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Without God, Without Creed
The Origins of Unbelief in America
Häftad, 1986
405 kr
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Until the 19th century, atheism and agnosticism were viewed as bizarre aberrations. But atheism emerged as a viable alternative to other ideologies. How and why it became possible is the subject of this cultural revolution.
Masters and Statesmen
The Political Culture of American Slavery
Häftad, 1988
468 kr
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"Masters and Statesmen" delineates a provocative set of parallels between the proslavery argument, concepts of political representation, dueling, the theory and practice of political parties, and secession in the American South. "Slavery in the antebellum South", Kenneth Greenberg writes, "was …
New Urban Landscape
The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America
Häftad, 1988
394 kr
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In "one of the best books available on the changing physical form of the nineteenth-century city in America (Arnold R. Alanen, University of Wisconsin, Madison), Schuyler analyzes efforts by the civic leaders of that time to define a new urban culture by creating open recreational and residential …
Republic Reborn
War and the Making of Liberal America, 1790-1820
Av Steven Watts
Häftad, 1989
360 kr
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Winner of the Book Prize for New Authors from the National Historical Society The War of 1812 played a critical role in the emergence of an American "culture of capitalism." In The Republic Reborn Steven Watts offers a brilliant new interpretation of the war and the foundation of liberal America. …
Intimacy and Power in the Old South
Ritual in the Lives of the Planters
Av Steven Stowe
Häftad, 1990
413 kr
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Stowe examines three types of rituals central to the elite planter culture ofthe pre-Civil war south as played out by three families.
Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin
Häftad, 2001
370 kr
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Benjamin Franklin, writes Douglas Anderson in his preface, is "no one's contemporary...Blending elements of the fifteenth-century spiritual discipline of Thomas a Kempis with the journalistic energy of Daniel Defoe, the urbane reason of Lord Shaftesbury with the scientific initiative of Thomas …
Darwinism and the Linguistic Image
Language, Race, and Natural Theology in the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2003
438 kr
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In the nineteenth century, philology-especially comparative philology-made impressive gains as a discipline, thus laying the foundation for the modern field of linguistics. In Darwinism and the Linguistic Image, Stephen G. Alter examines how comparative philology provided a genealogical model of …
Reading Benedict / Reading Mead
Feminism, Race, and Imperial Visions
Av Dolores Janiewski, Lois W. Banner
Inbunden, 2005
724 kr
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As anthropologists, public intellectuals, and feminists, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead played remarkable roles in twentieth-century life and thought-and far beyond the academy. Their work helped to popularize anthropology while introducing such terms as culture and racism into common parlance. At …
States of Inquiry
Social Investigations and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the United States
Av Oz Frankel
Inbunden, 2006
721 kr
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In the mid-nineteenth century, American and British governments marched with great fanfare into the marketplace of knowledge and publishing. British royal commissions of inquiry, inspectorates, and parliamentary committees conducted famous social inquiries into child labor, poverty, housing, and …
Mandarins of the Future
Modernization Theory in Cold War America
Av Nils Gilman
Häftad, 2007
394 kr
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Ideas about how to "modernize," particularly when developed countries apply them to countries less fortunate, clearly have consequences, intended and unintended. Modernization theory must be among the most important constructs of the twentieth century, certainly in the story of the social sciences. …
Manhood Lost
Fallen Drunkards and Redeeming Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Häftad, 2009
418 kr
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In fiction, drama, poems, and pamphlets, nineteenth-century reformers told the familiar tale of the decent young man who fell victim to demon rum: Robbed of his manhood by his first drink, he slid inevitably into an abyss of despair and depravity. In its discounting of the importance of free will, …
Cybernetics Moment
Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age
Inbunden, 2015
662 kr
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Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Cybernetics-the science of communication and control as it applies to machines and to humans-originates from efforts during World War II to build automatic antiaircraft systems. Following the war, this science extended beyond military needs to examine all systems …
Weapons of Democracy
Propaganda, Progressivism, and American Public Opinion
Inbunden, 2015
624 kr
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Following World War I, political commentator Walter Lippmann worried that citizens increasingly held inaccurate and misinformed beliefs because of the way information was produced, circulated, and received in a mass-mediated society. Lippmann dubbed this manipulative opinion-making process "the …
