Old Is Gold

This lively and informative survey provides a thematic global history of popular culture focusing on the period since the end of the Second World War.A History of Popular Culture explores the rapid diffusion and 'hybridization' of popular culture as the result of three conditions...

Brilliantly written by a prize-winning historian, The Unfinished Journey, Ninth Edition, considers both the paradoxes and the possibilities of postwar America. William H. Chafe portrays the significant cultural and political themes that have colored our country's past and present, includingissues of race, class, gender,...

During the first half of the 1970s, two new fighter aircraft entered operational service in the United States: The Navy's Grumman F-14 Tomcat and the Air Force's McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. These two aircraft were part of the backbone of the tactical air power of the United States; their introduction was accompanied by comprehensive reforms in pilot training as well...

At the dawn of the Atomic Age, Americans encountered troubling new questions brought about by the nuclear revolution: In a representative democracy, who is responsible for national public safety? How do citizens imagine themselves as members of the national collective when faced with the...

In Faith in Freedom, Andrew R. Polk argues that the American civil religion so many have identified as indigenous to the founding ideology was, in fact, the result of a strategic campaign of religious propaganda. Far from being the natural result of the nation's...

Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine investigates the administrative revolution of China's eighteenth-century Qing state. It begins in the mid-seventeenth century with what seemed, at the time, to be straightforward policies to clean up the bureaucracy: a regulation about deadlines here, a requirement about...

At the Dawn of Airpower: The U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine Corps' Approach to the Airplane, 1907-1917 examines the development of aviation in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine Corps from their first official steps into aviation up to the United States' declaration of war...

In Global Inequality and American Foreign Policy in the 1970s, Michael Franczak demonstrates how Third World solidarity around the New International Economic Order (NIEO) forced US presidents from Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan to consolidate American hegemony over an international economic order under attack...

By the Antebellum period, rice had dominated the local economic, political, and social patterns of South Carolina's Lowcountry for nearly two hundred years. This book explores the purpose of the social organizations as well as the moral, economic, cultural, and political challenges of the...

By: May Wilson McBee, Pub. 1953, Reprinted 2020, 645 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-023-3. The Natchez District covers the Mississippi counties of: Adams, Amite, Clairborne, Franklin, Jeffeson, Warren, and Wilkinson. In 1799 when Spain took over the rule of this area from the British, the...

By: John H. McIntoh, Pub. 1940, Reprint 2019, 676 pages, Index, 0-89308-871-4.Elbert County was formed in 1790 from Wilkes County. It lies in the Northeasern portion of the state along the Savannah River just across from Anderson and Abbeville Counties, South Carolina. The first...

The Big House after Slavery examines the economic, social, and political challenges that Virginia planter families faced following Confederate defeat and emancipation. Amy Feely Morsman addresses how men and women of the planter class responded to postwar problems and how their adaptations to life...

From 1866 through 1886, the U.S. Army occupied southern Arizona and New Mexico in an attempt to claim it for settlement by Americans. Through a postcolonial lens, Janne Lahti examines the army, its officers, their wives, and the enlisted men as agents of an...

Author: Mark Power SmithPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 09/22/2022Pages: 292Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.06h x 5.98w x 0.94dISBN: 9780813948539Review Citation(s): Choice 05/01/2023

This book offers a significant rediscovery of a rich, unique, and understudied musical culture.Author: Tanya KevorkianPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 10/10/2022Pages: 352Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.20h x 7.70w x 0.90dISBN: 9780813947013Review Citation(s): Choice 09/01/2023About the AuthorTanya Kevorkian is Associate Professor of History at Millersville...

Despite the Holocaust's profound impact on the history of Eastern Europe, the communist regimes successfully repressed public discourse about and memory of this tragedy. Since the collapse of communism in 1989, however, this has changed. Not only has a wealth of archival sources become...

Delving into archival material from six countries, Laron offers a much deeper, nuanced perspective of the Suez Crisis.Origins of the Suez Crisis describes the long run-up to the 1956 Suez Crisis and the crisis itself by focusing on politics, economics, and foreign policy decisions...

Through archival work and storytelling, Musical Migration and Imperial New York revises many inherited narratives about experimental music and art in postwar New York. From the urban street level of music clubs and arts institutions to the world-making routes of global migration and exchange,...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, has frequently been dismissed as an outlier and curiosity in his oeuvre, a transitional work from the coming-of-age plot of This Side of Paradise to the masterful critique of American aspiration in The Great Gatsby....

M. K. Beauchamp's Instruments of Empire examines the challenges that resulted from U.S. territorial expansion through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. With the acquisition of this vast region, the United States gained a colonial European population whose birthplace, language, and religion often differed from...