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Hachette Book Group USA The Fair Chase
Book SynopsisAn award-winning historian tells the story of hunting in America, showing how this sport has shaped our national identity. From Daniel Boone to Teddy Roosevelt, hunting is one of America''s most sacred-but also most fraught-traditions. It was promoted in the 19th century as a way to reconnect soft urban Americans with nature and to the legacy of the country''s pathfinding heroes. Fair chase, a hunting code of ethics emphasizing fairness, rugged independence, and restraint towards wildlife, emerged as a worldview and gave birth to the conservation movement. But the sport''s popularity also caused class, ethnic, and racial divisions, and stirred debate about the treatment of Native Americans and the role of hunting in preparing young men for war. This sweeping and balanced book offers a definitive account of hunting in America. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the evolution of our nation''s foundational myths.
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Basic Books Homeward Bound Revised Edition
Book SynopsisIn the 1950s, the term containment referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism and atomic proliferation. Yet in Homeward Bound May demonstrates that there was also a domestic version of containment where the sphere of influence was the home. Within its walls, potentially dangerous social forces might be tamed, securing the fulfilling life to which postwar women and men aspired. Homeward Bound tells the story of domestic containment - how it emerged, how it affected the lives of those who tried to conform to it, and how it unraveled in the wake of the Vietnam era''s assault on Cold War culture, when unwed mothers, feminists, and secular humanists became the new enemy. This revised and updated edition includes the latest information on race, the culture wars, and current cultural and political controversies of the post-Cold War era.
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Basic Books We Are Not One
Book SynopsisFights about the fate of the state of Israel, and the Zionist movement that gave birth to it, have long been a staple of both Jewish and American political culture. But despite these arguments'' significance to American politics, American Jewish life, and to Israel itself, no one has ever systematically examined their history and explained why they matter. In We Are Not One, historian Eric Alterman traces this debate from its nineteenth-century origins. Following Israel''s 1948-1949 War of Independence (called the nakba or catastrophe by Palestinians), few Americans, including few Jews, paid much attention to Israel or the challenges it faced. Following the 1967 Six-Day War, however, almost overnight support for Israel became the primary component of American Jews'' collective identity. Over time, Jewish organizations joined forces with conservative Christians and neoconservative pundits and politicos to wage a tenacious fight to define Israel''s image in the US media
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The University of Michigan Press While Waiting for Rain
Book SynopsisHow innovation will save the United Statesand Buffalofrom economic decline
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University of California Press Justice at War
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University of California Press Masking Selves Making Subjects
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University of California Press The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906
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University of California Press Hoptopia
Book SynopsisThe contents of your pint glass have a much richer history than you could have imagined. Through the story of the hop, this book connects twenty-first century beer drinkers to lands and histories that have been forgotten in an era of industrial food production.Trade Review"Peter Kopp digs into the history and agriculture of growing hops for beer. He begins with the ancient development of the vine, explores how it came to be used to preserve beer and how it has grown into the craft beer flavor factor to the nth degree... Fascinating." OnMilwaukee.comTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Defining Hoptopia 1 * Wolf of the Willow 2 * Valley of the Willamette 3 * Hop Fever 4 * Hop-Picking Time 5 * Hop Center of the World 6 * Th e Surprise of Prohibition 7 * Fiesta and Famine 8 * Aft er the Hop Rush 9 * Cascade 10 * Hop Wars Epilogue: Hoptopia in the Twenty-First Century Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Security and Terror
Book SynopsisTrade Review"With a lucid and accessible tour of political theory . . . [Jelly-Schapiro] prepares his readers for astute interpretations of several recent fictional texts and films . . . The book is cultural studies at its best." * Times Higher Education *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: History, Narrative, and the War on Terror 1 1 • “All the World Was America”: The Long History of Homeland Security 20 2 • “A General Principle of Democracy”: Terror and Colonial Modernity 44 3 • “Choc en Retour”: Security, Terror, Theory 74 4 • “Vanishing Points”: Postcolonial America 105 5 • “This Is Our Threnody”: Writing History as Catastrophe 140 Epilogue: Rupture and Colonial Modernity 163 Notes 179 Bibliography 203
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University of California Press Traumatic Imprints Cinema Military Psychiatry and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book creates a space in which trauma of all kinds can be explored and confronted." * Film Matters *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Documenting the “Residue of Battle” 1. “Imaging the Mind”: Military Psychiatry Meets Documentary Film 2. Solemn Venues: War Trauma and the Expanding Nontheatrical Realm 3. Selling “Psycho Films”: Trauma Cinema and the Military-Industrial Complex 4. Psychodocudramatics: Role-Playing War Trauma from the Hospital to Hollywood 5. “Casualties of the Spirit”: Let There Be Light and Its Contexts Conclusion: Traumatic Returns Notes Select Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Deportation Express
Book SynopsisA history of the United States' systematic expulsion of undesirables and immigrants, told through the lives of the passengerswho travelled from around the world, only to be locked up and forced out aboard America's first deportation trains. The United States, celebrated as a nation of immigrants and the land of the free, has developed the most extensive system of imprisonment and deportation that the world has ever known. The Deportation Express is the first history of American deportation trains: a network of prison railroad cars repurposed by the Immigration Bureau to link jails, hospitals, asylums, and workhouses across the country and allow forced removal with terrifying efficiency. With this book, historian Ethan Blue uncovers the origins of the deportation train and finds the roots of the current moment, as immigrant restriction and mass deportation once again play critical and troubling roles in contemporary politics and legislation. A century ago, deportation trains made coTrade Review"More than simply documenting migrants’ trials and tribulations, Blue highlights the increasingly constricted lines around U.S. citizenship in the 1910s. . . . The Deportation Express makes a meaningful contribution as the first book to examine the mechanics of expulsion during 'the age of rail-based removal.'" * Journal of Social History *"The Deportation Express is a breath of fresh air. It carefully combines theoretical understandings that provide insight into the inhumane practices of state control and violence, while using archival reproduction to illuminate narratives that center the human element in an inhumane system." * Journal of Arizona History *"Blue’s decision to use a series of microhistories. . . . highlights the brutal impacts of forced deportation on individuals, and the injustices inherent within the developing American State and the capitalist system it both supported and depended on. The microhistories teach us much about the racism, violence and cruelty of the early-twentieth-century American immigration system, designed to provide capital with cheap labor from foreign workers who could then be spat out over the border when they no longer had use or value." * Australasian Journal of American Studies *"The Deportation Express demonstrates how the United States emerged as a leader of global racial capitalism by this time, as well as the role that the immigration carceral state played in constructing and maintaining those hierarchies. . . . Blue’s detailed history of these early deportation trains provides an important foundation for understanding the 'twenty-first-century infrastructure of capture.'" * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *"Offers valuable insights on how racism and exclusionary borders take shape through physical infrastructure. These insights can help us understand the terrible costs of war, and the true wages of peace, from the standpoint of the global majority." * Public Books *"The Deportation Express is not only a true pleasure to read and a critical contribution to our understanding of state power and migration control in the early twentieth century. It is also a thoroughly moving account of the individuals and communities who experienced this power, and a model to historians seeking to craft nuanced, humanizing representations of their subjects." * American Historical Review *"The Deportation Express is a story about each of us, as participants in an ongoing national experiment, and our collective work to shape our discourse, values, and identity as a United States community." * Southern California Quarterly *"Elegantly written and amasses a monumental amount of research. . . . Ethan Blue’s book urges immigration activists and scholars to continue to embrace an abolitionist framework, tracing and disrupting the way that the immigration- and border-industrial complex are interwoven with and integral to the US settler-colonial, carceral state." