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Offers a complete picture of planned social housing in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Based on the intelligent conception of the social use of land, government-directed programs of securing available land and dividing large properties into small independent and semiindependent farms are reestablishing the man on the soil. Originally published in 1940.

In all countries at all times the beggar has been a familiar figure - sometimes reverenced, sometimes despised, protected yet outlawed. Gilmore begins his study of the beggar of modern times by outlining the beggar's family tree. His discussion encompasses the whole life history of the various sorts of beggars. Originally published in 1940.

Ofers factual study of the independent commissions of the US federal government. Doyle presents working materials for a detailed analysis of these commissions and makes recommendations for procuring more effective administration techniques, but he stresses particularly the necessity for intelligent experimentation with such techniques. Originally published in 1939.

International customary law prescribes a minimum standard of treatment with which all nations must accord. Based on a first-hand examination of original sources, this survey shows that, while the United States has carefully maintained its sovereign right to control and limit the immigration of aliens, it has been very generous to those within its gates. Originally published in 1940.

The author's wide travel in the Orient and her study of all available resources have combined to produce the three fascinating stories told here-the lives of three oriental geniuses: Shah Jahan, artist-emperor of India; Chien Lung, Manchu emperor of China; and Hideyoshi, a delightful parvenu and unselfish patriot of Japan. Originally published in 1930.

Seemingly this great Quaker propagandist of freedom has been buried in the cloud of his late years; we have the poet but have lost the man. Bennett believes we can have both if we will forget the image of the white-bearded patriarch who wrote "Snow-Bound" and will turn to the young crusader who poured forth freedom verse and prose through three decades. Originally published in 1941.

Grabo, while not attempting to explain Prometheus Unbound entirely in terms of science, shows the extent to which Shelley used the science of his day, particularly the phenomenon of light and electricity, in his greatest poem. Far from belittling Shelley's creative imagination, this aspect seems to reveal greater reach and profundity. Originally published in 1930.

Illustrates how the muse of Italian Renaissance literature wandered over Western Europe, inspiring the best of writers, including Ronsard, Lopez Pinciano, Burton, Marheurite de Navarre, Desportes, and indeed, even down to such modern writers as Rilke.

Offering a sweeping view of the National Council of Negro Women's (NCNW) behind-the-scenes efforts to fight racism, poverty, and sexism in the late twentieth century, Rebecca Tuuri examines how the group teamed with US presidents, foundations, and grassroots activists alike to implement a number of important domestic development and international aid projects.

In documenting how blackness became a marker of criminality that overrode the potential protections the status of "child" could have bestowed, Tera Eva Agyepong shows the entanglements between race and the state's transition to a more punitive form of juvenile justice. This important study expands the narrative of racialized criminalization in America.

What can local histories of interracial conflict and collaboration teach us about the potential for urban equity and social justice? This study chronicles the politics of gentrification and culture-based development in Chattanooga, by tracing the roots of racism, segregation, and mainstream "cosmopolitanism" to the earliest encounters between the Cherokee, African Americans, and white settlers.

With this book, Judith Giesberg has written the first serious study of the erotica and pornography that nineteenth-century American soldiers read and shared and links them to the post-US Civil War reaction to pornography and to debates about the future of sex and marriage.

In late-nineteenth-century Boston, battles over black party loyalty were fights over the place of African Americans in the post-Civil War nation. In his fresh in-depth study of black partisanship and politics, Millington Bergeson-Lockwood demonstrates that party politics became the terrain upon which black Bostonians tested the promise of equality in America's democracy.

This is the first critical history of Christian Reconstruction and its founder and champion, theologian and activist Rousas John Rushdoony (19162001). Drawing on exclusive access to Rushdoony's personal papers and extensive correspondence, Michael J. McVicar demonstrates the considerable role Reconstructionism played in the development of the radical Christian Right and an American theocratic agenda. As a religious movement, Reconstructionism aims at nothing less than "e;reconstructing"e; individuals through a form of Christian governance that, if implemented in the lives of U.S. citizens, would fundamentally alter the shape of American society.McVicar examines Rushdoony's career and traces Reconstructionism as it grew from a grassroots, populist movement in the 1960s to its height of popularity in the 1970s and 1980s. He reveals the movement's galvanizing role in the development of political conspiracy theories and survivalism, libertarianism and antistatism, and educational reform and homeschooling. The book demonstrates how these issues have retained and in many cases gained potency for conservative Christians to the present day, despite the decline of the movement itself beginning in the 1990s. McVicar contends that Christian Reconstruction has contributed significantly to how certain forms of religiosity have become central, and now familiar, aspects of an often controversial conservative revolution in America.

