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This collection of lessons emphasizes using primary sources, such as digitized sheet music and sound recordings, contemporary accounts, and photographs, to illustrate how American music reflects and influences the social and political history of a time period.

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This volume is the first reference study devoted to early American musicologists.

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The author offers a personal account of her experiences as a Muslim in the United States, dispelling many of the myths and misunderstandings about Muslims and comparing Islamic values to American ethical values.

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A guide to research on American mystery and detective novels emphasizing the historical development of the genre and major critical approaches to the literature.

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Written as a primary text for introductory courses in foreign policy, but also for the attention of the informed general reader, this volume proposes the concept of national interest as the organizing principle of American foreign policy.

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Aronsen draws on recently declassified documents in Ottawa and Washington to provide a reassessment of Canada's special relationship with the U.S. Toward this end, detailed new information is provided about Canada's contribution to the creation of the postwar economic order from the Bretton Woods Agreement to GATT.

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This reference includes biographical and critical entries for more than 120 American Naturalistic and Realistic novelists.

An introductory essay discusses the history of the Realistic and Naturalistic traditions, points to the difficulty of defining them, and surveys the many authors who have been associated with the two movements.

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A collection of four new American plays, addressing race, economic hardship, heritage and identity.

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Matthew Bulgo's new intellectual thrillerAmerican Nightmaredissects the battle lines that exist within the eponymous American Dream.

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Offering a new introduction to an important yet overlooked group of 20th century American poets, this book re-examines their work as a group while giving special attention to their individual trajectories.

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This dictionary provides information on the writers, editors and publications that have carried on a strong American tradition of peace advocacy that goes back to colonial times. It contains entries for some 400 individuals and more than 200 periodicals.

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The practice and task of the philosophical interpretation of Scripture has been treated as a conversation-stopper within the academy. This collection corrects that tendency by offering substantive accounts of the role of Scripture in the philosophical thought of fifteen American philosophers.

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In 1871-1882 fifty Americans, along with other foreign experts, were employed by the Japanese government to develop Japan's northern frontier, Hokkaido.

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During the years 1880 to 1945, American theatre grew up, moving from entertainment-driven motives and melodramatic formulas to serious confrontations with issues of its time and to an experimentation with forms that would allow those confrontations to be frank and earnest.

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This collection of brand new essays by a leading team of experts encourages readers to appreciate the rich formal, thematic, and ethnic diversity and inclusivity of post-war American poetry. It provides fresh critical perspectives on, and ways of reading, familiar poets such as Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.

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In the summer of 1968 as killing and starvation escalated in Biafra in a war that used famine as a weapon, the West African conflict attracted media attention and U.S. officials felt strong domestic pressure to expand American involvement in Nigeria's civil war.

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This work examines the role - both governmental and that of Irish-Americans - in attempting to bring a resolution to the strife in Northern Ireland. It concentrates on the efforts since 1967, particularly the American efforts to become the central humanitarian player in the peace process.