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Marx Brothers and America
Where Film, Comedy and History Collide
Häftad, 2022
491 kr
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The ground has shifted from the days in which "serious history" and "boring" went hand in glove. Textbooks and lectures have their place, but less traditional classrooms can be powerfully immersive and insightful. Take the 1929 Marx Brothers film The Cocoanuts and what it teaches about both the …
Beyond Labor's Veil
The Culture of the Knights of Labor
Häftad, 1996
732 kr
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The Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor was founded in 1869 as a secret fraternal order committed to the goal of uniting American labor. At its height in 1886, the Knights claimed the allegiance of perhaps a million workers. Despite a host of local studies by the new labor historians of …
Class in America
An Encyclopedia [3 Volumes]
E-bok, 2007
3576 kr
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In the United States, social class ranks with gender, race, and ethnicity in determining the values, activities, political behavior, and life chances of individuals. Most scholars agree on the importance of class, although they often disagree on what it is and how it impacts Americans. This A-Z …
Workers in America
A Historical Encyclopedia [2 Volumes]
E-bok, 2013
2207 kr
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This encyclopedia traces the evolution of American workers and labor organizations from pre-Revolutionary America through the present day. In 2001, Robert E. Weir's two-volume Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor was chosen as a New York Public Library Best in Reference selection. Weir …
Workers in America
A Historical Encyclopedia [2 Volumes]
E-bok, 2013
2026 kr
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This encyclopedia traces the evolution of American workers and labor organizations from pre-Revolutionary America through the present day. In 2001, Robert E. Weir's two-volume Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor was chosen as a New York Public Library Best in Reference selection. Weir …
Pop Culture Matters
Proceedings of the 39th Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture Association
Av Robert E. Weir, Martin F. Norden m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1549 kr
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We immerse ourselves daily in expressions of popular culture—YouTube videos, hip hop music, movies, adverts, greeting cards, videogames, and comics, to name just a few possibilities—and far too often we pay only scant critical attention to them. The essays in this collection redress this situation …
