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From Civil Rights to Human Rights
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice
E-bok, 2013
588 kr
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Martin Luther King, Jr., is widely celebrated as an American civil rights hero. Yet King's nonviolent opposition to racism, militarism, and economic injustice had deeper roots and more radical implications than is commonly appreciated, Thomas F. Jackson argues in this searching reinterpretation of …
War on Welfare
Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America
E-bok, 2012
504 kr
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Why did the War on Poverty give way to the war on welfare? Many in the United States saw the welfare reforms of 1996 as the inevitable result of twelve years of conservative retrenchment in American social policy, but there is evidence that the seeds of this change were sown long before the Reagan …
Peace and Freedom
The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements in the 196s
Av Simon Hall
E-bok, 2011
437 kr
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Two great social causes held center stage in American politics in the 1960s: the civil rights movement and the antiwar groundswell in the face of a deepening American military commitment in Vietnam. In Peace and Freedom, Simon Hall explores two linked themes: the civil rights movement's response to …
American Capitalism
Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century
E-bok, 2011
493 kr
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At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the legitimacy of American capitalism seems unchallenged. The link between open markets, economic growth, and democratic success has become common wisdom, not only among policy makers but for many intellectuals as well. In this instance, however, the past …
Radical Pacifism in Modern America
Egalitarianism and Protest
E-bok, 2013
806 kr
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Radical Pacifism in Modern America traces cycles of success and decline in the radical wing of the American peace movement, an egalitarian strain of pacifism that stood at the vanguard of antimilitarist organizing and American radical dissent from 1940 to 1970.Using traditional archival material …
Before Harlem
The Black Experience in New York City Before World War I
E-bok, 2013
985 kr
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In the years between 1880 and 1915, New York City and its environs underwent a tremendous demographic transformation with the arrival of millions of European immigrants, native whites from the rural countryside, and people of African descent from both the American South and the Caribbean. While all …
Smack
Heroin and the American City
E-bok, 2013
415 kr
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Why do the vast majority of heroin users live in cities? In his provocative history of heroin in the United States, Eric C. Schneider explains what is distinctively urban about this undisputed king of underworld drugs.During the twentieth century, New York City was the nation's heroin capital-over …
Biotech
The Countercultural Origins of an Industry
E-bok, 2013
427 kr
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The seemingly unlimited reach of powerful biotechnologies and the attendant growth of the multibillion-dollar industry have raised difficult questions about the scientific discoveries, political assumptions, and cultural patterns that gave rise to for-profit biological research. Given such …
W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet
E-bok, 2013
508 kr
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Pioneering historian, sociologist, editor, novelist, poet, and organizer, W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the foremost African American intellectuals of the twentieth century. While Du Bois is remembered for his monumental contributions to scholarship and civil rights activism, the spiritual aspects of …
Camden After the Fall
Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City
E-bok, 2011
489 kr
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What prevents cities whose economies have been devastated by the flight of human and monetary capital from returning to self-sufficiency? Looking at the cumulative effects of urban decline in the classic post-industrial city of Camden, New Jersey, historian Howard Gillette, Jr., probes the …
Intellectuals Incorporated
Politics, Art, and Ideas Inside Henry Luce's Media Empire
E-bok, 2011
940 kr
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Publishing tycoon Henry Luce famously championed many conservative causes, and his views as a capitalist and cold warrior were reflected in his glossy publications. Republican Luce aimed squarely for the Middle American masses, yet his magazines attracted intellectually and politically ambitious …
Army of Lions
The Civil Rights Struggle Before the NAACP
E-bok, 2011
571 kr
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In January 1890, journalist T. Thomas Fortune stood before a delegation of African American activists in Chicago and declared, "We know our rights and have the courage to defend them," as together they formed the Afro-American League, the nation's first national civil rights organization. Over the …
Citizens of a Christian Nation
Evangelical Missions and the Problem of Race in the Nineteenth Century
Av Derek Chang
E-bok, 2011
415 kr
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In America after the Civil War, the emancipation of four million slaves and the explosion of Chinese immigration fundamentally challenged traditional ideas about who belonged in the national polity. As Americans struggled to redefine citizenship in the United States, the "Negro Problem" and the …
Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South
E-bok, 2011
489 kr
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While spreading the gospel around the world through his signature crusades, internationally renowned evangelist Billy Graham maintained a visible and controversial presence in his native South, a region that underwent substantial political and economic change in the latter half of the twentieth …
California Crucible
The Forging of Modern American Liberalism
E-bok, 2011
940 kr
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In the three decades following World War II, the Golden State was not only the fastest-growing state in the Union but also the site of significant political change. From the late 1940s through the mid-1970s, a generation of liberal activists transformed the political landscape of California, ending …
Piety and Public Funding
