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American urban ruins have become increasingly prominent, whether in debates about home foreclosures, images of 9/11, or postapocalyptic... Læs mere
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By the middle of the nineteenth century, the public had had enough of sex and death. This title offers a new way to understand sensationalism in both newspapers and reform movements.
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Before publishing his book How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis (1849-1914) spent his first years in the US as... Læs mere
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In the early years of aviation, there was an intense dispute between British and German experts over the question of why and how an aircraft wing provides lift. This title reveals the impact that the divergent mathematical traditions of Cambridge and Gottingen had on this debate.
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Exploring the origins of welfare in the context of local politics, this book examines the first welfare policy created specifically for mother-only families in Chicago in 1911. This revealing study shows how assumptions about women's roles have historically shaped public policy.
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Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the technologies began to light up streets, sidewalks, buildings, and... Læs mere
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The housing market crash shattered Americans' boundless faith in home ownership. This title tells a history of... Læs mere
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Reveals that the globalization of American mass culture that seems unstoppable today began as early as the mid-nineteenth century. This... Læs mere
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A reevaluation of an infamous Supreme Court decision that provides a compelling survey of the history and background of... Læs mere
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Germany's overseas colonial empire was relatively short-lived, lasting from 1884 to 1918. During... Læs mere
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From its appearance as a 'fashionable dissipation' centered on the immigrant and working-class districts of 1880s New York through its spread to Chicago and into the 1930s nightspots frequented by lesbians and gay men, this book charts the development of slumming.