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Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture
Seeking to understand how literary texts both shaped and reflected the century's debates over adolescent female education, this book examines fictional works and historical documents featuring descriptions of girls' formal educational experiences between the 1810s and the 1890s. Alves argues...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture
Though America experienced an increase in a native-born population and an emerging African-American identity throughout the nineteenth century, African culture did not necessarily dissipate with each passing decade. Archer examines the slave narratives of four key members of the abolitionist...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture
In the late nineteenth century, melodramas were spectacular entertainment for Americans. They were also a key forum in which elements of American culture were represented, contested, and inverted. This book focuses specifically on the construction of the Mormon villain as rapist, murderer...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
The thematic project ‘New Orleans in the Atlantic World’ was planned immediately after hurricane Katrina and focuses on what meteorologists have always known: the city’s identity and destiny belong to the broader Caribbean and Atlantic worlds as perhaps no other American city does. Balanced...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Studies in African American History and Culture
The war industries associated with World War II brought unparalleled employment opportunities for African Americans in San Francisco, a city whose African American population grew by over 650% between 1940 and 1945. With this population increase came an increase in racial discrimination directed at...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
Environmental patriotism, the belief that the national environment defines a country’s greatness, is a significant strand in twentieth century American environmentalism. This book is the first to explore the history of environmental patriotism in America through the intriguing stories of...
To Be Published June 2nd 2013 by Routledge
The Routledge Handbook of U.S. Military and Diplomatic History provides a comprehensive analysis of the major events, conflicts, and personalities that have defined and shaped the military history of the United States in the modern period. Each chapter begins with a brief...
To Be Published June 12th 2013 by Routledge
The middle class is often viewed as the heart of American society, the key to the country’s democracy and prosperity. Most Americans believe they belong to this group, and few politicians can hope to be elected without promising to serve the middle class. Yet today the American middle class is...
To Be Published July 7th 2013 by Routledge
The period from 1865 to 1900 was the golden age for European travel in the United States. A journey to America was far from the stale and predictable European tour, promising encounters with vast, wild terrain, and people whose culture was similiar enough to theirs to be familiar, but different...
To Be Published July 18th 2013 by Routledge
This revised and updated edition of the hugely successful American Civilization provides students of American studies with the perfect background and introductory information on contemporary American life. This sixth edition examines the central dimensions of American society from geography and the...
To Be Published July 29th 2013 by Routledge
