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A not-So-New World: Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Exploring the moment in which settlers, missionaries, merchants, and administrators believed in their ability to shape the... Læs mere
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Beggar Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury and Debt (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)From the Roman Empire to the most recent financial crisis, this comprehensive economic history examines humanity's attempts to curb the abuse of debt while reaping the benefits of credit.
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Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right chronicles how the family values agenda became so powerful in American political life and why it appealed to conservative evangelical Christians.
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Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Offering a groundbreaking account of the inner workings of the "arsenal of democracy," Destructive Creation suggests how the struggle to define its heroes and villains has continued to shape economic and political development to the present day.
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Vodun: Secrecy and the Search for Divine Power (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Highlighting the ways in which racialization, power, and the legacy of colonialism affect the procurement and transmission of secret knowledge in West Africa and beyond, Landry demonstrates how, paradoxically, secrecy is critically important to Vodun's global expansion.
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Toppling Foreign Governments: The Logic of Regime Change (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)In Toppling Foreign Governments, Melissa Willard-Foster argues that as long as domestic opposition drives leaders to resist the demands of stronger states, the strong are likely to opt for regime change, seeing it as more cost effective than negotiations.
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Mexico's Human Rights Crisis (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Mexico's Human Rights Crisis offers a broad survey of the human rights issues that plague Mexico. Impunity, contributors argue, is the root cause of a climate of generalized violence that is carried out, condoned, or ignored by the state and precludes any hope for justice.
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In the Heat of the Summer: The New York Riots of 1964 and the War on Crime (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)In Central Harlem, the symbolic and historic heart of black America, the violent unrest of July 1964 highlighted a new dynamic in the racial politics of the nation. The first "long, hot summer" of the Sixties had arrived.
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Liberty's Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Liberty's Prisoners chronicles how the penitentiary, though initially designed as an alternative to corporal punishment for the most egregious of offenders, quickly became a holding tank for those who attempted to lay claim to the new nation's promise of liberty.
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From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Richly illustrated with archival photos, this comprehensive study of the American department store industry traces the changing economic and political contexts that brought about the decline of downtown shopping districts and the rise of big-box stores and suburban malls.
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Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)In 1964, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act outlawed workplace sex discrimination, but its practical meaning was uncertain. Equality on... Læs mere
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Becoming Jane Jacobs (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)In Becoming Jane Jacobs, an intellectual biography of the great urbanist, Peter L. Laurence asserts that The Death and Life of Great American Cities was not the spontaneous epiphany... Læs mere
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