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"A valuable contribution to several growing fields. . . . Blue uncovers…the underlying vision of this “deportation regime” and its evolving historical entanglement with race and ethnicity in the era of U.S. immigration restriction." * California History *"The Deportation Express presents a compelling and interesting history of American immigration enforcement. . . . a critical addition to many fields of inquiry including American history and studies as well as immigration studies." * Society for U.S. Intellectual History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Building the Deportation State 1 • Planning the Journey Part Two: Eastbound 2 • Seattle 3 • Portland 4 • San Francisco 5 • Denver 6 • Chicago 7 • Buffalo 8 • Ellis Island Part Three: Westbound 9 • Carbondale 10 • New Orleans 11 • San Antonio 12 • El Paso 13 • Angel Island Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Carceral Con
Book SynopsisA critical examination of how contemporary criminal justice reforms expand rather than shrink structurally violent systems of policing, surveillance, and carceral control in the United States. Public opposition to the structural racist, gendered, and economic violence that fuels the criminal legal system is reaching a critical mass. Ignited by popular uprisings, protests, and campaigns against state violence, demands for transformational change have escalated. In response, a now deeply entrenched so-called bipartisan industry has staked its claim to the reform terrain. Representing itself as a sensible bridge across bitterly polarized political divides and party lines, the bipartisan reform industry has sought to control the nature and scope of local, state, and federal reforms. Along the way, it creates an expanding web of neoliberal public-private partnerships, with the promotion and implementation of efforts managed by billionaires, public officials, policy factories, foundationTrade Review"While scholars will find much in Carceral Con enlightening, the book is no standard academic text. Rather, it is a movement-building tool intended to assist readers in ‘critically interrogat[ing] new [reform] proposals as they arise’ and in choosing the ‘radically different way forward’ of abolition." * The Nation *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: World Making and "Criminal Justice Reform" 1. Correctional Control and the Challenge of Reform 2. Follow the Money 3. Criminalization, Policing, and Profiling 4. The Slippery Slope of Pretrial Reform 5. Courts, Sentencing, and "Diversion" 6. Imprisonment and Release 7. Threshold Notes Index
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University of California Press We Gather Together
Book SynopsisThe mutual history of art, agriculture, and American identity as told through the theme of the harvest. The harvest has traditionally been a productive season, both on American farms and in its artists' studios. Before the early nineteenth century, the ideal of the Jeffersonian yeoman, singly cultivating a subsistence plotfor family use, dominated the American imagination; after World War II, the advent of big agribusiness proved less immediately attractive for artists. In We Gather Together, Charles C. Eldredge examines the period in betweenwhen many Americans were farmers and much of America was farmland. Organized in a series of case studies each devoted to a single crop, We Gather Together initially focuses on familiar commodity crops such as corn, wheat, and potatoes, and then expands to other yields by Native American harvesters and California floriculturists, as well as winter ice cutters and coastal seaweed gatherers. This novel history of agriculture and art tracesparallel developments on land and canvas, highlighting breakthroughs in each field.Artists such as Winslow Homer, Doris Lee, and Georgia O'Keeffe are joined by innovators in agriculture, whether mechanical inventors such as Eli Whitney, John Deere, and Cyrus McCormick or genetic hybridizers such as Luther Burbank, W. Atlee Burpee, and Theodosia Shepherd. Surveying an astonishing amount of material and a wide range of paintings, prints, and other artworks from the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, We Gather Together gorgeously demonstrates how the use of agricultural metaphors permeated American visual culture. The harvest, we see here, came to signify and dominate politics, poetry, and popular culture, ultimately representing a primary facet of American identity and nationhood.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction One: Agriculture and Art Romantic Traditions 1 Farmscapes and Romantic Agrarianism 2 Natives and Romantic Indigeneity Two: Foodstuffs 3 Corn 4 Wheat 5 Roots and Tubers: Potatoes, Onions, Carrots 6 Pome and Stone: Apples, Peaches Three: Cash Crops 7 Cotton 8 Tobacco 9 Floriculture: Callas, Chrysanthemums Four: Nature's yield 10 Ice 11 Seaweed Five: Coda 12 Crop Arts Updated Notes 277 List of Illustrations Index
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Cambridge University Press Brazil
Book SynopsisThe complete Cambridge History of Latin America presents a large-scale authoritative survey of Latin America''s unique historical experience from the first contact between Indians and Europeans at the end of the fifteenth century to the present day. Brazil: Empire and Republic, 1822-1930 is a selection of five chapters from volumes III and V -- three on the Empire (1822-89) and two on the First Republic (1889-1930) -- brought together to provide a continuous history of Brazil from independence in 1822 to the Revolution of 1930. A chapter on the separation of Brazil from Portugal (1808-22) forms an introduction to the volume and a link with Colonial Brazil, a collection of chapters drawn from volumes and a link with Colonial Brazil, a collection of chapters drawn from volumes I and II of the Cambridge History of Latin America. Bibliographical essays are included for all chapters. The book will be a valuable text for both teachers and students of Latin American history.Table of ContentsIntroduction: from colony to Empire; 1. The independence of Brazil Leslie Bethell; Part I. Empire (1822–89): 2. 1822–1870 Leslie Bethell and Jose Murilo de Carvalho; 3. 1850–1870 Richard Graham; 4. 1870–1889 Emilia Viotti da Costa; Part II. First Republic (1889–1930): 5. Economy Warren Dean; 6. Society and politics Boris Fausto; Bibliographical essays; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Nuclear Implosions
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Cambridge University Press Political Moderation in Americas First Two Centuries
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Cambridge University Press The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society Essays on Mesoamerican Society and Culture
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Cambridge University Press Reinventing Free Labor
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Cambridge University Press Looking for Work Searching for Workers American Labor Markets during Industrialization
Book SynopsisThe dynamic character of American industrialization produced imbalances between the supply of and demand for labor across cities and regions. This book describes how employers and job-seekers responded to these imbalances to create networks of labor market communication and assistance capable of mobilizing the massive redistribution of population that was essential to maintain the rapid pace of the nation's economic growth between the Civil War and World War I. It combines a detailed description of the emerging labor market institutions with a careful analysis of a variety of quantitative evidence to assess the broader economic implications for geographic wage convergence and for American economic growth. Despite an expansion in the geographic scope of labor markets at this time, the evidence suggests that labor market institutions reinforced regional divisions within the United States and left a lasting impact on the evolution of many other aspects of the employment relationship.Trade Review'Rosenbloom develops a number of … important themes in his carefully researched and rigorously argued book … the author of Looking for Work, Searching for Workers rightfully takes his place as the leading authority on labour markets during America's industrial coming of age.' Business HistoryTable of Contents1. Labor markets and American industrialization; 2. Job seekers, employers, and the creation of labor market institutions; 3. Employment agencies and labor exchanges: this impact of intermediaries in the market for labor; 4. Markets for skilled labor: external recruitment and the development of internal labor markets; 5. One market or many? Inter-city and inter-regional labor market integration; 6. Labor market integration and the use of strikebreakers; 7. Labor market institutions and American economic growth: lessons from the nineteenth century.
