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Keywords for American cultural studies

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"Since its initial publication, scholars and students alike have turned to Keywords for American Cultural Studies as an invaluable resource for understanding key terms and debates in the fields of American studies and cultural studies. As scholarship has continued to evolve, thi…

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Smart Surveillance: How to Interpret the Fourth Amendment in the Twen…

by Simmons, Ric

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Over the last decade, law enforcement agencies have engaged in increasingly intrusive surveillance methods, from location tracking on cell phones to reading metadata off of e-mails. As a result, many believe we are heading towards an omniscient surveillance state and irrevocable…

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Addressing modernity: social systems theory and U.S. cultures

by Bergthaller, Hannes, Schinko, Carsten

fromPostmodern studies

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Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is one of the most ambitious attempts to create a coherent account of global modernity. Primarily interested in the fundamental structures of modern society, however, Luhmann himself paid relatively little attention to regional variation…

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Queering Memory and National Identity in Transcultural U.S. Literature and Culture

by Clark, Christopher W.

fromAmerican literature readings in the 21st century

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This book examines the queer implications of memory and nationhood in transcultural U.S. literature and culture. Through an analysis of art and photography responding to the U.S. domestic response to 9/11, Iraq war fiction, representations of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, and m…

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Oceanic Archives, Indigenous Epistemology, and Transpacific American Studies

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This collection presents a map for the way forward in transpacific American studies and the papers demonstrate ways of realizing the rich potential of the new direction. In this volume Shelley Fisher Fishkin, a leader in the field, challenges her fellow scholars to make use of a…

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Literary Cultures and Twenty-First-Century Childhoods

fromLiterary cultures and childhoods

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In the early decades of the twenty-first century, we are grappling with the legacies of past centuries and their cascading effects upon children and all people. We realize anew how imperialism, globalization, industrialization, and revolution continue to reshape our world and th…

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A concise companion to American studies

by Rowe, John Carlos

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"There is no more masterful guide to the field of American Studies than John Carlos Rowe. In this volume, he brings together some of the most articulate scholars in the field to map out the key issues defining American Studies scholarship at its most exciting and relevant. This …

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A concise companion to American studies

by Rowe, John Carlos

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A Companion to American Studies is an essential volume that brings together voices and scholarship from across the spectrum of American experience.

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A concise companion to American studies

by Rowe, John Carlos

fromBlackwell Companions in Cultural Studies

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""There is no more masterful guide to the field of American Studies than John Carlos Rowe. In this volume, he brings together some of the most articulate scholars in the field to map out the key issues defining American Studies scholarship at its most exciting and relevant. This…

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A concise companion to American studies

by Rowe, John Carlos

fromBlackwell Companions in Cultural Studies

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A Companion to American Studies is an essential volume that brings together voices and scholarship from across the spectrum of American experience.: A collection of 22 original essays which provides an unprecedented introduction to the "new" American Studies: a comparative, tran…

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A concise companion to American studies

by Rowe, John Carlos

fromBlackwell Companions in Cultural Studies

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A Companion to American Studies is an essential volume that brings together voices and scholarship from across the spectrum of American experience. A collection of 22 original essays which provides an unprecedented introduction to the ""new"" American Studies: a comparative, tra…

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The Cambridge companion to modern American culture

by Bigsby, C. W. E.

fromCambridge companions to culture

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The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the cultural themes and intellectual issues that drive the dominant culture of the twentieth century. This companion explores the social, political and economic fo…