Locating American Studies
Locating American Studies

Author: Lucy Maddox

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 9780801860560

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This collection of 17 esays first printed in "American Quarterly", the journal of the American Studies Association. To mark the Association's 50th anniversary in 1998, the editor has brought together works by a group of scholars which she believes provide a window into the history and evolution of the practice of American studies. Each essay, originally published between 1950 and 1996 is accompanied by a commentary in which a scholar from a related field provides critical information for understanding the continuing importance of the work to the American Studies field. Contributors include: Gene Wise; Henry Nash Smith; Barbara Welter; Alexander Saxton; and Kevin Mumford.

Jacksonian America
Jacksonian America

Author: Edward Pessen

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780252012372

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A perennial choice for courses on antebellum America, Jacksonian America continues to be a popular classroom text with scholars of the period, even among those who bridle at Pessen's iconoclastic views of Old Hickory and his "inegalitarian society."

History of Education: Debates in the history of education
History of Education: Debates in the history of education

Author: Roy Lowe

Publisher: Taylor & Francis US

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 9780415140478

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This major work brings together some of the most significant and influential writing on the history of education during the past thirty years. It illustrates key themes and their relevance for our understanding of the development of schooling.

America
America

Author: Mary S. Sheridan

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780819187758

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This book is an anthology of readings, intended for introductory American studies classes. The readings cover the following eras in American history; the Colonial period, the Revolution, the expansion of democracy (early 19th Century), the Civil War (with a range of materials on slavery), expansion into the frontier, the early 20th Century, and the mid-20th Century to the present. Each of these eras is subdivided into themes: land, government, people, non-mainstream perceptions, and international issues of perceptions. America presents a range of influential thinkers, thoughts, and issues in American life.

Analysis and Assessment, 1940-1979
Analysis and Assessment, 1940-1979

Author: Cary D. Wintz

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 9780815322177

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Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects of the play: the love/friendship debate.