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Charter Members of the MAA and the Material Culture of American Mathematics

2016
In the early twentieth century, growing use of numbers, combined with burgeoning high school enrollments and expanding technical education, encouraged the expansion of college mathematics teaching in the United States. It was an era when like-minded educators banded together in professional associations.
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Introduction: Italian American Material Culture: Setting the Ground

2023
According to Christopher Tilley, “The object world is [...] absolutely central to an understanding of the identities of individual persons and societies” (61). Objects and commodities serve as tangible representations of our past, present and future; they function as a medium that enables individuals and communities to express themselves, articulating ...
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The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture by Scott Herring

American Studies, 2016
THE HOARDERS: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture. By Scott Herring. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 2014.Scott Herring's The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture is a provocative book that interrogates contemporary psychology's treatment of hoarding as a mental illness.
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Science, Play, and the Material Culture of Twentieth-Century American Boyhood

2020
This chapter uses the example of the child’s chemistry set to explore the way that American children’s material culture has shaped, and been shaped by, changing perceptions of acceptable risk in the home environment in the twentieth century. Chemistry sets, first sold in the United States in the 1910s, changed over the twentieth century, as companies ...
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Living in a Material World: Canadian and American Approaches to Material Culture

The Journal of American Folklore, 1993
Dorothy Noyes, Gerald R. Pocius
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Introduction: Archives, Materiality, and Modern American Culture

2022
Jesse W. Schwartz, Daniel Worden
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The Material Inventories of Millennial Jewish Lives: Affective Learning and Jewish Consumer Culture at the National Museum of American Jewish History Gift Shop

Material Religion, 2022
Laura Yares
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SMALL BUSINESS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PRINCIPLE OF SUBSIDIARITY: ON THE ISSUE OF DISTRIBUTION OF FINANCIAL POWERS AND FISCAL PRESSURE

2022
Laura E Ruberto
exaly  

Introduction: Jewish American Material Culture

American Jewish History, 2017
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New England Begins: The Material Origins of American Culture

Reviews in American History, 1984
Christopher M. Jedrey, Jonathan L. Fairbanks, Robert F. Trent   +2 more
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