Studies in United States Culture – serie
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Rightlessness
Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps Since World War II
Häftad, 2016
390 kr
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In this bold book, A. Naomi Paik grapples with the history of U.S. prison camps that have confined people outside the boundaries of legal and civil rights. Removed from the social and political communities that would guarantee fundamental legal protections, these detainees are effectively …
Innocent Experiments
Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States
Inbunden, 2016
1198 kr
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From the 1950s to the digital age, Americans have pushed their childrento live science-minded lives, cementing scientific discovery and youthfulcuriosity as inseparable ideals. In this multifaceted work, historian RebeccaOnion examines the rise of informal children’s science education in …
Innocent Experiments
Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States
Häftad, 2016
418 kr
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From the 1950s to the digital age, Americans have pushed their childrento live science-minded lives, cementing scientific discovery and youthfulcuriosity as inseparable ideals. In this multifaceted work, historian RebeccaOnion examines the rise of informal children’s science education in …
From Goodwill to Grunge
A History of Secondhand Styles and Alternative Economies
Inbunden, 2017
1233 kr
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In this surprising new look at how clothing, style, and commerce came together to change American culture, Jennifer Le Zotte examines how secondhand goods sold at thrift stores, flea markets, and garage sales came to be both profitable and culturally influential. Initially, selling used goods in …
From Goodwill to Grunge
A History of Secondhand Styles and Alternative Economies
Häftad, 2017
474 kr
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In this surprising new look at how clothing, style, and commerce came together to change American culture, Jennifer Le Zotte examines how secondhand goods sold at thrift stores, flea markets, and garage sales came to be both profitable and culturally influential. Initially, selling used goods in …
Dying City
Postwar New York and the Ideology of Fear
Inbunden, 2017
1233 kr
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In this eye-opening cultural history, Brian Tochterman examines competing narratives that shaped post–World War II New York City. As a sense of crisis rose in American cities during the 1960s and 1970s, a period defined by suburban growth and deindustrialization, no city was viewed as in its death …
Dying City
Postwar New York and the Ideology of Fear
Häftad, 2017
401 kr
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In this eye-opening cultural history, Brian Tochterman examines competing narratives that shaped post–World War II New York City. As a sense of crisis rose in American cities during the 1960s and 1970s, a period defined by suburban growth and deindustrialization, no city was viewed as in its death …
History Comes Alive
Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s
Inbunden, 2017
1233 kr
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During the 1976 Bicentennial celebration, millions of Americans engaged with the past in brand-new ways. They became absorbed by historical miniseries like Roots, visited museums with new exhibits that immersed them in the past, propelled works of historical fiction onto the bestseller list, and …
History Comes Alive
Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s
Häftad, 2017
401 kr
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During the 1976 Bicentennial celebration, millions of Americans engaged with the past in brand-new ways. They became absorbed by historical miniseries like Roots, visited museums with new exhibits that immersed them in the past, propelled works of historical fiction onto the bestseller list, and …
Consuming Japan
Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America
Inbunden, 2017
1233 kr
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This insightful book explores the intense and ultimately fleeting moment in 1980s America when the future looked Japanese. Would Japan's remarkable post–World War II economic success enable the East Asian nation to overtake the United States? Or could Japan's globe-trotting corporations serve as a …
Consuming Japan
Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America
Häftad, 2017
401 kr
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This insightful book explores the intense and ultimately fleeting moment in 1980s America when the future looked Japanese. Would Japan's remarkable post–World War II economic success enable the East Asian nation to overtake the United States? Or could Japan's globe-trotting corporations serve as a …
Portrait's Subject
Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Inbunden, 2019
1377 kr
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Between the invention of photography in 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, portraiture became one of the most popular and common art forms in the United States. In The Portrait's Subject, Sarah Blackwood tells a wide-ranging story about how images of human surfaces became understood as …
Portrait's Subject
Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Häftad, 2019
448 kr
