The Eastern Establishment and the Western Experience

G Edward White

• Paperback | Engels | American Studies
• First published in 1968, The Eastern Establishment and the Western Experience has become a classic in the field of American studies. G. Edward White t... Lees meer

Ideology in American Sports

Karsten Senkbeil

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies | nr. 212
• Sport competitions belong to the most prominent mass media events in the USA today. To understand the cultural impact that sports have on the American... Lees meer

Ben Shahn

Frances K Pohl

• Paperback | Engels | American Studies
• In the first, most intense years of the Cold War (1947-1954), New Deal liberals often found themselves in great disfavor. Ben Shahn's experience prese... Lees meer

Alternative Spaces

Katja Sarkowsky

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies | nr. 146
• 'Space', so the basic assumption of this study, plays a central role for transcultural processes in contemporary Native American and First Nations' li... Lees meer

Conflicting Discourses of Sovereignty, Jurisdiction and Territory in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Legal Texts and Indigenous Life Writing

Jens Temmen

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies | nr. 308
• 'The Territorialities of U.S. Imperialisms' sets into relation U.S. imperial and Indigenous conceptions of territoriality as articulated in U.S. legal... Lees meer

Heretics and Hellraisers

Margaret C Jones

• Paperback | Engels | American Studies
• The Masses was the most dynamic and influential left-wing magazine of the early twentieth century, a touchstone for understanding radical thought and ... Lees meer

Archaism, Modernism, and the Art of Paul Manship

Susan Rather

• Paperback | Engels | American Studies
• Archaism, an international artistic phenomenon from early in the twentieth century through the 1930s, receives its first sustained analysis in this bo... Lees meer

But Truth Is Ever Incoherent

Astrid Recker

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies | nr. 168
• Focusing on the critical notions of disunity and incoherence so frequently raised in discussions of 'Moby-Dick', the study argues that Melville's 1851... Lees meer

Ground Zero Fiction

Birgit Dawes

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies | nr. 208
• A decade after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, over 160 novels by U.S.-American writers have re-enacted or revised the day we now call '9... Lees meer

Life Writing Matters in Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies | nr. 217
• Both the practice and study of life writing flourish worldwide, especially since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. This major watershed in the hist... Lees meer

Re-reading Cultural Geography

• Paperback | Engels | American Studies
• The geography of culture has held a sustained attraction for some of the most distinguished and promising geographers of the twentieth century. These ... Lees meer

Ecology and Life Writing

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies | nr. 203
• This volume examines the interrelations between ecological concerns and personal forms of writing in Europe, Asia, and America. It assembles contribut... Lees meer

Irene Rice Pereira

Karen A Bearor

• Paperback | Engels | American Studies
• Artist Irene Rice Pereira was a significant figure in the New York art world of the 1930s and 1940s, who shared an interest in Jungianism with the bet... Lees meer

The Merits of Memory

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies | nr. 143
• Since the publication of Pierre Nora's landmark anthology 'Lieux de Memoire' two decades ago, collective memory has become one of the most intensely s... Lees meer

Seeing and Perceiving

Diana Wagner

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies | nr. 311
• Siri Hustvedt is one of the few contemporary US-American authors who consistently engages with the questions of seeing and perceiving in her work. How... Lees meer

James M. Cain and the American Authors' Authority

Richard Fine

• Paperback | Engels | American Studies
• The 1940s offered ever-increasing outlets for writers in book publishing, magazines, radio, film, and the nascent television industry, but the standar... Lees meer

Henry J. Kaiser

Mark S Foster

• Paperback | Engels | American Studies
• In the 1940s Henry J. Kaiser was a household name, as familiar then as Warren Buffett and Donald Trump are now. Like a Horatio Alger hero, Kaiser rose... Lees meer