing, 2018. — 350 p. In the face of looming, tumultuous global change, Red Prophet: The Punishing Intellectualism of Vine Deloria Jr. is a guide for those venturing into Vine's work in search of answers and solutions to Indigenous and non-Indigenous politics, ecology, and organization. David E. Wilkins's insights, based on his personal relationship with Deloria,...
Fulcrum Publishing, 2018. — 350 p. In the face of looming, tumultuous global change, Red Prophet: The Punishing Intellectualism of Vine Deloria Jr. is a guide for those venturing into Vine's work in search of answers and solutions to Indigenous and non-Indigenous politics, ecology, and organization. David E. Wilkins's insights, based on his personal relationship with Deloria,...
Hilaritas Press, 2020. — 504 p. In 1974, Robert Anton Wilson wrote a book about the ideas and tribulations of his friend, Dr. Timothy Leary. Intriguingly, this book would not be published until some 46 years later, having been put aside and then lost for decades. In 1986, RAW wrote The New Inquisition which had as a partial focus the persecution of Timothy Leary and Wilhelm...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 576 p. A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America's western states. - Offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of cultural expressions originating in the west - Focuses on the intersections, complexities, and...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 576 p. A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America's western states. - Offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of cultural expressions originating in the west - Focuses on the intersections, complexities, and...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. — 248 p. — (William F. Cody Series on the History and Culture of the American West, 7). When Horace Greeley published his famous imperative, “Go West, young man, and grow up with the country,” the frontier was already synonymous with a distinctive type of idealized American masculinity. But Greeley’s exhortation also captured popular...
Oxford University Press, 2015. - 288 p. The United States Constitution insures that all persons born in the US are citizens with equal protection under the law. But in today's America, the US-born children of undocumented immigrants--over four million of them--do not enjoy fully the benefits of citizenship or of feeling that they belong. Children in mixed-status families are...
Петроград: Общественная Польза, 1915. — 40 с. "За последнее время, в связи с мировыми событиями, у нас сильно возрос интерес к Америк и к американцам; поэтому автору казалось своевременным поделиться с читателями «Вестника Европы» мыслями и сведениями о них, основанными на личных наблюдениях и изучении новейшей литературы о Соединенных Штатах".
М.: Наука , 1990 - 239 с.
В предлагаемой книге дается анализ важнейших компонентов американского национального самосознания, основных этапов и исторических путей его формирования и эволюции. Автор видит свою главную задачу в том, чтобы выделить и проанализировать наиболее характерные для него социально-психологические, социо-культурные, национально-исторические и...
М.: Наука, 1990. — 239 с. В предлагаемой книге дается анализ важнейших компонентов американского национального самосознания, основных этапов и исторических путей его формирования и эволюции. Автор видит свою главную задачу в том, чтобы выделить и проанализировать наиболее характерные для него социально-психологические, социо-культурные, национально-исторические и...
М.: Наука, 1990. — 239 с. В предлагаемой книге дается анализ важнейших компонентов американского национального самосознания, основных этапов и исторических путей его формирования и эволюции. Автор видит свою главную задачу в том, чтобы выделить и проанализировать наиболее характерные для него социально-психологические, социо-культурные, национально-исторические и...
СПб.: Человек, 2010. — 789 с. — ISBN 978-5-904885-11-3. Данное учебное пособие по истории культуры США – относительно краткой, но безусловно яркой – написано почитателями и знатоками этой страны, профессорами Т. Ф. Кузнецовой и А. И. Уткиным. Авторы подробно прослеживают, как колонисты, принесшие на новый континент дух старой Англии и идеи религиозного протестантизма, за четыре...
СПб.: Человек, 2010. — 1296 с. — ISBN 978-5-904885-11-3. Данное учебное пособие по истории культуры США – относительно краткой, но безусловно яркой – написано почитателями и знатоками этой страны, профессорами Т. Ф. Кузнецовой и А. И. Уткиным. Авторы подробно прослеживают, как колонисты, принесшие на новый континент дух старой Англии и идеи религиозного протестантизма, за...
СПб.: Человек, 2010. — 432 с. — ISBN: 978-5-904885-11-3. Данное учебное пособие по истории культуры США – относительно краткой, но безусловно яркой – написано почитателями и знатоками этой страны, профессорами Т. Ф. Кузнецовой и А. И. Уткиным. Авторы подробно прослеживают, как колонисты, принесшие на новый континент дух старой Англии и идеи религиозного протестантизма, за...
СПб.: Человек, 2010. — 432 с. — ISBN: 978-5-904885-11-3. Данное учебное пособие по истории культуры США – относительно краткой, но безусловно яркой – написано почитателями и знатоками этой страны, профессорами Т. Ф. Кузнецовой и А. И. Уткиным. Авторы подробно прослеживают, как колонисты, принесшие на новый континент дух старой Англии и идеи религиозного протестантизма, за...
Москва: Наука, 1982. — 274 с. Задачей предлагаемого вниманию читателя коллективного труда является рассмотрение ведущих тенденций американской художественной и духовной культуры в контексте социально-политической обстановки в США в 70-е годы XX в. Противоречивый облик десятилетия (О тенденциях духовной жизни США в 70-е годы). B. П. Шестаков. Судьбы «американской мечты» в...
Учебное пособие. – Владивосток: Изд-во ВГУЭС, 2009. – 92 с. Это пособие – экскурс в историю и современность культурной жизни стран, чьи ценности и нормы стали определяющими для всего демократического мира. Первая часть посвящена рассмотрению религиозного компонента в американском обществе и его значению для становления и развития государства. Предназначено пособие для студентов...
Москва: Изд. дом Высшей школы экономики, 2021. — 280 с. — (Социальная теория). — ISBN 978-5-7598-1999-8, ISBN 978-5-7598-2214-1. Специалист по истории культуры и литературы Пол Фассел увлекательно рассказывает о социальных классах в Америке. Хотя большинство американцев ощущают, что изрядная часть их мыслей и поступков подсказана им соображениями статуса, идея класса у них...
М.: Изд. дом Высшей школы экономики, 2021. — 459 с. — (Социальная теория). — ISBN 978-5-7598-1999-8, ISBN 978-5-7598-2214-1. Специалист по истории культуры и литературы Пол Фассел увлекательно рассказывает о социальных классах в Америке. Хотя большинство американцев ощущают, что изрядная часть их мыслей и поступков подсказана им соображениями статуса, идея класса у них вызывает...
Пер. с англ. М.С. Добряковой. — М.: Изд. дом Высшей школы экономики, 2021. — 280 с. — (Социальная теория). — ISBN 978-5-7598-1999-8, ISBN 978-5-7598-2214-1. Специалист по истории культуры и литературы Пол Фассел увлекательно рассказывает о социальных классах в Америке. Хотя большинство американцев ощущают, что изрядная часть их мыслей и поступков подсказана им соображениями...
М.: Издательские решения, 2015. — 256 с. Книга о том, как в Новом Свете за четыре века его истории — от эры колоний до наших дней — у общечеловеческих явлений благотворительности и филантропии сформировался неповторимый американский облик и как они, достигнув здесь зрелости, своеобразно выглядят сейчас. Книга является второй из публикуемых в России работ автора, посвященных...
М.: ЛКИ, 2012. — 224 с. — ISBN: 978-5-382-01333-6
Предметом настоящей книги являются особенности американского национального характера и его отражение в различных областях американской культуры: философии, религии, привычках, традициях, моделях повседневного поведения. Автор исследует такие важные для американского самосознания феномены, как "американская мечта", философия...
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