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    The aging of aquarius : the hippies of the 60s in their 60s and beyond (2022)
    Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781009304047
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 277 pages)
    DDC: 305.5680973
    RVK:
    HD 370
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    CD 1000
    Keywords: Hippie ; Älterer Mensch ; Soziale Situation ; Hippies History ; Counterculture History ; Older people History ; Aging History ; USA
    Abstract: There is no group of individuals more iconic of 1960s counterculture than the hippies - the long-haired, colorfully dressed youth who rebelled against mainstream societal values, preached and practiced love and peace, and generally sought more meaningful and authentic lives. These 'flower children' are now over sixty and comprise a significant part of the older population in the United States. While some hippies rejoined mainstream American society as they grew older, others still maintain the hippie ideology and lifestyle. This book is the first to explore the aging experience of older hippies by examining aspects related to identity, generativity, daily activities, spirituality, community, end-of-life care, and wellbeing. Based on 40 in-depth interviews with lifelong, returning, and past residents of The Farm, an intentional community in Tennessee that was founded in 1971 and still exists today, insights into the subculture of aging hippies and their keys to wellbeing are shared.
    DOI: 10.1017/9781009304047
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009304047
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  • 2
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    Society on the edge : social science and public policy in the postwar United States (2021)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108765961
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 403 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.0973
    RVK:
    NK 4600
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    MS 1235
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    NW 2708
    Keywords: Nachkriegszeit ; Soziale Schichtung ; Soziale Probleme ; USA
    Abstract: The social sciences underwent rapid development in postwar America. Problems once framed in social terms gradually became redefined as individual with regards to scope and remedy, with economics and psychology winning influence over the other social sciences. By the 1970s, both economics and psychology had spread their intellectual remits wide: psychology's concepts suffused everyday language, while economists entered a myriad of policy debates. Psychology and economics contributed to, and benefited from, a conception of society that was increasingly skeptical of social explanations and interventions. Sociology, in particular, lost intellectual and policy ground to its peers, even regarding 'social problems' that the discipline long considered its settled domain. The book's ten chapters explore this shift, each refracted through a single 'problem': the family, crime, urban concerns, education, discrimination, poverty, addiction, war, and mental health, examining the effects an increasingly individualized lens has had on the way we see these problems.
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    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108765961
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    Who gets what? : the new politics of insecurity (2021)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108879170
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 332 pages)
    Series Statement: SSRC anxieties of democracy
    DDC: 339.20973
    RVK:
    MS 1300
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    MS 1170
    Keywords: Demokratie ; Sozialer Wandel ; Unsicherheit ; Income distribution 21st century ; Political culture 21st century ; Polarization (Social sciences) 21st century ; Equality 21st century ; USA
    Abstract: The authors of this timely book, Who Gets What?, harness the expertise from across the social sciences to show how skyrocketing inequality and social dislocation are fracturing the stable political identities and alliances of the postwar era across advanced democracies. Drawing on extensive evidence from the United States and Europe, with a focus especially on the United States, the authors examine how economics and politics are closely entwined. Chapters demonstrate how the new divisions that separate people and places-and fragment political parties-hinder a fairer distribution of resources and opportunities. They show how employment, education, sex and gender, and race and ethnicity affect the way people experience and interpret inequality and economic anxieties. Populist politics have addressed these emerging insecurities by deepening social and political divisions, rather than promoting broad and inclusive policies.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Aug 2021)
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    Anarchists of the Caribbean : countercultural politics and transnational networks in the age of US expansion (2020)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108773706
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 318 pages)
    Series Statement: Global and international history
    DDC: 335/.830972909034
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    LB 49640
    Keywords: Geschichte 1890- ; Anarchismus ; Karibik ; USA
