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Political Scandals in the USA

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Political Scandals in the USA

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From Watergate to Whitewater, US politicians have had their fair share of high-profile debacles that have destroyed careers and brought down political parties.

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Watergate forced the only presidential resignation in American History, the Iran-Contra affair exposed the limitations of President Reagan, and the Whitewater scandal periodically paralysed the White House and embarrassed President Clinton. This book focuses on presidential and congressional scandals of the last 25 years and offers the first sustained explanation of the reasons for them and their often dramatic consequences. By reading this account of the infamous US politicians who are remembered most for their misdemeanours than their achievements, you will come to understand how the American political system really works.

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Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781853311895
Price: £24.99
Publication Date: Feb 1998
Dimensions: 216 x 138 mm
Extent: 160 pages
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American Exceptionalism

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American Exceptionalism provides an accessible yet comprehensive historical account of one of the most important concepts underlying modern theories of American cultural identity.

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Deborah Madsen charts the contribution of exceptionalism to the evolution of the United States as an ideological and geographical entity from 1620 to the present day. She explains how this sense of spiritual and political destiny has shaped American culture and how it has promoted exciting counter arguments from Native American and Chicano perspectives and in the contemporary writings of authors such as Thomas Pynchon and Toni Morrison.

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Author: Deborah L. Madsen
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781853312090
Price: £24.99
Publication Date: May 1998
Dimensions: 216 x 138 mm
Extent: 192 pages
Series: BAAS Paperbacks

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Key Features

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  • The only balanced overview of the history and politics of America in the 1920s
  • Revises the traditional views of the Presidencies of Harding and Coolidge
  • Places the politics in its social and cultural context.

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The New Deal

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This textbook offers a chronological introduction to the New Deal which incorporates material on events and developments outside as well as within Washington DC and on popular reaction to the policies.

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Reference is made to President Roosevelt and his role but the main emphasis is upon policy formation and implementation and the context in which the New Deal evolved. Bearing in mind the requirements of students Fiona Venn draws comparisons between American and European responses to the depression and provides explanations of American institutions and traditions as appropriate.

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Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781853312229
Price: £23.99
Publication Date: Nov 1998
Dimensions: 216 x 138 mm
Extent: 160 pages
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Key Features

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  • A student-friendly, chronological introduction to the New Deal
  • The New Deal is a key aspect of 20th-century American History and is covered on all undergraduate courses

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  • A detailed chronology helps the student to locate the events in the wider context of American history
  • Places emphasis on long-term effects of the New Deal, locating it within international context as well as within US history

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Jazz in American Culture

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Jazz in American Culture offers an informed and entertaining introduction to jazz – one of the great musical cultures of the world.

The book looks at jazz both as a music and as a culture within the wider American context, and aims to open up the subject to the non-specialist. It examines the social and institutional structures that have underpinned the music at particular stages in its history, from the 1930s through to the present, and considers its place as a component of the entertainment industry. Among the musicians introduced are Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Billie Holliday and Lester Young.

Peter Townsend’s distinctive approach to his subject includes a consideration of representations of jazz in other art forms, including films and literary texts, such as the fiction of Ralph Ellison, Jack Kerouac and Toni Morrison, and the poetry of Langston Hughes. He also introduces the work of jazz-influenced painters such as Stuart Davis and Jackson Pollock, and discusses the significance of photography in jazz.

The book also explores the influence of jazz on other art forms, the ‘mythology’ of jazz, its place in consumer culture and its relation to a number of issues, such as ethnicity and individualism, that have affected American art and society.

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Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781853312045
Price: £24.99
Publication Date: Jul 2000
Dimensions: 216 x 138 mm
Extent: 160 pages
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Slavery and Servitude in North America, 1607-1800

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A textbook introduction to one of the most important areas of early American history.

Kenneth Morgan shows how the institutions of indentured servitude and black slavery interacted in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He covers all aspects of the two labour systems, including their impact on the economy, on racial attitudes, social structures and on regional variations within the colonies. Throughout overriding themes emerge: the labour market in North America, the significance of racial distinctions, supply and demand factors in transatlantic migration and labour, and resistance to bondage.

