Narrow your search

Library

KU Leuven (4)

LUCA School of Arts (3)

VUB (3)

KBR (2)

UGent (2)

ULB (2)

ARB (1)

Odisee (1)

Thomas More Kempen (1)

Thomas More Mechelen (1)

More...

Resource type

book (9)


Language

English (9)


Year
From To Submit

2014 (3)

2011 (1)

1999 (1)

1990 (1)

1987 (1)

More...
Listing 1 - 9 of 9
Sort by

Book
A people in revolution : the American Revolution and political society in New York, 1760-1790
Author:
ISBN: 080182625X Year: 1981 Publisher: Baltimore London Johns Hopkins University Press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
The American revolution
Author:
ISBN: 0140227261 Year: 1987 Publisher: Harmondsworth Penguin books

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Keywords


Book
The people's American revolution
Author:
Year: 1983 Publisher: London British Association for American Studies

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Keywords


Book
Contested spaces of early America.
Authors: ---
ISBN: 9780812245844 Year: 2014 Publisher: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania press

Shane
Authors: ---
ISBN: 0851707327 Year: 1999 Publisher: London BFI

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Directed by George Stevens, then one of Hollywood's most successful filmmakers, 'Shane' (1952) is one of the most revered and imitated of all westerns. Starring Alan Ladd as a mysterious drifter who protects a fledgling community from a predatory gang, 'Shane' is one of the definitive reimaginings of America's frontier mythology. This is, remarkably, the first substantial study of 'Shane'. In it, Edward Countryman and Evonne von Heussen-Countryman show, with reference to a wide range of historical and archival sources, how subtly the film treats some fundamental themes: family, the history of settlement and community in America, violence, and the culture of the gun.


Book
Contested spaces of early America
Authors: --- ---
ISBN: 0812223993 0812209338 0812245849 1322513317 Year: 2014 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Colonial America stretched from Quebec to Buenos Aires and from the Atlantic littoral to the Pacific coast. Although European settlers laid claim to territories they called New Spain, New England, and New France, the reality of living in those spaces had little to do with European kingdoms. Instead, the New World's holdings took their form and shape from the Indian territories they inhabited. These contested spaces throughout the western hemisphere were not unclaimed lands waiting to be conquered and populated but a single vast space, occupied by native communities and defined by the meeting, mingling, and clashing of peoples, creating societies unlike any that the world had seen before.Contested Spaces of Early America brings together some of the most distinguished historians in the field to view colonial America on the largest possible scale. Lavishly illustrated with maps, Native art, and color plates, the twelve chapters span the southern reaches of New Spain through Mexico and Navajo Country to the Dakotas and Upper Canada, and the early Indian civilizations to the ruins of the nineteenth-century West. At the heart of this volume is a search for a human geography of colonial relations: Contested Spaces of Early America aims to rid the historical landscape of imperial cores, frontier peripheries, and modern national borders to redefine the way scholars imagine colonial America.Contributors: Matthew Babcock, Ned Blackhawk, Chantal Cramaussel, Brian DeLay, Elizabeth Fenn, Allan Greer, Pekka Hämäläinen, Raúl José Mandrini, Cynthia Radding, Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Alan Taylor, and Samuel Truett.


Book
The BFI companion to the western
Authors: --- --- --- --- --- et al.
ISBN: 0233986189 0689119623 9780233986180 9780689119620 Year: 1990 Publisher: London André Deutsch

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
What Dreams Were Made Of
Authors: --- --- --- --- --- et al.
ISBN: 1283864614 081355084X 9780813550848 0813549647 9780813549644 9780813549637 9780813549644 0813549639 Year: 2011 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Humphrey Bogart. Abbott and Costello. Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. John Wayne. Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable. Images of these film icons conjure up a unique moment in cinema and history, one of optimism and concern, patriotism and cynicism. What Dreams Were Made Of examines the performers who helped define American cinema in the 1940's, a decade of rapid and repeated upheaval for Hollywood and the United States. Through insightful discussions of key films as well as studio publicity and fan magazines, the essays in this collection analyze how these actors and actresses helped lift spirits during World War II, whether in service comedies, combat films, or escapist musicals. The contributors, all major writers on the stars and movies of this period, also explore how cultural shifts after the war forced many stars to adjust to new outlooks and attitudes, particularly in film noir. Together, they represented the hopes and fears of a nation during turbulent times, enacting on the silver screen the dreams of millions of moviegoers.


Book
Contested Spaces of Early America

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Keywords

Listing 1 - 9 of 9
Sort by