    Abstract: Anarchists who supported the Cuban War for Independence in the 1890s launched a transnational network linking radical leftists from their revolutionary hub in Havana, Cuba to South Florida, Puerto Rico, Panama, the Panama Canal Zone, and beyond. Over three decades, anarchists migrated around the Caribbean and back and forth to the US, printed fiction and poetry promoting their projects, transferred money and information across political borders for a variety of causes, and attacked (verbally and physically) the expansion of US imperialism in the 'American Mediterranean'. In response, US security officials forged their own transnational anti-anarchist campaigns with officials across the Caribbean. In this sweeping new history, Kirwin R. Shaffer brings together research in anarchist politics, transnational networks, radical journalism and migration studies to illustrate how men and women throughout the Caribbean basin and beyond sought to shape a counter-globalization initiative to challenge the emergence of modern capitalism and US foreign policy whilst rejecting nationalist projects and Marxist state socialism.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Apr 2020)
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    Black political thought from David Walker to the present (2020)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108185875
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 359 pages)
    DDC: 305.896/073
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    MC 6000
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    LB 49610
    Keywords: Walker, David ; Afroamerikanismus ; Politisches Denken ; USA
    Abstract: In Black Political Thought: From David Walker to the Present, Sherrow O. Pinder has brought together the writings and discourses central to black political thought and African American politics, compiling a unique anthology of speeches and articles from over 150 years of African American history. Providing in-depth examinations and critical analyses of topics such as slavery, reconstruction, race and racism, black nationalism and black feminism - from a range of perspectives - students are equipped with a comprehensive and informative account of how these issues have fundamentally shaped and continue to shape black political thinking. Each of the six thematic parts is framed by an introduction written by black scholars working in the field, and a list of further readings. Individual chapters are then enhanced by end-of-chapter questions and author biographies. Written for the interdisciplinary field of black studies, and other social science and humanities disciplines, this textbook offers a unique resource for political scientists, sociologists, historians, feminists, and the general reader of black political thought.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2019)
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    City songs and American life, 1900-1950 (2019)
    Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781787444638
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 303 pages)
    DDC: 782.421640973/091732
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    LS 48050
    Keywords: Geistesgeschichte 1900-1950 ; Unterhaltungsmusik ; Song ; Stadt ; USA
    Abstract: An insightful look at the urban sensibility that gives the Great American Songbook its pizzazz. Nothing defines the songs of the great American songbook more richly and persuasively than their urban sensibility. During the first half of the twentieth century, songwriter such as Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields, George and Ira Gershwin, and Thomas 'Fats' Waller flourished in New York City, the home of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Harlem. Many of these remarkably deft and forceful creators were native New Yorkers. Others got to Gotham as fast as they could. Either way, it was as if, from their vantage point on the West Side of Manhattan, these artists were describing America--not its geography of politics, but its heart--to Americans and to the world at large. In City songs and American life, 1900-1950, renowned author and broadcaster Michael Lasser offers an evocative and probing account of the popular songs--including some written originally for the stage or screen--that America heard, and sang, and danced to during the turbulent first half of the twentieth century. Lasser demonstrates how the spirit of the teeming city pervaded these wildly diverse songs. Often that spirit took form overtly in songs that portrayed the glamor of Broadway of the energy and jazz age culture of Harlem. But a city-bred spirit--or even a specifically New York City way of feeling and talking--also infused many other widely known and loved songs, stretching from the early decades of the century to the twenties (the age of the flapper, bathtub gin, and women's right to vote), the Great Depression, and, finally, World War II. Throughout this remarkable book, Lasser emphasizes how the soul of city life, as echoes in the nation's songs, developed and changed in tandem with economic, social, and political currents in America as a whole.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Aug 2019)
    URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781787444638/type/BOOK
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    Segregation by design : local politics and inequality in American cities (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108555722
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 262 pages)
    DDC: 363.5/10973
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    LB 72610
    Keywords: Rassendiskriminierung ; Segregation ; Wirtschaftssoziologie ; USA