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Cambridge University Press A History of Islam in America
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Cambridge University Press Tocqueville on America after 1840 Letters and Other Writings
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Dissertation Discovery Company Burning Brick A Study of a Lowcountry Industry
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Evita The Woman With The Whip
Book SynopsisMaria Eva Duarte de Peron was born in poverty in 1919 and died of cancer in 1952, at the age of 33, the richest and most powerful woman in Argentina. Her story is one of the most fantastic in history. Driven by a compelling ambition, she made her way to Buenos Aires and set about becoming an actress. In a very short time she had climbed to the top of Argentina''s military-social ladder until at last she met Colonel Juan Peron -and her climb took a new direction.Here is the story of ''Evita'' and how her rise to power became an almost unbelievable account of intrigue, bloodshed, and pure chicanery. Her multimillion-dollar tour of Europe; her setting up of the Eva Peron Foundation whereby she cornered the market on clothes, toys, books, groceries, imported drugs, medical equipment, and housing; her impassioned campaign speeches; her shameless flaunting of jewels and clothes in the very faces of her worshipping ''shirtless ones'' - these are but a few of the facets of her incre
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Jeremy Stone Publishing LLC History of the Deep State
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Twomd Publishing The Weight Of My Dream Thoughts on Rebuilding a
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Martin Luther King Jr Profiles in Power Series
Book SynopsisCombining the latest insights from KIng biographies and movement histories, this book provides an up-to-date critical analysis of the relationship between King and the wider civil rights movement. Delivering a fresh perspective on the relationship between ''the man and the movement'', Kirk argues that it is the interactionbetween national and local movement concerns that is essential to understanding King''s leadership and black activism in the 1950s and 1960s. Kirk examines King''s strengths and his limitations, and weighs the role that king played in then movement alongside the contributions of other civil rights organizations and leaders, and local civil rights activists.Suitable for undergraduate courses in 20th century US history.Trade Review"the finest brief biography of King currently on the market"Patterns of Prejudice " a very fine introduction to the major themes of the civil rights movement"Institute of Historical Research "John A. Kirk's study achieves its aim of contextualizing King's contribution to the civil rights movement and evaluating his career."Journal of American Studies, Volume 39 - 2005The book would work as a supplemental text in survey courses or other classes that emphasize political history, leadership, government or the civil rights movement. Gives readers a glimpse of the political leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. S. Jonathan Bass, Samford University Table of ContentsIntroduction: King in Context 1. Becoming a Leader, 1929-1956 2. Catching Up, 1956-1961 3. Forming a Strategy, 1961-3 4. Glory Bound, 1963-4 5. A Movement in Transition, 1965-6 6. New Directions, 1966-1968
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iUniverse The Prize Haitis National Palace
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iUniverse Home Before Dark A Memoir
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Harvard University Press The Consent of the Governed
Book SynopsisWhat made the United States what it is began long before a shot was fired at a redcoat in Lexington, Massachusetts in 1775. The theories of reading developed by John Locke were the means by which a revolutionary attitude toward authority was disseminated throughout the British colonies in North America.Trade ReviewAccording to Brown, Locke furnishes American culture with a key political and psychological innovation: the understanding of the provisional state of childhood as simultaneously a social institution and a paradigm of freedom. Locke's entitlement of childhood with rights and desires is a critical element in the formation of the liberal state. Brown convincingly demonstrates that the story of the consenting child (whose desires constantly play off constraints to those desires) is 'the original story of the American republic.' The Consent of the Governed offers a penetrating and often dazzling account of the 'liberal paradox of freedom and determinism' as it is engaged by early American literature and pedagogy. -- Jay Fliegelman, author of Declaring IndependenceWhen all the talk is of the manipulation of the governed, it is particularly useful to understand just how the information revolution was waged in the cause of informing consent. Gillian Brown's erudite and elegantly argued new book recovers the viability of that cause and proposes a historically sophisticated and nuanced vision of the liberal polity, in the eighteenth century and today. -- Myra Jehlen, author of American IncarnationMoving from the political and education philosophy of John Locke through the education of the newly discovered 'child' in eighteenth-century and early national America to the equally newly emergent American woman as described in novels, this superb book tells a fascinating story about the insertion of the consenting person into the American political psyche. This is a work that should be read by political theorists, cultural and literary historians, and cultural critics who are willing to have their conventional views challenged. -- Gordon Schochet, author of The Authoritarian Family and Political Attitudes in 17th-Century EnglandTable of ContentsI. The Lockean Legacy Introduction: The Informed Consent of the Governed 1. The Child's Consent, the Child's Task 2. The Liberal Lessons of the New England Primer 3. Fables and the Forming of Americans 4. Paine's Vindication of the Rights of Children II. Consent and the Early American Novel Introduction: The Feminization of Consent 5. Coquetry and Its Consequences 6. The Quixotic Fallacy Epilogue Notes Acknowledgments Index
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Harvard University Press Confederate Reckoning
Book SynopsisThe attempt to repress a majority of its own population backfired on the Confederate States of America as the disenfranchised demanded to be counted and considered in the great struggle over slavery, emancipation, democracy, and nationhood. This title presents the story of this epic political battle.Trade ReviewMcCurry strips the Confederacy of myth and romance to reveal its doomed essence. Dedicated to the proposition that men were not created equal, the Confederacy had to fight a two-front war. Not only against Union armies, but also slaves and poor white women who rose in revolt across the South. Richly detailed and lucidly told, Confederate Reckoning is a fresh, bold take on the Civil War that every student of the conflict should read. -- Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the AtticMcCurry challenges us to expand our definition of politics to encompass not simply government but the entire public sphere. The struggle for Southern independence, she shows, opened the door for the mobilization of two groups previously outside the political nation—white women of the nonslaveholding class and slaves… Confederate Reckoning offers a powerful new paradigm for understanding events on the Confederate home front. -- Eric Foner * The Nation *Perhaps the highest praise one can offer McCurry’s work is to say that once we look through her eyes, it will become almost impossible to believe that we ever saw or thought otherwise… Confederate Reckoning