She illuminates the complex interplay of local and national forces in American society and provides a dynamic view of how labor and citizenship were defined, enforced, and contested in a formative era for white-nonwhite relations in America.
In the case of "Founding Brothers," it results in a lively and illuminating, if somewhat arbitrary book that leaves the reader with a visceral sense of a formative era in American life.
In sum, this handsome book serves to summarize much great scholarship, but new research emphasizes how much there is to ponder as we grasp the rhythms of a truly formative era in European architecture.
A tumultuous and formative era, these centuries saw the longest stretch of political fragmentation in China's imperial history, resulting in new ethnic configurations, the rise of powerful clans, and a pervasive divide between north and south.
Sid Meier's Civilization is an important example from this formative era, and popularized the level of detail that later became a staple of the genre.
A lively look back at this formative era, What's Fair on the Air? charts the rise and fall of four of the most prominent right-wing broadcasters: H. L. Hunt, Dan Smoot, Carl McIntire, and Billy James Hargis.
Pound wrote a very popular little book called "The Formative Era of American Law" (which, however, went no farther than 1850).
Dinosaur's formative era brimmed with heavy, emotive rock — Sonic Youth, the Cure, the Meat Puppets — and the recent high-school graduates were eager to ape their heroes.
This approach links the different elements of his book, and also illustrates the close connection between the present and the formative era of Islam for someone of Qazwini's background, training and outlook.
Lone Star has its critics: Some academic historians argue that its focus on white male settlers overshadows the contributions of women, Mexicans, American Indians, and African Americans in the state's formative era.
And no other institution in the nation does more to memorialize the role of printers and print in the transformations of manners, ideology, and material conditions during American society's formative era.
