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Free Download The Political Development of American Debt Relief
English | 2024 | ISBN: 022683235X,0226832376 | 247 Pages | PDF (True) | 3 MB
Americans have a long history with debt. They also have a long history of mobilizing for debt relief. Throughout the nineteenth century, indebted citizens demanded government protection from their financial burdens, challenging readings of the Constitution that exalted property rights at the expense of the vulnerable. Their appeals shaped the country’s periodic experiments with state debt relief and federal bankruptcy law, constituting a pre-industrial safety net. Yet, the twentieth century saw the erosion of debtor politics and the eventual retrenchment of bankruptcy protections.

Free Download Jodi Kanter, "Presidential Libraries as Performance: Curating American Character from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush "
English | ISBN: 0809335204 | 2016 | 198 pages | PDF | 9 MB
How do the funding, setting architecture, and exhibition of a presidential library shape our understanding of the president’s character? And how do diverse performances of the presidency create radically different opportunities for the practice of American citizenship? In Presidential Libraries as Performance: Curating American Character from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush, Jodi Kanter analyzes presidential libraries as performances that encourage visitors to think in particular ways about executive leadership and about their own roles in public life.

Free Download Kelly B. Volkarsky, "Diet Quality of American School-Age Children "
English | ISBN: 1606927760 | 2010 | 290 pages | PDF | 18 MB
This book uses data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES 1999-2004) to provide a comprehensive picture of the diets of American school-age children (ages 5 to 18). The book examines the nutrient intakes, food choices, and diet quality of children on days when school was in session. Results for children who participated in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) are compared with results for children who did not participate in the NSLP. These comparisons are made in two income groups – low-income children, whose household income was at or below 185 percent of the federal poverty level (these children were eligible to receive NSLP meals free or at a reduced price), and higher-income children whose household income exceeded this cut-off (these children could participate in the NSLP, but had to pay full price for their meal).

Free Download As American as Shoofly Pie: The Foodlore and Fakelore of Pennsylvania Dutch Cuisine by William Woys Weaver
English | May 3, 2013 | ISBN: 0812244796 | 328 pages | PDF | 7.05 Mb
When visitors travel to Pennsylvania Dutch Country, they are encouraged to consume the local culture by way of "regional specialties" such as cream-filled whoopie pies and deep-fried fritters of every variety. Yet many of the dishes and confections visitors have come to expect from the region did not emerge from Pennsylvania Dutch culture but from expectations fabricated by local-color novels or the tourist industry. At the same time, other less celebrated (and rather more delicious) dishes, such as sauerkraut and stuffed pork stomach, have been enjoyed in Pennsylvania Dutch homes across various localities and economic strata for decades.

Free Download American Girls: One Woman’s Journey into the Islamic State and Her Sister’s Fight to Bring Her Home by Jessica Roy
English | January 16, 2024 | ISBN: 1982151315 | 352 pages | PDF | 3.85 Mb
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Free Download The Working Class in American Literature: Essays on Blue Collar Identity edited by John F. Lavelle, Debbie Lelekis
English | September 21, 2021 | ISBN: 1476673063 | True EPUB | 220 pages | 3.2 MB
Literary texts are artifacts of their time and ideologies. This book collection explores the working class in American literature from the colonial to the contemporary period through a critical lens which addresses the real problems of approaching class through economics.

Free Download The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play by Frank Andre Guridy
English | August 20, 2024 | ISBN: 1541601459 | 368 pages | PDF | 30 Mb
The "deep and impactful" story of the American stadium (Howard Bryant, author of Full Dissidence)-from the first wooden ballparks to today’s glass and steel mega-arenas-revealing how it has made, and remade, American life.

Free Download Dolci!: American Baking with an Italian Accent: A Baking Cookbook by Renato Poliafito, Casey Elsass
English | June 25, 2024 | ISBN: 0593537181 | 320 pages | MOBI | 68 Mb
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Free Download Rachel Greenwald Smith, "American Literature in Transition, 2000-2010"
English | ISBN: 1107149290 | 2017 | 412 pages | PDF | 106 MB
American Literature in Transition, 2000-2010 illuminates the dynamic transformations that occurred in American literary culture during the first decade of the twenty-first century. The volume is the first major critical collection to address the literature of the 2000s, a decade that saw dramatic changes in digital technology, economics, world affairs, and environmental awareness. Beginning with an introduction that takes stock of the period’s major historical, cultural, and literary movements, the volume features accessible essays on a wide range of topics, including genre fiction, the treatment of social networking in literature, climate change fiction, the ascendency of Amazon and online booksellers, 9/11 literature, finance and literature, and the rise of prestige television. Mapping the literary culture of a decade of promise and threat, American Literature in Transition, 2000-2010 provides an invaluable resource on twenty-first century American literature for general readers, students, and scholars alike.

Free Download American Christian Nationalism: Neither American nor Christian
by Michael W. Austin and Marlena Graves
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0802884350 | 130 Pages | True ePUB | 0.84 MB