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Impossible Subjects
Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition
Av Mae M. Ngai
Häftad, 2014
272 kr
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This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy--a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth …
Deportation Machine
America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants
Av Adam Goodman
Häftad, 2021
201 kr
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The unknown history of deportation and of the fear that shapes immigrants' livesConstant headlines about deportations, detention camps, and border walls drive urgent debates about immigration and what it means to be an American in the twenty-first century. The Deportation Machine traces the long …
School Lunch Politics
The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program
Av Susan Levine
Häftad, 2010
601 kr
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Whether kids love or hate the food served there, the American school lunchroom is the stage for one of the most popular yet flawed social welfare programs in our nation's history. School Lunch Politics covers this complex and fascinating part of American culture, from its origins in early …
White Flight
Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
Häftad, 2007
334 kr
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During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: "The City …
Civil Defense Begins at Home
Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties
Inbunden, 2000
874 kr
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Dad built a bomb shelter in the backyard, Mom stocked the survival kit in the basement, and the kids practiced ducking under their desks at school. This was family life in the new era of the A-bomb. This was civil defense. In this provocative work of social and political history, Laura McEnaney …
Little Rock
Race and Resistance at Central High School
Inbunden, 2010
625 kr
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The desegregation crisis in Little Rock is a landmark of American history: on September 4, 1957, after the Supreme Court struck down racial segregation in public schools, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called up the National Guard to surround Little Rock Central High School, preventing black …
Divided We Stand
American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality
Av Bruce Nelson
Häftad, 2002
494 kr
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Divided We Stand is a study of how class and race have intersected in American society--above all, in the "making" and remaking of the American working class in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing mainly on longshoremen in the ports of New York, New Orleans, and Los Angeles, and on …
Poverty Knowledge
Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History
Häftad, 2002
833 kr
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Progressive-era "poverty warriors" cast poverty in America as a problem of unemployment, low wages, labor exploitation, and political disfranchisement. In the 1990s, policy specialists made "dependency" the issue and crafted incentives to get people off welfare. Poverty Knowledge gives the first …
Defending America
Military Culture and the Cold War Court-Martial
Inbunden, 2005
630 kr
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From going AWOL to collaborating with communists, assaulting fellow servicemen to marrying without permission, military crime during the Cold War offers a telling glimpse into a military undergoing a demographic and legal transformation. The post-World War II American military, newly permanent, …
Dead on Arrival
The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America
Av Colin Gordon
Häftad, 2004
476 kr
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Why, alone among industrial democracies, does the United States not have national health insurance? While many books have addressed this question, Dead on Arrival is the first to do so based on original archival research for the full sweep of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of …
Changing the World
American Progressives in War and Revolution
Av Alan Dawley
Häftad, 2005
436 kr
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In May of 1919, women from around the world gathered in Zurich, Switzerland, and proclaimed, "We dedicate ourselves to peace!" Just months after the end of World War I, the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom--a group led by American progressive Jane Addams and comprising veteran …
Relentless Reformer
Josephine Roche and Progressivism in Twentieth-Century America
Av Robyn Muncy
Inbunden, 2014
463 kr
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Josephine Roche (1886-1976) was a progressive activist, New Deal policymaker, and businesswoman. As a pro-labor and feminist member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, she shaped the founding legislation of the U.S. welfare state and generated the national conversation about health-care …
Americans at the Gate
The United States and Refugees during the Cold War
Inbunden, 2008
626 kr
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Unlike the 1930s, when the United States tragically failed to open its doors to Europeans fleeing Nazism, the country admitted over three million refugees during the Cold War. This dramatic reversal gave rise to intense political and cultural battles, pitting refugee advocates against determined …
Other Women's Movement
Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America
Häftad, 2005
721 kr
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American feminism has always been about more than the struggle for individual rights and equal treatment with men. There's also a vital and continuing tradition of women's reform that sought social as well as individual rights and argued for the dismantling of the masculine standard. In this much …
American Babylon
Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland
Häftad, 2005
396 kr
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As the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of the postwar United States: the rise of suburbs and the decline of cities, a process in which black and white histories inextricably joined. American Babylon tells this story through Oakland …
Radical Middle Class
Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon
Häftad, 2006
494 kr