    Abstract: Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation. Starting in the early twentieth century, cities have used their power of land use control to determine the location and availability of housing, amenities (such as parks), and negative land uses (such as garbage dumps). The result has been segregation - first within cities and more recently between them. Documenting changing patterns of segregation and their political mechanisms, Trounstine argues that city governments have pursued these policies to enhance the wealth and resources of white property owners at the expense of people of color and the poor. Contrary to leading theories of urban politics, local democracy has not functioned to represent all residents. The result is unequal access to fundamental local services - from schools, to safe neighborhoods, to clean water.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Nov 2018)
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108555722
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    Language and television series : a linguistic approach to TV dialogue (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108559553
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: The Cambridge applied linguistics series
    DDC: 808.2/25014
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    AP 37560
    Keywords: Fernsehserie ; Amerikanisches Englisch ; Dialog ; Diskursanalyse ; Konversationsanalyse ; Sprachstil ; USA
    Abstract: This book offers a comprehensive linguistic analysis of contemporary US television series. Adopting an interdisciplinary and multimethodological approach, Monika Bednarek brings together linguistic analysis of the Sydney Corpus of Television Dialogue with analysis of scriptwriting manuals, interviews with Hollywood scriptwriters, and a survey undertaken with university students about their consumption of TV series. In so doing, she presents five new and original empirical studies. The focus on language use in a professional context (the television industry), on scriptwriting pedagogy, and on learning and teaching provides an applied linguistic lens on TV series. This is complemented by perspectives taken from media linguistics, corpus linguistics and sociocultural linguistics/sociolinguistics. Throughout the book, multiple dialogue extracts are presented from a wide variety of well-known fictional television series, including The Big Bang Theory, Grey's Anatomy and Bones. Researchers in applied linguistics, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics and media linguistics will find the book both stimulating and unique in its approach.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Sep 2018)
    DOI: 10.1017/9781108559553
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108559553
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    Solidarity in practice : moral protest and the US security state (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108596237
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 210 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in contentious politics
    DDC: 303.48/40973
    RVK:
    MR 5600
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    MS 1235
    Keywords: Solidarität ; Soziales Engagement ; Politisches Handeln ; Protestbewegung ; USA
    Abstract: Cross-border solidarity has captured the interest and imagination of scholars, activists and a range of political actors in such contested areas as the US-Mexico border and Guantanamo Bay. Chandra Russo examines how justice-seeking solidarity drives activist communities contesting US torture, militarism and immigration policies. Through compelling and fresh ethnographic accounts, Russo follows these activists as they engage in unusual and high risk forms of activism (fasting, pilgrimage, civil disobedience). She explores their ideas of solidarity and witnessing, which are central to how the activists explain their activities. This book adds to our understanding of solidarity activism under new global arrangements, and illuminates the features of movement activity that deepen activists' commitment by helping their lives feel more humane, just and meaningful. Based on participant observation, interviews, surveys and hundreds of courtroom statements, Russo develops a new theorization of solidarity that will take a central place in social movement studies.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Nov 2018)
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    The weeping time : memory and the largest slave auction in American history (2017)
    New York : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108140393
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 197 pages)
    DDC: 306.3/6209758
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    NW 8295
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    NW 2708
    Keywords: Geschichte 1859 ; Sklaverei ; Sklavenhandel ; Schwarze ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Georgia ; USA
    Abstract: In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their sale. Immersing herself in the personal papers of the Butlers, accounts from journalists that witnessed the auction, genealogical records, and oral histories, Anne C. Bailey weaves together a narrative that brings the auction to life. Demonstrating the resilience of African American families, she includes interviews from the living descendants of slaves sold on the auction block, showing how the memories of slavery have shaped people's lives today. Using the auction as the focal point, The Weeping Time is a compelling and nuanced narrative of one of the most pivotal eras in American history, and how its legacy persists today.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Oct 2017)
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    To swear like a sailor : maritime culture in America, 1750-1850 (2016)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139049283
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 390 pages)
    DDC: 387.50973/09033
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    LC 62610
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    MY 5250
