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    White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America (2016)
    New York, New York : Viking
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    UID:
    gbv_862498368
    Format: xvii, 460 Seiten , Illustrationen , 25 cm
    ISBN: 9780670785971
    Content: "A history of the class system in America from the colonial era to the present illuminates the crucial legacy of the underprivileged white demographic, citing the pivotal contributions of lower-class white workers in wartime, social policy, and the rise of the Republican Party," -- NoveList
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 323-446 , Fables we forget by -- Part 1: To begin the world anew. Taking out the trash : waste people in the New World -- John Locke's Lubberland : the settlements of Carolina and Georgia -- Benjamin Franklin's American breed : the demographics of mediocrity -- Thomas Jefferson's rubbish : a curious topography of class -- Andrew Jackson's cracker country : the squatter as common man -- Patrt 2: Degeneration of the American Breed. Pedigree and poor white trash : bad blood, half-breeds and clay-eaters -- Cowards, Poltroons, and mudsills : civil war as class warfare -- Thoroughbreds and scalawags : bloodlines and bastard stock in the age of eugenics -- Forgotten men and poor folk : downward mobility and the Great Depression -- The cult of the country boy : Elvis Presley, Andy Griffith, and LBJ's Great Society -- Part 3: The white trash makeover. Redneck roots : Deliverance, Billy Beer, and Tammy Faye -- Outing Rednecks : slumming, Slick Willie, and Sarah Palin -- America's strange breed : the long legacy of white trash
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781101608487
    Language: English
    Subjects: History , Ethnology , English Studies , Sociology
    RVK:
    LB 45610
    RVK:
    HD 474
    RVK:
    HD 470
    RVK:
    MS 1235
    RVK:
    NW 2708
    RVK:
    MS 1420
    Keywords: USA ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Armut ; Diskriminierung ; Ausgrenzung
    URL: Autorenbiografie
    URL: Verlagsangaben
    URL: https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1618/2016302095-s.html
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
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    A hero of our own : the story of Varian Fry (2001)
    New York : Random House
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    UID:
    b3kat_BV014075080
    Format: XII, 349 S. , Ill.
    Edition: 1. ed.
    ISBN: 0375502211
    Language: English
    Keywords: Fry, Varian 1907-1967 ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Bibliografie
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    URL: Autorenbiografie
    URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random044/2001019283.html
    URL: Verlagsangaben
    URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0411/2001019283.html
    URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random044/2001019283.html
    URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random053/2001019283.html
    Author information: Isenberg, Sheila
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    South America : problems and prospects (1975)
    New York : Wilson
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    UID:
    gbv_46941684X
    Format: 198 S , Kt
    Series Statement: The reference shelf Vol. 47, Nr. 2
    Language: English
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  • 4
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    Mortal Remains : Death in Early America (2012)
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc
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    UID:
    gbv_839031181
    Format: Online-Ressource (264 p)
    ISBN: 9780812218237
    Content: "These 12 short, highly focused essays analyze how experiences with death and the imagery associated with it influenced US culture before 1860."--Choice.
    Content: Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- PART I. MORTALITY FOR THE MASSES -- 1. The Christian Origins of the Vanishing Indian -- 2. Blood Will Out: Sensationalism, Horror, and the Roots of American Crime Literature -- 3. A Tale of Two Cities: Epidemics and the Rituals of Death in Eighteenth-Century Boston and Philadelphia -- PART II. THE POLITICS OF DEATH -- 4. Death and Satire: Dismembering the Body Politic -- 5. Immortalizing the Founding Fathers: The Excesses of Public Eulogy -- 6. The Politics of Tears: Death in the Early American Novel -- PART III. PHYSICAL REMAINS -- 7. Major André's Exhumation -- 8. Patriotic Remains: Bones of Contention in the Early Republic -- 9. A Peculiar Mark of Infamy: Dismemberment, Burial, and Rebelliousness in Slave Societies -- PART IV. AFTER LIFE -- 10. Immortal Messengers: Angels, Gender, and Power in Early America -- 11. "In the Midst of Life we are in Death": Affliction and Religion in Antebellum New York -- 12. The Romantic Landscape: Washington Irving, Sleepy Hollow, and the Rural Cemetery Movement -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- XYZ.