This is an ideal introduction to an area that is crucial for understanding not just Colonial American society but also the later development of the United States.

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Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781853312106
Price: £26.99
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Dimensions: 216 x 138 mm
Extent: 160 pages
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The Cultures of the American New West

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An introductory survey of the important debates about key issues in the cultural history of the contemporary American West.

Neil Campbell introduces the ways in which the West has been represented and interpreted within American culture, myth and ideology, especially questioning the concept of the ‘New West’.[/vc_column_text][dt_gap height=”20″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″ padding_left=”0″ padding_right=”0″ bg_position=”top” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” bg_cover=”false” bg_attachment=”false” padding_top=”0″ padding_bottom=”0″ parallax_speed=”0.1″ bg_type=”no_bg” parallax_style=”vcpb-default” bg_image_repeat=”repeat” bg_image_size=”cover” bg_img_attach=”scroll” parallax_sense=”30″ animation_direction=”left-animation” animation_repeat=”repeat” bg_override=”0″ parallax_content_sense=”30″ fadeout_start_effect=”30″ overlay_pattern_opacity=”80″ seperator_type=”none_seperator” seperator_position=”top_seperator” seperator_shape_size=”40″ seperator_svg_height=”60″ seperator_shape_background=”#fff” seperator_shape_border=”none” seperator_shape_border_width=”1″ icon_type=”no_icon” icon_size=”32″ icon_style=”none” icon_color_border=”#333333″ icon_border_size=”1″ icon_border_radius=”500″ icon_border_spacing=”50″ img_width=”48″][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]

In so doing he looks at the way contemporary theories such as feminism, multiculturalism and environmentalism can be used to revise long-held notions of the West. The book looks in turn at the ways the West has been represented in landscapes and environments, art and photography, film, and literature.

As well as functioning as a survey text, the book is original in its combining of ideas, texts and materials rarely brought together, and in its employment of the tools of cultural studies and interdisciplinary practice. As such it will challenge the reader to reconsider conventional ideas about the American West. Illustrated with black and white photographs, this is an accessible and exciting intervention in one of the most popular aspects of American history.

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Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780748611768
Price: £24.99
Publication Date: Jun 2000
Dimensions: 216 x 138 mm
Extent: 182 pages
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Key Features

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  • Introduces theoretical ideas from Bakhtin, Benjamin, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari
  • Looks at the landscape photography of Ansel Adams, Mark Klett and Richard Misrach
  • Explores Westerns including The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Lonely are the Brave, Unforgiven and Heaven’s Gate

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  • Analyses the work of authors such as Cormac McCarthy, Edward Abbey, Terry Tempest Williams, Raymond Chandler
  • Includes Native American (Leslie Marmon Silko, Sherman Alexie and Gerald Vizenor) and Chicano/a (Gloria Anzaldua and Sandra Cisneros) literature

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The Sixties in America: History, Politics and Protest

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No other decade of the twentieth century has acquired the mythological status of the 1960s.

[/vc_column_text][dt_gap height=”20″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″ padding_left=”0″ padding_right=”0″ bg_position=”top” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” bg_cover=”false” bg_attachment=”false” padding_top=”0″ padding_bottom=”0″ parallax_speed=”0.1″ bg_type=”no_bg” parallax_style=”vcpb-default” bg_image_repeat=”repeat” bg_image_size=”cover” bg_img_attach=”scroll” parallax_sense=”30″ animation_direction=”left-animation” animation_repeat=”repeat” bg_override=”0″ parallax_content_sense=”30″ fadeout_start_effect=”30″ overlay_pattern_opacity=”80″ seperator_type=”none_seperator” seperator_position=”top_seperator” seperator_shape_size=”40″ seperator_svg_height=”60″ seperator_shape_background=”#fff” seperator_shape_border=”none” seperator_shape_border_width=”1″ icon_type=”no_icon” icon_size=”32″ icon_style=”none” icon_color_border=”#333333″ icon_border_size=”1″ icon_border_radius=”500″ icon_border_spacing=”50″ img_width=”48″][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]For the United States this was the decade of the Camelot presidency of John F. Kennedy and the ruined presidency of Lyndon Johnson, of the great civil rights March on Washington and the assassination of Martin Luther King. It was the decade of the escalating war in Vietnam and the thrusting youth and peace movements, of urban riots and violent confrontations on the street. These years also witnessed the birth of the New Left on the one hand and the angry conservatism of Barry Goldwater and George Wallace on the other, as well as a determined political activism that ranged from the atrocities of the Ku Klux Klan to the demonstrations of a revived women’s movement.

