studies in american popular history

Studies in American Popular History and Black Women in New South Literature and Culture (Hardcover)

Using the the Negro Problem in African American literature as a point of departure this book focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary imagination of black Americans specifically those in the South. Although the South has been one... more

Studies in American Popular History and Feminist Revolution in Literacy: Women s Bookstores in the United States (Hardcover)

This book examines the history of women s bookstores in the US from the 1970s to the 1990s. It establishes that women s bookstores played an important role in feminism by enabling the dissemination of women s voices and thereby helping to sustain and... more

Studies in African American History and Boys Boyz Bois: An Ethics of Black Masculinity in Film and Popular Media (Paperback)

Boys Boyz Bois concerns questions of ethics gender and race in popular American images national discourse and cultural production by and about black men. The book proposes an ethics of masculinity as ethnics refers to a system of morality and valuation... more

Routledge Studies in Popular Music Reading Smile: History Myth and American Identity in Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks Long-Lost Album (Hardcover)

First conceived in 1966 but only completed in 2004 Brian Wilson Presents Smile has been called the best-known unreleased album in pop music history and an American Sergeant Pepper. Reading Smile offers a close analysis of the recording in its social... more

Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict: Nazi and Holocaust Representations in Anglo-American Popular Culture 1945-2020: Irreverent Remembrance (Paperback)

This book analyzes sensationalized Nazi and Holocaust representations in Anglo-American cultural and political discourses. Recognizing that this history is increasingly removed from contemporary life it explains how irreverent representations can help... more

American Popular Culture Through History The 1930s (Paperback)

Most historical studies bury us in wars and politics paying scant attention to the everyday effects of pop culture. Welcome to America s other history--the arts activities common items and popular opinions that profoundly impacted our national way of... more

Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series: Selling Air Power : Military Aviation and American Popular Culture after World War II (Series #124) (Hardcover)

In Selling Air Power Steve Call provides the first comprehensive study of the efforts of post-war air power advocates to harness popular culture in support of their agenda. In the 1940s and much of the 1950s hardly a month went by without at least one... more

Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series: Selling Air Power : Military Aviation and American Popular Culture after World War II (Series #124) (Paperback)

In Selling Air Power Steve Call provides the first comprehensive study of the efforts of post-war air power advocates to harness popular culture in support of their agenda. In the 1940s and much of the 1950s hardly a month went by without at least one... more

Cambridge Studies in American Theatre an The American Stage and the Great Depression Book 6 (Hardcover)

The American Stage and the Great Depression: A Cultural History of the Grotesque proposes a correlation between the divided mind of America during the Depression and popular stage works of the era which are interpreted as theatrical reflections of... more

What Is Theatre? Staging Modern American Life: Popular Culture in the Experimental Theatre of Millay Cummings and Dos Passos (Hardcover)

Thomas Fahy examines the integration of and challenges to popular culture found in the theatrical works of Millay Cummings and Dos Passos which have largely been marginalized in discussions of theatre history and literary studies despite offering a... more

Studies in Major Literary Authors Gertrude Stein and the Making of an American Celebrity (Hardcover)

This book is a cultural history of Stein s rise to fame and the function of literary celebrity in America from 1910 to 1935. By examining not the ways that Stein portrayed the popular in her work but the ways the popular portrayed her this study shows... more

Not Written in Stone: Learning and Unlearning American History Through 200 Years of Textbooks (Paperback)

A teaching edition of the thought-provoking study History in the Making which explores how our view of the history changes over time (Library Journal). Kyle Ward s celebrated History in the Making struck a chord among readers of popular history.... more

Music Culture and Identity in Latin America: The Latin American Songbook in the Twentieth Century : From Folklore to Militancy (Hardcover)

This book is a comparative analysis of the history of popular music and folk studies in Chile Argentina and Brazil as it relates to society culture and representations of national identity. more

Studies in American Popular History and Language Gender and Citizenship in American Literature 1789-1919 (Hardcover)

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... more

Studies in American Popular History and Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City: The Literature Art Jazz and Architecture of an Emerging Global Capital (Paperback)

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... more

Popular Law Library Putney... : Introduction To The Study Of Law. Legal History.- V. 2. United States Constitutional Law. State Constitutions. Statutory Construction.- V.3. Contracts. Agency.- V.4. Torts. Damages. Domestic Relations.- V. 5. Sales...

