Norman K : 53 books
Giants in their Time
Representative Americans from the Jazz Age to the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005
From the 1920s to the end of the Second World War, the American experience was one of both unbounded optimism, monumental achievements, and tragic loss. In Giants in their Time, the latest volume in the Representative Americans Series, noted historian Norman K. Risjord uses biographical sketches to...
by Norman K. Risjord
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
What do Paul Bunyan, Charles Lindbergh, and Jesse Ventura have in common? Minnesota, of course! In A Popular History of Minnesota, historian Norman K. Risjord offers a grand tour of the state's remarkable history. This highly readable volume details everything from the glacial formation of the land...
Shining Big Sea Water
The Story of Lake Superior
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
In Shining Big Sea Water, historian Norman K. Risjord offers a grand tour of Lake Superior's remarkable history, taking readers through the centuries and into the lives of those who have traveled the lake and inhabited its shores.
Through lively, informative chapters, Risjord begins with the...
Representative Americans
Populists and Progressives
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2004
Populists and Progressives, Norman K Risjord's next book in the Representative Americans series, gives readers a fascinating glimpse into the tumultuous turn of the twentieth century.
Risjord brings together brief biographies to explore the political, social, and cultural dimensions of the...
Indians in Color
Native Art, Identity, and Performance in the New West
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
In Indians in Color, noted cultural critic Norman K. Denzin addresses the acute differences in the treatment of artwork about Native America created by European-trained artists compared to those by Native artists. In his fourth volume exploring race and culture in the New West, Denzin zeroes in on...
Representative Americans
The Civil War Generation
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
Americans in the middle decades of the nineteenth century were a people with boundless energy capable of heroic deeds, monumental achievements, and tragic errors. In The Civil War Generation, his newest volume in The Representative Americans series, noted scholar Norman K. Risjord uses biographical...
by Norman K. Denzin
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
“It is time to chart a new course”, writes Norman K. Denzin in Interpretive Autoethnography, Second Edition. “I want to turn the traditional life story, biographical project into an interpretive autoethnographic project, into a critical, performative practice, a practice that begins with the...
Interpretive Ethnography
Ethnographic Practices for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1996
As the world's culture has become both postmodern and multinational, so too must ethnography. In this volume, Norman K Denzin examines the changes and sounds a call to transform ethnographic writing in a manner befitting a new age. The author ponders the prospects, problems, and forms of ethnographic...
by Norman K., Jr. Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
In the twentieth century, the pioneering work of such art historians as Erwin Panofsky and Edgar Wind heightened our awareness of the relationship between Renaissance literature and the visual arts. By focusing on that relationship in the work of such poets as Sir Philip Sidney, John Donne, Richard Crashaw,...
Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire
Toward a New Paradigm Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This collection of recent works by Norman K. Denzin provides a history of the field of qualitative inquiry over the past two decades. As perhaps the leading proponent of this style of research, Denzin has led the way toward more performative writing, toward conceptualizing research in terms of social...
Reading Race
Hollywood and the Cinema of Racial Violence
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2001
In this insightful book, one of America's leading commentators on culture and society turns his gaze upon cinematic race relations, examining the relationship between film, race and culture.
Norman K Denzin argues that the cinema, like society, treats all persons as equal but struggles to define...
by Norman K. Denzin
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
To mark 40 volumes of Studies in Symbolic Interaction, this volume includes a special introduction from Series Editor, Norman K. Denzin. This 40th volume advances critical discourse on several fronts at the same time, including a report from the First Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines...
Indians on Display
Global Commodification of Native America in Performance, Art, and Museums
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Even as their nations and cultures were being destroyed by colonial expansion across the continent, American Indians became a form of entertainment, sometimes dangerous and violent, sometimes primitive and noble. Creating a fictional wild west, entrepreneurs then exported it around the world. Exhibitions...
The Qualitative Manifesto
A Call to Arms
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Now issued as part of the Routledge Education Classic Edition series, A Qualitative Manifesto provides a "call to arms" for researchers from the leading figure in the qualitative research commnunity, Norman Denzin. Denzin asks for a research tradition engaged in social justice, sensitive...