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The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This collection of essays by leading American historians explains how and why the fight against unionism has long been central to the meaning of contemporary conservatism.
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Taming Lust: Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This fascinating history examines the circumstances of two elderly New Englanders who were prosecuted and sentenced to death for bestiality at the... Læs mere
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Rum Punch and Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Opinionated and profoundly undeferential, taverngoers did more than drink; they forced their political leaders to consider whether and how public opinion could be represented in the counsels of a newly independent nation.
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Printers and Men of Capital: Philadelphia Book Publishers in the New Republic (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)"Through richly detailed accounts of individual entrepreneurs, including the prominent printer-publisher Mathew Carey, Remer reveals the economic logic behind this distinctive book trade."-The Book
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An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign Against the Peoples of Acadia (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)"Ultimately, the story of Nova Scotia's violent integration into the British system offers a case study in the limits of voluntarism in the ramshackle empire that preceded the Seven Years' War."-William and Mary Quarterly
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Paris in the Middle Ages (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Centering on the streets of this metropolis, Simone Roux peers into the secret lives of people within their homes and the public world of affairs and entertainments, populating the book with laborers, shop keepers, magistrates, thieves, and strollers.
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The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Focusing on the fate of the federal Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, this comprehensive history of the thirty year war over welfare shows how stubborn allegiance to the male-headed household undermined the struggle for economic justice.
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The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)The Ties That Buy traces the lives of black and white women in early America to reveal how they used residence, work, credit, and money to shape consumer culture precisely at a time when the politics of the marketplace gained national significance.
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Science in the Service of Human Rights (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Science in the Service of Human Rights presents a framework for debate on controversial questions surrounding scientific freedom and responsibility by illuminating the many critical points of intersection between human rights and science.
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Zamumo's Gifts: Indian-European Exchange in the Colonial Southeast (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Zamumo's Gifts traces the evolution of Indian-European exchange, from gift giving as a diplomatic tool to the trade of commodities that bound colonists and Natives in commercial relations.
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Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Scholars investigate sound as part of the social construction of historical experience and as an element of the sensory relationship people have to the world, showing how hearing and listening can inform people's feelings, ideas, decisions, and actions.
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Why Don't American Cities Burn? (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Urban historian Michael B. Katz traces the collision of urban transformation with the rightward-moving social politics of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America.
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