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America has a long tradition of middle-class radicalism, albeit one that intellectual orthodoxy has tended to obscure. The Radical Middle Class seeks to uncover the democratic, populist, and even anticapitalist legacy of the middle class. By examining in particular the independent small business …
For All These Rights
Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State
Häftad, 2006
833 kr
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The New Deal placed security at the center of American political and economic life by establishing an explicit partnership between the state, economy, and citizens. In America, unlike anywhere else in the world, most people depend overwhelmingly on private health insurance and employee benefits. …
Taken Hostage
The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam
Av David Farber
Häftad, 2006
317 kr
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On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took sixty-six Americans captive. Thus began the Iran Hostage Crisis, an affair that captivated the American public for 444 days and marked America's first confrontation with the forces of radical Islam. Using …
More Equal Than Others
America from Nixon to the New Century
Häftad, 2006
833 kr
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During the past quarter century, free-market capitalism was recognized not merely as a successful system of wealth creation, but as the key determinant of the health of political and cultural democracy. Now, renowned British journalist and historian Godfrey Hodgson takes aim at this popular view in …
Philanthropy in America
A History
Av Olivier Zunz
Inbunden, 2011
272 kr
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American philanthropy today expands knowledge, champions social movements, defines active citizenship, influences policymaking, and addresses humanitarian crises. How did philanthropy become such a powerful and integral force in American society? "Philanthropy in America" is the first book to …
Pocketbook Politics
Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
Av Meg Jacobs
Häftad, 2007
432 kr
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"How much does it cost?" We think of this question as one that preoccupies the nation's shoppers, not its statesmen. But, as Pocketbook Politics dramatically shows, the twentieth-century American polity in fact developed in response to that very consumer concern. In this groundbreaking study, Meg …
Morning in America
How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980's
Av Gil Troy
Häftad, 2007
511 kr
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Did America's fortieth president lead a conservative counterrevolution that left liberalism gasping for air? The answer, for both his admirers and his detractors, is often "yes." In Morning in America, Gil Troy argues that the Great Communicator was also the Great Conciliator. His pioneering and …
Silent Majority
Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South
Häftad, 2007
436 kr
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Suburban sprawl transformed the political culture of the American South as much as the civil rights movement did during the second half of the twentieth century. The Silent Majority provides the first regionwide account of the suburbanization of the South from the perspective of corporate leaders, …
Labor Rights Are Civil Rights
Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America
Häftad, 2007
698 kr
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In 1937, Mexican workers were among the strikers and supporters beaten, arrested, and murdered by Chicago policemen in the now infamous Republic Steel Mill Strike. Using this event as a springboard, Zaragosa Vargas embarks on the first full-scale history of the Mexican-American labor movement in …
Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism
A Woman's Crusade
Häftad, 2008
393 kr
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Longtime activist, author, and antifeminist leader Phyllis Schlafly is for many the symbol of the conservative movement in America. In this provocative new book, historian Donald T. Critchlow sheds new light on Schlafly's life and on the unappreciated role her grassroots activism played in …
Power Lines
Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest
Inbunden, 2014
547 kr
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In 1940, Phoenix was a small, agricultural city of sixty-five thousand, and the Navajo Reservation was an open landscape of scattered sheepherders. Forty years later, Phoenix had blossomed into a metropolis of 1.5 million people and the territory of the Navajo Nation was home to two of the largest …
In Search of Another Country
Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution
Häftad, 2009
396 kr
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In the 1960s, Mississippi was the heart of white southern resistance to the civil-rights movement. To many, it was a backward-looking society of racist authoritarianism and violence that was sorely out of step with modern liberal America. White Mississippians, however, had a different vision of …
Rise of a Prairie Statesman
The Life and Times of George McGovern
Av Thomas Knock
Inbunden, 2016
326 kr
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The Rise of a Prairie Statesman is the first volume of a major biography of the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate who became America's most eloquent and prescient critic of the Vietnam War. In this masterful book, Thomas Knock traces George McGovern's life from his rustic boyhood in a South …
Troubling the Waters
Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century
Häftad, 2010
494 kr
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Was there ever really a black-Jewish alliance in twentieth-century America? And if there was, what happened to it? In Troubling the Waters, Cheryl Greenberg answers these questions more definitively than they have ever been answered before, drawing the richest portrait yet of what was less an …
Shifting Grounds of Race
Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles
Häftad, 2010
520 kr
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Los Angeles has attracted intense attention as a "world city" characterized by multiculturalism and globalization. Yet, little is known about the historical transformation of a place whose leaders proudly proclaimed themselves white supremacists less than a century ago. In The Shifting Grounds of …
