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From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse
African American Education in Mississippi, 1862-1875
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In the years immediately following the Civil War--the formative years for an emerging society of freed African Americans in Mississippi--there was much debate over the general purpose of black schools and who would control them. From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse is the first comprehensive examination...
Separate and Unequal
Public School Campaigns and Racism in the Southern Seaboard States, 1901-1915
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
This is a revealing study of the crucial period in the educational development of the South as it involved the separate but equal" doctrine. It is based on extensive research in newspapers, public documents, official reports, and manuscripts, and it provides detailed evidence that the states...
The Duke's Province
A Study of New York Politics and Society, 1664-1691
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The late seventeenth century in America was important as an era of transition from rough settlement to established provincial life. It was a time when social, political, and economic problems caused strains that led to religious doubt, personal anxiety, riot, and one of the worst rebellions in the...
You Can’t Eat Freedom
Southerners and Social Justice after the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Two revolutions roiled the rural South after the mid-1960s: the political revolution wrought by the passage of civil rights legislation, and the ongoing economic revolution brought about by increasing agricultural mechanization. Political empowerment for black southerners coincided with the transformation...
Knocking on Labor’s Door
Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The power of unions in workers' lives and in the American political system has declined dramatically since the 1970s. In recent years, many have argued that the crisis took root when unions stopped reaching out to workers and workers turned away from unions. But here Lane Windham tells a different...
The AIDS Pandemic
Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
In this collection of essays, Lawrence O. Gostin, an internationally recognized scholar of AIDS law and policy, confronts the most pressing and controversial issues surrounding AIDS in America and around the world. He shows how HIV/AIDS affects the entire population--infected and uninfected--by influencing...
by Robert G. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Before social unrest shook the region in the 1970s, Central America experienced more than a decade of rapid export growth by adding cotton and beef to the traditional coffee and bananas. Williams shows how the rapid growth contributed to the present social and political crisis, examines the causes...
Nature's Civil War
Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
In the Shenandoah Valley and Peninsula Campaigns of 1862, Union and Confederate soldiers faced unfamiliar and harsh environmental conditions--strange terrain, tainted water, swarms of flies and mosquitoes, interminable rain and snow storms, and oppressive heat--which contributed to escalating disease...
Modernizing a Slave Economy
The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
What would separate Union and Confederate countries look like if the South had won the Civil War? In fact, this was something that southern secessionists actively debated. Imagining themselves as nation builders, they understood the importance of a plan for the economic structure of the Confederacy.
The...
Baptized in PCBs
Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the city's historically African American and white working-class west side. Simultaneously, Anniston environmentalists sought to safely eliminate chemical weaponry...
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...
Putinomics
Power and Money in Resurgent Russia
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
When Vladimir Putin first took power in 1999, he was a little-known figure ruling a country that was reeling from a decade and a half of crisis. In the years since, he has reestablished Russia as a great power. How did he do it? What principles have guided Putin's economic policies? What patterns...
The Search for a New Order
Intellectuals and Fascism in Prewar Japan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Fletcher explains how three writers--Ryu Shintaro, Royama Masamichi, and Miki Kiyoshi--who were supporters of democratic socialism became ideologues for the East Asian bloc ideal that rationalized Japan's dominance of Asia after 1937, and he demonstrates how and why they designed the New Order movement...
Eisenhower and Latin America
The Foreign Policy of Anticommunism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Stephen Rabe's timely book examines President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Latin American policy and assesses the president's actions in light of recent "Eisenhower revisionism."
During his first term, Eisenhower paid little attention to Latin America but his objective there was clear:...