Acts of Manhood

Acts of Manhood
Author: K. Kippola
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2012-08-20
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1137068779

Exploring the performance of masculinity on and off the nineteenth-century American stage, this book looks at the shift from the passionate muscularity to intellectual restraint as not a linear journey toward national refinement; but a multitude of masculinities fighting simultaneously for dominance and recognition.

British Comment on the United States

British Comment on the United States
Author: Ada Nisbet
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 556
Release: 2001-06-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520915824

This bibliography of more than three thousand entries, often extensively annotated, lists books and pamphlets that illuminate evolving British views on the United States during a period of great change on both sides of the Atlantic. Subjects addressed in various decades include slavery and abolitionism, women's rights, the Civil War, organized labor, economic, cultural, and social behavior, political and religious movements, and the "American" character in general.