American category: 24906 books
The Land Looks After Us
A History of Native American Religion
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
Native Americans practice some of America's most spiritually profound, historically resilient, and ethically demanding religions. Joel Martin draws his narrative from folk stories, rituals, and even landscapes to trace the development of Native American religion from ancient burial mounds, through...
Bison and People on the North American Great Plains
A Deep Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The near disappearance of the American bison in the nineteenth century is commonly understood to be the result of over-hunting, capitalist greed, and all but genocidal military policy. This interpretation remains seductive because of its simplicity; there are villains and victims in this familiar...
On the Battlefield of Memory
The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919–1941
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2010
This work is a detailed study of how Americans in the 1920s and 1930s interpreted and remembered the First World War. Steven Trout asserts that from the beginning American memory of the war was fractured and unsettled, more a matter of competing sets of collective memories—each set with its own...
The Quest for Citizenship
African American and Native American Education in Kansas, 1880-1935
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
In The Quest for Citizenship, Kim Cary Warren examines the formation of African American and Native American citizenship, belonging, and identity in the United States by comparing educational experiences in Kansas between 1880 and 1935. Warren focuses her study on Kansas, thought by many to be the...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
*Discusses the myths, legends, and controversies surrounding Geronimo's life.*Explains where the name Geronimo originated from.*Analyzes Geronimo's legacy and depictions of him in pop culture.*Includes pictures of Geronimo and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes a Table of Contents....
The Transnationalism of American Culture
Literature, Film, and Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This book studies the transnational nature of American cultural production, specifically literature, film, and music, examining how these serve as ways of perceiving the United States and American culture. The volume’s engagement with the reality of transnationalism focuses on material examples...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry comprises original essays by eighteen distinguished scholars. It offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century, in addition to critical accounts of the representative schools, movements, regional settings,...
Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction
Hawthorne to Faulkner
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 1983
In this comprehensive and insightful study, Christian K. Messenger contends that American writers have always created characters at play in the sure knowledge that to be active in sport in America is to be in touch with its people, their traditions, and their fantasy lives.
This is the first...
by Richard Gray
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
A History of American Poetry presents a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their pre-Columbian origins to the present day.
Offers a detailed and accessible account of the entire range of American poetry
Situates the story of American poetry within...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature presents a comprehensive history of the field, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present day. It offers an unparalleled examination of all facets of Asian American writing that help readers to understand how authors have sought to...
by Ami R. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Using James Truslow Adams’ definition of the American dream, this book investigates whether black African immigrants in Texas are achieving the American dream. Almost all of the study participants Moore interviewed considered America a land of opportunity. Additionally, most of the black African...
Traces of Gold
California's Natural Resources and the Claim to Realism in Western American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Broadening our understanding of what constitutes "realism," Nicolas Witschi artfully demonstrates the linkage of American literary realism to the texts, myths, and resources of the American West.
From Gold Rush romances to cowboy Westerns, from hard-boiled detective thrillers to nature...
Prefiguring Postblackness
Cultural Memory, Drama, and the African American Freedom Struggle of the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Prefiguring Postblackness explores the tensions between cultural memory of the African American freedom struggle and representations of African American identity staged in five plays between 1959 and 1969 during the civil rights era. Through close readings of the plays, their popular and African American...
Racially Writing the Republic
Racists, Race Rebels, and Transformations of American Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Racially Writing the Republic investigates the central role of race in the construction and transformation of American national identity from the Revolutionary War era to the height of the civil rights movement. Drawing on political theory, American studies, critical race theory, and gender studies,...