Bøger i Studies in American Thought and Culture serien
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- Two Centuries of White House Fictions on the Page, on the Stage, Onscreen, and Online
368,95 kr. Examines the presidency's ever-changing place in the American imagination. Ranging across different media and analyzing works of many kinds, this book explores the evolution of presidential fictions, their central themes, the impact on them of new and emerging media, and their role in the nation's real politics.
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- 368,95 kr.
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- World War I and the U.S. Justice Department's Covert Campaign to Suppress Dissent
263,95 - 363,95 kr. During the First World War it was the task of the US Department of Justice, using the Espionage Act and its later Sedition Act amendment, to prosecute and convict those who opposed America's entry into the conflict. This book shows that the Justice Department did not stop at this official charge but went much further.
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- 263,95 kr.
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- American Social Visions and the Construction of the Panama Canal
473,95 kr. Unfolds a cultural history of the Panama Canal project, revealed in the texts and images of the era's policymakers and commentators. This book examines various images of the Panama Canal project and shows how they reflected popular attitudes toward an evolving modern world.
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- 473,95 kr.
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- Alienation, Participation, and Modernity
318,95 kr. Best known for his two-year sojourn at Walden Pond in Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau is often considered a recluse who emerged from solitude only occasionally to take a stand on the issues of his day. This book explores Thoreau's nature writings to offer a way of understanding the unique politics of the so-called hermit of Walden Pond.
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- 318,95 kr.
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- Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H.H.Bennett's Wisconsin Dells
263,95 kr. A tourist mecca, the area known as the Wisconsin Dells was once wilderness - and a gathering place for the region's Native peoples, the Ho-Chunk. This title places H H Bennett Wisconsin Dells within the context of contemporary artists and photographers of American Indians and examines the receptions of this legacy by the Ho-Chunk.
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- 263,95 kr.
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- 428,95 kr.