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Love of Freedom
Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
They baked New England's Thanksgiving pies, preached their faith to crowds of worshippers, spied for the patriots during the Revolution, wrote that human bondage was a sin, and demanded reparations for slavery. Black women in colonial and revolutionary New England sought not only legal emancipation...
A Gentleman of Color
The Life of James Forten
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2002
Winch has written the first full-length biography of James Forten, a hero of African American history and one of the most remarkable men in 19th-century America. Born into a free black family in 1766, Forten served in the Revolutionary War as a teenager. By 1810 he had earned the distinction of being...
Rehearsal for Reconstruction
The Port Royal Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1976
This award-winning study presents an engaging account of the attempt at reconstruction that occurred in the Sea Islands of South Carolina during the beginning of the Civil War. Serving as a kind of dress rehearsal for Reconstruction, the Port Royal Experiment not only helped to shape federal policy...
Eakins Revealed
The Secret Life of an American Artist
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
Thomas Eakins is widely considered one of the great American painters, an artist whose uncompromising realism helped move American art from the Victorian era into the modern age. He is also acclaimed as a paragon of integrity, one who stood up for his artistic beliefs even when they brought him personal...
Everything in Its Place
Entrepreneurship and the Strategic Management of Cities, Regions, and States
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Every city, region and state wants to do better---or at the very least, not do worse. Places have a strong and vigorous concern with and stake in generating a stronger economic performance. This concern spans a broad spectrum of constituents and interests, including business, labor, non-profit organizations,...
The Seven Secrets of Germany
Economic Resilience in an Era of Global Turbulence
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
German economic performance has astonished the world. At the turn of the century, Germany had been written off as the sick man of Europe. No more. Even as most of its European neighbors and OECD trading partners have struggled in the face of a turbulent global economy, the German economy has thrived....
Visions of Modernity
American Business and the Modernization of Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 1994
In much the same way that Japan has become the focus of contemporary American discussion about industrial restructuring, Germans in the economic reform in terms of Americanism and Fordism, seeing in the United States an intriguing vision for a revitalized economy and a new social order. During the...
Management Innovators
The People and Ideas that Have Shaped Modern Business
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 1998
Here is a who's who of business, thirty-one profiles of inventors, financiers, organizers, motivators, and gurus--a vivid, informative look at the history of management as seen through the lives of its most influential figures. We meet Eli Whitney, creator of the cotton gin and father of the machine...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Urban ethnography is the firsthand study of city life by investigators who immerse themselves in the worlds of the people about whom they write. Since its inception in the early twentieth century, this great tradition has helped define how we think about cities and city dwellers. The past few decades...
by Alan Brinkley
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"No president since the founders has done more to shape the character of American government," notes Alan Brinkley in this magnificent biography of America's thirty-second president. "And no president since Lincoln has served through darker or more difficult times. Roosevelt thrived...
The American People in the Great Depression
Freedom from Fear, Part One
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
On October 24, 1929, America met the greatest economic devastation it had ever known. In this first installment of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear, Kennedy tells how America endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of that unprecedented calamity. Kennedy vividly demonstrates that...
The Founder:Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power
Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 1990
A tall, robust-looking, imposing figure, Cecil John Rhodes was a man of many contradictions. Rhodes, the dreamy idealist, called his copy of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius his "most precious possession," while Rhodes, the ruthless businessman, firmly believed in the adage, "every...
Changed for Good
A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
From Adelaide in "Guys and Dolls" to Nina in "In the Heights" and Elphaba in "Wicked," female characters in Broadway musicals have belted and crooned their way into the American psyche. In this lively book, Stacy Wolf illuminates the women of American musical theatre...
What's Good for Business
Business and American Politics since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
This volume showcases the most exciting new voices in the fields of business and political history. While the media frequently warns of the newfound power of business in the world of politics, the authors in this book demonstrate that business has mobilized to shape public policy and government institutions,...