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Margaret Fuller
Transatlantic Crossings in a Revolutionary Age
Av Charles Capper, Cristina Giorcelli
Inbunden, 2007
345 kr
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Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), a pioneering gender theorist, transcendentalist, journalist, and literary critic, was one of the most well-known and highly regarded feminist intellectuals of nineteenth-century America. With her contemporaries Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, she was one of …
Picturing Indians
Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H.H.Bennett's Wisconsin Dells
Häftad, 2008
282 kr
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Today a tourist mecca, the area now known as the Wisconsin Dells was once wilderness - and a gathering place for the region's Native peoples, the Ho-Chunk, who for centuries migrated to this part of the Wisconsin River for both sustenance and spiritual renewal. By the late 1800s their numbers had …
Unsafe for Democracy
World War I and the U.S. Justice Department's Covert Campaign to Suppress Dissent
Inbunden, 2008
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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. shows …
Unsafe for Democracy
World War I and the U.S. Justice Department's Covert Campaign to Suppress Dissent
Häftad, 2009
282 kr
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During World War I 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. shows that the …
Seaway to the Future
American Social Visions and the Construction of the Panama Canal
Inbunden, 2008
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Realizing the centuries-old dream of a passage to India, the building of the Panama Canal was an engineering feat of colossal dimensions, a construction site filled not only with mud and water but with interpretations, meanings, and social visions. Alexander Missal's ""Seaway to the Future"" …
Presidents We Imagine
Two Centuries of White House Fictions on the Page, on the Stage, Onscreen, and Online
Av Jeff Smith
Häftad, 2009
331 kr
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In such popular television series as ""The West Wing"" and ""24"", in thrillers like Tom Clancy's novels, and in recent films, plays, graphic novels, and internet cartoons, America has been led by an amazing variety of chief executives. Some of these are real presidents who have been fictionally …
Thoreau's Democratic Withdrawal
Alienation, Participation, and Modernity
Häftad, 2009
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Best known for his two-year sojourn at Walden Pond in Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau is often considered a recluse who emerged from solitude only occasionally to take a stand on the issues of his day. In Thoreau's ""Democratic Withdrawal"", Shannon L. Mariotti explores Thoreau's nature writings …
Trashing of Margaret Mead
Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy
Häftad, 2009
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In 1928 Margaret Mead published ""Coming of Age in Samoa"", a fascinating study of the lives of adolescent girls that transformed Mead herself into an academic celebrity. In 1983 anthropologist Derek Freeman published a scathing critique of Mead's Samoan research, badly damaging her reputation. …
Ernest Hemingway
Thought in Action
Av Mark Cirino
Häftad, 2012
306 kr
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Ernest Hemingway's groundbreaking prose style and examination of timeless themes made him one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century. Yet in Ernest Hemingway: Thought in Action, Mark Cirino observes, 'Literary criticism has accused Hemingway of many things but thinking too …
Education of an Anti-Imperialist
Robert La Follette and U.S. Expansion
Häftad, 2013
411 kr
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Robert M. La Follette (1855–1925), the Republican senator from Wisconsin, is best known as a key architect of American Progressivism and as a fiery advocate for liberal politics in the domestic sphere. But ""Fighting Bob"" did not immediately come to a progressive stance on foreign affairs.In The …
Cross of War
Christian Nationalism and U.S. Expansion in the Spanish-American War
Häftad, 2014
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The Cross of War documents the rise of “messianic interventionism”—the belief that America can and should intervene altruistically on behalf of other nations. This stance was first embraced in the Spanish-American War of 1898, a war that marked the dramatic emergence of the United States as an …
Observing America
The Commentary of British Visitors to the United States, 1890-1950
Inbunden, 2006
352 kr
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Beginning with Alexis de Tocqueville and Frances Trollope, visitors to America have written some of the most penetrating and, occasionally, scathing commentaries on U.S. politics and culture. ""Observing America"" focuses on four of the most insightful British commentators on America between 1890 …
Into New Territory
American Historians and the Concept of US Imperialism
Häftad, 2014
395 kr
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The idea that the United States-a nation founded after a war of independence-operates as an imperialist power on the world stage has gained considerable traction since the turn of the twenty-first century. But just a few decades earlier, this position was considered radical and even Òun-American.Ó …
