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- What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
- What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker Howe. The Oxford History of the United States series. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007. xviii, 904 pp. $35.00 US cloth. Thomas Carlyle's notion that it is great men that make history has not had much traction lately....
- Research articles 2008-09-22
- Flattening globalism: sovereignty. What a glorious word. A bit hard to spell perhaps, but worth every letter
- Yes, I know it seems like only yesterday that the world was flat. That was Thomas Friedman's best-selling argument: "Walls" were a thing of the past. Flatness, globalism, the twilight of sovereignty--these were the waves of the future. Well, maybe Friedman needs to spend more time with the Irish...
- Research articles 2008-06-30
- Whatever happened to Iraq? How the media lost interest in a long-running war with no end in sight
- Armando Acuna, public editor of the Sacramento Bee, turned a Sunday column into a public flogging for both his editors and the nation's news media. They had allowed the third-longest war in American history to slip off the radar screen, and he had the numbers to prove it. [ILLUSTRATION...
- Research articles 2008-06-01
- Portable politics and durable religion: the moral worldviews of American evangelical missionaries
- INTRODUCTION We began this study with the assumption that American international missionaries, having been exposed to a foreign culture, would relativize their own perspective on American culture, religion, and politics. In particular, we were interested in whether American international missionaries from the Pacific Northwest PNW exhibited similar traits to...
- Research articles 2007-12-22
- Northern enigma: American images of Canada
- The crashing of planes into the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2001, altered instantly American thinking about itself and other states in the world. Gone was the view that the United States was shielded from foreign incursions and problems....
- Research articles 2007-12-22
- Frontiers, empires, and the new world: the significance of the frontier in American foreign policy
- Abstract The late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century frontier profoundly shaped American cultural values and political institutions, and continues to influence the way most Americans look at the world. Studies of how Americans dealt with their western frontier may hold important clues as to how American policy makers and the American...
- Research articles 2007-12-22
- The post-9/11 hijab as icon
- The integration and assimilation of second and third generation Muslims into U.S. society was expected to proceed according to a predictable trajectory noted among previous immigrant groups. The children of the immigrants would shed their parents' religious and cultural markings and become more Americanized, and if a reassertion of a...
- Research articles 2007-09-22
- American Visions of the Houri
- The news media shapes American understanding of Islam. Instead of accessing detailed or scholarly sources of information, Americans tend to learn about Islam as a system of belief through the commentaries they watch on television, read in newspapers, or find while surfing on the Internet. After September 11th, one aspect...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- The visual dialectics of golf, leisure, and beauty in Eva Fong Chan's paintings
- (Original Title: Racialized Images in 1920s and 1930s San Francisco: The Paintings of Eva Fong Chan) Eva Fong Chan (1897-1991), a Chinese-American artist who actively painted and exhibited her work between 1925 and 1940, painted Bo Kay Chart Golfing, Thomas Kwan Watching (1931) and Portrait of Tom Yuk Lan...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Citing foreign and international law to interpret the constitution: what's the point?
- Some years ago, I was lecturing in Brazil and Argentina on constitutional issues, and I spoke one day to a group of Brazilian judges on criminal procedure and due process rights in the United States. When I was finished, up stood one very frustrated Brazilian judge who complained that when...
- Research articles 2006-06-22
- Americanizing the Holocaust: the case of Jakob the Liar
- Americanizing the Holocaust: The Case of Jakob the Liar by Pol O Dochartaigh This paper aims to investigate the cultural transformations that occurred in the process of converting Jurek Becker's 1969 novel Jakob der Lugner into the 1999 US film Jakob the Liar, directed by French director Peter Kassovitz....
- Research articles 2006-04-01
- Doctrinal war: religion and ideology in international conflict
- Justifying War Because war is more devastating than any other form of human conflict, it begs for justification, which must be compelling if it is to be generally persuasive. The exercise of armed force seeks legitimacy and legality, and that is no less evident today than in the past....
- Research articles 2006-04-01
- 17th century AD
- ABSTRACT: Urban sprawl's negative impacts have been amply demonstrated, starting as long as 30 years ago, and most North American urban plans have, somewhere, reference to sprawl as bad policy (or, perhaps, absence of policy). Yet North Americans continue to tolerate the construction of more and more suburban subdivisions. This...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- The lives of animals, the lives of prisoners, and the revelations of Abu Ghraib
- TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION II. THE LIVES OF ANIMALS III. THE LIVES OF PRISONERS IV. THE REVELATIONS OF ABU GHRAIB A. The System Works B. Have We Descended to the Level of ...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- A northern vision: frontiers and the West in the Canadian and American imagination
- An Englishman-become-Canadian named Robert Service was the favorite poet of Ronald Reagan, notes Daniel Francis in his book on myth, memory, and Canadian history. (1) Service, who was a ranch hand and later a bank teller, moved to the Yukon in 1904, soon after the Gold Rush ended, and reinvented...
- Research articles 2003-12-22
- Polish presidents 1947-2000 from the American vantage point
- This analysis focuses on four people who occupied the post of the president either as Presidents of the People's Republic of Poland [PRL] or as Presidents of the Third Republic [III Rp]. (1) Each of these men represents entirely different times, which mark the most tumultuous periods of Poland's post-war...
- Research articles 2003-12-22
- Late Stalinist cinema and the Cold War: an equation without unknowns
- An equation is a mathematical record of the task of searching for the values of arguments, in which the values of two given functions are equal. The arguments on which these functions depend are called unknown factors, and the values...
- Research articles 2003-10-01
- The patriot war of 1837-1838: locofocoism with a gun?
- THIS PAPER PRESENTS a reinterpretation of the causes for the us Patriot movement of 1837-38, which rose up in support of the Canadian rebellion in Upper Canada UC initiated by William Lyon Mackenzie (the companion rebellion in Lower Canada is not considered in this paper since its causation was arguably...
- Research articles 2003-09-22
- "Liberated by the Yanks": the Holocaust as an American story in postwar news articles
- During World War II, The Washington Post was essentially a local newspaper whose hometown just happened to be the nation's capital. Like most American newspapers, it did not send many reporters abroad, relying primarily on the wire services to keep its readers abreast of the war's progress. It ran front-page...
- Research articles 2003-09-22
- Reflections on The Abandonment of the Jews: a symposium
- Lawrence Baron: I first became aware of David Wyman's research when I was writing an article about the response of the residents of Oswego, New York, to the internment of refugees, mostly European Jews, in the nearby abandoned Fort Ontario Army base from the Summer of 1944 until the...
- Research articles 2003-09-22
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