Andrew Gordon: 48 books
Fabricating Consumers
The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Since its early days of mass production in the 1850s, the sewing machine has been intricately connected with the global development of capitalism. Andrew Gordon traces the machine’s remarkable journey into and throughout Japan, where it not only transformed manners of dress, but also helped change...
The Rules of the Game
Jutland and British Naval Command
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Foreword by Admiral Sir John Woodward. When published in hardcover in 1997, this book was praised for providing an engrossing education not only in naval strategy and tactics but in Victorian social attitudes and the influence of character on history. In juxtaposing an operational with a cultural theme,...
by Andrew Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 1991
Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan examines the political role played by working men and women in prewar Tokyo and offers a reinterpretation of the broader dynamics of Japan's prewar political history. Gordon argues that such phenomena as riots, labor disputes, and union organizing can best...
by andrew gordon frew
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
His prophecies are set out in thirty-two figurines, with his prognostications included for each figure. These figurines contain prophecies on the future course of history as they relate to the affairs of the church and various countries over the period of 420 years. They deal with mudane events and...
by andrew gordon frew
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
November 22nd has become a special day in the annals of history for being the day in full view of the eyes of the world the leader of the free world President John F Kennedy was assassinated executed mercilessly by an unknown assassin. In the opinion of the authorities that established the Warren...
Cultures in Contact
World Migrations in the Second Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2002
A landmark work on human migration around the globe, Cultures in Contact provides a history of the world told through the movements of its people. It is a broad, pioneering interpretation of the scope, patterns, and consequences of human migrations over the past ten centuries. In this magnum opus...
Dulcinea in the Factory
Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Colombia’s Industrial Experiment, 1905–1960
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2000
Before it became the center of Latin American drug trafficking, the Colombian city of Medellín was famous as a success story of industrialization, a place where protectionist tariffs had created a “capitalist paradise.” By the 1960s, the city’s textile industrialists were presenting themselves...
Like Cattle and Horses
Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1895–1927
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
In Like Cattle and Horses Steve Smith connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. Moving from the late nineteenth century, when foreign companies first set up factories on Chinese soil, to 1927, when the labor movement created by the Chinese Communist Party was...
Working Difference
Women’s Working Lives in Hungary and Austria, 1945–1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2003
Working Difference is one of the first comparative, historical studies of women's professional access to public institutions in a state socialist and a capitalist society. Éva Fodor examines women's inclusion in and exclusion from positions of authority in Austria and Hungary in the latter half of...
Portraits Of The Japanese Workplace
Labor Movements, Workers, And Managers
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
In this groundbreaking volume, one of Japan's most insightful contemporary labor analysts assesses the ?light and shadow? of Japanese-style management, explaining why Japanese employees have stood apart from workers in other industrialized countries. Kumazawa brings to life the intense combination...
Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work
A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 1997
Nancy L. Green offers a critical and lively look at New York’s Seventh Avenue and the Parisian Sentier in this first comparative study of the two historical centers of the women’s garment industry. Torn between mass production and "art," this industry is one of the few manufactauring...
by Judie Newman, Ben Siegel, Michael W. Austin
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Saul Bellow is one of the twentieth century's most influential, respected, and honored writers. His novels The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, and Mr. Sammler's Planet won the National Book Award, and Humboldt's Gift was awarded the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In addition, his plays garnered...
Beating Ulcerative Colitis
Your Own Ulcerative Colitis Success Programme for ePub
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Become part of the solution to your ulcerative colitis health challenges with our new success programme, now published as an ePub. Contained within 3 volumes: 'Beating Ulcerative Colitis - Your Own Ulcerative Colitis Success Programme for ePub', is part of a new range of health self-management programmes,...
Thanksgiving Story Book
Classic Holiday Tales for Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This carefully edited collection of the greatest tales of Thanksgiving is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: An English Dinner of Thanksgiving (George Eliot) An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery)...