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Report copyright infringementby Bruce Johansen (Author)Economic themes underlie many aspects of Native American history from the fur trade, the devastating impact of European diseases, and the taking of Native American land to the current issues of uranium mining on Navajo land and casino gambling. Yet this is the first encyclopedia to analyze Native American history against an economic background. Describing the impact of Euro-American settlement from a Native American perspective, the book ...

A Workforce Divided: Community, Labor, and the State in Saint-Nazaire's Shipbuilding Industry, 1880-1910

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Report copyright infringementby Leslie a. Schuster (Author)In this study of the life and work of Saint-Nazaire's shipbuilding workers in the 30 years before World War I, Schuster shows that the consequences of industrial production for workers differed sharply according to their resources and experiences. She details the competing identities and divergent values maintained by shipbuilding workers, demonstrating that they were fostered by the interaction between state programs, industrial prod...

Liberalism and Social Reform: Industrial Growth and Progressiste Politics in France, 1880-1914

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Report copyright infringementby David M. Gordon (Author)This book examines the heroic spirit of French industrial capitalism prior to World War I, and the role certain industrialists played in ensuring the success and stability of the country's economic and political order. It focuses in particular on the success of innovative manufacturers in France's chief industrial centers, the Nord, Loire, and Lorraine, where failing industrialists were saved through the introduction of new manufacturing...

Affirmative Action: A Documentary History

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Report copyright infringementby Jo Ann Robinson (Editor)Examining affirmative action and its history through these 400 documents that trace its roots and development, this work is an invaluable reference resource. Race, gender, and disability, as they pertaing to affirmative action, are also explored. By providing a thorough presentation of the arguments both for and against, this reference encourages critical thinking as it details the ins and outs of the debate. From government reports to c...

Historical Dictionary of the Great Depression, 1929-1940

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Report copyright infringementby James Stuart Olson (Author), James Stuart Olson (Other)Today when most Americans think of the Great Depression, they imagine desperate hoboes riding the rails in search of work, unemployed men selling pencils to indifferent crowds, bootleggers hustling illegal booze to secrecy-shrouded speakeasies, FDR smiling, or Judy Garland skipping along the yellow brick road. Hard times have become an abstraction. But there was a time when economic suffering was real, when...

Britain's Sterling Colonial Policy and Decolonization, 1939-1958

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Report copyright infringementby Allister Hinds (Author)Arguing that Britain's sterling policy had a significant impact on its colonial economic policy, this book focuses on the connection between Britain's sterling and balance of payments policy, colonial economic policy, and the British government's decision to transfer power to colonial peoples. The volume considers such factors as sterling policy and the state of the British economy, U.S. and Western European pressure for multilateralism i...

America's Feeble Weapon: Funding the Marshall Plan in France and Italy, 1948-1950

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Report copyright infringementby Chiarella Esposito (Author), C. Esposito (Author)Unlike earlier studies of the Marshall Plan, this volume concentrates not on events in Washington, but on those in France and Italy--the second and third largest beneficiaries of the Plan. Using U.S., French, and Italian sources, the author analyzes the impact of the Plan on French and Italian economic policy between 1948 and 1950. Taking neither a realist nor revisionist stance, the author argues that massive Am...

State Against Development: The Experience of Post-1965 Zaire

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Report copyright infringementby Mondonga M. Mokoli (Author)This study evaluates the state-initiated policies in post-1965 Zaire and their impact on the Zairean people. The author ascertains the overt and underlying relevancy of the priority that the state has accorded the agricultural and rural sector for socioeconomic development, and he examines the indicators provided by conventional agricultural and rural development theories. These indicators show that the sector has not received suffici...

The American Peasantry: Southern Agricultural Labor and Its Legacy, 1850-1995, a Study in Political Economy

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Report copyright infringementby Ronald E. Seavoy (Author)A sweeping overview of the American peasantry: the largely sharecrop cultivators who, in Seavoy's analysis, rejected the labor norms of commercial agriculture. About equal numbers of black and white sharecroppers chose to practice subsistence cultivation in order to minimize agricultural labor. The study begins with pre-Civil War slave plantations and the landless white peasants who migrated to North America to escape full-time paid lab...

Aspirations and Realities: A Documentary History of Economic Development Policy in Ireland Since 1922

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Report copyright infringementby James L. Wiles (Author), Richard B. Finnegan (Author)Focusing on the period since Irish independence, this documentary history provides a record of the policies the Irish government has followed to encourage economic growth, thereby providing access to the official record for readers in this country. Particular attention has been given to the planning period, which began in 1958. An introductory chapter provides an overview of British economic policy during the...

Culture, Gender, Race, and U.S. Labor History

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Report copyright infringementby Ronald C. Kent (Editor), Sara Markham (Editor), Herbert Shapiro (Editor)This contributor volume brings the best work of such established historians as Morris Schappes, Nathan Godfried, and Eric Foner together with the newer voices of Elizabeth Sharpe and Jennifer Bosch. Its eleven essays challenge the boundary between the older, institutional labor history and the more recent social histories of working people. By combining a focus on culture, women's history, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Edwin Dunbaugh (Author)Taking the subject of much lore as the topic of his book, Dunbaugh has written a carefully researched, comprehensive history of the overnight steamboat on Long Island Sound. In the nineteenth century, these steamboats provided the major means of transportation from New York to ports in southern New England or from Boston north to ports on the coast of Maine. Earlier accounts have either focused on the lore or been heavy with statistical d...

American Labor in the Era of World War II

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Report copyright infringementby Sally M. Miller (Author), Daniela Cornford (Author), Sally M. Miller (Editor)The 1940s were a pivotal decade in the history of the American labor movement. Large migrations significantly changed the composition of the industrial work force while, simultaneously, the organized labor movement sought to consolidate its base. These essays examine topics including aspects of the institutional development of the labor movement at the national level, while west coast ...

Central America: Historical Perspectives on the Contemporary Crises

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Report copyright infringementby Ralph L. Woodward (Editor)A collection of essays that analyzes the historical antecedents of the current political crises in Central America. The essays provide a balanced interpretation of such themes as international power politics in Central America since the 19th century and the effects of cultural diversity and local interests in preventing the development of enduring political unity and economic integration. Latin Americanists and those interested in inte...

The Rise of a New World Economic Power: Postwar Taiwan

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Report copyright infringementby Y. Dolly Hwang (Author)In the most comprehensive analysis of Taiwan's economic development available to date, Y. Dolly Hwang traces the economic, political, and historical factors that enabled the island to transform itself from a poor country burdened with heavy foreign debt and rampant inflation into an emerging world economic power in a period of only forty years. Hwang explores the role played by the cultural and individual aspirations of the Taiwanese; the...

Marching Orders: The Role of the Military in South Korea's Economic Miracle, 1961-1971

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Report copyright infringementby Jon Huer (Author)This modern day rags-to-riches story tells how one of the poorest nations in the world evolved into one of the most technologically advanced. How did South Korea do it? The miracle' that occurred in South Korea was produced, in essence, by military men, many of whom had undergone extensive managerial training in the United States in the preceding decade, who gave marching orders' to a responsive populace. Marching Orders, a historically factu...

The Share of Top Wealth-Holders in National Wealth 1922-56

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Report copyright infringementby Robert J. Lampman (Author), Unknown (Author)Based largely upon data derived from federal estate tax returns, this report investigates the distribution of wealth in the United States in the years 1922-56, and finds important changes in the degree of economic inequality. More than 100 tables and 37 charts illustrate the author's findings.Author Biographympman /f Robert /i J. Number of Pages: 286 Dimensions: 0.75 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby G. N. Clark (Author), Unknown (Author)This book reviews English economic history from the eve of the discovery of America through the time when the Industrial Revolution was well underway. It emphasizes the connection of the wealth of England with developments in Europe and in the other continents generally, but it does not wrap the facts in theoretical concepts which often make economic history obscure and difficult. It gives a clear account of the agriculture...

At Home on the Range: Essays on the History of Western Social and Domestic Life

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Report copyright infringementby J. Wunder (Author), John R. Wunder (Editor)The nine essays presented by John R. Wunder collectively expose the domestic and technological details of American pioneer life on the High Plains. The essays, each written by a leading authority in the field, examine such topics as early ranching and farming in the Rio Grande Valley and the Staked Plains; the impact on Native American and settler women of life on the agricultural frontier; the response to perceived th...

The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party - Paperback

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by Dana Milbank (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - A scalding history of twenty-five years of Republican attempts to hold on to political power by any means necessary, by a hugely popular Washington Post political columnist In 1994, more than 300 Republicans under the command of obstructionist and rabble-rouser Congressman Newt Gingrich stood outside the U.S. Capitol to sign the Contract with America and put bipartisanship on notice. Twenty-five years later, on January 6, 2021, a bloodthirs...

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism - Paperback

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by Rachel Maddow (Author)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis. "A ripping read--well rendered, fast-paced and delivered with the same punch and assurance that she brings to a broadcast. . . . The parallels to the present day are strong, even startling."--The ...

