History of American Thought and Culture – serie
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Rights of Nature
History of Environmental Ethics
Av Roderick Nash, James P. Leary m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
218 kr
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Charting the history of contemporary philosophical and religious beliefs regarding nature, Roderick Nash focuses primarily on changing attitudes toward nature in the United States. His work is the first comprehensive history of the concept that nature has rights and that American liberalism has, in …
American Fiction in the Cold War
Häftad, 1991
202 kr
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We tried as hard as we could to believe that politics might be idyl, only to discover that what we took to be a political pastoral was really a grim military campaign or a murderous betrayal of political allies. Thus Lionel Trilling summarized the experience of an entire generation of American …
Between Memory and Reality
Family and Community in Rural Wisconsin, 1870-1970
Häftad, 1992
283 kr
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Jane Marie Pederson examines the social history of two neighbouring rural communities, Lincoln and Pigeon, in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin. Building upon Merle Curti's classic work of social history set in the same country, ""The Making of an American Community"", she shows how distinct local …
Emerson's Liberalism
Av University of Wisconsin Press
Häftad, 2009
331 kr
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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 a form of …
Imaginary Friends
Representing Quakers in American Culture, 1650–1950
Häftad, 2009
289 kr
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When Americans today think of the Religious Society of Friends, better known as Quakers, they may picture the smiling figure on boxes of oatmeal. But since their arrival in the American colonies in the 1650s, Quakers' spiritual values and social habits have set them apart from other Americans. And …
CREATING the COLLEGE MAN
American Mass Magazines and Middle-class Manhood 1890-1915
Av University of Wisconsin Press
Häftad, 2010
280 kr
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How did a college education become so vital to American notions of professional and personal advancement? Reared on the ideal of the self-made man, American men had long rejected the need for college. But in the early twentieth century this ideal began to change as white men born in the U.S. faced …
Back to the Land
The Enduring Dream of Self-Sufficiency in Modern America
Av Dona Brown
Häftad, 2011
303 kr
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For many, 'going back to the land' brings to mind the 1960s and 1970s - hippie communes and the Summer of Love, The Whole Earth Catalog and Mother Earth News. More recently, the movement has reemerged in a new enthusiasm for locally produced food and more sustainable energy paths. But these latest …
University and the People
Envisioning American Higher Education in an Era of Popular Protest
Av Scott Gelber
Häftad, 2011
322 kr
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Counterculture Conservatives
American Evangelicalism from the Postwar Revival to the New Christian Right
Häftad, 2011
331 kr
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In the mid-twentieth century, far more evangelicals supported such “liberal” causes as peace, social justice, and environmental protection. Only gradually did the conservative evangelical faction win dominance, allying with the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan and, eventually, George W. Bush.In …
Sovereignty and Liberty
Constitutional Discourse in American Culture
Inbunden, 1989
188 kr
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Let Your Life Speak
Study of Politics, Religion and Antinuclear Weapons Activism
Inbunden, 1989
370 kr
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Universities and the Capitalist State
Corporate Liberalism and the Reconstruction of American Higher Education, 1894-1928
Häftad, 1990
237 kr
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John Winthrop's World
History As a Story - the Story As History
Inbunden, 1992
511 kr
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One of the most famous American journals is that of 17th century Puritan leader John Winthrop. As the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, an office he held with few interruptions for two decades, he worked to establish a society in which he thought true Christianity could flourish, …
John Winthrop's World
History As a Story; the Story As History
Häftad, 1992
215 kr
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One of the most famous American journals is that of seventeenth-century Puritan leader John Winthrop. As the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, an office he held with few interruptions for two decades, he worked to establish a society in which he thought true Christianity could …
Robert Koehler's 'the Strike'
The Improbable Story of an Iconic 1886 Painting of Labor Protest
Häftad, 2011
280 kr
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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 international history …
