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Doing Time in the Depression
Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons
Av Ethan Blue
Inbunden, 2012
768 kr
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As banks crashed, belts tightened, and cupboards emptied across the country, American prisons grew fat. Doing Time in the Depression tells the story of the 1930s as seen from the cell blocks and cotton fields of Texas and California prisons, state institutions that held growing numbers of working …
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now?
Multicultural Conservatism in America
Inbunden, 2001
973 kr
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The first comparative analysis of minority conservatismIn Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now? Angela Dillard offers the first comparative analysis of a conservatism which today cuts across the boundaries of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.To be an African-American and a conservative, or a …
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now?
Multicultural Conservatism in America
Häftad, 2002
387 kr
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The first comparative analysis of minority conservatismIn Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now? Angela Dillard offers the first comparative analysis of a conservatism which today cuts across the boundaries of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.To be an African-American and a conservative, or a …
Body Electric
How Strange Machines Built the Modern American
Inbunden, 2003
1002 kr
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Between the years 1850 and 1950, Americans became the leading energy consumers on the planet, expending tremendous physical resources on energy exploration, mental resources on energy exploitation, and monetary resources on energy acquisition. A unique combination of pseudoscientific theories of …
Body Electric
How Strange Machines Built the Modern American
Häftad, 2005
442 kr
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Between the years 1850 and 1950, Americans became the leading energy consumers on the planet, expending tremendous physical resources on energy exploration, mental resources on energy exploitation, and monetary resources on energy acquisition. A unique combination of pseudoscientific theories of …
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
Celebrity Gossip and American Conservatism
Inbunden, 2011
561 kr
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Before Liz Smith and Perez Hilton became household names in the world of celebrity gossip, before Rush Limbaugh became the voice of conservatism, there was Hedda Hopper. In 1938, this 52-year-old struggling actress rose to fame and influence writing an incendiary gossip column, "Hedda Hopper's …
Black and Brown
African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920
Av Gerald Horne
Inbunden, 2005
1002 kr
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Honorable Mention for 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award Brings to light the lives of Black Americans living along the Mexican border during and immediately after the Mexican RevolutionThe Mexican Revolution was a defining moment in the history of race relations, impacting both Mexican and …
Black and Brown
African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920
Av Gerald Horne
Häftad, 2005
398 kr
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Honorable Mention for 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award Brings to light the lives of Black Americans living along the Mexican border during and immediately after the Mexican RevolutionThe Mexican Revolution was a defining moment in the history of race relations, impacting both Mexican and …
America's Forgotten Holiday
May Day and Nationalism, 1867-1960
Inbunden, 2008
709 kr
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Though now a largely forgotten holiday in the United States, May Day was founded here in 1886 by an energized labor movement as a part of its struggle for the eight-hour day. In ensuing years, May Day took on new meaning, and by the early 1900s had become an annual rallying point for anarchists, …
Provincetown
From Pilgrim Landing to Gay Resort
Inbunden, 2005
929 kr
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The fascinating history of the coastal town—from fishing village to gay meccaHow did a sleepy New England fishing village become a gay mecca? In this dynamic history, Karen Christel Krahulik explains why Provincetown, Massachusetts—alternately known as "Land's End," "Cape-tip," "Cape-end," and, to …
Provincetown
From Pilgrim Landing to Gay Resort
Häftad, 2007
398 kr
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The fascinating history of the coastal town—from fishing village to gay meccaHow did a sleepy New England fishing village become a gay mecca? In this dynamic history, Karen Christel Krahulik explains why Provincetown, Massachusetts—alternately known as "Land's End," "Cape-tip," "Cape-end," and, to …
Feeling of Belonging
Asian American Women's Public Culture, 1930-1960
Inbunden, 2005
1046 kr
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When we imagine the activities of Asian American women in the mid-twentieth century, our first thoughts are not of skiing, beauty pageants, magazine reading, and sororities. Yet, Shirley Jennifer Lim argues, these are precisely the sorts of leisure practices many second generation Chinese, …
