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  • American Cultural History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Eric Avila ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: these are the words, images, and sounds that populate American cultural history. From the Boston Tea Party to the Dodgers, from the blues to Andy Warhol, dime novels to Disneyland, the history of American culture tells us how previous generations of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Segregation and Resistance in the Landscapes of the Americas

    Edited by Eric Avila, Thaïsa Way ...
    Series Book 44 - Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture
    Histories of racial segregation and its impacts have been the focus of urban research for over a century, and yet the role of space, place, and land in these narratives has been largely overlooked. How have land use policies and land access shaped the experience of place? What markings have made evident the lived experience of segregation and its impacts? And how have individuals and communities ... Read more

    $61.49 USD

  • How to Start a Abrasive Grain of Boron Carbide Business (Beginners Guide)

    by Avila Eric ...
    This publication, published by SamEnrico, covers How to Start a Abrasive Grain of Boron Carbide Business (Beginners Guide) ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Chicano Studies Reader

    An Anthology of Aztlán, 1970–2019

    Edited by Chon A. Noriega, Eric Avila, Karen Mary Davalos, Chela Sandoval, Rafael Pérez-Torres, Charlene Villaseñor Black ...
    The Chicano Studies Reader, the best-selling anthology of articles from Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, has been newly expanded with a group of essays that focus on Chicana/o and Latina/o youth. This section, Generations against Exclusion, joins Decolonizing the Territory, Performing Politics, (Re)Configuring Identities, Remapping the World, and Continuing to Push Boundaries. Introductions ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Making of Urban America

    by Eric Avila, Timothy M. Collins, Daniel Czitrom, Leslie M. Harris, Arnold R. Hirsch, Michael B. Katz, Randall M. Miller, Edward K. Muller, Gary B. Nash, Mary E. Odem, Kathy Peiss, Madelon Powers, Joel A. Tan, Dominic A. Pacyga, Thomas J. Sugrue ...
    The revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban America includes seven new articles and a richly detailed historiographical essay that discusses the vast urban history literature added to the canon since the publication of the second edition. The authors’ extensively revised introductions and the fifteen reprinted articles trace urban development from the preindustrial city to the ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • The Folklore of the Freeway

    Race and Revolt in the Modernist City

    by Eric Avila ...
    Series series A Quadrant Book
    When the interstate highway program connected America’s cities, it also divided them, cutting through and destroying countless communities. Affluent and predominantly white residents fought back in a much heralded “freeway revolt,” saving such historic neighborhoods as Greenwich Village and New Orleans’s French Quarter. This book tells of the other revolt, a movement of creative opposition, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight

    Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles

    by Eric Avila ...
    Series Book 13 - American Crossroads
    Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This vividly detailed cultural history of L.A. from 1940 to 1970 traces the rise of a new suburban consciousness adopted by a generation of migrants who abandoned older American cities for Southern California's booming urban region. Eric Avila explores expressions of this new "white identity" in ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

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    American Cultural History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Eric Avila ...
    Narrated by Tanya Eby ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 16 min

    The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: these are the words, images, and sounds that populate American cultural history. From the Boston Tea Party to the Dodgers, from the Blues to Andy Warhol, dime novels to Disneyland, the history of American culture tells us how previous generations of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community

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  • Life: The Movie

    How Entertainment Conquered Reality

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  • Reconsidering Reparations

    Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism

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  • Roofing 101

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