American Studies

This book is devoted to the writing of the scholar-activist Bruce Kidd on sport and politics, the Canadian sport system and the Olympic Movement...

In this book, John Wood examines the historical determinants of official policies – specifically, macroeconomic (fiscal and monetary) policies in the United States, argues against the dominant stream of policy economists...

Originally published in 1989, America’s Suburban Centers looks at how America’s suburban workplaces are being designed for automobiles. This book argues that the low-density, single-use, and non-integrated character of America’s suburban centers is a cause of declining mobility...

This book analyses the American way of war within the context of Clausewitzian theory. In doing so, it draws conclusions about the origins, viability, and technical feasibility of America’s current strategic approach...

The first scholarly study of the emergence of American Buddhist Studies as a significant research field, approaching issues such as identity in Asian-American Buddhism, the new Buddhism, and the scholar's place in American Buddhist Studies...

This second edition includes up-to-date contemporary events and provides an introduction to American civilization. Extracts are taken from such diverse sources as political addresses, articles, interviews, oral histories and advertisements...

Explains the institutionalization of nearly unconditional American support of Israel during the Reagan administration, and its persistence in the first Bush administration in terms of the competition of belief systems in American society and politics...

This collection closely examines the relationship between American Studies scholarship and twenty-first century environmental studies’ expanded attention to transnational and transcultural concepts of ecological citizenship and belonging. Visiting literary, historical, and cultural examples from the..

This book examines the slave narratives of key members of the abolitionist movement – Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Harriet Tubman and Harriet Jacobs – revealing how these highly visible proponents of the antislavery cause were able to engage and at times overcome the cultural biases of t..

This book examines the slave narratives of key members of the abolitionist movement – Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Harriet Tubman and Harriet Jacobs – revealing how these highly visible proponents of the antislavery cause were able to engage and at times overcome the cultural biases of t..

This book examines the racing-gendering process of policy making to show how relations of power and forms of inequality are discursively constructed and impact the lives of African American women...

O’Keefe presents a much needed reinterpretation of U.S.-American relations that utilizes all the international relations theories and conceptions of hegemony and applies them to events  associated with the presidencies of Bush II and Obama...