There is no better way to understand America than by understanding the cultural history of the American Dream. Rather th
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This book charts the complex history of the relationship between the Disney fairy tale and the American Dream, demonstra
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Once there was a golden age of American thrift, when citizens lived sensibly within their means and worked hard to stay
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Although they entered the world as pure science fiction, robots are now very much a fact of everyday life. Whether a spa
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The clich� of the Ugly American--loud, vulgar, materialistic, chauvinistic--still expresses what people around the world
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Telling the full story of the American Way of Life (or more simply the American Way) in the United States over the cours
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How the various, often contradictory, images of the Tôkaidô Shinkansen prompted a reimagination of identity on the level
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In 1929, a small group of men and women threw off their clothes and began to exercise in a New York City gymnasium, mark
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In this pioneering work of cultural history, historian Anthony Harkins argues that the hillbilly-in his various guises o
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An anthology of articles from periodicals of the 1890s, chosen to reflect various aspects of American culture during the
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