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Passing of the Mill Village
Revolution in a Southern Institution
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
This is the story of a revolution--the factors influencing management's decision to sell, the extent of the sales, procedures followed in the various sales, psychological effects upon the worker, effects upon labor-management relations, the reaction of the union, and the changes in mill village life...
Steel Closets
Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Even as substantial legal and social victories are being celebrated within the gay rights movement, much of working-class America still exists outside the current narratives of gay liberation. In Steel Closets, Anne Balay draws on oral history interviews with forty gay, lesbian, and transgender steelworkers,...
by Deirdre M. Moloney
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Tracing the development of social reform movements among American Catholics from 1880 to 1925, Deirdre Moloney reveals how Catholic gender ideologies, emerging middle-class values, and ethnic identities shaped the goals and activities of lay activists.
Rather than simply appropriate American...
Underdevelopment and the Development of Law
Corporations and Corporation Law in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Means provides the first major study of both the historical development of private law in a Latin American country and the shifting role of business corporations or share companies in Latin American development. He shows that Colombia's corporate law provisions for commercial codes held only a tenuous...
Hurtin' Words
Debating Family Problems in the Twentieth-Century South
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
When Tammy Wynette sang "D-I-V-O-R-C-E," she famously said she "spelled out the hurtin' words" to spare her child the pain of family breakup. In this innovative work, Ted Ownby considers how a wide range of writers, thinkers, activists, and others defined family problems in the twentieth-century American...
The Life and Times of Sir Archie
The Story of America's Greatest Thoroughbred, 1805-1833
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Few Americans triumphed more gallantly over odds, wore honors more gracefully, or were so honestly mourned after death than Sir Archie, forefather of such great horses as Man O'War, Gallant Fox, War Admiral, and Native Dancer. The depiction of the antebellum life of which Sir Archie was a part is...
Eating Puerto Rico
A History of Food, Culture, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Available for the first time in English, Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra's magisterial history of the foods and eating habits of Puerto Rico unfolds into an examination of Puerto Rican society from the Spanish conquest to the present. Each chapter is centered on an iconic Puerto Rican foodstuff, from rice...
Igniting the Caribbean's Past
Fire in British West Indian History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Unlike the earthquakes and hurricanes that have influenced Caribbean history, the region's fires have almost always been caused by humans. Geographer Bonham C. Richardson explores the effects of fire in the social and ecological history of the British Lesser Antilles, from the British Virgin Islands...
by John A. Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In search of an explanation of how a sense of ethnic identity evolves to create the concept of nation, Armstrong analyzes Islamic and Christian cultures from antiquity to the nineteenth century. He explores the effects of institutions--the city, imperial polity, bureaucratic imperatives of centralization,...
Bad Girls
Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
In this innovative and revealing study of midcentury American sex and culture, Amanda Littauer traces the origins of the "sexual revolution" of the 1960s. She argues that sexual liberation was much more than a reaction to 1950s repression because it largely involved the mainstreaming of a counterculture...
The Establishment Clause
Religion and the First Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Leonard Levy's classic work examines the circumstances that led to the writing of the establishment clause of the First Amendment: 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. . . .' He argues that, contrary to popular belief, the framers of the Constitution intended to prohibit...
The Union As It Is
Constitutional Unionism and Sectional Compromise, 1787-1861
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The first scholar to trace the meaning and importance of the idea of political compromise from the founding of the Republic to the onset of the Civil War, Knupfer shows how recurring justifications of sectional compromise reflected common ideas about the way governments were supposed to work.
Originally...
For the Freedom of Her Race
Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1932
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
Grounded in the rich history of Chicago politics, For the Freedom of Her Race tells a wide-ranging story about black women's involvement in southern, midwestern, and national politics. Examining the oppressive decades between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
Civil-Military Relations in Latin America
New Analytical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
The armed forces may no longer rule nations throughout Latin America, but they continue to influence democratic governments across the region. In nine original, thought-provoking essays, this book offers fresh theoretical insights into the dilemmas facing Latin American politicians as they struggle...