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Between the invention of photography in 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, portraiture became one of the most popular and common art forms in the United States. In The Portrait's Subject, Sarah Blackwood tells a wide-ranging story about how images of human surfaces became understood as …
Wall of Our Own
An American History of the Berlin Wall
Inbunden, 2020
1233 kr
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The Berlin Wall is arguably the most prominent symbol of the Cold War era. Its construction in 1961 and its dismantling in 1989 are broadly understood as pivotal moments in the history of the last century. In A Wall of Our Own, Paul M. Farber traces the Berlin Wall as a site of pilgrimage for …
Wall of Our Own
An American History of the Berlin Wall
Häftad, 2020
401 kr
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The Berlin Wall is arguably the most prominent symbol of the Cold War era. Its construction in 1961 and its dismantling in 1989 are broadly understood as pivotal moments in the history of the last century. In A Wall of Our Own, Paul M. Farber traces the Berlin Wall as a site of pilgrimage for …
Black Market
The Slave's Value in National Culture After 1865
Av Aaron Carico
Inbunden, 2020
1233 kr
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By 1860, the value of the slave population in the United States exceeded $3 billion--triple that of investments nationwide in factories, railroads, and banks combined, and worth more even than the South's lucrative farmland. The slave was not only a commodity to be traded but also a kind of …
Black Market
The Slave's Value in National Culture After 1865
Av Aaron Carico
Häftad, 2020
401 kr
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By 1860, the value of the slave population in the United States exceeded $3 billion--triple that of investments nationwide in factories, railroads, and banks combined, and worth more even than the South's lucrative farmland. The slave was not only a commodity to be traded but also a kind of …
White Balance
How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights
Av Justin Gomer
Inbunden, 2020
1233 kr
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The racial ideology of colorblindness has a long history. In 1963, Martin Luther King famously stated, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." However, in the decades …
White Balance
How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights
Av Justin Gomer
Häftad, 2020
401 kr
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The racial ideology of colorblindness has a long history. In 1963, Martin Luther King famously stated, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." However, in the decades …
Diners, Dudes, and Diets
How Gender and Power Collide in Food Media and Culture
Inbunden, 2020
1198 kr
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The phrase "dude food" likely brings to mind a range of images: burgers stacked impossibly high with an assortment of toppings that were themselves once considered a meal; crazed sports fans demolishing plates of radioactively hot wings; barbecued or bacon-wrapped . . . anything. But there is much …
Diners, Dudes, and Diets
How Gender and Power Collide in Food Media and Culture
Häftad, 2020
305 kr
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The phrase "dude food" likely brings to mind a range of images: burgers stacked impossibly high with an assortment of toppings that were themselves once considered a meal; crazed sports fans demolishing plates of radioactively hot wings; barbecued or bacon-wrapped . . . anything. But there is much …
Transpacific Convergences
Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture Before World War II
Av Denise Khor
Inbunden, 2022
1127 kr
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Despite the rise of the Hollywood system and hostility to Asian migrant communities in the early twentieth-century United States, Japanese Americans created a thriving cinema culture that produced films and established theaters and exhibition companies to facilitate their circulation between Japan …
Transpacific Convergences
Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture Before World War II
Av Denise Khor
Häftad, 2022
386 kr
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Despite the rise of the Hollywood system and hostility to Asian migrant communities in the early twentieth-century United States, Japanese Americans created a thriving cinema culture that produced films and established theaters and exhibition companies to facilitate their circulation between Japan …
Cold War Country
How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism
Inbunden, 2024
1233 kr
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Country music maintains a special, decades-long relationship to American military life, but these ties didn't just happen. This readable history reveals how country music's Nashville-based business leaders on Music Row created partnerships with the Pentagon to sell their audiences on military …
Cold War Country
How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism
Häftad, 2024
328 kr
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Country music maintains a special, decades-long relationship to American military life, but these ties didn't just happen. This readable history reveals how country music's Nashville-based business leaders on Music Row created partnerships with the Pentagon to sell their audiences on military …
