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"Gold Fever" And Women - Transformations In Lives, Health Care And Medicine In The 19th Century American West

by Sigrid Schonfelder

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 A history foregrounding the contribution of women to healthcare, medicine and social reform in the 19th century American West
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Death Is Served - The Serialization Of Death And Its Conceptualization Through Food Metaphors In Us Literature And Media

by Stella Castelli

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 An investigation framing American culture's hunger for death as repetitive encoding across serial media.
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The Biosecurity Individual - A Cultural Critique Of The Intersection Between Health, Security, And Identity

by Frederike Offizier

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 How do we know if we are (still) healthy? Our understanding of health and security are central paradigms in our identity formation.
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Imaging The Scenes Of War - Aesthetic Crossovers In American Visual Culture

by Christof Decker

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 <p>In American visual culture, the 1930s and 1940s were a key transitional period shaped by the era of modernism and the global confrontation of World War II. Christof Decker demonstrates that the war and its iconography of destruction challenged visual artists to find new ways of representing its consequences. Dealing with trauma and war crimes led to the emergence of complex aesthetic forms and media crossovers. Decker shows that the 1940s were a pivotal period for the creation of horrific yet also innovative representations that boosted American visual modernism and set the stage for debates about the ethics of visual culture in the post-9/11 era.</p>
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Suspect Subjects - Queer Legal Futures In The Us After Bostock

by Laura Borchert

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 An in-depth analysis of the cultural-legal construction of the queer Other in the US and a strong case for suspect classification as a constitutional tool for securing queer rights.
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Disturbed Ecologies - Photography, Geopolitics, And The Northern Landscape In The Era Of Environmental Crisis

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 Photographers, artists, curators, and theorists discuss the role of images in addressing the geopolitics of environmental crisis in this essay collection.
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Global Curriculum Development - How To Redesign U.S. Higher Education For The Twenty-First Century

by Linn Friedrichs

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 A guide to redesigning the undergraduate curriculum of U.S. universities and empowering students as agents of change in our global age of complexity, crisis, and innovation.
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Biohacking, Bodies And Do-It-Yourself - The Cultural Politics Of Hacking Life Itself

by Mirjam Grewe-Salfeld

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 How do biology and culture interact? This book provides an extensive cultural analysis of biohacking and Do-it-yourself medicine.
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The Politics Of Gender In Early American Theater Â€“ Revolutionary Dramatists And Theatrical Practices

by Leopold Lippert e Ralph J. Poole

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 This collection explores the role and relevance of gender in the formation of American theatrical culture in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Authority And Trust In Us Culture And Society Â€“ Interdisciplinary Approaches And Perspectives

by Gunter Leypoldt e Manfred Berg

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 This book explores recent and historical transformations of authority and trust in political institutions, urban spaces, and cultural life to explain their perceived loss of legitimacy in the United States.
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Savage Horrors Â€“ The Intrinsic Raciality Of The American Gothic

by Corinna Lenhardt

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 While the white American Gothic novel must be understood as a highly racialized and structural anti-Black text, Black authors have creatively deconstructed the Gothic since the 18th century.
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Subjects Of Substance Â€“ Recent American Literature And The Materiality Of Mind

by Julian Henneberg

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 Subjects of Substance reveals how the materiality of mind has shaped the works of authors like Don DeLillo, Siri Hustvedt, and David Foster Wallace.
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Laboring Bodies And The Quantified Self

by Regina Schober e Ulfried Reichardt

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 How has the quantified body become a central site of labor in the contemporary neoliberal age?
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Creating Realities Â€“ Business As A Motif In American Fiction, 1865â€“1929

by Erhan Simsek

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 Erhan Simsek explores the motif of business and its aesthetic functions in American realism, naturalism, and modernism.
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An Organon Of Life Knowledge Â€“ Genres And Functions Of The Short Story In North America

by Michael Basseler

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 The short story as a tool for acquiring knowledge of and about life? This study offers a fresh take on the the genre and explores how it constructs and circulates `life knowledge'.
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Fugitive Borders Â€“ Black Canadian Crossâ€“Border Literature At Midâ€“Nineteenth Century

by Nele Sawallisch

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 Â»CommunityÂ« not Â»nationÂ« â€" Nele Sawallisch argues that black autobiographical writing in 19th-century Canada functions as a form of cross-border textual community-building.
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American Mobilities - Geographies Of Class, Race, And Gender In Us Culture

by Julia Leyda

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 Geographical, economic, and social mobility were central tropes in American literature and film in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. This study provides in-depth case studies with particular attention to class, race, and gender as they intersect with representations of mobility.
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Melting Pots & Mosaics Â€“ Children Of Immigrants In Usâ€“American Literature - Children Of Immigrants In Us-American Literature

by Rüdiger Heinze

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 This work provides an extensive, comparative discussion of US-American literature about children of immigrants from different ethnic groups and different historical contexts.
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Wires That Bind Â€“ Nation, Region, And Technology In The Southwestern United States, 1854â€“1920 - Nation, Region & Technology In The Southwestern United States, 1854-1920

by Torsten Kathke

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 Telegraphy and railroads bound the Southwest to the United States in the nineteenth century. They forever redrew lines of race, culture and influence.
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New York Hotel Experience Â€“ Cultural And Societal Impacts Of An American Invention - Cultural & Societal Impacts Of An American Invention

by Annabella Fick

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 In five case studies this book presents the hotel experience of the white upper class, literati, artists, African Americans and Jewish Americans in NYC.
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Power Relations In Black Lives Â€“ Reading African American Literature And Culture With Bourdieu And Elias - Reading African American Literature And Culture With Bourdieu And Elias

by Christa Buschendorf

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 The contributions of this volume offer new readings of Black literature and culture by applying key concepts of relational sociology by Bourdieu and Elias.
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Poets Of Protest - Mythological Resignification In American Antebellum And German Vormrz Literature

by Michael Rodegang Drescher

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 Narratological readings of Hawthorne, Gutzkow, Brown, and Heine reveal the literary democratization of mythologies.
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The Myths That Made America - An Introduction To American Studies

by Heike Paul

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 Myths play a vital role in the process of American Â»nation buildingÂ«. On the basis of a critical analysis of central American myths this textbook offers an introduction to the field of American (Culture) Studies.
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The Poetics And Politics Of Invective Humor - Disparagement In Contemporary Female-Led Us Sitcoms

by Katja Schulze

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 Have you ever wondered about who you are laughing at when watching your favorite sitcom? And the social and political implications thereof? This study gives unexpected and unsettling answers.
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