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History And The New Left - Madison, Wisconsin, 1950-1970

de Paul Buhle

~~33,79€~~ 27,03€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Madison, Wisconsin has long been known as a dynamic cultural center and focus of political-intellectual ferment in the middle of America. This collection of essays and interviews traces the rise of an intellectual New Left from 1950 to 1970 as experienced by activists and scholars with ties to the University of Wisconsin.
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World Sixties Made - Politics And Culture In Recent America

de Van Gosse

~~41,01€~~ 32,81€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Traces the ways in which US culture and politics continue to be shaped by the legacy of the New Left's social movements, from feminism to gay liberation to black power. This work demonstrates that the America that emerged in the 1970s was a nation profoundly, even radically democratized.
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Transcommunality - From The Politics Of Conversion

de John Brown Childs

~~38,36€~~ 30,69€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 In an age of fractured identities and a world that is moving toward a global community, this book offers a way of imagining the world where community and individual identity may not only coexist, but also depend upon the other to the benefit of both.
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New Left Revisited

de John Mcmillian

~~44,98€~~ 35,98€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Starting with the premise that it is possible to say something significantly new about the 1960s and the New Left, this title features contributors who trace the social roots, the various paths, and the legacies of the movement that set out to change America. It is suitable for seasoned scholars as well as students of the 1960s.
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Story Of Reo Joe - Work, Kin, And Community

de Lisa Fine

~~41,01€~~ 32,81€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 The Reo Motor Car Company operated in Lansing, Michigan, for seventy years, and encouraged its thousands of workers to think of themselves as part of a factory family. This book tells the Reo story from the workers' perspective on the vast social, economic, and political changes that took place in the first three quarters of the twentieth century.
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Zora Neale Hurston - And A History Of Southern Life

de Tiffany Ruby Patterson

~~41,01€~~ 32,81€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Zora Neale Hurston's ethnographies, plays, and fiction focused on the day-to-day life in all-black social spaces and 'the Negro farthest down' in labor camps. This book shows how Hurston's work coincides with the historical record to demonstrate the extent to which folklore and stories provide an account of Black folk as active human subjects.
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Oral History And Public Memories

~~47,63€~~ 38,10€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Explores the relationship between the well-established practice of oral history and the burgeoning field of memory studies. This work explains the processes by which oral histories move beyond interviews with individual people to become articulated memories shared by others.
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Descent Into Discourse - The Reification Of Language And The Writing Of Social History

de Bryan Palmer

~~37,03€~~ 29,62€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Focusing on the ways in which literary or critical theory is being promoted within the field of social history, this book argues that the reliance on poststructuralism with its reification of discourse and avoidance of the structures of oppression and struggles of resistance obscures the origins and consequences of historical events and processes.
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Life In The Struggle - Ivory Perry And The Culture Of Opposition

de George Lipsitz

~~43,66€~~ 34,93€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 The life story of a grassroots, civil rights activist
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Striking Steel

de Jack Metzgar

~~43,66€~~ 34,93€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Combining personal memoir and historical narrative, this title argues for a reassessment of unionism in American life during the second half of the twentieth century and a recasting of "official memory." It traces the history of union steelworkers after World War II.
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Seeing New York - History Walks For Armchair And Footloose Travelers

de Hope Cooke

~~42,33€~~ 33,86€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Starting with the American Indian settlements and the early days when the southern-most tip of Manhattan held little more than a bleak outpost of Dutch fur traders, this title tracks the economic development and journeys north, from the Village's beginnings as a refuge from dreaded summer fevers to the Dominican enclave of Washington Heights.
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Rethinking The Cold War

de Allen Hunter

~~48,96€~~ 39,17€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 The end of the Cold War should have been an occasion to reassess its origins, history, significance, and consequences. This book is a collection of essays that offers a complex and nuanced analysis of Cold War history. It widens the discussion of the Cold War's place in post-war history and intellectual life.
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Becoming American Becoming Ethnic

de Thomas Dublin

~~44,98€~~ 35,98€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 More than at any time since the 1920's the issues of immigration and ethnicity have become central to discussions of American society and identity. This book addresses this debate, bringing together essays written by college students, exploring their ethnic roots from the experiences of their forbears to the place of ethnicity in their lives.
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Historical Thinking

de Sam Wineburg

~~41,01€~~ 32,81€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Since ancient times, the pundits have lamented young people's lack of historical knowledge and warned that ignorance of the past surely condemns humanity to repeating its mistakes. This book demolishes the conventional notion that there is one true history and one best way to teach it.
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Essays On Twentieth-Century History

~~55,58€~~ 44,46€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Probing the paradoxes of "the long twentieth century"--from unprecedented human opportunity and deprivation to the rise of the United States as a hegemon
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American History Now

~~50,28€~~ 40,22€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 A new generation of scholars addresses the current themes and questions in interpreting American history
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Baltimore Book - New Views Of Local History

de Linda Shopes

~~47,63€~~ 38,10€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Presents both a history of 'the other Baltimore' and a tour guidance to places in the city that are important to labor, African American, and women's history. Based on a popular local bus tour conducted by public historians, the People's History Tour of Baltimore, that began in 1982, this book records and adds sites to that tour.
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Historical Thinking - Charting The Future Of Teaching The Past

de Sam Wineburg

~~36,49€~~ 29,19€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Since ancient times, the pundits have lamented young people's lack of historical knowledge and warned that ignorance of the past surely condemns humanity to repeating its mistakes. This book demolishes the conventional notion that there is one true history and one best way to teach it.
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Zora Neale Hurston - And A History Of Southern Life

de Tiffany Ruby Patterson

~~32,43€~~ 25,94€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Zora Neale Hurston's ethnographies, plays, and fiction focused on the day-to-day life in all-black social spaces and 'the Negro farthest down' in labor camps. This book shows how Hurston's work coincides with the historical record to demonstrate the extent to which folklore and stories provide an account of Black folk as active human subjects.
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Story Of Reo Joe - Work, Kin, And Community

de Lisa Fine

~~32,43€~~ 25,94€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 The Reo Motor Car Company operated in Lansing, Michigan, for seventy years, and encouraged its thousands of workers to think of themselves as part of a factory family. This book tells the Reo story from the workers' perspective on the vast social, economic, and political changes that took place in the first three quarters of the twentieth century.
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The Risk Society Revisited - Social Theory And Risk Governance

de Aaron Mccright e Ortwin Renn

~~32,43€~~ 25,94€ 20% IMEDIATO

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A Traveller'S History Of Paris

de Robert Cole; Ilustração: John Hoste

11,32€

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 Packed with fact, anecdote, and insight, A Traveller's History of Paris offers a complete history of Paris and the people who have shaped its destiny, from its earliest settlement as the Roman village of Lutetia Parisiorum to 20 centuries later when Paris is a city of well over two million.
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Shattering The Stereotypes - Muslim Women Speak Out

16,47€

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Political Woman: Florence

de Sharon Strom

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 Florence Hope Luscomb's life spanned nearly all of the twentieth century. Born into a remarkable family of abolitionists and progressive thinkers, Florence accompanied her feminist mother to lectures and political rallies. This biography presents her story against the backdrop of Boston politics and larger struggles for social justice.
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