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American and New England Studies [Discontinued]

American Studies

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Review Of: Friends Of The Unrighteous Mammon: Northern Christians And Market Capitalism, 1815-1860, Joseph A. Conforti Dec 2008

Review Of: Friends Of The Unrighteous Mammon: Northern Christians And Market Capitalism, 1815-1860, Joseph A. Conforti

American and New England Studies [Discontinued]

The article reviews the book "Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon: Northern Christians and Market Capitalism, 1815-1860," by Stewart Davenport.


Spaces Of Encounter: The Cultural Labor Of Class Difference, Ardis Cameron Apr 2006

Spaces Of Encounter: The Cultural Labor Of Class Difference, Ardis Cameron

American and New England Studies [Discontinued]

This article explores the complicated relationship between narratives of working-class America and formations of national Otherness. Arguing that class, sex, and ethnicity are deeply relational, it seeks to map the symbolic terrain and emotional depth of class difference as it circulates in the American imaginary. It ask how we might think about the cultural poetics of class difference in ways that make a difference-in ways that register class narratives as participants in constructions of the Nation and the "normal," the irregular and the queer? Attending to the kinds of emotional and conceptual services stories of class perform, it locates "class" …


Review Of: Forests In Time: The Environmental Consequences Of 1,000 Years Of Change In New England, Review Of: Sightseeking: Clues To The Landscape History Of New England, Kent C. Ryden Dec 2005

Review Of: Forests In Time: The Environmental Consequences Of 1,000 Years Of Change In New England, Review Of: Sightseeking: Clues To The Landscape History Of New England, Kent C. Ryden

American and New England Studies [Discontinued]

The article reviews the books "Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1,000 Years of Change in New England," edited by David R. Foster and John D. Aber and "Sightseeing: Clues to the Landscape History of New England," Christopher J. Lenney.