The Businessman as Artist in American Civilization by John Dean

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A «new society will come»: C.L.R. James in American Civilisation by Matteo Battistini

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Figures of Violence in Ron Rash’s The World Made Straight by Frédérique Spill

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Immigrants italiens et frontière américaine : Pioneers ! Ο pioneers ! by Marie-Christine Michaud

“…As a matter of fact, they were building American society and felt they were part and parcel of the pioneers who spread American civilization in the new territories. Hence they lived in a new "western identity space," and became pioneers—Italian-American pioneers.…”
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Rejuvenescence American Style: Longevity, Aging, The US Tradition of Rejecting the Old & the US Baby Boom Generation Now by John Dean

“…To accomplish this investigation the essay tries to blend Cultural History, Cohort Analysis, Sociology of Mass Media, American Studies, and Cross-cultural analysis. Key American civilization traits are used as analytical tools: The Promised Land, Progress, Superabundance, Innocence, Rejuvenation, Success, Opportunity, Ingenuity, Technology, Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Founding Fathers, Isolationism…”
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Progress and Criticism of Progress as a Characteristic of Modern Civilizations in the Work of Friedrich Nietzsche and Ludwig Wittgenstein by Ulrich Arnswald

“…Ludwig Wittgenstein explicitly distances himself here from the spirit that defined the prevailing European and American civilization in the 1930s. He does not succumb to the delusions of grandeur of new, higher-level civilization, but leaves progress as the constantly progressing background noise of any civilization. …”
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Gastronomy vs gastro-anomie? Japan’s foodscape by А. V. Malov, S. V. Chugrov

“…It is proved that, along with the import of foreign food products, which undermined the food self-sufficiency of the state, the patterns of the Euro-American civilization were imported, which modified the model of social behavior, ingrained eating habits, and age-old culinary foundations of Japanese society. …”
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The Union Army’s Surgical Handbook and the Positive Story of Civil War Surgery by John M. Harris, Jr., MD

“…Recent research shows that the Union Army’s American Civil War (1861–1865) surgical case fatality rates improved as the war progressed, much like the US Army’s experience in later wars, and were generally superior to comparable European results. …”
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The History of Miss Jane Pittman by Christopher Mulvey

“…For Gaines, the war that makes the great turning point of a nation and a people is the American Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865. It resulted in a moment of history after which life would not be the same. …”
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