American category: 24906 books
by Sandra M. Gustafson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Deliberation, in recent years, has emerged as a form of civic engagement worth reclaiming. In this persuasive book, Sandra M. Gustafson combines historical literary analysis and political theory in order to demonstrate that current democratic practices of deliberation are rooted in the civic rhetoric...
The Indians’ New World
Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This eloquent, pathbreaking account follows the Catawbas from their first contact with Europeans in the sixteenth century until they carved out a place in the American republic three centuries later. It is a story of Native agency, creativity, resilience, and endurance.
Upon its original publication...
Black Neighbors
Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Professing a policy of cultural and social integration, the American settlement house movement made early progress in helping immigrants adjust to life in American cities. However, when African Americans migrating from the rural South in the early twentieth century began to replace white immigrants...
The Moral Electricity of Print
Transatlantic Education and the Lima Women's Circuit, 1876-1910
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Best Nineteenth-Century Book Award Winner, 2018, Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth-Century Section
Moral electricity—a term coined by American transcendentalists in the 1850s to describe the force of nature that was literacy and education in shaping a greater society. This concept...
African American Army Officers of World War I
A Vanguard of Equality in War and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
In April 1917, Congress approved President Woodrow Wilson’s request to declare war on the Central Powers, thrusting the United States into World War I with the rallying cry, “The world must be made safe for democracy.” Two months later 1,250 African American men—college graduates, businessmen,...
European Empires in the American South
Colonial and Environmental Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Contributions by Allison Margaret Bigelow, Denise I. Bossy, Alejandra Dubcovsky, Alexandre Dub", Kathleen DuVal, Jonathan Eacott, Travis Glasson, Christopher Morris, Robert Olwell, Joshua Piker, and Joseph P. Ward
European Empires in the American South examines the process of European...
The Newspaper Warrior
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (Northern Paiute) has long been recognized as an important nineteenth-century American Indian activist and writer. Yet her acclaimed performances and speaking tours across the United States, along with the copious newspaper articles that grew out of those tours, have been...
Desegregating Desire
Race and Sexuality in Cold War American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
A study of race and sexuality and their interdependencies in American literature from 1945 to 1955, Desegregating Desire examines the varied strategies used by eight American poets and novelists to integrate sexuality into their respective depictions of desegregated places and emergent identities...
Separate Peoples, One Land
The Minds of Cherokees, Blacks, and Whites on the Tennessee Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Exploring the mental worlds of the major groups interacting in a borderland setting, Cynthia Cumfer offers a broad, multiracial intellectual and cultural history of the Tennessee frontier in the Revolutionary and early national periods, leading up to the era of rapid westward expansion and Cherokee...
by Michael Ziser
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
This original and provocative study tells the story of American literary history from the perspective of its environmental context. Weaving together close readings of early American texts with ecological histories of tobacco, potatoes, apples and honey bees, Michael Ziser presents a method for literary...
The African American Experience in Crime Fiction
A Critical Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
An immensely popular genre, crime fiction has only in recent years been engaged significantly by African American authors. Historically, the racist stereotypes often central to crime fiction and the socially conservative nature of the genre presented problems for writing the black experience, and...
The Lousy Racket
Hemingway, Scribners, and the Business of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The business of making an American literary icon
The Lousy Racket is a thorough examination of Ernest Hemingway’s working relationship with his American publisher, Charles Scribner’s Sons, and with his editors there: Maxwell Perkins, Wallace Meyer, and Charles Scribner III. This first critical...
Artistic Liberties
American Literary Realism and Graphic Illustration, 1880-1905
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Artistic Liberties is a landmark study of the illustrations that originally accompanied now-classic works of American literary realism and the ways editors, authors, and illustrators vied for authority over the publications.
Though today, we commonly read major works of nineteenth-century American...
On the Edge of the Holocaust
The Shoah in Latin American Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
In this bold study, Edna Aizenberg offers a much-needed corrective to both Latin American literary scholarship and popular assumptions that the whole of Latin America served as a Nazi refuge both during and after World War II. Analyzing the treatment of the Shoah by five leading figures in Argentine,...