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Language, Gender, and Citizenship in American Literature, 1789-1919
Häftad, 2012
642 kr
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Examining language debates and literary texts from Noah Webster to H.L. Mencken and from Washington Irving to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this book demonstrates how gender arose in passionate discussions about language to address concerns about national identity and national citizenship elicited by …
Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Häftad, 2012
909 kr
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Returning to a foundational moment in the history of the American family, Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how various authors of the period represented the maternal role – an office that came to a new, social prominence at the end of the eighteenth century. …
Struggle for Free Speech in the United States, 1872-1915
Edward Bliss Foote, Edward Bond Foote, and Anti-Comstock Operations
Häftad, 2012
814 kr
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Passed in 1873, the Comstock Act banned 'obscene' materials from the mail without defining obscenity, leaving it open to interpretation by courts that were hostile to free speech. Literature that reflected changing attitudes toward sexuality, religion, and social institutions fell victim to the …
Gender and the American Temperance Movement of the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2012
934 kr
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During the nineteenth century, the American temperance movement underwent a visible, gendered shift in its leadership as it evolved from a male-led movement to one dominated by the women. However, this transition of leadership masked the complexity and diversity of the temperance movement. Through …
Marketing of Edgar Allan Poe
Häftad, 2012
943 kr
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Edgar Allan Poe is today considered one of the greatest masters and most fascinating figures of the American literary world. However, an examination of Poe's essays and criticism throughout his prose publishing career (1831-1849) reveals that the author himself played a vital role in the creation …
America's Fight Over Water
The Environmental and Political Effects of Large-Scale Water Systems
Av Kevin Wehr
Häftad, 2012
740 kr
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This book inquires into the relations between society and its natural environment by examining the historical discourse around several cases of state building in the American West: the construction of three high dams from 1928 to 1963.
Cleaning Up
The Transformation of Domestic Service in Twentieth Century New York
Häftad, 2013
545 kr
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Over the course of the 20th century, American domestic service changed from an occupation with a hierarchical, top-down structure to one in which relationships were more negotiated. Many forces shaped this transformation: shifts in women's role in society, both at home and in the work force; …
Great Depression and the Middle Class
Experts, Collegiate Youth and Business Ideology, 1929-1941
Häftad, 2012
814 kr
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Great Depression and the Middle Class: Experts, CollegiateYouth and Business Ideology, 1929-1941 explores how middle-class college students navigated the rocky terrain of Depression-era culture, job market, dating marketplace, prospective marriage prospects, and college campuses by using …
Daughters of Eve
Pregnant Brides and Unwed Mothers in Seventeenth Century Essex County, Massachusetts
Häftad, 2012
844 kr
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This study examines cases of fornication, bastardy, and paternity cases brought before the courts in Essex County, Massachusetts between 1640 and 1692. Prosecution and conviction rates, sentencing patterns, and socio-economic data, as well as attitudes, were analyzed to determine that women who …
Labor and Laborers of the Loom
Mechanization and Handloom Weavers, 1780-1840
Häftad, 2012
814 kr
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Labor and Laborers of the Loom: Mechanization and Handloom Weavers 1780-1840 develops several themes important to understanding the social, cultural and economic implications of industrialization. The examination of these issues within a population of extra-factory workers distinguishes this study. …
Literature of Immigration and Racial Formation
Becoming White, Becoming Other, Becoming American in the Late Progressive Era
Häftad, 2012
909 kr
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This work examines early twentieth-century literature about women immigrants in order to reveal the differing ways that American racial categories and identities, particularly that of whiteness, were textually and socially constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Mistresses of the Transient Hearth
American Army Officers' Wives and Material Culture, 1840-1880
Häftad, 2013
814 kr
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This book explores the ways in which mid-19th Century American army officers' wives used material culture to confirm their status as middle-class women.
