Book Series
Studies in American Popular History and Culture
New & Published Titles:
Early American Women Dramatists, 1780-1860
1998 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3304-3 (Routledge)
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The Intellectual Origins of Mass Parties and Mass Schools in the Jacksonian Era
Creating a Conformed Citizenry
While many have highlighted partisan differences over ideology and educational policies in the Jacksonian period, this study alternatively reveals an underlying philosophical consensus about citizenship… read more1998 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3302-9 (Routledge)
The Flamingo in the Garden
American Yard Art and the Vernacular Landscape
Many Americans create fantasy tableaux in their yards and gardens using pink plastic flamingos, cement ducks, wooden wishing wells, electric Christmas lights, Halloween harvest figures,… read more1998 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2914-5 (Routledge)
Film and the Nuclear Age
Representing Cultural Anxiety
Just as we generally pay scant attention to the potential dangers of nuclear power and nuclear war, until quite recently, scholars have made limited critical… read more1997 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2932-9 (Routledge)
Seduction, Prostitution, and Moral Reform in New York, 1830-1860
This book examines New York reformers' efforts during the Jacksonian era to prevent young women and men from straying into sexual vice. Convinced that sin… read more1997 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2873-5 (Routledge)
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Political Cartoons in the 1988 Presidential Campaign
Image, Metaphor, and Narrative
1997 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2858-2 (Routledge)
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Hollywood's Vision of Team Sports
Heroes, Race, and Gender
This book analyzes the ways in which sport reflects, imitates, and questions cultural values. It examines the representation of team sports, heroes, race, families, and… read more1997 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2907-7 (Routledge)
The Origins and Development of Professional Football, 1890-1920
Evolving from English rugby, American football flourished in two arenas of late 19th-century America: eastern colleges and amateur athletic clubs. Members of both groups opposed… read more1997 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2797-4 (Routledge)
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America Under Construction
Boundaries and Identities in Popular Culture
This eclectic collection of original essays explores the role of popular culture in the creation of gender, class, regional, national, racial, and institutional identities in… read more1997 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2841-4 (Routledge)
African American Nationalist Literature of the 1960s
Pens of Fire
Bringing together political theory and literary works, this study recreates the political climate which made the 1960s an unforgettable era for young black Americans. A… read more1996 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2474-4 (Routledge)
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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