Feeling of Belonging
Asian American Women's Public Culture, 1930-1960
Häftad, 2005
398 kr
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When we imagine the activities of Asian American women in the mid-twentieth century, our first thoughts are not of skiing, beauty pageants, magazine reading, and sororities. Yet, Shirley Jennifer Lim argues, these are precisely the sorts of leisure practices many second generation Chinese, …
On the Make
Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America
Inbunden, 2010
1046 kr
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In the bustling cities of the mid-nineteenth-century Northeast, young male clerks working in commercial offices and stores were on the make, persistently seeking wealth, respect, and self-gratification. Yet these strivers and "counter jumpers" discovered that claiming the identities of independent …
On the Make
Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America
Häftad, 2011
442 kr
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In the bustling cities of the mid-nineteenth-century Northeast, young male clerks working in commercial offices and stores were on the make, persistently seeking wealth, respect, and self-gratification. Yet these strivers and "counter jumpers" discovered that claiming the identities of independent …
Newark
A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America
Inbunden, 2007
1046 kr
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Newark's volatile past is infamous. The city has become synonymous with the Black Power movement and urban crisis. Its history reveals a vibrant and contentious political culture punctuated by traditional civic pride and an understudied tradition of protest in the black community. Newark charts …
Raising Freedom's Child
Black Children and Visions of the Future After Slavery
Inbunden, 2008
1046 kr
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The end of slavery in the United States inspired conflicting visions of the future for all Americans in the nineteenth century, black and white, slave and free. The black child became a figure upon which people projected their hopes and fears about slavery's abolition. As a member of the first …
Children's Nature
The Rise of the American Summer Camp
Av Leslie Paris
Inbunden, 2008
1265 kr
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For over a century, summer camps have provided many American children's first experience of community beyond their immediate family and neighborhoods. Each summer, children experience the pain of homesickness, learn to swim, and sit around campfires at night.Children's Nature chronicles the history …
Children's Nature
The Rise of the American Summer Camp
Av Leslie Paris
Häftad, 2010
311 kr
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For over a century, summer camps have provided many American children's first experience of community beyond their immediate family and neighborhoods. Each summer, children experience the pain of homesickness, learn to swim, and sit around campfires at night.Children's Nature chronicles the history …
Newark
A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America
Häftad, 2008
442 kr
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Newark's volatile past is infamous. The city has become synonymous with the Black Power movement and urban crisis. Its history reveals a vibrant and contentious political culture punctuated by traditional civic pride and an understudied tradition of protest in the black community. Newark charts …
Raising Freedom's Child
Black Children and Visions of the Future After Slavery
Häftad, 2010
442 kr
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The end of slavery in the United States inspired conflicting visions of the future for all Americans in the nineteenth century, black and white, slave and free. The black child became a figure upon which people projected their hopes and fears about slavery's abolition. As a member of the first …
Impossible to Hold
Women and Culture in the 1960s
Av Lauri Umanky, Dilip Das m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
973 kr
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With Jackie in a pill-box hat and Marilyn crooning to the president, the 1960s opened with women hovering at the fringes of the public imagination—and ended with a feminist movement that outpaced anything NASA could concoct. A compelling story, but did it really happen that way?Unlike many accounts …
Impossible to Hold
Women and Culture in the 1960s
Av Avital Bloch, Lauri Umansky
Häftad, 2005
429 kr
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With Jackie in a pill-box hat and Marilyn crooning to the president, the 1960s opened with women hovering at the fringes of the public imagination—and ended with a feminist movement that outpaced anything NASA could concoct. A compelling story, but did it really happen that way?Unlike many accounts …
Doing Time in the Depression
Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons
Av Ethan Blue
Häftad, 2014
395 kr
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As banks crashed, belts tightened, and cupboards emptied across the country, American prisons grew fat. Doing Time in the Depression tells the story of the 1930s as seen from the cell blocks and cotton fields of Texas and California prisons, state institutions that held growing numbers of working …
