Bücher von Eric Leif Davin

This is an overview of the impact of the Industrial Revolution and corporate capitalism on the development of the American working class over the course of the nineteenth century. America went from farms to factories, and most Americans went from economic independence to wage dependency.

They wanted to leave Amerika behind. But Amerika wouldn't let them.

This book is meant as a general introduction, a short guide, for everyone, to the work of significant women's historians concerning some of the major questions in the field. Thus, this is not a book for specialists. Rather, it is a book for the non-specialist who simply wants to understand what women's history is all about.

The transition from medieval feudalism to the modern capitalist world -- like that from ancient slavery to feudalism itself -- is considered to be one of the major historical transitions of humanity. The most common explanations for this passage, however, suffer from being more descriptions for this passage than actual explanations for it. This book offers a more acceptable explanation for this passage: The secularization of the Peace of God movement of the early eleventh century.

Eric Leif Davin was a draft resister during the Vietnam War. Drafted for the war, he refused to be drafted. This is his account of his life in the theater at Harvard, working in the Free School Movement, running for School Committee in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and surviving personally and politically in the swirling chaos of that era.

Award-winning fantasy & science fiction stories from "Galaxy's Edge," "The Fantastic Civil War," "Fantasy Book," "Far Frontiers," "Niekas," "Space & Time," "Triangulation," as well as theme and "Year's Best" anthologies from major publishers. Includes two poems and 24 stories.

Deputy Dawg was a member of the STP Family, an informal counter-cultural group of street people in Boulder, Colorado in the 1970s. On the night of July 17, 1971, the Town Marshal of nearby Nederland, Colorado, arrested him and drove him to a dark and desolate mountain road. There the Town Marshal shot him in the head and left his body hidden in roadside bushes. This is the true story of that murder and its long aftermath.

The Paterson Silk Strike of 1913 was a major struggle in the history of American labor. Over 25,000 Italian and Jewish workers shut down Paterson's 300 silk mills and dye houses for almost five months over the issue of workers' control of the rate of production. It was the biggest strike in Paterson's history. Workers overcame their differences in craft, nationality, and gender; and their democratic self-organization became a school in self-management. The workers invited the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) to aid them. The IWW included a stress on the active role of workers in the strike and this revolutionary vision of workers' control reached its fullest expression in the Paterson Strike Pageant performed by the workers themselves in Madison Square Garden. This was a revolutionary innovation in theater and labor struggles which remains an inspiration to labor and the Left.

Anne Bonney had sworn eternal vengeance against the British Empire, which had sent a fleet to destroy her. But would the vampire in her own crew be more dangerous?

In the 1930s, ordinary people moved to create grassroots political movements which saved their communities. This is the story of how they did this in one New Hampshire town. It remains an inspiration to us all.

The infamous pirate Blackbeard made a pact with Satan to turn pirates into zombies and unleash the demons of Hell on the world. Only the pirate Captain Bartholomew Roberts and the beautiful pirate Anne Bonny can stop him and his demon hordes at the very mouth of Hell.

The Great Strike of 1877 was the largest labor upheaval on Earth for the entire century between the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the beginning of the Great War in 1914. For two weeks America burned. This is that story.

Radicals in Power examines the unexplored history of the Sixties and the New Left. Based on interviews with the elected New Left radicals in each of their cities, author Eric Leif Davin details the birth and evolution of a local and regional progressive politics that has, heretofore, been overlooked.