Split Screen Nation: Moving Images of the American West and South, Courtney Susan

Автор: Den Hartog Jonathan J.
Название: Patriotism and Piety: Federalist Politics and Religious Struggle in the New American Nation
ISBN: 0813936411 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813936413
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In Patriotism and Piety, Jonathan Den Hartog argues that the question of how religion would function in American society was decided in the decades after the Constitution and First Amendment established a legal framework. Den Hartog shows that among the wide array of politicians and public figures struggling to define religion’s place in the new nation, Federalists stood out - evolving religious attitudes were central to Federalism, and the encounter with Federalism strongly shaped American Christianity.Den Hartog describes the Federalist appropriations of religion as passing through three stages: a “republican” phase of easy cooperation inherited from the experience of the American Revolution; a “combative” phase, forged during the political battles of the 1790s–1800s, when the destiny of the republic was hotly contested; and a “voluntarist” phase that grew in importance after 1800. Faith became more individualistic and issue-oriented as a result of the actions of religious Federalists.Religious impulses fueled party activism and informed governance, but the redirection of religious energies into voluntary societies sapped party momentum, and religious differences led to intraparty splits. These developments altered not only the Federalist Party but also the practice and perception of religion in America, as Federalist insights helped to create spaces of voluntary, national organizations in which Americans could practice their faith in interdenominational settings.Patriotism and Piety focuses on the experiences and challenges confronted by a number of Federalists, from well-known leaders such as John Adams, John Jay, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and Timothy Dwight to lesser-known but still important figures such as Caleb Strong, Elias Boudinot, and William Jay.

Автор: Frick John W
Название: Uncle Tom`s Cabin on the American Stage and Screen
ISBN: 0230114075 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230114074
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: No play in the history of the American stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom`s Cabin. This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe`s classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduces the reader to the artists who created the plays and productions that created theatre history.

Автор: Enrico Dal Lago
Название: The Age of Lincoln and Cavour: Comparative Perspectives on 19th-Century American and Italian Nation-Building
ISBN: 1137485426 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137485427
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: A comparison of the United States and Italy in the nineteenth century yields some remarkable similarities. In both instances, a relatively young country sought to cultivate liberal nationalist sentiments, economic progress, and technological modernization

Автор: Philip Weeks
Название: Farewell, my nation: american indians and the united states in the nineteenth century
ISBN: 1118976770 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781118976777
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: The fully updated third edition of Farewell, My Nation considers the complex and often tragic relationships between American Indians, white Americans, and the U.S.

Автор: Bray
Название: Modern American Drama on Screen
ISBN: 1316619680 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316619681
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: The volume explores how the classics of modern national theater, including plays by Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, David Mamet and Eugene O`Neill, have attained a second life on the screen. Each chapter is written by a leading scholar and focuses on one of Broadway`s most admired and popular productions.

Автор: Springer Melanie J.
Название: How the States Shaped the Nation: American Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout, 1920-2000
ISBN: 022611421X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226114217
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: The United States routinely has one of the lowest voter turnout rates of any developed democracy in the world. But are expansive institutional efforts like mailin registration, longer poll hours, and "no-excuse" absentee voting uniformly effective in improving voter turnout across states? This book deals with this topic.

Автор: Patterson Robert Porter
Название: Arming the Nation for War: Mobilization, Supply, and the American War Effort in World War II
ISBN: 1572338725 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781572338722
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: A decorated World War I veteran, Federal Judge Robert P. Patterson knew all too well the needs of soldiers on the battlefield. He was thus dismayed by America’s lack of military preparedness when a second great war engulfed Europe in 1939–40. With the international crisis worsening, Patterson even resumed military training—as a forty-nine-year old private—before being named assistant secretary of war in July 1940. That appointment set the stage for Patterson’s central role in the country’s massive mobilization and supply effort which helped the Allies win World War II.In Arming the Nation for War, a previously unpublished account long buried among the late author’s papers and originally marked confidential, Patterson describes the vast challenges the United States faced as it had to equip, in a desperately short time, a fighting force capable of confronting a formidable enemy. Brimming with data and detail, the book also abounds with deep insights into the myriad problems encountered on the domestic mobilization front—including the sometimes divergent interests of wartime planners and industrial leaders—along with the logistical difficulties of supplying far-flung theaters of war with everything from ships, planes, and tanks to food and medicine. Determined to remind his contemporaries of how narrow the Allied margin of victory was and that the war’s lessons not be forgotten, Patterson clearly intended the manuscript (which he wrote between 1945 and ’47, when he was President Truman’s secretary of war) to contribute to the postwar debates on the future of the military establishment. That passage of the National Security Act of 1947, to which Patterson was a key contributor, answered many of his concerns may explain why he never published the book during his lifetime.A unique document offering an insider’s view of a watershed historical moment, Patterson’s text is complemented by editor Brian Waddell’s extensive introduction and notes. In addition, Robert M. Morgenthau, former Manhattan district attorney and a protégé of Patterson’s for four years prior to the latter’s death in a 1952 plane crash, offers a heartfelt remembrance of a man the New York Herald-Tribune called “an example of the public-spirited citizen.”

Автор: Moslener Sara
Название: Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence
ISBN: 0199987769 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199987764
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: First taking hold of the American cultural imagination in the 1990s, the sexual purity movement of contemporary evangelicalism has since received considerable attention from a wide range of media outlets, religious leaders, and feminist critics. Virgin Nation offers a history of this movement
that goes beyond the Religious Right, demonstrating a link between sexual purity rhetoric and fears of national decline that has shaped American ideas about morality since the nineteenth century.

Concentrating on two of today's best known purity organizations, True Loves Waits and Silver Ring Thing, Sara Moslener's investigation reveals that purity work over the last two centuries has developed in concert with widespread fears of changing traditional gender roles and sexual norms, national
decline, and global apocalypse. Moslener highlights a number of points in U.S. history when evangelical beliefs and values have seemed to provide viable explanations for and solutions to widespread cultural crises, resulting in the growth of their cultural and political influence. By asserting a
causal relationship between sexual immorality, national decline, and apocalyptic anticipation, leaders have shaped a purity rhetoric that positions Protestant evangelicalism as the salvation of American civilization.

From the purity reformers of the nineteenth century to fundamentalist leaders such as Billy Graham and Carl F.H. Henry, Moslener illuminates the evolution of a strain of purity rhetoric that runs throughout Protestant evangelicalism.