is a book about politics that stretches far beyond the ballot and the statehouse, all the way into plantations and farms and families and communities across the South… At the outset of the book, McCurry insists that she is not going to ask or answer the timeworn question of why the South lost the Civil War. Yet in her vivid and richly textured portrait of what she calls the Confederacy’s ‘undoing,’ she has in fact accomplished exactly that. -- Drew Gilpin Faust * New Republic *Good history teaches readers about the past, excellent history offers perspective on the present. By this standard, Stephanie McCurry’s Confederate Reckoning surely achieves excellence… McCurry offers a carefully researched and well-grounded frontal assault, examining secession’s causes and actualities. She quickly disposes of the claims that the war was really about anything other than slavery, demonstrating that fanciful patinas such as ‘states rights’ merely meant linguistic obfuscation of that brutal reality… As modern citizens decry government actions and hearken back to an ideal that never was, so too did the South assert a wish to return to a fictional revolutionary era utopia… McCurry shines a light on the South’s brutal reality and thus encourages us to cast a cold analytical eye on our own. -- Jordan Magill * San Francisco Book Review *A staggeringly smart analysis of the politics of the Confederacy—indeed, she has written one of the most illuminating and creative studies of 19th-century American political life, period… I have been waiting for McCurry’s second book to be published since I read Masters of Small Worlds over a decade ago; it is a triumph of political history, and it was well worth the wait. -- Lauren Winner * Books & Culture *Forceful and elegantly written…this book [is] a landmark piece of Civil War historiography. * History News Network *Combining the best of the tradition of writing history ‘from the bottom up,’ with prodigious research, and a red thread of analytical brilliance, Confederate Reckoning dramatically reshapes our understanding of the history of slavery and the Civil War. -- Walter Johnson, author of Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave MarketThis is a major book [that] permanently rewrites the history of the Confederacy. -- James L. Roark, author of Masters without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and ReconstructionAnalyzing the experience of women, African Americans, and others often placed at the margins of Confederate history, McCurry powerfully challenges readers to get beyond high politics and storied military campaigns to engage a profoundly complicated, and often surprising, story of struggle and change amid seismic events. -- Gary W. Gallagher, author of The Confederate WarTable of Contents* Prologue: The Confederate Project * Who Are the People? * The Brothers' War * Antigone's Claim * Soldiers' Wives and the Politics of Subsistence * Women Numerous and Armed *"Amor Patriae" *"Our Open Enemies" * The Fall * Epilogue: Confederate Reckoning * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index
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Harvard University Press Bored Lonely Angry Stupid
Book SynopsisAn Entrepreneur Best Book of the YearFacebook makes us lonely. Selfies breed narcissism. On Twitter, hostility reigns. Pundits and psychologists warn that digital technologies substantially alter our emotional states, but in this lively investigation of changing feelings about technology, we learn that the gadgets we use don't just affect how we feelthey can profoundly change our sense of self. When we say we're bored, we don't mean the same thing as a Victorian dandy. Could it be that political punditry has helped shape a new kind of anger? Luke Fernandez and Susan Matt take us back in time to consider how our feelings of loneliness, boredom, vanity, and anger have evolved in tandem with new technologies. Technologies have been shaping [our] emotional culture for more than a century, argue computer scientist Luke Fernandez and historian Susan Matt in this original study. Marshalling archival sources and interviews, they trace how norms (say, around loneliness) have shifted with techTrade ReviewOnline immersion can distort emotion…Marshalling archival sources and interviews, [Fernandez and Matt] trace how norms (say, around loneliness) have shifted with technological change. Broadcasting deregulation under President Ronald Reagan, for instance, made room for anger-inducing right-wing ‘talk radio.’ Yet, as they show, the digital world lifts even more limits, stimulating and affirming a range of negative emotions. -- Barbara Kiser * Nature *A scholarly attempt to track changes in social norms and in human emotions occasioned by advances in technology across a couple of centuries, but it concludes that our twenty-first-century situation is different from those earlier shifts both in the rate of change and in the problems introduced by cybertechnologies…Narcissus had to find a pool to gaze into; we just pull out our phones. -- Gavin Francis * New York Review of Books *This is a thoughtfully nuanced take on the kind of ‘is technology killing us dead’ alarmist tracts that have proliferated as ‘smart’ devices have proliferated, an effect largely achieved by grounding the whole question deeper in history. The social reactions to the telegraph, the home radio, the television, and, crucially, a country-crossing modern highway system, all interestingly foreground many of the modern reactions to further inroads made into our private lives by technology on every side. -- Steve Donoghue * Open Letters Review *A valuable addition to the study of social behavior influenced by technologies. The authors have worked hard in aggregating thousands of small pieces of evidence scattered in diverse historical and modern sources to build an illuminating context in which we can begin to fathom our emotional states entangled with technologies. * New York Journal of Books *We take some things for granted today—that selfies make us narcissistic, that social media can make us lonely, and so on. This book adds much-needed historical perspective to these knee-jerk fears, by examining how our emotions have been expressed over time, and how they've been impacted by new technologies along the way. -- Jason Feifer * Entrepreneur *Impressive…A well-articulated and nuanced analysis of the overlooked symbiosis between the cultural history of emotions and technological developments. -- Alina Ivan * The Psychologist *An important contribution to understanding the digital present by showing the historicity and cultural construction of contemporary (digital) emotions—while incorporating the interplay of technology and emotions…As a contribution to the current debate on digital transformation, their book is definitely a worthwhile read. -- Martina Hessler * Technology and Culture *A powerful story of how new forms of technology are continually integrated into the human experience. A particularly fascinating chapter outlines the history of anger in American society, from a trait to be publicly suppressed…to something which social media has transformed into ‘a right of all’… Anyone interested in seeing the digital age through a new perspective should be pleased with this rich account. * Publishers Weekly *In this wonderful book we learn that new ideas are often just repeats from the past, and we may get more than we bargained for with our latest technological engagements. Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid is a must-read for anyone worried about how today’s surfeit of digital devices may challenge our humanity, and wondering if, given the emotional costs, we might choose another way. -- Safiya Umoja Noble, author of Algorithms of OppressionBored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid is a crisp and compelling read. The authors make extensive use of on-the-ground human perspectives, from both the historical record and personal interviews, lending the book a verisimilitude that is exceedingly rare. -- William Powers, author of Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital AgeThe time is certainly ripe for a book like this. The premise is remarkably simple: track the ways in which emotions have changed over time in relation to new waves of communication technology. Using reflective storytelling built on historical research and contemporary data, the authors show us just how singular our own moment in time is. -- Rob Boddice, Free University, Berlin
