This book is a timely critique of national and transnational approaches to community, and their forms of belonging and trans/patriotism. Using reports in multicultural psychology and cultural neuroscience to interpret an array of cultural forms, the book makes important points about the limits of tr..
A collection of essays in which every contributor focuses upon some aspect of slave emancipation with the aim of assessing to what extent the outcome met with expectation...
On October 4, 1957 in the midst of the Cold War, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, the first artificial earth satellite. For the West, and especially the United States, it was a shattering blow to national morale and pride...
After the Civil War, the United States became a nation of industrialized cities crisscrossed by a vast network of railroads. The changes in America were so dramatic that they transformed the social structure of the country and the nature of journalism...
Against All Odds is the first comprehensive look at the 140,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors who came to America and the lives they have made here. William Helmreich writes of their experiences beginning with their first arrival in the United States: the mixed reactions they encountered from American ..
Yallop looks at how people in eighteenth-century England understood and dealt with growing older. Though no word for ‘aging’ existed at this time, a person’s age was a significant aspect of their identity...