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In this examination of stand-up comedy, Rebecca Krefting establishes a new genre of comedic production, 'charged humor,' and charts its pathways from production to consumption. Some jokes are tears in the fabric of our beliefsthey challenge myths about how fair and democratic our society is and the behaviors and practices we enact to maintain ......
In this examination of stand-up comedy, Rebecca Krefting establishes a new genre of comedic production, 'charged humor,' and charts its pathways from production to consumption. Some jokes are tears in the fabric of our beliefsthey challenge myths about how fair and democratic our society is and the behaviors and practices we enact to maintain ......
A ''thought-provoking and probing (book) which forces the reader to consider critically the lot of a large segment of our population today'' (Stephen C. Reingold).
Even as Americans keep moving ''all over the map'' in the late twentieth century, they cherish memories of the places they come from. But where do these places--these regions--come from? What makes them so real? In this groundbreaking book a distinguished group of historians explores the concept of region in America, traces changes the idea has ......
A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
On April 15, 1945, Brigadier H. L. Glyn Hughes entered Bergen-Belsen for the first time. Waiting for him were 10,000 unburied, putrefying corpses and 60,000 living prisoners, starving and sick. One month earlier, 15-year-old Rachel Genuth arrived at Bergen-Belsen; deported with her family from Sighet, Hungary, in May of 1944, Rachel had by then ......
As any American who has traveled abroad knows, the American home contains more, and more elaborate, plumbing than any other in the world. Indeed, Americans are renowned for their obsession with cleanliness. Although plumbing has occupied a central position in American life since the mid-nineteenth century, little scholarly attention has been paid ......
Russia's General Staff and the Fate of the Empire, 1898-1914
All the Tsar's Men examines how institutional reforms designed to prepare the Imperial Russian Army for the modern battlefield failed to prevent devastating defeats in both the 1905 RussoJapanese War and World War I. John W. Steinberg argues that the General Staff officers who devised new educational and doctrinal reforms had the experience, ......
In the years after World War I, Southern farm women found their world changing. A postwar plunge in farm prices stretched into a twenty-year agricultural depression and New Deal programs eventually transformed the economy. Many families left their land to make way for larger commercial farms. New industries and the intervention of big government ......
In the years after World War I, Southern farm women found their world changing. A postwar plunge in farm prices stretched into a twenty-year agricultural depression and New Deal programs eventually transformed the economy. Many families left their land to make way for larger commercial farms. New industries and the intervention of big government ......