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Harvard University Press Island on Fire
Book SynopsisIn 1831 enslaved Jamaicans revolted. What began as a peaceful movement soon became a bloodbath as British troops retaliated. Tom Zoellner tells the inspiring story of the uprising that galvanized antislavery forces in Britain and led directly to abolition two years later.Trade ReviewA pounding narrative of events that led to the end of slavery in the British colonies…Zoellner’s vigorous, fast-paced account brings to life a varied gallery of participants…The revolt failed to improve conditions for the enslaved in Jamaica, but it crucially wounded the institution of slavery itself. -- Fergus M. Bordewich * Wall Street Journal *Zoellner makes deft use of primary sources, and illustrates how the atmosphere of energetic political reform and events like Sharpe’s rebellion converged to end slavery in the ‘agricultural prison camp’ of Jamaica, and in the British Empire at large. * New Yorker *Tom Zoellner tells the story of Sam Sharpe’s revolution manqué, and the subsequent abolition of slavery in Jamaica, in a way that’s acutely relevant to the racial unrest of our own time. Island on Fire is impeccably researched and seductively readable. -- Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls' RisingTom Zoellner is completely right that the 1831–1832 revolt in Jamaica helped break the back of slavery in the British Empire. It’s high time that we had a book like the splendid one he has written: a highly readable but carefully documented account of the greatest of all British slave rebellions, the miseries that led to it, and the momentous changes it wrought. -- Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s Ghost and Bury the ChainsWith vivid prose, Tom Zoellner captures the horrors of the brutal sugar plantations of Jamaica as well as that brief but transcendent moment when a group of enslaved people sought, against tremendous odds, to transform the island into a space of liberation. Island on Fire offers a haunting parable of how history is made and remade up to the present day. -- Karl Jacoby, author of Shadows at DawnIsland on Fire is a gripping account of the five weeks when Jamaica burned in a rebellion led by enslaved preacher Samuel Sharpe. Tom Zoellner recounts these dramatic events with great energy and detail, crucially setting Sharpe’s story—which until now has not been well known away from the island—in the wider context of the struggle for abolition on both sides of the Atlantic. -- Carrie Gibson, author of Empire’s CrossroadsA riveting recounting of the causes and consequences of the war for emancipation led by Samuel Sharpe in Jamaica. Island on Fire catalogues in vivid detail the price that the freedom fighters paid for saying ‘no’ to continued enslavement against the backdrop of a growing antislavery movement on both sides of the Atlantic. It is a chilling reminder of colonial British brutality. One will need a strong stomach to read this moving account without shedding tears. -- Verene A. Shepherd, author of Livestock, Sugar and Slavery: Contested Terrain in Colonial JamaicaAn important contribution to our understanding of what Saidiya Hartman has described as the ‘afterlife’ of slavery. Zoellner documents in vivid detail the base violence and inhumanity of institutionalized slavery in plantation-era Jamaica. But he also tells a story of irrepressible resistance and self-organization that generated the slave rebellion of 1831…His storytelling ability makes this history extremely readable, if not less painful. -- Abigail Bakan * Jacobin *An engaging history of the horrific system of slavery practiced in Jamaica and the slave revolt that finally killed it…Resurrecting this important historical episode, Zoellner moves nimbly through the research, giving an exciting account of the events as well as the significant consequences when the news reached England weeks later. * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *Highlights the lives of the many Jamaicans who sacrificed their lives for freedom, putting it in the context of Britain’s passage of the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. Impressively researched, this is a valuable addition to Jamaica’s documented history. * Southern California News Group *[A] rollicking history…[The] arsonists, fighting for their freedom, are the people who come out most vividly in Island on Fire. The book comes alive when describing the enslaved people who used violence to try to overturn White rule and who were brutally murdered and executed as a result, in an orgy of White bloodletting. -- Trevor Burnard * New West Indian Guide *Masterful…Zoellner’s fast-paced story recounts a five-week long rebellion led by enslaved preacher Samuel Sharpe…Strongly recommended…captur[es] the nuances of enslaved people’s struggle for freedom against brutally exploitative systems. -- Scott B. MacDonald * Global Americans *
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Harvard University Press A Short History of Physics in the American Century
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Princeton University Press The New Princeton Companion
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Princeton University Press The Greenback Era A Social and Political History of American Finance 18651879 3978 Princeton Legacy Library
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*ABBREVIATIONS, pg. ix*INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*I. THE ROOTS OF CONFLICT, pg. 13*II. THE SOFT MONEY INTEREST, PART I, pg. 41*III. THE SOFT MONEY INTEREST, PART II, pg. 68*IV. THE HARD MONEY INTEREST, pg. 120*V. EQUIPOISE, pg. 163*VI. THE FARMER, pg. 195*VII. PANIC AND INFLATION, pg. 213*VIII. THE RESUMPTION ACT: PASSAGE AND TRIAL, pg. 249*IX. THE ELECTION OF 1876, pg. 286*X. SHERMAN AND SILVER, pg. 322*XI. RESUMPTION ACCOMPLISHED, pg. 374*APPENDICES, pg. 409*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 417*INDEX, pg. 443
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University Press of Kansas American by Birth
Book SynopsisExplores the history and legacy of Wong Kim Ark and the 1898 Supreme Court case that bears his name, which established the automatic citizenship of individuals born within the geographic boundaries of the United States.Trade ReviewWe have long needed a biography of Wong Kim Ark, and American by Birth delivers. It's the history of American citizenship, the tireless efforts of one man and his lawyers to challenge cruel and racist policies, and Wong Kim Ark's continuing legacy today. Nackenoff and Novkov's timely book is a must-read!" - Erika Lee, author of America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States, and director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota"American by Birth tells the compelling story Wong Kim Ark-a Chinese American who was forced to defend his claim to US citizenship-and the landmark Supreme Court case that bares his name. Centering their study around his hard-won battle, Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov deftly trace the multiple origins of birthright citizenship and its sprawling consequences for American society." - Beth Lew-Williams, associate professor of history, Princeton University, and author of The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