    Keywords: Geschichte 1750-1850 ; Seemann ; Sprachgebrauch ; USA
    Abstract: Anyone could swear like a sailor! Within the larger culture, sailors had pride of place in swearing. But how they swore and the reasons for their bad language were not strictly wedded to maritime things. Instead, sailor swearing, indeed all swearing in this period, was connected to larger developments. This book traces the interaction between the maritime and mainstream world in the United States while examining cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, images, and material goods. To Swear Like a Sailor offers insight into the character of Jack Tar - the common seaman - and into the early republic. It illuminates the cultural connections between Great Britain and the United States and the appearance of a distinct American national identity. The book explores the emergence of sentimental notions about the common man - through the guise of the sailor - appearing on stage, in song, in literature, and in images.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2016)
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139049283
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    Indigenous intellectuals : sovereignty, citizenship, and the American imagination, 1880-1930 (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107709386
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 363 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in North American Indian history
    DDC: 970.004/97
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    LB 48610
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    NK 5270
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1880-1930 ; Indianer ; Intellektueller ; Ethnische Identität ; Weiße ; Kultur ; USA
    Abstract: In the United States of America today, debates among, between, and within Indian nations continue to focus on how to determine and define the boundaries of Indian ethnic identity and tribal citizenship. From the 1880s and into the 1930s, many Native people participated in similar debates as they confronted white cultural expectations regarding what it meant to be an Indian in modern American society. Using close readings of texts, images, and public performances, this book examines the literary output of four influential American Indian intellectuals who challenged long-held conceptions of Indian identity at the turn of the twentieth century. Kiara M. Vigil traces how the narrative discourses created by these figures spurred wider discussions about citizenship, race, and modernity in the United States. Vigil demonstrates how these figures deployed aspects of Native American cultural practice to authenticate their status both as indigenous peoples and as citizens of the United States.
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    Welfare for the wealthy : parties, social spending, and inequality in the United States (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781316181607
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 251 pages)
    DDC: 306.0973
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    MF 9200
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    MS 6500
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    MS 1235
    Keywords: Sozialpolitik ; Wohlfahrtsstaat ; Einkommensverteilung ; Gleichheit ; USA
    Abstract: How does political party control determine changes to social policy, and by extension, influence inequality in America? Conventional theories show that Democratic control of the federal government produces more social expenditures and less inequality. Welfare for the Wealthy re-examines this relationship by evaluating how political party power results in changes to both public social spending and subsidies for private welfare - and how a trade-off between the two, in turn, affects income inequality. Christopher Faricy finds that both Democrats and Republicans have increased social spending over the last forty-two years. And while both political parties increase federal social spending, Democrats and Republicans differ in how they spend federal money, which socioeconomic groups benefit, and the resulting consequences for income inequality.
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    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316181607
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    How social movements die : repression and demobilization of the Republic of New Africa (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139649728
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 346 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in contentious politics
    DDC: 323.1196/0730904
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    HD 370
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    MG 70290
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    Keywords: Schwarze ; Protestbewegung ; USA
    Abstract: How do social movements die? Some explanations highlight internal factors like factionalization, whereas others stress external factors like repression. Christian Davenport offers an alternative explanation where both factors interact. Drawing on organizational, as well as individual-level, explanations, Davenport argues that social movement death is the outgrowth of a coevolutionary dynamic whereby challengers, influenced by their understanding of what states will do to oppose them, attempt to recruit, motivate, calm, and prepare constituents while governments attempt to hinder all of these processes at the same time. Davenport employs a previously unavailable database that contains information on a black nationalist/secessionist organization, the Republic of New Africa, and the activities of authorities in the US city of Detroit and state and federal authorities.
