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From Ritual to Record : The Nature of Modern Sports
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ISBN: 0231517076 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press,

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Originally published in 1978, From Ritual to Record was one of the first books to recognize the importance of sports as a lens on the fundamental structure of societies. In this reissue, Guttmann emphasizes the many ways that modern sports, dramatically different from the sports of previous eras, have profoundly shaped contemporary life.


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Media society : industries, images and audiences
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ISBN: 9781412974202 1412974208 Year: 2012 Publisher: Los Angeles (Calif.): Sage,

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Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America
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ISBN: 0231158653 0231530773 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York Columbia University Press

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Exploring poetry scrapbooks, old-time radio show recordings, advertising verse, corporate archives, and Hallmark greeting cards, among other unconventional sources, Mike Chasar casts American poetry as an everyday phenomenon consumed and created by a vast range of readers. He shows how American poetry in the first half of the twentieth century and its reception helped set the stage for the dynamics of popular culture and mass media today. Poetry was then part and parcel of American popular culture, spreading rapidly as the consumer economy expanded and companies exploited its profit-making potential. Poetry also offered ordinary Americans creative, emotional, political, and intellectual modes of expression, whether through scrapbooking, participation in radio programs, or poetry contests. Reenvisioning the uses of twentieth-century poetry, Chasar provides a richer understanding of the innovations of modernist and avant-garde poets and the American reading public's sophisticated powers of feeling and perception.

Wounds of Returning : Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation
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ISBN: 1469606534 0807831042 0807858013 9798890880505 9780807858011 9781469606538 9780807831045 9780807858011 Year: 2012 Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press,

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Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation


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Un siècle de création musicale aux États-Unis : histoire sociale des productions les plus originales du monde musical américain, de Charles Ives au minimalisme, 1890-1990
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ISBN: 9782940068418 2940068410 Year: 2012 Publisher: Genève: Contrechamps,

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Histoire sociale des productions les plus originales du monde musical américain, de Charles Ives au minimalisme (1890-1990)Cette histoire de la musique américaine replace les différents courants et genres musicaux dans leur contexte économique et social. Elle ne se limite pas aux compositeurs, de Charles Ives à John Adams, mais inclut les différentes formes de musique populaire, depuis la chanson engagée jusqu’au jazz, en passant par les comédies musicales de Broadway. Laurent Denave analyse les tensions entre une sphère savante tôt divisée entre des créateurs originaux et des compositeurs conservateurs ou académiques, et une sphère populaire dominée par les critères commerciaux et davantage faite pour le peuple que par lui. Que ces critères commerciaux s’introduisent à l’intérieur de la musique savante, c’est précisément ce que l’auteur montre à travers différents exemples historiques, qui conduisent à la musique répétitive, assimilée ici à la révolution conservatrice qui eut lieu sur le plan politique.Laurent Denave souligne à quel point le critère de la modernité musicale aux États-Unis est lié à la capacité d’autonomie des compositeurs et comment – à partir de la figure isolée de Charles Ives, qui fonda sa propre compagnie d’assurances et composa durant son temps libre – cette autonomie a tenté de se structurer socialement à travers différentes institutions, dont l’Université a finalement été l’une des plus importantes. Mais il montre aussi comment cette modernité a été tout au long du siècle aux prises avec les diverses formes de conservatisme et de populisme, ainsi qu’avec les intérêts commerciaux de l’industrie musicale. L’analyse sociologique des conditions mêmes de la musique savante fait apparaître l’exclusion de certaines catégories sociales. Fondé sur une documentation impressionnante, écrit d’une plume alerte et vivante, cet ouvrage nous permet de traverser de façon originale une histoire encore mal connue, et jamais présentée ainsi dans son ensemble dans un ouvrage français.Laurent Denave est diplômé de l’Université de Bourgogne et de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). Il prépare actuellement une thèse de Doctorat sur Charles Ives à l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.


