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1. Cleaning Up

   The Transformation of Domestic Service in Twentieth Century New York

   By Alana Erickson Coble

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   Over the course of the 20th century, American domestic service changed from an occupation with a hierarchical, top-down structure to one in which relationships were more negotiated. Many forces shaped this transformation: shifts in women's role in society, both at home and in the work force;...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Mistresses of the Transient Hearth

   American Army Officers' Wives and Material Culture, 1840-1880

   By Robin D. Campbell

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   This book explores the ways in which mid-19th Century American army officers' wives used material culture to confirm their status as middle-class women....

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Agents of Wrath, Sowers of Discord

   Authority and Dissent in Puritan Massachusetts, 1630-1655

   By Timothy L. Wood

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   This book explores the authorities of Puritan Massachusetts balanced concern for the stability of the colony and the integrity of its Puritan mission with the hopes of reconciling dissidents back into the colonial community....

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. Women and Comedy in Solo Performance

   Phyllis Diller, Lily Tomlin and Roseanne

   By Suzanne Lavin

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   This work examines the dramatic changes in America women's comedy performance in the years 1955-1995.The study focuses on the standup of Phyllis Diller and Roseanne andon the character comedy of Lily Tomlin. As the historical arc of women's comedy unfolds, it outlines a change from the traditional...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. Validating Bachelorhood

   Audience, Patriarchy and Charles Brockden Brown's Editorship of the Monthly Magazine and American Review

   By Scott Slawinski

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   This book explores images of single and married men in C.B. Brown's Monthly Magazine and concludes that Brown used his periodical as a vehicle for validating bachelorhood as a viable alternative form of masculinity....

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Black Women in New South Literature and Culture

   By Sherita L. Johnson

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   Using the "the Negro Problem" in African American literature as a point of departure, this book focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary imagination of black Americans, specifically those in the South. Although the South has been one of the most enduring sites of criticism in...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
7. John Brown and the Era of Literary Confrontation

   By Michael Stoneham

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   Radical abolitionist and freedom-fighter John Brown inspired literary America to confrontation during his short but dramatic career as a public figure in antebellum America. Emerging from obscurity during the violent struggle to determine how Kansas would enter the Union in 1856, John Brown...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
8. America's Fight Over Water

   The Environmental and Political Effects of Large-Scale Water Systems

   By Kevin Wehr

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   This book inquires into the relations between society and its natural environment by examining the historical discourse around several cases of state building in the American West: the construction of three high dams from 1928 to 1963....

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Farm Press, Reform and Rural Change, 1895-1920

   By John J. Fry

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   This project contributes to our understanding of rural Midwesterners and farm newspapers at the turn of the century. While cultural historians have mainly focused on readers in town and cities, it examines Midwestern farmers. It also contributes to the "new rural history" by exploring the ideas of...

   Published November 13th 2012 by Routledge
10. Daughters of Eve

    Pregnant Brides and Unwed Mothers in Seventeenth Century Essex County, Massachusetts

    By Else L. Hambleton

    Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

    This study examines cases of fornication, bastardy, and paternity cases brought before the courts in Essex County, Massachusetts between 1640 and 1692. Prosecution and conviction rates, sentencing patterns, and socio-economic data, as well as attitudes, were analyzed to determine that women who...

    Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge