Book Series
Studies in American Popular History and Culture
New & Published Titles:
Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City
The Literature, Art, Jazz, and Architecture of an Emerging Global Capital
Situating post-WWII New York literature within the material context of American urban history, this work analyzes how literary movements such as the Beat Generation, the… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94606-3 (Routledge)
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Food in Film
A Culinary Performance of Communication
Using an interdisciplinary approach combining film, semiotics, social-anthropology and history, this book examines food sciences in selected films to reveal food's power to direct and… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94583-7 (Routledge)
Crime and the Nation
Prison and Popular Fiction in Philadelphia. 1786-1800
Crime and the Nation explores the correlation between fiction writing and national identity in the late eighteenth century when these two enterprises went hand in… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93386-5 (Routledge)
Race-ing Masculinity
Identity in Contemporary U.S. Writings
This study explores the intersection of race and gender identity in writings by contemporary American men of color, showing how ostensibly sexist or homophobic texts… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93476-3 (Routledge)
Piety and Power
Gender and Religious Culture in the American Colonies, 1630-1700
Piety and Power explores gender and religion in the seventeenth century in three American colonies with a dominant religious traditions. The book examines not only… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93392-6 (Routledge)
First Do No Harm
Empathy and the Writing of Medical Journal Articles
First Do No Harm is an interdisciplinary study examining how various members of academic physicians have constructed certain images of patients on paper over… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93387-2 (Routledge)
Studies in the Land
The Northeast Corner
Drawing on primary documents such as farmer's diaries, small rural papers of the 19th century, and the publications of state agricultural societies, this provocative study… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93210-3 (Routledge)
Actors and Activists
Performance, Politics, and Exchange Among Social Worlds
This scholarly work looks at the issue of politics and performance in America today with particular attention paid to performances produced by activists, the NEA… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3268-8 (Routledge)
Automobility and Social Change in the South, 1909-1939
read more2001 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3343-2 (Routledge)
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Writing Jazz
Race, Nationalism, and Modern Culture in the 1920s
This study examines how early writers of jazz criticism (such as Gilbert Seldes and Carl Van Vechten) and literature (F. Scott Fitzgerald and Langston Hughes)--as… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2226-9 (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