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Much More Than a Game
Players, Owners, and American Baseball since 1921
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
To most Americans, baseball is just a sport; but to those who own baseball teams--and those who play on them--our national pastime is much more than a game. In this book, Robert Burk traces the turbulent labor history of American baseball since 1921. His comprehensive, readable account details the...
Never Just a Game
Players, Owners, and American Baseball to 1920
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
America's national pastime has been marked from its inception by bitter struggles between owners and players over profit, power, and prestige. In this book, the first installment of a highly readable, comprehensive labor history of baseball, Robert Burk describes the evolution of the ballplaying work...
by Alejandro de la Fuente
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Havana in the 1550s was a small coastal village with a very limited population that was vulnerable to attack. By 1610, however, under Spanish rule it had become one of the best-fortified port cities in the world and an Atlantic center of shipping, commerce, and shipbuilding. Using all available local...
Power and Privilege
A Theory of Social Stratification
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Power and Privilege seeks to answer the central question of the field of social stratification: Who gets what and why? Using a dialectical view of the development of thought in the discipline, Gerhard Lenski describes the outlines of an emerging synthesis of theories. He shows that perspectives as...
Braceros
Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
At the beginning of World War II, the United States and Mexico launched the bracero program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican men to work temporarily in U.S. agricultural fields. In Braceros, historian Deborah Cohen asks why these temporary migrants provoked so much concern and anxiety...
The Lives in Objects
Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
In The Lives in Objects, Jessica Yirush Stern presents a thoroughly researched and engaging study of the deerskin trade in the colonial Southeast, equally attentive to British American and Southeastern Indian cultures of production, distribution, and consumption. Stern upends the long-standing assertion...
Transpacific Field of Dreams
How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Baseball has joined America and Japan, even in times of strife, for over 150 years. After the "opening" of Japan by Commodore Perry, Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu explains, baseball was introduced there by American employees of the Japanese government tasked with bringing Western knowledge and...
Saving Community Journalism
The Path to Profitability
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
America's community newspapers have entered an age of disruption. Towns and cities continue to need the journalism and advertising so essential to nurturing local identity and connection among citizens. But as the business of newspaper publishing collides with the digital revolution, and as technology...
The Joy of Teaching
A Practical Guide for New College Instructors
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Gathering concepts and techniques borrowed from outstanding college professors, The Joy of Teaching provides helpful guidance for new instructors developing and teaching their first college courses.
Award-winning professor Peter Filene proposes that teaching should not be like a baseball game...
Guaranteed Pure
The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
American evangelicalism has long walked hand in hand with modern consumer capitalism. Timothy Gloege shows us why, through an engaging story about God and big business at the Moody Bible Institute. Founded in Chicago by shoe-salesman-turned-revivalist Dwight Lyman Moody in 1889, the institute became...
Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment
Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Richard Hamm examines prohibitionists' struggle for reform from the late nineteenth century to their great victory in securing passage of the Eighteenth Amendment. Because the prohibition movement was a quintessential reform effort, Hamm uses it as a case study to advance a general theory about the...
Working Knowledge
Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Skilled workers of the early nineteenth century enjoyed a degree of professional independence because workplace knowledge and technical skill were their "property," or at least their attribute. In most sectors of today's economy, however, it is a foundational and widely accepted truth that...
by Shawn C. Smallman, Kimberley Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
This innovative introduction to international and global studies, updated and revised in a new edition, offers instructors in the social sciences and humanities a core textbook for teaching undergraduates in this rapidly growing field. Encompassing the latest scholarship in what is a markedly interdisciplinary...
An Example for All the Land
Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
An Example for All the Land reveals Washington, D.C. as a laboratory for social policy in the era of emancipation and the Civil War. In this panoramic study, Kate Masur provides a nuanced account of African Americans' grassroots activism, municipal politics, and the U.S. Congress. She tells the provocative...