Clockwork nation: Modern time moral perfectionism and American identity in Catherine Beecher and Henry Thoreau
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Historians assumes the relationship between clocks and other forms of modernization is recursive and the various advances made in technology have made it possible to measure the time more accurately. This assumption about the relationship between technology and human actors in the creation of modern social political worlds is rethought by uncovering some of the dissonant, heterogeneous ways individuals employed and remade time in the United States in the mid 19th-Century.
Publication Name: Journal of American Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-8758
Year: 2005
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From Swarthy Ape to Sympathetic Everyman and Subversive Trickster: The development of Irish caricature in American comic strips between 1890 and 1920
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A study explores the complex patterns of identification, sympathy, and denigration that can emerge in cartoon representation of ethnic identity. A spectrum of comedic roles played by the Irish cartoon stereotype by several artists such as Burr Opper, Richard Outcault and George McManus during a thirty-year period (1890-1920) is presented.
Publication Name: Journal of American Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-8758
Year: 2005
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