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The Familiar Made Strange : American Icons and Artifacts after the Transnational Turn / ed. by Brooke L. Blower, Mark Philip Bradley.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) : 22 halftones, 1 table, 1 chartContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780801455469
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973 23
LOC classification:
  • E175 .F36 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Watson and the Shark -- 2. “Oh! Susanna” -- 3. “Mary Lyon, Massachusetts” -- 4. William Howard Taft’s Drawers -- 5. Josephine Baker’s Banana Skirt -- 6. V-J Day, 1945, Times Square -- 7. The Kinsey Reports -- 8. The Quiet American -- 9. That Touch of Mink -- 10. The Immigration Reform Act of 1965 -- 11. President Jimmy Carter’s Inaugural Address -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: In The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut across rather than stop at the nation’s borders to model new interpretive approaches to studying United States history. These leading practitioners of the "transnational turn" pause to consider such famous icons as John Singleton Copley’s painting Watson and the Shark, Alfred Eisenstaedt’s photograph V-J Day, 1945, Times Square, and Alfred Kinsey’s reports on sexual behavior, as well as more surprising but revealing artifacts like Josephine Baker’s banana skirt and William Howard Taft’s underpants. Together, they present a road map to the varying scales, angles and methods of transnational analysis that shed light on American politics, empire, gender, and the operation of power in everyday life.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Watson and the Shark -- 2. “Oh! Susanna” -- 3. “Mary Lyon, Massachusetts” -- 4. William Howard Taft’s Drawers -- 5. Josephine Baker’s Banana Skirt -- 6. V-J Day, 1945, Times Square -- 7. The Kinsey Reports -- 8. The Quiet American -- 9. That Touch of Mink -- 10. The Immigration Reform Act of 1965 -- 11. President Jimmy Carter’s Inaugural Address -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index

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In The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut across rather than stop at the nation’s borders to model new interpretive approaches to studying United States history. These leading practitioners of the "transnational turn" pause to consider such famous icons as John Singleton Copley’s painting Watson and the Shark, Alfred Eisenstaedt’s photograph V-J Day, 1945, Times Square, and Alfred Kinsey’s reports on sexual behavior, as well as more surprising but revealing artifacts like Josephine Baker’s banana skirt and William Howard Taft’s underpants. Together, they present a road map to the varying scales, angles and methods of transnational analysis that shed light on American politics, empire, gender, and the operation of power in everyday life.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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