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We shall be no more : suicide and self-government in the newly United States
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ISBN: 0674064798 0674068696 9780674068698 9780674064799 9780674063723 0674063724 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,

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Suicide is a quintessentially individual act, yet one with unexpectedly broad social implications. Though seen today as a private phenomenon, in the uncertain aftermath of the American Revolution this personal act seemed to many to be a public threat that held no less than the fate of the fledgling Republic in its grip.Salacious novelists and eager newspapermen broadcast images of a young nation rapidly destroying itself. Parents, physicians, ministers, and magistrates debated the meaning of self-destruction and whether it could (or should) be prevented. Jailers and justice officials rushed to thwart condemned prisoners who made halters from bedsheets, while abolitionists used slave suicides as testimony to both the ravages of the peculiar institution and the humanity of its victims. Struggling to create a viable political community out of extraordinary national turmoil, these interest groups invoked self-murder as a means to confront the most consequential questions facing the newly united states: What is the appropriate balance between individual liberty and social order? Who owns the self? And how far should the control of the state (or the church, or a husband, or a master) extend over the individual?With visceral prose and an abundance of evocative primary sources, Richard Bell lays bare the ways in which self-destruction in early America was perceived as a transgressive challenge to embodied authority, a portent of both danger and possibility. His unique study of suicide between the Revolution and Reconstruction uncovers what was at stake-personally and politically-in the nation's fraught first decades.


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Private Management and Public Policy : The Principle of Public Responsibility
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ISBN: 0804784744 9780804784740 9780804783866 0804783861 Year: 2012 Publisher: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press,

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Private Management and Public Policy is a landmark work at the intersection of business and society. First published in 1975, it focuses on the management processes that companies use to respond to social issues. The text develops the ""principle of public responsibility"" as an alternative to the notion that firms have unlimited accountability. And, it presents one of the first systems-based approaches to corporate responsibility, providing theoretical support for business involvement in public policy. Arguably, the book's major contribution is its broad outline of an alternati


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Community-based archaeology : research with, by, and for indigenous and local communities
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ISBN: 1280881925 9786613723239 0520953460 9780520953468 9781280881923 9780520273351 9780520273368 0520273354 0520273362 6613723231 Year: 2012 Publisher: Berkeley, CA University of California Press

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Archaeology impacts the lives of indigenous, local, or descendant communities. Yet often these groups have little input to archaeological research, and its results remain inaccessible. As archaeologists consider the consequences and benefits of research, the skills, methodologies, and practices required of them will differ dramatically from those of past decades. As an archaeologist and a Native American, Sonya Atalay has investigated the rewards and complex challenges of conducting research in partnership with indigenous and local communities. In Community-Based Archaeology, she outlines the principles of community-based participatory research and demonstrates how CBPR can be effectively applied to archaeology. Drawing on her own experiences with research projects in North America and the Near East, Atalay provides theoretical discussions along with practical examples of establishing and developing collaborative relationships and sharing results. This book will contribute to building an archaeology that is engaged, ethical, relevant, and sustainable.

What It Means to Be Daddy : Fatherhood for Black Men Living Away from Their Children
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ISBN: 0231505108 9780231505109 0231115547 9780231115544 0231115555 9780231115551 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press,

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Absent fathers and households headed by single mothers are frequently blamed for the poor quality of life of African-American children. This book challenges these assumptions, arguing that they are largely an unfair reflection of non-working class white American values. Hamer places the behaviors of black non-custodial fathers in their social, political, and economic contexts and describes these fatherless families from the perspectives of the families themselves.


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Le prix des inégalités
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ISBN: 9782918597995 2918597996 Year: 2012 Publisher: Paris: Les Liens qui libèrent,

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Son livre à paraître est consacré à l'un des grands sujets de l'économie actuelle et curieusement assez peu traité : les inégalités. Dans ce livre majeur Joseph Stiglitz explique comment les inégalités ont ainsi prospéré dans le monde depuis près de 20 ans. Et pourquoi ces tels écarts de richesses entre les plus riches et les plus pauvres sont à la fois inacceptables socialement et extrêmement dangereux économiquement. En effet Stiglitz démontre magistralement qu'il n'y aurait sans doute jamais eu la crise de 2007 si les classes pauvres et moyennes américaines notamment avaient vu leur pouvoir d'achat augmenté régulièrement (il stagne voire décroît aux Etats Unis depuis 2 décennies). Contrairement à la doxa libérale qui pense que moins l'Etat intervient pour réglementer mieux se porte l'économie, l'auteur démontre que c'est précisément cette absence de régulations qui a provoqué la crise. De même contrairement à la doxa libérale qui prétend que l'argent ruisselle spontanément des plus riches vers les plus pauvres, la richesse s'est concentré en un glacis détenu pour l'essentiel par 1% des habitants du globe. Un livre qui bien entendu non content de dénoncer et d'expliquer , toujours avec un remarquable sens pédagogique, propose de solutions et surtout d'autres alternatives à un système économique mondial qui, s'il n'est pas profondément réformé, risque l'effondrement.

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