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Author : Cheryl L. Delk
Publisher : University of Michigan Press ELT
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Discovering American Culture written by Cheryl L. Delk and published by University of Michigan Press ELT. This book was released on 1997 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Don Yoder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Discovering American Folklife written by Don Yoder and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Linda Tarrant-Reid
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 168335429X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Discovering Black America written by Linda Tarrant-Reid and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first African explorers to the first black president, this illustrated history is an excellent resource and “an epic work” (School Library Journal). Discovering Black America is an unprecedented account of more than 400 years of African American history set against a background of American and global events. It begins with a black sailor aboard the Niña with Christopher Columbus and continues through the colonial period, slavery, the Civil War, Jim Crow, and civil rights to the first African American president in the White House. With first-person narratives from diaries and journals, interviews, and archival images, Discovering Black America provides an intimate understanding of this extensive history. “Engaging . . . brings to light many intriguing and tragically underreported stories.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Reproductions of historical documents, photographs, and artwork provide a sense of immediacy to this immersive tapestry, which reaches well beyond the milestones typically outlined in history books.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Absolutely gorgeous in design, with a harmonious marriage of text and colorful archival images, this is the kind of book that invites browsing, and its extensive reach will make this a go-to title for report writers.” —School Library Journal “Begins with the first African explorers and seamen arriving in the New World in the fifteenth century, and . . . ends with the presidential election of Barack Obama . . . meticulous footnotes and a bibliography of recommended books...An excellent title for classroom support.” —Booklist “Thoroughly researched and documented...an outstanding resource for students. The primary source documents, photographs, and archival maps that complement this compelling account will engage readers.” —Library Media Connection (highly recommended) An NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
Author : Catherine Nichols
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781615909889
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)
Download or read book African American Culture written by Catherine Nichols and published by . This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich Descriptions And Illustrations Of African-American Art, History, And Culture.
Author : Anita Norich
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804756907
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (569 download)
Download or read book Discovering Exile written by Anita Norich and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers some of the most famous Yiddish writers in America, the controversies their works aroused—in Yiddish and English—during the Holocaust, and the ways in which reading them contributes to a revision of American Jewish cultural development.
Author : Planaria J. Price
Publisher : University of Michigan Press ELT
ISBN 13 : 9780472033041
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Life in the USA written by Planaria J. Price and published by University of Michigan Press ELT. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in the USA is not quite like it is in the movies or on TV. For people who are unfamiliar with its culture, there is the potential for confusion and embarrassing situations. This book, Life in the USA, has been written to help those new to the United States. Nine broad topics (first impressions of America, body language, social customs and manners, relationships, celebrations and gifts, surviving the city, the workplace, schools, and health and personal matters) are covered through an engaging and easy-to-read question-and-answer format in form of letters from immigrant students to their teacher. Students are also advised to read comic strips, listen to popular music, and read classic American children’s stories in order to become familiar with the many the nuances of American culture and to better understand Americans. From tips for job interviews to garage sales and dating, Life in the USA offers immigrant students helpful hints and answers for becoming comfortable in the United States of America.
Author : Justine Ciovacco
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1622758242
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)
Download or read book Discovering Native North American Cultures written by Justine Ciovacco and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful guide explores the pre-Columbian native civilizations that thrived in North America, revealing a diverse range of cultures, languages, and customs. Particularly interesting is the examination of the various adaptations necessary for life in a continent that ranges from the arctic to the sub-tropic, including effective techniques for farming, fishing, and hunting. The devastating impact of European contact and conquest is described, as is the inspiring story of cultural survival in the face of near extinction. The modern life of native North American peoples and the ways in which they are keeping their heritage alive are also celebrated.
Author : James Laxer
Publisher : New York : New Press
ISBN 13 : 9781565847101
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)
Download or read book Discovering America written by James Laxer and published by New York : New Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts his travels through thirty-four of the fifty United States, commenting on the oddities of modern American culture.
