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Washington County
Politics and Community in Antebellum America
Av Paul Bourke, Donald A. DeBats
Häftad, 1998
409 kr
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In the 1850s, Washington County, Oregon, gathered together a broad cross-section of antebellum America -- rich and poor, Northerners and Southerners, Protestant and Catholics, old natives and new immigrants. More than that, however, it left for historians a rare opportunity to explore political, …
Army of Women
Gender and Politics in Gilded Age Kansas
Häftad, 2001
443 kr
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Looking at both the private and public lives of women and men in rural and urban Kansas, Michael Lewis Goldberg offers sweeping evidence of the role gender played in influencing Gilded Age politics. In An Army of Women, he analyzes how political activists in the Populist Party and the Woman …
Fireside Politics
Radio and Political Culture in the United States, 1920-1940
Inbunden, 2000
699 kr
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In Fireside Politics, Douglas B. Craig provides the first detailed and complete examination of radio's changing role in American political culture between 1920 and 1940-the medium's golden age, when it commanded huge national audiences without competition from television. Craig follows the …
Red Feminism
American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation
Av Kate Weigand
Inbunden, 2001
821 kr
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Drawing on substantial new research, Red Feminism traces the development of a distinctive Communist strain of American feminism from its troubled beginnings in the 1930s, through its rapid growth in the Congress of American Women during the early years of the Cold War, to its culmination in …
Red Feminism
American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation
Av Kate Weigand
Häftad, 2003
443 kr
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Drawing on substantial new research, Red Feminism traces the development of a distinctive Communist strain of American feminism from its troubled beginnings in the 1930s, through its rapid growth in the Congress of American Women during the early years of the Cold War, to its culmination in …
Fireside Politics
Radio and Political Culture in the United States, 1920-1940
Häftad, 2005
362 kr
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In Fireside Politics, Douglas B. Craig provides the first detailed and complete examination of radio's changing role in American political culture between 1920 and 1940-the medium's golden age, when it commanded huge national audiences without competition from television. Craig follows the …
Big Vote
Gender, Consumer Culture, and the Politics of Exclusion, 1890s–1920s
Häftad, 2007
362 kr
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Low voter turnout is a serious problem in American politics today, but it is not a new one. Its roots lay in the 1920s when, for the first time in nearly a century, a majority of eligible Americans did not bother to cast ballots in a presidential election. Stunned by this civic failure so soon …
Against Obscenity
Reform and the Politics of Womanhood in America, 1873–1935
Häftad, 2007
392 kr
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As women beat down the doors and won the right to vote in the early twentieth century, adult (patriarchal) males rightly anticipated crusades on behalf of, or mounting conflicts over, those issues that particularly agitated women--drink, child welfare, and vice chief among them. This study examines …
To Enlarge the Machinery of Government
Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858–1891
Inbunden, 2007
805 kr
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How did the federal government change from the weak apparatus of the antebellum period to the large, administrative state of the Progressive Era? To Enlarge the Machinery of Government explores the daily proceedings of the U.S. House and Senate from 1858 to 1891 to find answers to this question. …
Securing the West
Politics, Public Lands, and the Fate of the Old Republic, 1785–1850
Inbunden, 2014
688 kr
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Few issues defined the period between American independence and the Mexican War more sharply than westward settlement and the role of the federal government in that expansion. In Securing the West, John R. Van Atta examines the visions of the founding generation and the increasing influence of …
Coxsackie
The Life and Death of Prison Reform
Inbunden, 2014
554 kr
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Should prisons attempt reform and uplift inmates or, by means of principled punishment, deter them from further wrongdoing? This debate has raged in Western Europe and in the United States at least since the late eighteenth century. Joseph F. Spillane examines the failure of progressive reform in …
Protesting Affirmative Action
The Struggle over Equality after the Civil Rights Revolution
Häftad, 2014
434 kr
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A lightning rod for liberal and conservative opposition alike, affirmative action has proved one of the more divisive issues in the United States over the past five decades. Dennis Deslippe here offers a thoughtful study of early opposition to the nation's race- and gender-sensitive hiring and …
Bennington and the Green Mountain Boys
The Emergence of Liberal Democracy in Vermont, 1760-1850
Häftad, 2020
703 kr
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In this lively study, Robert E. Shalhope supplies a fascinating microcosmic view of the rise and triumph of liberal individualism in America and explores its impact on political culture.Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleOriginally published in 1996. Americans who lived …
Beyond Party
Cultures of Antipartisanship in Northern Politics before the Civil War
Inbunden, 2002
524 kr
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Captivating disgruntled voters, third parties have often complicated the American political scene. In the years before the Civil War, third-party politics took the form of the Know Nothings, who mistrusted established parties and gave voice to anti-government sentiment. Originating about 1850 as a …
Price of Progress
Public Services, Taxation, and the American Corporate State, 1877 to 1929
Inbunden, 2003
497 kr
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Between the Civil War and the Great Depression, twin revolutions swept through American business and government. In business, large corporations came to dominate entire sectors and markets. In government, new services and agencies, especially at the city and state levels, sprang up to ameliorate a …
Against Obscenity
Reform and the Politics of Womanhood in America, 1873–1935
Inbunden, 2004
509 kr
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Radio "shock jocks," Super Bowl entertainment, music videos, and internet spam-all of these topics inspire passionate disagreements about whether and how to regulate sexually explicit material. But even in the midst of heated debate, most people agree that children should be shielded from exposure …
Big Vote
Gender, Consumer Culture, and the Politics of Exclusion, 1890s–1920s
Inbunden, 2004
587 kr
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Low voter turnout is a serious problem in American politics today, but it is not a new one. Its roots lay in the 1920s when, for the first time in nearly a century, a majority of eligible Americans did not bother to cast ballots in a presidential election. Stunned by this civic failure so soon …
Protesting Affirmative Action
The Struggle over Equality after the Civil Rights Revolution
Inbunden, 2012
584 kr
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A lightning rod for liberal and conservative opposition alike, affirmative action has proved one of the more divisive issues in the United States over the past five decades. Dennis Deslippe here offers a thoughtful study of early opposition to the nation's race- and gender-sensitive hiring and …
Burdens of War
Creating the United States Veterans Health System
Inbunden, 2017
504 kr
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During and after World War I, policy makers, public health advocates, and veterans laid the groundwork for the extension of government-sponsored medical care to millions of former service members. In the process, they built a pillar of American social policy. In Burdens of War, Jessica L. Adler …
