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Lawrence R. Samuel
Charts the historical development of Queens from the 1920s to today, focusing on its profound diversity.
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Told chronologically and divided into ten decades, The American Private School sheds new light on the important role that the K-12 private school has played in America over the last…
How America's greatest marketing triumph in World War II shaped race, ethnicity, and class in modern America
The World War II Bond Campaign is a history of the World War…
Told chronologically and divided into ten decades, The American Teacher sheds light on the important role that teachers have played in this country over the last one hundred years. It…
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Literacy in America shows that literacy has been used as a means of social control with authority figures dictating which reading material is acceptable and which is not. Literacy has…
Capitalizing on what is arguably the most important social phenomenon of our time and place-the aging of America-this book shows organizations how to market specifically to baby boomers in their…
This book is much more than an authoritative and compelling look at the cultural history of the supernatural over the last century in America-it also explains why we want to…
The American Way of Life is a cultural history of the American Way of Life (or more simply the American Way). The book argues that since the term was popularized…
Lawrence R Samuel
With more than one million people crammed into just over twenty-two square miles, Manhattan Island is a petri dish for the study of humanity. From murder and suicide to fatal…
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This book traces changes in what it means to be a dad in America, from the 1960s through today. Beginning with an overview of fatherhood in America from the founding…
Happiness in America: A Cultural History is a cultural history of happiness in the United States. The book charts the role of happiness in everyday life over the past century…
The American writer–both real and fictitious, famous and obscure–has traditionally been situated on the margins of society, an outsider looking in. Tracing the role of the writer in the United…
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DEATH, AMERICAN STYLE: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF DYING IN AMERICA is the first comprehensive cultural history to explore America’s uneasy relationship with death over the past century.
Widely considered the most complex of human emotions, romantic love both shapes and reflects core societal values, its expression offering a window into the cultural zeitgeist. Tracing the history of…
Sexidemic is the first real cultural history of sexuality in the United States since the end of World War II. For a people who supposedly love sex, the book argues…
Arriving on the scene at around the same time as the modern idea of the self, psychoanalysis has both shaped and reflected the ascent of individualism in American society. Samuel…
Freud on Madison Avenue tells the story of how and why mid-twentieth-century advertisers adopted Freudian psychology to sell products. This study follows the careers of Paul Lazarsfeld, Herta Herzog, James…
The first book to explore how visionaries over the last century imagined the world of tomorrow.
Diversity in the United States: A Cultural History of the Past Century is a cultural history of diversity in the United States over the past one hundred years.
Age Friendly: Ending Ageism in America is a rallying call to make the United States a more equitable and just nation in terms of age. Age friendliness means being inclusive…
Five seminal events occurred in New York City in the pivotal year 1964. Through an exploration of these landmark events readers will have a better understanding of the social turbulence…
How television advertising rose to become a defining force in American culture.
Future Trends: A Guide to Decision Making and Leadership in Business links decision-making and leadership to trends pointing to the future. By identifying sixty global, long-term trends and detailing how…
American history is ubiquitous, underscoring everything from food to travel to architecture and design. It is also emotionally charged, frequently crossing paths with political and legal issues. In Remembering America…
Aging in America traces the story of aging over the course of the last half century, demonstrating our culture’s negative attitudes toward a natural and inevitable human process and offering…
Discover the history of the development of Long Island and its intimate relationship with New York City.
Beginning in the Roaring Twenties, Wall Street money looked eastward to Nassau and…
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The middle class is often viewed as the heart of American society, the key to the country’s democracy and prosperity. Most Americans believe they belong to this group, and few…
New York’s original residential high-rise –Back cover.
This volume summarizes the advances in lunar science and exploration since 2006 when Vol. 60 "New Views of the Moon" was published. All its contributions present our knowledge and expectations…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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