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| Genre/Form: | History Literary collections Sources |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard P Horwitz |
| ISBN: | 0842028285 9780842028288 0842028293 9780842028295 |
| OCLC Number: | 1052553219 |
| Description: | xxxvii, 376 p. : il. ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | America as a new world. How America was discovered / Handsome Lake -- The tempest / William Shakespeare -- A model of Christian charity / John Winthrop -- Engel v. Vitale / U.S. Supreme Court -- Letter III from an American farmer / J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur -- To the United States / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Paddy's lament : Irish-American folksong -- The spirit of capitalism / Max Weber -- On being an American / H.L. Mencken. America as an independent nation. Declaration of independence / Continental Congress -- Declaration of sentiments / Woman's Rights Convention -- Independence Day speech / John Wannuaucon Quinney -- The significance of the frontier in American history / Frederick Jackson Turner -- American progress / John Gast -- The spirit of the west / Edwin Howland Blashfield -- Vietnam's declaration of independence / Ho Chi Minh -- What to the slave is the Fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass. America as a place to belong. Americanism and the foreign-born / Woodrow Wilson -- Objections answered / Alice Stone Blackwell -- Ain't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth -- Trans-national America / Randolph Bourne -- Americanism / American Legion -- Statue of Liberty / Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi -- Americans all! / Howard Chandler Christy -- The melting pot, Fourth of July parade -- Goddess of democracy -- Chinese protest Belgrade bombing -- Century readings / Fred Lewis Pattee -- The one-hundred percent American / Ralph Linton -- National brotherhood week / Tom Lehrer -- America / Claude McKay -- This land is your land / Woody Guthrie. America as a land of the free. Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln -- Flag raising on Iwo Jima / Joe Rosenthal and Felix DeWeldon -- Manzanar Relocation Center / Dorothea Lange -- The American system / Herbert Hoover -- The four freedoms / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Freedom from want / Norman Rockwell -- Bowers v. Hardwick / U.S. Supreme Court -- Puerto Ricans / Langston Hughes -- Wrestling with the hard one / Ana Lydia Vega -- POPism / Andy Warhol -- Five coke bottles / Andy Warhol -- "Give and take," say I ; "Cheers" / Haddon Sundblom -- Publicity poster for A great wall : an American comedy -- Great castigation series : Coca-Cola / Wang Guangyi -- An Okie from Muskogee / Merle Haggard and Roy Burris -- Wasteland of the free / Iris DeMent -- Of our spiritual strivings / W.E.B. DuBois. America as an empire. The utility of the union / Publius (Alexander Hamilton) -- The Monroe Doctrine / James Monroe -- The European colonization of America / Arthur de Gobineau -- The white man's burden / Rudyard Kipling -- Cast away illusions, prepare for struggle / Mao Tse-Tung -- U.S. and Mexican pastimes / Mexican Embassy -- Ugly American sightings -- Uncle Sam in Australia -- Uncle Sam welcomes Mexico -- Chinese pose as auto tourists near San Francisco -- U.S. tourist poses in Havana / Constantino Arias -- Letter to Americans / E.P. Thompson. America as a culture. The American scholar / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Ralph Waldo Emerson : transcendental critic / Vernon L. Parrington -- Factors in American literary history / Norman Foerster -- Middletown faces both ways / Robert Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd -- Plainville social class / James West (Carl A. Withers) -- Cultural locations : positioning American studies in the great debate / Alice Kessler-Harris. |
| Series Title: | American visions, 4 |
| Responsibility: | edited by Richard P. Horwitz |
Reviews
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Those of us who teach American Studies outside of the United States have been waiting for this anthology. It provides historical grounding and a range of texts that is both foundational and fresh, and it reflects Horwitz's passion for artful prose and cultural analysis that is readable, teachable, transnational, and truly interdisciplinary. -- Staci Ford, lecturer, Programme in American Studies/History, University of Hong Kong This anthology answers a need felt by so many of us who teach both beginning and advanced courses in American Studies. The introduction is ideal, and the 'roots and soil' metaphor provides a wonderfully concrete way for us all, teachers and students to grasp some hitherto vaguely understood ideas about the field. -- Matthew Mancini, Saint Louis University The American Studies Anthology is imaginative and creative. It includes familiar texts in American studies as well as unusual ones. Professor Horwitz locates American studies in history and the present, in culture and ideas, in scholarly work and popular culture, and from the United States and abroad. He introduces each of the selections with a brief commentary that offers suggestions on where classroom discussions might go. This is the first anthology to capture the contradictory and interdisciplinary directions that comprise American studies today. Indispensable for the novice and veteran alike. -- David Katzman, The University of Kansas Professor Horwitz has a shrewd eye for documents. He not only has gathered familiar expressions of U.S. national identity, but also ranged widely to find songs and images, reflective essays, and significant statements of public policy. His unusual selections and thought-provoking juxtapositions make this an invigorating collection to read to learn from. -- Linda K. Kerber, University of Iowa There are two ways to review anthologies intended for classroom use. One is to focus on their selections of readings and discuss their usefulness in teaching. Another approach is to examine the anthology's documents and explanatory material for what they reflect about the current state of the field. Many of us spend a good deal of time talking with visiting groups of teachers from outside the United States about current trends and future directions in American studies. This collection, with Richard Horwitz's excellent introduction and headnotes, has value as a class text and as a guide to the field. . . . Whoever reads this splendid anthology will learn a great deal about America and American studies. -- Bernard Mergen, The George Washington University Richard Horwitz is one of the most thoughtful American Studies scholars when it comes to understanding what it means to build a fully interdisciplinary American Studies. This volume reflects his unerring sense of how we must weave theory and practice into a seamless garment where old distinctions between the humanities, the social sciences, and even the natural sciences now seem pointless. -- Jay Mechling, University of California, Davis, Jay Mechling, University of California, Davis Read more...
