Bücher der Reihe Studies in American Popular History and Culture

Focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary imagination of black Americans in the South. The author argues that it is impossible to consider what the 'South' and what 'southernness' mean without looking at how black women have contributed to and contested any unified definition of that region.

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.

Examines women unionists' life histories through the lens of narrative analysis, interpreting their multiple perspectives as four coherent discourse communities: social activists, union feminists, women martyrs, and women whose identities are defined by their work in non-traditional fields.

Focuses on how John Brown - radical abolitionist and freedom-fighter - inspired America's most significant intellects, such as Whittier, Whitman, Melville, Howells, Emerson and Thoreau, to take a public stand against the inertia of moral compromise and social degeneracy, bringing the nation to the brink of civil war.

In the late nineteenth century, melodramas were spectacular entertainment for Americans. They were also a key forum in which elements of American culture were represented, contested, and inverted. This book focuses on the construction of the Mormon villain as rapist, murderer, and Turk in anti-Mormon melodramas.

Examines Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's radically egalitarian practice through her involvement in the abolitionist movement, emancipation, Reconstruction, and into the Jim Crow era, placing her work firmly in black-nationalist lineages. This book contributes to the contemporary portrayal of Harper as a theorist of African-American feminism.

This work explores the correlation between fiction writing and national identity in the late eighteenth century and the origins of America's unique and enduring love affair with crime and crime fiction.

This work examines how libraries could respond to their communities need through the use of numerous primary and secondary sources during World War II in America.

Explores the development of a provincial textile industry in colonial America. This study examines the promotion of domestic textile manufacture from the level of the Massachusetts legislature down to the way in which individual communities organized individual productive efforts.

Situating post-WWII New York literature within the material context of American urban history, this work analyses criticism of the spatial restructuring of post-WWII New York City.

This study examines the relationship between cinema and physical culture, including activities such as dieting and muscle-building. Hollywood's long-standing prominence on the world stage makes it an ideal place to begin such an examination.

This title analyses changing opinions about the attitudes concerning the nature of children and the legal capacities of children using criminal court records, legislative petitions and actions and public perceptions.

Explores how middle-class college students navigated the rocky terrain of Depression-era culture, job market, dating marketplace, prospective marriage prospects, and college campuses.

This book examines the intersections of representations of race and gender identity in writings by contemporary US men.

An exploration of the ways in which mid-19th Century American army officers' wives used material culture to confirm their status as middle-class women. It is a must-have book for anyone interested in women's history, social history, military history or material culture.