American Encounters

• Author : Peter C. Mancall,James Hart Merrell
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2007
• Total pages : 739
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : The updated and revised second edition of American Encounters features new essays from the vibrant field of Native American studies and the classic essays on early Native American history from the first edition. Over the past thirty years, historians, anthropologists, and other scholars have transformed our understanding of the history ...

• Author : Joshua Parker,Ralph J. Poole
• Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
• Release Date : 2017
• Total pages : 178
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : Through literature, film, diplomatic relations, and academic exchanges, this volume examines key historical points in Austrian-American relations of the past century, pondering the roots of how and why "austrianness" was adapted to American culture, and how America's cultural lens focused on the two countries' exchanges. From Freud's early reception, to ...

• Author : Frank Trommler,Elliott Shore
• Publisher : Berghahn Books
• Release Date : 2001
• Total pages : 344
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : While Germans, the largest immigration group in the United States, contributed to the shaping of American society and left their mark on many areas from religion and education to food, farming, political and intellectual life, Americans have been instrumental in shaping German democracy after World War II. Both sides can ...

• Author : Randall E. Stross
• Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
• Release Date : 1992-12-01
• Total pages : 354
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : "An entertaining, fact-filled journey through the past two decades of Chinese and American business interaction.... Stross's chapters on the adoption of modern management practices in China shine for their detailed analysis and ... their extremely thorough use of primary Chinese-language newspaper and magazine documentation.... [His] two chapters on Americans and their ...

• Author : Ramabai Sarasvati,Pandita Ramabai
• Publisher : Indiana University Press
• Release Date : 2003
• Total pages : 284
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : "... [A] rare and remarkable insight into an Indian woman's take on American culture in the 19th century, refracted through her own experiences with British colonialism, Indian nationalism, and Christian culture on no less than three continents.... a fabulous resource for undergraduate teaching." —Antoinette Burton In the 1880s, Pandita Ramabai traveled ...

• Author : Peter Prescott
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2017-09-08
• Total pages : 320
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : Peter S. Prescott was one of the most informed and incisive American literary critics to write for the general public. Never content merely to summarize or to pronounce quick judgments, Prescott's reviews are witty and delightful essays to be enjoyed for their own sake as examples of civilized discourse. Whether ...

• Author : Dominic Charles Okero
• Publisher : Lulu.com
• Release Date : 2022-05-23
• Total pages : 212
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : Download or read online Quest of the American Dream A Guide to Culture Shock Encounters among Immigrants and American Visitors written by Dominic Charles Okero, published by Lulu.com which was released on . Get Quest of the American Dream A Guide to Culture Shock Encounters among Immigrants and American Visitors ...

• Author : Jose Eduardo Limon,José Eduardo Limón
• Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
• Release Date : 1998
• Total pages : 251
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : An award-winning anthropologist looks into history, politics, literature, folklore, ethnography, biography, film, song, and dance to probe the deeply entwined and ambivalent relationship between both sides of the U.S./Mexico border over the past 150 years....

• Author : Micol Seigel
• Publisher : Duke University Press
• Release Date : 2010-07-01
• Total pages : 408
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : In Uneven Encounters, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States in the years between the World Wars, and demonstrates how that exchange affected ideas of race and nation in both countries. From Americans interpreting advertisements for Brazilian coffee or dancing the Brazilian maxixe, ...

• Author : Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra,Robert Aleksander Maryks,Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia
• Publisher : BRILL
• Release Date : 2018-08-23
• Total pages : 376
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : The present volume is a result of an international symposium on the encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Asia and the Americas, which was organized by Boston College’s Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies in June 2017....

• Author : Jessica Williams
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release Date : 2013-06-17
• Total pages : 232
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : The Academic Encounters Second edition series uses a sustained content approach to teach skills necessary for taking academic courses in English. There are two books for each content area. Academic Encounters Level 2 Student's Book Reading and Writing: American Studies engages students through academic readings, photos, and charts on stimulating topics ...

• Author : Emily S. Rosenberg,Gilbert Michael Joseph,Catherine LeGrand,Ricardo Donato Salvatore
• Publisher : Duke University Press
• Release Date : 1998
• Total pages : 575
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : Essays that suggest new ways of understanding the role that US actors and agencies have played in Latin America." - publisher....

• Author : Andrew Newman
• Publisher : UNC Press Books
• Release Date : 2018-11-05
• Total pages : 236
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : Presenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial America's best-known literary genre, Andrew Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives. While histories of literacy and colonialism have emphasized the experiences of Native Americans, as students in missionary schools or as parties to treacherous treaties, captivity ...

• Author : Angela L. Miller,Janet Catherine Berlo,Bryan Jay Wolf,Jennifer L. Roberts,Margaretta M. Lovell
• Publisher : Prentice Hall Press
• Release Date : 2008
• Total pages : 686
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : "Contextual in approch, this text draws on socio-economic and political studies as well as histories of religion, science, literature, and popular culture, and explores the diverse, conflicted history of American art and architecture. Thematically interrelating the visual arts to other material artifacts and cultural practices, the text examines how artists ...

• Author : Yoneko Kanaoka
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release Date : 2009-04-27
• Total pages : 162
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : Academic Listening Encounters: The Natural World uses a sustained content approach to help students develop the listening, note-taking, and discussion skills they need to meet the demands of high school or college academic courses in an English-speaking environment. Academic Listening Encounters: The Natural World engages students with high-interest topics in ...