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Under the eyes of the national press, 18 people were killed and some 700 injured, many of them by sabres, many of them women, some of them children.The ''Peterloo massacre'', the subject of a recent feature film and a major commemoration in 2019, is famous as the central episode in Edward Thompsons Making of the English Working Class. It also marked the rise of a new English radical populism as the British state, recently victorious at Waterloo, was challenged by a pro-democracy movement centred on the industrial north.Why did the cavalry attack? Who ordered them in? What was the radical strategy? Why were there women on the platform, and why were they so ferociously attacked? 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Timed to coincide with the bicentenary in 2019, Peterloo: The English Uprising is the first book-length study of Peterloo to be published by a 'serving academic' since 1958. Meticulously researched, thoughtfully written and featuring beautiful illustrations, maps and prints (as well as a very welcome 'List of Principal Characters'), it is sure to be the definitive account for years to come. * Fiona Milne, The BARS Review *\u003cbr\u003ePeterloo serves as a useful reminder that the events of Peterloo, and the government's need to cover the tracks of the Lancashire authorities and suppress an uprising caused by the wave of national disgust at their actions, rather than the strength of the radical reform movement itself, provided the chief impetus for the wave of suppressive legislation in 1819. * Martin Spychal, Parliamentary History *\u003cbr\u003eRobert Poole gives a comprehensive overview of the country at the time. His description of the massacre is vivid and enthralling. * Paul Donnelley, The Express *\u003cbr\u003ePeterloo: The English Uprising [...] is perhaps the definitive text on the event. * Colin Drury, The Independent *\u003cbr\u003eOne of the important features of Poole's account is to put place back at the centre of the story. His analysis is especially strong in exploring the specific local economies, cultures and employment of the areas around Manchester, home to so many of the casualties at Peterloo ... Striking characters emerge ... 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What makes The English Uprising so vivid is the sheer range and diversity of sources used from newspaper accounts, letters and memoirs to reports submitted by police spies and courtroom documents. * Dr Janette Martin, Reviews in History *\u003cbr\u003eThe English Uprising is the definitive history of Peterloo - balanced, scholarly yet accessible and, with good reasons, still indignant after 200 years. * BBC History Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eCarefully researched, this is a comprehensive and clearly argued book which has much to tell us about social, economic and political conditions in the early 19th century. * Andy Hedgecock, The Morning Star *\u003cbr\u003eGenerously illustrated ... vivid and immensely readable, peppered with evocative phrases that jump from the page ... Poole [writes] convincingly and for everyone ... Peterloo: The English Uprising succeeds both as the definitive account of Peterloo and as a moving tribute to the people caught up in the horrors of that day. * The Fabian Review *\u003cbr\u003ePoole has [...] provided a new and perhaps definitive understanding of who was involved [at Peterloo]. * Keith Flett, London Socialist Historians *\u003cbr\u003e[Peterloo] took place 200 years ago but still inspires an anger that is expressed brilliantly in a new history by Robert Poole ... Poole's history is the book those who protested at Peterloo - and those who continue to oppose the same vicious ruling class today - deserve. * Judy Cox, The Socialist Worker *\u003cbr\u003eIt used to be said that history was written by the victors ... But Robert Poole is on the side of those who fought for democracy and a better life ... read [Peterloo] and understand the lessons of the early working class in England for the struggles today. * Kevin Parslow, The Socialist *\u003cbr\u003eThis book is local history at its best - it puts Manchester at the centre of the story, but within a national context. It provides a comprehensive account of the events of 16th August 1819. * Duncan Bowie, Chartist *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a brilliant, in-depth study of the famous massacre ... very much in the tradition of Edward Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class and Linda Colley's Britons. * Nigel Potter, The Spokesman *\u003cbr\u003eRobert Poole's book is an amazing piece of academic research ... compulsive reading. * The Gaskell Society *\u003cbr\u003eRobert Poole's book is, perhaps the best book ever written on [Peterloo]. It's well written, exhaustive and covers every aspect of the movement ... 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When, in a remote past, tribal and low-caste communities were attached to landowning households, their lack of freedom was framed as subsistence-oriented dependency. Breman argues that with colonial rule came the intrusion of capitalism into India''s agrarian economy, leading to a decline in the idea of patronage in the relationship between bonded labour and landowner. Instead, servitude was reshaped as indebtedness. As labour became transformed into a commodity, peasant workers were increasingly pushed out of agriculture and the village but remained adrift in the wider economy. This footloose workforce is subjected to exploitation when their labour power is required and is left in a state of exclusion when it is surplus to demand. 