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America’s Other Automakers
A History of the Foreign-Owned Automotive Sector in the United States
Inbunden, 2021
2134 kr
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In 2018 almost half of all vehicles made in North America were produced at foreign-owned plants, and the sector was on track to monopolize the market. Despite this, the industry has been overlooked compared with its domestic counterpart, both in scholarship and popular memory. Redressing this …
Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics
How the Harassment of Black Elected Officials Shaped Post-Civil Rights America
Inbunden, 2012
1299 kr
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Historians have exhaustively documented how African Americans gained access to electoral politics in the mid-1960s, but few have scrutinized what happened next, and the small body of work that does consider the aftermath of the civil rights movement is almost entirely limited to the Black Power …
Doing Recent History
On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back
Av Claire Bond Potter, Renee C. Romano
Inbunden, 2012
1299 kr
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Recent history—the very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired a modern audience, and in the last several years interest in recent topics has grown exponentially. With subjects as diverse as Walmart and disco, and …
Dinner Party
Judy Chicago and the Power of Popular Feminism, 1970-2007
Inbunden, 2013
1271 kr
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Judy Chicago's monumental art installation The Dinner Party was an immediate sensation when it debuted in 1979, and today it is considered the most popular work of art to emerge from the second-wave feminist movement. Jane F. Gerhard examines the piece's popularity to understand how ideas about …
Jimmy Carter, the Politics of Family, and the Rise of the Religious Right
Inbunden, 2011
1299 kr
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As Jimmy Carter ascended to the presidency the heir apparent to Democratic liberalism, he touted his background as a born-again evangelical. Once in office, his faith indeed helped form policy on a number of controversial moral issues. By acknowledging certain behaviors as sinful while insisting …
Jimmy Carter, the Politics of Family, and the Rise of the Religious Right
Häftad, 2011
527 kr
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As Jimmy Carter ascended to the presidency the heir apparent to Democratic liberalism, he touted his background as a born-again evangelical. Once in office, his faith indeed helped form policy on a number of controversial moral issues. By acknowledging certain behaviors as sinful while insisting …
Deep Cut
Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal
Inbunden, 2020
2134 kr
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This book is openly available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.The Atlantic-Pacific Central American sea-level canal is generally regarded as a spectacular failure. However, Deep Cut examines the canal in an alternative context, as an anticipated …
Deep Cut
Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal
Häftad, 2020
550 kr
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This book is openly available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.The Atlantic-Pacific Central American sea-level canal is generally regarded as a spectacular failure. However, Deep Cut examines the canal in an alternative context, as an anticipated …
Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics
How the Harassment of Black Elected Officials Shaped Post-Civil Rights America
Häftad, 2012
477 kr
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Historians have exhaustively documented how African Americans gained access to electoral politics in the mid-1960s, but few have scrutinized what happened next, and the small body of work that does consider the aftermath of the civil rights movement is almost entirely limited to the Black Power …
Doing Recent History
On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back
Av Claire Bond Potter, Renee C. Romano
Häftad, 2012
551 kr
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Recent history—the very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired a modern audience, and in the last several years interest in recent topics has grown exponentially. With subjects as diverse as Walmart and disco, and …
Dinner Party
Judy Chicago and the Power of Popular Feminism, 1970-2007
Häftad, 2013
477 kr
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Judy Chicago's monumental art installation The Dinner Party was an immediate sensation when it debuted in 1979, and today it is considered the most popular work of art to emerge from the second-wave feminist movement. Jane F. Gerhard examines the piece's popularity to understand how ideas about …
Liberation in Print
Feminist Periodicals and Social Movement Identity
Av Agatha Beins
Inbunden, 2017
1467 kr
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This is the first analysis of periodicals’ key role in U.S. feminism’s formation as a collective identity and set of political practices in the 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, more than five hundred different feminist newsletters and newspapers were published in the United States. Agatha Beins shows …
Liberation in Print
Feminist Periodicals and Social Movement Identity
Av Agatha Beins
Häftad, 2017
577 kr
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This is the first analysis of periodicals’ key role in U.S. feminism’s formation as a collective identity and set of political practices in the 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, more than five hundred different feminist newsletters and newspapers were published in the United States. Agatha Beins shows …
Reconsidering Roots
Race, Politics, and Memory
Av Erica L. Ball, Kellie Carter Jackson
Häftad, 2017
479 kr
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This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection—the first of its kind—invites us to reconsider the politics and scope of the Roots phenomenon of the 1970s. Alex Haley’s 1976 book was a publishing sensation, selling over a million copies in its first year and winning a National Book Award and a …
Reconsidering Roots
Race, Politics, and Memory
Av Erica L. Ball, Kellie Carter Jackson
Inbunden, 2017
1343 kr
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This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection—the first of its kind—invites us to reconsider the politics and scope of the Roots phenomenon of the 1970s. Alex Haley’s 1976 book was a publishing sensation, selling over a million copies in its first year and winning a National Book Award and a …
