United States category: 34172 books
Divided Highways
Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
"Anyone who has ever driven on a U.S. interstate highway or eaten at an exit-ramp McDonald’s will come away from this book with a better understanding of what makes modern America what it is." – Chicago Tribune
"A fascinating work... with a subject central to contemporary life but to which...
Eisenhower and Adenauer
Alliance Maintenance under Pressure, 1953–1960
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
In the early years of the Atlantic Alliance, no bilateral relationship was more important than that between the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States. Even so, the West German-American alliance was taxing for both sides during much of the first two decades of the Cold War. Ultimately,...
Apple's America
The Discriminating Traveler's Guide to 40 Great Cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2007
Unpretentious, sophisticated, and always appetizing advice from a celebrated authority
For more than thirty years, R. W. Apple Jr. roamed the United States as an eyewitness to history. Here, in Apple's America, his robust enthusiasm for the food and culture of New England, the South and West,...
The Market Revolution in America
Liberty, Ambition, and the Eclipse of the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
The mass industrial democracy that is the modern United States bears little resemblance to the simple agrarian republic that gave it birth. The market revolution is the reason for this dramatic - and ironic - metamorphosis. The resulting tangled frameworks of democracy and capitalism still dominate...
Dangerously Sleepy
Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Workers in the United States are losing sleep. In the global economy a growing number of employees hold jobs—often more than one at once—with unpredictable hours. Even before the rise of the twenty-four-hour workplace, the relationship between sleep and industry was problematic: sleep is frequently...
Mexico's Uneven Development
The Geographical and Historical Context of Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Mexico and the United States may be neighbors, but their economies offer stark contrasts. In Mexico’s Uneven Development: The Geographical and Historical Context of Inequality, Oscar J. Martínez explores Mexico’s history to explain why Mexico remains less developed than the United States. Weaving...
The Production of Difference
Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In 1907, pioneering labor historian and economist John Commons argued that U.S. management had shown just one "symptom of originality," namely "playing one race against the other." In this eye-opening book, David Roediger and Elizabeth Esch offer a radically new way of understanding...
by Selig Perlman
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes.
CONTENTS
PREFACE
PART I THE STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL
CHAPTER 1 LABOR MOVEMENTS BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR
(1). Early Beginnings, to 1827
(2). Equal Citizenship, 1827-1832
(3). The Period of the "Wild-Cat" Prosperity, 1833-1837
(4)....
The Great American Mission
Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
The Great American Mission traces how America's global modernization efforts during the twentieth century were a means to remake the world in its own image. David Ekbladh shows that the emerging concept of modernization combined existing development ideas from the Depression. He describes how ambitious...
American Ways
A Cultural Guide to the United States of America
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
This essential guide sheds light on the unique American psyche and national character, now in a third edition.
Whether you're a businessperson beginning to work in the United States or a foreign student visiting for a semester, this new edition of American Ways will help you navigate America's...
Exit Zero
Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Winner of CLR James Book Prize from the Working Class Studies Association and 2nd Place for the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing.
In 1980, Christine J. Walley’s world was turned upside down when the steel mill in Southeast Chicago where her father worked abruptly closed. In the...
Winning the Third World
Sino-American Rivalry during the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Winning the Third World examines afresh the intense and enduring rivalry between the United States and China during the Cold War. Gregg A. Brazinsky shows how both nations fought vigorously to establish their influence in newly independent African and Asian countries. By playing a leadership role...
by Barry Latzer
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
A compelling case can be made that violent crime, especially after the 1960s, was one of the most significant domestic issues in the United States. Indeed, few issues had as profound an effect on American life in the last third of the twentieth century. After 1965, crime rose to such levels that it frightened...
by David Meade, Anne Meade
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
The Keys real estate market has become a hot contender as one of the most valuable markets to invest in, particularly since the world's stock markets have started to become so volatile these days. All in all, if you have money and are looking to invest it in real estate, look no further than the...