Since the end of the Cold War successive American presidents have tried to build a productive partnership with Russia, but all attempts so far have failed. Following the 9/11 attacks President George W. Bush and Russian ...

This thesis is an attempt to compare the economic and legal integration of Native Americans and African Americans in U.S. society from 1865 to 1900. The analysis is divided in three subchapters: land policy and economic ...

This paper focuses on the extent to which the plantation mistress’s intimate sphere corresponded to southern upper-class notions of womanhood in the period from 1820 to 1860. As a contribution to the feminist revisionist ...

The reception, dissemination and cultural translation of Buffalo Bill (dime novels) in Europe (Germany and the Netherlands) in the early 20th century

If consumption was to become a hallmark of American society, this research investigates how a nation struggled to come to terms with modernity. With the advent of mass communication systems, rapid transportation across the ...

In the United States, the notions of race, gender and class remain much debated topics, not only as separate domains, but also in relation to each other. For non-white women the three notions often overlap in their struggle ...

With the rapid growth and reach of the Internet, the influence of hype surrounding a television show is becoming more entwined with the artistic text of the show itself. The text outside of the show - the paratext - is ...