The First Sexual Revolution

Kevin F White

• Hardcover | Engels | American Social Experience | nr. 5
• In the early 1900s, a sexual revolution took place that was to define social relations between the sexes in America for generations. As Victorian valu... Lees meer

Why America Stopped Voting

Mark L Kornbluh

• Hardcover | Engels | American Social Experience | nr. 27
• Examines how giving up the vote became a fundamental aspect of modern American life Public involvement in the electoral process has all but disappeare... Lees meer

Dancing in Chains

Rodney D Olsen

• Paperback | Engels | American Social Experience | nr. 15
• " Dancing in Chains is far more than a sensitive biography (though it is surely that); it is also a model of psychologically informed social and cultu... Lees meer

Bad Habits

• Paperback | Engels | American Social Experience | nr. 12
• A pioneering study tracing the growth of Americans' bad habits The vast majority of Americans have, at one point or another gotten drunk, smoked, dabb... Lees meer

Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910-1945

Steven Biel

• Paperback | Engels | American Social Experience | nr. 1
• A new intellectual community came together in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s, a community outside the universities, the professions and, in ... Lees meer

Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts

Patricia McDaniel

• Paperback | Engels | American Social Experience | nr. 16
• Since World War II Americans' attitudes towards shyness have changed. The women's movement and the sexual revolution raised questions about communicat... Lees meer

In the Web of Class

Eric C Schneider

• Paperback | Engels | American Social Experience | nr. 10
• "An analytic overview of the history of social welfare and juvenile justice in Boston..[Schneider] traces cogently the origins, development, and ultim... Lees meer

Dancing in Chains

Rodney D Olsen

• Hardcover | Engels | American Social Experience | nr. 15
• " Dancing in Chains is far more than a sensitive biography (though it is surely that); it is also a model of psychologically informed social and cultu... Lees meer

Medical Malpractice in Nineteenth-Century America

Kenneth de Ville

• Paperback | Engels | American Social Experience | nr. 20
• Highly readable . . . . interdisciplinary history of a high order. -- The Historian Well-written and superbly documented . . . . Both physicians and l... Lees meer

America Goes to War

Charles Patrick Neimeyer

• Paperback | Engels | American Social Experience | nr. 26
• A unique and revealing analysis of the diverse body that made up the American revolutionary army One of the images Americans hold most dear is that of... Lees meer

Nurturing Neighborhood

Gerald Sorin

• Hardcover | Engels | American Social Experience | nr. 21
• Drawing heavily on the reminiscences of the Brownsville boys themselves, and skillfully integrating these with material from newspapers, books, and co... Lees meer

General Richard Montgomery and the American Revolution

Hal T Shelton

• Paperback | Engels | American Social Experience | nr. 4
• Chronicles the life and military of a neglected hero of the American Revolution--General Richard Montgomery "Brave, humane, and generous . . . still h... Lees meer

Thomas Hutchinson and the Origins of the American Revolution

Andrew Stephen Walmsley

• Hardcover | Engels | American Social Experience | nr. 22
• Rarely in American history has a political figure been so pilloried and despised as Thomas Hutchinson, Governor of Massachusetts and an ardent loyalis... Lees meer

Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts

Patricia McDaniel

• Hardcover | Engels | American Social Experience | nr. 16
• Since World War II Americans' attitudes towards shyness have changed. The women's movement and the sexual revolution raised questions about communicat... Lees meer

Yankee Town, Southern City

Steven Elliot Tripp

• Hardcover | Engels | American Social Experience | nr. 14
• One of the most hotly debated issues in the historical study of race relations is the question of how the Civil War and Reconstruction affected social... Lees meer

Nurturing Neighborhood

Gerald Sorin

• Paperback | Engels | American Social Experience | nr. 21
• Drawing heavily on the reminiscences of the Brownsville boys themselves, and skillfully integrating these with material from newspapers, books, and co... Lees meer

The Modern Christmas in America

William Waits

• Paperback | Engels | American Social Experience | nr. 23
• In days of old, Christmas was defined by the custom of exchanging simple handmade gifts. Today, it has become a multi-billion industry, synonymous wit... Lees meer

Army of Manifest Destiny

James M McCaffrey

• Paperback | Engels | American Social Experience | nr. 11
• The day-to-day experiences of the American soldiers fighting in the Mexican War James McCaffrey examines America's first foreign war, the Mexican War,... Lees meer

Frederick Law Olmstead

Melvin Kalfus

• Paperback | Engels | American Social Experience | nr. 13
• Frederick Law Olmsted's career as a landscape architect was long and varied. The best-known fruits of that career were surely the great urban parks: C... Lees meer

The Dutch American Farm

David S Cohen

• Paperback | Engels | American Social Experience | nr. 24
• "A rich and readable source of information and interpretation." New York History "Cohen presents a detailed description of the everyday life of early ... Lees meer