Narrative, Political Unconscious and Racial Violence in Wilmington, North Carolina
Häftad, 2012
814 kr
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This work examines the counter-narratives of social actors that may be used as resources to promote and create social change, particularly racial change. A policy implication emanating from this research is to institute an educational component for the North Carolina public school curriculum that …
Quiet Revolutionaries
How the Grey Nuns Changed the Social Welfare Paradigm of Lewiston, Maine
Av Susan Hudson
Häftad, 2012
413 kr
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The book recognizes the achievements by a nineteenth-century community of women religious, the Grey Nuns of Lewiston, Maine. The founding of their hospital was significant in its time as the first hospital in that factory city; and is significant today if one desires a more accurate and inclusive …
Farm Press, Reform and Rural Change, 1895-1920
Av John J. Fry
Häftad, 2012
770 kr
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This project contributes to our understanding of rural Midwesterners and farm newspapers at the turn of the century. While cultural historians have mainly focused on readers in town and cities, it examines Midwestern farmers. It also contributes to the "new rural history" by exploring the ideas of …
First of Causes to Our Sex
The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834-1848
Häftad, 2012
814 kr
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The First of Causes to Our Sex is a study of the first movement in the United States for social change by and for women. Female moral reform in the 1830s and '40s was a campaign to abolish sexual vice and the sexual double standard, and to promote sexual abstinence among the young as they entered …
US Textile Production in Historical Perspective
A Case Study from Massachusetts
Häftad, 2012
814 kr
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This book explores the development of a provincial textile industry in colonial America. Immediately after the end of the Great Migration into the Massachusetts Bay colony, settlers found themselves in a textile crisis. They were not able to generate the kind of export commodities that would enable …
Women and Comedy in Solo Performance
Phyllis Diller, Lily Tomlin and Roseanne
Häftad, 2014
919 kr
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This work examines the dramatic changes in America women's comedy performance in the years 1955-1995.The study focuses on the standup of Phyllis Diller and Roseanne andon the character comedy of Lily Tomlin. As the historical arc of women's comedy unfolds, it outlines a change from the traditional …
Women Workers on Strike
Narratives of Southern Women Unionists
Häftad, 2012
814 kr
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Gender, class, and culture merge in the lived experiences of women on strike in the South. This book examines women unionists’ life histories through the lens of narrative analysis, interpreting their multiple perspectives as four coherent discourse communities: social activists, union feminists, …
Agents of Wrath, Sowers of Discord
Authority and Dissent in Puritan Massachusetts, 1630-1655
Häftad, 2013
820 kr
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This book explores the authorities of Puritan Massachusetts balanced concern for the stability of the colony and the integrity of its Puritan mission with the hopes of reconciling dissidents back into the colonial community.
Books and Libraries in American Society during World War II
Weapons in the War of Ideas
Häftad, 2012
814 kr
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World War II presented America's public libraries with the daunting challenge of meeting new demands for war-related library services and materials with Depression-weakened collections, inadequate budgets and demoralized staff, in addition to continuing to serve the library's traditional clientele …
Validating Bachelorhood
Audience, Patriarchy and Charles Brockden Brown's Editorship of the Monthly Magazine and American Review
Häftad, 2013
943 kr
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This book explores images of single and married men in C.B. Brown's Monthly Magazine and concludes that Brown used his periodical as a vehicle for validating bachelorhood as a viable alternative form of masculinity.
Making of the Primitive Baptists
A Cultural and Intellectual History of the Anti-Mission Movement, 1800-1840
Häftad, 2012
907 kr
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This study describes the creation of the Primitive Baptist movement and discusses the main outlines of their thought. It also weaves the story of the Primitive Baptists with other developments in American Christianity in the Early Republic.
Hollywood and the Rise of Physical Culture
Häftad, 2015
921 kr
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This book examines the relationship between cinema and physical culture i.e. activities such as dieting and muscle-building. It presents a case study of Hollywood's impact on the American reducing craze of the 1920s as the basis for speculating interrelationship of Hollywood and physical culture.
Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama
Inbunden, 2009
876 kr
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In the late nineteenth century, melodramas were spectacular entertainment for Americans. They were also a key forum in which elements of American culture were represented, contested, and inverted. This book focuses specifically on the construction of the Mormon villain as rapist, murderer, and Turk …
Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York
'An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail'
Häftad, 2009
907 kr
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Between 1966 and 1975 North American youth activists established over 35 school- and community-based gay liberation youth groups whose members sought control over their own bodies, education, and sexual and social relations. This book focuses on three groundbreaking New York City groups -- Gay …
State of 'The Union'
Marriage and Free Love in the Late 1800s
Häftad, 2009
814 kr
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This study of the Free Love Movement in the mid-to-late 1800s examines the situated knowledge of women and men who participated in the movement, how they articulated the platform, and contributed to its exposure by writing and publishing their ideas, arguments and concerns. While all Free Love …
Hollywood and Anticommunism
HUAC and the Evolution of the Red Menace, 1935-1950
Häftad, 2009
814 kr
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This work concentrates on tracing the evolution of the so-called "red menace" phenomenon as a means of demonstrating the correlation between growing American paranoia and the success of the anticommunist campaign (1935-1955). The House Committee on Un-American Activities 1947 investigation of …
Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City
The Literature, Art, Jazz, and Architecture of an Emerging Global Capital
Häftad, 2011
909 kr
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Situating post-WWII New York literature within the material context of American urban history, this work analyzes how literary movements such as the Beat Generation, the New York poets and Black Arts Moment criticized the spatial restructuring of post-WWII New York City.
John Brown and the Era of Literary Confrontation
Häftad, 2013
425 kr
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Radical abolitionist and freedom-fighter John Brown inspired literary America to confrontation during his short but dramatic career as a public figure in antebellum America. Emerging from obscurity during the violent struggle to determine how Kansas would enter the Union in 1856, John Brown …
