Weird America
Title | Weird America PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Brandon |
Publisher | Plume Books |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | History |
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Weird Like Us
Title | Weird Like Us PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Powers |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Bohemianism |
ISBN | 0684838087 |
Describes the various subcultures trying to reshape America today, and includes interviews with modern bohemians, who share their views on life.
Florida
Title | Florida PDF eBook |
Author | Charlie Carlson |
Publisher | Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2009-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781402766848 |
A guide to visiting the odd and less known tourist attractions in the state of Florida.
Weird and Wonderful
Title | Weird and Wonderful PDF eBook |
Author | Andrea Stulman Dennett |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 1997-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0814718868 |
A wondrous assortment of curiosities attracted the nineteenth-century spectator at the dime museum.
Only in America
Title | Only in America PDF eBook |
Author | Heather Alexander |
Publisher | 50 States |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 2021-11-09 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0711262845 |
In Only In America, discover unique, strange, funny, record-breaking and downright unbelievable facts about every state in the USA.
Invisible Republic #1
Title | Invisible Republic #1 PDF eBook |
Author | Gabriel Hardman |
Publisher | Image Comics |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2015-03-18 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN |
Breaking Bad meets Blade Runner. Arthur McBride's planetary regime has fallen. His story is over. That is until reporter Croger Babb discovers the journal of Arthur's cousin, Maia. Inside is the violent, audacious hidden history of the legendary freedom fighter. Erased from the official record, Maia alone knows how dangerous her cousin really is... Creative team GABRIEL HARDMAN (KINSKI, "Intense" - A.V. Club) and CORINNA BECHKO (HEATHENTOWN, "Nuanced" _ Broken Frontier) brought you scifi adventure before (Planet of the Apes, Star Wars: Legacy, Hulk) but never this gritty or this epic.
Awkward Rituals
Title | Awkward Rituals PDF eBook |
Author | Dana W. Logan |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2022-05-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226818500 |
A fresh account of early American religious history that argues for a new understanding of ritual. In the years between the American Revolution and the Civil War, there was an awkward persistence of sovereign rituals, vestiges of a monarchical past that were not easy to shed. In Awkward Rituals, Dana Logan focuses our attention on these performances, revealing the ways in which governance in the early republic was characterized by white Protestants reenacting the hierarchical authority of a seemingly rejected king. With her unique focus on embodied action, rather than the more common focus on discourse or law, Logan makes an original contribution to debates about the relative completeness of America’s Revolution. Awkward Rituals theorizes an under-examined form of action: rituals that do not feel natural even if they sometimes feel good. This account challenges common notions of ritual as a force that binds society and synthesizes the self. Ranging from Freemason initiations to evangelical societies to missionaries posing as sailors, Logan shows how white Protestants promoted a class-based society while simultaneously trumpeting egalitarianism. She thus redescribes ritual as a box to check, a chore to complete, an embarrassing display of theatrical verve. In Awkward Rituals, Logan emphasizes how ritual distinctively captures what does not change through revolution.