Studies in American Popular History and Culture

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11. The Quiet Revolutionaries

    How the Grey Nuns Changed the Social Welfare Paradigm of Lewiston, Maine

    By Susan Hudson

    Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

    The book recognizes the achievements by a nineteenth-century community of women religious, the Grey Nuns of Lewiston, Maine. The founding of their hospital was significant in its time as the first hospital in that factory city; and is significant today if one desires a more accurate and inclusive...

    Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge
12. The Literature of Immigration and Racial Formation

    Becoming White, Becoming Other, Becoming American in the Late Progressive Era

    By Linda Joyce Brown

    Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

    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....

    Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
13. Labor and Laborers of the Loom

    Mechanization and Handloom Weavers, 1780-1840

    By Gail Fowler Mohanty

    Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

    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....

    Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
14. Great Depression and the Middle Class

    Experts, Collegiate Youth and Business Ideology, 1929-1941

    By Mary C. McComb

    Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

    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...

    Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
15. Books and Libraries in American Society during World War II

    Weapons in the War of Ideas

    By Patti Clayton Becker

    Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

    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...

    Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
16. Women Workers on Strike

    Narratives of Southern Women Unionists

    By Roxanne Newton

    Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

    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,...

    Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
17. US Textile Production in Historical Perspective

    A Case Study from Massachusetts

    By Susan Ouellette

    Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

    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...

    Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
18. The First of Causes to Our Sex

    The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834-1848

    By Daniel S. Wright

    Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

    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...

    Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
19. The Making of the Primitive Baptists

    A Cultural and Intellectual History of the Anti-Mission Movement, 1800-1840

    By James R. Mathis

    Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

    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....

    Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge
20. Language, Gender, and Citizenship in American Literature, 1789–1919

    By Amy Dunham Strand

    Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

    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...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge