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68 produkter
Harvesting Freedom
African American Agrarianism in Civil War Era South Carolina
Av Akiko Ochiai
Inbunden, 2004
1028 kr
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From early in the Civil War, the Sea Islands of South Carolina set the stage for an exciting experiment in freedpeople's independence. Lowcountry South Carolina is particularly significant, not only for its aristocratic planters and its high profile in the secession, but for the degree of autonomy …
American Dole
Unemployment Relief and the Welfare State in the Great Depression
E-bok, 2000
1204 kr
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As Jeff Singleton shows, the rapid expansion of unemployment relief in the early 1930s generated pressures which led to the first federal welfare programs. However the process has received relatively little attention from historians, and unemployment relief does not play a major role in discussions …
Final Frontiers, 1880-1930
Settling the Southern Bottomlands
Av John Otto
E-bok, 1999
1204 kr
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An examination of the settlement history of the alluvial bottomlands of the lower Mississippi Valley from 1880 to 1930, this study details how cotton-growers transformed the swamplands of northwestern Mississippi, northeastern Louisiana, northeastern Arkansas, and southern Missouri into cotton …
Northern Labor and Antislavery
A Documentary History
Av Philip S. Foner, Herbert Shapiro
E-bok, 1994
1204 kr
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Using documents drawn from newspapers, magazines, and books, this volume provides a documentary history of the relationships between labor and abolitionists from the early 1830s to the Civil War. It includes newspaper articles from mainstream dailies as well as from abolitionist journals and the …
Keepers of the Spirits
The Judicial Response to Prohibition Enforcement in Florida, 1885-1935
E-bok, 1998
922 kr
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Drawn from research in the manuscript records of the federal judiciary and the court reports of the Florida Supreme Court, this book examines how state and federal judges responded to the enforcement of local, state, and national prohibition in Florida. Upholding these measures often resulted in …
Chief Justice's Progress
John Marshall from Revolutionary Virginia to the Supreme Court
E-bok, 2000
1052 kr
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Widely regarded as America's most important Chief Justice, John Marshall influenced our constitutional, political, and economic development as much as any American. He handed down landmark decisions on judicial review, federal-state relations, contracts, corporations, and commercial regulation …
Keeping the Faith
Race, Politics, and Social Development in Jacksonville, Florida, 1940-1970
E-bok, 2000
1204 kr
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An examination of the political and economic power of a large African American community in a segregated southern city; this study attacks the myth that blacks were passive victims of the southern Jim Crow system and reveals instead that in Jacksonville, Florida, blacks used political and economic …
Andrew Jackson and His Tennessee Lieutenants
A Study in Political Culture
E-bok, 1997
1241 kr
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Andrew Jackson and those Tennesseans who, along with him, were a major force in Tennessee and American political life can best be understood by examining the political culture they all shared. The ten men studied here were the children or grandchildren of immigrants from either the Scottish …
Tormented President
Calvin Coolidge, Death, and Clinical Depression
E-bok, 2003
1364 kr
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Although Calvin Coolidge is widely judged to have been a weak and even an incompetent president, this study concludes that he was a leader disabled by a crippling emotional breakdown. After an impressive early career, Coolidge assumed the presidency upon the death of Warren Harding. His promising …
Uncommon Americans
The Lives and Legacies of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover
E-bok, 2003
1325 kr
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This first joint biography of the Hoovers will reshape Herbert Hoover's image as a man who did little more than sit in the White House while the country suffered. Both Hoovers were dynamic, uncommon Americans who made enormous contributions to mankind, before, during, and after the presidency. …
Earnest Endeavors
The Life and Public Work of George Rublee
Av Marc McClure
E-bok, 2003
963 kr
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George Rublee (1868-1957), was an eastern establishment lawyer and corporate liberal who made a significant contribution to economic reform legislation on the state and national levels during the progressive era. He was also involved in a number of important international events from 1917 to 1939. …
Bulwark of the Republic
The American Militia in Antebellum West
E-bok, 2003
1204 kr
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Although a poor replacement for a professional military in wartime, the militia embodied a set of ideas that defined attitudes toward social order, civic responsibility, and the nature and relative powers of the government. It was the supreme expression of civic values in a traditional, communal, …
Developing Dixie
Modernization in a Traditional Society
Av Winfred Moore, Joseph F. Tripp m. fl.
