Biographie de Joseph-A Amato
Joseph A. AMATO is Professor of Intellectual and Cultural History and Director of Rural and Regional Studies at Southwest State University. He is a prolific practitioner of intellectual history and the new cultural history and has written more than a dozen books on such topics as contemporary French thought, the genesis of modern conscience, rural America, Jerusalem artichokes, and golf. Some of his most recent titles include Golf Beats Us All (So We Love It) (1997); The Decline of Rural Minnesota (1993); The Great Jerusalem Artichoke Circus: The Buying and Selling of the American Rural Dream (1993); and Victims and Values: A History and Theory of Suffering (1990).