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Coalfield Jews An Appalachian History

Author: Deborah Weiner
Publishing date: 2006
Explores the intersection of two simultaneous historic events: central Appalachia's transformative coal boom (1880s-1920), and the mass migration of eastern European Jews to America. This book provides a study of Jews in Appalachia, exploring where they settled, how they made their place within a surprisingly receptive dominant culture, and more.
100.00 zł

Democracy INC

Author: David Allen
Publishing date: 2005
Exposes the vested interests behind the US slide toward conflating corporate values with democratic values. Through an examination of professionalization in both the press and the law and free speech as property, this book demonstrates that present democracy is about trying to control and manage citizens than giving them freedom to participate.
113.40 zł

Global Chicago

Author: Charles Madigan
Publishing date: 2004
Chicago has a long history of adaptation. This book describes Chicago's transformation from industrial powerhouse to global metropolis. It offers insights into the city's global assets and its economic, social, intellectual, and cultural links to the world.
89.00 zł

Labor Embattled

Author: David Brody
Publishing date: 2005
Explores developments affecting American workers. This title explains how the ideals of free labor, free speech, freedom of association, and freedom of contract have been interpreted and canonized in ways that unfailingly reduce the capacity for workers' collective action while silently removing impediments to employers coercion of workers.
68.00 zł

Sovereign Selves

Author: David Carlson
Publishing date: 2005
Explores how American Indian autobiographers' approaches to writing about their own lives have been impacted by American legal systems from the Revolutionary War until the 1920s. This book traces the way that their sustained engagement with colonial legal institutions gradually enabled them to produce a new rhetoric of "Indianness".
104.00 zł

Women's History in Global Perspective v 2

Author: American Historical Association
B Smith
Publishing date: 2005
The American Historical Association's Committee on Women Historians commissioned some of the pioneering figures in women's history to prepare essays in their respective areas of expertise. This volume, the second in a series of three, collects their efforts. As a counterpoint to the broad themes discussed in the first volume, Volume 2 is concerned with issues that have shaped the history of women in particular places and during particular eras. It examines women in ancient civilizations; including women in China, Japan, and Korea; women and gender in South and South East Asia; Medieval women; women and gender in Colonial Latin America; and the history of women in the US to 1865. Authors included are Sarah Hughes and Brady Hughes, Susan Mann, Barbara N. Ramusack, Judith
173.00 zł

Women's History in Global Perspective v 3

Author: American Historical Association
B Smith
Publishing date: 2005
Regional and global perspectives from the finest writers on women's history
184.00 zł