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Title:

The familiar made strange : American icons and artifacts after the transnational turn / edited by Brooke L. Blower and Mark Philip Bradley.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

ix, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

National characteristics, American, in literature.
National characteristics, American, in art.
Transnationalism.
United States--Historiography.

Other Authors:

Blower, Brooke Lindy, 1976- ditor.
Bradley, Mark, 1961- editor.
Container of (work): DeLay, Brian, 1971- Watson and the shark.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Watson and the shark / Brian DeLay -- Oh! / Susanna Brian Rouleau -- The many likenesses of Mary Lyon / Mary Renda -- William Howard Taft's drawers / Andrew J. Rotter -- Josephine Baker's banana skirt / Matthew Pratt Guterl -- V-J day, 1945, Times Square / Brooke L. Blower -- The Kinsey reports / Naoko Shibusawa -- The Quiet American / Fredrik Logevall -- That touch of mink / Nick Cullather -- The Immigration Reform Act of 1965 / Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof -- President Jimmy Carter's inaugural address / Mark Philip Bradley.

ISBN:

0801479118 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780801479113 (pbk. : alk. paper)
080145249X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801452499 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)890377735

LCCN:

2014035314

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)