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Lachmann traces the transformation of US politics from an era of elite consensus to present-day paralysis combined with neoliberal plunder, explains the paradox of an American military with an unprecedented technological edge unable to subdue even the weakest enemies, and the consequences of finance's cannibalisation of the US economy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eCapitalists In Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe \u003c\/i\u003e(Oxford, 2000):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReceived 2003 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award (i.e. best book of the year) of the American Sociological Association. * American Sociological Association *\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eCapitalists In Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe \u003c\/i\u003e(Oxford, 2000):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume is an exemplar of comparative analysis. Lachmann's work is an excellent recent treatment of the transition to capitalism. -- Rebecca Emigh * American Journal of Sociology *\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eCapitalists In Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe \u003c\/i\u003e(Oxford, 2000):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLachmann's analysis of historical economic change is astute and pathbreaking. Empirically, this is comparative historical sociology at its best. An important book that is essential reading for those interested in understanding social change. -- Rosemary Hopcroft * Contemporary Sociology *\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eCapitalists In Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe \u003c\/i\u003e(Oxford, 2000):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCapitalists in Spite of Themselves \u003c\/i\u003esynthesizes and extends elite theory and Marxian class analysis in a remarkably inventive way. \u003ci\u003eCapitalists in Spite of Themselves \u003c\/i\u003eis historically rich, theoretically rigorous and architecturally elegant. -- Julia Adams * Trajectories *\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eCapitalists In Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe \u003c\/i\u003e(Oxford, 2000):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCapitalists in Spite of Themselves \u003c\/i\u003eis a major tour de force, which will lead scholars to think very differently than they have until now about the making of modern Europe. -- Samuel Clark * Trajectories *\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eStates and Power \u003c\/i\u003e(Polity 2010):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is an excellent book. It is all the more remarkable because in spite of its relative brevity (little more than 200 pp. of text) it addresses its theme in a manner characterized among other things by its scope. Lachmann's substantial and original book is also characterized by an exacting methodological approach. -- Gianfranco Poggi * Sociologica *\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eStates and Power \u003c\/i\u003e(Polity 2010):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStates and Power \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a wonderful starting point for someone seeking to understand the development of states and political power. An entertaining and informative read. * Contemporary Sociology *\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eStates and Power \u003c\/i\u003e(Polity 2010):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Lachmann provides the reader with a comprehensive sociological analysis of state formation from antiquity to modernity. This text is an excellent read and would certainly be of interest to individuals studying power, state formation, political sociology and nationalism. -- James Baker * Nations and Nationalism *\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eStates and Power \u003c\/i\u003e(Polity 2010):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA mini-classic, indispensible for those who are interested in the history and future of the nation-state and the international system. Essential. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eStates and Power \u003c\/i\u003e(Polity 2010):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this highly readable and informative book, Richard Lachmann provides a wide-ranging survey over 500 years of state formation and transformation. He covers many epochs and five continents, addresses many theorists and numerous forms of state and regime, and explores multiple aspects of state capacities from war-making and taxation through public works and social benefits to changing forms of political legitimacy. Beginning with the distant origins of states, \u003ci\u003eStates and Power\u003c\/i\u003e ends with informed speculation on the likely future of states and the state system. In short, this is an excellent introduction to a complex topic in historical sociology. -- Bob Jessop, Lancaster University\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eStates and Power \u003c\/i\u003e(Polity 2010):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is concise, marvelously erudite and clearly written. Lachmann succeeds in presenting both the diverse theoretical constructs regarding state power and the analytically