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    America's battle for media democracy : the triumph of corporate libertarianism and the future of media reform (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139814799
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 247 pages)
    Series Statement: Communication, society and politics
    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1940-1960 ; Massenmedien ; Medienpolitik ; USA
    Abstract: How did the American media system become what it is today? Why do American media have so few public interest regulations compared with other democratic nations? How did the system become dominated by a few corporations, and why are structural problems like market failures routinely avoided in media policy discourse? By tracing the answers to many of these questions back to media policy battles in the 1940s, this book explains how this happened and why it matters today. Drawing from extensive archival research, the book uncovers the American media system's historical roots and normative foundations. It charts the rise and fall of a forgotten media reform movement to recover alternatives and paths not taken. As much about the present and future as it is about the past, the book proposes policies for remaking media based on democratic values for the digital age.
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    I freed myself : African American self-emancipation in the Civil War era (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139061148
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 266 pages)
    DDC: 973.7/415
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1861-1865 ; Sklaverei ; Befreiung ; Schwarze ; Emanzipation ; USA
    Abstract: For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of African American freedom in the Civil War era. However, David Williams suggests that this portrayal marginalizes the role that African American slaves played in freeing themselves. At the Civil War's outset, Lincoln made clear his intent was to save the Union rather than free slaves - despite his personal distaste for slavery, he claimed no authority to interfere with the institution. By the second year of the war, though, when the Union army was in desperate need of black support, former slaves who escaped to Union lines struck a bargain: they would fight for the Union only if they were granted their freedom. Williams importantly demonstrates that freedom was not simply the absence of slavery but rather a dynamic process enacted by self-emancipated African American refugees, which compelled Lincoln to modify his war aims and place black freedom at the center of his wartime policies.
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    Viewing America : twenty-first century television drama (2013)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107358270
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 501 pages)
    DDC: 791.450973
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    AP 33283
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    AP 39383
    Keywords: Fernsehserie ; USA
    Abstract: Something has happened in the world of television drama. For the last decade and a half America has assumed a dominant position. Novelists, screenwriters and journalists, who would once have had no interest in writing for television, indeed who often despised it, suddenly realised that it was where America could have a dialogue with itself. The new television drama was where writers could engage with the social and political realities of the time, interrogating the myths and values of a society moving into a new century. Familiar genres have been reinvented, from crime fiction to science fiction. This is a book as much about a changing America as about the television series which have addressed it, from The Sopranos and The Wire to The West Wing, Mad Men and Treme, in what has emerged as the second golden age of American television drama.
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    The transatlantic century : Europe and America, 1890-2010 (2012)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139016872
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 392 pages)
    Series Statement: New approaches to European history 46
    DDC: 909/.09821082
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    NK 7050
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1890-2010 ; Europa ; USA
    Abstract: This is a fascinating new overview of European-American relations during the long twentieth century. Ranging from economics, culture and consumption to war, politics and diplomacy, Mary Nolan charts the rise of American influence in Eastern and Western Europe, its mid-twentieth century triumph and its gradual erosion since the 1970s. She reconstructs the circuits of exchange along which ideas, commodities, economic models, cultural products and people moved across the Atlantic, capturing the differing versions of modernity that emerged on both sides of the Atlantic and examining how these alternately produced co-operation, conflict and ambivalence toward the other. Attributing the rise and demise of American influence in Europe not only to economics but equally to wars, the book locates the roots of many transatlantic disagreements in very different experiences and memories of war. This is an unprecedented account of the American Century in Europe that recovers its full richness and complexity.
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    Faith and money : how religion contributes to wealth and poverty (2011)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139028547
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 248 pages)
    DDC: 201/.73
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    Keywords: Wohlstand ; Verteilung ; Religion ; USA
    Abstract: For those who own it, wealth can have extraordinary advantages. High levels of wealth can enhance educational attainment, create occupational opportunities, generate social influence and provide a buffer against financial emergencies. Even a small amount of savings can improve security, mitigate the effects of job loss and other financial setbacks and improve well-being dramatically. Although the benefits of wealth are significant, they are not enjoyed uniformly throughout the United States. In the United States, because religion is an important part of cultural orientation, religious beliefs should affect material well-being. This book explores the way religious orientations and beliefs affect Americans' incomes, savings and net worth.
