EAAS Biennial Conference Volumes and Other EAAS Publications
Since 1957, a total of 33 conference volumes, monographs, and other collections of articles have been published on behalf of the EAAS.
Since 1957, a total of 33 conference volumes, monographs, and other collections of articles have been published on behalf of the EAAS.
The European Journal of American Studies is the official journal of the European Association for American Studies.
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Since 2006, reviews of European monographs and essay collections in the field of American Studies appear in the European Journal of American Studies. Please go to http://ejas.revues.org/.
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Book reviews by EAAS members have appeared on this site until 2005. Since 2006, reviews of European monographs and essay collections in the field of American Studies appear in the European Journal of American Studies. Please go to http://ejas.revues.org/.
Feleki, Despoina N. Stephen King in the New Millennium Gothic Mediations on New Writing Materialities. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.ISBN:978-1-5275-0407-3.
Glavanakova, Alexandra. Transcultural Imaginings. Translating the Other, Translating the Self in Narratives about Migration and Terrorism. Sofia: KX – Critique and Humanism Publishing House, 2016. 250 pages. ISBN: 978-954-587-201-3.
Meyer, Sabine N. We Are What We Drink: The Temperance Battle in Minnesota. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-252-03935-5
A powerful study of identity formation and the power of place in the shaping of history
In We Are What We Drink, Sabine N. Meyer eschews the generalities of other temperance histories to provide a close-grained story about the connections between alcohol consumption and identity in the upper Midwest.
Meyer examines the ever-shifting ways that ethnicity, gender, class, religion, and place interacted with each other during the long temperance battle in Minnesota. Her deconstruction of Irish and German ethnic positioning with respect to temperance activism provides a rare interethnic history of the movement. At the same time, she shows how women engaged in temperance work as a way to form public identities and reforges the largely neglected, yet vital link between female temperance and suffrage activism. Relatedly, Meyer reflects on the continuities and changes between how the movement functioned to construct identity in the heartland versus the movement’s more often studied roles in the East. She also gives a nuanced portrait of the culture clash between a comparatively reform-minded Minneapolis and dynamic anti-temperance forces in whiskey-soaked St. Paul–forces supported by government, community, and business institutions heavily invested in keeping the city wet.