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Community Power Succession
Atlanta's Policy Makers Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Hunter returns to Atlanta and reveals how the power structure of the 1950s has changed during the 1960s and 1970s. By combining scholarly analysis, personal reminiscences, observation, and social prescription, he provides a companion work that is as important as its predecessor. He compares the earlier...
Muscovite and Mandarin
Russia's Trade with China and Its Setting, 1727-1805
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
This is the first published study in English of Russian trade and commercial relations with China from the Treaty of Kiakhta (1727) to the early nineteenth century. It is a study in Russian economic and entrepreneurial history, focusing on Russian state economic policy and activity concerning China....
by S. Chandrasekhar
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
This study surveys the level, causes, and course of infant mortality in India during the last seventy years. Besides this historical survey, the book examines the implications of high and low infant mortality on the country's major problems of population growth and the current population policy designed...
The New Vegetarian South
105 Inspired Dishes for Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
In this enlightening cookbook, chef Jennifer Brule brings southern-style food together with plant-based approaches to eating. Her down-to-earth style and 105 recipes will immediately appeal to vegetarians, vegans, and meat-eaters alike. These dishes are also a boon for those who simply love southern...
U. S. Grant
American Hero, American Myth
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
At the time of his death, Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Yet today his monuments are rarely visited, his military reputation is overshadowed by that of Robert E. Lee, and his presidency...
Wilhelm II
Volume 1: Prince and Emperor, 1859-1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Wilhelm II (1859-1941), King of Prussia and German Emperor from 1888 to 1918, reigned during a period of unprecedented economic, cultural, and intellectual achievement in Germany. Unlike most European sovereigns of his generation, Wilhelm was no mere figurehead, and his imprint on imperial Germany...
No More Work
Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
For centuries we've believed that work was where you learned discipline, initiative, honesty, self-reliance--in a word, character. A job was also, and not incidentally, the source of your income: if you didn't work, you didn't eat, or else you were stealing from someone. If only you worked hard, you...
Contested Waters
A Social History of Swimming Pools in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
From nineteenth-century public baths to today's private backyard havens, swimming pools have long been a provocative symbol of American life. In this social and cultural history of swimming pools in the United States, Jeff Wiltse relates how, over the years, pools have served as asylums for the urban...
Froth and Scum
Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in America's First Mass Medium
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Two notorious antebellum New York murder cases--a prostitute slashed in an elegant brothel and a tradesman bludgeoned by the brother of inventor Samuel Colt--set off journalistic scrambles over the meanings of truth, objectivity, and the duty of the press that reverberate to this day. In 1833 an entirely...
Pigmentocracies
Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Pigmentocracies--the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA)--is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary attitudes toward ethnicity and race in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, four of Latin America's most populous nations. Based on extensive, original...
White Captives
Gender and Ethnicity on the American Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Namias shows that visual, literary, and historical accounts of the capture of Euro-Americans by Indians are commentaries on the uncertain boundaries of gender, race, and culture during the colonial Indian Wars, the American Revolution, and the Civil War. She compares the experiences and representations...
A Theory of Craft
Function and Aesthetic Expression
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
What is craft? How is it different from fine art or design? In A Theory of Craft, Howard Risatti examines these issues by comparing handmade ceramics, glass, metalwork, weaving, and furniture to painting, sculpture, photography, and machine-made design from Bauhaus to the Memphis Group. He describes...
Economics in the Long Run
New Deal Theorists and Their Legacies, 1933-1993
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Though understandably preoccupied with the immediate problems of the Great Depression, the generation of economists that came to the forefront in the 1930s also looked ahead to the long-term consequences of the crisis and proposed various solutions to prevent its recurrence. Theodore Rosenof examines...
by Jeffrey Kopstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Jeffrey Kopstein offers the first comprehensive study of East German economic policy over the course of the state's forty-year history. Analyzing both the making of economic policy at the national level and the implementation of specific policies on the shop floor, he provides new and essential background...