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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063090767Author Imani PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint HarperLuxePublisher HarperLuxeWeight(grams) 295g

This reader brings together 35 seminal articles that reflect the museum world's ongoing conversation with itself and the public about what it means to be a museum-one that is relevant and responsive to its constituents and always examining and...

The rise of Trumpism and the Covid-19 pandemic have galvanized debates about globalization. Eric D. Larson presents a timely look at the last time the concept spurred unruly agitation: the late twentieth century. Offering a transnational history of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532651434Author Joel Edward GozaFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

A groundbreaking examination of Saul Alinsky's organizing work as it relates to race. Saul Alinsky is the most famous-even infamous-community organizer in American history. Almost single-handedly, he invented a new political form: community federations,...

With the outbreak of World War II, British Royal Air Force (RAF) officials sought to train aircrews outside of England, safe from enemy attack and poor weather. In the United States six civilian flight schools dedicated themselves to instructing RAF...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626192805Author Andy Peter AntippasFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802124654Author James GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Wendy Kline's lucid cultural history of eugenics in America emphasizes the movement's central, continuing interaction with popular notions of gender and morality. Kline shows how eugenics could seem a viable solution to problems of moral disorder and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436941Author Marc NashFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Lendal PressPublisher Valley Press

In the 1930s swing music was everywhere--on radio, recordings, and in the great ballrooms, hotels, theatres, and clubs. Perhaps at no other time were drummers more central to the sound and spirit of jazz. Benny Goodman showcased Gene Krupa. Jimmy Dorsey...

Volume II surveys the economic history of the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean during the nineteenth century, a period of massive international and intercontinental movements of labor, capital, and commodities. The United States and Canada began...

The Devil's Dominion examines the use of folk magic by ordinary men and women in early New England. The book describes in vivid detail the magical techniques used by settlers and the assumptions which underlaid them. Godbeer argues that layfolk were...

This valuable book provides a succinct, readable account of an oft-neglected topic in the historiography of the American Revolution: the role of Native Americans in the Revolution's outbreak, progress, and conclusion. There has not been an...

From the first large-scale Viet Minh offensive against the French in 1950, to the fall of Saigon in 1975, the United States tried desperately to understand the nature of the fierce Communist-led struggle to create a unified, independent Vietnam. American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467149198Author Matthew VanackerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610359917Author Stephen H ProvostFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Linden Publishing Co IncPublisher Linden Publishing Co Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062310194Author Ken AdelmanFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Broadside BooksPublisher Broadside BooksWeight(grams) 454g

At the crux of America's history stand two astounding events: the immediate and complete destruction of the most powerful system of slavery in the modern world, followed by a political reconstruction in which new constitutions established the fundamental...

JFK had won the Presidency in 1960 by a razor thin majority, and his re-election campaign for 1964 was expected to be as close. He began it in November 1963 with a kick-off multi-city, four-day swing across the important state of Texas. It was going...

A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr. Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business-from vaudeville to...

A vital reminder of the importance of academic freedom, Threatening Anthropology offers a meticulously detailed account of how U.S. Cold War surveillance damaged the field of anthropology. David H. Price reveals how dozens of activist anthropologists...

Muslims began arriving in the New World long before the rise of the Atlantic slave trade. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri's fascinating book traces the history of Muslims in the United States and their different waves of immigration and conversion across five...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Who are the dominant owners of U.S. public debt? Is it widely held, or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806321202Author Ellen T BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Genealogical Publishing CompanyPublisher Genealogical Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Moving between Britain and Jamaica this book reconstructs the world of commerce, consumption and cultivation sustained through an extended engagement with the business of slavery. Transatlantic slavery was both shaping of and shaped by the dynamic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684859798Author Douglas Southall FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 910Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1143g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809038169Author Andrea ToneFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Ever since introducing the concept in the late 1980s, historians have been debating the origins, nature, scope, and limitations of the New Deal order-the combination of ideas, electoral and governing strategies, redistributive social policies, and full...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767926195Author Richard ZacksFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 410gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants has been at the core of the American narrative. But in 1924, Congress instituted a law that choked off large-scale immigration for decades, sharply curtailing arrivals from southern and eastern...

This book deals with the evangelical roots of the proslavery argument. In the colonial and antebellum South, black and white evangelicals frequently prayed, sang, and worshipped together. Even though white evangelicals claimed spiritual fellowship with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944383667Author Bob AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint High Lonesome BooksPublisher High Lonesome BooksWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 230mm...

During the run-up to the 1888 presidential election, Americans flocked to party rallies, marched in endless parades, and otherwise participated zealously in the political process. Although they faced a choice between two uncharismatic candidates -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802580747Author Jane SimmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg LimitedDimensions(mm) 250mm * 250mm * 10mm

The most enigmatic of the associates of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, Confederate soldier Lewis Thornton Powell, using the alias Lewis Paine, was a key player in the postwar attempt to undermine the Federal government. On the night Lincoln was...

Owning Ideas is a comprehensive account of the emergence of the concept of intellectual property in the United States during the long nineteenth century. In the modern information era, intellectual property has become a central economic and cultural...

On a Sunday morning in early 1892, Reverend Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst ascended to his pulpit at the Madison Square Presbyterian Church in New York and delivered one of the most explosive sermons in the city's history. Municipal life, he charged, was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorGary Mormino, Duckwall Professor of History at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, is the coauthor of The Immigrant World of Ybor City: Italians and...

The tragic and fascinating history of the first epic struggle between white settlers and Native Americans in the early seventeenth century: "a riveting historical validation of emancipatory impulses frustrated in their own time" (Booklist, starred...