organized historical narratives which flesh out his own synthetic understanding of state power. To the best of my knowledge, Lachmann's achievement has no peer - \u003ci\u003eStates and Power\u003c\/i\u003e has all the elements of an intellectual bestseller. -- Georgi Derluguian, Northwestern University\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Historical Sociology? \u003c\/i\u003e(Polity, 2013):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePetitions for a sociology that takes social change as its central object. * Revue française de science politique *\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Historical Sociology? \u003c\/i\u003e(Polity, 2013):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Lachmann's excellent, readable short survey of historical sociology gets to the heart of the enterprise: understanding the ongoing transformations that have created the world in which we live. Lachmann provides incisive reviews of the major fields of research to which historical sociologists have contributed. The book will be a very useful text for those who would bring the concerns and approaches of historical sociology to the larger discipline - who want to historicize sociology in order to render it more vital and more grounded. -- Ann Shola Orloff, Northwestern University\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Historical Sociology? \u003c\/i\u003e(Polity, 2013):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the major contributors to the 'historical turn' in late twentieth-century social sciences guides us through a fascinating journey in a discipline. By examining exemplary works in different sociological domains, Lachmann skillfully sketches the varied concerns of historical sociology. Written in a readable and engaging style, \u003ci\u003eWhat is Historical Sociology?\u003c\/i\u003e is a must read, and not just for those interested in (historical) sociology. -- Roberto Franzosi, Emory University\u003cbr\u003e'Hegemonic decline,' to borrow a phrase from one of Trump's ancestors, makes one want to release the safety catch on one's Browning. A petrified debate whose time had come and gone.... or so I believed until I opened Lachmann. This is a highly original synthesis that blends world systems theory and comparative history with an astute analysis of contemporary US politics to draw powerful and uncomfortable conclusions. -- Mike Davis\u003cbr\u003eIn this historically deep and richly cross-national study of empires and hegemons, Richard Lachmann brings forth new information and a highly original analysis to cast a bright light on the United States and its likely future. Whether social scientists and historians are inclined to agree with him or not, they will have to deal with the fact that his analysis shows that all of them are at least partially wrong about empires and hegemons in one way or another. -- G. William Domhoff, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz\u003cbr\u003eWorking on a strikingly broad comparative canvass Lachmann bridges two genres that are usually widely separate: serious comparative historical sociology, and public engagement. His book asks \"what is the connection between the structure of elite relations and the durability of hegemony, understood as a form of power in which the leadership of the dominant group is 'perceived by subordinate groups as serving a more general interest'?\" Hegemons, unlike simple empires, set the global rules of the game. Their power \"thus...extends beyond their formal and informal territorial possessions to encompass the entire world\". Lachmann's answer to this question is that hegemony is possible where there exist plural elites combined with a low level of elite conflict. Where, in contrast, elites are singular (as in the Nazi or Napoleonic empires) or where there is a high level of conflict (as in the Absolutist cases), hegemony is impossible. In the first sort of case elites simply dominate the lands that they conquer in order to extract resources without gaining any local allies. In the second case elites entrench their own interests at the expense of the general interest; they thus become \"autarkic\" and their own interests split apart from the general interest. This brilliant book, written in the venerable tradition of C. Wright Mills, will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and to the educated public at large. Lachmann shows that comparative and historical sociology is alive and kicking. Bravo! -- Dylan Riley\u003cbr\u003eThis is a powerful, often brilliant, comparative account of the rise and especially the decline of hegemonic powers, focusing most on the Netherlands, Britain, and the United States. Emphasis is placed on the way in which competing elites within the hegemon pursue their own narrow interests to block effective coping with decline. Particularly sobering and convincing is the bleak outlook presented for the future of the United States. -- Michael Mann, Author of The Sources of Social Power, Distinguisher Research Professor, UCLA\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most important developments in recent times is the American elites' loss of influence in global affairs, concurrent with its consolidation of power at home. In this brilliant, sweeping analysis, Richard Lachmann connects the dots and explains how the two processes are related. Placing the United States in the context of its imperial predecessors, he helps us understand America's place in the rogues' gallery of global powers. And most importantly, he helps us see that the American oligarchs will be perfectly happy to see the rest of the nation sink, if that's what it takes to hold on to their dwindling possessions. A work of great depth and moral clarity, it deserves the widest possible audience -- Vivek Chibber\u003cbr\u003eThis provocative and sobering indictment often hits its targets. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eMasterful...Lachmann shows us that, far from being unique to the period of British denouement, the destructive pursuit of such narrow self-interest by elites has repeatedly caused the decline of great powers throughout historical capitalism. * Journal of World-Systems Research *","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48741627134295,"sku":"9781788734073","price":23.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781788734073.jpg?v=1720058194"},{"product_id":"mongrel-firebugs-and-men-of-property-capitalism-and-class-conflict-in-american-history-9781788736701","title":"Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property: Capitalism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn popular retellings of American history, capitalism generally doesn't feature much as part of the founding or development of the nation. Instead, it is alluded to in figurative terms as opportunity, entrepreneurial vigor, material abundance, and the seven-league boots of manifest destiny. \u003cbr\u003e?In this collection of essays, Steve Fraser, the preeminent historian of American capitalism, sets the record straight, rewriting the arc of the American saga with class conflict center stage and mounting a serious challenge to the consoling fantasy of American exceptionalism. From the colonial era to Trump, Fraser recovers the repressed history of debtors' prisons and disaster capitalism, of confidence men and the reserve armies of the unemployed. In language that is dynamic and compelling, he demonstrates that class is a fundamental feature of American political life and provides essential intellectual tools for a shrew reading of American history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A spirited collection by an erudite and penetrating essayist. 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Fraser has captured the emotive logic of capitalist hegemony and the dark appeal it has so often held for millions of acquiescent Americans.\" -- NELSON LICHTENSTEIN, AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eWHO BUILT AMERICA?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this collection of bracing essays, Fraser brings to the fore the perils and promise of class warfare and the daunting challenges faced by everyone who hopes to defy history and work for a just society.\" -- JACQUELINE JONES, AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eGODDESS OF ANARCHY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These essays show that Steve Fraser has long been one of the wisest and most eloquent historians of American capitalism and its discontents. Erudite, passionate, and laced with wit, they are essential reading during our era of great perils and budding hopes for change.\" -- MICHAEL KAZIN, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY\u003cbr\u003e\"Fraser is our preeminent historian of America as a capitalist civilization. No one is more attuned to the inner vibrations of our monied culture.\" -- COREY ROBIN, AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eTHE REACTIONARY MIND\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of our best social historians set the record straight about the mythologies of American capitalism. -- Peter Dreier, author of Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-first Century\u003cbr\u003e[The essays] display his encyclopedic knowledge of U.S. history, especially working-class history. -- Gabriel Winant * New Republic *","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48741627986263,"sku":"9781788736701","price":18.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781788736701.jpg?v=1720058198"},{"product_id":"smart-machines-and-service-work-automation-in-an-age-of-stagnation-9781789143188","title":"Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn recent decades digital devices have reshaped daily life, while tech companies' stock prices have thrust them to the forefront of the business world. In this rapid, global development, the promise of a new machine age has been accompanied by worries about accelerated joblessness thanks to new forms of automation. Jason E. Smith looks behind the techno-hype to lay out the realities of a period of economic slowdown and expanding debt: low growth rates and an increase of labour-intensive jobs at the bottom of the service sector. He shows how increasing inequality and poor working conditions have led to new forms of workers' struggles. Ours is less an age of automation, Smith contends, than one in which stagnation is intertwined with class conflict.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the very best books on the social consequences of technological change I have read, far more insightful than the technology books that get so much attention in the mainstream press.\" -- Tony Smith * Brooklyn Rail *\u003cbr\u003e\"In his book \u003ci\u003eSmart Machines and Service Work\u003c\/i\u003e, Smith offers a reality check to the effects of automation in an age of stagnated production and wages. . . . Workers usurped from administrative as well as industrial roles have recomposed themselves on behalf of service industries as a massively expanded, desiccated and low-paid servant class, the new 'precariat.' . . . Smith dials up his Marx to probe several fascinating and troubling effects of this current dynamic.