A Companion to 20th-Century America is an authoritative survey of the most important topics and themes of twentieth-century American history and historiography.
Contains 29 original essays by leading scholars, each assessing the past and current state of American scholarship
Includes thematic essays covering topics such as religion, ethnicity, conservatism, foreign policy, and the media, as well as essays covering major time periods
Identifies and discusses the most influential literature in the field, and suggests new avenues of...
A Companion to 20th-Century America is an authoritative survey of the most important topics and themes of twentieth-century American history and histo...
In August 1955, the mutilated body of Emmett Till--a fourteen-year-old black Chicago youth--was pulled from Mississippi's Tallahatchie River. Abducted, severely beaten, and finally thrown into the river with a weight fastened around his neck with barbed wire, Till, an eighth-grader, was killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman. The nation was horrified by Till's death. When the all-white, all-male jury hastily acquitted the two white defendants, the outcry reached a frenzied pitch--spurring a fury that would prove critical in the mobilization of black resistance to white racism in...
In August 1955, the mutilated body of Emmett Till--a fourteen-year-old black Chicago youth--was pulled from Mississippi's Tallahatchie River. Abduc...
A Companion to 20th-Century America is an authoritative survey of the most important topics and themes of twentieth-century American history and historiography.
Contains 29 original essays by leading scholars, each assessing the past and current state of American scholarship
Includes thematic essays covering topics such as religion, ethnicity, conservatism, foreign policy, and the media, as well as essays covering major time periods
Identifies and discusses the most influential literature in the field, and suggests new avenues of...
A Companion to 20th-Century America is an authoritative survey of the most important topics and themes of twentieth-century American history and histo...
"This is a delightful book, a small gem replete with insightful, provocative pieces about both American culture and Jewish life. I think that Stephen Whitfield is one of the most original essayists on these two topics. Few other scholars combine the density of his knowledge with the verve of his prose." -- Hasia R. Diner, New York University
"This is a delightful book, a small gem replete with insightful, provocative pieces about both American culture and Jewish life. I think that Stephen ...
Horace M. Kallen Stephen J. Whitfield Ronald Bayor
In his new introduction, Whitfield sets the scene of the early twentieth century to show what inspired Horace Kallen to write this book. He delves deeply into his background, discussing the influences on Kallen's life and work. Whitfield also examines the many changes that have occurred since Culture and Democracy in the United States was first written, and reveals that many of the ideas espoused by Kallen have become reality.
In his new introduction, Whitfield sets the scene of the early twentieth century to show what inspired Horace Kallen to write this book. He delves dee...
Future climatic and agro-ecological changes in Africa are uncertain and associated with high degrees of spatial and temporal variability and this change is differently simulated within divergent climate-crop models and in controlled crop breeding stations. Furthermore, uncertainty emerges in local contexts, not just in response to climatic systems, but to social, economic, and political systems, and often with implications for the appropriateness and adoption of technologies or the success of alternative cropping systems.
This book examines the challenges of adaptation in...
Future climatic and agro-ecological changes in Africa are uncertain and associated with high degrees of spatial and temporal variability and this c...
