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40th Anniversary Issue of European Journal of American Culture is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to announce that the 40th Anniversary Issue of European Journal of American Culture is out now!

Special Issue: ‘Questions of Fitness’

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https://www.intellectbooks.com/european-journal-of-american-culture

Aims and Scope

The European Journal of American Culture (EJAC) is an academic, refereed journal for scholars, academics and students from many disciplines with a common involvement in the interdisciplinary study of America and American culture, drawing on a variety of approaches and encompassing the whole evolution of America. EJAC is particularly interested in articles considering the ways in which politics, history, literature, the visual arts and other areas of the humanities have increasingly engaged with cultural issues.

Issue 40.2

Introduction

NICHOLAS BLOWER

Articles

Building husky men: Strenuous masculinity in post-depression America

CONOR HEFFERNAN

Fit to be president: William Howard Taft, sports and athleticism

ADAM BURNS

Carman Barnes’ vision of the esoteric school ‘of living’ for young Americans: The influence of Peter Ouspensky’s esoteric teaching on American cultural landscape in the second part of the twentieth century

ANNA V. CANNON

Hungry, hungry hikers: Fitness, cooking, and gender in American hiking, 1890s–1920s

NICHOLAS BLOWER