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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

Forthcoming Books

  1. Fictions of Female Education in the Nineteenth Century
    By Jaime Osterman Alves
    To Be Published May 31st 2013
  2. Antebellum Slave Narratives: Cultural and Political Expressions of Africa
    By Jermaine O. Archer
    To Be Published May 31st 2013
  3. Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama
    By Megan Sanborn Jones
    To Be Published May 31st 2013
  4. America Under Construction: Boundaries and Identities in Popular Culture
    Edited by Kristi S. Long, Matthew Nadelhaft
    To Be Published September 29th 2013

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