The party period and public policy : American politics from the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era

Trends in Historiography -- Ethnocultural Interpretations of Nineteenth-Century American Voting Behavior -- The Realignment Synthesis in American History -- The Social Analysis of American Political History--After Twenty Years -- The Political Parties -- Political Parties in American History -- The Party Period and Public Policy: An Exploratory Hypothesis -- Antiparty Thought in the Gilded Age -- Political Change in the Progressive Era -- Progressivism: A Contemporary Reassessment -- Prelude to Progressivism: The Transformation of New York State Politics, 1890-1910 -- The Discovery That Business Corrupts Politics: A Reappraisal of the Origins of Progressivism.

Whose America? : culture wars in the public schools

Preface to the second edition -- Introduction: Beyond Dayton and Chicago -- Part 1: History Wars -- Ethnicity and the History Wars -- Struggles over Race and Sectionalism -- Social Studies Wars in New Deal America -- The Cold War Assault on Textbooks -- Black Activism, White Resistance, and Multiculturalism -- Part 2: God in the Schools -- Religious Education in Public Schools -- School Prayer and the Conservative Revolution -- The Battle for Sex Education -- Part 3: From Religion to History -- Twenty-First-Century Culture Wars: From 9/11 to Donald Trump -- Conclusion: Who Are We Now?

Evangelical identity and gendered family life

Evangelical Ideals -- Evangelical Family Values in Social Discourse -- History of Mutuality and Gender Hierarchy -- Twentieth-Century Evangelical Ideals -- Symbolic Traditionalism and Pragmatic Egalitarianism -- Faith and Family -- Spiritual Leadership and Decision Making -- Dividing the Labor of Parenting and Housework -- Employment and the Needs of Children -- Understanding Evangelical Identity, Gender, and Family -- What Would Be Lost If Evangelicals Abandoned the Notion of Husbands' Headship? -- History, Community, and Identity: Tools and Truths in the Evangelical Tools Kit -- Excursus into Exegesis: Essentialist and Biblical Feminist Interpretations of Key Biblical Texts.

Making blood white : historical transformations in early modern Makassar

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- A NOTE ON MAKASSARESE LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION -- Introduction Making a History of Early Modern Makassar -- Part I. History-Making -- 1. Early Modern Makassar and Its Contexts -- 2. Culture and History-Making -- 3 .Transformations in Makassarese Perceptions of the Past -- Part II. Making History -- 4. Historical Literacy and Social Hierarchicalization -- 5 . Historical Literacy and Gowa as the Center of Makassar -- 6 . Historical Literacy and Makassarese Culture -- Conclusion The Force of History -- APPENDIX EARLY MODERN RULERS OF GOWA AND TALLOQ -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner : "The significance of the frontier in American history", and other essays

Introduction : "A nation thrown back upon itself" : Frederick Jackson Turner and the frontier / The significance of the frontier in American history (1893) / The problem of the West (1896) / Contributions of the West to American democracy (1903) / Pioneer ideals and the state university (1910) / Social forces in American history (1910) / The West and American ideals (1914) / Middle Western pioneer democracy (1918) / Sections and nation (1922) / The significance of the section in American history (1925) / Afterword : the significance of the frontier in American historiography : a guide to further reading

Social structure and forms of consciousness. Volume 2, The dialectic of structure and history

Dialectic of structure and history

Nature of Historical Determination -- Material Imperatives and the "Active Side" -- Philosophical Foundations of Historical Materialism -- Poverty of "Anti-Historicism" -- Concepts and Metaphors: A Problem of Method -- Technological Determinism and Dialectics -- Dialectic of Structure and History -- Dialectical Transformations: Teleology, History, and Social Consciousness -- Social Interaction and Uneven Development -- Problematical Character of Labor's Spontaneous Teleology -- Interdependence and Global Control -- Structural Constraints of Social Consciousness -- Key Concepts in the Dialectic of Base and Superstructure -- Hasty Rejection of the Marxian Conceptual Framework -- Reproduction of the Operating Conditions of Production --

Hermeneutics : questions and prospects

The epistemological problem of understanding as an aspect of the general problem of knowing / The hermeneutics of suspicion / Beyond hermeneutics : interpretation in late Heidegger and recent Foucault / On the transcendability of hermeneutics (a response to Dreyfus) / Transcendential philosophy and the hermeneutic critique of consciousness / Phenomenality and materiality in Kant / The problem of figuration in antiquity / Homotextuality : Barthes on Barthes, Fragments (RB), with a footnote / Surviving figures / Hermeneutics and social theory / Conflicting interpretations in history : the case of the English Civil War / On Dray's "Conflicting interpretations in history : the case of the English Civil War"

Conversations with visitors : social media in museums : selected essays.

Twitter.

Developing a social media strategy / Measuring, analysing and reporting / Using Twitter for research / Clearing the path for sisyphus / The art of playful mobility in museums / EGO-TRAP : the design and implementation of a digital narrative / Mobile gaming : no strings attached? / Mobile phones for informal science center learning : a socio-technical analysis / The mate game at Re : generation, Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw / National Museum of American History / Click history : wherever, whenever / Placing our bets : building a national museum's media strategy from scratch / Smartphone interaction : the museum as a gaming board

A new theory of value the Canadian economics of H.A. Innis.

Canadian university paperbacks,

Canadian university paperbooks ;

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Harold Adams Innis -- 2. Innis at Chicago: values and economic growth -- 3. The historical case: Canada -- 4. The theory of economic growth -- 5. The problem of values in the Canadian case -- 6. The role of values in economic growth -- 7. The role of values in the nature and history of social science -- 8. Values in the nature and history of civilization -- 9. The place of Innis in the history of economics -- 10. The place of Innis in Canadian economics -- Bibliography -- Appendix. Two unpublished papers.

Subaltern social groups a critical edition of prison notebook 25

European Perspectives

Quaderni del carcere. English.

European perspectives.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Notes -- Introduction -- Prison Notebooks -- Notebook 25 (1934): On the Margins of History (The History of Subaltern Social Groups) -- First Draft Notes of Notebook 25 -- Subaltern Social Groups in Miscellaneous Notes and Special Notebooks -- Notes -- Notebook 25 (1934): Description of the Manuscript -- Notes to the Text: Notebook 25 -- Notes to the Text: First Draft Notes of Notebook 25 -- Notes to the Text: Subaltern Social Groups in Miscellaneous Notes and Special Notebooks -- Sequence of Notes by Title or Opening Phrase -- Index

Living in the Children of God

Princeton legacy library

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Studying the Children of God -- ONE. Ideology and Proselytization -- TWO. A Short History of the Children of God -- THREE. The Organizational Setting of Everyday Life -- FOUR. Social Relations in Everyday Life -- FIVE. Litnessing: Street Proselytization as an Access Strategy -- SIX. Witnessing: Techniques for Conversion -- SEVEN. Reading Religious Literature -- EIGHT. Practical Religious Activity: Creating and Maintaining the Children of God Reality -- NINE. Socialization and Role Negotiation -- POSTSCRIPT: January 1991 -- APPENDIX A: The Life History of the Research and Ethical Considerations -- APPENDIX B: Sample Mo Letters -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

The myth of achievement tests : the GED and the role of character in American life

Achievement tests and the role of character in American life / The history of the GED. An institutional history of the GED / Growth in GED testing / Evaluating the benefits. Who are the GEDs? / The economic and social benefits of GED certification / The military performance of GED holders / The GED creates problems. The GED testing program induces students to drop out / High-stakes testing and the rise of the GED / What can be done to promote character? Fostering and measuring skills: interventions that improve character and cognition / What should be done?