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    After broadcast news : media regimes, democracy, and the new information environment (2011)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511846366
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 361 pages)
    Series Statement: Communication, society and politics
    DDC: 071/.3
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    Keywords: Massenmedien ; Nachrichtensendung ; Neue Medien ; Politische Berichterstattung ; Politische Kommunikation ; USA
    Abstract: The new media environment has challenged the role of professional journalists as the primary source of politically relevant information. After Broadcast News puts this challenge into historical context, arguing that it is the latest of several critical moments, driven by economic, political, cultural and technological changes, in which the relationship among citizens, political elites and the media has been contested. Out of these past moments, distinct 'media regimes' eventually emerged, each with its own seemingly natural rules and norms, and each the result of political struggle with clear winners and losers. The media regime in place for the latter half of the twentieth century has been dismantled, but a new regime has yet to emerge. Assuring this regime is a democratic one requires serious consideration of what was most beneficial and most problematic about past regimes and what is potentially most beneficial and most problematic about today's new information environment.
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    Identity before identity politics (2008)
    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0511508158 , 0511506406 , 9780511508158 , 9780511506406
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 192 pages)
    Edition: [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library 2011 Electronic reproduction
    Series Statement: Cambridge cultural social studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Nicholson, Linda J Identity before identity politics
    DDC: 305.48/896073
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    Keywords: Group identity History ; Identity politics History ; Women Identity ; History ; African Americans Race identity ; History ; Women's rights History ; Civil rights movements History ; African Americans ; Race identity ; Civil rights movements ; Group identity ; Identity politics ; Women ; Identity ; Women's rights ; Identität ; Rassische Identität ; Frauenbewegung ; Gruppenidentität ; Frau ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies ; History ; United States ; USA ; Schwarze
    Abstract: "In the late 1960s identity politics emerged on the political landscape and challenged prevailing ideas about social justice. These politics brought forth a new attention to social identity, an attention that continues to divide people today. While previous studies have focused on the political movements of this period, they have neglected the conceptual prehistory of this political turn. Linda Nicholson's book situates this critical moment in its historical framework, analyzing the concepts and traditions of racial and gender identity that can be traced back to late eighteenth-century Europe and America. She examines how changing ideas about social identity over the last several centuries both helped and hindered successive social movements, and explores the consequences of this historical legacy for the women's and black movements of the 1960s. This study will be of particular interest to students and scholars of political history, identity politics and US history."--Jacket
    Abstract: The politics of identity : race and sex before the twentieth century -- Freud and the rise of the psychological self -- The culture concept and social identity -- Before black power : constructing an African American identity -- Women's identity/women's politics.
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    Age discrimination : an historical and contemporary analysis (2006)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511550560
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 308 pages)
    DDC: 331.3/98133
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    QX 400
    Keywords: Geschichte 1920-2005 ; Alter ; Diskriminierung ; USA ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Age discrimination is a highly topical issue in all industrialised societies, against a background of concerns about shortening working lives and ageing populations in the future. Based upon detailed research, and adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this unique study traces the history of the age discrimination debate in Britain and the USA since the 1930s. It critically analyses the concepts of ageism in social relations and age discrimination in employment. Case-studies on generational equity and health care rationing by age are followed by an analysis of the British government's initiatives against age discrimination in employment. The book then traces the history of the debate on health status and old age, addressing the question of whether working capacity has improved sufficiently to justify calls to delay retirement and extend working lives. It concludes with a detailed examination of the origins and subsequent working of the USA's 1967 Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
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    The politics of sexual harassment : a comparative study of the United States, the European Union, and Germany (2006)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511489112
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 255 pages)
    DDC: 305.3
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    MS 2850
    Keywords: Europäische Union ; Sexuelle Belästigung ; USA ; Deutschland
    Abstract: Sexual harassment, in particular in the workplace, is a controversial topic which often makes headline news. What accounts for the cross-national variation in laws, employer policies, and implementation of policies dealing with sexual harassment in the workplace? Why was the United States on the forefront of policy and legal solutions, and how did this affect politicization of sexual harassment in the European Union and its member states? Exploring the way sexual harassment has become a global issue, Kathrin Zippel draws on theories of comparative feminist policy, gender and welfare state regimes, and social movements to explore the distinct paths that the United States, the European Union and its member states, specifically Germany, have embarked on to address the issue. This comparison provides invaluable insights on the role of transnational movements in combatting sexual harassment, and on future efforts to implement the European Union Directive of 2002.
