American Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction

   By Judie Newman

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   This book examines the quest for/failure of Utopia across a range of contemporary American/transnational fictions in relation to terror and globalization through authors such as Susan Choi, André Dubus, Dalia Sofer, and John Updike. While recent critical thinkers have reengaged with Utopia, the...

   Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
2. American Government 7th Edition + The American Anomaly 2nd Edition Bundle

   By Cal Jillson

   Cal Jillson’s American Government: Political Development and Institutional Change shows students how the nation’s past is present in all aspects of contemporary politics, using the dynamics of change as a tool to understand how politics works and how institutions, systems, avenues of participation,...

   Published January 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. American Government 7th Edition + Perspectives on American Government Bundle

   By Cal Jillson

   Cal Jillson’s American Government: Political Development and Institutional Change shows students how the nation’s past is present in all aspects of contemporary politics, using the dynamics of change as a tool to understand how politics works and how institutions, systems, avenues of participation,...

   Published January 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. American Government 7th Edition + In Defense of Politicians Bundle

   By Cal Jillson

   Cal Jillson’s American Government: Political Development and Institutional Change shows students how the nation’s past is present in all aspects of contemporary politics, using the dynamics of change as a tool to understand how politics works and how institutions, systems, avenues of participation,...

   Published January 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. American Government 7th Edition + New Directions in American Politics Bundle

   By Cal Jillson

   Cal Jillson’s American Government: Political Development and Institutional Change shows students how the nation’s past is present in all aspects of contemporary politics, using the dynamics of change as a tool to understand how politics works and how institutions, systems, avenues of participation,...

   Published January 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. American Government

   Political Development and Institutional Change, 7th Edition

   By Cal Jillson

   History matters. America’s past is present in all aspects of the contemporary political system. Cal Jillson uses political development and the dynamics of change as a tool to help students understand how politics works now—and how institutions, participation, and policies have evolved over time to...

   Published January 6th 2013 by Routledge
7. African American Slavery and Disability

   Bodies, Property and Power in the Antebellum South, 1800-1860

   By Dea Boster

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   Disability is often mentioned in discussions of slave health, mistreatment and abuse, but constructs of how "able" and "disabled" bodies influenced the institution of slavery has gone largely overlooked. This volume uncovers a history of disability in African American slavery from the primary...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
8. American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship

   Thinking and Acting in the Local and Global Commons

   Edited by Joni Adamson, Kimberly N. Ruffin

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   This collection reclaims public intellectuals and scholars important to the foundational work in American Studies that contributed to emerging conceptions of an "ecological citizenship" advocating something other than nationalism or an "exclusionary ethics of place." Co-editors Adamson and Ruffin...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
9. Jim Crow Citizenship

   Liberalism and the Southern Defense of Racial Hierarchy

   By Marek D. Steedman

   Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics

   In the late 1860s the U.S. federal government initiated the most abrupt transition from slavery to citizenship in the Americas. The transformation, of course, did not stick, but it did permanently alter the terms of American citizenship and initiated a century long struggle over the place of...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. Rethinking Municipal Privatization

    By Oliver D. Cooke

    Series: New Political Economy

    This book examines one of the most high-profile municipal privatizations—the privatization of New York City’s Central Park. The fiscal crisis of the 1970s established the political and cultural opening for privatizations, which were justified on the basis of increasing efficiency. However, as Cooke...

    Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge