Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class, Paperback - Larry Tye

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Larry Tye"A valuable window into a long-underreported dimension of African American history."--NewsdayWhen George Pullman b...

Reducere. First published in 1999, Mary Pattillo's Black Picket Fences explores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the medi...

Reducere. Between World War I and World War II, African Americans' quest for civil rights took on a more aggressive character as a new group of black activis...

For better or worse, E.P. Thompson's monumental book The Making of the English Working Class has played an essential role in shaping the intellectu...

Reducere. The Father of Spin is the first full-length biography of the legendary Edward L. Bernays, who, beginning in the 1920s, was one of the first and mos...

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A classic history of the role of Black working-class struggles throughout the twentieth centuryIn this pioneering history, Ron Ramdin traces the ro...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Frederick TaylorNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 197 x 131 x 28Cover type: Pape...

Reducere. If, as Wallace Stegner said, the national park is "the best idea we ever had, " the rail-trail is certainly a close runner-up. Part transportation ...

Reducere. Exploring the social history of the 19th century, this text is the culmination of Peter Gay's 35 years of scholarship on bourgeois culture and soci...

Reducere. Service Not Servitude This Anthology of Respect and the Pullman Porter's National Historic Registry is a reminder of a living legacy and a clarion ...

Reducere. DescriptionFor more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and mus...

Reducere. "Emancipation is an important and impressive work; one cannot read it without being inspired by the legal acumen, creativity, and resiliency these ...

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This book analyzes experiences of upper-middle-class white men living in wealthy parts of Rio de Janeiro. The author investigates what it means to ...

Reducere. DescriptionA brilliant and insightful exploration of the rise and fall of the American middle class by New York Times bestselling author, Barbara E...

"Hypnotic....It is ever tempting to try to fathom his restless spirit and his determination to challenge fate."--Janet Maslin, New York Times Werne...

Fake: Fake Money, Fake Teachers, Fake Assets: How Lies Are Making the Poor and Middle Class Poorer, PaperbackRobert Kiyosaki -- author of the #1 Pe...

A fierce, historically informed polemic against the idea that the middle class is the key to US greatness, past and future.Publisher: Haymarket Boo...

This engaging and highly readable family history follows ten generations of a mainstream middle-class family through three and a half centuries of ...

DescriptionDuring the 1970s and early 1980s, Egypt experienced swift economic growth resulting from a regional oil boom. Oddly, this economic growt...

Reducere. From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes the New York Times bestselling account and behind-the-sce...

Reducere. Another fun chapter book from the dynamic duo of Mike Thaler and Jared Lee -- just in time for Election DayMean Mrs. Green is forcing everyone to r...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Middle Ages, then keep reading...One of the least understood periods of European ...

Reducere. In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solel...

Reducere. In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solel...

This book analyses how racism and anti-racism affects Black British middle class cultural consumption, incorporating insights from critical race th...

Lankina reveals how Imperial Russia's social structure survived the Bolsheviks' social engineering projects and continues to drive inequalities and...

From Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes the bestselling behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cul...

Dramatic social and economic change during the middle ages altered the lives of the people of Britain in far-reaching ways, from the structure of t...

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every coun...

Rozsika Parker's re-evaluation of the reciprocal relationship between women and embroidery has brought stitchery out from the private world of fema...

Reducere. Shame influences more of our thoughts and actions than many other emotions. Used as a punishment for bad behavior, shame acts as an incentive for u...

Long before Greeks dominated the ancient Mediterranean, Phoenicians were the lords of the sea. Setting out from their Levantine cities, they introd...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Adam B. (Permanent Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Politics and International Relations, Permane...

Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism re-interprets the historiography of the emergence of Canada's universal immigration policy for skilled workers...

Reducere. Although the United States spends almost one-fifth of all its resources funding healthcare, the American system continues to be dogged by persisten...

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

The Bible is full of ancient texts long predating the assembly of Judaism's and Christianity's sacred books. Why these texts, and how were they tra...