Midcontinent American Studies Journal
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 22,44 MB
Release : 1967
Category : United States
ISBN :
Locating American Studies
Author : Lucy Maddox
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 20,55 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780801860560
Book Description
This collection of 17 esays first printed in "American Quarterly", the journal of the American Studies Association. To mark the Association's 50th anniversary in 1998, the editor has brought together works by a group of scholars which she believes provide a window into the history and evolution of the practice of American studies. Each essay, originally published between 1950 and 1996 is accompanied by a commentary in which a scholar from a related field provides critical information for understanding the continuing importance of the work to the American Studies field. Contributors include: Gene Wise; Henry Nash Smith; Barbara Welter; Alexander Saxton; and Kevin Mumford.
Jacksonian America
Author : Edward Pessen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 23,12 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252012372
Book Description
A perennial choice for courses on antebellum America, Jacksonian America continues to be a popular classroom text with scholars of the period, even among those who bridle at Pessen's iconoclastic views of Old Hickory and his "inegalitarian society."
History of Education: Debates in the history of education
Author : Roy Lowe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 26,27 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415140478
Book Description
This major work brings together some of the most significant and influential writing on the history of education during the past thirty years. It illustrates key themes and their relevance for our understanding of the development of schooling.
Black American Writers, Bibliographical Essays, vol 2: Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin & Amiri Baraka
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 32,13 MB
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349814334
Book Description
"The Challenge of Our Time"
Author : Iris Dorreboom
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 11,84 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9789051833041
Book Description
America
Author : Mary S. Sheridan
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 26,49 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780819187758
Book Description
This book is an anthology of readings, intended for introductory American studies classes. The readings cover the following eras in American history; the Colonial period, the Revolution, the expansion of democracy (early 19th Century), the Civil War (with a range of materials on slavery), expansion into the frontier, the early 20th Century, and the mid-20th Century to the present. Each of these eras is subdivided into themes: land, government, people, non-mainstream perceptions, and international issues of perceptions. America presents a range of influential thinkers, thoughts, and issues in American life.
Analysis and Assessment, 1940-1979
Author : Cary D. Wintz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 29,39 MB
Release : 1996
Category : African American arts
ISBN : 9780815322177
Book Description
Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects of the play: the love/friendship debate.
Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
Page : 1510 pages
File Size : 38,21 MB
Release : 1963
Category : American drama
ISBN :
Book Description
Gender and Morality in Anglo-American Culture, 1650–1800
Author : Ruth H. Bloch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 31,15 MB
Release : 2003-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0520234065
Book Description
NEW ESSAYS TRACE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERCONNECTED IDEAS ABOUT GENDER & MORALITY.
