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Mapping Decline
St. Louis and the Fate of the American City
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of American...
Western Welfare in Decline
Globalization and Women's Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
The feminization of poverty is increasingly recognized as a global phenomenon, affecting women not only in third world countries but also in the West. Taking globalization as its starting point, Western Welfare in Decline explores the plight of poor single mothers in five English-speaking nations...
The Listener's Voice
Early Radio and the American Public
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
During the Jazz Age and Great Depression, radio broadcasters did not conjure their listening public with a throw of a switch; the public had a hand in its own making. The Listener's Voice describes how a diverse array of Americans—boxing fans, radio amateurs, down-and-out laborers, small-town housewives,...
The Sovereign Citizen
Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Present-day Americans feel secure in their citizenship: they are free to speak up for any cause, oppose their government, marry a person of any background, and live where they choose—at home or abroad. Denaturalization and denationalization are more often associated with twentieth-century authoritarian...
Praxis and Action
Contemporary Philosophies of Human Activity
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
From the Introduction:
This inquiry is concerned with the themes of praxis and action in four philosophic movements: Marxism, existentialism, pragmatism, and analytic philosophy. It is rare that these four movements are considered in a single inquiry, for there are profound differences of emphasis,...
Backwoods Utopias
The Sectarian Origins and the Owenite Phase of Communitarian Socialism in America, 1663-1829
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
The new society that the world awaited might yet be born in the humble guise of a backwoods village. This was the belief shared by the many groups which moved into the American frontier to create experimental communities—communities which they hoped would be models for revolutionary changes in religion,...
Beyond the Farm
National Ambitions in Rural New England
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
During the first half-century of American independence, a fundamental change in the meaning and morality of ambition emerged in American culture. Long stigmatized as a dangerous passion that led people to pursue fame at the expense of duty, ambition also raised concerns among American Revolutionaries...
by Teresa Anne Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Women's history emerged as a genre in the waning years of the eighteenth century, a period during which concepts of nationhood and a sense of belonging expanded throughout European nations and the young American republic. Early women's histories had criticized the economic practices, intellectual...
Homeland Security
Assessing the First Five Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
In 2003, the President and the U.S. Congress established the Department of Homeland Security. From the beginning, its mission was clear: prevent terrorist attacks, protect against threats to America's safety and security, and prepare the nation to respond effectively to disasters, both natural and...
Zoot Suit
The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
ZOOT SUIT (n.): the ultimate in clothes. The only totally and truly American civilian suit.
—Cab Calloway, The Hepster's Dictionary, 1944
Before the fashion statements of hippies, punks, or hip-hop, there was the zoot suit, a striking urban look of the World War II era that captivated the...
Truth Commissions
Memory, Power, and Legitimacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Since the 1980s a number of countries have established truth commissions to come to terms with the legacy of past human rights violations, yet little is known about the achievements and shortcomings of this popular transitional justice tool. Drawing on research on Chile's National Truth and Reconciliation...
Female Circumcision
Multicultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Bolokoli, khifad, tahara, tahoor, qudiin, irua, bondo, kuruna, negekorsigin, and kene-kene are a few of the terms used in local African languages to denote a set of cultural practices collectively known as female circumcision. Practiced in many countries across Africa and Asia, this ritual is hotly...
Iraq at a Distance
What Anthropologists Can Teach Us About the War
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
The Iraq War has cost innumerable lives, caused vast material destruction, and inflicted suffering on millions of people. Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropology Can Teach Us About the War focuses on the plight of the Iraqi people, caught since 2003 in the carnage between U.S. and British troops on...
A Legacy of Leadership
Governors and American History
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
In A Legacy of Leadership, top scholars and journalists create a new framework for understanding the contributions governors have made to defining democracy and shaping American history.
Structured chronologically, A Legacy of Leadership places governors in contrast and comparison with one...