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Public Capitalism
The Political Authority of Corporate Executives
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
In modern capitalist societies, the executives of large, profit-seeking corporations have the power to shape the collective life of the communities, local and global, in which they operate. Corporate executives issue directives to employees, who are normally prepared to comply with them, and impose...
Haunted Visions
Spiritualism and American Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Spiritualism emerged in western New York in 1848 and soon achieved a wide following due to its claim that the living could commune with the dead. In Haunted Visions: Spiritualism and American Art, Charles Colbert focuses on the ways Spiritualism imbued the making and viewing of art with religious...
Sound Business
Newspapers, Radio, and the Politics of New Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
American newspapers have faced competition from new media for over ninety years. Today digital media challenge the printed word. In the 1920s, broadcast radio was the threatening upstart. At the time, newspaper publishers of all sizes turned threat into opportunity by establishing their own stations....
Blazing the Neoliberal Trail
Urban Political Development in the United States and the United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
In Blazing the Neoliberal Trail, Timothy Weaver asks how and why urban policy and politics have become dominated, over the past three decades, by promarket thinking. He argues that politicians such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher targeted urban areas as part of their far broader effort to remake...
The Employee
A Political History
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
In the present age of temp work, telecommuting, and outsourcing, millions of workers in the United States find themselves excluded from the category of "employee"—a crucial distinction that would otherwise permit unionization and collective bargaining. Tracing the history of the term since...
Strange Bedfellows
Marriage in the Age of Women's Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
In the inaugural issue of Ms. Magazine, the feminist activist Judy Syfers proclaimed that she "would like a wife," offering a wry critique of the state of marriage in modern America. After all, she observed, a wife could provide Syfers with free childcare and housecleaning services as well...
From Civil Rights to Human Rights
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Martin Luther King, Jr., is widely celebrated as an American civil rights hero. Yet King's nonviolent opposition to racism, militarism, and economic injustice had deeper roots and more radical implications than is commonly appreciated, Thomas F. Jackson argues in this searching reinterpretation of...
by Joshua D. Farrington
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Reflecting on his fifty-year effort to steer the Grand Old Party toward black voters, Memphis power broker George W. Lee declared, "Somebody had to stay in the Republican Party and fight." As Joshua Farrington recounts in his comprehensive history, Lee was one of many black Republican leaders...
The Philanthropic Revolution
An Alternative History of American Charity
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
When we talk about voluntary giving today, we usually prefer the word philanthropy to charity. Why has this terminological shift taken place? What is its philosophical significance? How did philanthropy come to acquire so much prestige—and charity come to seem so old-fashioned? Was this change contested?...
Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster
Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Disasters—natural ones, such as hurricanes, floods, or earthquakes, and unnatural ones such as terrorist attacks—are part of the American experience in the twenty-first century. The challenges of preparing for these events, withstanding their impact, and rebuilding communities afterward require...
An Unsettled Conquest
The British Campaign Against the Peoples of Acadia
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
The former French colony of Acadia—permanently renamed Nova Scotia by the British when they began an ambitious occupation of the territory in 1710—witnessed one of the bitterest struggles in the British empire. Whereas in its other North American colonies Britain assumed it could garner the sympathies...
by Ronald Bruce St John
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Diplomatic relations between the United States and Libya have rarely followed a smooth path. Washington has repeatedly tried and failed to mediate lasting solutions, to prevent recurrent crises, and to secure its own national interests in a region of increasing importance to the United States. Libya...
Bibliography and the Book Trades
Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Hugh Amory (1930-2001) was at once the most rigorous and the most methodologically sophisticated historian of the book in early America. Gathered here are his essays, articles, and lectures on the subject, two of them printed for the first time. An introduction by David D. Hall sets this work in context...
by Mohan Ambikaipaker
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
One evening in 1980, a group of white friends, drinking at the Duke of Edinburgh pub on East Ham High Street, made a monstrous five-pound wager. The first person to kill a "Paki" would win the bet. Ali Akhtar Baig, a young Pakistani student who lived in the east London borough of Newham,...