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by Kate Haulman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In eighteenth-century America, fashion served as a site of contests over various forms of gendered power. Here, Kate Haulman explores how and why fashion--both as a concept and as the changing style of personal adornment--linked gender relations, social order, commerce, and political authority during...
Shadow Cold War
The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy Friedman's Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China for the leadership of...
Roots of Conflict
British Armed Forces and Colonial Americans, 1677-1763
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
This lively book recounts the story of the antagonism between the American colonists and the British armed forces prior to the Revolution. Douglas Leach reveals certain Anglo-American attitudes and stereotypes that evolved before 1763 and became an important factor leading to the outbreak of the Revolutionary...
American Inquisition
The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
When the U.S. government forced 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative tribunals to pass judgment on who was loyal and who was disloyal. In American Inquisition, Eric Muller relates the untold story of exactly how military and civilian...
The Color of Christ
The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
How is it that in America the image of Jesus Christ has been used both to justify the atrocities of white supremacy and to inspire the righteousness of civil rights crusades? In The Color of Christ, Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey weave a tapestry of American dreams and visions--from witch hunts to...
The Indicted South
Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
By the 1920s, the sectional reconciliation that had seemed achievable after Reconstruction was foundering, and the South was increasingly perceived and portrayed as impoverished, uneducated, and backward. In this interdisciplinary study, Angie Maxwell examines and connects three key twentieth-century...
The Last Puritans
Mainline Protestants and the Power of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Congregationalists, the oldest group of American Protestants, are the heirs of New England's first founders. While they were key characters in the story of early American history, from Plymouth Rock and the founding of Harvard and Yale to the Revolutionary War, their luster and numbers have faded....
The Origins of Proslavery Christianity
White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
In the colonial and antebellum South, black and white evangelicals frequently prayed, sang, and worshipped together. Even though white evangelicals claimed spiritual fellowship with those of African descent, they nonetheless emerged as the most effective defenders of race-based slavery.
As...
Religious Intolerance in America
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
American narratives often celebrate the nation's rich heritage of religious freedom. There is, however, a less told and often ignored part of the story: the ways that intolerance and cultures of hate have manifested themselves within American religious history and culture.
In the first ever...
Brutality Garden
Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropicalia. Music inspired by that movement is today enjoying considerable attention at home and abroad. Few new listeners, however, make the connection between this music and the circumstances surrounding its creation,...
Rhythms of Race
Cuban Musicians and the Making of Latino New York City and Miami, 1940-1960
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Among the nearly 90,000 Cubans who settled in New York City and Miami in the 1940s and 1950s were numerous musicians and entertainers, black and white, who did more than fill dance halls with the rhythms of the rumba, mambo, and cha cha cha. In her history of music and race in midcentury America,...
Lynching and Spectacle
Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In Lynching and Spectacle, Amy Wood explains what it meant for white Americans to perform and witness these sadistic spectacles and how lynching played a role in establishing...
Wilson's Creek
The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
In the summer of 1861, Americans were preoccupied by the question of which states would join the secession movement and which would remain loyal to the Union. This question was most fractious in the border states of Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. In Missouri, it was largely settled at Wilson's...
Exiles from a Future Time
The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
With this book, Alan Wald launches a bold and passionate account of the U.S. Literary Left from the 1920s through the 1960s. Exiles from a Future Time, the first volume of a trilogy, focuses on the forging of a Communist-led literary tradition in the 1930s. Exploring writers' intimate lives and heartfelt...