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From the Courtroom to the Boardroom
Privatizing Justice in the Neoliberal United States
Price: $29.95
Pub Date: April 14, 2024
Format: Paperback
256 Pages
Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo
Stories from the Animal Archive
Price: $39.95
Pub Date: September 8, 2023
Format: Paperback
376 Pages
Octopus's Garden
How Railroads and Citrus Transformed Southern California
Price: $54.95
Pub Date: June 12, 2023
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
Reno's Big Gamble
Image and Reputation in the Biggest Little City
Price: $29.95
Pub Date: May 5, 2023
Format: Paperback
332 Pages
Chronicles the creation and transformation of Reno’s reputation from backward railroad town to a nationally known “Sin Central.” The author shows how Reno civic leaders, in their never-ending quest for tourist dollars, dramatically altered the economy and physical appearance of the city.
The Look of Catholics
Portrayals in Popular Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War
Price: $27.95
Pub Date: May 5, 2023
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
The first book to examine the depictions of Catholics in American popular culture during the critical period between the Great Depression and the height of the Cold War. Looks at the popular films, TV shows, radio programs, and magazine coverage that re-imagined the Catholic role in American culture.
Reinventing Richard Nixon
A Cultural History of an American Obsession
Price: $29.95
Pub Date: April 7, 2023
Format: Paperback
344 Pages
An examination of the figure who continues to expose key fault lines in the nation's self-definition. Draws on references ranging from All in the Family to All the President’s Men to show how Nixon has remained one of America’s most durable and multifaceted icons in the fierce debates over the import and meaning of the last sixty years of national life.
West of Harlem
African American Writers and the Borderlands
Price: $29.95
Pub Date: April 7, 2023
Format: Paperback
344 Pages
West of Harlem relocates the “New Negro” to the new landscape of the borderlands West, examining the work of writers like Arna Bontemps, Anita Scott Coleman, Langston Hughes, Wallace Thurman, and Jean Toomer and shows that debates over cultural nationalism and uplift long considered central to New Negro politics and culture were even more complicated, and that fantasies of the West as both a deracinated frontier and a hybrid borderlands are undermined by black western experience.
Defining Americans
The Presidency and National Identity
Price: $29.95
Pub Date: March 10, 2023
Format: Paperback
424 Pages
Foundations and American Political Science
The Transformation of a Discipline, 1945-1970
Price: $26.95
Pub Date: November 1, 2022
Format: Paperback
288 Pages
Confederate Exceptionalism
Civil War Myth and Memory in the Twenty-First Century
Price: $29.95
Pub Date: September 30, 2022
Format: Paperback
256 Pages
How do contemporary neo-Confederates simultaneously cling to the symbols and narratives that tether the Confederacy to histories of racism and oppression in the United States while distancing themselves from these histories.
From the Courtroom to the Boardroom
Privatizing Justice in the Neoliberal United States
Price: $29.95
Pub Date: April 14, 2024
Format: Paperback
256 Pages
Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo
Stories from the Animal Archive
Price: $39.95
Pub Date: September 8, 2023
Format: Paperback
376 Pages
Octopus's Garden
How Railroads and Citrus Transformed Southern California
Price: $54.95
Pub Date: June 12, 2023
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
Reno's Big Gamble
Image and Reputation in the Biggest Little City
Price: $29.95
Pub Date: May 5, 2023
Format: Paperback
332 Pages
Chronicles the creation and transformation of Reno’s reputation from backward railroad town to a nationally known “Sin Central.” The author shows how Reno civic leaders, in their never-ending quest for tourist dollars, dramatically altered the economy and physical appearance of the city.
The Look of Catholics
Portrayals in Popular Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War
Price: $27.95
Pub Date: May 5, 2023
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
The first book to examine the depictions of Catholics in American popular culture during the critical period between the Great Depression and the height of the Cold War. Looks at the popular films, TV shows, radio programs, and magazine coverage that re-imagined the Catholic role in American culture.
Reinventing Richard Nixon
A Cultural History of an American Obsession
Price: $29.95
Pub Date: April 7, 2023
Format: Paperback
344 Pages
An examination of the figure who continues to expose key fault lines in the nation's self-definition. Draws on references ranging from All in the Family to All the President’s Men to show how Nixon has remained one of America’s most durable and multifaceted icons in the fierce debates over the import and meaning of the last sixty years of national life.
West of Harlem
African American Writers and the Borderlands
Price: $29.95
Pub Date: April 7, 2023
Format: Paperback
344 Pages
West of Harlem relocates the “New Negro” to the new landscape of the borderlands West, examining the work of writers like Arna Bontemps, Anita Scott Coleman, Langston Hughes, Wallace Thurman, and Jean Toomer and shows that debates over cultural nationalism and uplift long considered central to New Negro politics and culture were even more complicated, and that fantasies of the West as both a deracinated frontier and a hybrid borderlands are undermined by black western experience.
Defining Americans
The Presidency and National Identity
Price: $29.95
Pub Date: March 10, 2023
Format: Paperback
424 Pages
Foundations and American Political Science
The Transformation of a Discipline, 1945-1970
Price: $26.95
Pub Date: November 1, 2022
Format: Paperback
288 Pages
Confederate Exceptionalism
Civil War Myth and Memory in the Twenty-First Century
Price: $29.95
Pub Date: September 30, 2022
Format: Paperback
256 Pages
How do contemporary neo-Confederates simultaneously cling to the symbols and narratives that tether the Confederacy to histories of racism and oppression in the United States while distancing themselves from these histories.