The Construction of Readers in the Twentieth Century
Molly Abel Travis unites reader theory with an analysis of historical conditions and various cultural contexts in this discussion of the reading and reception of twentieth-century literature in the United States. Travis moves beyond such provisional conclusions as "the text produces the reader" or "the reader produces the text" and considers the ......
Looking in turn at particular conflicts from the world wars to the Balkans, two veterans of the British Army trace the evolution of the role mass media has played in 20th-century military campaigns. They complain that the media now often seems to be setting the international agenda and usurping the
German and Jewish Confrontations with National Socialism and Other Crises
Our understandings of culture and of the catastrophe unleashed by National Socialism have always been regarded as interrelated. For all its brutality, Nazism always spoke in the name of the great German tradition, often using such high culture to justify atrocities committed. Were not such actions necessary for the defense of classical cultural ......
Describes the growth of the Southern Baptist Convention into the largest Protestant denomination in the US; its cultural shift toward fundamentalism and Republicanism and jettisoning of progressive theologians and moderate voices; the evolution of its political center from Harry Truman and Jimmy Ca
Poulton, an independent scholar and writer, contributes a rare analysis of the state-sponsored nationalism of the Kemalist period, its rivals, and its evolution to the present day. Beginning with a review of nationalism as a political ideology and its evolution in Turkey, he then investigates how K
In 1933 Americans did something they had never done before: they voted to repeal an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Eighteenth Amendment, which for 13 years had prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages, was nullified by the passage of another amendment, the Twenty-First. Many factors helped create this remarkable turn of ......
Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America
Redefining the way we think about unemployment in America today, this title offers devastating evidence that the major cause of high unemployment in the United States is the government itself.
Although Jewish communities have thrived in Iraq, Tunisia and Morocco, as well as in south-west Asia and North Africa, knowledge of these cultures is limited. This book presents an anthology of work describing the lives and culture of Jews in the Middle East in the 19th and 20th centuries.