In all, the 1960s were central to the great transformation which American society underwent in the half-century after 1945 and the strains associated with this largely explain the turbulence of these years. This period was a watershed in twentieth-century American history and the roots of contemporary America are to be found in this decade.

Focusing on the public affairs of America, Michael Heale introduces the reader to the major changes which governed life in the sixties. Economically America saw the move from an ‘industrial’ to a ‘post-industrial’ society while in political terms there was a parallel change with the collapse of the New Deal political order and the transition to a divided system of politics. The optimistic leadership of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson was supplanted by the suspicious conservatism of Richard Nixon. Finally it was in the 1960s that the global role of the USA was first called seriously into question: the country’s relatively benign image became malign as Vietnam exposed the imperialist, racist and capitalist aspects of American power.

The book examines the 1960s in this context – as a decade caught between one America and another.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”4736″ css_animation=”fadeInRight” border_color=”grey” img_link_target=”_self” img_size=”full”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1427124128456{border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #eaeaea !important;border-left-color: #b7b7b7 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-right-color: #b7b7b7 !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-top-color: #b7b7b7 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #b7b7b7 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”]Author: Michael J. Heale
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781853312052
Price: £24.99
Publication Date: Jul 2001
Dimensions: 216 x 138 mm
Extent: 184 pages
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Key Features

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  • Fluently written – will be accessible to students and general readers
  • Represents the 1960s as a watershed in American history
  • Focuses on the politics of the decade at both a governmental and a popular level

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  • Covers the presidencies of Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon
  • Covers protest politics of the civil rights, black power, youth, peace, and women’s movements

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The United States and World War II: The Awakening Giant

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The United States and World War II is a broad-ranging introduction to the second world war in America.

The politics, diplomacy and military strategy of the war form the core of the book. Coverage of the social issues is integrated into the larger narrative and the military and political aspects are linked to the social through the overarching theme of the transforming effects of the war.[/vc_column_text][dt_gap height=”20″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″ padding_left=”0″ padding_right=”0″ bg_position=”top” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” bg_cover=”false” bg_attachment=”false” padding_top=”0″ padding_bottom=”0″ parallax_speed=”0.1″ bg_type=”no_bg” parallax_style=”vcpb-default” bg_image_repeat=”repeat” bg_image_size=”cover” bg_img_attach=”scroll” parallax_sense=”30″ animation_direction=”left-animation” animation_repeat=”repeat” bg_override=”0″ parallax_content_sense=”30″ fadeout_start_effect=”30″ overlay_pattern_opacity=”80″ seperator_type=”none_seperator” seperator_position=”top_seperator” seperator_shape_size=”40″ seperator_svg_height=”60″ seperator_shape_background=”#fff” seperator_shape_border=”none” seperator_shape_border_width=”1″ icon_type=”no_icon” icon_size=”32″ icon_style=”none” icon_color_border=”#333333″ icon_border_size=”1″ icon_border_radius=”500″ icon_border_spacing=”50″ img_width=”48″][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]

The author takes a chronological approach, offering a narrative history, while highlighting and developing key thematic links through the chapters. Exemplary material substantiates thematic points and enlivens the text, while historiographical issues are addressed as appropriate throughout the narrative.

Coverage is broad-ranging – the narrative begins in the late 1930s, demonstrating that an understanding of the second world war as a transforming event requires discussion of the prior state of affairs, and ends with a consideration of the legacy of the war and its continuing significance.

