A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America, Paperback - Lizabeth Cohen

Reducere. In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World Wa...

After the Revolution, Americans abandoned the political economy of self-denial and sacrifice that had secured their independence. In its place, the...

Reducere. The United States has built a carceral state that is unprecedented among Western countries and in US history. Nearly one in 50 people, excluding ch...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Palmer RampellNumber of pages: 240Collection: Post*45Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 1...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): John KrigeIllustration(s): 8 tablesNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 229 x...

Reducere. From its launch in 1945, Ebony magazine was politically and socially influential. However, the magazine also played an important role in educating ...

Publisher: CounterpointAuthor(s): Nancy L. CohenNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 155 x 228 x 32Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Reducere. This book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political particip...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Sam LebovicNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 236 x 26Cover type: Har...

A new examination of mass digitization as an emerging sociopolitical and sociotechnical phenomenon that alters the politics of cultural memory.Toda...

Reducere. After World War II, the United States was the strongest, most powerful nation in the world. Life was safe and secure--but many women were unhappy w...

Why do the UK and US disproportionately incarcerate the mentally ill? Via multiple re-framings of the question-theological, socioeconomic, and psyc...

Economists say there is a limit to what we gain by buying consumer goods. Americans say they want to work less. Yet we continue toiling away and us...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): John KrigeIllustration(s): 8 tablesNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 158 x...

Reducere. This vigorous call-to-arms to reignite American citizenship at home and restore American power abroad by the Fox News contributor and decorated Ira...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Shackled and Chained, Mass Incarceration in Captalist America is a thorough examination of mass incarceration, its causes and consequences. Eugene ...

This study examines the military, political, and personal life of Abdul Harus Nasution, a seminal figure in modern Indonesian history. The author a...

"Fifth edition published by Routledge in association with PSAI Press 2010"--T.p. verso.

Publisher: The New PressAuthor(s): Jonathan SimonNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 140 x 208 x 20Cover type: Paperback / softba...

Reducere. A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice -A brilliant and complicated portrait of a brilliant and complicated president.---Salon Michael Eric D...

Reducere. For more than two centuries, Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury--royal governor of New York and New Jersey from 1702 to 1708--has been a despised figur...

The Haunted States of America: Gothic Regionalism in Post-war American fiction focuses on existing regional Gothic strains to examine how the anxie...

In this illuminating study, Steven E. Nash chronicles the history of Reconstruction as it unfolded in the mountains of western North Carolina. Nash...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. In recent years, we have mourned the deaths of many of the most prominent scholars in Chinese calligraphy and painting working in the United States...

Explains how women activists from across the political spectrum engaged with the state by working within both authoritarian regimes and inter-Ameri...

Reducere. DescriptionIn innumerable ways, the United States of America is the political and social descendant of the Roman Republic, and the influences of Ro...

Reducere. In the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Prisoners toiled in grueling, violent conditions while...

The Two Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain - Guy Ortolano

Mass Media, Consumerism and National Identity in Postwar Japan addresses Japan's evolving nationalism and national identity in relation to its newl...

Reducere. Drawing on never before used archival materials, Replacing the Dead exposes the history of Soviet and Russian abortion policy. It is not unusual fo...