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American Literature Review
Bob*Star PublishingIn this chapter, you'll explore how Native-American, Latino-American, and Asian- American writers express their vision of American culture. Some of the Native- American writers you'll meet include Natachee Scott Momaday, William Least Heat ...
Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine
Jeremy A. Greene... 237 American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), 147–48, 153, 165, 167, 206 American Druggist, 77,79, 127 American Drug Index, 40 American Drug Manufacturers Association, 28 American Enterprise Institute, 241 American Epilepsy ...
The American Family: Understanding Its Changing Dynamics and ...
PreviewChapter 1 THE 21ST CENTURY AMERICAN FAMILY Dennis G. Wiseman THE AMERICAN FAMILY — THE PAST AND PRESENT Perspective on the American family, one might appropriately say thechanging American family, differs from ...
Folk Nation: Folklore in the Creation of American Tradition
Simon J. BronnerThis text raises timely issues about the character of American culture and the direction of American society. The essays show the development of views of American nationalism, multiculturalism, and commercialism.
The American Revolution Reborn
PreviewFor one preliminary effort to take up this call, see Allan Kulikoff, “Revolutionary Violence and the Origins of American Democracy,” Journal of the Historical Society 2 (2002): 229–60. 8. Timothy H. Breen, American Insurgents, American Patriots: ...
The American Perception of Class
Reeve VannemanBoth radicals and mainstream scholars have explained this American exceptionalism by the conservative psychology of the American worker.This provocative book presents a new vision of the American working class.
American Culture in the 1940s
Jacqueline FoertschAmerican Culture in the 1910s Mark Whalan American Culture in the 1920s Susan Currell American Culture in the 1930s David Eldridge American Culture in the 1940s Jacqueline Foertsch American Culture in the 1950s Martin Halliwell ...
Vatican II: Fifty Person Stories
Madges, WilliamHe has been president ofthe American Catholic Historical Association, the American Societyof Church History, and the American Academy of Religion. The MartinMarty Centerat the University of Chicago, the Martin Marty Prizeof the American ...
Breaking Open: Reflections on Italian American Women's Writing
PreviewFrom Olga Peragallo's 1949 listing of Italian/ American writers, to Rose Basile Green's 1974 encyclopedic study of the Italian American novel, to Helen Barolini's 1985 anthology of Italian/ American writing, The Dream Book, Italian/ American ...
Reflections on American Progressivism
Sidney A. Pearson, Jr.See alsooneof Becker's last essays, “The American Political Tradition,” in CarlL. Becker, Freedom and Responsibility in American Way ofLife(New York:AlfredA. Knopf,1946), 1–22. 38. Pauline Maier, American Scripture: Makingthe Declaration ...
Inventing the American Woman: Since 1877
Glenda RileyIn two volumes, this third edition features expanded coverage of women in the military, women's healthcare, divorce, and women of colour, especially Spanish-speaking, American Indian, African American, and Asian-American.
Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural ...
Emily S. RosenbergStudies the development of the American economy and society as well as the influence of this development on foreign relations and the spreading of the American culture
American Views: Essays on American Art
John WilmerdingAmerican Views is a richly illustrated anthology of his work.A leading figure in American art scholarship, John Wilmerding has been instrumental in the acceptance of American painting as a special area of art history, and has brought many ...
Deceptive Images: Towards a Redefinition of American Judaism
Charles S. LiebmanThis stimulating volume takes exception to the notion that American Jewish life is flourishing. It calls for reassessment both of the study of American Judaism and the priorities of American Jewish organizations.
The Italian American Review: IAR.
More editionsOlga Peragallo's ltalian- American Authors and Their Contribution to American Literature was edited by her mother and published posthumously in 1949. Prezzolini wrote the preface to this first attempt to historicize American authors of ltalian ...
The Review of Italian American Studies
PreviewOlga Peragallo's Italian American Authors and Their Contribution to American Literature was edited by her mother and published posthumously in 1949. Prezzolini wrote the preface to this first attempt to historicize American authors of Italian ...
The American Impressionists in the Garden
More editionsCollects 44 color plates of paintings by American artists depicting European and American gardens, historical photos of artists in garden settings and an essay on the theme of the garden in American art and society in the late 19th and ...
The Norton Anthology of American Literature: American ...
Nina BaymIncludes outstanding works of American poetry, prose, and fiction from the colonial era to the present day.
America's Second Revolution: How George Washington Defeated ...
Harlow Giles Unger"Every American Interested in understanding the American character and the American past should read this book.
New Serial Titles
More editionsProceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association, annual meeting. — 1937- — [8.1. : s.n., v. ... American Philological Association search under American Philological Association pamphlets. American Philological ...
Race and Religion in American Buddhism: White Supremacy and ...
Joseph Cheahscholars in the field of American Buddhism, including that of Charles Prebish, Paul Numrich, and Jan Nattier.49 In American Buddhism, Prebish investigates the development of Buddhism as an American phenomenon by providing a survey of ...
Making the American Century: Essays on the Political Culture ...
PreviewJohn T. McGreevy, “Faith and Morals in the United States, 1865– Present,” Reviews in American History 26 (March 1998): 239–54. 4. Jon Butler, “Jack–in– the–Box Faith: The Religion Problem in Modern American History,” Journal of American ...
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Gerald BordmanAn encyclopedic reference guide to the American stage covering the history, plays, playwrights, actors, producers, directors, and other facets of American theater.
Uncertain Times: Kenneth Arrow and the Changing Economics of ...
PreviewAmerican Medical Association, American Osteopathic Association, Association of American Medical Colleges, American Association of ... U.S. Graduate Medical Education, 1999–2000. ... CouncilonGraduateMedicalEducation(cogme).1994.
The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture
Jared GardnerIntroduction: the literary museum and the unsettling of the early American novel -- American spectators, tatlers, and guardians: transatlantic periodical culture in the eighteenth century -- The American magazine in the early national ...
Crisscrossing Borders in Literature of the American West
R. DyckIn Post-Nationalist American Studies, edited by. ... “Crossroads of Cultures: The Transnational Turn in American Studies—Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, November 12, 2004. ... Western Literature Association.
American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: ...
PreviewColin Burke, American Collegiate Populations: A Test of the Traditional View ( New York: New York University Press, 1982); Roger L. Geiger, “The Era of Multipurpose Colleges in American Higher Education, 1850–1890” in American College, ...
Physiology in the American Context, 1850-1940
PreviewContents Toward a History of American Physiology GERALD L. GEISON Social and Institutional History I II III IV American Physiologists in German Laboratories, 1865–1914 ROBERT G. FRANK, JR. Growth of American Physiology, 1850– 1900 ...
From Slavery to Freetown: Black Loyalists After the American ...
Mary Louise CliffordDuring the American Revolution over 3,000 persons of African descent were promised freedom by the British if they would desert their American rebel masters and serve the loyalist cause.
Consumer Society in American History: A Reader
PreviewLawrence B. Glickman "The American Dream is a vision of men as consumers, and the American story is the story of an inveterate struggle to embody this dream in the institutions of American life." —Horace Kallen, 1936 "The basic myth of our ...
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