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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
Stephanie Coontz · Basic Civitas Books
Pages: 576
Format: Print book
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Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the 'male breadwinner marriage' is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault were far higher in the 1970s than they are today. In The Way We Never Were, acclaimed historian... |
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Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
STEVEN STOLL · Hill and Wang
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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How the United States underdeveloped AppalachiaAppalachia -- among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America -- has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original... |
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Curse on This Country: The Rebellious Army of Imperial Japan
Danny Orbach · Cornell University Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Imperial Japanese soldiers were notorious for blindly following orders, and their enemies in the Pacific War derided them as "cattle to the slaughter." But, in fact, the Japanese Army had a long history as one of the most disobedient armies in the world. Officers repeatedly staged... |
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Madison's Music: On Reading the First Amendment
Burt Neuborne · The New Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Are you sitting down? It turns out that everything you learned about the First Amendment is wrong. For too long, weve been treating small, isolated snippets of the text as infallible gospel without looking at the masterpiece of the whole. Legal luminary Burt Neuborne argues that the structure... |
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World To Come: The Baltimore Uprising, Militant Racism, and History
Katherine Bankole-Medina · Liberated Scholars Associated Press in partnership with A P Foundation Press
Pages: 450
Format: Print book
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This essay collection, World to Come: Essays on the Baltimore Uprising, Militant Racism, and History, addresses the 2015 Baltimore protests and riots over the death of Freddie Gray. The main purpose of this compilation is to critically explore the historical moment surrounding the 2015... |
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Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development
Sven Beckert · University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages: 406
Format: Print book
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During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's... |
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Masao: A Nisei Soldier's Secret and Heroic Role in World War II
Sandra Vea · Dma Books
Pages: 345
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He couldn't speak of his secret role in World War II for thirty years after the war ended. Now in his nineties, the elderly soldier narrates his unique and untold story about World War II and it changes the interviewer's life forever. In 1941, Masao was drafted in the U.S. Army... |
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Critical Practice: Artists, museums, ethics
Janet Marstine · Routledge
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover
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Critical Practice is an ambitious work that blurs the boundaries between art history, museum studies, political science and applied ethics. Marstine demonstrates how convergences between institutional critique and socially engaged practice, as represented by the term 'critical practice',... |
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Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz
Omer Bartov · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating and cautionary examination of how genocide can take root at the local level - turning neighbors, friends, and even family members against one another - as seen through the eastern European border town of Buczacz during World War II.For more than four hundred years, the Eastern... |
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The Queen: The Life and Times of Elizabeth II
Catherine Book Sales Chartwell · Chartwell Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II has reigned for 64 years, longer than any British monarch in history. During that time the Queen has endured the ups and downs that long life will bring. She was a beacon of hope during and after the Second World War in difficult times when the world... |
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