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    A population history of the United States (2004)
    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0511185944 , 0511185111 , 0511616635 , 9780511185946 , 9780511185113 , 9780511616631
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 300 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Klein, Herbert S Population history of the United States
    DDC: 304.6/0973
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Demography ; Population ; Bevolkingsontwikkeling ; Bevolkingsopbouw ; Demographie ; Bevölkerung ; History ; United States Population ; History ; United States ; USA
    Abstract: Graphs, maps, and tables --Introduction --1.Paleo-Indians, Europeans, and the settlement of America --2.Colonization and settlement of North America --3.The early Republic to 1860 --4.The creation of an industrial and urban society, 1860-1914 --5.The evolution of a modern population, 1914-1945 --6.The baby boom and changing family values, 1945-1980 --7.A modern industrial society, 1980-2003 --Appendix tables, graphs, and maps --Bibliography --Index.
    Abstract: This is the first full-scale one-volume survey of the demographic history of the United States. From the arrival of humans in the Western Hemisphere to the current century, Klein analyzes the basic demographic trends in the growth of the pre-conquest, colonial and national populations. He surveys the origin and distribution of the Native Americans, the post-conquest free and servile European and African colonial populations and the variation in regional patterns of fertility and mortality to 1800. He then explores trends in births, deaths, international and internal migrations in the nineteenth century and compares them with contemporary European developments. The profound impact of historic declines in disease and mortality on the structure of the late twentieth century population is explained. Finally the late twentieth century changes in family structure, fertility and mortality are evaluated for their influence on the evolution of the national population for the 21st century
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    The disappearance of the social in American social psychology (2004)
    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0511512163 , 0511185693 , 0511184867 , 9780511185694 , 9780511184864 , 9780511512162
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 315 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Greenwood, John D Disappearance of the social in American social psychology
    DDC: 302/.0973
    Keywords: Social psychology History ; Social psychology ; Social psychology ; Sozialpsychologie ; Sociale psychologie ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology ; History ; Electronic books ; United States ; USA
    Abstract: Introduction : what happened to the "social" in social psychology? -- The lost world -- Wundt and Völkerpsychologie -- Durkheim and social facts -- The social and the psychological -- Social psychology and the "social mind" -- Individualism and the social -- Crowds, publics, and experimental social psychology -- Crossroads -- Crisis -- The rediscovery of the social?
