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Between 1890 and 1920, the forces accompanying industrialization sent the familiar 19th century world plummeting toward extinction. In this book, the author incorporates the social, cultural, political and economic changes which produced modern America.

The 1940s was a watershed decade for American cinema and the nation. Shaking off the grim legacy of the Depression, Hollywood launched an unprecedented wave of production, generating some of its most memorable classics. Featuring essays by a group of respected film scholars and historians, American Cinema of the 1940s brings this dynamic and turbulent decade to life with such films as Citizen Kane, Rebecca, The Lady Eve, Sergeant York, How Green Was My Valley, Casablanca, Mrs. Miniver, The Road to Morocco, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Kiss of Death, Force of Evil, Caught, and Apology for Murder. Illustrated with many rare stills and filled with provocative insights, the volume will appeal to students, teachers, and to all those interested in cultural history and American film of the twentieth century.

This text looks at South Asian women's experiences of domestic violence, whether physical, sexual, verbal or mental. It explains how immigration issues, cultural assumptions, and unfamiliarity with the American social, legal, and economic systems make these women especially vulnerable.

This thought-provoking and controversial book challenges the recent vilification of asbestos by providing a historical perspective on Americans' changing perceptions about risk. Rachel Maines suggests that the very success of asbestos and other fire-prevention technologies in containing deadly blazes has led to a sort of historical amnesia about the very risks they were supposed to reduce.

If religion is not about God, then what on earth is it about? Loyal Rue contends that religion is a series of strategies that aims to influence human nature so that we might think, feel, and act in ways that are good for us, both individually and collectively.

In the early 1980s, in the midst of Central America's decades of dirty wars, Nora Miselem of Honduras and Maria Suarez Toro of Costa Rica were kidnapped and subjected to rape and other tortures. Here, Margaret Randall recounts the terror, resistance and remarkable survival of the two women.

This study provides a feminist cultural analysis of the notions of ""unstable"" selfhood found in case narratives of female patients diagnosd with borderline personality disorder.

Exploring the significance of hair in African American culture, this book examines how women have redefined beauty for themselves and used their hair as a symbol of self-confidence and advancement. The author discusses what the various methods of wearing hair mean to family and friends.

This work is a collection of essays encompassing a global perspective on women and a wide range of issues, including political and domestic violence, education, literacy, and reproductive rights.

Through her illuminating and detailed analyses of both the Reagan presidency and many blockbuster movies, Susan Jeffords provides a scenario within which the successes of the New Right and the Reagan presidency can begin to be understood: she both encourages an understanding of how this complicity functioned and provides a framework within which to respond to the New Right's methods and arguments.

In this gripping memoir, renowned historian former Air Force navigator and intelligence officer H. Bruce Franklin offers a unique firsthand look at the American Century’s darkest hours. Crash Course is essential reading for anyone who wonders how America ended up with a deeply divided and disillusioned populace, led by a dysfunctional government and mired in unwinnable wars.

William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world, known both as a leader in the movement for religious toleration in England and as a founder of two American colonies. This volume looks at William Penn with fresh eyes, bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines to assess his multifaceted life and career.

Historically, Los Angeles has been central to the international success of Latin American cinema and became the most important hub in the western hemisphere for the distribution of Spanish language films made for Latin American audiences. This book examines the considerable, ongoing role that Los Angeles played in the history of Spanish-language cinema.

William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world, known both as a leader in the movement for religious toleration in England and as a founder of two American colonies. This volume looks at William Penn with fresh eyes, bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines to assess his multifaceted life and career.

Tells the story of an extraordinary individual and the price he paid for his convictions. This book describes how Richard Goldstone, working as a judge in apartheid South Africa, helped to undermine this unjust system and later, at Nelson Mandela's request, led a commission that investigated cases of racial violence and intimidation.

With over 50 original essays by leading scholars, artists, critics, and curators, this is the first book to trace the "unwatchable" across our contemporary media environment, in which viewers encounter difficult content on various screens and platforms. The volume offers multidisciplinary approaches to the vast array of troubling images that circulate in global visual culture.

Explores the events surrounding the discovery of the etio-pathogenic agent of the Oroya Fever, also known as Peruvian Verruga or Carrion's disease by Dr. Alberto Leonardo Barton. Graciela S. Alarcon and Renato D. Alarcon recount Barton's persistent work against scepticism, obstacles, and limitations imposed by members of Peru's medical elites of the time.

Science and technology are advancing more rapidly than regulations or the law can interpret and integrate them into a supportive or regulatory framework. This book is written for all clinicians in the neurosciences specialties who need to examine and re-examine the ethical and legal implications of advances in clinical neurosciences.

Throughout the silent-feature era, American artists and intellectuals routinely described cinema as a force of global communion, a universal language promoting mutual understanding and harmonious coexistence amongst disparate groups of people. This book examines the body of writing in which this understanding of cinema emerged and explores how it shaped particular silent films.

This clinically-focused volume is informed by Lawrence I. Golbe's three decades of research and tertiary clinical care in progressive supranuclear palsy. It is an ideal source for the general neurologist seeking a refresher and the primary care provider, neurological nurse, or physical, occupational or speech therapist who must address their patients' specialized needs.

Provides college faculty concrete exercises and tools they can use both inside and outside of the classroom to effectively bolster the academic success and wellbeing of their students. Combining student perspectives with the latest research on bridging the academic achievement gap, Lisa Nunn shows how professors can make a difference.

Details many of the contours of contemporary, systemic racism, while engaging the possibility of White students to participate in anti-racism. Ultimately, White Guys on Campus calls upon institutions of higher education to be sites of social transformation instead of reinforcing systemic racism.

By focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United States between World War I and the present, Warring over Valor provides fresh perspectives on the history of American military heroism.

Explores how people become who they are through their relationships with the natural world, and shows how those relationships are also always embedded in processes of racialization. Melissa A. Johnson provides an analysis of how processes of racialization are present in the entanglements between people and the non-human worlds in which they live.

Traces the development of the "disruptive" surrogacy industry and its movement across Southeast Asia following a sequence of governmental bans in India, Nepal, Thailand, and Cambodia.

Provides a vivid and accessible investigation of the green economy and New Left politics in Argentina. Based on extensive field research, Marcos Mendoza examines the social worlds of alpine mountaineers, adventure trekkers, tourism entrepreneurs, seasonal laborers, park rangers, land managers, scientists, and others involved in the green economy.