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University Press of Kansas Bodies for Battle US Army Physical Culture and
Book SynopsisPhysical training in the US Army has a surprisingly short history. Bodies for Battle is the first in-depth analysis of the US Army's particular set of practices and values, known as its physical culture, that emerged in the late nineteenth century in response to tactical challenges and anxieties over diminishing masculinity.Trade ReviewThis wide-ranging and inclusive study reveals the US Army’s important role in fostering an awareness of physical education throughout the nation. Of particular interest is the wartime struggle between the army’s established system and that of civilian medical and physical conditioning authorities. This is a work that reveals much about American military culture and why physical fitness became such a fetish in today’s armed forces." - Brian McAllister Linn, author of The Philippine War, 1899–1902"Garrett Gatzemeyer’s Bodies for Battle is a significant contribution that is likely to become the definitive text on this important subject for some time. Gatzemeyer provides many cogent insights into both the US Army and American society from the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries. Bodies for Battle is especially valuable in revealing the intersection of military issues, for example battlefield tactics, with cultural developments, for instance fears of dwindling masculinity. Readers interested in the US Army, physical culture, American society, and the long-standing and intimate relationships between them will profit from reading this book." - William A. Taylor, author of Military Service and American Democracy: From World War II to the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars"An engaging and deeply researched account of physical training in the military and its intersections with popular fitness culture and exercise science. From bootcamp to the battlefield Gatzemeyer reveals the complex history of physically preparing soldiers for service." - Shelly McKenzie, author of Getting Physical: The Rise of Fitness Culture in America"Bodies for Battle skillfully investigates US Army training programs and philosophies from their late nineteenth-century origins through 1957 to reveal how military physical culture shaped not only soldiers’ physiques and general fitness but also broader ideals of manhood and citizenship. Drawing on a rich range of military archival sources, professional physical education journals, periodicals, and interdisciplinary secondary titles, Gatzemeyer’s meticulously researched study breaks important new ground for military history, gender studies, exercise science, cultural history, and American studies scholars." - Christina Jarvis, author of The Male Body at War: American Masculinity during World War II
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James Clarke & Co Ltd Silas Burroughs the Man who Made Wellcome
Book SynopsisThe first biography of the business brain behind Burroughs Wellcome & Co.Trade ReviewFor too long, Silas Burroughs has stood in the shadows of his partner, Henry Wellcome. In this insightful and revealing book Julia Sheppard does a superb job of redressing the balance, revealing Burroughs's childhood and education, and his increasingly difficult relationship with Wellcome. Based on extensive original research, this is a beautifully written and entertaining biography. Stuart Anderson, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacy History, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Besides a thoroughly engaging story of the American-born entrepreneur, manufacturer and advertising innovator, Julia Sheppard has also given us an important and fascinating insight into the history of the British drug industry and the making of a global pharmaceutical market. This is biography at its very best. John Harley Warner, Avalon Professor of the History of Medicine, Yale University Julia Sheppard has written the definitive biography of Silas Burroughs, the dynamic young American behind one of Victorian Britain's most successful (yet fraught) business partnerships, a major forerunner of today's Big Pharma. Christine Macleod, Professor Emerita of History, University of Bristol Julia Sheppard sets the record straight with an enlightening account of Silas Burroughs's life and the importance of the part he played in the creation of an extraordinarily successful institution. Anne Hardy, Honorary Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine There's much in this book for the business historian. For one thing, it reveals how marketing was done through feet on the ground and knocks on doors. For another, it gives insight into complex partnership dynamics. John Orbell, Business Archivist and Business Historian Silas Burroughs' early death, and his bitter feud with his partner Henry Wellcome, has relegated him to a minor role in the story of their pharmaceutical empire. Julia Sheppard's absorbing biography recovers his vital contribution to their joint enterprise, and sets it in the context of a vigorous life of commercial success, globetrotting travels and excursions into radical politics. Mike Jay, Author and Cultural HistorianTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Abbreviations Burroughs Family Tree Foreword: Sir Jeremy Farrar Acknowledgements and Sources Introduction 1. Father and Son 2. On the Road 3. London and S.M. Burroughs & Co. 4. Brotherly Love and Henry Wellcome 5. 'A Little Excursion' 6. 'A Superficial Jaunt'? India and Ceylon 7. The Antipodes 8. 'This Lovely Opposite Sex' 9. 'Bones of Contention' and Brotherly Strains 10. Atlantic Crossings and Divided Lives 11. Partnership in Crisis: The High Court 12. Henry George and the Phoenix Mills Philosopher 13. Citizen of the World 14. Partnership in Peril 15. 'Service to the Cause of People': Philanthropy and the Livingstone Hospital 16. From London to Monte Carlo 17. Olive versus Wellcome Postscript Appendix: Pharmacy and Change Notes References and Bibliography Index
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Arcadia Publishing Fairfield Connecticut Images of America Arcadia
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers NATO 1948 The Birth of the Transatlantic Alliance
Book SynopsisTalks about the watershed year of 1948, when the United States reversed its position of political and military isolation from Europe and agreed to an entangling alliance with ten European nations. This book traces the tortuous and dramatic process, which struggled to reconcile the conflicting concerns on the part of the future partners.Trade ReviewKaplan starts with the worsening of relations between the Soviet Union and the Western nations, and follows the twists and turns in the difficult negotiations that led to a treaty marking a radical change in US foreign policy. . . . Highly recommended. * CHOICE *This meticulously researched and well-written analysis builds on Kaplan's extensive earlier research on NATO's importance in the Cold War. . . . Its richly detailed analysis makes a significant contribution to the historical record. This judicious appraisal will be of interest to students of diplomatic history and international relations alike. -- Meena Bose, Hofstra University * Journal of American History *Larry Kaplan’s book brings back to life the unique period in 1948–1949 that witnessed the birth of America’s first 'entangling alliance.' His is an exceptionally lively, richly documented, and always enthralling study of the events that led to the greatest transformation of American diplomacy, of the men who made it happen, and of the challenges they had to overcome. -- Pierre Melandri, Sciences PoLawrence Kaplan, a foremost specialist in the history of NATO, has written an insightful account of its birth. The relationship between the