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  • Elevate the Masses

    Alexander Gardner, Photography, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America

    par Makeda Best ...
    Alexander Gardner is best known for his innovative photographic history of the Civil War. What is less known is the extent to which he was involved in the international workers’ rights movement. Tying Gardner’s photographic storytelling to his transatlantic reform activities, this book expands our understanding of Gardner’s career and the work of his studio in Washington, DC, by situating his ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Truth in the Public Sphere

    par Jason Hannan, David I. Backer, Chris Balaschak, Makeda Best, Charles Bingham, Christopher Gilbert, Lewis A. Friedland, Francis Halsall, Thomas Hove, Jeffrey W. Jarman0, Yacine Kout1, Paul Lawrie2, Jeanette Musselwhite3, Kelly M. O’Donnell4, Lisa Silvestri5, Shelley Sizemore6, Jenny Southard7, Spoma Jovanovic8 ...
    Has truth become a casualty of America’s increasingly caustic and volatile political culture? Truth in the Public Sphere seeks to understand the significance of truth for the everyday world of human communication. To this end, this book explores the place of truth in several facets of the public sphere: language, ethics, journalism, politics, media, and art. Featuring an international group of ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 CAD

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  • In Search Of The Blues

    Black Voices, White Visions

    par Marybeth Hamilton ...
    Everyone knows the story of the Delta blues, with its fierce, raw voices and tormented drifters and deals with the devil at the crossroads at midnight. In this compelling book, Marybeth Hamilton radically rewrites that story.Archaic and primeval though the music may sound, the idea of something called 'Delta blues' emerged in the late twentieth century, the culmination of a longstanding white ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Family Secrets

    Crossing the Colour Line

    par Catherine Slaney ...
    Catherine Slaney grew into womanhood unaware of her celebrated Black ancestors. An unanticipated meeting was to change her life. Her great-grandfather was Dr. Anderson Abbott, the first Canadian-born Black to graduate from medical school in Toronto in 1861. In Family Secrets Catherine Slaney narrates her journey along the trail of her family tree, back through the era of slavery and the plight of ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Typecasting

    On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality

    par Stuart Ewen, Elizabeth Ewen ...
    Typecasting chronicles the emergence of the "science of first impression" and reveals how the work of its creators—early social scientists—continues to shape how we see the world and to inform our most fundamental and unconscious judgments of beauty, humanity, and degeneracy. In this groundbreaking exploration of the growth of stereotyping amidst the rise of modern society, authors Ewen & Ewen ... En savoir plus

    $21.59 CAD

  • Canadians Are Not Americans

    Myths and Literary Traditions

    par Katherine Morrison ...
    A transplanted American, Katherine Morrison has long been fascinated with the attempts of Canadians to articulate how their culture differs from that of their southern neighbor. Examining three hundred years of cultural traditions, Morrison takes the reader through the historical, political and sociological milieux of Canada and the United States. Comparing mythologies, she examines national views ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation

    A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time

    par Melvyn Stokes ...
    In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet highly controversial movie. By going back to the original archives, particularly the NAACP and D. W. Griffith Papers, Stokes explodes many of the myths surrounding The Birth of a Nation (1915). Yet the ... En savoir plus

    $36.79 CAD

  • Mystic Chords of Memory

    The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture

    par Michael Kammen ...
    Mystic Chords of Memory"Illustrated with hundreds of well-chosen anecdotes and minute observations . . . Kammen is a demon researcher who seems to have mined his nuggets from the entire corpus of American cultural history . . . insightful and sardonic."—Washington Post Book WorldIn this ground-breaking, panoramic work of American cultural history, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Machine ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $19.99 CAD Maintenant $6.99 CAD

  • The Promised Land

    History and Historiography of the Black Experience in Chatham-Kent's Settlements and Beyond

    Modifié par Boulou de b'Beri, Nina Reid-Maroney, Handel K. Wright ...
    Collections series African & Diasporic Cultural Studies
    Eschewing the often romanticized Underground Railroad narrative that portrays southern Ontario as the welcoming destination of Blacks fleeing from slavery, The Promised Land reveals the Chatham-Kent area as a crucial settlement site for an early Black presence in Canada. The contributors present the everyday lives and professional activities of individuals and families in these communities and ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD

  • Forgeries of Memory and Meaning

    Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II

    par Cedric J. Robinson ...
    Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues that economic, political, and cultural forces present in the eras of silent film and the early “talkies” firmly entrenched limited representations of African Americans.Robinson grounds his study in contexts that illuminate the parallel growth of racial ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

    Black Daughter of the Revolution

    par Lois Brown ...
    Collections series Gender and American Culture
    Born into an educated free black family in Portland, Maine, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859–1930) was a pioneering playwright, journalist, novelist, feminist, and public intellectual, best known for her 1900 novel Contending Forces: A Romance of Negro Life North and South. In this critical biography, Lois Brown documents for the first time Hopkins’s early family life and her ancestral connections ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • A Companion to Benjamin Franklin

    Modifié par David Waldstreicher ...
    Collections Livre 54 - Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
    This companion provides a comprehensive survey of the life, work and legacy of Benjamin Franklin - the oldest, most distinctive, and multifaceted of the founders.Includes contributions from across a range of academic disciplinesCombines traditional and cutting-edge scholarship, from accomplished and emerging experts in the fieldPays special attention to the American Revolution, the Enlightenment, ... En savoir plus

    $251.99 CAD