Millennial Momentum
How a New Generation Is Remaking America
Argues that the new generation of youth, the Millennials, are transforming areas of American politics and culture, including education, entertainment, labor, and business, and explains how this shift will affect America's international relations.
Neurasthenic Nation
America's Search for Health, Happiness, and Comfort, 1869-1920
Neurasthenic Nation investigates how the concept of neurasthenia, the ill effects of modern civilization such as insomnia or impotence, helped doctors and patients, men and women, and advertisers and consumers negotiate changes commonly associated with “modernity.” Combining a survey of medical and popular literature on neurasthenia with original research into rare archives of personal letters, patient records, and corporate files, David Schuster charts the emergence of a “neurasthenic nation”—a place where people saw their personal health as inextricably tied to the pitfalls and possibilities of a changing world.
Film Festivals
Culture, People, and Power on the Global Screen
Tillie Olsen
One Woman, Many Riddles
In Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles, Panthea Reid examines the complex life of this iconic feminist hero and twentieth-century literary giant, hailed by many as the mother of modern feminism. Based on diaries, letters, manuscripts, private documents, resurrected public records, and ountless interviews, Reid’s artfully crafted biography untangles some of the puzzling knots of the last century’s triumphs and failures and speaks truth to legend, correcting fabrications and myths about and also by Tillie Olsen.
Flickers of Desire
Movie Stars of the 1910s
Today, we are so accustomed to consuming the amplified lives of film stars that the origins of the phenomenon may seem inevitable in retrospect. But the conjunction of the terms "movie" and "star" was inconceivable prior to the 1910s. Flickers of Desire explores the emergence of this mass cultural phenomenon, asking how and why a cinema that did not even run screen credits developed so quickly into a venue in which performers became the American film industry's most lucrative mode of product individuation.
A Little Solitaire
John Frankenheimer and American Film
The Great Industrial War
Framing Class Conflict in the Media, 1865-1950
The Great Industrial War, a comprehensive assessment of how class has been interpreted by the media in American history, documents the rise and fall of a frightening concept: industrial war. Troy Rondinone examines how the mainstream press along with the writings of a select group of influential reformers and politicians framed strike news, explores the influence of historical experience on popular perceptions of social order and class conflict, and provides a reinterpretation of the origins and meaning of the Taft-Hartley Act and the industrial relations regime it supported.
City of Industry
Genealogies of Power in Southern California
City of Industry is a stunning exposé on the construction of corporate capitalist spaces. Investigating Industry's archives, including sealed FBI reports, Valle uncovered a series of scandals from the city's founder James M. Stafford to present day corporate heir Edward Roski Jr., the nation's biggest industrial developer. While exposing the corruption and corporate greed spawned from the growth of new technology and engineering, Valle reveals the plight of the property-owning servants, especially Latino working-class communities, who have fallen victim to the effects of this tale of corporate greed.
Children and Childhood in World Religions
Primary Sources and Texts
Through both the scholarly introductions and the primary sources, this comprehensive volume addresses a range of topics, from the sanctity of birth to a child’s relationship to evil, showing that issues regarding children are central to understanding world religions and raising significant questions about our own conceptions of children today.
Managing Ethnic Diversity after 9/11
Integration, Security, and Civil Liberties in Transatlantic Perspective
America’s approach to terrorism has focused on traditional national security methods under the assumption that terrorism’s roots are foreign and the solution to greater security lies in conventional military practices. Europe offers a different model, with its response to internal terrorism relying on police procedures. Managing Ethnic Diversity after 9/11 compares these strategies and considers that both may have engendered greater radicalization—and a greater chance of home-grown terrorism.
Hollywood's African American Films
The Transition to Sound
Patients as Policy Actors
Patients as Policy Actors
Making a Green Machine
The Infrastructure of Beverage Container Recycling
You Are the Brand
Empires of Entertainment
Media Industries and the Politics of Deregulation, 1980-1996
An Alternative History of Hyperactivity
Food Additives and the Feingold Diet
Me, Governor?
My Life in the Rough-and-Tumble World of New Jersey Politics
Maximum Movies—Pulp Fictions
Film Culture and the Worlds of Samuel Fuller, Mickey Spillane, and Jim Thompson
Gender and the Science of Difference
Cultural Politics of Contemporary Science and Medicine
The Internet of Elsewhere
The Emergent Effects of a Wired World
Brain Culture
Neuroscience and Popular Media
Muslims in Motion
Islam and National Identity in the Bangladeshi Diaspora
Muslims in Motion
Islam and National Identity in the Bangladeshi Diaspora
The Fear Within
Spies, Commies, and American Democracy on Trial
José Vasconcelos
The Prophet of Race
Disrupted Childhoods
Children of Women in Prison
Discretionary Justice
Looking Inside a Juvenile Drug Court
What Dreams Were Made Of
Movie Stars of the 1940s
We Cannot Forget
Interviews with Survivors of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
During a one-hundred-day period in 1994, Hutus murdered between half a million and a million Tutsi in Rwanda. The numbers are staggering; the methods of killing were unspeakable. Utilizing personal interviews with trauma survivors living in Rwandan cities, towns, and dusty villages, We Cannot Forget relates what happened during this period and what their lives were like both prior to and following the genocide.
Through powerful stories that are at once memorable, disturbing, and informative, readers gain a critical sense of the tensions and violence that preceded the genocide, how it erupted and was carried out, and what these people faced in the first sixteen years following the genocide.