Nonprofit Neighborhoods. An Urban History of Inequality and the American State, Hardback - Claire Dunning

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Claire DunningIllustration(s): 23 halftonesNumber of pages: 336Collection: Historical Studies ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Claire DunningIllustration(s): 23 halftonesNumber of pages: 336Collection: Historical Studies ...

Reducere. In this accessible new study, Toby Lincoln offers the first history of Chinese cities from their origins to the present. Despite being an agricultu...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Robin BartramIllustration(s): 8 halftones, 2 tablesNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022D...

Reducere. This volume explores the political and social dimensions of the Civil War in both the North and South. Chapters explore the military leadership of ...

Conventional wisdom dates the origins of activist federal government to the New Deal. William J. Novak shows that the roots run deeper. Tracing the...

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

Reducere. In the United States, homeownership is synonymous with economic security and middle-class status. It has played this role in American life for almo...

Reducere. The Archaeology of Inequality explores the different aspects of social boundaries and articulation by comparing several interdisciplinary approache...

Reducere. The mystery of Chinatown as foreign yet familiar has been long established in the American imagination. Visitors come to expect this, looking for "...

Reducere. This work is a chronological survey of the LGBTQ fight for equal rights from the turn of the 20th century to the early 21st century. Illustrated wi...

Examines American societal structures and institutions, beginning and ending with public education, and exposes how dysfunction and the investment ...

Pepper Town, Methodist Town, the Gas Plant district and the 22nd Street South community--these once segregated neighborhoods were built by African ...

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Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Stephen (Professor Emeritus of History, Professor Emeritus of History, UCLA) AronIllustration(s): ...

This book examines the social inequalities relating to food insecurity in the UK, as well as drawing parallels with the US.Publisher: Taylor & Fran...

2010 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Race, Gender, and Class Section2008 Finalist,...

Reducere. In the 1970s, queer Americans demanded access not only to health and social services but also to mainstream Democratic and Republican Party politic...

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. Discover the stories behind Columbus neighborhoods and their landmarks. The community centers that locals call home aren't just points of interest ...

Frederick Douglass's pioneering autobiography that played a key part in the abolition of slavery.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Frederick Dougl...

A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuryPublisher: Yale University ...

Capitalism and Inequality rejects the popular view that attributes the recent surge in inequality to a failure of market institutions. Bringing tog...

An examination of howpatterns of income, class and racial inequality in Johannesburg highlight howand why earnings and spatial inequality in cities...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Tom SlaterIllustration(s): 8 photosNumber of pages: 258Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x ...

As a study of presidential image-fashioning, FDR in American Memory will be of immediate relevance to present-day readers.Publisher: Johns Hopkins ...

Reducere. How do social statuses intersect to shape our identities and produce inequalities? In the updated Third Edition of this bestseller, Susan Ferguson ...

Reducere. DescriptionPepper Town, Methodist Town, the Gas Plant district and the 22nd Street South community--these once segregated neighborhoods were built ...

Reducere. DescriptionBetween 1900 and 1950, Americans built the most powerful steam locomotives of all time--enormous engines that powered a colossal industr...

A powerful dissection of a core American myth.Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Ian TyrrellNumber of pages: 288Publication date:...

DescriptionThis timely and lucid guide is intended for students and scholars working on all historical periods and topics in the humanities and soc...

Reducere. DescriptionWhere y'at? In New Orleans, this simple question can yield hundreds of answers. People on the same block might say that they live in Pig...

Between 1981 and 2016, thousands of American and Australian Vietnam War veterans returned to Viet Nam. This oral history tells their story and expl...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Esther da Costa MeyerIllustration(s): 60 color + 115 b/w illus.Number of pages: 416Publication date...