Author : David Miller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351242636
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Discovering American Regionalism written by David Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regions are difficult to govern – coordinating policies across local jurisdictional boundaries in the absence of a formal regional government gives rise to enormous challenges. Yet some degree of coordination is almost always essential for local governments to effectively fulfill their responsibilities to their citizens. State and local governments have, over time, awkwardly, and with much experimenting, developed common approaches to regional governance. In this revolutionary new book, authors David Miller and Jen Nelles offer a new way to conceptualize those common approaches: Regional Intergovernmental Organizations (RIGOs) that bring together local governments to coordinate policies across jurisdictional boundaries. RIGOs are not governments themselves, but as Miller and Nelles demonstrate, they do have a measure of political authority that allows them to quietly and sometimes almost invisibly work to further regional interests and mitigate cross-boundary irritations. Providing a new conceptual framework for understanding how regional decision-making has emerged in the U.S., this book will provoke a new and rich era of discussion about American regionalism in theory and practice. Discovering American Regionalism will be a future classic in the study of intergovernmental relations, regionalism, and cross-boundary collaboration.
Author : Kate Shoup
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 150264309X
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (26 download)
Download or read book American Culture and Society written by Kate Shoup and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the arrival of English settlers in the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies, American society was rooted in British Puritanism. Although whispers of that earlier Puritanical society remain, today's American culture is dramatically different. This volume traces the events that led to these societal changes, discussing such occurrences as the American Revolution, the California Gold Rush, the Civil War, the Industrial Revolution, spikes in immigration, and the devastating world wars of the twentieth century. This book includes an in-depth look at the way specific groups define themselves, how those definitions have evolved over time, and how these evolving ideas shape the nation as a whole.
Author : Robert J. Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Crossroads, USA: Discovering American Culture and Language with the Daily Newspaper written by Robert J. Hughes and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katherine Gleeson
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1618104608
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (181 download)
Download or read book Native American Culture written by Katherine Gleeson and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native American Culture Comes Back To Life In The Details Of These Beautiful Illustrations.
Author : Anna Tomasino
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Discovering Popular Culture written by Anna Tomasino and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief, provocative reader explores American popular culture from The Sopranos to the Simpsons, from MP3 players to comic books, from Andy Warhol to hip hop. Anyone who wants to understand what Americans are seeing, thinking, and doing in the 21st century should read this collection.
Author : Christoph K. Lohmann
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253208156
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Discovering Difference written by Christoph K. Lohmann and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features essays that employ Marx, Freud, Derrida, Lacan, feminist, and African American criticism to investigate topics ranging from cultural encounters at the time of the European conquest of the Americas to the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings.
Author : Kathleen Franz
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780495911722
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Major Problems in American Popular Culture written by Kathleen Franz and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE, International Edition is part of a highly respected series of edited collections of primary documents and scholarly essays designed for use in history courses at the undergraduate level. The basic goal of these texts is to provide students and instructors with the most distinguished, readable, and stimulating writing available: essays centered on major historical questions, complemented by related primary source materials.
Author : Walter J. Lonner
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1607526077
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Discovering Cultural Psychology written by Walter J. Lonner and published by IAP. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a landmark in contemporary cultural psychology. Ernest Boesch’s synthesis of ideas is the first comprehensive theory of culture in psychology since Wilhelm Wundt’s Völkerpsychologie of the first decades of the twentieth century. Cultural psychology of today is an attempt to advance the program of research that was charted out by Wundt—yet at times we are carefully avoiding direct recognition of such continuity. While Wundt’s experimental psychology has been hailed as the root for contemporary scientific psychology, the other side of his contribution— ethnographic analysis of folk traditions and higher psychological functions— has been largely discredited as something disconnected from the scientific realm. As an example of “soft” science—lacking the “hardness” of experimentation—it has been considered to be an esoteric hobby of the founding father of contemporary psychology. Of course that focus is profoundly wrong—the opposition “soft” versus “hard” just does not fit as a metalevel organizer of any science. Yet the rhetoric discounting the descriptive side of Wundt’s psychology is merely an act of social guidance of what psychologists do—not a way of creating knowledge.
Author : Jack D. Forbes
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252091256
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The American Discovery of Europe written by Jack D. Forbes and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Discovery of Europe investigates the voyages of America's Native peoples to the European continent before Columbus's 1492 arrival in the "New World." The product of over twenty years of exhaustive research in libraries throughout Europe and the United States, the book paints a clear picture of the diverse and complex societies that constituted the Americas before 1492 and reveals the surprising Native American involvements in maritime trade and exploration. Starting with an encounter by Columbus himself with mysterious people who had apparently been carried across the Atlantic on favorable currents, Jack D. Forbes proceeds to explore the seagoing expertise of early Americans, theories of ancient migrations, the evidence for human origins in the Americas, and other early visitors coming from Europe to America, including the Norse. The provocative, extensively documented, and heartfelt conclusions of The American Discovery of Europe present an open challenge to received historical wisdom.
