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Argentinean tango is a global phenomenon. Through interviews and ethnographical research in Amsterdam and Buenos Aires, this book shows why a dance from another era and another place appeals to men and women from different parts of the world and what happens to them as they become caught up in the tango salon culture.

Brings together an innovative archive of twentieth-century texts marked by their break with conventional literary structures.

Investigating how the particular, and changing, urban contexts of New York City and Amsterdam have shaped immigrant and second generation experiences.

Articulates a fresh understanding of how the Chicano movement contributed to the social and political currents of postwar America, and how the movement remains meaningful today.

Demonstrates just how much bioscience reproduces and changes our ideas about the meaning of life itself.

Moves beyond one-dimensional portrayals of Asian international adoption as either a progressive form of U.S. multiculturalism or as an exploitative form of cultural and economic imperialism.

Weiner's innovative work encourages scholars to pay much greater attention to the publicly contested sensory cultures of American religious life.

Illuminates the creative strategies playwrights used to grapple with religion.

Mexican American folk and religious healing, often referred to as curanderismo, has been a vital part of life in the Mexico-US border region for centuries. This book examines the ongoing evolution of Mexican American religious healing from the end of the nineteenth century to the present.

In everyday language, masochism is usually understood as the desire to abdicate control in exchange for sensation - pleasure, pain, or a combination thereof. This book uses masochism as a lens to examine how power structures race, gender, and embodiment in different contexts.

Examines trends and patterns relating to religion in the lives of immigrants. This book moves beyond specific studies of particular faiths in particular immigrant destinations to present the religious lives of immigrants in the United States, Canada, and Europe on a broad scale.

In 1816, the state of Pennsylvania tried fifty-nine German-Americans on charges of conspiracy and rioting. They had conspired to prevent with physical force the introduction of English language into the largest German church in North America, Philadelphia's Lutheran congregation of St Michael's and Zion. This book deals with this topic.

Millions of people around the world inhabit virtual words: multiplayer online games where characters live, love, buy, trade, cheat, steal, and have every possible kind of adventure. This book helps in understanding how the digital worlds change the future of our universe.

How should a six-year-old be approached for an interview? What questions and topics are appropriate for twelve year olds? Do parents need to give their approval for all studies? This work features essays on the subject of youth that address these concerns, providing scholars with practical answers to their many methodological concerns.

Sports Matters brings critical attention to the centrality of race within the politics and pleasures of the massive sports culture that developed in the U.S. during the past century and a half.

Where does power come from? Why does it sometimes disappear? This work explains the creation and loss of power as a product of human efforts to enter, keep or end relationships with others in an attempt to satisfy passions and interests, using a theoretical and historical case study of one community - Puerto Ricans in the United States.

Military history looking at aviators during the second half of Vietnam. The stories are told through interviews and journal excerpts of the pilots and aircrew themselves. Great tradey title.

The author argues there is a lot for us to gain by bolstering our relations with countries we border.

Early Long Island/New England history exploring how relations between settlers and natives were more harmonious and equal than the record usually states.

An illuminating biography of an American intellectual and one of the century's most important public thinkers whose commitment to social reform was balanced by his love of fiction, poetry, baseball, and music.

"Personal Knowledge and Beyond" seeks to foster a cross-disciplinary rethinking of ethnography's possibilities and limits for the study of religions. It provides an overview of recent debates while also pushing them in new directions.

The essays in this volume focus on how the design of democratic institutions may be improved. This book also looks at questions of corruption and excessive influence and electoral structures.

Building on the insights of both disability studies and civil rights scholars, this work frames the author's examination of disability harassment on the premise that disabled people are members of a minority group that must negotiate an artificial yet often damaging environment of physical and attitudinal barriers.

Horace Greeley was first and foremost an ardent nationalist who devoted his life to ensuring that America live up to its promises of liberty and freedom for all of its members. This book places Greeley's relentless political ambitions, bold reform agenda, and complex personal life into the broader context of freedom.

Mary Margaret McBride was one of the first to exploit the cultural and political importance of talk radio, pioneering the magazine-style format of many talk shows. This radio biography recreates the world of daytime radio from the 1930s through the 1950s, confirming the significance of radio to everyday life, especially for women.

A history of The Guardian Life Insurance company.

Thurman Arnold was one of the few individuals who shaped twentieth-century American law in so many of its facets. A biography of Arnold, this book traces his life from his birth, and explores how his western upbringing later influenced his distinctive views about law and power.

A look at diverse boys across American cultures.

Amiri Baraka, formerly LeRoi Jones, became known as one of the most militant, anti-white black nationalists of the 1960s Black Power movement. In this study, the author takes us from his early immersion in the New York scene through the most dynamic period in the life of this controversial figure.