\" * Morning Star *\u003cbr\u003e\"One thing that has puzzled academic economists is why, given the spread in recent years of IT, AI, and automation generally, productivity has hardly gone up. In \u003ci\u003eSmart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation\u003c\/i\u003e, Smith offers an explanation which also challenges those like Paul Mason who see a society of abundance and leisure as in the process of gradually evolving.\" * Socialist Standard *\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] vital guide . . . carefully charting how our economic system is unable to deliver further social progress.\" * Roar *\u003cbr\u003e\"To understand the future, we must first understand the present. In \u003ci\u003eSmart Machines and Service Work\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eSmith critically examines the rhetoric on automation, robots taking over jobs and a future without work in the context of a stagnating global economy. . . . Smith combines a detailed theoretical argumentation with rigorous empirical analysis to produce an enlightening explanation of the technological, economic, and social conditions that have shaped and continue to shape the world of work today. Overall, S\u003ci\u003emart Machines and Service Work\u003c\/i\u003e is targeted critique of today’s decontextualized automation rhetoric and an impressively broad analysis of the US economy and labor market.\" -- Sigurd M. N. 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This important book should be read by anyone interested in the social consequences of technological change today.\" -- Tony Smith, professor of philosophy, Iowa State University, author of \"Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production\"","brand":"Reaktion Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48741661638999,"sku":"9781789143188","price":15.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789143188.jpg?v=1720058330"},{"product_id":"magnificent-women-and-their-revolutionary-machines-9781800180277","title":"Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘Women have won their political independence. 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It carried political weight, too. In the eighties the miners risked everything in a year-long strike against Thatcher's shutdowns. Defeat foretold the death of their industry. Tens of thousands were cast onto the labour market with a minimum amount of advice and support. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet British politics all of a sudden revolves around the coalfield constituencies that lent their votes to Boris Johnson's Conservatives in 2019. Even in the Welsh Valleys, where the 'red wall' still stands, support for the Labour Party has halved in a generation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHuw Beynon and Ray Hudson draw on decades of research to chronicle these momentous changes through the words of the people who lived through them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA powerful study of tumultuous political events steeped in knowledge of the coalfields. 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By tracing the \"deep story\" of the marginalisation of Britain's coalfields, it aims to understand the continuing exclusion of working-class people in deindustrialised areas from political and social life. -- Diarmaid Kelliher * Antipode *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Shadow of the Mine\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us why this spirit [of solidarity and collectivism] has lived on in the coalfields, in spite of people feeling a sense of political betrayal going back decades ... enlightening. -- Conrad Landin * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eRefreshing and necessary ... 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But for Mr. Holmstrom, they just aren't the same. \"A real muscle car doesn't have 19 air bags,\" he says. \"It just has a big, powerful engine that makes your heart stop every time you stomp on the accelerator.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Wall Street Journal *","brand":"Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865791246679,"sku":"9780760350133","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780760350133.jpg?v=1722275588"},{"product_id":"electric-city-the-lost-history-of-ford-and-edisons-american-utopia-9781419752988","title":"Electric City The Lost History of Ford and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom award-winning author Thomas Hager, \u003ci\u003eElectric City\u003c\/i\u003e is the extraordinary, unknown story of two giants of American history—Henry Ford and Thomas Edison—and their attempt to create an electric-powered city of tomorrow on the Tennessee River.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e During the roaring twenties, two of the most revered and influential men in American business proposed to transform one of the country’s poorest regions into a dream technological metropolis, a shining paradise of small farms, giant factories, and sparkling laboratories. