Search results for "American History"

Early Representations of Organized Crime and Issues of Identity in the Italian American Press (1890 to 1910)

2016

Beginning from the early days of mass immigration (1890s), Italian immigrants were increasingly depicted in association with crime, especially organized crime, in the mainstream press. Fuelled by nativist views of immigrants as a threat to American safety, character, and morality, these first images of the newcomers became increasingly popular as the new century progressed, crystallizing in the minds of Americans and becoming the predominant representations of Italian immigrants. The response of the newly formed Italian communities can be found in the Italian-American press, which took upon itself the task of providing alternative images with which the burgeoning Italian community could ide…

“Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie and the Ambiguous Afterlife of the History of the Acadians”

2018

Abstract Longfellow’s Evangeline was hailed as a great and distinctively American work when it appeared in 1847, and the poem’s use of North American history was a key element in its favourable reception. This use of history, however, is ambiguous and complex. The epic continues, first of all, in a long tradition of romanticized retellings of the heart-rending story of the Acadians. But the work also engages in a dual-level dialogue with both the mid-eighteenth-century history of the Acadians, who are pitied, without inciting indignation, and the contemporary history of midnineteenth-century America, whose expansionism it both implicitly celebrates and criticizes. Resume Evangeline, le poem…

“La feccia dell’Europa del Sud”. Razza e costruzione dell’identità etnica nella stampa italiana di New York (1890-1910)

2016

A partire dai primi anni di immigrazione di massa (1890), gli immigrati italiani furono sempre raffigurati nella stampa mainstream in associazione con la criminalità, in particolare la criminalità organizzata,. Le prime immagini dei nuovi arrivati visti come una minaccia per la sicurezza e la moralità americana, ​​col progredire del nuovo secolo, si diffusero sempre di più cristallizzandosi nella mente degli americani e finendo per diventare le rappresentazioni predominanti degli immigrati italiani. La risposta delle comunità italiane di nuova formazione si trova sulla stampa italo-americana, che fornì immagini alternative con cui la comunità italiana potesse identificarsi e prospettive alt…

Robert E. Lee in Love and War written by John Jakes : comparison with accounts by historians Foote, Catton and McPherson

2005

Identity in Moon Palace by Paul Auster

2021

National audience

Repères de civilisation : Grande-Bretagne, Etats-Unis

2003

International audience; Il s’agit d’un manuel d’initiation à l’histoire et aux institutions britanniques et américaines avec des courts résumés en français. Comprenant 239 pages, il est destiné aux étudiants de terminale, des classes préparatoires et de première année à l’université. J’étais responsable de la partie américaine de l’ouvrage, élaboré en collaboration avec Adrian Park (pour la partie britannique), Jean Pouvelle (pour les résumés en français) et Daniel Casanave (pour les illustrations).

"Not my people" : confrontation with the past and search for identity: Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Beloved

1999

Booker T. Washington's moderate means to racial harmony : the ascendancy of the African American educator 1881-1915

1997

Physics meets Bohemia Einstein in Bohemia Michael D. Gordin Princeton University Press, 2020. 360 pp.

2020

In Einstein in Bohemia, Michael Gordin seeks to illuminate the elusive sig­nificance of Einstein9s brief tenure in Prague, both for the biography of the famous physi­cist and for the cultural history of Bohemia. An expert in the his­tory of modern physical sciences and of Russian, European, and American history, Gordin pulls together a wealth of infor­mation about the wider context of Einstein9s stay in Prague and of the cultural, scientific, and political history of Bohemia.