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The Thanks of the Fatherland
German Veterans After the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
An account of the problems facing German veterans after WWII and the ways in which they were addressed in the decade following Germany's defeat. The primary focus is on the major pieces of veterans' legislation passed in the early years of the German Federal Republic. Historical context is provided...
by Donna Harsch
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism explores the failure of Germany's largest political party to stave off the Nazi threat to the Weimar republic. In 1928 members of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) were elected to the chancellorship and thousands of state and municipal offices. But despite...
Taylorism Transformed
Scientific Management Theory Since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This intellectual history interprets recent American business management ideas as political theory, describing their underlying assumptions about power and value. According to Stephen Waring, most business management theory descends from either Frederick Taylor's 'bureaucratic' theory of scientific...
Franchising in America
The Development of a Business Method, 1840-1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Using a series of case studies from five industries, Dicke analyzes franchising, a marketing system that combines large and small firms into a single administrative unit, strengthening both in the process. He studies the franchise industry from the 1840s to the 1980s, closely examining the rights...
The National War Labor Board
Stability, Social Justice, and the Voluntary State in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Conner explains the background, organization, and workings of the National War Labor Board, created by President Wilson in April 1918. She analyzes the board's struggle to succeed and reveals how both labor and business attemted to use this partnership to further their own special interests. The author...
by Horace R. Cayton, George S. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
This is a book for those who want to know what really happens when, in circumstances of enormous complexity and under the impetus of the New Deal, an irresistible drive for labor organization runs head-on into an immovably imbedded race prejudice. It is based on interviews by the authors with those...
by Larry E. Tise, Jeffrey J. Crow
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
These essays pose new questions concerning the social and political origins of the Revolution in the South, the social disorder indiced by the war, and the impact of the conflict and its ideologies on blacks and women. Contributors are: Pauline Maier, Robert M. Weir, Jack P. Greene, Marvin L. Michale...
The Making of Massive Resistance
Virginia's Politics of Public School Desegregation, 1954-1956
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
In this book, Gates brings before the reader persons and features unique to racial politics in the commonwealth of Virginia. He deals with the turbulent days that followed school desegregation decisions in 1954 and 1955 and with the emergence of the "massive resistance" movement in the region.
Originally...
Faithful Magistrates and Republican Lawyers
Creators of Virginia Legal Culture, 1680-1810
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Until the mid-1700s, law was not thought of as a science or profession. Most Virginians adhered to the English country tradition that considered law to be a local and personal affair. The growth of cities and business, however, guaranteed that disputes would spill over county boundaries. As law proliferated...
Machine-Age Ideology
Social Engineering and American Liberalism, 1911-1939
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In this interdisciplinary work, John Jordan traces the significant influence on American politics of a most unlikely hero: the professional engineer. Jordan shows how technical triumphs--bridges, radio broadcasting, airplanes, automobiles, skyscrapers, and electrical power--inspired social and political...
The Party of Eros
Radical Social Thought and the Realm of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In this provocative study, the author treats Goodman, Marcuse, and Brown as the three most important radical social theorists in America since the end of World War II. His reasoned conclusions will attract anyone interested in the nonpolitical background of today's radical social thought.
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Building the British Atlantic World
Spaces, Places, and Material Culture, 1600-1850
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions. In this groundbreaking study, thirteen leading scholars explore the idea of transatlanticism--or a shared "Atlantic world"...
by Charles K. Wilber
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
This book constructs the model of economic development implicit in the historical experience of the Soviet Union, and the agricultural, industrial, and social strategies followed are shown to fit into a logical and coherent pattern. Those strategies are then evaluated for the positive and negative...
Hidden Spending
The Politics of Federal Credit Programs
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Ippolito examines the least publicized source of our current fiscal troubles--federal credit programs. Since the 1970s these programs (primary components of the federal policy in such areas as housing, agriculture, education, and international affairs) have grown dramatically, but neither the growth...