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Burdened Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis


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English | September 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 0358353963 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 1.21 MB
An urgent investigation of student debt in America revealing the corrupt systems, rotten policies, and bad actors that have created a $1.7 trillion crisis.

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Black Power and the American People The Cultural Legacy of Black Radicalism


Free Download Rafael Torrubia, "Black Power and the American People: The Cultural Legacy of Black Radicalism"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1780763948, 0755638107 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 0.4 mb
Its original leaders, Stokely Carmichael and Willie Ricks, were Black Nationalists, advocating a militant and extremist approach to tackle racism, while other leaders, such as Bobby Seale of the Black Panthers, believed that the struggle for Black Power was essentially a class struggle. Beginning with the folk-narratives told through song by slaves in the plantations, through the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s and 30s, the era of Malcolm X, the African-American art and fashion of the late sixties and ‘soul music’ and politics in the 1970s, Black Power and the American People will be the first comprehensive cultural history of the movement.

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As American as Shoofly Pie The Foodlore and Fakelore of Pennsylvania Dutch Cuisine


Free Download As American as Shoofly Pie: The Foodlore and Fakelore of Pennsylvania Dutch Cuisine by William Woys Weaver
English | April 11th, 2013 | ISBN: 0812244796 | 328 pages | True EPUB | 4.95 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.

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As American as Shoofly Pie The Foodlore and Fakelore of Pennsylvania Dutch Cuisine


Free Download As American as Shoofly Pie: The Foodlore and Fakelore of Pennsylvania Dutch Cuisine by William Woys Weaver
English | April 11th, 2013 | ISBN: 0812244796 | 328 pages | True EPUB | 4.95 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.

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Ametora How Japan Saved American Style


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English | September 26, 2023 | ISBN: 1541604334 | 304 pages | MOBI | 59 Mb
"A fascinating cultural history" (People) of how Japan adopted and ultimately revived traditional American fashion

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American Journeys


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English | 2008 | pages: 348 | ISBN: 1740513169, 1525277634, 0143790994 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
Australia’s bestselling author returns with a superb book about his journeys around America – this is travel writing at its very best.Only in America – the most powerful democracy on earth, home to the best and worst of everything – are the most extreme contradictions possible. In a series of journeys acclaimed author Don Watson set out to explore the nation that has influenced him more than any other.Travelling by rail gave Watson a unique and seductive means of peering into the United States, a way to experience life with its long days with the American landscape and American towns and American history unfolding on the outside, while inside a tiny particle of the American people talked among themselves.Watson’s experiences are profoundly he witnesses the terrible aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast; explores the savage history of the Deep South, the heartland of the Civil War; and journeys to the remarkable wilderness of Yellowstone National Park. Yet it is through the people he meets that Watson discovers the incomparable genius of America, its optimism, sophistication and riches – and also its darker side, its disavowal of failure and uncertainty.Beautifully written, with gentle power and sly humour, AMERICAN JOURNEYS investigates the meaning of the United its confidence, its religion, its heroes, its violence, and its material obsessions. The things that make America great are also its greatest flaws.

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American Jewish Year Book 2012


Free Download American Jewish Year Book 2012 By Barry A. Kosmin, Ariela Keysar (auth.), Arnold Dashefsky, Ira Sheskin (eds.)
2013 | 606 Pages | ISBN: 9400752032 | PDF | 5 MB
The 2012 American Jewish Year Book, "The Annual Record of American Jewish Civilization," contains major chapters on Jewish secularism (Barry Kosmin and Ariela Keysar), Canadian Jewry (Morton Weinfeld, David Koffman, and Randal Schnoor), national affairs (Ethan Felson), Jewish communal affairs (Lawrence Grossman), Jewish population in the United States (Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky), and World Jewish population (Sergio DellaPergola). These chapters provide insight into major trends in the North American and world Jewish community. The volume also acts as a resource for the American Jewish community and for academics studying that community by supplying obituaries and lists of Jewish Federations, Jewish Community Centers, national Jewish organizations, Jewish overnight camps, Jewish museums, Holocaust museums, local and national Jewish periodicals, Jewish honorees, major recent events in the American Jewish community, and academic journals, articles, websites, and books. The volume should prove useful to social scientists and historians of the American Jewish community, Jewish communal workers, the press, and others interested in American and Canadian Jews.​

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