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  1. House Of Cards

    House Of Cards

    Baseball Card Collecting and Popular Culture

    By John Bloom

    Series American Culture

    University of Minnesota Press

    Baseball card collecting carries with it images of idealized boyhoods in the sprawling American suburbs of the postwar era. Yet since the mid-1970s, it has grown from a pastime for children to a big money pursuit taken seriously... Learn More
    Published: 15th March 1997
    Paperback | £18.99
  2. Notes On Nowhere

    Notes On Nowhere

    Feminism, Utopian Logic, and Social Transformation

    By Jennifer Burwell

    Series American Culture

    University of Minnesota Press

    The term "utopia" implies both "good place" and "nowhere". Since Sir Thomas More wrote "Utopia" in 1516, the debate over utopian models of society has fallen on all points between these somewhat contradictory definitions. This... Learn More
    Published: 15th March 1997
    Paperback | £41.00
  3. Creating American Civilization

    Creating American Civilization

    A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline

    By David Shumway

    Series American Culture

    University of Minnesota Press

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    Published: 6th June 1994
    Paperback | £19.99
  4. Gender On Ice

    Gender On Ice

    American Ideologies of Polar Expeditions

    By Lisa Bloom

    Series American Culture

    University of Minnesota Press

    In this work, the author focuses on the conquest of the North Pole as she reveals how popular print and visual media, including photography and video, defined and shaped American national ideologies from the early 20th century... Learn More
    Published: 20th September 1993
    Hardback | £50.00
    Paperback | £18.99
  5. Reflecting Black

    Reflecting Black

    African-American Cultural Criticism

    By Michael Eric Dyson

    Series American Culture

    University of Minnesota Press

    From rap music to preaching, from Toni Morrison to Leonard Jeffries, from Michael Jackson to Michael Jordan, "Reflecting Black" explores the varied and complex dimensions of African-American culture. Through personal reflection,... Learn More
    Published: 2nd June 1993
    Paperback | £19.99
  6. Clint Eastwood

    Clint Eastwood

    A Cultural Production

    By Paul Smith

    Series American Culture

    University of Minnesota Press

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    Published: 22nd April 1993
    Hardback | £50.00
  7. Dark End Of The Street

    Dark End Of The Street

    Margins in American Vanguard Poetry

    By Maria Damon

    Series American Culture

    University of Minnesota Press

    In "The Dark End of the Street", Maria Damon brings a new sensitivity to modern poetic criticism. She adds an important dimension to cultural theory, revealing the struggles of American poets as they address important questions... Learn More
    Published: 5th February 1993
    Paperback | £20.99
  8. Framing History

    Framing History

    The Rosenberg Story and the Cold War

    By Virginia Carmichael

    Series American Culture

    University of Minnesota Press

    In 1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage and were subsequently executed for treason. Virginia Carmichael here uses their story to consider the function of narrative in the formation of... Learn More
    Published: 7th January 1993
    Hardback | £58.00
    Paperback | £20.99
  9. Movie Of The Week

    Movie Of The Week

    Private Stories Public Events

    By Edlayne Rapping

    Series American Culture

    University of Minnesota Press

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    Published: 28th September 1992
    Paperback | £19.99
  10. Daring To Be Bad

    Daring To Be Bad

    Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975

    By Alice Echols

    Series American Culture

    University of Minnesota Press

    From the late 1960s to the early 1970s, radical feminism was the most dynamic force within the women's movement. Yet, in the more than twenty years since the emergence of contemporary feminism, there has been no book-length study... Learn More
    Published: 29th December 1989
    Paperback | £18.99
  11. A Very Serious Thing

    A Very Serious Thing

    Women’s Humor and American Culture

    By Nancy A. Walker

    Series American Culture

    University of Minnesota Press

    A Very Serious Thing was first published in 1988. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press... Learn More
    Published: 8th November 1988
    Paperback | £41.00

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