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Prison Area, Independence Valley
The study of prisons brought Tocqueville to America. For Rob Kroes, one of Europe's most distinguished authorities on contemporary American culture, it was rather the other way …
Prison Area, Independence Valley
The study of prisons brought Tocqueville to America. For Rob Kroes, one of Europe's most distinguished authorities on contemporary American culture, it was rather the other way …
Buffalo Bill in Bologna
"Buffalo Bill in Bologna" reveals that the globalization of American mass culture that seems unstoppable today began as early as the mid-nineteenth century. In fact, by the end of …
Buffalo Bill in Bologna
When it comes to the production and distribution of mass culture, no country in modern times has come close to rivaling the success of America. From blue jeans in central Europe to …
Antisocial Commentary: From the Secret Files of the Mattress Police
Antisocial Commentary: From the Secret Files of the Mattress Police is a hilarious excursion through the mind of Rob Kroese, aka "Diesel," the twisted mastermind behind the humor …
Photographic Memories
Photographic Memories explores the ways photography has helped Americans and Europeans form and share a store of remembered images, thus giving them a sense of their shared past. …
Straddling Borders
This volume explores the possibilities and implications of transnational citizenship in terms of its cultural affinities and political affiliations. The historical experience of …
Post-Cold War Europe, Post-Cold War America
This volume explores how we can meaningfully relate today's world to the end of the Cold War. The over-all picture is one of flux. Many changes will be the outcome of longer-term …
Them and Us
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, all of us consider ourselves to be citizens of something-–but of what? Nation-states? Regions? Ethnic groups? Corporations? An …
If You've Seen One, You've Seen the Mall
The Dutch scholar Rob Kroes argues that American culture is "modular," continually fragmenting, disassembling, and reassembling itself--and in the process creating something new. …
Human Rights in a Pluralist World
Published in association with the Netherlands Commission for UNESCO and the Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, The Netherlands, this volume is edited from papers delivered at two …