Reading the Market
Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America
Av Peter Knight
Inbunden, 2016
624 kr
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Americans pay famously close attention to "the market," obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. In Reading the Market, Peter Knight explores the Gilded Age origins and development of this peculiar interest. He tracks the historic shift in market …
Cybernetics Moment
Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age
Häftad, 2017
330 kr
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Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Cybernetics-the science of communication and control as it applies to machines and to humans-originates from efforts during World War II to build automatic antiaircraft systems. Following the war, this science extended beyond military needs to examine all systems …
Reading the Market
Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America
Av Peter Knight
Häftad, 2018
343 kr
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America’s fascination with the stock market dates back to the Gilded Age.Winner of the BAAS Book Prize of the British Association of American StudiesAmericans pay famously close attention to “the market,” obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. …
Manhood Lost
Fallen Drunkards and Redeeming Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Inbunden, 2003
504 kr
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In fiction, drama, poems, and pamphlets, nineteenth-century reformers told the familiar tale of the decent young man who fell victim to demon rum: Robbed of his manhood by his first drink, he slid inevitably into an abyss of despair and depravity. In its discounting of the importance of free will, …
Freedom from Want
American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer
Inbunden, 2004
535 kr
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In 1941, Franklin Delano Roosevelt identified "four essential human freedoms." Three of these-freedom from fear, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion-had long been understood as defining principles of liberalism. Roosevelt's fourth freedom-freedom from want-was not. Indeed, classic liberals …
Reading Benedict / Reading Mead
Feminism, Race, and Imperial Visions
Av Dolores Janiewski, Lois W. Banner
Häftad, 2005
378 kr
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As anthropologists, public intellectuals, and feminists, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead played remarkable roles in twentieth-century life and thought-and far beyond the academy. Their work helped to popularize anthropology while introducing such terms as culture and racism into common parlance. At …
Freedom from Want
American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer
Häftad, 2006
274 kr
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In 1941, Franklin Delano Roosevelt identified "four essential human freedoms." Three of these-freedom from fear, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion-had long been understood as defining principles of liberalism. Roosevelt's fourth freedom-freedom from want-was not. Indeed, classic liberals …
Republic of Intellect
The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature
Inbunden, 2007
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In the 1790s, a single conversational circle-the Friendly Club-united New York City's most ambitious young writers, and in Republic of Intellect, Bryan Waterman uses an innovative blend of literary criticism and historical narrative to re-create the club's intellectual culture. The story of the …
Female Adolescence in American Scientific Thought, 1830–1930
Inbunden, 2007
604 kr
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In this groundbreaking study, Crista DeLuzio asks how scientific experts conceptualized female adolescence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Revisiting figures like G. Stanley Hall and Margaret Mead and casting her net across the disciplines of biology, psychology, and anthropology, …
Polemical Pain
Slavery, Cruelty, and the Rise of Humanitarianism
Inbunden, 2011
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In 2008 and 2009, the United States Congress apologized for the "fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery." Today no one denies the cruelty of slavery, but few issues inspired more controversy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Abolitionists denounced the …
Psychology Comes to Harlem
Rethinking the Race Question in Twentieth-Century America
Av Jay Garcia
Inbunden, 2012
507 kr
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In the years preceding the modern civil rights era, cultural critics profoundly affected American letters through psychologically informed explorations of racial ideology and segregationist practice. Jay Garcia's probing look at how and why these critiques arose and the changes they wrought …
Invisible Sovereign
Imagining Public Opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction
Inbunden, 2016
504 kr
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In the early American republic, the concept of public opinion was a recent-and ambiguous-invention. While appearing to promise a new style and system of democratic and deliberative politics, the concept was also invoked to limit self-rule, cement traditional prejudices and hierarchies, forestall …
