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American History Now
Av Eric Foner, Lisa McGirr m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
427 kr
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A new generation of scholars addresses the current themes and questions in interpreting American history
Presenting the Past
Essays on History and the Public
Häftad, 1986
425 kr
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Lively and accessible essays examine the rapidly growing field called "public history"
Passion and Power
Sexuality in History
Av Kathy Peiss
Häftad, 1989
374 kr
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Innovative writings on the history of sexuality
For Fun and Profit
The Transformation of Leisure Into Consumption
Häftad, 1990
385 kr
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Essays explore the transformation in leisure activity and its effects on class relations in American society
History and the New Left
Madison, Wisconsin, 1950-1970
Av Paul Buhle
Häftad, 1991
367 kr
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Essays trace the rise of an intellectual New Left from 1950 to 1970
Essays on Twentieth-Century History
Av Michael Adas
Inbunden, 2010
1005 kr
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Probing the paradoxes of
Islamic and European Expansion
The Forging of a Global Order
Av Michael Adas
Häftad, 1993
441 kr
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Distinguished writers provide new approaches to cross-cultural history
Not June Cleaver
Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960
Häftad, 1994
412 kr
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In the popular stereotype of post-World War II America, women abandoned their wartime jobs and contentedly retreated to the home. These mythical women were like the 1950s TV character June Cleaver, white, middle-class, suburban housewives. Not June Cleaver unveils the diversity of postwar women, …
Seeing New York
History Walks for Armchair and Footloose Travelers
Av Hope Cooke
Häftad, 1995
354 kr
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Since the 1700s, various ethnic and immigrant groups have been shifting and negotiating their place in New York City. Hope Cooke also struggled to find a 'correlation of space' and 'sense of belonging' when she returned to the city after spending her adult life living in a place in the Himalayas, …
Life in the Struggle
Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition
Häftad, 1995
380 kr
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This book tells the story of Ivory Perry, a black worker and community activist who, for more than thirty years, has distributed the leaflets, carried the picket signs, and planned and participated in the confrontations that were essential to the success of protest movements. Using oral histories …
Droppin Science
Häftad, 1996
398 kr
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Leading authorities write on the complex--and sometimes controversial--history, politics, and culture of rap and hip hop
Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory
Häftad, 1996
354 kr
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A long-awaited dispatch from the history front in today's culture war
Striking Steel
Av Jack Metzgar
Häftad, 2000
369 kr
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Having come of age during a period of vibrant union-centered activism, Jack Metzgar begins this book wondering how his father, a U.S> Steel shop steward in the 1950s and '60s, and so many contemporary historians could forget what this country owes to the union movement. Combining personal memoir …
Historical Thinking
Av Sam Wineburg
Häftad, 2001
354 kr
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Since ancient times, the pundits have lamented young people's lack of historical knowledge and warned that ignorance of the past surely condemns humanity to repeating its mistakes. In the contemporary United States, this dire outlook drives a contentious debate about what key events, nations, and …
Modern American Queer History
Av Allida Black
Inbunden, 2001
1005 kr
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In the twentieth century, countless Americans claimed gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender identities, forming a movement to secure social as well as political equality. This collection of essays considers the history as well as the historiography of the queer identities and struggles that …
Modern American Queer History
Av Allida Black
Häftad, 2001
383 kr
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In the twentieth century, countless Americans claimed gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender identities, forming a movement to secure social as well as political equality. This collection of essays considers the history as well as the historiography of the queer identities and struggles that …
Oral History and Public Memories
Av Paula Hamilton, Linda Shopes
Häftad, 2008
398 kr
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Oral history is inherently about memory, and when oral history interviews are used \u0022in public,\u0022 they invariably both reflect and shape public memories of the past. Oral History and Public Memories is the only book that explores this relationship, in fourteen case studies of oral history's …
World Sixties Made
Politics and Culture in Recent America
Av Van Gosse
Häftad, 2003
343 kr
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How can we make sense of the fact that after decades of right-wing political mobilizing the major social changes wrought by the Sixties are more than ever part of American life? The World the Sixties Made, the first academic collection to treat the last quarter of the twentieth century as a …
History and 9/11
Häftad, 2003
324 kr
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The contributors to this landmark collection set the attacks on the United States in historical perspective. They reject the simplistic notion of an age-old "clash of civilizations" and instead examine the particular histories of American nationalism, anti-Americanism, U.S. foreign policy, and …
Empire City
The Making and Meaning of
Av David Scobey
Häftad, 2003
511 kr
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For generations, New Yorkers have joked about "The City's" interminable tearing down and building up. The city that the whole world watches seems to be endlessly remaking itself. When the locals and the rest of the world say "New York," they mean Manhattan, a crowded island of commercial districts …
Fireweed
A Political Autobiography
Av Gerda Lerner
Häftad, 2003
351 kr
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A beautifully written, dramatic memoir from one of women's history's founders
Story of Reo Joe
Work, Kin, and Community
Av Lisa Fine
Häftad, 2004
325 kr
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The Reo Motor Car Company operated in Lansing, Michigan, for seventy years, and encouraged its thousands of workers to think of themselves as part of a factory family. Reo workers, most typically white, rural, native-born Protestant men, were dubbed Reo Joes. These ordinary fellows had ordinary …
Zora Neale Hurston
And a History of Southern Life
Häftad, 2005
394 kr
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Uses the ethnographic and literary work of Hurston to augment the few official documents and family records to reconstruct the social world of all-black towns
