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American Abyss: Savagery and Civilization in the Age of Industry (Electronic book text, Engelsk)
At the beginning of the twentieth century, industrialization both dramatically altered everyday experiences and shaped debates about the effects of immigration, empire, and urbanization. In American Abyss, Daniel E. Bender examines an array of...
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Slavophile Empire: Imperial Russia's Illiberal Path (Electronic book text, Engelsk)
Engelstein asks how Russia's identity came to be defined in terms of an consensus opposed to Western-style liberalism, examining debates on religion and secularism, the role of culture and the law, and the status of the empire's ethnic peripheries.
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Streetwise for Book Smarts: Grassroots Organizing and Education Reform in the Bronx (Electronic book text, Engelsk)
In Streetwise for Book Smarts, Celina Su examines the efforts of parents and students who sought to improve the quality of education in their local schools by working with grassroots organizations and taking matters into their own hands.
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Digital Dragon: High-Technology Enterprises in China (Electronic book text, Engelsk)
During the economic reforms of the last twenty years, China adopted a wide array of policies designed to raise its technological capability and foster industrial growth. Ideologically, the government would not promote private-ownership firms and...
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War, Revenue, and State Building: Financing the Development of the American State (Electronic book text, Engelsk)
Pollack shows how war, revenue, and institutional development are inextricably linked in the United States, delineating the mechanisms of political development and revealing the ways in which the United States, too, once was a "developing nation."
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Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture (Electronic book text, Engelsk)
In Mapping the Americas, Shari M. Huhndorf tracks changing conceptions of Native culture as it increasingly transcends national boundaries and takes up vital concerns such as global imperialism, and the commodification of indigenous cultures.
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Children Bound to Labor: The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America (Electronic book text, Engelsk)
The history of early America cannot be told without considering unfree labor. At the center of this history are African and Native American adults forced into slavery; the children born to these unfree persons usually inherited their parents' status...
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The Sympathetic Medium: Feminine Channeling, the Occult, and Communication Technologies, 1859-1919 (Electronic book text, Engelsk)
Galvan offers a richly nuanced and culturally grounded analysis of the rise of the female medium in Great Britain and the United States during the Victorian era and through the turn of the century through the work of George Eliot, Bram Stoker, and others.
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"Brown" in Baltimore: School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism (Electronic book text, Engelsk)
In the first book to present the history of Baltimore school desegregation, Howell S. Baum shows how good intentions got stuck on what Gunnar Myrdal called the "American Dilemma." Immediately after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the...
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Caribbean Middlebrow: Leisure Culture and the Middle Class (Electronic book text, Engelsk)
It is commonly assumed that Caribbean culture is split into elite highbrow culture-which is considered derivative of Europe and not rooted in the Caribbean-and authentic working-class culture, which is often identified with such iconic island...
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Streetwise for Book Smarts: Grassroots Organizing and Education Reform in the Bronx (Electronic book text, Engelsk)
In Streetwise for Book Smarts, Celina Su examines the efforts of parents and students who sought to improve the quality of education in their local schools by working with grassroots organizations and taking matters into their own hands.
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Reforming Urban Labor: Routes to the City, Roots in the Country (Electronic book text, Engelsk)
Reforming Urban Labor is a history of the nineteenth-century social reforms designed by middle-class progressives to domesticate the labor force, comparing the experiences of London and Brussels.
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