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Objects/Histories eBook Series

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  • Culture in the Marketplace

    Gender, Art, and Value in the American Southwest

    by Molly H. Mullin, Nicholas Thomas ...
    Series series Objects/Histories
    In the early twentieth century, a group of elite East coast women turned to the American Southwest in search of an alternative to European-derived concepts of culture. In Culture in the Marketplace Molly H. Mullin provides a detailed narrative of the growing influence that this network of women had on the Native American art market—as well as the influence these activities had on them—in order to ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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  • Becoming Historians

    by James M. Banner, Jr., John R. Gillis ...
    In this unique collection, the memoirs of eleven historians provide a fascinating portrait of a formative generation of scholars. Born around the time of World War II, these influential historians came of age just before the upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s and helped to transform both their discipline and the broader world of American higher education. The self-inventions they thoughtfully ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • A Neighborhood That Never Changes

    Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity

    by Japonica Brown-Saracino ...
    Series series Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
    Newcomers to older neighborhoods are usually perceived as destructive, tearing down everything that made the place special and attractive. But as A Neighborhood That Never Changes demonstrates, many gentrifiers seek to preserve the authentic local flavor of their new homes, rather than ruthlessly remake them. Drawing on ethnographic research in four distinct communities—the Chicago neighborhoods ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Public Art

    Theory, Practice and Populism

    by Cher Krause Knight ...
    This book takes a bold look at public art and its populist appeal, offering a more inclusive guide to America's creative tastes and shared culture. It examines the history of American public art – from FDR's New Deal to Christo's The Gates – and challenges preconceived notions of public art, expanding its definition to include a broader scope of works and concepts.Expands the definition of public ... Read more

    $39.00 USD

  • Reservation Reelism

    Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film

    by Michelle H. Raheja ...
    In this deeply engaging account Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape Hollywood’s representation of Indigenous peoples. Since the era of silent films, Hollywood movies and visual culture generally have provided the primary representational field on which Indigenous images have been displayed to non-Native ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • A Companion to Los Angeles

    Edited by William Deverell, Greg Hise ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
    This Companion contains 25 original essays by writers and scholars who present an expert assessment of the best and most important work to date on the complex history of Los Angeles.The first Companion providing a historical survey of Los Angeles, incorporating critical, multi-disciplinary themes and innovative scholarshipFeatures essays from a range of disciplines, including history, political ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • 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

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  • See America First

    Tourism and National Identity, 1880-1940

    by Marguerite Shaffer ...
    In See America First, Marguerite Shaffer chronicles the birth of modern American tourism between 1880 and 1940, linking tourism to the simultaneous growth of national transportation systems, print media, a national market, and a middle class with money and time to spend on leisure. Focusing on the See America First slogan and idea employed at different times by railroads, guidebook publishers, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Entering the Picture

    Judy Chicago, The Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists

    Edited by Jill Fields ...
    Series series New Directions in American History
    In 1970, Judy Chicago and fifteen students founded the groundbreaking Feminist Art Program (FAP) at Fresno State. Drawing upon the consciousness-raising techniques of the women's liberation movement, they created shocking new art forms depicting female experiences. Collaborative work and performance art – including the famous "Cunt Cheerleaders" – were program hallmarks. Moving to Los Angeles, the ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Material Culture: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Robert DuPlessis ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Native American Renaissance

    Literary Imagination and Achievement

    Edited by Alan R. Velie, A. Robert Lee ...
    Series series American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series
    The outpouring of Native American literature that followed the publication of N. Scott Momaday’s Pulitzer Prize–winning House Made of Dawn in 1968 continues unabated. Fiction and poetry, autobiography and discursive writing from such writers as James Welch, Gerald Vizenor, and Leslie Marmon Silko constitute what critic Kenneth Lincoln in 1983 termed the Native American Renaissance. This collection ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Critical Regionalism

    Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape

    by Douglas Reichert Powell ...
    The idea of "region" in America has often served to isolate places from each other, observes Douglas Reichert Powell. Whether in the nostalgic celebration of folk cultures or the urbane distaste for "hicks," certain regions of the country are identified as static, insular, and culturally disconnected from everywhere else. In Critical Regionalism, Reichert Powell explores this trend and offers ... Read more

    $28.49 USD