Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Paperback

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Colin GordonOnce a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Destin JenkinsIllustration(s): 26 halftones, 10 tablesNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 20...

Reducere. The riveting, unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty, and racism in an unequal America--from Pul...

Reducere. The riveting, unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty, and racism in an unequal America--from Pul...

Reducere. "In this stimulating and important book Lester Little advances the original thesis that, paradoxically, it was the leading practitioners of volunta...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Tanya HartNumber of pages: 336Collection: Culture, Labor, HistoryPublication date: 2015Dimensions: 1...

Kevin Loughran explores the High Line in New York, the Bloomingdale Trail/606 in Chicago, and Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston to offer a critical per...

A journalist's raw, first-person account of what his family endured after his eldest brother killed a man and was sentenced to life in prison. At t...

Utilizing an innovative framework as an international, interdisciplinary dialogue, the volume provides an inventory of contemporary thought about t...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Megan BirkIllustration(s): 23 black & white photographs, 1 tableNumber of pages: 300Publication d...

Reducere. "Acknowledgement is the first step in the journey of unpacking the ways our cities are built with systems of power and erasure. True reconciliation...

Publisher: Fordham University PressAuthor(s): Jill JonnesIllustration(s): 48 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 608Publication date: 2022Dimensions:...

Reducere. This book tells the fascinating story of Montreal, Canada, from prehistoric time through the 21st century. From the Iroquoian community of Hochelag...

Reducere. From an acclaimed historian, the full and authoritative story of one of the most iconic disasters in American history, told through the vivid memor...

DescriptionThe Great Chicago Fire in October 1871 destroyed 2, 600 acres and left tens of thousands without housing, food, fuel, or clothing. In th...

Argues that poverty has been denied its due as a critical and ideological framework in its own right, despite interest in representations of the lo...

Reducere. Dedicated to all those living elsewhere who would rather be in TucsonTucson is the first comprehensive history of a unique corner of America, a cit...

Death at Dozier School is the history of the controversial and oft-sensationalized "Boot Hill" Cemetery at the former Dozier School for Boys in Mar...

Reducere. In Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the African American struggles for full equality and equal justice under the law that ...

Wayne Jenkins and his team of plain-clothed officers - the Gun Trace Task Force - were the city's lauded and decorated heroes.

Reducere. "Written in 1965 about a same-sex sexual scandal that occurred in 1955 in Boise, Idaho, John Gerassi's classic study depicts both middle America's ...

Reducere. The settlement of Poverty Point, occupied from about 1700 to 1100 BC and once the largest city in North America, stretches across 345 acres in nort...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 2 Line drawings, black and white; 17 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 296Publication date...

For years, Sgt Wayne Jenkins and his elite team of plain-clothed officers - the Gun Trace Task Force - had been the city's lauded heroes, working t...

DescriptionThe compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation's cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight Thirty y...

Reducere. DescriptionSomething in the Air is Richard Hoffer's gripping sports narrative that tells the individual stories of the athletes who gathered in Mex...

Why Does America Go to War? In the last decades, America has gone to war as supposed defenders of democracy. The War on Terror was waged to protect...

Reducere. The untold story of how America's beloved first president, George Washington, borrowed, leveraged, and coerced his way into masterminding the key l...

Reducere. DescriptionLearn how to live sustainably in the city, the suburbs, or the countryMany people are cutting back on consumerism and trying to simplify...

Reducere. In his 1983 classic The Poverty of Affluence, Paul Wachtel examines the psychological underpinnings of our insatiable desire for growth, and endles...

The authors take readers to the heart of the struggles of the outlaw women ofthe rural West, considering how poverty and gendered violence overlap ...

DescriptionThe world was caught up in a haze of exuberance and mania, with many hoping to get rich through accumulating easily accessible and unreg...