This comprehensive law reference work provides an overview of the development of U.S. legal history and contains detailed information about constitutional law contracts torts and other aspects of American jurisprudence. An essential resource for law... more

Pre-Owned Mission Underway: The History of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association and (Paperback) by Ray B Browne

The history of the study of popular culture in American academic since its (re)introduction in 1967 is filled with misunderstanding and opposition. From the first proponents of the study of this major portion of american culture made clear that they... more

Popular Culture and the Enduring Myth of Chicago 1871-1968

Popular Culture and the Enduring Myth of Chicago 1871-1968 (Studies in American Popular History and Culture) more

Time Travel in the Latin American and Caribbean Imagination: Re-Reading History (Hardcover)

Combining in innovative ways the tools and approaches of postcolonial and popular culture studies as well as comparative literary analysis this is an ambitious interdisciplinary study that develops - across several related discursive sites - an... more

Audience Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture

Audience Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture (Studies in African American History and Culture) Format: Hardcover Authors: Shawan M. Worsley ISBN10: 0415804868 Published: 2009-08-19 more

America and Its Peoples: A Mosaic in the Making Volume 2 Study Edition (Paperback - Used) 0321419979 9780321419972

Now in its Fifth Edition America and Its Peoples presents American history filled with the drama and conflict that holds the attention of all students. Social history-with an emphasis on sports leisure and popular culture-is effectively integrated with... more

Feminist Engagements: Forays Into American Literature and Culture (Paperback)

This book offers historically-grounded feminist interventions into American literary history by one of the country s leading scholars in American Studies. Integrating criticism biography social history popular culture and personal narrative Fishkin... more

Pre-Owned The Disney Version : Life Times Art and Commerce of Walt 9781566631587

This classic history of Walt Disney s life and works asks penetrating questions about Disney s achievements and shortcomings and the enormous popularity of the Disney version. One of the best studies ever done on American popular culture...unfailingly... more

American history teaching and testing; supervised study and scientific testing in American history based on Beard and Bagley s The history of the American people by Martin James

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Pre-Owned Great Men of American Popular Song: The History of the American Popular Song Told Through the Lives Careers Achievements and Personalities of Its F (Hardcover) 0133641740 9780133641745

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Studies in European and American history; an introduction to the source study method in history 1897 [Leather Bound]

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Bible history: Genesis to Esther popular studies in Old Testament history 1928 [Leather Bound]

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A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States Including a History and Study of the Republic of Liberia (Hardcover)

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United... more

Palgrave Studies in Oral History: Speaking History: Oral Histories of the American Past 1865-Present (Paperback)

This oral history reader designed to supplement texts on the second half of the U.S. history survey features the words of ordinary people who describe how they shaped viewed and remembered American history. more

A syllabus for the study of American history in the high schools of Iowa. P. E. McClenahan superintendent of public instruction. Prepared by the Sub-committee on American history in the high school

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Pre-Owned A social history of the American Negro being a history of the Negro problem in the United States including a history and study of the republic of Liberia (Paperback) BWB13755814

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History of the American fauna / by Joseph B. Holder and a general natural history of the world being a popular account of the structure habits and classification of the various

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Tales from American history / by the author American popular lessons &c. ... . Volume v. 1 1833 [Leather Bound]

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Cambridge Latin American Studies Studies in the Colonial History of Spanish America Book 20 (Paperback)

The seven essays that are contained in Mario Góngora s Studies in the Colonial History of Spanish America demonstrate his exceptional range as a historian as they run from the eve of discovery and conquest of the Indies to the end of the Spanish... more

Palgrave Studies in Language History and Changes in Complementation in British and American English: Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent Eng (Hardcover)

The book shows how the system of English predicate complementation has been undergoing an amazing amount of variation and change in recent centuries and identifies explanatory principles to account for this change and variation with evidence from large... more

The study of history from original sources. The Hamilton facsimiles of manuscripts in the National Archives relating to American history. Part I. The Monroe doctrine; its origin and intent. (1896)

Leatherbound edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1896 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are... more

Topical discussion of American history constituting a teachers manual and course of study in history and civics for use in the elementary schools 1904 [Leather Bound]

Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather Golden Screen printing in Front Color Leather Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition... more

Cambridge Studies in the History and The Political Philosophy and Rhetoric: A Study of the Origins of American Party Politics (Paperback)

This book analyses the origins of modern party politics in America. Dr Zvesper argues that the partisan conflict between Federalists and Republicans in the 1790s was not merely an interesting historical sequel to the American Revolution and the framing... more