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| Author | : Joy Giguere |
| Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2014-06-15 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1621900398 |
Her articles have appeared in the Journal of the Civil War Era and Markers: The Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies.
| Author | : Charles F. McGovern |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 553 |
| Release | : 2009-01-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 080787664X |
At the turn of the twentieth century, an emerging consumer culture in the United States promoted constant spending to meet material needs and develop social identity and self-cultivation. In Sold American, Charles F. McGovern examines the key players active in shaping this cultural evolution: advertisers and consumer advocates. McGovern argues that even though these two professional groups invented radically different models for proper spending, both groups propagated mass consumption as a specifically American social practice and an important element of nationality and citizenship. Advertisers, McGovern shows, used nationalist ideals, icons, and political language to define consumption as the foundation of the pursuit of happiness. Consumer advocates, on the other hand, viewed the market with a republican-inspired skepticism and fought commercial incursions on consumer independence. The result, says McGovern, was a redefinition of the citizen as consumer. The articulation of an "American Way of Life" in the Depression and World War II ratified consumer abundance as the basis of a distinct American culture and history.
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| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 1907 |
| Genre | : Physical education and training |
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| Author | : Laurence R. Veysey |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 519 |
| Release | : 2024-07-30 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0226841855 |
The American university of today is the product of a sudden, mainly unplanned period of development at the close of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. At that time the university, and with it a recognizably modern style of academic life, emerged to eclipse the older, religiously oriented college. Precedents, formal and informal, were then set which have affected the soul of professor, student, and academic administrator ever since. What did the men living in this formative period want the American university to become? How did they differ in defining the ideal university? And why did the institution acquire a form that only partially corresponded with these definitions? These are the questions Mr. Veysey seeks to answer.
| Author | : U. S. Dept. of State |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1650 |
| Release | : 1957 |
| Genre | : United States |
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| Author | : Charles Howard McIlwain |
| Publisher | : e-artnow |
| Total Pages | : 89 |
| Release | : 2021-04-01 |
| Genre | : History |
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This edition is a Pulitzer Prize awarded history which deals with legal and political aspects of the American Revolution. The American Revolution began and ended with the political act or acts by which British sovereignty over the thirteen English colonies in North America was definitely repudiated. All else was nothing but cause or effect of this act. Of the causes, some were economic, some social, others constitutional. But the Revolution itself was none of these; not social, nor economic, nor even constitutional; it was a political act, and such an act cannot be both constitutional and revolutionary; the terms are mutually exclusive. So long as American opposition to alleged grievances was constitutional it was in no sense revolutionary. The moment it became revolutionary it ceased to be constitutional. When was that moment reached?_x000D_ The Problem _x000D_ The Precedents_x000D_ The Realm and the Dominions_x000D_ The Precedents_x000D_ Natural and Fundamental Law_x000D_ Taxation and Virtual Representation_x000D_ The Charters
| Author | : Michael L. Berger |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 516 |
| Release | : 2001-07-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0313016062 |
This comprehensive reference guide reviews the literature concerning the impact of the automobile on American social, economic, and political history. Covering the complete history of the automobile to date, twelve chapters of bibliographic essays describe the important works in a series of related topics and provide broad thematic contexts. This work includes general histories of the automobile, the industry it spawned and labor-management relations, as well as biographies of famous automotive personalities. Focusing on books concerned with various social aspects, chapters discuss such issues as the car's influence on family life, youth, women, the elderly, minorities, literature, and leisure and recreation. Berger has also included works that investigate the government's role in aiding and regulating the automobile, with sections on roads and highways, safety, and pollution. The guide concludes with an overview of reference works and periodicals in the field and a description of selected research collections. The Automobile in American History and Culture provides a resource with which to examine the entire field and its structure. Popular culture scholars and enthusiasts involved in automotive research will appreciate the extensive scope of this reference. Cross-referenced throughout, it will serve as a valuable research tool.
| Author | : Zohar Segev |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2021-11-08 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9004466932 |
Zohar Segev’s book Immigration, Ideology, and Public Activity from an American Jewish Perspective follows four Zionist leaders in the mid-twentieth century. Following the paths of Tartakower, Kubovy, Akzin and Robinson reveals the multifaceted nature of modern Jewish history in the mid-twentieth century.
| Author | : Stephen Brooks |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 449 |
| Release | : 2013-05-06 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1442606010 |
Understanding American Politics provides a unique introduction to the contemporary political landscape of the United States by using as its core organizing feature the idea of "American exceptionalism," a concept that is at least as old as Tocqueville's study of American democracy. The second edition of Understanding American Politics maintains the unique strengths of the first edition while offering improved coverage of political institutions. A single omnibus chapter on institutions has been reorganized and split into three separate chapters on Congress, the presidency, and the courts. A new chapter on public opinion has also been included, and the chapter on religion and politics has been completely rewritten with a deeper appreciation of religion's influential role. The book has been revised throughout, taking into account the dramatic changes that have emerged since the 2010 congressional elections and the 2012 presidential election. The text also pays close attention to what is seen as the irreversible decline in America's global influence. Visit www.utpamericanpolitics.com for additional resources.
| Author | : Angus FLETCHER |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 331 |
| Release | : 2009-06-30 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0674037014 |
Intense, resonant, and deeply literary, this account of an American poetics shows how today's consumerist and conformist culture subverts the imagination of a free people. Poetry, the author maintains, is central to any coherent vision of life.
