Sinking Middle Class. A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right, Paperback - David Roediger

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

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

Founder of whiteness studies surveys the race-class relationship

An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and labour

Reducere. In April 1861, Lincoln declared a blockade on Southern ports. It was only a matter of time before the Union navy would pay a visit to the bustling ...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory. She traces the development of the Western tradition from...

A history of "the Troubles" the radical politics of Republicanism The conflict in Northern Ireland was one of the most devastating in post-war Euro...

Reducere. Maharani's Misery sheds new light on the ordeal of indentured Indians, especially women, as they crossed the oceans to labour on sugar plantations ...

A history of the UK's regional inequalities, and why they matter

A history of "the Troubles": the radical politics of Republicanism.

A new political history of the former British colony in West Africa.Illustrations: Illustrations, unspecified

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

Reducere. Biblical history, enriched by many religious and cultural traditions, flows into and is intertwined with our nation's epic, both for better and for...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Basques, then keep reading...The Basques live in a portion of the Pyrenees in the far southw...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Basques, then keep reading...The Basques live in a portion of the Pyrenees in the far southw...

This book offers the first critical engagement with the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa. Challenging conventional wisdom on t...

This is the first comprehensive political history of national ID card proposals and developments in identity policing in the United States. Examini...

A bold thesis arguing that fascism is not the main enemy today - but a new and dangerous alliance of the right.

Reducere. Fifty years ago Georgia chose how it would use the natural environment of its coast. The General Assembly passed the Coastal Marshlands Protection ...

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...

Why great powers decline, from Spain to the United States The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America los...

Reducere. DescriptionSurfing today evokes many things: thundering waves, warm beaches, bikinis and lifeguards, and carefree pleasure. But is the story of sur...

Building a fully unified Afghan Army dominated neither by Pashtuns nor by Tajiks has eluded the authorities in Kabul for decades. This book explain...

Forensic political biography of the Labour Party leaderPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Oliver EagletonNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Di...

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. Two survivors' accounts of the sinking of the Titanic. The information contained in Colonel Gracie's story is available from no other source. He pr...

In 1944 Allied codebreakers learned the Imperial Japanese Navy had dispatched the cargo submarine I-52 to occupied France with tons of military sup...

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

Leslie Hiller is a bright, attractive, talented teenager who leads a privileged life in New York City. She is also a perfectionist. When Leslie sta...

From the fall of the Ottoman Empire through the Arab Spring, this completely revised and updated edition of Mehran Kamrava's classic treatise on th...

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 ...