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s “Detroit of the South” would be 10 times the size of Manhattan, powered by renewable energy, and free of air pollution. And it would reshape American society, introducing mass commuting by car, use a new kind of currency called “energy dollars,” and have the added benefit (from Ford and Edison’s view) of crippling the growth of socialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The whole audacious sc\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA well-researched, crisply written account tinged with irony * The Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003e“With incisive character sketches and insights into the tension between private and public interests, this is an illuminating portrait of a little-known chapter in American history.” * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e“a beguiling history of the City That Almost Was...shining a crisp light on the tensions between private and public development with which we still grapple today.” * Garden \u0026amp; Gun Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e“as compelling as a good novel...Electric City is an excellent, illuminating narrative about an intriguing moment in American history that wound up having repercussions for generations.” * The Oregonian *\u003cbr\u003e“Thomas Hager’s Electric City is a rollicking and well-constructed story about power—electric power, political power, financial power—with a gallery of colorful and deeply human characters fighting to own the future. Hager brings Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and forgotten progressive giants like George Norris alive on the page. And he untangles complex but important strands of American history for easy inspection. In his capable hands, Muscle Shoals—and the Tennessee Valley Authority—are no longer dusty relics but fascinating examples of the great American experiment.” -- Jonathan Alter * author of The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope *\u003cbr\u003e“The best books about American history combine larger-than-life participants, engaging writing, and surprising twists and turns that provide both entertainment and the real story rather than mythology. Electric City by Thomas Hager checks every box. This is a book you don't want to miss.” -- Jeff Guinn * New York Times bestselling author of The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s Ten- *\u003cbr\u003e“Electric City is an important story, well told. For decades the Tennessee River valley was a canvas on which visionaries sketched a plan for America’s future. Thomas Hager shows how hydropower and political power intertwined in a contest over who should own the river and its resources. A rich cast of characters drafted competing blueprints, each promising to engineer a resolution to the growing divide between urban and rural America. Their failures are as instructive as their successes.” -- Ernest Freeberg * author of The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America *\u003cbr\u003e“Engrossing...Hager’s portrayal of the key players...is revelatory...A willingness to conjecture sets Hager apart from many of his contemporaries. That this ‘Electric City’ was only ever a dream does not detract from Hager’s masterful storytelling and keen eye for details that bring history of life.” * Southern Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"[a] fascinating, widely-sweeping slice of Americana” * Winchester Sun *\u003cbr\u003eElectric City offers useful insights into why so many planned projects never come to fruition. * City Journal *","brand":"Abrams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866917220695,"sku":"9781419752988","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"learning-behind-bars-9781487545826","title":"Learning behind Bars","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book sheds light on Irish republican prisoners during the Northern Irish Troubles and the ways in which they shaped the peace process from within the internment camps and prisons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Learning behind Bars is an interesting, informative and scholarly work.\" -- Gerry Moriarty * \u003cem\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"..with its chronological panorama, and the geographical and organisational range of its interview partners, Reinisch’s book offers a valuable perspective on the experiences of republican prisoners at the periphery of the movement… his book is of undoubted value for scholars of the Northern Ireland conflict and, more broadly, for analysts of incarceration and the internal dynamics of militant social movements.\" -- Jack Hepworth, St Catherine’s College, Oxford * \u003cem\u003eOral History Journal\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an important account of the role of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoners who were imprisoned on both sides of the Irish border who were instrumental in starting the critical debate that ultimately contributed to resolving the Northern Ireland conflict through the 1994 Provisional (IRA) ceasefire and the Good Friday Agreement of 1998.\" -- Joshua Sinai * \u003cem\u003ePerspectives on Terrorism\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Drawing on the experience of learners and employing a framework which enables generalisations to be made from the particularities of Ireland, Dieter Reinisch makes a powerful case for the value of education in prisons for prisoners, prisons, and the wider society.\" -- Daniel Weinbren, Open University * \u003cem\u003eJournal of Prison Education and Reentry\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations Preface Abbreviations   Introduction   1. 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