Paperback – 2017-06-01
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New Critical Viewpoints on Society
This interdisciplinary study examines the role interpersonal and place attachment bonds play in crafting a national identity in American literature. Although there have been numerous ecocritical studies of and psychoanalytic approaches to American literature, this study seeks to integrate the…
Hardback – 2017-05-31
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
Ideal Bodies, Fat Bodies: Reshaping Postwar America explores the ways in which women in the years following World War II refashioned their bodies – through reducing diets, exercise, and plastic surgery – and asks what insights these changing beauty standards can offer into gender dynamics in…
Paperback – 2017-05-29
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Three Mile Island explains the far-reaching consequences of the partial meltdown of Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island Power on March 28, 1979. Though the disaster was ultimately contained, the fears it triggered had an immediate and lasting impact on public attitudes towards nuclear energy in the…
Paperback – 2017-05-25
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Critical Moments in American History
Over the last forty years, renewed interest in the career of Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) has vaulted him into expanding scholarly discourse on American art. Consequently, he has emerged as the most studied and recognized representative of African American art during the nineteenth century. In…
Hardback – 2017-05-16
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Routledge Research in Art and Race
The Pacific Basin: An Introduction is a new textbook which provides an interdisciplinary and comparative overview of the emerging Pacific world. Interest in the Pacific Basin has increased markedly in recent years, driven largely by the rise of China as a global rival to the United States and Asian…
Paperback – 2017-05-15
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This title, first published in 1986, develops the story of American woollen manufacture reaching far back in time to establish the very traditional nature of the fabrication of woollen cloths. Although traditional techniques changed slowly, particularly in England, circumstances and conditions…
Hardback – 2017-05-15
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Routledge Library Editions: The Industrial Revolution
Americans Experience Russia analyzes how American scholars, journalists, and artists envisioned, experienced, and interpreted Russia/the Soviet Union over the last century. While many histories of diplomatic, economic, and intellectual connections between the United States and the Soviet Union can…
Paperback – 2017-05-07
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Routledge Studies in Cultural History
Rethinking the American Labor Movement tells the story of the various groups and incidents that make up what we think of as the 'labor movement.’ While the efforts of American labor forces towards greater wealth parity have been rife with contention, the struggle has embraced a broad vision of a…
Paperback – 2017-05-04
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American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century
Covering the development of the Cold War from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, The Cold War 1949–2016 explores the struggle for world domination that took place between the United States and the Soviet Union following the Second World War. The conflict between these two superpowers…
Paperback – 2017-05-03
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Seminar Studies
This book examines the passage and impact of Title IX up to the present day. The 1972 law requiring gender equity in educational programs receiving federal funding has had a transformative effect on American education. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and William Thro evaluate the ways in which the…
Paperback – 2017-05-01
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Critical Moments in American History
The contention of Film and the American Presidency is that over the twentieth century the cinema has been a silent partner in setting the parameters of what we might call the presidential imaginary. This volume surveys the partnership in its longevity, placing stress on especially iconic presidents…
Paperback – 2017-05-01
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Routledge Advances in Film Studies