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Empty Pleasures
The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Sugar substitutes have been a part of American life since saccharin was introduced at the 1893 World's Fair. In Empty Pleasures, the first history of artificial sweeteners in the United States, Carolyn de la Pena blends popular culture with business and women's history, examining the invention, production,...
Mobilizing Bolivia's Displaced
Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The election of Evo Morales as Bolivia's president in 2005 made him his nation's first indigenous head of state, a watershed victory for social activists and Native peoples. El Movimiento Sin Tierra (MST), or the Landless Peasant Movement, played a significant role in bringing Morales to power. Following...
Contested Culture
The Image, the Voice, and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Jane M. Gaines examines the phenomenon of images as property, focusing on the legal staus of mechanically produced visual and audio images from popular culture. Bridging the fields of critical legal studies and cultural studies, she analyzes copyright, trademark, and intellectual property law, asking how the law constructs works of authorship and who owns the country's cultural heritage.
Until the Last Man Comes Home
POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Fewer Americans were captured or missing during the Vietnam War than in any previous major military conflict in U.S. history. Yet despite their small numbers, American POWs inspired an outpouring of concern that slowly eroded support for the war. Michael J. Allen reveals how wartime loss transformed...
Beyond the Alamo
Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Introducing a new model for the transnational history of the United States, Raul Ramos places Mexican Americans at the center of the Texas creation story. He focuses on Mexican-Texan, or Tejano, society in a period of political transition beginning with the year of Mexican independence. Ramos explores...
Southscapes
Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
In this innovative approach to southern literary cultures, Thadious Davis analyzes how black southern writers use their spatial location to articulate the vexed connections between society and environment, particularly under segregation and its legacies.
Basing her analysis on texts by Ernest...
What America Read
Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920-1960
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Despite the vigorous study of modern American fiction, today's readers are only familiar with a partial shelf of a vast library. Gordon Hutner describes the distorted, canonized history of the twentieth-century American novel as a record of modern classics insufficiently appreciated in their day but...
Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions
Gender, Culture, and Nation Building
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation of emerging nations in Latin America. Debra J. Rosenthal examines nineteenth-century authors in the United States and Spanish America who struggled...
by James Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This is the first collection in book form of a number of Boyd's short stories. These stories are as particularly southern as their subject, the small southern community. They emphasize dialogue rather than description and illustrate the economy of the skilled writer who discards false ornaments of...
by Josephina Niggli
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
This is a collection of ten absorbing stories, rich in setting, tense in action, and warm in their sympathy with the human comedy. The main interest in all the stories is the comedy or tragedy in the lives of the people, but each story has its own enveloping action of excitement and color. Pervading...
War Matters
Material Culture in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Material objects lie at the crux of understanding individual and social relationships in history, and the Civil War era is no exception. Before, during, and after the war, Americans from all walks of life created, used, revered, exploited, discarded, mocked, and destroyed objects for countless reasons....
Santa
A Novel of Mexico City
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
This enduring classic of Mexican literature traces the path to ruination of a country girl, Santa, who moves to Mexico City after she is impregnated and abandoned by her lover and subsequently shunned by her family. Once in the city, Santa turns to prostitution and soon gains prominence as Mexico...
Sea Change at Annapolis
The United States Naval Academy, 1949-2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Since 1845, the United States Naval Academy has prepared professional military leaders at its Annapolis, Maryland, campus. Although it remains steeped in a culture of tradition and discipline, the Academy is not impervious to change. Dispelling the myth that the Academy is a bastion of tradition unmarked...
All the Agents and Saints
Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home--only to discover that her native South Texas had been radically transformed in her absence. Ravaged by drug wars and barricaded by an eighteen-foot steel wall, her...