Steelpan Ambassadors: The US Navy Steel Band, 1957-1999
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"Maybe you won't like steel band. It's possible. But it's been said that the Pied Piper had a steel...
The Privileges of Wealth: Rising Inequality and the Growing Racial Divide
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The American Dream is under assault. This threat results not from a lack of means, but from an...
Wanderwords: Language Migration in American Literature
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How do (im)migrant writers negotiate their representation of a multilingual world for a monolingual...
An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians
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They came from the poorest parts of Ireland and Italy and met as rivals on the sidewalks of New...
Capital Gains: Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America
Kim Phillips-Fein and Richard R. John
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Recent events-the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and...
Frasier: A Cultural History
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After America's most pompous barhound left the Cheer's gang in Boston, he returned to Seattle and...
The Bill of Rights
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The Bill of Rights is a comprehensive survey of all aspects of the U.S. Bill of Rights; from its...
The Flood Year 1927: A Cultural History
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The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, which covered nearly thirty thousand square miles across seven...
When the Cock Crows: A History of the Pathe Exchange
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Influential during Hollywood's silent-film era, the Pathe Exchange was a multinational film company...
Women and Things, 1750 1950: Gendered Material Strategies
Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin
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In contrast to much current scholarship on women and material culture which focuses primarily on...