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    Philadelphia : Temple University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    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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    Philadelphia : Temple University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781592137695
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (345 pages)
    DDC: 394.130973
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    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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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511155826
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (314 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
    DDC: 305.896073
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    Keywords: Schwarze ; Sklaverei ; Identität ; USA
    Abstract: Ron Eyerman explores the formation of African American identity through the cultural trauma of slavery.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511488788
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 302 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge cultural social studies
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    DDC: 305.896/073
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    Keywords: Psychologie ; Schwarze. USA ; Sklaverei ; African Americans / Race identity ; Slavery / United States / Psychological aspects ; African Americans / Psychology ; Slaves / United States / Psychology ; Ethnische Identität ; Psychisches Trauma ; Sklaverei ; Schwarze ; USA ; USA ; USA ; Schwarze ; Sklaverei ; Psychisches Trauma ; USA ; Ethnische Identität ; Schwarze
    Abstract: In this book, Ron Eyerman explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as an institution or as personal experience, but as collective memory: a pervasive remembrance that grounded a people's sense of itself. Combining a broad narrative sweep with more detailed studies of important events and individuals, Eyerman reaches from Emancipation through the Harlem Renaissance, the Depression, the New Deal and the Second World War to the Civil Rights movement and beyond. He offers insights into the intellectual and generational conflicts of identity-formation which have a truly universal significance, as well as providing a compelling account of the birth of African-American identity. Anyone interested in questions of assimilation, multiculturalism and postcolonialism will find this book indispensable
    Description / Table of Contents: Cultural trauma and collective memory -- Re-membering and forgetting -- Out of Africa: the making of a collective identity -- The Harlem Renaissance and the heritage of slavery -- Memory and representation -- Civil rights and black nationalism: the post-war generation
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