United States and Europe has suffered in recent years, making this book an especially timely reminder to a wider readership of just how much effort the past generation put into making the North Atlantic Alliance a reality in the aftermath of the Second World War. Elegantly written and cogent, the book should be read by all students of NATO, European affairs, and U.S. foreign policy on both sides of the Atlantic. -- Saki R. Dockrill, King's College LondonThere is no better team than Lawrence Kaplan together with Morris Honick to recall the events that led to the creation of the West’s chief Cold War instrument in opposing the Soviet Union. It is easy, in these post–Cold War days, not to acknowledge the difficulties that surrounded the creation of the international political-military institutions that are still in use today. Although constantly adapting to a changing international political environment, their basic functions of reinforcing common interests and denying 'divide and conquer' opportunities to actual or potential enemies, are still with us. It is also easy to forget the extreme reluctance on the American side to become 'entangled' in matters of European defense. For these reasons the detailed exposition of the debates and related considerations that underlay the formation of an anti-Soviet 'West' is a welcome addition to the extensive literature, most of it out of necessity based on secondary sources, that chronicles this vital period of our history. -- Robert S. Jordan, University of New OrleansTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: The Isolationist Tradition, 1800–1947 Chapter 2: The "Speech": January 22, 1948 Chapter 3: The Brussels Pact: March 17, 1948 Chapter 4: The Vandenberg Resolution: June 11, 1948 Chapter 5: The "Exploratory" Talks: July–September 1948 Chapter 6: The Western Union Defense Organization: 1948–1949 Chapter 7: The Hiatus: September–December 1948 Chapter 8: The Treaty of Washington: April 4, 1949 Chapter 9: In Retrospect: The Relevance of NATO Today (or in the Post–Cold War Era)
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Addicted to Failure
Book SynopsisFor supplementary documentation and useful websites, click here.This perceptive book critically explores why the United States continues to pursue failed policies in Latin America. What elements of the U.S. and Latin American political systems have allowed the Cold War, the war on drugs, and the war on terror to be conflated? Why do U.S. policiesostensibly designed to promote the rule of law, human rights, and democracyinstead contribute to widespread corruption, erosion of government authority, human rights violations, and increasing destabilization? Why have the war on drugs and the war on terror neither reduced narcotics trafficking nor increased citizen security in Latin America? Why do Latin American governments, the European Union, and U.S. policymakers often work at cross-purposes when they all claim to be committed to democratization and development in the region?Leading scholars answer these questions by detailing the nature of U.S. economic and security strategies in Latin AmTrade ReviewBrian Loveman and his collaborators combine to provide a valuable contribution, one that is enhanced by clear writing, ample referencing, and the high qualifications of all the contributors. . . . A hard-hitting analysis. -- David Scott Palmer, Boston University * Hispanic American Historical Review *[A] scathing and devastating indictment of the ways in which security policy has failed in almost every way imaginable. . . . From an analytical but also, importantly, pedagogical point of view, one of the strengths of Addicted to Failure is its emphasis on primary documents. The chapters are well bound together, not only thematically but also methodologically, bringing official policy statements and postures to the fore. * Latin American Research Review *The story of the United States in Latin America has not changed for a century, just the terminology. The United States is still dumping Monsanto's 'Roundup' on the fields of poor farmers, now in the name of fighting 'narco-terrorism.' The United States is still training Latin American military officers in repression at Fort Benning, now in the name of spreading democracy and markets. The United States is still forging 'military-to-military ties,' only now it's part of the 'global war on terrorism.' Addicted to Failure brilliantly exposes the hypocrisy and deceit of U.S. security policy and imperialist activities in Latin America. -- Chalmers Johnson, author of The Sorrows of EmpireTable of ContentsChapter 1: U.S. Security Policies in Latin America and the Andean Region, 1990–2006 Chapter 2: Plan Colombia and the Regional Andean Initiative: Lights and Shadows Chapter 3: Regional Security Policy and U.S.-Venezuelan Relations Chapter 4: U.S. Andean Policy, the Colombian Conflict, and Security in Ecuador Chapter 5: A "Medicine of Death"? U.S. Policy and Political Disarray in Bolivia, 1985–2006 Chapter 6: U.S. Policy toward Peru: At Odds for Twenty Years Chapter 7: Brazil, Andean Security, and U.S. Regional Security Policy Chapter 8: The European Union and Security and Defense Policy in the Andean Region Chapter 9: After Iraq: Next Colombia? The United States and (In)Security in South America
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement
Book SynopsisThe American civil rights movement represents one of the most remarkable social revolutions in all of world history. While no one would discount the significance of the leadership of Martin Luther King and others, we should also recognize that the fight could not have been waged without the countless foot soldiers in the trenches. As an important corrective to the traditional great man studies, these essays emphasize the importance of grassroots actions and individual agency in the effort to bring about national civil renewal. These biographies assert the importance of individuals on the local level working towards civil rights and the influence that this primarily African-American movement had on others including La Raza, the Native American Movement, feminism, and gay rights. Through engaging biographies of such varied individuals as Abraham Galloway, Ida B. Wells, James K. Vardaman, Jose Angel Gutierrez, and Sylvia Rivera, Glisson widens the scope of most Civil Rights studies beyondTrade ReviewGlisson's volume convincingly argues that the civil rights movement was not always top-down and that local grassroots organizers deserve recognition from scholars and the general public alike. * The Journal Of Mississippi History *Susan Glisson has assembled a stellar cast of scholars to tell the stories of individual Americans engaged in the struggle for human rights. This remarkable collection of essays is at once inspiring and sobering. It demonstrates that ordinary people can accomplish extraordinary things. But it also reminds us of the distance still to be traveled before this country lives up to its democratic promise. -- John Dittmer, DePauw UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Human Tradition and Civil Rights Part I: Hope is Born Chapter 1: Abraham Galloway: Prophet of Biracial America Chapter 2: Homer Plessy: Unsuccessful Challenger to Jim Crow Chapter 3: James K. Vardaman: "A Vote for White Supremacy" and the Politics of Racism Part II: Should We Stay or Should We Go? Chapter 4: Ida B. Wells: Higher Law and Community Justice Chapter 5: A. Philip Randolph: Labor and the New Black Politics Chapter 6: Lucy Randolph Mason: "The Rest of Us" Part III: Awakenings Chapter 7: Amzie Moore: The Biographical Roots of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi Chapter 8: James Lawson: The Nashville Civil Rights Movement Chapter 9: Charles Sherrod and Martin Luther King Jr.: Mass Action and Nonviolence in Albany Part IV: Freedom Is a Constant Struggle Chapter 10: Diane Nash: "Courage Displaces Fear, Love Transforms Hate": Civil Rights Activism and the Commitment to Nonviolence Chapter 11: Mae Bertha Carter: These Tiny Fingers Chapter 12: Robert F. Williams: "Black Power" and the Roots of the African American Freedom Struggle Part V: The Borning Movement Chapter 13: Judith Brown: Freedom Fighter Chapter 14: José Angel Gutiérrez: La Raza Unida and Scholarship for Social Justice Chapter 15: Leonard Peltier: A Small Part of a Much Larger Story Chapter 16: Sylvia Rivera: Fighting in Her Heels: Stonewall, Civil Rights, and Liberation
