Step inside Mapperton with Julie Montagu, Countess of Sandwich as she reveals the realities of running an English country estate and the secrets hidden behind its historic doors.
Theodore Parker (18101860) was a powerful preacher who rejected the authority of the Bible and of Jesus, a brilliant scholar who became a popular agitator for the abolition of slavery and for womens rights, and a political theorist who defined democracy as government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people words that inspired Abraham Lincoln.
With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class.
To most Americans, baseball is just a sport; but to those who own baseball teams and those who play on them our national pastime is much more than a game.
Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the Appalachian past.
In May 1914, workers walked off their jobs at Atlantas Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, launching a lengthy strike that was at the heart of the American Federation of Labors first major attempt to organize southern workers in over a decade.
This study of banana contract farming in the Eastern Caribbean explores the forces that shape contract-farming enterprises everywhere capital, the state, and the environment.
For more than thirty years, the architectural research department at Colonial Williamsburg has engaged in comprehensive study of early buildings, landscapes, and social history in the Chesapeake region.
In a provocative assessment of American poverty and policy from 1950 to the present, Frank Stricker examines an era that has seen serious discussion about the causes of poverty and unemployment.
Challenging conventional constructions of the Harlem Renaissance and American modernism, Daylanne English links writers from both movements to debates about eugenics in the Progressive Era.
The first study based on a large national sample of both urban and rural districts examines the Nazi constituency how it was formed, from which social groups, under what conditions, and with what promises.
Latin America and the Global Cold War analyzes more than a dozen of Latin Americas forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world, and by placing the region in meaningful dialogue with the wider Global South, this volume produces the first truly global history of contemporary Latin America.
In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular and largely unexamined idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it.
Nancy Reagin analyzes the rhetoric, strategies, and programs of more than eighty bourgeois womens associations in Hanover, a large provincial capital, from the Imperial period to the Nazi seizure of power.
The North Carolina barrier islands, a 325-mile-long string of narrow sand islands that forms the coast of North Carolina, are one of the most beloved areas to live and visit in the United States.
In this fascinating study of race, politics, and economics in Mississippi, Chris Myers Asch tells the story of two extraordinary personalities - Fannie Lou Hamer and James O.
Facing the harrowing task of rebuilding a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed marriage between Jewish women and military personnel as a way to move forward after unspeakable loss.
Can a man truly understand the soul of the Renaissance without standing upon the very stones where its greatest minds prayed, bled, and were laid to eternal rest?
This book examines the Court Beguinages, a fascinating group of semi-monastic female communities that were endemic to cities of the Southern Low Countries from the thirteenth century into the twentieth.
Decline, Invasion, and Survival follows Egypt through one of the most turbulent periods in its long history, when the power of the New Kingdom faded and the civilization of the pharaohs was forced to confront economic crisis, political division, foreign dynasties, and invasion.
This volume will focus on the products that are the most closely associated with pharmacy and on their commodification during the course of the century.
Innovative field work reveals how infrastructural systems-buildings, laws, algorithms, excavators, regulations, toxins-maintain white supremacy within the urban landscape For decades, Detroit residents, politicians, planners, and advocacy organizations have campaigned for the elimination of empty buildings from city neighborhoods.
