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  • Visual Shock

    A History of Art Controversies in American Culture

    by Michael Kammen ...
    In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He illuminates America’s obsession with public memorials and the changing role of art and museums in our society. From Thomas Eakins’s 1875 masterpiece The Gross Clinic, (considered “too big, bold, and gory” when ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Mystic Chords of Memory

    The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture

    by Michael Kammen ...
    Mystic Chords of Memory"Illustrated with hundreds of well-chosen anecdotes and minute observations . . . Kammen is a demon researcher who seems to have mined his nuggets from the entire corpus of American cultural history . . . insightful and sardonic."—Washington Post Book WorldIn this ground-breaking, panoramic work of American cultural history, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Machine ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Spheres of Liberty

    Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture

    by Michael Kammen ...
    Liberty, one of the most consequential words in our language, is one of the most treasured concepts in American thought--and one of the most intensely debated. Its meaning is constantly shifting, changing not only from one culture to another but also, over time, within the same culture. No two definitions of liberty seem alike.In this subtle and illuminating work Michael Kammen traces the evolving ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Spheres of Liberty

    Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture

    by Michael Kammen ...
    Series series Banner Books
    Liberty, one of the most consequential words in our language, is one of the most treasured concepts in American thought—and one of the most intensely debated. Its meaning is constantly shifting, changing not only from one culture to another but also, over time, within the same culture. No two definitions of liberty seem alike.In this subtle and illuminating work Michael Kammen traces the evolving ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Glorious Revolution in America

    Documents on the Colonial Crisis of 1689

    Edited by Michael G. Hall, Lawrence H. Leder, Michael Kammen ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    England’s Glorious Revolution of 1688 created a major crisis among the British colonies in America. Following news of the English Revolution, a series of rebellions and insurrections erupted in colonial America from Massachusetts to Carolina. Although the upheavals of 1689 were sparked by local grievances, there were also general causes for the repudiation of Stuart authority.Originally published ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • American Culture, American Tastes

    Social Change and the 20th Century

    by Michael Kammen ...
    Americans have a long history of public arguments about taste, the uses of leisure, and what is culturally appropriate in a democracy that has a strong work ethic. Michael Kammen surveys these debates as well as our changing taste preferences, especially in the past century, and the shifting perceptions that have accompanied them.Professor Kammen shows how the post-traditional popular culture that ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Machine That Would Go of Itself

    The Constitution in American Culture

    by Michael Kammen ...
    In this volume, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen explores the U.S. Constitution's place in the public consciousness and its role as a symbol in American life, from ratification in 1788 to our own time. As he examines what the Constitution has meant to the American people (perceptions and misperceptions, uses and abuses, knowledge and ignorance), Kammen shows that although there are ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • People of Paradox (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization

    by Michael Kammen ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • In this major interpretive work Mr. Kammen argues that most attempt to understand America’s history and culture have minimized its complexity, and he demonstrates that, from our beginnings, what has given our culture its distinctive texture, pattern, and thrust is the dynamic interaction of the imported and the indigenous. He shows now, during the years of colonization, ... Read more

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  • A Rope of Sand

    by Michael Kammen ...
    During the twenty years before the American Revolution, thirty-seven men acted as paid agent or lobbyists for the American colonies in England. The most famous among them were Benjamin Franklin, who represented four different colonies and served for seventeen years as agenet for Pennsylvania, and Edmund Burke, who accepted the position to further his own career. Yet the other thirty-five were also ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Here is a vividly written and compact overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as the "Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or world history has ever seen. In The Founding Fathers Reconsidered, R. B. Bernstein reveals Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, ... Read more

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  • American Lynching

    by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy ...
    A history of lynching in America over the course of three centuries, from colonial Virginia to twentieth-century Texas.After observing the varying reactions to the 1998 death of James Byrd Jr. in Texas, called a lynching by some, denied by others, Ashraf Rushdy determined that to comprehend this event he needed to understand the long history of lynching in the United States. In this meticulously ... Read more

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  • The Founding Fathers

    A Very Short Introduction

    by R. B. Bernstein ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Founding Fathers is a concise, accessible overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as "the Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or world history has ever seen. R. B. Bernstein reveals Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, and the other ... Read more

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