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Rally Round the Flag Chicago and the Civil War
Book SynopsisIn this landmark narrative history of Chicago during the Civil War, Theodore J. Karamanski examines the people and events that formed this critical period in the city''s history. Using diaries, letters, and newspapers that survived the Great Fire of 1871, he shows how Chicagoans'' opinions evolved from a romantic and patriotic view of the war to recognition of the conflict''s brutality. Located a safe distance behind the battle lines and accessible to the armies via rail and waterways, the city''s economy grew feverishly while increasing population strained Chicago''s social fabric. From the great Republican convention of 1860 in the Wigwam, to the dismal life of Confederate prisoners in Camp Douglas on the South Side of Chicago, Rally ''Round the Flag paints a vivid picture of the Midwest city vigorously involved in the national conflict.Trade ReviewDeeply researched and wide-ranging. . . . A welcome discussion of the central individuals and events in Civil War Chicago. * Journal of American History *Rally 'Round the Flag is an impressive, informative, and scholarly history of Chicago history following the years of the American Civil War. Karamanski draws from diaries, letters, and newspapers to reveal how Chicago's public opinions on the war evolved from a romantic and patriotic naiveté to a clarion recognition of the brutality of the conflict. * Midwest Book Review *A good read and a useful summary of events. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The Irrespressible Candidate Chapter 2: A House Divided Chapter 3: The First Blood Chapter 4: "God Bless the Sanitary Commission!" Chapter 5: Camp Douglas Chapter 6: "Wonder of the Nineteenth Century" Chapter 7: "A Fire in the Rear" Chapter 8: A City in Sable
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Rlpg/Galleys From Frontier Town to Metropolis
Book SynopsisAlthough Villavicencio, the capital of the Department of Meta, is located just 120 miles from Bogotá, the mountains of the eastern Andean Cordillera lies between the two cities. As a result, after its founding in 1842, Villavicencio remained an isolated frontier outpost for more than one hundred yearseven though El Portal de la Llanura (the Gateway to the Plains) provided the principal access to Colombia''s tropical plains (Llanos), a vast grassy region cut by tributaries connecting with the Meta and Guaviare rivers and eventually the Orinoco. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century governments in Bogotá regarded the Llanos as the Eastern Lands of Promise, underestimating the geographic and climatic obstacles to their development. From Frontier Town to Metropolis recounts the history of the town and explains how, by the twenty-first century, it became a thriving metropolis with a population nearing three hundred thousand. During the next sixty years, it became the principal urban center of tTrade ReviewBy looking at Colombia from Villavicencio, Rausch writes a history from the middle, one that looks up toward the somber highland capital of Bogotá and out toward the exuberant eastern plains. This is a history of civic urbanity and the rude countryside, of urban violence and the prosperous plains. The inhabitants of Villavicencio live continuously in times that are both peaceful and violent. Villavicencio turns out to be a microcosm of Colombia. -- Herbert Tico Braun, University of VirginiaThis topic is intrinsically interesting as well as important, and Jane Rausch makes it into a good story without shortchanging the requirements of analysis. -- David Bushnell, University of FloridaTable of ContentsChapter 1: The Llanos Frontier and the Founding of Villavicencio Chapter 2: Villavicencio during the Federation Era: 1863–1888 Chapter 3: Villavicencio during the Era of Regeneration: 1886–1899 Chapter 4: War and Dictatorship: 1899–1909 Chapter 5: Capital of the National Intendancy of Meta: 1909–1930 Chapter 6: Villavicencio during the Liberal Republic: 1930–1946 Chapter 7: La Violencia and Its Impact on Villavicencio: 1947–1953 Chapter 8: The Rojas Pinilla Dictatorship and the Pacification of the Llanos: 1953–1958 Chapter 9: Villavicencio during the National Front: 1957–1974 Chapter 10: Villavicencio, 1974 to the Present: The Search for Civic Identity Chapter 11: Villavicencio and the Llanos Frontier
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Rlpg/Galleys The Catholic Church and Power Politics in Latin
Book SynopsisClick here to see a video interview with Emelio Betances.Click here to access the tables referenced in the book.Since the 1960s, the Catholic Church has acted as a mediator during social and political change in many Latin American countries, especially the Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. Although the Catholic clergy was called in during political crises in all five countries, the situation in the Dominican Republic was especially notable because the Church''s role as mediator was eventually institutionalized. Because the Dominican state was persistently weak, the Church was able to secure the support of the Balaguer regime (19661978) and ensure social and political cohesion and stability. Emelio Betances analyzes the particular circumstances that allowed the Church in the Dominican Republic to accommodate the political and social establishment; the Church offered non-partisan political mediation, rebuilt its ties with the lower echelons of society, aTrade ReviewThis is an interesting and substantial study. . . . Betances' work is something one does not see much of lately—a highly detailed institutional history of the Church in one country. . . . This is a valuable addition to the literature on religion and politics in Latin America. * Latin American Studies *In this well-written monograph, Emelio Betances examines the origins and development of this relationship in the Domincan Republic. * Hispanic American Historical Review *History has a curious and even dangerous way of showing us things that reality forces us to see day after day. It works like one of the enlargers we used in photography long before a computer sat on top of our desks. History is also the method Emelio Betances has chosen to focus on and illuminate that odd fellowship of the Catholic Church and the state in Latin America. He couldn’t have chosen a better method. -- José Luis Sáez Ramo, Academia Dominicana de la HistoriaAt long last we have an illuminating study of one of the more interesting national churches in Latin America. The transformation of the Church from one that was subdued under the dictator Rafael Trujillo to one that successfully fulfilled a role as moderator in society and politics, built loyalty among its members, and responded to Pentecostal challengers is described by a Dominican scholar. -- Edward L. Cleary, Providence CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Development of the Dominican Catholic Church: A Comparative Perspective Chapter 2: Church and Politics in Four Latin American Nations Chapter 3: Finding a New Role in Society Chapter 4: Mediator par Excellence Chapter 5: Building a New Relationship with Society Chapter 6: Evangelicals and Politics: Challenges and Opportunities Conclusion Appendix: Tables and Figures
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