The Urbanists, 1865-1915

Dana F White

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American Studies
• Based on a reading of almost 6,000 entries from 37 periodicals published between the years 1865 and 1900, The Urbanists offers an insightful analysis ... Lees meer

Rhetoric of American Politics

William Raymond Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Contributions in American Studies
• Critics will find intellectual stimulation in these closely reasoned commentaries. Qarterly Review of Speech Lees meer

The Soul of the Wobblies

Donald E Winters

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American Studies
• This important work offers a new view of the Wobblies by examining not only their connection to American culture but their relationship to early twent... Lees meer

Heralds of Promise

Walter J Meserve

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American Studies
• Here is a fascinating account of the struggle to create a viable American theatre and dramatic tradition in a society that, while eager for culture an... Lees meer

In Praise of Common Things

Lizette Woodworth Reese

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American Studies
• Lizette Woodworth Reese was a professional, independent woman from the time she left high school in 1873. She began her teaching career that year and ... Lees meer

Blowing the Bridge

Rena Sanderson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American Studies
• This collection of recent essays on Hemingway and For Whom the Bell Tolls demonstrates the centrality of this Spanish Civil war novel in the author's ... Lees meer

Prophetic Pictures

Rita K Gollin, John L Idol, Sterling K Eisiminger

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American Studies
• This study takes an unusual approach to Nathaniel Hawthorne's work by exploring his knowledge and uses of the visual arts. The authors trace Hawthorne... Lees meer

In Search of America

Marcus Cunliffe, Phyllis Palmer

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American Studies
• This wide ranging selection of essays by a renowned English scholar explores American history, literature, and culture. Many aspects and periods of Am... Lees meer

For the Public Record

Barbara Stuhler

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American Studies | nr. 108
• Through a judicious selection of documents from the papers of the League of Women Voters of the United States in the Library of Congress, Stuhler reve... Lees meer

Testing the Faith

Anita Gandolfo

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American Studies | nr. 100
• Since 1965 there has been an explosion of fiction about being Catholic, clearly a result of confusions in the post-Vatican II church. American Catholi... Lees meer

The Politics of a Literary Man

Jon L Wakelyn

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American Studies
• Of big-screen names today, Tom Cruise is one of the biggest. His increasingly brilliant and mature performances in films such as Magnolia, Vanilla Sky... Lees meer

A Campaign of Ideas

Clifford W Brown, Robert J Walker

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American Studies
• Clifford W. Brown, Jr. and Robert J. Walker outline and analyze the entire Anderson/Lucey platform. The book includes the original Program of the Ande... Lees meer

Corporations and Society

Warren Samuels

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American Studies
• This volume provides an interesting evaluation of the role of the corporation in American society. The book traces the historical role of the corporat... Lees meer

Modular America

John G Blair

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American Studies
• While the attempt to understand Americanness in terms of our beliefs and mentality is all too familiar, Blair's approach to the origins of American cu... Lees meer

Television Fraud

J Kent Anderson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American Studies
• Anderson provides an unprecedented probe into the inner workings of the quiz shows. He details their honest beginnings and explains how the practice o... Lees meer

Prologue

Carole McAlpine Watson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American Studies
• This volume discusses the emergence of writings by Black women, the major concerns and themes of their fiction, and its special role within, and uniqu... Lees meer

Sources for American Studies

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American Studies
• American Studies: Topics and Sources (Greenwood Press, 1976) indexed notable essays in American studies written through 1976 that appeared in American... Lees meer

Yesterday's Stories

Patricia Raub, Patricia Paub

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American Studies
• While scholars have begun to study popular women's novels of the 19th century, there has been relatively little attention paid to popular women's fict... Lees meer

For Better or Worse

Allen Freeman Davis, Lsi

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American Studies
• This work presents the thinking of thirteen distinguished foreign observers who examine and evaluate the imprint of America on their own lives and on ... Lees meer

Feast of Strangers

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American Studies | nr. 106
• Poet, social scientist, and literary essayist, Reuel Denney is best known perhaps as co-author of The Lonely Crowd with David Riesman and Nathan Glase... Lees meer

Family, Drama, and American Dreams

Tom Scanlan

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American Studies
• American drama is chiefly a drama of realistic family plays and its conventions revolve around the antagonistic impulses of security and freedom. Scan... Lees meer

The Selected Writings of Mordecai Noah

Michael J Schuldiner, M M Noah

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American Studies | nr. 107
• Mordecai Noah, whose writings span from the 1800s to the 1840s, is the first important Jewish writer to appear on the American scene. In his own time,... Lees meer

Business and Religion in the American 1920s

Rolf Lunden

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American Studies
• Addressing a phenomenon that continues to shape our culture today, Professor Lunden presents a full-length analysis of the relationship between busine... Lees meer

The Social Christian Novel

R Glenn Wright, Robert Glenn Wright

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American Studies
• This comprehensive volume provides an analysis of 145 social gospel novels. Describing various conflicts presented in the American popular literary hi... Lees meer