Focusing on the textile workers' strikes of 1882 and 1912, Ardis Cameron examines class and gender formation as drawn from the experiences of working-class women in the textile manufacturing town of Lawrence, Massachusetts. She explores the role of women in worker militancy from the perspective of the neighborhood and argues for the importance of female networks and associational life in working-class culture and politics. Radicals of the Worst Sort is a study of domination and power, constructed not only at the level of economics and politics but also at the level of social perception and...
Focusing on the textile workers' strikes of 1882 and 1912, Ardis Cameron examines class and gender formation as drawn from the experiences of working-...
Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation and People is a groundbreaking collection that explores the -visual- in defining the kaleidoscope of American experience and American identity in the 20th century.
Covers enduringly important topics in American history: nationhood, class, politics of identity, and the visual mapping of -others-
Includes editorial introductions, suggested readings, a primer on how to -read- an image, and a guide to visual archives and collections
Well-illustrated book for those in American Studies and...
Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation and People is a groundbreaking collection that explores the -visual- in defining the kalei...
Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation and People is a groundbreaking collection that explores the -visual- in defining the kaleidoscope of American experience and American identity in the 20th century.
Covers enduringly important topics in American history: nationhood, class, politics of identity, and the visual mapping of -others-
Includes editorial introductions, suggested readings, a primer on how to -read- an image, and a guide to visual archives and collections
Well-illustrated book for those in American Studies and...
Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation and People is a groundbreaking collection that explores the -visual- in defining the kalei...
In 1956 Grace Metalious published Peyton Place, the novel that unbuttoned the straitlaced New England of the popular imagination, transformed the publishing industry, topped the bestseller lists for more than a year, and made its young author one of the most talked-about people in America. In 1959 the sizzling sequel, Return to Peyton Place, picked up where Peyton Place left off: Allison MacKenzie, now the author of America's #1 bestseller, is thrown into the glamorous whirl of the smart set of New York and Hollywood. At home, the rest of the most controversial characters in 1950s American...
In 1956 Grace Metalious published Peyton Place, the novel that unbuttoned the straitlaced New England of the popular imagination, transformed the publ...
Published in 1956, Peyton Place became a bestseller and a literary phenomenon. A lurid and gripping story of murder, incest, female desire, and social injustice, it was consumed as avidly by readers as it was condemned by critics and the clergy. Its author, Grace Metalious, a housewife who grew up in poverty in a New Hampshire mill town and had aspired to be a writer from childhood, loosely based the novel's setting, characters, and incidents on real-life places, people, and events. The novel sold more than 30 million copies in hardcover and paperback, and it was adapted into a...
Published in 1956, Peyton Place became a bestseller and a literary phenomenon. A lurid and gripping story of murder, incest, female desire...
