Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property. Capitalism and Class Conflict in American History, Paperback - Steve Fraser

Steve Fraser is the preeminent historian of America as a capitalist civilization

DescriptionA uniquely personal yet deeply informed exploration of the hidden history of class in American life From the decks of the Mayflower stra...

In a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from Colonial times to today, one of our foremost legal thinkers shows how America fashioned ...

Reducere. DescriptionSee the times as they were, the people, the places, the food, the importance of events as they happened. From Columbus boyhood to his di...

Reducere. Bad Guys in American History recounts the events related to our country's most compelling outlaws, from colonial times to the 1930s. Complete with ...

Reducere. Eli Lederhendler's Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920: From Caste to Class reexamines the immigration of Russian Jews to the Unit...

Reducere. "My Christian faith taught me always to fight hard but only to fight back with the truth. Sadly, I learned that the opposition to Judeo-Christian f...

States of Exception in American History brings to light the remarkable number of instances since the Founding in which the protections of the Const...

Reducere. Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America By E. Richard Brown Contents Introduction --Doctors --Other Interest Groups --Foundati...

Reducere. In August 1862 the worst massacre in U.S. history unfolded on the Minnesota prairie, launching what has come to be known as the Dakota War, the mos...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this ambitious and provocative text, environmental historian Ted Steinberg offers a sweeping history of the United States--a history ...

DescriptionEach biography ties the present generation to the past through a concise, but fact-filled manner. These men and women are inspirations, ...

From fibs about royal incest in America's first newspaper to social-media-driven conspiracy theories surrounding Barack Obama's birthplace, Andie T...

The bestselling historian's biography of a decisive figure in England's history.

Reducere. Throughout American history, some social movements, such as organized labor and the Christian Right, have forged influential alliances with politic...

A ground-breaking look at the entire history of the Soviet Union, presenting a new kind of analysis of the history of the USSR: examining its birth...

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Reducere. The Frontier in American History By Frederick Jackson Turner

Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880–1920: From Caste to Class - Eli Lederhendler

Reducere. An award-winning reporter chronicles the calamitous story of Washington Mutual, the single-largest bank failure in American history, in a fast-pace...

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"Gail Collins inspires women to embrace aging and look at it with a new sense of hope" in this lively, fascinating, eye-opening look at women and a...

The book explores how political power, elections, legal institutions, reputational concerns, and social norms shape economic conflicts from hostile...

Reducere. A devastating loss of life and a community's response March 4, 1908, was an ordinary morning in Collinwood, Ohio, a village about ten miles outside...

Reducere. "Gripping . . . A valuable recounting of a lurid and little-known episode in American history." -- Washington Post Beginning in the summer of 1903,...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Significance of the Frontier in American History is a classic essay about the importance of the frontier.

Thanks to its active role in national politics, the market economy, and popular culture, the Thai crown remains both the country's dominant institu...

This provocative book addresses the ideological and political crisis of the Western left, and presents a radical critique of the current state of t...

A brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United StatesPrisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a p...

This book develops market democratic interpretations of the ideas of predistribution and the property-owning democracy, and presents a powerful cas...

How working-class socialist women changed the course of American history.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Meredith TaxNumber of pages: 368Publicati...

Reducere. While the Civil War is famous for epic battles involving massive armies engaged in conventional warfare, A Savage Conflict is the first work to tre...

Reducere. Rockefeller was the quintessential industrialist. He created an industry out of nascent oil and gas start-ups during a time when none existed. His ...

Reducere. "Novelist Denise Gess and historian William Lutz brilliantly restore the event to its rightful place in the forefront of American historical imagin...

Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's la...

A conversation in critical theory. A fresh look at some of the big questions surrounding capitalism by two leading critical theorists.

A brilliantly illuminating and darkly comic tale of the ongoing financial and political crisis in America The financial crisis that exploded in 200...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of Secretariat's life and races *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of Secretariat's life and races *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a...

Who exactly is Bill Clinton, and why was he, of all the brilliant and ambitious men in his generation, the first in his class to reach the White Ho...

Reducere. American history is filled with many great people of Asian ancestry who have contributed greatly to the country's culture. Because of their contrib...

Reducere. "A story of epic proportions and] an awesome feat of biographical reconstruction."--The Boston GlobeA classic of its kind, The Long Gray Line is th...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Mary R. JackmanNumber of pages: 450Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 31Cover type: ...

When cowboys were workers and battled their bossesIn the pantheon of American icons, the cowboy embodies the traits of "rugged individualism, " ind...

Reducere. DescriptionIn his new book, G ran Therborn - author of the now standard comparative work on classical sociology and historical materialism, Science...

Reducere. A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and...

Reducere. Early twentieth-century African American men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, segregation, a biased criminal justi...

The major regional wars and Palestinian Intifadas are examined, with a particular focus on the series of crises over Gaza. This thoroughly updated ...