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The Great War in Hollywood Memory, 1918-1939
(December 2019)
Michael Hammond - Author
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Assesses how America’s film industry remembered World War I during the interwar period.
This is the definitive account of how America’s film industry remembered and reimagined World War I from the Armistice in 1918 to the outbreak of World War II in 1939. Based on detailed archival research, Michael Hammond shows how the war and the sociocultural changes it brought made their way into cinematic stories and images. H...(Read More) |
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Reconciling Nature
(November 2019)
Literary Representations of the Natural, 1876-1945
Robert M. Myers - Author
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Reveals how classic American novels embodied the tensions embedded in American views of the natural world from the Centennial until the end of the Second World War.
Reconciling Nature maps the complex views of the environment that are evident in celebrated American novels written between the Centennial Celebration of 1876 and the end of the Second World War. During this period, which includes the Progressive era and the N...(Read More) |
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Authorized Agents
(October 2019)
Publication and Diplomacy in the Era of Indian Removal
Frank Kelderman - Author
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Examines the relation between Indian diplomacy and nineteenth-century Native American literature.
In the nineteenth century, Native American writing and oratory extended a long tradition of diplomacy between indigenous people and settler states. As the crisis of forced removal profoundly reshaped Indian country between 1820 and 1860, tribal leaders and intellectuals worked with coauthors, interpreters, and amanuenses to address...(Read More) |
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African Americans and the First Amendment
(September 2019)
The Case for Liberty and Equality
Timothy C. Shiell - Author
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The first detailed examination of African Americans and First Amendment rights, from the colonial era to the present.
African Americans and the First Amendment is the first book to explore in detail the relationship between African Americans and our “first freedoms,” especially freedom of speech. Timothy C. Shiell utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to demonstrate that a strong commitment to civil liberty and to...(Read More) |
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Racial Inequality in New York City since 1965
(September 2019)
Benjamin P. Bowser - Editor
Chelli Devadutt - Editor
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A comprehensive exploration of racial inequality in New York City since 1965.
In the past, the study of racial inequality in New York City has usually had a narrow focus, examining particular social problems affecting ethnic-racial groups. In contrast, this book provides a comprehensive overview of racial inequality in the city’s economy, housing, and education sectors over the last half-century. A collection of original ...(Read More) |
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The Architecture of Downtown Troy
(September 2019)
An Illustrated History
Diana S. Waite - Author
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Tells the forgotten but surprising stories of the many handsome and significant buildings in downtown Troy, New York.
Located about 150 miles north of Manhattan, on the east bank of the Hudson River, the city of Troy, New York, was once an industrial giant. It led the nation in iron production throughout much of the nineteenth century, and its factories turned out bells and cast-iron stoves that were sold the world over. Its pop...(Read More) |
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The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized
(August 2019)
Cultural Revolution in the Black Power Era
Errol A. Henderson - Author
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Studies the revolutionary theory of the Black Power Movement in the 1960s through ‘70s, placing it within the broader social theory of black revolution in the United States since the nineteenth century.
The study of the impact of Black Power Movement (BPM) activists and organizations in the 1960s through ‘70s has largely been confined to their role as proponents of social change; but they were also theorists of the c...(Read More) |
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One America?
(May 2019)
Presidential Appeals to Racial Resentment from LBJ to Trump
Nathan Angelo - Author
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Reveals how presidents deploy a rhetoric that attempts to attract many racial and ethnic groups, but ultimately directs itself to an archetypal white, Middle-American swing voter.
Despite major advancements in civil rights in the United States since the 1960s, racial inequality continues to persist in American society. While it may appear that presidents do not address the topic of race, it lurks in the background of presidenti...(Read More) |
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The Politics of Paradigms
(May 2019)
Thomas S. Kuhn, James B. Conant, and the Cold War “Struggle for Men’s Minds”
George A. Reisch - Author
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Uncovers long-ignored political themes—ideology, propaganda, mind control, and Orwellian history—at work within the pages of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
The Politics of Paradigms shows that America’s most famous and influential book about science, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions of 1962, was inspired and shaped by Thomas Kuhn’s political interests, his relationship ...(Read More) |
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From El Dorado to Lost Horizons
(April 2019)
Traditionalist Films in the Hollywood Renaissance, 1967-1972
Ken Windrum - Author
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Investigates how musicals, war films, sex comedies, and Westerns dealt with contentious issues during a time of change in Hollywood.
The era known as the Hollywood Renaissance is celebrated as a time when revolutionary movies broke all the rules of the previous “classical” era as part of the ferment of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Yet many films during this era did not overtly smash the system but provided more tr...(Read More) |
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