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Book Review: The Minds Of The West: Ethnocultural Evolution In The Rural Middle West, 1830-1917, Lynn Dumenil Sep 1999

Book Review: The Minds Of The West: Ethnocultural Evolution In The Rural Middle West, 1830-1917, Lynn Dumenil

Lynn Dumenil

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A King's Impossible Dream, Michael Graham Sep 1999

A King's Impossible Dream, Michael Graham

Michael F. Graham

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Review: Holocaust Infatuation, Peter Novick, The Holocaust In American Life, Marla Stone Aug 1999

Review: Holocaust Infatuation, Peter Novick, The Holocaust In American Life, Marla Stone

Marla Stone

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Kosovo: A Round Table, Marla Stone May 1999

Kosovo: A Round Table, Marla Stone

Marla Stone

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Freedpeople In The Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860-1900, Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie Mar 1999

Freedpeople In The Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860-1900, Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie

Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie

Throughout the colonial and antebellum periods, Virginia's tobacco producers exploited slave labor to ensure the profitability of their agricultural enterprises. In the wake of the Civil War, however, the abolition of slavery, combined with changed market conditions, sparked a breakdown of traditional tobacco culture. Focusing on the transformation of social relations between former slaves and former masters, Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie traces the trajectory of this breakdown from the advent of emancipation to the stirrings of African American migration at the turn of the twentieth century.

Drawing upon a rich array of sources, Kerr-Ritchie situates the struggles of newly freed people within …

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Challenging Cultural Categories: The Transformation Of The Venice Biennale Under Fascism, Marla Stone Dec 1998

Challenging Cultural Categories: The Transformation Of The Venice Biennale Under Fascism, Marla Stone

Marla Stone

This article analyzes the development of a national cultural event, the Venice Biennale, under the auspices of the Fascist government. As part of a larger project of forging responsive publics and modernizing cultural life, Fascist culture ministries and bureaucrats used this international fine arts exhibition as a place to challenge existing practices of cultural display and organization. In this process, which took place between 1930 and 1938, cinema, the decorative arts and audience incentive practices drawn from the tourist industry were mobilized to transform a previously limited institution.

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A Flexible Rome: Fascism And The Cult Of Romanità, Marla Stone Dec 1998

A Flexible Rome: Fascism And The Cult Of Romanità, Marla Stone

Marla Stone

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