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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “gretchen murphy”
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  • Hemispheric Imaginings

    The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire

    by Gretchen Murphy, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    In 1823, President James Monroe announced that the Western Hemisphere was closed to any future European colonization and that the United States would protect the Americas as a space destined for democracy. Over the next century, these ideas—which came to be known as the Monroe Doctrine—provided the framework through which Americans understood and articulated their military and diplomatic role in ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • New England Women Writers, Secularity, and the Federalist Politics of Church and State

    by Gretchen Murphy ...
    Drawing on literature, correspondence, sermons, legal writing, and newspaper publishing, this book offers a new account women's political participation and the process of religious disestablishment. Scholars have long known that eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American women wrote pious, sentimental stories, but this book uses biographical and archival methods to understand their religious ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • Shadowing the White Man’s Burden

    U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color Line

    by Gretchen Murphy ...
    Series Book 24 - America and the Long 19th Century
    During the height of 19th century imperialism, Rudyard Kipling published his famous poem “The White Man’s Burden.” While some of his American readers argued that the poem served as justification for imperialist practices, others saw Kipling’s satirical talents at work and read it as condemnation. Gretchen Murphy explores this tension embedded in the notion of the white man’s burden to create a new ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • People of Paradox (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization

    by Michael Kammen ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • In this major interpretive work Mr. Kammen argues that most attempt to understand America’s history and culture have minimized its complexity, and he demonstrates that, from our beginnings, what has given our culture its distinctive texture, pattern, and thrust is the dynamic interaction of the imported and the indigenous. He shows now, during the years of colonization, ... Read more

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  • Racecraft

    The Soul of Inequality in American Life

    by Karen Fields, Barbara J. Fields ...
    Hailed by Zadie Smith and Ta-Nehisi Coates, this new edition of the celebrated contemporary work on race and racism “ought to be positioned at the center of any discussion of race in American life” (Bookforum).Most people assume racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Great Agnostic

    Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought

    by Susan Jacoby ...
    "Jacoby writes with wit and vigor, affectionately resurrecting a man whose life and work are due for reconsideration" ( The Boston Globe).During the Gilded Age, which saw the dawn of America's enduring culture wars, Robert Green Ingersoll was known as "the Great Agnostic." The nation's most famous orator, he raised his voice on behalf of Enlightenment reason, secularism, and the separation of ... Read more

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  • Birth of a White Nation

    The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today

    by Jacqueline Battalora ...
    Birth of a White Nation is a fascinating new book on race in America that begins with an exploration of the moment in time when "white people,” as a separate and distinct group of humanity, were invented through legislation and the enactment of laws. The book provides a thorough examination of the underlying reasons as well as the ways in which “white people” were created. It also explains how the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Southern Honor

    Ethics and Behavior in the Old South

    by Bertram Wyatt-Brown ...
    A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The Washington Post as "a work of enormous imagination and enterprise" and in The New York Times as "an important, original book," Southern Honor revolutionized our understanding of the antebellum South, revealing how Southern men adopted an ancient honor code that shaped their society from top to bottom. Using legal ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The American Dream

    A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation

    by Jim Cullen ...
    "The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning of the American Dream, or rather the several American Dreams that have both reflected and shaped American identity from the Pilgrims to the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Citizenship and the Origins of Women's History in the United States

    by Teresa Anne Murphy ...
    Series series Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
    Women's history emerged as a genre in the waning years of the eighteenth century, a period during which concepts of nationhood and a sense of belonging expanded throughout European nations and the young American republic. Early women's histories had criticized the economic practices, intellectual abilities, and political behavior of women while emphasizing the importance of female domesticity in ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Inventing a Christian America

    The Myth of the Religious Founding

    by Steven K. Green ...
    Among the most enduring themes in American history is the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. A pervasive narrative in everything from school textbooks to political commentary, it is central to the way in which many Americans perceive the historical legacy of their nation. Yet, as Steven K. Green shows in this illuminating new book, it is little more than a myth. In ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

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  • Scenes of Subjection

    Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Saidiya Hartman, Marisa J. Fuentes, Sarah Haley, Cameron Rowland, Torkwase Dyson ...
    The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated.Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy” (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). In ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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