American Studies

The Politics of Identity in Cuban-American Literature: An Interdisciplinary Study

Author: 

Barry, Muffett, PhD

Credentials: 

University of the West Indies

Through the prism of literary analysis and cultural studies, The Politics of Identity in Cuban-American Literature is an original examination of the Cuban-American community’s diasporic and identitive genealogy from the perspective of their Cuban and American nationalisms.

Market: 
Cultural Studies, World Literature, American Studies, Latin American Studies, Cuban Studies, Transnational Studies, Literary Theory, Identity Studies, Cuban Identity, Immigration, Cold War Studies, Fidel Castro
Release Date: 
August 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530407
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
309
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
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A City Haphazard: Jewish Musicians in Los Angeles, 1887-1927

Author: 

Friedmann, Jonathan L.

Credentials: 

Professor, Academy for Jewish Religion, California

A City Haphazard covers a crucial but overlooked period of music history and Jewish life in Los Angeles through five case studies of nearly forgotten musicians. The shaky period between 1887 and 1927 had its share of ups and downs, successes and failures, milestones and growing pains. In their own ways, large and small, Leopold M.

Market: 
Jewish Studies, Jewish History, American Studies, American History, Music, Music History, Cultural Studies, Performing Arts, Cinema, California Studies, Hollywood, Leopold Loeb, Walter Henry Rothwell, Immigration Studies, Los Angeles, Southern California, Civil Society
Release Date: 
July 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530360
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
128
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
academicapress.editorial@gmail.com

Human Trafficking as a Brand Within the Framework of Human Rights: Case Studies in the United States

Author: 

Mai, Tam

Book Cover

Release Date: 
April 15, 2017
ISBN: 
978-1680530254
Price: 
$79.95
Pages: 
364
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

American Treasures: Building, Leveraging, and Sustaining Capacity in Historically Black College and Universities

Author: 

Shults, Christopher and Stevenson, Joseph Martin

Credentials: 

Ph.D., Shults, Office of Planning and Institutional Effectiveness SCCC, Stevenson Chief Academic Officer CSPP formerly provost MVSU

This work uses current research data and interviews to present a cogent discussion of strategies and tactics needed to keep the HBCU community a healthy vital component of American educational life. The threats and problems of intuitional life are not glossed over rather they are discussed within the parameters of successful planning and implementation.

Market: 
Higher Education, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Afro-American Studies, Higher Education in America (History), Educational Policy, Tertiary Education—Planning and Development, U.S. Department of Education, minority education, Educational administration
Release Date: 
May 1 2015
ISBN: 
978-1-68053-006-3
Price: 
Cloth: $64.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
182
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Arms Makers of Massachusetts, 1610 - 1900

Author: 

Whisker, James B. and Spiker, Kevin

Credentials: 

Ph. Ds, History; Dr. Whisker is emeritus professor of history West Virginia University, Dr Spiker is a professor of history at Ohio University

This study is a major reference work dealing in a thorough and complete fashion with every known gunsmith, inventor and manufacturer of firearms in Massachusetts from the earliest colonial smith to the industrial entities that flourished in Massachusetts and New England by the 1900s. Original sources including but not limited to ,town,county and local histories, Commonwealth and National Archives, directories, memoirs, U.S.Patent office materials and military procurement memoranda have been utilized to create a complete biographical record.

Market: 
REFERENCE, New England history 1610 – 1900, arms and arms makers, Industrial development in New England, Massachusetts Industrial, Cultural and Social history ,American weaponry
Release Date: 
February 5th, 2013
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-56-1
Price: 
$124.00
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
294
Illustrations: 
Yes - B/W photographs/graphs
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

From the Way to Wealth to the Gospel of Wealth: The Transformation of the Concept of Success in American Literature from Benjamin Franklin to Theodore Dreiser

Author: 

Koseman, Zennure

Credentials: 

Professor of English, Department of Western Languages and Literatures, Inonu University, Ph.D, Hacettepe University, American Culture and Literature