    Abstract: The Disappearance of the Social in American Social Psychology is a critical conceptual history of American social psychology. In this challenging work, John Greenwood demarcates the original conception of the social dimensions of cognition, emotion and behaviour and of the discipline of social psychology itself, that was embraced by early twentieth-century American social psychologists. He documents how this fertile conception of social psychological phenomena came to be progressively neglected as the century developed, to the point that scarcely any trace of the original conception of the so
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    The music of American folk song and selected other writings on American folk music (2001)
    Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781580466097
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (liv, 156 pages)
    Series Statement: Eastman studies in music
    DDC: 782.4216213
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    Keywords: Volksmusik ; Folk music History and criticism ; Musical notation ; Oral tradition ; Field recordings History ; USA
    Abstract: This is the first publication of an annotated monograph by the noted composer and folksong scholar Ruth Crawford Seeger. Originally written as a foreword for the 1940 book Our Singing Country, it was considered too long and was replaced by a much shorter version. According to her stepson, Pete Seeger, when the original was not included "Ruth suffered one of the biggest disappointments of the last ten years of her life. It just killed her . . . She was trying to analyze the whole style and problem of performing this music." Along with her children Mike and Peggy Seeger, he has long desired to see this work in print as it was meant to be read. The manuscript has been edited from several varying sources by Larry Polansky, with the assistance of Seeger's biographer Judith Tick. It is divided into two sections: I. "A Note on Transcription" and II. "Notes on the Songs and on Manners of Singing." Seeger examines all aspects of the relationship between singer, song, notation, the eventual performer, and the transcriber. In Section I, Seeger develops a complex and well-organized system of notation for these songs which is meant to be both descritive (transcription as cultural preservation) and prescriptive (she intended that others would be able to perform these songs). In Section II, she provides an interpretive theory for performance of this music, and suggests how performers might make the songs "their own" through a deep knowledge of the original styles. Ruth Crawford Seeger considered this work to be both a major accomplishment and a central statement of her own ideas on the topic. Larry Polansky is Associate Professor of Music at Dartmouth College, and a well-known composer and theorist on American music. Judith Tick is Professor of Music at Northeastern University and author of the first major biography of Ruth Crawford Seeger.
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    O.J. Simpson facts and fictions : news rituals in the construction of reality (1999)
    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0511035578 , 0511040040 , 0511148976 , 051148920X , 0521624568 , 0521624681 , 9780511035579 , 9780511040047 , 9780511148972 , 9780511489204 , 9780521624565 , 9780521624688
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 350 pages)
    DDC: 302.23/0973
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    Keywords: Simpson, O. J. / 1947- ; Simpson, O. J. / 1947- ; Simpson, Orenthal J. ; Simpson, O. J. Trials, litigation, etc ; Public opinion ; Simpson, Orenthal J. ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies ; Mass media and race relations ; Public opinion ; Race relations ; Television broadcasting of news / Social aspects ; Television viewers / Attitudes ; Trials / Public opinion ; Massamedia ; Invloed ; Publieke opinie ; Nieuws ; Rassenverhoudingen ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Prozess ; Massenmedien ; Gesellschaft ; Medien ; Television broadcasting of news Social aspects ; Public opinion ; Television viewers Attitudes ; Mass media and race relations ; Prozess ; Massenmedien ; Öffentliche Meinung ; USA ; Simpson, Orenthal J. 1947- ; Prozess ; Massenmedien ; Öffentliche Meinung
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-343) and index , Darnell M. Hunt goes beyond the obvious explanations of celebrity, scandal and voyeurism to ask why America was so obsessed with the O.J. case, why so many people were interested in particular outcomes, and to examine the implications for race relations in the United States as the new century dawns
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    The shape of culture : a study of contemporary cultural patterns in the United States (1989)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511570865
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 207 pages)
    Series Statement: The Arnold and Caroline Rose monograph series of the American Sociological Association
    DDC: 700/.1/030973
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Künste ; Kulturmuster ; USA
    Abstract: This book systematically examines prevailing cultural patterns in contemporary American society. Using information on several thousands of cultural organisations, including elite ones (such as opera and chamber music companies) and popular cultural ones (such as cinemas and live rock concerts), Professor Blau examines the geography of culture, the changing demands for culture, the interdependencies among cultural organisations of different kinds, the nature of labour markets for artists, and the effects of arts subsidies on nonprofit cultural establishments over a ten year period. One of the major conclusions of the book is that the social conditions that support elite and popular culture are increasingly similar over time.
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