¿Quién Fue?: Historia del Mundo - Paperback

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by Paula K. Manzanero (Author), Who Hq (Author), Robert Squier (Illustrator)Based on the #1 New York Times Best-Selling series, this timeline of world history gives a fresh take on global events, from King Tut to Malala Yousafzai. Basada en la serie más vendida del New York Times, esta cronología de la historia mundial ofrece una nueva visión de los acontecimientos mundiales, desde el rey Tutankamón hasta Malala Yousafzai. For the first time ever, the Who Was? subjects are gathered into a sin...

Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City - Paperback

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by Andrew Lawler (Author)Author BiographyANDREW LAWLER is author of the bestselling The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke, and the acclaimed Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic, and Smithsonian. He is a contributing writer for Science and a contributing editor for Archaeology. Lawler's work has appeared several ...

Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature - Paperback

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by Richard Rhodes (Author)A masterful and timely biography of the hugely influential biologist and naturalist E. O. Wilson, one of the most ground-breaking and controversial scientists of our time--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb Few biologists have been as productive, ground-breaking, or controversial as Edward Osborne Wilson. At 92 years old, he may be the most eminent American scientist in any field today. Fascinated from an early age by the natural ...

A Killing in Amish Country: Lies, Betrayal, and a Cold-Blooded Murder - Paperback

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by Gregg Olsen (Author), Rebecca Morris (Author)New York Times bestselling authors Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris investigate the 2009 death of an Amish wife and mother found murdered in her own bed. At just 30 years old, with dark-blonde hair and freckles, Barbara Weaver was as pretty as the women depicted on the covers of her favorite "bonnet" stories - romance novels set in Amish America. Barbara had everything she'd ever wanted: five beautiful children, a home, her faith, and a husband na...

The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series - Paperback

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by Tyler Kepner (Author)From the New York Times bestselling author of K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches comes the ultimate history of the World Series--a vivid portrait of baseball at its finest and most intense, filled with humor, lore, analysis, and fascinating behind-the-scenes stories from 117 years of the Fall Classic. The World Series is the most enduring showcase in American team sports. It's the place where legends are made, where celebration and devastation can hinge on a fly b...

The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets - Paperback

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by Matthew Connelly (Author)SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE - Every day, thousands of new secrets are created by the United States government. What is all this secrecy really for? And whom does it benefit? "A brilliant, deeply unsettling look at the history and inner workings of 'the dark state'.... At a time when federal agencies are increasingly classifying or destroying documents with historical significance, this book could not be more important." --Eric Schlosser, New York Tim...

The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America - Paperback

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by H. W. Brands (Author)"William Tecumseh Sherman and Geronimo were keen strategists and bold soldiers, ruthless with their enemies. Over the course of the 1870s and 1880s these two war chiefs would confront each other in the final battle for what the American West would be: a sparsely settled, wild home where Indian tribes could thrive, or a more densely populated extension of the America to the east of the Mississippi. Sherman was a well-connected son of Ohio who attended West Point and ros...

The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People - Paperback

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by Walter Russell Mead (Author)A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A groundbreaking work that overturns the conventional understanding of the Israeli-American relationship and, in doing so, explores how fundamental debates about American identity drive our country's foreign policy. "A sweeping and masterfully told history"--The New York Times In this bold examination of the Israeli-American relationship, Walter Russell Mead demolishes the myths that both pro-Zionists and anti-Zionists ha...

Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self - Paperback

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by Andrea Wulf (Author)Author BiographyANDREA WULF was born in India and moved to Germany as a child. She is the author of Founding Gardeners, Brother Gardeners, and the New York Times best seller The Invention of Nature, which has been published in twenty-seven languages and won fifteen international literary awards. Wulf has written for many newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic. She is a member...

The Story of Porsche: A Tribute to the Legendary Manufacturer - Hardcover

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by Luke Smith (Author)The Story of Porsche is a compact and beautifully designed review of the iconic car manufacturer. From the alluring curves to the powerful engineering, Porsche has been synonymous with both luxury and race car manufacturing for more than 90 years. In The Story of Porsche, every component of the legendary brand's success is studied and celebrated, from turbulent beginnings to its ascent to the summit of car design and construction.Blending heritage with innovation and bra...

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Young Readers Adaptation): Life in Native America - Paperback

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by David Treuer (Author), Sheila Keenan (Adapted by)"Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the United States. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee argues that Native American culture is far from defeated--if anything, it is thriving as much today as it was one hundred years ago. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee looks at Native American culture as it exists today--and the fight to preserve language and traditions"--Author BiographyDavid Treuer i...