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Perspectives on modern America : making sense of the twentieth century
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ISBN: 0195128648 9780195128642 Year: 2001 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): OUP

The last half-century: societal change and politics in America
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ISBN: 0226393070 0226393062 9780226393063 9780226393070 Year: 1978 Publisher: London The University of Chicago Press

Coining for capital
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ISBN: 1282134418 9786613806994 0813537681 9780813537689 9780813535920 0813535921 9780813535937 081353593X 9781282134416 6613806994 Year: 2005 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press

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""This book is a welcome addition to the literature on children and the media, and a most stimulating application of social theory to questions of the child in contemporary film and consumer culture.""-Ellen Seiter, author of The Internet Playground: Children's Access, Entertainment and Mis-Education Since the 1980's, a peculiar paradox has evolved in American film. Hollywood's children have grown up, and the adults are looking and behaving more and more like children. In popular films such as Harry Potter, Toy Story, Pocahantas, Home Alone, and Jumanji, it is the children who ar


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Rethinking the Asian American movement
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ISBN: 9780415800822 9780415800815 9780203357484 9781136599217 9781136599255 9781136599262 0415800811 041580082X 0203357485 Year: 2012 Volume: *1 Publisher: New York London Routledge

Jewish baby boomers : a communal perspective
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ISBN: 079149151X 9780791491515 9780791447901 0791447901 0791447898 0791447901 9780791447895 Year: 2001 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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This book critically analyzes American Jewish baby boomers, focusing on the implications of their Jewish identity and identification for the collective American Jewish community. Utilizing data obtained from the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey, the book begins with a demographic portrait of American Jewish baby boomers. Realizing that America's Jews are both a religious and ethnic group, a comparison is made with Protestant and Catholic baby boomers, as well as other ethnic groups. The religious patterns of the Jewish baby boomers and their ethnic patterns are examined in-depth, and placed within the larger contexts of the modern or post-modern character of religion and ethnicity. The book's extensive presentation of detailed quantitative data is consistently complemented by qualitative examinations of their communal implications for Jewish continuity and the organized American Jewish community.


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Sex panic and the punitive state
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ISBN: 1283277484 9786613277480 0520948211 9780520948211 9781283277488 6613277487 9780520255654 0520255658 9780520262065 0520262069 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press

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One evening, while watching the news, Roger N. Lancaster was startled by a report that a friend, a gay male school teacher, had been arrested for a sexually based crime. The resulting hysteria threatened to ruin the life of an innocent man. In this passionate and provocative book, Lancaster blends astute analysis, robust polemic, ethnography, and personal narrative to delve into the complicated relationship between sexuality and punishment in our society. Drawing on classical social science, critical legal studies, and queer theory, he tracks the rise of a modern suburban culture of fear and d

The Metaphysical Club
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ISBN: 0374528497 9780374528492 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,

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"The Civil War made America a modern nation, unleashing forces of industrialism and expansion that had been kept in check for decades by the quarrel over slavery. But the war also discredited the ideas and beliefs of the era that preceded it. The Civil War swept away the slave civilization of the South, but almost the whole intellectual culture of the North went with it. It took nearly half a century for Americans to develop a set of ideas, a way of thinking, that would help them cope with the conditions of modern life. That struggle is the subject of this book." "The story told in The Metaphysical Club runs through the lives of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., a Civil War hero who became the dominant legal thinker of his time; his best friend as a young man, William James, son of an eccentric moral philosopher, brother of a great novelist, and the father of modern psychology in America; and the brilliant and troubled logician, scientist, and founder of semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce. Together they belonged to an informal discussion group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872 and called itself the Metaphysical Club. The club was probably in existence for only nine months, and no records were kept. The one thing we know that came out of it was an idea - an idea about ideas, about the role beliefs play in people's lives. This idea informs the writings of these three thinkers, and the work of the fourth figure in the book, John Dewey - student of Peirce, friend and ally of James, admirer of Holmes." "The Metaphysical Club begins with the Civil War and ends in 1919 with the Supreme Court's decision in U.S. v. Abrams, the basis for the modern law of free speech. It tells the story of the creation of ideas and values that changed the way Americans think and the way they live."--Jacket


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Cinq branches de coton noir
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ISBN: 9782800161761 2800161760 Year: 2018 Publisher: Marcinelle : Dupuis,

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"Philadelphie, 1776. George Washington commande à Betsy Ross le tout premier drapeau des futurs États-Unis d'Amérique. Sa domestique, Angela Brown, y adjoint en secret un hommage à la communauté noire : une étoile de cinq branches de coton noir, glissée sous l'une des étoiles blanches. Douvres, 1944. Le soldat Lincoln reçoit une lettre révélant les mémoires d'Angela Brown. l'étoile qu'elle mentionne existerait-elle vraiment ? L'Histoire serait-elle à réécrire à la lumière de cette révélation ? De Paris libéré aux Ardennes eneigées s'engage pour trois soldats afro-américains un dangereux périple à l'issue inattendue... Accordé à la puissance graphique de Steve Cuzor, l'intense scénario d'Yves Sente se joue des clichés guerriers pour mieux mettre en lumière les déséquilibres d'un monde aveuglé par les idéologies les plus sombres. "Cinq branches de coton noir" est un récit à la résonnance étrangement actuelle."


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1995
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ISBN: 052095971X 9780520959712 9780520273993 0520273990 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oakland, California

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A hinge moment in recent American history, 1995 was an exceptional year. Drawing on interviews, oral histories, memoirs, archival collections, and news reports, W. Joseph Campbell presents a vivid, detail-rich portrait of those memorable twelve months. This book offers fresh interpretations of the decisive moments of 1995, including the emergence of the Internet and the World Wide Web in mainstream American life; the bombing at Oklahoma City, the deadliest attack of domestic terrorism in U.S. history; the sensational "Trial of the Century," at which O.J. Simpson faced charges of double murder; the U.S.-brokered negotiations at Dayton, Ohio, which ended the Bosnian War, Europe’s most vicious conflict since the Nazi era; and the first encounters at the White House between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, a liaison that culminated in a stunning scandal and the spectacle of the president’s impeachment and trial. As Campbell demonstrates in this absorbing chronicle, 1995 was a year of extraordinary events, a watershed at the turn of the millennium. The effects of that pivotal year reverberate still, marking the close of one century and the dawning of another.

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