Pushing Back
Women of Color–Led Grassroots Activism in New York City
Inbunden, 2020
1819 kr
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This book explores women of color’s grassroots leadership in organizations that are not singularly identified with feminism. Centered in New York City, Pushing Back brings an intersectional perspective to communities of color as it addresses injustices tied to domestic work, housing, and …
Pushing Back
Women of Color–Led Grassroots Activism in New York City
Häftad, 2020
550 kr
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This book explores women of color’s grassroots leadership in organizations that are not singularly identified with feminism. Centered in New York City, Pushing Back brings an intersectional perspective to communities of color as it addresses injustices tied to domestic work, housing, and …
Remaking Radicalism
A Grassroots Documentary Reader of the United States, 1973–2001
Av Dan Berger, Emily K. Hobson
Häftad, 2020
682 kr
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This book brings together documents from multiple radical movements in the recent United States from 1973 through 2001. These years are typically viewed as an era of neoliberalism, dominated by conservative retrenchment, the intensified programs of privatization and incarceration, dramatic cuts to …
Remaking Radicalism
A Grassroots Documentary Reader of the United States, 1973–2001
Av Dan Berger, Emily K. Hobson
Inbunden, 2020
1819 kr
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This book brings together documents from multiple radical movements in the recent United States from 1973 through 2001. These years are typically viewed as an era of neoliberalism, dominated by conservative retrenchment, the intensified programs of privatization and incarceration, dramatic cuts to …
America’s Other Automakers
A History of the Foreign-Owned Automotive Sector in the United States
Häftad, 2021
614 kr
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In 2018 almost half of all vehicles made in North America were produced at foreign-owned plants, and the sector was on track to monopolize the market. Despite this, the industry has been overlooked compared with its domestic counterpart, both in scholarship and popular memory. Redressing this …
Public Religions in the Future World
Postsecularism and Utopia
Av David Morris
Inbunden, 2021
2383 kr
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Public Religions in the Future World is the first book to map the utopian terrain of the political-religious movements of the past four decades. Examining a politically diverse set of utopian fictions, this book cuts across the usual Right/Left political divisions to show a surprising convergence: …
Public Religions in the Future World
Postsecularism and Utopia
Av David Morris
Häftad, 2021
615 kr
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Public Religions in the Future World is the first book to map the utopian terrain of the political-religious movements of the past four decades. Examining a politically diverse set of utopian fictions, this book cuts across the usual Right/Left political divisions to show a surprising convergence: …
Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women
Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right
Inbunden, 2022
2053 kr
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Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women is a statewide study of women’s part in the history of conservatism, the New Right, and the Republican Party in the state of Georgia. Robin M. Morris examines how the growth of the Republican Party in the 1960s and 1970s was due in large part to the political …
Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women
Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right
Häftad, 2022
385 kr
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Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women is a statewide study of women’s part in the history of conservatism, the New Right, and the Republican Party in the state of Georgia. Robin M. Morris examines how the growth of the Republican Party in the 1960s and 1970s was due in large part to the political …
Here Are My People
LGBT College Student Organizing in California
Inbunden, 2024
2134 kr
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Beginning in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, a new generation of LGBT students in California began to organize publicly on college and university campuses, inspired by contemporaneous social movements and informed by California’s rich history of LGBT community formation and political …
Here Are My People
LGBT College Student Organizing in California
Häftad, 2024
523 kr
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Beginning in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, a new generation of LGBT students in California began to organize publicly on college and university campuses, inspired by contemporaneous social movements and informed by California’s rich history of LGBT community formation and political …
Black Revolutionaries
A History of the Black Panther Party
Av Joe Street
Inbunden, 2024
2134 kr
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Black Revolutionaries is an accessible yet rigorously argued history of the Black Panther Party (BPP), one of the emblematic organizations of the 1960s. Joe Street highlights the complexity of the BPP’s history through three key themes: the BPP’s intellectual history, its political and social …
Black Revolutionaries
A History of the Black Panther Party
Av Joe Street
Häftad, 2024
550 kr
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Black Revolutionaries is an accessible yet rigorously argued history of the Black Panther Party (BPP), one of the emblematic organizations of the 1960s. Joe Street highlights the complexity of the BPP’s history through three key themes: the BPP’s intellectual history, its political and social …
Toxic Fear
Pollution Anxieties in the American 1980s
Av Michael Egan
Inbunden, 2026
1846 kr
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Toxic Fear explores how fear shaped the public and private lives of those seeking to make sense of pollution in the 1980s. Driving Egan’s interest in environmental anxieties is an exploration of the social and political infrastructure that took shape during the final quarter of the twentieth …
Toxic Fear
Pollution Anxieties in the American 1980s
Av Michael Egan
Häftad, 2026
346 kr
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Toxic Fear explores how fear shaped the public and private lives of those seeking to make sense of pollution in the 1980s. Driving Egan’s interest in environmental anxieties is an exploration of the social and political infrastructure that took shape during the final quarter of the twentieth …