E-bok, 1988
1204 kr
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This collection of essays examines the development of the American South from the end of the Civil War to the end of World War II. Written by both well-known and emerging scholars, the essays are divided into sections that address some of the major issues of that era, such as race relations, …
Portrait of an Abolitionist
A Biography of George Luther Stearns, 1809-1867
E-bok, 1996
1178 kr
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George Luther Stearns became John Brown's single most important financial backer. He personally owned the 200 Sharps rifles Brown brought to Harper's Ferry. Massachusetts Governor John Andrew asked Stearns to recruit the first northern state African-American regiment, the 54th Massachusetts …
Like Fire in Broom Straw
Southern Journalism and the Textile Strikes of 1929-1931
E-bok, 2001
942 kr
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The southern textile strikes of 1929-1931 were ferocious struggles--thousands of millhands went on strike, the National Guard was deployed, several people were killed and hundreds injured and jailed. The southern press, and for a time the national press, covered the story in enormous detail. In …
In the Affairs of the World
Women, Patriarchy, and Power in Colonial South Carolina
E-bok, 2002
1144 kr
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This book examines how, quite by accident and under very unfortunate circumstances, Britain's colony of South Carolina afforded women an unprecedented opportunity for economic autonomy. Though the colony prospered financially, throughout the colonial period the death rate remained alarmingly high, …
Harvesting Freedom
African American Agrarianism in Civil War Era South Carolina
Av Akiko Ochiai
E-bok, 2004
1124 kr
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From early in the Civil War, the Sea Islands of South Carolina set the stage for an exciting experiment in freedpeople's independence. Lowcountry South Carolina is particularly significant, not only for its aristocratic planters and its high profile in the secession, but for the degree of autonomy …
Unions, Radicals, and Democratic Presidents
Seeking Social Change in the Twentieth Century
E-bok, 2003
1204 kr
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Social change advocates won a remarkable series of victories during the 20th century. This study examines both successful and unsuccessful efforts, ranging from the women's suffrage movement of the 1910s to the divisive debate between Gore and Nader supporters during the 2000 election. Halpern …
Members of the Regiment
Army Officers' Wives on the Western Frontier, 1865-1890
Av Michele Nacy
E-bok, 2000
1204 kr
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Many extraordinary women traveled west with their Army officer husbands between 1865 and 1890 and discovered a world that was completely controlled by the United States Army. The Army as a public institution colored virtually every aspect of their domestic lives. Army directives, customs, and …
Fellow Workers and Friends
I.W.W. Free-Speech Fights As Told by Participants
Av Philip S. Foner, Elizabeth Vandepaer
Inbunden, 1981
736 kr
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Sobering Up
From Temperance to Prohibition in Antebellum America, 1800-1860
Inbunden, 1979
1101 kr
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Southern Common People
Studies in Nineteenth-Century Social History
Av Unknown
Inbunden, 1980
1101 kr
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Great Red Menace
United States Prosecution of American Communists, 1947-1952
Inbunden, 1984
1069 kr
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During the years 1947-1952 the Cold War, the anti- communist foreign policy of the U.S. government, and the reassertion by the American Communist party of its allegiance to the Soviet Union, the international communist movement, and a literal Marxist-Leninist ideology gradually gave rise to an …
State Divided
Opposition in Pennsylvania to the American Revolution
Av Anne M. Ousterhout, Unknown
Inbunden, 1987
1101 kr
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Here, is the story of the revolution told from the side of the losers--the Tories or the disaffected--as it took place in Pennsylvania. Their disaffection was largely cause, however, not by loyalty to England and her king, but by local factors within Pennsylvania, such as religious and political …
Collapse of the Middle Way
Senate Republicans and the Bipartisan Foreign Policy, 1948-1952
Av David Kepley
Inbunden, 1988
715 kr
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The Truman years saw the beginnings of a dramatic shift in the Republican party's approach to foreign policy and a growing congressional commitment to bipartisanship in foreign affairs. Traditional Republican isolationism, expressed in widespread opposition to overseas political commitments such as …
Developing Dixie
Modernization in a Traditional Society
Av Winfred Moore, Joseph F. Tripp m. fl.
Inbunden, 1988
1101 kr
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This collection of essays examines the development of the American South from the end of the Civil War to the end of World War II. Written by both well-known and emerging scholars, the essays are divided into sections that address some of the major issues of that era, such as race relations, …
Southern Frontiers, 1607-1860
The Agricultural Evolution of the Colonial and Antebellum South
Av John Otto
Inbunden, 1989
1101 kr
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Although many specialized studies have dealt with the colonial and antebellum American South, very little attention has been paid to the Southern agricultural frontiers before 1860. This study focuses on agriculture, the primary economic activity and the single most important factor in shaping the …
