American Studies Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. The State and Indigenous Movements

   By Keri E. Iyall Smith

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   Using the comparative historical method, this book looks at the experience of indigenous peoples, specifically the Native Hawaiians, showing how a nation can express culture and citizenship while seeking ways to attain greater sovereignty over territory, culture, and politics....

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
2. The State, Removal and Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Mexico, 1620-2000

   By Claudia Haake

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   This book investigates the forced migration of the Delawares in the United States and the Yaquis in Mexico, focusing primarily on the impact removal from tribal lands had on the (ethnic) identity of these two indigenous societies. It analyzes Native responses to colonial and state policies to...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
3. Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture

   By Ethan Thompson

   Series: Routledge Advances in Television Studies

   In this original study, Thompson explores the complicated relationships between Americans and television during the 1950s, as seen and effected through popular humor. Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture documents how Americans grew accustomed to understanding politics, current...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
4. Rethinking Municipal Privatization

   By Oliver D. Cooke

   Series: New Political Economy

   This book examines one of the most high-profile municipal privatizations—the privatization of New York City’s Central Park. The fiscal crisis of the 1970s established the political and cultural opening for privatizations, which were justified on the basis of increasing efficiency. However, as Cooke...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
5. G.H. Mead

   A Reader

   By G. H. Mead

   Edited by Filipe Carreira da Silva

   Series: Routledge Classics in Sociology

   This book introduces social scientists to the ideas of George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) - one of the most original yet neglected thinkers of early twentieth century sociology. Mead is an exceptional case amongst sociological classics in that, until now, there has been no comprehensive reader of his...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
6. Local Foods Meet Global Foodways

   Tasting History

   Edited by Benjamin Lawrance, Carolyn de la Peña

   This book explores the intersection of food and foodways from global and local perspectives. The collection contributes to interdisciplinary debates about the role and movement of commodities in the historical and contemporary world. The expert contributions collectively address a fundamental...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
7. Jim Crow Citizenship

   Liberalism and the Southern Defense of Racial Hierarchy

   By Marek D. Steedman

   Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics

   In the late 1860s the U.S. federal government initiated the most abrupt transition from slavery to citizenship in the Americas. The transformation, of course, did not stick, but it did permanently alter the terms of American citizenship and initiated a century long struggle over the place of...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
8. Kennedy, Johnson and NATO

   Britain, America and the Dynamics of Alliance, 1962-68

   By Andrew Priest

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   Kennedy, Johnson and the Defence of NATO is an incisive reassessment of Anglo-American defence relations, which form a crucial part of international security. Andrew Priest closely examines this key relationship by focusing on the so-called Nassau agreement of December 1962. He clearly places...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942

   By Claudrena N. Harold

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South provides the first detailed examination of the Universal Negro Improvement Association's rise, maturation, and eventual decline in the urban South between 1918 and 1942. It examines the ways in which Southern black workers fused...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
10. American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History

    By Peter Swirski

    Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

    The United States today is afflicted with political alienation, militarized violence, institutionalized poverty, and social agony. Worst of all, perhaps, it is afflicted with chronic and acute ahistoricism. America insist on ignoring the context of its present dilemmas. It insists on forgetting...

    Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge