America in Close Up, 

Автор: Marianne Mithun
Название: The Languages of Native North America
ISBN: 052129875X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521298759
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the North American Indian languages. It includes an overview of their special characteristics, descriptions of special styles, and a catalogue of the languages detailing their locations, genetic affiliations, number of speakers, and major structural features, and listing published material on them.

Автор: Wilson Ivy
Название: Whitman Noir: Black America and the Good Gray Poet
ISBN: 1609382366 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781609382360
Издательство: Eurospan
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Описание: Walt Whitman’s now-famous maxim about “containing the multitudes” has often been understood as a metaphor for the democratising impulses of the young American nation. But did these impulses extend across the colour line? Early in his career, especially in the manuscripts leading up to the first edition of Leaves of Grass, the poet espoused a rather progressive outlook on race relations within the United States. However, as time passed, he steered away from issues of race and blackness altogether. These changing depictions and representations of African Americans in the poetic space of Leaves of Grass and Whitman’s other writings complicate his attempts to fully contain all of America’s subject-citizens within the national imaginary. As alluring as “containing the multitudes” might prove to be, African American poets and writers have been equally vexed by and attracted to Whitman’s acknowledgment of the promise and contradictions of the United States and their place within it.Whitman Noir: Black America and the Good Gray Poet explores the meaning of blacks and blackness in Whitman’s imagination and, equally significant, also illuminates the aura of Whitman in African American letters from Langston Hughes to June Jordan, Margaret Walker to Yusef Komunyakaa. The essays, which feature academic scholars and poets alike, address questions of literary history, the textual interplay between author and narrator, and race and poetic influence. The volume as a whole reveals the mutual engagement with a matrix of shared ideas, contradictions, and languages to expose how Whitman influenced African American literary production as well as how African American Studies brings to bear new questions and concerns for evaluating Whitman.

Автор: STODDART, KRISTAN
Название: The Sword and the Shield: Britain, America, NATO and Nuclear Weapons, 1970-1976
ISBN: 0230300936 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230300934
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Kristan Stoddart reveals for the first time discussions that took place between the British, French and US governments for nuclear cooperation in the early to mid 1970s. In doing so it sets the scene for the upgrade to Britain`s Polaris force codenamed Chevaline and how this could have brought down Harold Wilson`s Labour government of 1974-1976.

Автор: McPherson Alan
Название: Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the
ISBN: 1118954009 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781118954003
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean presents a concise account of the full sweep of U.S. military invasions and interventions in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean from 1800 up to the present day.

Автор: Marcus Greil, Sollors Werner
Название: A New Literary History of America
ISBN: 0674064100 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674064102
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: America is a nation making itself up as it goes along-a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In more than 200 original essays, this history brings together the nation`s many voices.

Автор: Linker Beth
Название: War`s Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America
ISBN: 022614335X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226143354
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: With US soldiers stationed around the world and engaged in multiple conflicts, Americans will be forced for the foreseeable future to come to terms with those permanently disabled in battle. This book explains how, before entering World War I, the United States sought a way to avoid the enormous cost of providing injured soldiers with pensions.

Автор: Prothero, Stephen
Название: Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America
ISBN: 0520236882 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520236882
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: This work synthesizes various source materials including newspapers, mortician trade journals, and popular magazines, to offer a historical study of cremation in the United States. The changing view of cremation from a universally condemned practice, to accepted necessity is examined.

Автор: Gottfried
Название: Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America
ISBN: 1107675715 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107675711
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book offers a strikingly original interpretation of Leo Strauss, his `political philosophy`, and the connection of both to the American conservative movement. There is nothing essentially `conservative` about what Strauss or his leading disciples have taught about politics or morals, instead they have been avid champions of American modernity.

Автор: Fernandez-Armesto Felipe
Название: Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States
ISBN: 0393239535 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393239539
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: An eminent scholar finds a new American history in the Hispanic past of our diverse nation.

Автор: Medvetz Thomas
Название: Think Tanks in America
ISBN: 022614366X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226143668
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Over the past half-century, think tanks have become fixtures of American politics, supplying advice to presidents and policy makers, expert testimony on Capitol Hill. This book argues that the curious ambiguity of the think tank is not an accidential feature of its existence, but the very key to its impact.

Автор: MITCHELL-COOK, AMY
Название: A Sea of Misadventures: Shipwreck and Survival in Early America
ISBN: 1611173019 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611173017
Издательство: Eurospan
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Описание: Examines more than one hundred documented shipwreck narratives from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century as a means to understanding gender, status, and religion in the history of early America. Though it includes all the drama and intrigue afforded by maritime disasters, the book`s significance lies in its investigation of how the trauma of shipwreck affected American values and behaviour.

Автор: Chen Yong
Название: Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America
ISBN: 0231168926 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231168922
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: An epic tale of globalized cultural exchange by means of our first "fast food."