This research monograph based on an extensive and original investigation of American literary sources and literary history and it discusses the extraordinary change that occurred in American literature and life based due to the shifting definition and framework of the concept of success from Franklin's ethically framed view of the citizen as a progressive member of an evolving exciting late colonial-early republican society through the redefinition of success and wealth into merciless individualism , mon

Market: 
American literature 1770 - 1918, the concept of Success in American Literature, Ethics and Marginalization, The Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, Horatio Alger and the concept of luck and pluck, H.L.Mencken and literary criticism, Theodore Dreiser, The Civil War in American Literary Imagination and the Remaking of the South, Self Reliance and Moral Demise of fictional protagonists, Women and Wealth as means of social acceptance
Release Date: 
8/15/2012
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-52-3
Price: 
$64.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
174
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Latin American Studies: Critiques of Contemporary Cinema, Literatures, Politics and Revolution

Author: 

Gallagher, David

Credentials: 

Ph.D Royal Holloway College; Cambridge University; winner of the Farnworth Prize, Author of Comedy in Contemporary Literature, 2009

“...a well chosen and absolutely fascinating discussion of Latin American literary and cultural life today emphasizing the region's dialogue with the world as an equal and not as a magical realist , protean revolutionary, or Bolanian construct . Virtually all contributors are Latin American or Caribbean scholars with first class credentials. Recommended for library collections.”

Professor Helga Gates,UNE

Market: 
Latin American Studies, the role of the artist in contemporary Latin American poetry, prose and criticism, Translation, Politics and social criticism, American writers (Faulkner, William Carlos Williams, Waldo Frank etc), Columbia, Peru, Argentina, Cuba and Haiti in contemporary fiction, poetry, drama and film, revolution and homosexuality in Cuban literature.
Release Date: 
10/15/2011
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-20-2
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
358
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

American Historians in War and Peace: Patriotism, Diplomacy and the Paris Peace Conference, 1918-1919

Author: 

Nielson, Jonathan M.

Credentials: 

Ph.D, University of California, Santa Barbara; D/History University of Alaska

In this study of the American historians who accompanied President Woodrow Wilson to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 Professor Nielson focuses on a development unique in its time (and now taken for granted): for the first time a president used the expertise of professional scholars as the basis for far reaching decisions on the immediate issues of war and peace and European reconstruction as well as reconciliation.

Market: 
Historiography, American foreign policy 1917-1919, Woodrow Wilson, American war aims 1918-1919, World War One, Intellectual History, the Department of State foreign policy implementation, League of Nations, Propaganda, American diplomacy/diplomats 1918-1919
Release Date: 
11/05/2011
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-14-1 / 193632014-2
Price: 
$86.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
464
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Shaping A Nation: Twenty-Five Supreme Court Cases That Changed the United States

Author: 

Rose, Gary L.

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Chair and Senior Professor of Government and Politics, Sacred Heart University

For over 30 years Professor Rose has been researching,writing and interpreting the Supreme Court cases that have played a unique role in changing American law, politics and history. Each of the twenty-five cases selected for review is preceded by a treatment of the historical, political and economic context during which the case is decided. The “shaping”elements of each decision is discussed in situ with its time and place.

Market: 
Constitutional Law, American Political Institutions , Legal Theory, Supreme Court History, Appeal Process -Civil and Criminal
Release Date: 
3/2010
ISBN: 
Paperback: 978-1-933146-87-4 / 1933146-87-7
Price: 
$49.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
234
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Part-Time Exiles: Contemporary Irish Poets and Their American Migrations

Author: 

Tell, Carol

Credentials: 

Ph.D. University College, Dublin

Four months in America, six months in Ireland, two months, perhaps, on tour around the world: such are the dislocations of contemporary Irish poets. This monograph explores how images of America---its culture, myths, dialects and history—translate into and transform the work of key contemporary Irish poets and their sense of identity. Economic considerations aside, this continuous peregrination often decades long has reshaped the very core of Irish poet expression.

Market: 
Irish Studies, Poetry, Ireland, 20thc, American writing
Release Date: 
Fall 2001
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-930901-22-4
Price: 
$64.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
268
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

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