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In this comprehensive, groundbreaking study, Tim A. Ryan explores how American novelists since World War I have imagined the institution …
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In Private Empire Steve Coll investigates the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States, revealing the true …
The intellectual history of race, one of the most pernicious and enduring ideas in American history, has remained segregated into …
A Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary American English: word sketches, collocates, and thematic lists is an invaluable tool for all learners …
Throughout our nation's history, patriotic songs have lifted our spirits during hard times and brought us closer to our heritage …
In this collection, one of the world’s leading scholars in the field of masculinity studies explores the historical construction of …
