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    The Smoke of the Gods : A Social History of Tobacco (2006)
    Philadelphia : Temple University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781592134823
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (280 pages)
    DDC: 394.14
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Tabak ; Rauchen ; Gegenbewegung ; Tabakkonsum ; USA
    Abstract: "Fox News Watch" host Eric Burns, who chronicled the social history of alcohol in The Spirits of America turns to tobacco in The Smoke of the Gods. Ranging from ancient times to the present day, The Smoke of the Gods is a lively history of tobacco, especially in the United States. Although tobacco use is controversial in the U.S. today, Burns reminds us that this was not always the case. For centuries tobacco was generally thought to have medicinal and even spiritual value. Most of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were tobacco users or growers, or both. According to Burns, tobacco changed the very course of U.S. history, because its discovery caused the British to support Jamestown, its struggling New World colony. An entertaining and informative look at a subject that makes daily news headlines, The Smoke of the Gods is a history that is, well, quite addictive.
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    Spirits Of America : A Social History Of Alcohol (2004)
    Philadelphia : Temple University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781592137695
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (345 pages)
    DDC: 394.130973
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    MS 6410
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Alkoholkonsum ; USA
    Abstract: "Thousands of years ago, before Christ or Buddha or Muhammad...before the Roman Empire rose or the Colossus of Rhodes fell," Eric Burns writes, "people in Asia Minor were drinking beer." So begins an account as entertaining as it is extensive, of alcohol's journey through world-and, more important, American-history. In The Spirits of America, Burns relates that drinking was "the first national pastime," and shows how it shaped American politics and culture from the earliest colonial days. He details the transformation of alcohol from virtue to vice and back again, how it was thought of as both scourge and medicine. He tells us how "the great American thirst" developed over the centuries, and how reform movements and laws (some of which, Burn s says, were "comic masterpieces of the legislator's art") sprang up to combat it. Burns brings back to life such vivid characters as Carrie Nation and other crusaders against drink. He informs us that, in the final analysis, Prohibition, the culmination of the reformers' quest, had as much to do with politics and economics and geography as it did with spirituous beverage. Filled with the famous, the infamous, and the undeservedly anonymous, The Spirits of America is a masterpiece of the historian's art. It will stand as a classic chronicle-witty, perceptive, and comprehensive-of how this country was created by and continues to be shaped by its ever-changing relationship to the cocktail shaker and the keg.
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    Literacy in American Lives (2001)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780511153952
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 pages)
    DDC: 302.22440973
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    HD 206
    Keywords: Geschichte 1900 - 2000 ; Analphabetismus ; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit ; USA
    Abstract: This book addresses critical questions facing public education at the twenty-first century.
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    Literacy in American lives (2001)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0511013329 , 9780511013324 , 0511174241 , 9780511174247
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 247 pages)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Literacy in American lives
    DDC: 302.2244
    Keywords: Literacy History ; 20th century ; United States ; United States ; Literacy History 20th century ; Literacy History 20th century ; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit ; Analphabetismus ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Literacy ; Literacy ; History ; USA ; United States ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: Literacy, opportunity and economic change -- Literacy and illiteracy in documentary America -- Accumulating literacy: how four generations of one American family learned to write -- The power of it : sponsors of literacy in African American lives -- The sacred and the profane: reading vs. writing in popular memory -- The means of production: literacy and stratification at the 21st century.
    Abstract: Traces the changing conditions of literacy learning over the past century as they were felt in the lives of ordinary Americans born between 1895 and 1985. The book demonstrates what sharply rising standards for literacy have meant to successive generations of Americans and how--as students, workers, parents, and citizens--they have responded to rapid changes in the meaning and methods of literacy learning in their society. Drawing on more than 80 life histories of Americans from all walks of life, the book addresses critical questions facing public education at the start of the twenty-first century
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-247). - Description based on print version record
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    Literacy in American lives (2001)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511810237
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 258 pages)
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    DDC: 302.2/244
    RVK:
    HD 206
    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte ; Literacy / United States / History / 20th century ; Analphabetismus ; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit ; USA ; USA ; USA ; Analphabetismus ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; USA ; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit ; Geschichte 1900-2000
    Abstract: This book traces the changing conditions of literacy learning over the past century as they were felt in the lives of Americans born between 1895 and 1985. The book demonstrates what sharply rising standards for literacy have meant to successive generations of Americans and how they have responded to rapid changes in the meaning and methods of literacy learning in their society. Drawing on more than 80 life histories of Americans from all walks of life, the book addresses critical questions facing public education at the twenty-first century: What role does economic change play in creating inequality in access and reward for literacy? What is the human impact of the economy's growing reliance on the literacy skills of workers? This book gets beyond the usual laments about the crisis in literacy to offer an often surprising look into the ways that literacy is lived in America
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511810237
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    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511810237
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