Studies in American Popular History and Culture
America's Fight Over Water: The Environmental and Political Effects of Large-Scale Water Systems
1st Edition
By Kevin Wehr
September 10, 2012
This book inquires into the relations between society and its natural environment by examining the historical discourse around several cases of state building in the American West: the construction of three high dams from 1928 to 1963....
Books and Libraries in American Society during World War II: Weapons in the War of Ideas
1st Edition
By Patti Clayton Becker
September 10, 2012
World War II presented America's public libraries with the daunting challenge of meeting new demands for war-related library services and materials with Depression-weakened collections, inadequate budgets and demoralized staff, in addition to continuing to serve the library's traditional clientele ...
Great Depression and the Middle Class: Experts, Collegiate Youth and Business Ideology, 1929-1941
1st Edition
By Mary C. McComb
September 10, 2012
Great Depression and the Middle Class: Experts, Collegiate Youth and Business Ideology, 1929-1941 explores how middle-class college students navigated the rocky terrain of Depression-era culture, job market, dating marketplace, prospective marriage prospects, and college campuses by using ...
Labor and Laborers of the Loom: Mechanization and Handloom Weavers, 1780-1840
1st Edition
By Gail Fowler Mohanty
September 10, 2012
Labor and Laborers of the Loom: Mechanization and Handloom Weavers 1780-1840 develops several themes important to understanding the social, cultural and economic implications of industrialization. The examination of these issues within a population of extra-factory workers distinguishes this study....
The Literature of Immigration and Racial Formation: Becoming White, Becoming Other, Becoming American in the Late Progressive Era
1st Edition
By Linda Joyce Brown
September 10, 2012
This work examines early twentieth-century literature about women immigrants in order to reveal the differing ways that American racial categories and identities, particularly that of whiteness, were textually and socially constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century....
US Textile Production in Historical Perspective: A Case Study from Massachusetts
1st Edition
By Susan Ouellette
September 10, 2012
This book explores the development of a provincial textile industry in colonial America. Immediately after the end of the Great Migration into the Massachusetts Bay colony, settlers found themselves in a textile crisis. They were not able to generate the kind of export commodities that would enable...
Women Workers on Strike: Narratives of Southern Women Unionists
1st Edition
By Roxanne Newton
September 10, 2012
Gender, class, and culture merge in the lived experiences of women on strike in the South. This book examines women unionists’ life histories through the lens of narrative analysis, interpreting their multiple perspectives as four coherent discourse communities: social activists, union feminists, ...
The First of Causes to Our Sex: The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834-1848
1st Edition
By Daniel S. Wright
July 26, 2012
The First of Causes to Our Sex is a study of the first movement in the United States for social change by and for women. Female moral reform in the 1830s and '40s was a campaign to abolish sexual vice and the sexual double standard, and to promote sexual abstinence among the young as they entered ...
The Making of the Primitive Baptists: A Cultural and Intellectual History of the Anti-Mission Movement, 1800-1840
1st Edition
By James R. Mathis
June 28, 2012
This study describes the creation of the Primitive Baptist movement and discusses the main outlines of their thought. It also weaves the story of the Primitive Baptists with other developments in American Christianity in the Early Republic....
Language, Gender, and Citizenship in American Literature, 1789-1919
1st Edition
By Amy Dunham Strand
February 27, 2012
Examining language debates and literary texts from Noah Webster to H.L. Mencken and from Washington Irving to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this book demonstrates how gender arose in passionate discussions about language to address concerns about national identity and national citizenship elicited by ...
Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
1st Edition
By Mary McCartin Wearn
February 27, 2012
Returning to a foundational moment in the history of the American family, Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how various authors of the period represented the maternal role – an office that came to a new, social prominence at the end of the eighteenth century....
The Marketing of Edgar Allan Poe
1st Edition
By Jonathan Hartmann
February 24, 2012
Edgar Allan Poe is today considered one of the greatest masters and most fascinating figures of the American literary world. However, an examination of Poe's essays and criticism throughout his prose publishing career (1831-1849) reveals that the author himself played a vital role in the creation ...