American History and Culture

The use of food as American war propaganda finds its origins in the First World War, when anti-German sentiment prompted Americans to rename German foods. The First World War also signifies an important turning point in the history of American food consumption because it represents a shift in eating habits, culinary p…

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Food has been an inextricable part of American warfare since the inception of the nation. From the traveling cooks of the Revolutionary War, to the advent of canned provisions during the Civil War,...

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This article has two main goals. The first is to examine the role of politics of space and time in making Turkey’s international relations. The second is to answer a more general question: what happens to a non-Western state like Turkey that cannot eliminate ‘differences’ that mark that state as non-Western? My answer…

Tarih boyunca ekonomiler krizlerle karşılaşmışlardır. Bu krizlerin kimileri yerel olup coğrafi açıdan sınırlı etki göstermiş olsalar da kimi krizlerin etkileri küresel ölçektedir. Ekim 1929’da Wall Street Borsası’nın çöküşüyle başlayan Büyük Buhran; sadece Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’ni etkilemekle kalmamış, dünya ölç…

This essay is a politico‐cultural survey of the “American Studies” discipline in the United States and abroad, with special reference to Turkey. Against the background of extended relations with the United States during the Cold War period, the field in Turkey developed through bilateral efforts. While the initiative…

• ESRA ALBAYRAKOĞLU

Tarih boyunca ekonomiler krizlerle karşılaşmışlardır. Bu krizlerin kimileri yerel olup coğrafi açıdan sınırlı etki göstermiş olsalar da kimi krizlerin etkileri küresel ölçektedir. Ekim 1929’da Wall Street Borsası’nın çöküşüyle başlayan Büyük Buhran; sadece Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’ni etkilemekle kalmamış, dünya ölç…

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"Advocating the Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800–1840." American Nineteenth Century History, 11(3), pp. 363–364

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ABSTRACT Twenty years after its initial publication, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's Pulitzer Prize winning monograph A midwife's tale: the life of Martha Ballard based on her diary, 1785–1812 (1990) still serves as a major benchmark in women's labour/economic history mainly because it provides scholars with a window into th…

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The De(con)struction of Black/White BinariesCritiques of Passing in Charles Waddell Chesnutt’s “The Wife of His Youth” and Other Stories of the Color Line Tanfer Emin Tunc (bio) When asked to elaborate on the “Negro Problem,” or the co-existence of racial inequality and democracy in the United States at the beginning…

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In 1964, a diet presented itself that would not only allow American men to recapture their fading youth and health through trimmer bodies, but would also permit them to reclaim their disappearing post-war social power through a reassertion of heteronormative hegemonic masculinity. Called The Drinking Man’s Diet: How t…

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Sıklıkla Stratejik Ortaklık olarak tanımlanan Türk-Amerikan ilişkileri çoğunlukla II. Dünya Savaşı sonrasında Marshall Yardımı ve Türkiye’nin NATO’ya üyelik başvurusu ve kabulü ile ilişkilendirilir ve bu noktada başladığı iddia edilir. Ancak iki ülke I. Dünya Savaşı sırasında karşı saflarda yer almış, Anadolu’yu işgal…

• MEHMET ERKAN KILLIOĞLU