White Trash. The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, Paperback - Nancy Isenberg

A New York Times Bestseller, and a ground-breaking history of the class system in America, which challenges popular myths about equality in the lan...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the urban affairs correspondent of the New York Times--the story of a city through twenty-seven structures that define it. As New Y...

Reducere. ``Told brilliantly, even unforgettably ... An American story, one that belongs to all of us.`` -- Boston Globe ``A richly textured guide to the his...

Reducere. In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century America...

Reducere. DescriptionExtensively expanded and revised, with a new foreword by Thomas Frank In the United States, happiness and wealth are often regarded as s...

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Determined presents a concise overview of Black history in Virginia from the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia in 1619 through the...

Reducere. From the author of White Trash, a controversial challenge to the views of the Founding Fathers offered by Ron Chernow and David McCullough Lin-Manu...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Don JordanAuthor: Michael WalshWhite Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage...

Publisher: CounterpointAuthor(s): Nancy L. CohenNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 155 x 228 x 32Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Reducere. DescriptionProgram litany for the ceremony concluding 40 Days of Prayer for the American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS). The ceremony engages blacks...

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Reducere. Observing that the understanding of the Founders of the American Constitution influences the opinion of contemporary America, this book demonstrate...

The World in the Year 1000 is organized in four thematic sections covering five world regions: Europe, the Islamic world, India, China, and Mesoame...

Racism is a problem deeply rooted in American society. Slavery and segregation may no longer be legal, but their legacies still influence the way B...

Hell's Kitchen Trash is a unique book that takes a detailed look at the garbage of this colorful, historic West Side neighborhood-from tiny to mass...

Reducere. Nineteen ninety-seven is the most important year in rugby league history - at least since the Great Schism of 1895. It's also the year the sport's ...

Reducere. After World War II, the United States was the strongest, most powerful nation in the world. Life was safe and secure--but many women were unhappy w...

Reducere. The Artisan Bagel is the most iconic food ever made in the City of New York. It has become identified and synonomous with NYC itself. While people ...

Reducere. History as it's supposed to be told: true and thrilling. History is about so much more than memorizing facts. It is, as more than half of the word ...

Reducere. America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line--the first American railroad--in the 1830s sparked a national revolutio...

Virginia's Tidewater has played a significant role in American history. With European settlers arriving on its tranquil shores as early as the sixt...

With a new foreword by Mark Cuban and a new preface by the author.

Reducere. Now in paperback, the riveting story of the response of the heroic pilots and air traffic controllers who found themselves on the front lines of an...

Reducere. For the last twenty years, The Destruction of the Bison has been an essential work in environmental history. Andrew C. Isenberg offers a concise an...

Contributor(s): Author: Gerald HorneVirtually no part of the modern United States--the economy, education, constitutional law, religious institutio...

Reducere. What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nation...

Badges and Incidents explains the law and pedagogical practices governing American education. It is a valuable resource for any citizen concerned w...

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Reducere. Throughout the ages, there have been men and women in every race and religion that have mastered time and space, transcended the cycles of karma an...

A riveting account of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Reducere. When does a crisis become a crime?Most importantly, who are the victims? In this investigative tour-de-force, Trey Garrison and Richard McClure del...

Reducere. A vivid character-driven narrative, fused with important new economic and political reporting and research, that busts the myths about middle class...

Chronicles representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer sexualities over one hundred years of American film. This book explores the ever-ch...

Reducere. DescriptionBarbecue: It's America in a mouthful. The story of barbecue touches almost every aspect of our history. It involves indigenous culture, ...

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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...