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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
A Radical Democratic Vision
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an activist whose remarkable career spanned fifty years and touched thousands of lives.
A gifted grassroots organizer,...
by Johanna Schoen
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Abortion is--and always has been--an arena for contesting power relations between women and men. When in 1973 the Supreme Court made the procedure legal throughout the United States, it seemed that women were at last able to make decisions about their own bodies. In the four decades that followed,...
By the Bomb's Early Light
American Thought and Culture At the Dawn of the Atomic Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2005
Originally published in 1985, By the Bomb's Early Light is the first book to explore the cultural 'fallout' in America during the early years of the atomic age. Paul Boyer argues that the major aspects of the long-running debates about nuclear armament and disarmament developed and took shape soon...
City of Inmates
Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world's leading incarcerator. Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian...
The Look of Things
Poetry and Vision around 1900
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
Examining the relationship between German poetry, philosophy, and visual media around 1900, Carsten Strathausen argues that the poetic works of Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Stephan George focused on the visible gestalt of language as a means of competing aesthetically with the increasing...
Catalonia's Advocates
Lawyers, Society, and Politics in Barcelona, 1759-1900
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Offering a window into the history of the modern legal profession in Western Europe, Stephen Jacobson presents a history of lawyers in the most industrialized city on the Mediterranean. Far from being mere curators of static law, Barcelona's lawyers were at the center of social conflict and political...
The Origins of Nazi Genocide
From Euthanasia to the Final Solution
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Tracing the rise of racist and eugenic ideologies, Henry Friedlander explores in chilling detail how the Nazi program of secretly exterminating the handicapped and disabled evolved into the systematic destruction of Jews and Gypsies. He describes how the so-called euthanasia of the handicapped provided...
by Michael H. Kater
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
"A brilliant attempt to explain the profound historical crisis into which medicine had plummeted during the Nazi period with the tried methods of social history.--Historische Zeitschrift
"The author has drawn from an extraordinary range of sources, and the weight of evidence he compiles...
Inventing the Criminal
A History of German Criminology, 1880-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of biological research into the causes of crime, but the origins of this kind of research date back to the late nineteenth century. Here, Richard Wetzell presents the first history of German criminology from Imperial Germany through the Weimar Republic to the...
Synthetic Socialism
Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Eli Rubin takes an innovative approach to consumer culture to explore questions of political consensus and consent and the impact of ideology on everyday life in the former East Germany. Synthetic Socialism explores the history of East Germany through the production and use of a deceptively simple...
Rethinking Aging
Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
For those fortunate enough to reside in the developed world, death before reaching a ripe old age is a tragedy, not a fact of life. Although aging and dying are not diseases, older Americans are subject to the most egregious marketing in the name of "successful aging" and "long life,"...
Nortin Hadler's 4-Volume Healthcare Omnibus E-Book
Includes Worried Sick, Stabbed in the Back, Rethinking Aging, and The Citizen Patient
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
This four-volume Omnibus E-Book is a collection of Nortin Hadler's definitive works on the state of healthcare in America today. The set includes:
Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America, Hadler's best-seller that shows consumers how to distinguish good medical advice...
Appalachia
A History
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the Appalachian past. Along the way, he explores Appalachia's long-contested boundaries and the numerous, often contradictory images that have shaped perceptions...
by Carla Bittel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In the late nineteenth century, as Americans debated the "woman question," a battle over the meaning of biology arose in the medical profession. Some medical men claimed that women were naturally weak, that education would make them physically ill, and that women physicians endangered the...