    Note: Description based upon print version of record , ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I. MORTALITY FOR THE MASSES""; ""1. The Christian Origins of the Vanishing Indian""; ""2. Blood Will Out: Sensationalism, Horror, and the Roots of American Crime Literature""; ""3. A Tale of Two Cities: Epidemics and the Rituals of Death in Eighteenth-Century Boston and Philadelphia""; ""PART II. THE POLITICS OF DEATH""; ""4. Death and Satire: Dismembering the Body Politic""; ""5. Immortalizing the Founding Fathers: The Excesses of Public Eulogy""; ""6. The Politics of Tears: Death in the Early American Novel"" , ""PART III. PHYSICAL REMAINS""""7. Major André's Exhumation""; ""8. Patriotic Remains: Bones of Contention in the Early Republic""; ""9. A Peculiar Mark of Infamy: Dismemberment, Burial, and Rebelliousness in Slave Societies""; ""PART IV. AFTER LIFE""; ""10. Immortal Messengers: Angels, Gender, and Power in Early America""; ""11. ""In the Midst of Life we are in Death"": Affliction and Religion in Antebellum New York""; ""12. The Romantic Landscape: Washington Irving, Sleepy Hollow, and the Rural Cemetery Movement""; ""Notes""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D"" , ""E""""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""XYZ""
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780812208061
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780812218237
    Additional Edition: Print version Mortal Remains : Death in Early America
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books
    URL: Volltext
    URL: Volltext
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  • 5
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    The role of mindfulness in a stimulus-source attribution paradigm (2023)
    Berlin
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    UID:
    gbv_1869709675
    Format: 32 Seiten , Diagramme
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 27-32 , Masterarbeit Freie Universität Berlin 2023
    Language: English
    Keywords: Aufmerksamkeit ; Reiz ; Umwelt ; Neurowissenschaften ; Experiment ; Magnetresonanzmikroskopie ; Hochschulschrift
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    Downtown America : A History of the Place and the People Who Made It (2010)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    UID:
    gbv_723009511
    Format: Online-Ressource (461 p.)
    ISBN: 9780226385075
    Series Statement: Historical Studies of Urban America
    Content: Downtown America was once the vibrant urban center romanticized in the Petula Clark song-a place where the lights were brighter, where people went to spend their money and forget their worries. But in the second half of the twentieth century, "downtown" became a shadow of its former self, succumbing to economic competition and commercial decline. And the death of Main Streets across the country came to be seen as sadly inexorable, like the passing of an aged loved one.Downtown America cuts beneath the archetypal story of downtown's rise and fall and offers a dynamic new story of urban developm
    Note: Description based upon print version of record , CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 - City Beautiful or Beautiful Mess? The Gendered Origins of a Civic Ideal; Chapter 2 - Fixing an Image of Commercial Dignity: Postcards and the Business of Planning Main Street; Chapter 3 - "Mrs. Consumer," "Mrs. Brown America," and "Mr. Chain Store Man": Economic Woman and the Laws of Retail; Chapter 4 - Main Street's Interior Frontier: Innovation amid Depression and War; Chapter 5 - "The Demolition of Our Outworn Past": Suburban Shoppers and the Logic of Urban Renewal , Chapter 6 - The Hollow Prize? Black Buyers, Racial Violence, and the Riot RenaissanceChapter 7 - Animated by Nostalgia: Preservation and Vacancy since the 1960s; Conclusion; List of Archival Collections; Notes; Index;
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780226385099
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780226385075
    Additional Edition: Print version Downtown America : A History of the Place and the People Who Made It
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books
    URL: Volltext
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
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