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Features essays that examine both real and fictional renditions of North American imposture, placing these narratives in historical context even as they shed light on larger currents such as identity as performance and the cultural value attributed to authenticity in Western societies.

Technology, media, and journalism are closely related, both in the present time and from a historical perspective. Covering more than one hundred and fifty years of media in Europe and the United States, this book reveals a continuum of technological, social, and cultural developments across journalistic history.

Do unemployment, religiosity, or morality play a role in people's perception of happiness and well-being? Using large-scale survey data from more than seventy countries, the author shows that to a large extent happiness depends on a match between individuals' attributes and the sociocultural characteristics of the environment in which they live.

Worldwide, plantations are key economic institutions of the modern era. This book includes essays on commodities as diverse as coffee, cotton, rubber, oranges, and tobacco, to offer an overview of plantation systems from Latin America to New Zealand that exposes the many dimensions of environmental history incorporated in these institutions.

Reexamines the trope of the machine in the garden that laid out by Leo Marx years ago. Extending the relevance of Marx's theory from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, this title examines the filmic and literary representations of industrial, bureaucratic, and digital gardens; explore its role in the aftermath of the Civil War and more.

Engaging with the period of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union, this book offers a perspectives not just on Scalinism, but also on questions of change and continuity in Soviet politics, modernization, and society more generally, moving broad-scale processes such as urbanization into the center of interpreting Soviet history.

Offers perspectives on historical European knowledge concerning the "New World" and also on trade and commerce with it. This book enhances our understanding of how, when, and why early modern Europeans made sense of the Atlantic world, and how they tried to connect with Atlantic trade and commerce.

Focuses on one exemplary manager: Helmut Maucher, the former Nestle CEO who turned his company into a powerful global enterprise without being distracted by passing fads. This book - a combination of interviews, essays, and other works by Maucher - offers a unique exchange of ideas between three of the world's corporate management pioneers.

Contemplating the aesthetic and narrative forms of material life in American fiction as well as theoretical concepts of materiality, this book looks at renewed attention to the physical world within the humanities and social sciences, variously designated as new materialism or the material turn.

The 1960s launched an unprecedented public debate over the meaning of "America," dividing US society in deep and troubling ways. By examining crucial events, trends, and individuals, this volume offers a nuanced and pluralist account of the longest decade in America.

World politics and a global economy only became possible with the creation of global communication electric. This book examines the emergence of this global media system between 1860 and 1930 in four sections - "Inter|Nationalisms," "Agents|Actors," "Use|News," and "Space|Time" - that aim to broaden and challenge popular conceptions of telegraphy.

Arguing against the hypothesis that assumes consumers optimize their consumption intertemporally based on their permanent or lifetime income, this title proposes a rule of thumb according to which consumers can save if their income exceeds basic expenditure, while they can demand credit when income can no longer meet basic needs.

Analyzing the regimes of production and their segmentations in the context of global and national production networks, this title discusses Chinese and international industrial relations theory and labor sociology and explore the perspectives of collective bargaining, trade union reform, and democratic workplace representation in China.

The former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan in the heart of Central Asia is home to the city of Osh, which is commonly discussed as an epicenter of radical Islamism and political instability, yet also fully globalized. The author explores what this means for the everyday lives of the city's young people.

A study that examines the relationship between the media and the government in authoritarian regimes and Western democracies, focusing on how political structures affect the level of trust between the public and the news media.

Focuses on politics and the political as contested concepts; boundary disputes between the political and other spheres; the question of whether violence is a means, an object, or the end of political communication; and on a future agenda for writing political history.

In response to the international financial crisis of 2007, a network of social scientists from seven countries analyzed the various changes in the regulation of financial markets. This book presents their results. Suitable for political scientists, it contributes significantly to the theory of institutional change.

Family is the foundation of society, and debates on family norms have always touched the very heart of America. This volume investigates the negotiations and transformations of family values and gender norms in the twentieth century as they relate to the overarching processes of social change of that period.

Features articles that investigate the topic of ethnic, national, and transnational identities. Using a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches, this volume offers a multifaceted discussion and insights concerning the challenging social and political issues of changing collective identities.

Investigates habits, practices, and meanings of water through case studies from around the world. With its wide range and diversity, this volume explores water practices in different cultures and shows that water is much more than a commodity, a resource, or a substance - it is a focal point that reflects local culture.