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Dancing In The Dark : A Cultural History Of The Great Depression

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Morris Dickstein
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Book, 1st ed, W.W. Norton, 2009
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Popular culture · United States · History · 20th century · Depressions · 1929 · Civilization · 1918-1945 · Intellectual life · Social life and customs · 1933-1945 · 1919-1933 · Dickstein, Morris
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BROWSING (MAIN) E806 .D57 2009 AVAILABLE

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BROWSING (MAIN)	E806 .D57 2009	AVAILABLE

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Wilderness And The American Mind

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Roderick Frazier Nash
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Book, 4th ed, Yale University Press, 2001
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The Los Angeles Times has listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine has included it in a survey of “books that changed our world”, and it has been called the “Book of Genesis for environmentalists”. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Nature · Social aspects · United States · Philosophy of nature · Effect of human beings on · Human ecology · History · Values · Frontier and pioneer life · Nature conservation · Environmental conditions · Civilization · Nash, Roderick
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(LOWER LEVEL) E169.1 .N374 2001 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E169.1 .N374 2001	AVAILABLE

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1969 : The Year Everything Changed

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Rob Kirkpatrick
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Book, Skyhorse Pub, 2009
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An original look at a pivotal year in America?on its fortieth anniversary. the Harvard student strike and armed standoff at Cornell, the People?s Park riots, the first artificial heart transplant and first computer network connection, the Manson family murders and cryptic Zodiac Killer letters, the Woodstock music festival, Easy Rider, Kurt Vonnegut?s Slaughterhouse-Five, the Battle of Hamburger Hill, the birth of punk music, the invasion of Led Zeppelin, the occupation of Alcatraz, death at Altamont Speedway, and much more. Compelling, timely, and quite simply a blast to read, 1969 chronicles the year through all its ups and downs, in culture and society, sports, music, film, politics, and technology. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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United States · History · 1961-1969 · Civilization · 1945- · Social life and customs · 1945-1970 · Social conditions · 1960-1980 · Kirkpatrick, Rob
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BROWSING (MAIN) E846 .K54 2009 DUE 11-30-09

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BROWSING (MAIN)	E846 .K54 2009	DUE 11-30-09

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History Teaches Us To Hope : Reflections On The Civil War And Southern History

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Charles P. Roland ; edited and with an introduction by John David Smith
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Book, University Press of Kentucky, 2007
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History Teaches Us to Hope: Reflections on the Civil War and Southern History is an unprecedented compilation of works by the man the volume editor John David Smith calls a ?dogged researcher, gifted stylist, and keen interpreter of historical questions.? Throughout his career, Roland has published groundbreaking books, including The Confederacy (1960), The Improbable Era: The South since World War II (1976), and An American Iliad: The Story of the Civil War (1991). Civil War?related writings appear in the following two sections, which include Roland?s theories on the true causes of the war and four previously unpublished articles on Civil War leadership. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Roland, Charles Pierce, · 1918- · Secession · Southern States · Generals · Confederate States of America · Biography · Command of troops · Case studies · Historians · United States · History · Civil War, 1861-1865 · Historiography · Causes · Civilization · Roland, Charles Pierce, 1918- · Smith, John David, 1949-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E468.5 .R65 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E468.5 .R65 2007	AVAILABLE

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Etched In Stone : Enduring Words From Our Nation’s Monuments

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by Ryan Coonerty ; photographed by Carol M. Highsmith ; foreword by Douglas Brinkley
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Book, National Geographic, 2008
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National monuments · United States · Pictorial works · Memorials · Historic sites · Inscriptions · National characteristics, American · Quotations, maxims, etc · Values · Quotations, maxims, etc · Civilization · Coonerty, Ryan · Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E159 .C774 2008 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E159 .C774 2008	AVAILABLE

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The Lewis Mumford Reader

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edited by Donald L. Miller
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Book, 1st ed, Pantheon Books, 1986
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The great architectural critic, historian, and urban planner Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) was no uncritical fan of city life, although most of his own days were spent in and around New York. Writing in The New Yorker and other journals, he praised the better aspects of the metropolis–the stunning beauty, for instance, of the Brooklyn Bridge–arguing always that technology ought to serve one overarching end, namely “the continued growth of human personalities and the cultivation of the best life possible.” (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Civilization · Cities and towns · History · Architecture · Technology and civilization · United States · Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990 · Miller, Donald L., 1944-
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(LOWER LEVEL) CB151 .M83 1986 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	CB151 .M83 1986	AVAILABLE

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The New Negro : Readings On Race, Representation, And African American Culture, 1892-1938

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edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Gene Andrew Jarrett
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Book, Princeton University Press, 2007
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When African American intellectuals announced the birth of the “New Negro” around the turn of the twentieth century, they were attempting through a bold act of renaming to change the way blacks were depicted and perceived in America. Nothing less than a strategy to re-create the public face of “the race,” the New Negro became a dominant figure of racial uplift between Reconstruction and World War II, as well as a central idea of the Harlem, or New Negro, Renaissance. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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American literature · African American authors · History and criticism · African Americans · Intellectual life · African Americans in literature · United States · Civilization · African influences · 20th century · Gates, Henry Louis · Jarrett, Gene Andrew, 1975-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS153.N5 N49 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS153.N5 N49 2007	AVAILABLE

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Die At The Right Time! : A Subjective Cultural History Of The American Sixties

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Eric v.d. Luft
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Book, Gegensatz Press, 2008
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If it helps any present or future leftists, war resisters, or young visionaries to avoid past mistakes or to improve on past successes, then it will have achieved this purpose. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Youth · United States · Political activity · History · 20th century · Subculture · 20th century · Popular music · 1961-1970 · Vietnam War, 1961-1975 · Protest movements · Nineteen sixties · Radicalism · Social conditions · 1960-1980 · Social life and customs · 1945-1970 · Civilization · 1945- · 1961-1969 · Politics and government · 1963-1969 · Luft, Eric v.d. 1952-
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Japanamerica : How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded The U.S.

