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Journal of American Studies of Turkey
A biannual print and on-line publication of the American Studies Association of Turkey, the Journal of American Studies of Turkey publishes work in English by scholars of any nationality on American literature, history, art, music, film, popular culture, institutions, politics, economics, geography and related subjects. The Editorial Board particularly welcomes articles which cross conventional borders between academic disciplines as well as comparative studies of American and other cultures. Journal of American Studies of Turkey also publishes creative work, notes, comments as well as book and film reviews. All articles are reviewed by an objective, blind peer-referee process before acceptance. Prospective authors should examine the details for the preparation and submission of papers. Journal of American Studies of Turkey has been indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory, and the American Humanities Index since the publication of its first issue of Spring 1995, and in the MLA Directory of Periodicals since 1999.The JAST homepage, containing various information and all articles, is available below. |
Special U.S. History Issue , Number 22
Alfred Stieglitzs Camera Work, and the Early Cultivation of American Modernism
This article focuses on Stieglitz, his gallery, and the journal Camera Work as cultivators of modernism. It is not Stieglitz, the photographer, that is most critical, but Stieglitz and his coterie of modernist painters and writers who took the spirit of the new art forward to a largely unappreciative American audience. This marked the beginnings of modernist criticism and a modernist American worldview. Modernism itself became the broad brush that reflected a changing and increasingly mechanized and science-based world of new opportunities, possibilities, and problems. Artists of this early period attempted to come to grips with this change in many ways and forms. In the cultural confusion of the time, this often resembled an avant-garde vs. anti-avant-garde clash. At the heart of this modernism was a previously unheard of independent spirit and concern for self-expression in whatever vision the artist chose for this expression, be it non-representative, non-objective, or abstract. The Camera Work critics and artists are then historically important even though post modernist musings might see them as useless vestiges of an unacceptable past plagued by racism, homophobia, sexism, and capitalism
An Angel Directs the Storm: Apocalyptic Religion & American Empire by Michael Northcott
Anadoludan Yeni Dünyaya: Amerikaya İlk Göç Eden Türklerin Yaşam Öyküleri (From Anatolia to the New World: Tales of the First Immigrant Turks in America) by Rıfat N. Bali
Cinderella Man by Ron Howard
Seabiscuit by Gary Ross
History and Enterprise: Past, Profit, and Future in the United States
Most people who value history and see it as fundamental to civic virtue, know that its importance is not linked to the theory or interpretation de jour, but to the rigor it requires in examining evidence and coming to conclusions. The need for rigor transcends the classroom and the museum. The veracity of campaign statements is important, the historical precedents for policy decisions are critical, and a good understanding of ones personal historical links to the society in which one lives is fundamental to ones sense of citizenship. The United States is not a nation with no use for a past and with a population focused only on the future. There is a deep and very American way of seeing and using the past. The manner in which Americans approach and consume their history may not satisfy many of its professional practitioners. But we all need to understand that an interest is there, has always been there, and has produced a certain set of rules. The trick now, the bottom line if you will, is for those who value history to work with and within what one might call an historical consumption system and to use it in a manner that will make ordinary citizens more critical consumers of the historical product.
From Rehabilitation to “Just Deserts”: A History of Juvenile Justice in the United States
The year 1999 marked the 100th anniversary of the founding of the first juvenile court in the United States, in Chicago, Illinois. Over the last one hundred years, the juvenile justice system has grown and is now firmly entrenched in the United States. The founding of juvenile courts in 1899 represented the culmination of decades of change in criminology and the handling of juveniles who came into contact with the law because of delinquency or dependence. Today there exists a juvenile court in every state, and it is nearly impossible to envision the legal system of the United States without envisioning a special forum that addresses the legal problems of children. This article traces the development of the juvenile justice system in the United States and the competing conceptions of childhood underlying the administration of justice for young people.
An Interview with Eric S. Edelman
An Interview with Richard Pells
Power, Terror, Peace and War: Americas Grand Strategy in a World at Risk by Walter Russell Mead
Amerika: Özgürlük Havarisi Mi? Yoksa Günah Keçisi Mi? (America: A Messenger of Freedom or Scapegoat?) by Okan Arslan and Selçuk Arı
Osmanlı-Amerikan İlişkileri (Ottoman-American Relations) by Nurdan Şafak
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience by John Lewis Gaddis
Other Issues