Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation, Paperback - Moon-Ho Jung

Reducere. How did thousands of Chinese migrants end up working alongside African Americans in Louisiana after the Civil War? With the stories of these worker...

Established by congress in early 1865, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands-more commonly known as "the Freedmen's Bureau"-assumed...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Roberto SabaIllustration(s): 17 b/w illus. 3 tables. 1 map.Number of pages: 392Collection: America ...

What if racialized mass incarceration is not a perversion of our criminal justice system's liberal ideals, but rather a natural conclusion? Adam Ma...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Moon-Ho JungIllustration(s): 32 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 368Collection: American Cross...

DescriptionHow the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation ...

Reducere. On November 23, 1887, white vigilantes gunned down unarmed black laborers and their families during a spree lasting more than two hours. The violen...

Reducere. On November 23, 1887, white vigilantes gunned down unarmed black laborers and their families during a spree lasting more than two hours. The violen...

Reducere. Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that cl...

Reducere. True stories and traditional songs shed light on a lesser known era in African-American history -- the crucial decades between Emancipation and the...

* This is a major new work of social theory by one of the leading sociologists in France today. Formerly a close collaborator of Pierre Bourdieu, L...

Reducere. In 1907, pioneering labor historian and economist John Commons argued that U.S. management had shown just one symptom of originality, namely playin...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: David W. BlightEditor: Jim DownsThis collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters...

Reducere. In Claiming Union Widowhood, Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women during and after the Civil...

Exploring the complex interweaving of race, national identity, and the practice of sculpture, Amy Lyford takes us through a close examination of th...

In The Postsecular Sacred: Jung, Soul and Meaning in an Age of Change, David Tacey presents a unique psychological study of the postsecular, adding...

For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It's a situation that we in...

"The Rent of Form: Architecture and Labor in the Digital Age was first published in a different form in the original Portuguese as Arquitetura na e...

Reducere. The Arab Revolutions that began in 2011 reignited interest in the question of theory and practice, imbuing it with a burning political urgency. In ...

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 ...

Rocket Age traces the history of spaceflight innovation from Robert Goddard's early experiments with liquid fuel rockets, through World War II and ...

Reducere. During World War I, the British Empire enlisted half a million young men, predominantly from the countryside of Egypt, in the Egyptian Labor Corps ...

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressAuthor(s): Christopher KrupaIllustration(s): 12 illus.Number of pages: 328Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

Reducere. New Orleans is an iconic city, which was once located at the crossroads of early America and the Atlantic World. New Orleans became a major America...

The first archaeological study of the poor whites of Barbados, the descendants of seventeenth-century European indentured servants and small farmer...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Julius B. Fleming Jr.Illustration(s): 12 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 320Collection: Performanc...

An exhilarating dive into the secret history of humankind's race to the moon, from acclaimed author Amy Cherrix. This fascinating and immersive rea...

Race on the Line is the first book to address the convergence of race, gender, and technology in the telephone industry. Venus Green-a former Bell ...

Reducere. Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911) is a novel by J. E. Casely Hayford. Published at the height of his career as a politician, jo...

DescriptionA locked room. A secret letter. A weekend to solve a murder. Christmas, 1934. The snow lies heavy around Pauncefort Hall. Dress designer...

The Soviets were great pioneers of the race to space in the Cold War era. It was a source of great pride, and this book charts that story with the ...

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Publisher: Intellect BooksAuthor(s): Doctor Gjoko (University of Cincinnati) MuratovskiIllustration(s): 12 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of page...

Reducere. In the last century philosophy has undergone essential transfor-mations. Some spoke of the death of philosophy. Others argued about the absorption ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trucking in the Age of Information provides a comprehensive overview of the contemporary trucking industry. Prior research on trucking has focused ...

Reducere. In the last century philosophy has undergone essential transfor-mations. Some spoke of the death of philosophy. Others argued about the absorption ...

Addresses the convergence of race, gender, and technology in the telephone industry. This book shows how, as technology changed from a manual proce...

Reducere. An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggleIn 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl o...

This musical mission to Mars will have young astronauts talking--and singing--about the science of space travel. Explore the science behind a trip ...

Scholars investigate sound as part of the social construction of historical experience and as an element of the sensory relationship people have to...

Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell offers fresh perspectives from leading and emerging scholars on seventeenth-century British literature, wit...