Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Pop Culture 9780786479238, 078647923X

Culture and Resource Conflict: Why Meanings Matter 0871545705, 9780871545701

In a multi-cultural society, differing worldviews among groups can lead to conflict over competing values and behaviors.

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The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy 9780691201726

Combining historical accounts, statistical analysis, detailed interviews, and a close case study of the Black Lives Matt

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Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes 9780292735453

Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics

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Why the Romantics Matter 9780300210095

A renowned scholar’s reflections on the romantic period, its disparate participants, and our unacknowledged debt to them

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Why Children Matter

In the Garden of Eden, there was only one "No." Everything else was "Yes."

 

In this short book on

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Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture 9780822387855

An examination of how monster narratives and horror stories serve as allegories for anxieties about captialism in Americ

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Dread and Hope: Christian Eschatology and Pop Culture (Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture) 1978708165, 9781978708167

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Why Parties Matter: Political Competition and Democracy in the American South 022649523X, 9780226495231

Since the founding of the American Republic, the North and South have followed remarkably different paths of political d

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Dread and Hope: Christian Eschatology and Pop Culture (Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture) 1978708165, 9781978708167

Christianity was born in the midst of great expectation and fear about the world’s future. The existing Jewish paradigm

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Why Budgets Matter: Budget Policy and American Politics; Revised and Updated Edition [Revised and Updated] 9780271085784

When the first edition of Why Budgets Matter was published in 2003, the federal budget had fallen back into deficit. At

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