Overall this book provides an invaluable introduction to all aspects of the American experience of World War Two.

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Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780748615261
Price: £24.99
Publication Date: Mar 2002
Dimensions: 216 x 138 mm
Extent: 208 pages
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Animation and American Society: Cartoons to Computers

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This new, revisionist approach to the Twenties in America offers the first balanced account of the history and politics of this much-maligned decade.

The ‘cartoon’ is synonymous with the United States – the all conquering Disney studio, the anarchic antics of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, the satiric vision of The Simpsons – but rarely is this taken seriously as an important aspect of artistic and cultural achievement, nor as a vision of America itself.

In Animation and America, Professor Paul Wells looks at animation in the United States afresh, discussing the distinctiveness of the cartoon form, and the myriad others types of animation production, insisting upon the ‘modernity’ of the form, and its crucial importance as a barometer of the social conditions in which it was made, and which it reflects.[/vc_column_text][dt_gap height=”20″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″ padding_left=”0″ padding_right=”0″ bg_position=”top” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” bg_cover=”false” bg_attachment=”false” padding_top=”0″ padding_bottom=”0″ parallax_speed=”0.1″ bg_type=”no_bg” parallax_style=”vcpb-default” bg_image_repeat=”repeat” bg_image_size=”cover” bg_img_attach=”scroll” parallax_sense=”30″ animation_direction=”left-animation” animation_repeat=”repeat” bg_override=”0″ parallax_content_sense=”30″ fadeout_start_effect=”30″ overlay_pattern_opacity=”80″ seperator_type=”none_seperator” seperator_position=”top_seperator” seperator_shape_size=”40″ seperator_svg_height=”60″ seperator_shape_background=”#fff” seperator_shape_border=”none” seperator_shape_border_width=”1″ icon_type=”no_icon” icon_size=”32″ icon_style=”none” icon_color_border=”#333333″ icon_border_size=”1″ icon_border_radius=”500″ icon_border_spacing=”50″ img_width=”48″][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]The book does not work as an orthodox history of animation in America, but rather uses animation as a way of discussing personal, social and political change, concentrating on the ways in which the form continues to grow, experiment, and remain subversive while gaining increasing popular acclaim and recognition. Now in the vanguard of visual culture per se, animation occupies an important position in representing both the outcomes and impacts of new technologies – as it has always done – but also has laid the foundations for a new understanding of social and artistic practice.[/vc_column_text][dt_gap height=”10″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1427122860735{border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #eaeaea !important;border-left-color: #b7b7b7 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-right-color: #b7b7b7 !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-top-color: #b7b7b7 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #b7b7b7 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”]Author: Paul Wells
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781853312038
Price: £26.99
Publication Date: Apr 2006
Dimensions: 216 x 138 mm
Extent: 172 pages
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The Vietnam War in History, Literature and Film

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After a contextualising introduction which outlines the chronology of events during the Vietnam War, the book covers five key episodes during the war.

[/vc_column_text][dt_gap height=”10″][vc_column_text]This includes the massacre at My Lai, the siege at Khe Sanh, and the experience of homecoming for Vietnam veterans – analysing the way they have been treated by historians, by film-makers and by novelists.

Films and texts discussed include The Green Berets, JFK, John Newman’s JFK and Vietnam, Dispatches, the Peers Report, In the Lake of the Woods, The Deerhunter and the Rambo films.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1427121593149{border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #eaeaea !important;border-left-color: #b7b7b7 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-right-color: #b7b7b7 !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-top-color: #b7b7b7 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #b7b7b7 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”]Author: Mark Taylor
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780748615339
Price: £26.99
Publication Date: Sep 2003
Dimensions: 216 x 138 mm
Extent: 176 pages
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Key Features

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  • Interdisciplinary approach to this popular subject, in keeping with the way American Studies is taught
  • Includes a timeline of the Vietnam War

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  • Illustrated with maps and film stills
  • Courses on Vietnam appear on most American Studies degrees

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