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Rachel Randall

Paid to Care: Domestic Workers in Contemporary Latin American Culture

An insight into the struggles of paid domestic workers in Latin America through an exploration of films, texts, and digital media produced since the 1980s in collaboration with them or inspired by their e…

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Filipino American Sporting Cultures

"The book ethnographically captures Filipina/o Americans' participation in sporting cultures and the negotiation of identities in various sporting spaces. It covers a well-known and globally-popular boxin…

Barbara Jane Brickman

Suffering Sappho!: Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture

Offering the first major consideration of lesbian camp in American popular culture, Suffering Sappho! examines a larger-than-life lesbian menace in mid-century media embodied in five queer icons—the sicko…

James Craig Holte

Pandemics in American Popular Culture

From Cold War-era fears of biological warfare to zombie plagues as metaphors for contagion to portrayals of recent experiences with Covid-19, pandemics have featured prominently in American popular cultur…

Shira Wolosky

The Bible in American Poetic Culture

Although the Bible is the foundation of American poetic tradition, there is no study of the Bible as an ongoing force in American poetry. Not only a source of imagery, allusion, rhythm and style, the Bibl…

Jim Twombly

Political Scandal and American Pop Culture

This book provides a newer definition of political scandal and applies it in a way to remove ordinary corruption from the discussion. It then defines pop culture and examines how scandal and pop culture…

A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture

A COMPANION TO LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE SECOND EDITION Cutting-edge and insightful discussions on Latin American literature and culture This newly revised second edition of A Companion to L…

Andrew Ball,

The Economy of Religion in American Literature: Culture and the Politics of Redemption

Examining how economic change influences religion, and the way literature mediates that influence, this book provides a thorough reassessment of modern American culture. Focusing on the period 1840-1940, …

Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History, Art, and Culture in 101 Objects

A rich and compelling introduction to the history of Asian Pacific American communities as told through 101 objects, from a fortune cookie baking mold to the debut Ms. Marvel comic featuring Kamala Khan …

Steve Hauschildt

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S[amuel] S Boyce

Hints toward a national culture for young Americans

Reprint of the original, first published in 1879. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

S[amuel] S Boyce

Hints toward a national culture for young Americans

Reprint of the original, first published in 1879. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

Eric Mottram

Blood on the Nash Ambassador

This collection of eight wide-ranging essays on aspects of American culture, first published in 1988, has been out of print for many years. It explores guns, cars, racism, politics and paranoia in startli…

The 49 Americans

We Know Nonsense

Anlässlich seines 15-jährigen Bestehens vermeldet das Label Staubgold die Wiederveröffentlichung des kompletten Backkatalogs der The 49 Americans. Die britische Do-it-yourself-Supergroup wurde von Andrew …

Martin Halliwell

Transformed States

Transformed States offers a timely history of the politics, ethics, medical applications and cultural representations of the biotechnological revolution, from the Human Genome Project to the Covid-19 pand…

Shannon Dowd

The Other Border Wars

Highlights the Transformative Effects of Border Conflicts on Culture and Politics

David W. Congdon

Who Is a True Christian?

Part intellectual history and part nuanced argument for change, this book explores how and why the question of what defines Christianity has become so vexing over the past century, and how believers could…

Molly A Schneider

Gold Dust on the Air

How mid-century television anthologies reflected and shaped US values and identities.

Flyover Fictions

Flyover Fictions critically engages the history and contemporary use of the “flyover country” trope in American culture and repurposes the concept as an abstract tool for cultural studies.