Author: Mick Gidley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American studies
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Audio-visual Materials for American Studies
Author: Mick Gidley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American studies
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American studies
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
American Studies: The Basics
Author: Andrew Dix
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317537831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
American Studies: The Basics is an accessible and concise introduction that aims to unpack what American studies does and why it matters. From Moby-Dick to baseball, Hollywood westerns to #BlackLivesMatter, and Disneyland to the U.S. Supreme Court, American studies engages with a myriad of topics in its efforts to understand what the French sociologist Jean Baudrillard called ‘social and cultural America.’ The book begins by considering how America was studied before American studies’ emergence as a recognized discipline in the mid-twentieth century. Successive chapters then explore the rise of American studies, its varied subjects, its distinctive methods of research, its geographical framing, and its politics. Throughout the book, explanatory examples are drawn from across American history and culture. Photographs are examined alongside novels, and historical monuments discussed next to films. The text offers an ideal way into an exciting academic subject of continuing growth and relevance. This book is a must read for those studying and with an interest in American studies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317537831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
American Studies: The Basics is an accessible and concise introduction that aims to unpack what American studies does and why it matters. From Moby-Dick to baseball, Hollywood westerns to #BlackLivesMatter, and Disneyland to the U.S. Supreme Court, American studies engages with a myriad of topics in its efforts to understand what the French sociologist Jean Baudrillard called ‘social and cultural America.’ The book begins by considering how America was studied before American studies’ emergence as a recognized discipline in the mid-twentieth century. Successive chapters then explore the rise of American studies, its varied subjects, its distinctive methods of research, its geographical framing, and its politics. Throughout the book, explanatory examples are drawn from across American history and culture. Photographs are examined alongside novels, and historical monuments discussed next to films. The text offers an ideal way into an exciting academic subject of continuing growth and relevance. This book is a must read for those studying and with an interest in American studies.
Audio-visual Materials for American Studies
Author: Mick Gidley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780859892308
Category : Audio-visual education
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780859892308
Category : Audio-visual education
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Resources in Education
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Sources for U.S. History
Author: W. B. Stephens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521531368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
This book offers a detailed and comprehensive guide to contemporary sources for research into the history of individual nineteenth-century U.S. communities, large and small. The book is arranged topically (covering demography, ethnicity and race, land use and settlement, religion, education, politics and local government, industry, trade and transportation, and poverty, health, and crime) and thus will be of great use to those investigating particular historical themes at national, state, or regional level. As well as examining a wide variety of types of primary sources, published and unpublished, quantitative and qualitative, available for the study of many places, the book also provides information on certain specific sources and some individual collections, in particular those of the National Archives.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521531368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
This book offers a detailed and comprehensive guide to contemporary sources for research into the history of individual nineteenth-century U.S. communities, large and small. The book is arranged topically (covering demography, ethnicity and race, land use and settlement, religion, education, politics and local government, industry, trade and transportation, and poverty, health, and crime) and thus will be of great use to those investigating particular historical themes at national, state, or regional level. As well as examining a wide variety of types of primary sources, published and unpublished, quantitative and qualitative, available for the study of many places, the book also provides information on certain specific sources and some individual collections, in particular those of the National Archives.
Studies of Utilization of Staff, Buildings, and Audio-visual Aids in the Public Schools
Author: National Education Association of the United States. Research Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Audio-visual education
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Audio-visual education
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Research in Education
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
Audio-visual Materials for American Studies
Author: M. Gidley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Studies
Author: American Council on Education. Committee on Motion Pictures in Education
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Audio-visual education
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Audio-visual education
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Supplemental Appropriation Bill for 1951, Hearings . . . 81st Congress,2d Session: Department of State
Author: United States. Congress. House Appropriations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description