Evangelicals and the State in Modern America
E-bok, 2012
734 kr
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How is it that some conservative groups are viscerally antigovernment even while enjoying the benefits of government funding? In Piety and Public Funding historian Axel R. SchÄfer offers a compelling answer to this question by chronicling how, in the first half century since World War II, …
Tax and Spend
The Welfare State, Tax Politics, and the Limits of American Liberalism
E-bok, 2011
427 kr
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Taxes dominate contemporary American politics. Yet while many rail against big government, few Americans are prepared to give up the benefits they receive from the state. In Tax and Spend, historian Molly C. Michelmore examines an unexpected source of this contradiction and shows why many Americans …
Battling Miss Bolsheviki
The Origins of Female Conservatism in the United States
E-bok, 2012
1206 kr
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Why did the political authority of well-respected female reformers diminish after women won the vote? In Battling Miss Bolsheviki Kirsten Marie Delegard argues that they were undercut during the 1920s by women conservatives who spent the first decade of female suffrage linking these reformers to …
Not in This Family
Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America
E-bok, 2012
489 kr
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Many Americans hold fast to the notion that gay men and women, more often than not, have been ostracized from disapproving families. Not in This Family challenges this myth and shows how kinship ties were an animating force in gay culture, politics, and consciousness throughout the latter half of …
Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters
The Struggle Over Segregated Recreation in America
E-bok, 2012
493 kr
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Throughout the twentieth century, African Americans challenged segregation at amusement parks, swimming pools, and skating rinks not only in pursuit of pleasure but as part of a wider struggle for racial equality. Well before the Montgomery bus boycott, mothers led their children into segregated …
Sunbelt Capitalism
Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics
E-bok, 2013
559 kr
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Few Sunbelt cities burned brighter or contributed more to the conservative movement than Phoenix. In 1910, eleven thousand people called Phoenix home; now, over four million reside in this metropolitan region. In Sunbelt Capitalism, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer tells the story of the city's expansion …
In the Crossfire
Marcus Foster and the Troubled History of American School Reform
E-bok, 2012
475 kr
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As media reports declare crisis after crisis in public education, Americans find themselves hotly debating educational inequalities that seem to violate their nation's ideals. Why does success in school track so closely with race and socioeconomic status? How to end these apparent achievement gaps? …
Moral Minority
The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism
E-bok, 2012
479 kr
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In 1973, nearly a decade before the height of the Moral Majority, a group of progressive activists assembled in a Chicago YMCA to strategize about how to move the nation in a more evangelical direction through political action. When they emerged, the Washington Post predicted that the new …
Right and Labor in America
Politics, Ideology, and Imagination
Av Nelson Lichtenstein, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
E-bok, 2016
559 kr
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The legislative attack on public sector unionism that gave rise to the uproar in Wisconsin and other union strongholds in 2011 was not just a reaction to the contemporary economic difficulties faced by the government. Rather, it was the result of a longstanding political and ideological hostility …
Between North and South
Delaware, Desegregation, and the Myth of American Sectionalism
E-bok, 2012
713 kr
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Between North and South chronicles the three-decade-long struggle over segregated schooling in Delaware, a key border state and important site of civil rights activism and white reaction. Historian Brett Gadsden begins by tracing the origins of a long litigation campaign by NAACP attorneys who …
Homeless
Poverty and Place in Urban America
Av Ella Howard
E-bok, 2013
734 kr
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The homeless have the legal right to exist in modern American cities, yet antihomeless ordinances deny them access to many public spaces. How did previous generations of urban dwellers deal with the tensions between the rights of the homeless and those of other city residents? Ella Howard answers …
To March for Others
The Black Freedom Struggle and the United Farm Workers
E-bok, 2013
437 kr
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In 1966, members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, an African American civil rights group with Southern roots, joined Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers union on its 250-mile march from Delano to Sacramento, California, to protest the exploitation of agricultural workers. SNCC …
Top Down
The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism
E-bok, 2013
940 kr
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At first glance, the Ford Foundation and the black power movement would make an unlikely partnership. After the Second World War, the renowned Foundation was the largest philanthropic organization in the United States and was dedicated to projects of liberal reform. Black power ideology, which …
Employee
A Political History
E-bok, 2013
504 kr
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A political, legal, intellectual, and social history of employment in AmericaIn the present age of temp work, telecommuting, and outsourcing, millions of workers in the United States find themselves excluded from the category of "employee"-a crucial distinction that would otherwise permit …
Death of a Suburban Dream
Race and Schools in Compton, California
E-bok, 2014
1007 kr
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Compton, California, is often associated in the public mind with urban America's toughest problems, including economic disinvestment, gang violence, and failing public schools. Before it became synonymous with inner-city decay, however, Compton's affordability, proximity to manufacturing jobs, and …
