Book Series
Studies in American Popular History and Culture
New & Published Titles:
Books and Libraries in American Society during World War II
Weapons in the War of Ideas
World War II presented America's public libraries with the daunting challenge of meeting new demands for war-related library services and materials with Depression-weakened collections, inadequate… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97179-9 (Routledge)
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Daughters of Eve
Pregnant Brides and Unwed Mothers in Seventeenth Century Essex County, Massachusetts
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… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94860-9 (Routledge)
America's Fight Over Water
The Environmental and Political Effects of Large-Scale Water Systems
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… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94930-9 (Routledge)
The Literature of Immigration and Racial Formation
Becoming White, Becoming Other, Becoming American in the Late Progressive Era
This work examines early twentieth-century literature about women immigrants in order to reveal the differing ways that American racial categories and identities, particularly that of… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94931-6 (Routledge)
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Women and Comedy in Solo Performance
Phyllis Diller, Lily Tomlin and Roseanne
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… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94858-6 (Routledge)
The Making of the Primitive Baptists
A Cultural and Intellectual History of the Anti-Mission Movement, 1800-1840
This study describes the creation of the Primitive Baptist movement and discusses the main outlines of their thought. It also weaves the story of the… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94871-5 (Routledge)
No Way of Knowing
Crime, Urban Legends and the Internet
This book examines both "old media" treatment of crime legends like news reports, fictional film and television depictions, as well as "new" media interactive discussions… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94787-9 (Routledge)
Homelessness in American Literature
Romanticism, Realism and Testimony
This book analyzes the theme of homelessness in American literature from the Civil War through the depression. Drawing on the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe,… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94589-9 (Routledge)
Hollywood and the Rise of Physical Culture
This study examines the relationship between cinema and physical culture (i.e. activities such as dieting and muscle-building). Hollywood's long-standing prominence on the world state makes… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94676-6 (Routledge)
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Rethinking the Red Scare
The Lusk Committee and New York's Crusade Against Radicalism, 1919-1923
Using New York as a lens, this book examines the Red Scare that griped America between 1919-1923 and the pattern it established for future episodes… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94767-1 (Routledge)
Forthcoming Titles:
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: African American Reform Rhetoric and the Rise of a Modern Nation State
By Michael Stancliff
To be published April 15th 2010