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The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile StrikeThis book tells the story of 15,000 wool workers who went on strike for more than a year, defying police violence and hunger. The strikers were mainly immigrants and half were women. The Passaic textile strike, the first time that the Communist Party led...
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Second WaveThough it had helped define the New South era, the first wave of regional industrialization had clearly lost momentum even before the Great Depression. These nine original case studies look at how World War II and its aftermath transformed the economy, culture, and politics...
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Baltimore '68: Riots and Rebirth in an American CityThe first comprehensive study of one city, Baltimore, forty years after the unrest that swept across some 120 U.S. cities.Author: Jessica Elfenbein, Elizabeth NixPublisher: Temple University PressPublished: 06/17/2011Pages: 294Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70dISBN: 9781439906620This title is only available via back...
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The Nashville WayAmong Nashville's many slogans, the one that best reflects its emphasis on manners and decorum is the Nashville Way, a phrase coined by boosters to tout what they viewed as the city's amicable race relations. Benjamin Houston offers the first scholarly book on the...
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What Virtue There Is in Fire: Cultural Memory and the Lynching of Sam HoseThe 1899 lynching of Sam Hose in Newnan, Georgia, was one of the earliest and most gruesome events in a tragic chapter of U.S. history. Hose was a black laborer accused of killing Alfred Cranford, a white farmer, and raping his wife. The national...
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On Slavery's Border: Missouri's Small-Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865On Slavery's Border is a bottom-up examination of how slavery and slaveholding were influenced by both the geography and the scale of the slaveholding enterprise. Missouri's strategic access to important waterways made it a key site at the periphery of the Atlantic world. By...
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The Croom Family and Goodwood Plantation: Land, Litigation, and Southern LivesOne of the most elegant mansions in Florida, Goodwood was built over a century ago and stands today as one of Tallahassee's grandest historical monuments. It was once the center of a thriving plantation founded by the Croom family of North Carolina, who in...
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Letters of Robert MacKay to His WifePublished in 1949, this selection of letters between Robert Mackay, and his wife, Eliza Anne Mackay, provide unique insight into the life of a southern merchant during the early part of the nineteenth century. The Mackay's correspondence covers business, friendships, social life, and family,...
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Georgia's Last Frontier: The Development of Caroll CountyPublished in 1971, Georgia's Last Frontier presents the history of one of the state's least developed regions. During the 1830s, Carroll County was a large part of Georgia's most rugged frontier. James C. Bonner examines how life in this isolated region was complicated by...
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Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern CourtroomThis groundbreaking study of the law and culture of slavery in the antebellum Deep South takes readers into local courtrooms where people settled their civil disputes over property. Buyers sued sellers for breach of warranty when they considered slaves to be physically or morally...
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Victory at HomeVictory at Home is at once an institutional history of the federal War Manpower Commission and a social history of the southern labor force within the commission's province. Charles D. Chamberlain explores how southern working families used America's rapid wartime industrialization and an expanded...
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Living Atlanta: An Oral History of the City, 1914-1948From the memories of everyday experience, "Living Atlanta" vividly recreates life in the city during the three decades from World War I through World War II--a period in which a small, regional capital became a center of industry, education, finance, commerce, and travel. This...
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Up Against the Law: Radical Lawyers and Social Movements, 1960s-1970sAs protest movements took to the streets during the 1960s and 1970s, a group of lawyers joined forces with America's most confrontational activists. In pursuit of radical change themselves, these militant attorneys went beyond providing mere representation. They identified with their clients, defied the...
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The Struggle for Iran: Oil, Autocracy, and the Cold War, 1951-1954Beginning with the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry in spring 1951 and ending with its reversal following the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq in August 1953, the Iranian oil crisis was a crucial turning point in the global Cold War. The nationalization...
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Cherokee Civil Warrior: Chief John Ross and the Struggle for Tribal SovereigntyFor the Cherokee Nation, the Civil War was more than a contest between the Union and the Confederacy. It was yet another battle in the larger struggle against multiple white governments for land and tribal sovereignty. Cherokee Civil Warrior tells the story of Chief...
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African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah GeecheeThe lush landscape and subtropical climate of the Georgia coast only enhance the air of mystery enveloping some of its inhabitants--people who owe, in some ways, as much to Africa as to America. As the ten previously unpublished essays in this volume examine various...
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The Puerto Rican Problem in Postwar New York City: Migrant Incorporation from the U.S. Colonial PeripheryThe "Puerto-Rican Problem" in Postwar New York City presents the first comprehensive examination of the emergence, evolution, and consequences of the "Puerto Rican problem" campaign and narrative in New York City from 1945 to 1960. This notion originated in an intense public campaign that...
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Historical Fencing Manual: Rapier-Fencing in the 17th and 18th CenturiesModern fencing's origins come from the elegant, and deadly rapier of the late Italian Renaissance. Several schools of rapier fencing existed, amongst which one of the strongest and longest lasting was the Roman-Neapolitan-Sicilian School of swordsmanship (Scuola Romana-Napoletana-Siciliana). Arising from the early, northern school,...
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Nixon's War at Home: The Fbi, Leftist Guerrillas, and the Origins of CounterterrorismDuring the presidency of Richard Nixon, homegrown leftist guerrilla groups like the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army carried out hundreds of attacks in the United States. The FBI had a long history of infiltrating activist groups, but this type of clandestine action...
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The Lost Soul of the American Presidency: The Decline Into Demagoguery and the Prospects for RenewalThe American presidency is not what it once was. Nor, Stephen F. Knott contends, what it was meant to be. Taking on an issue as timely as Donald Trump's latest tweet and old as the American republic, the distinguished presidential scholar documents the devolution...
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