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Roland Kelts
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Book, 1st Palgrave Macmillan pbk ed, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
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Japanamerica is the first book that directly addresses the American experience with the Japanese pop culture craze–including anime from Hayao Miyazaki’s epics to the burgeoning world of hentai, or violent pornographic anime to Haruki Murakami’s fiction. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Popular culture · United States · Japanese influences · Japan · Civilization · 1970- · 1945- · Kelts, Roland
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(LOWER LEVEL) E169.12 .K46 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E169.12 .K46 2007	AVAILABLE

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The Pilgrim And The Bee : Reading Rituals And Book Culture In Early New England

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Matthew P. Brown
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Book, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007
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Understanding Puritanism as a style of piety predicated on access to texts, he describes a canon of texts (devotional “steady sellers”) that, with the Bible, served as conduct literature for pious readers. To Brown, seventeenth-century devotional readers are both pilgrims, treating texts as continuous narratives of redemptive journeying, and bees, treating texts as flowers or hives, as spatial objects where information is extracted and deposited discontinuously. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Books and reading · New England · History · 17th century · 18th century · Literature and society · Puritans · Massachusetts · United States · Civilization · To 1783 · Brown, Matthew Pentland
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(UPPER LEVEL) Z1003.3.N4 B76 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	Z1003.3.N4 B76 2007	AVAILABLE

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Distracted : The Erosion Of Attention And The Coming Dark Age

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Maggie Jackson ; foreword by Bill McKibben
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Book, Prometheus Books, 2008
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In her sweeping quest to unravel the nature of attention and detail its erosion, she introduces us to scientists, cartographers, marketers, educators, wired teens, virtual lovers from the telegraph age, and roboticists building smart machines to comfort and care for us. Jackson makes it clear that if we continue down this road of scattered attention spans and widespread societal ADD, we will be in danger of squandering and devaluing the essence of humanity, and our technological age could ultimately slip into cultural decline. It’s simultaneously an original expos (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Distraction (Psychology) · United States · Attention · Social aspects · Technology · Social change · Social psychology · Civilization · 1970- · Social conditions · 1980- · Social life and customs · 1971- · 21st century · Forecasting · Jackson, Maggie, 1960-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E169.12 .J26 2008 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E169.12 .J26 2008	AVAILABLE

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From Impressionism To Anime : Japan As Fantasy And Fan Cult In The Mind Of The West

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Susan J. Napier
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Book, 1st ed, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
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Is the American attraction to anime similar to the popularity of previous fads of Japanese culture, like the Japonisants of fin-de-siecle France enamored of Japanese art and architecture, or the American poets in the fifties and sixties who latched onto haiku? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Animated films · Japan · Europe · Civilization · Japanese influences · United States · Napier, Susan Jolliffe
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(UPPER LEVEL) NC1766.J3 N38 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	NC1766.J3 N38 2007	AVAILABLE

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A Time Of Paradox. America From The Cold War To The Third Millennium, 1945-present

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Glen Jeansonne with David Luhrssen
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Book, Rowman & Littlefield Pub, 2007
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United States · History · 1945- · Biography · Civilization · 20th century · Jeansonne, Glen, 1946- · Luhrssen, David
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(LOWER LEVEL) E741 .J43 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E741 .J43 2007	AVAILABLE

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Encyclopedia Of Latino Popular Culture

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Cordelia Chávez Candelaria, executive editor … [et al.]
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Book, Greenwood Press, 2004
Description
U.S. culture has been profoundly impacted by contributions from Mexico and the rest of Central America, South America, and the Spanish Caribbean. These contributions and their adaptations in the United States are showcased in nearly 500 essay entries on noted people, festivities, items, terms, movements, sports, food, events, places, visual and performing arts, film, institutions, fashion, literature, organizations, the media, and much more. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Hispanic Americans · Social life and customs · Encyclopedias · Intellectual life · Hispanic Americans and mass media · Hispanic American arts · Popular culture · United States · Civilization · Hispanic influences · Ethnic relations · Candelaria, Cordelia
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REFERENCE (MAIN) E184.S75 E59 2004 v.1 AVAILABLE
REFERENCE (MAIN) E184.S75 E59 2004 v.2 AVAILABLE

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REFERENCE (MAIN)	E184.S75 E59 2004 v.1	AVAILABLE
REFERENCE (MAIN)	E184.S75 E59 2004 v.2	AVAILABLE

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Cracking Up : American Humor In A Time Of Conflict

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Paul Lewis
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Book, University of Chicago Press, 2006
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Exploring topics that range from the sadistic mockery of Abu Ghraib prison guards to New Age platitudes about the healing power of laughter, from jokes used to ridicule the possibility of global climate change to the heartwarming performances of hospital clowns, Lewis demonstrates that over the past thirty years American humor has become increasingly purposeful and embattled. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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American wit and humor · History and criticism · United States · Civilization · 1970- · Lewis, Paul, 1949-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS438 .L49 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS438 .L49 2006	AVAILABLE

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