In early twentieth-century America, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing in resorts and national parks. Yet the rich and the privileged were not the only ones who sought respite in nature. In this pathbreaking book, historian Colin Fisher demonstrates that working-class white immigrants and African Americans in rapidly industrializing Chicago also fled the urban environment during their scarce leisure time. If they had the means, they traveled to wilderness parks just past the city limits as well as to rural resorts in Wisconsin and Michigan. But lacking time and money, they most often sought out nature within the city itself--at urban parks and commercial groves, along the Lake Michigan shore, even in vacant lots. Chicagoans enjoyed a variety of outdoor recreational activities in these green spaces, and they used them to forge ethnic and working-class community. While narrating a crucial era in the history of Chicago's urban development, Fisher makes important interventions in debates about working-class leisure, the history of urban parks, environmental justice, the African American experience, immigration history, and the cultural history of nature.

In this examination of Union and Confederate foreign relations during the Civil War from both European and American perspectives, Howard Jones demonstrates that the consequences of the conflict between North and South reached far beyond American soil. Jones explores a number of themes, including the international economic and political dimensions of the war, the North's attempts to block the South from winning foreign recognition as a nation, Napoleon III's meddling in the war and his attempt to restore French power in the New World, and the inability of Europeans to understand the interrelated nature of slavery and union, resulting in their tendency to interpret the war as a senseless struggle between a South too large and populous to have its independence denied and a North too obstinate to give up on the preservation of the Union. Most of all, Jones explores the horrible nature of a war that attracted outside involvement as much as it repelled it. Written in a narrative style that relates the story as its participants saw it play out around them, Blue and Gray Diplomacy depicts the complex set of problems faced by policy makers from Richmond and Washington to London, Paris, and St. Petersburg.

While slavery is often at the heart of debates over the causes of the Civil War, historians are not agreed on precisely what aspect of slavery--with its various social, economic, political, cultural, and moral ramifications--gave rise to the sectional rift. In Calculating the Value of the Union, James Huston integrates economic, social, and political history to argue that the issue of property rights as it pertained to slavery was at the center of the Civil War.In the early years of the nineteenth century, southern slaveholders sought a national definition of property rights that would recognize and protect their ownership of slaves. Northern interests, on the other hand, opposed any national interpretation of property rights because of the threat slavery posed to the northern free labor market, particularly if allowed to spread to western territories. This impasse sparked a process of political realignment that culminated in the creation of the Republican Party, ultimately leading to the secession crisis.Deeply researched and carefully written, this study rebuts recent trends in antebellum historiography and persuasively argues for a fundamentally economic interpretation of the slavery issue and the coming of the Civil War.

Provides the background necessary for fully understanding the nearly one thousand poems of Hardy. As it treats the poems individually and often supplements the analysis of a poem by relating it to other poems and to passages in the fiction, every comment helps build a portrait of Hardy as a poet. Originally published in 1970.

This biography of William Plumer - New Hampshire lawyer, politician, senator, and governor - furnishes unique insight into state, local, and national politics in the formative period of party development. Plumer was an important participant in the American political scene for forty years. Originally published in 1962.

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Allen Steinberg brings to life the court-centred criminal justice system of nineteenth-century Philadelphia, chronicles its eclipse, and contrasts it to the system - dominated by the police and public prosecutor - that replaced it. He offers a major reinterpretation of criminal justice in nineteenth-century America by examining this transformation from private to state prosecution.

The author develops practical methods of determining the reading interests of children and gives the results of records collected in libraries and schools. Originally published in 1926.

A comprehensive analysis of American foreign policy and Mussolini's Italy. Schmitz argues that the US desire for order, interest in Open Door trade, and concern about left-wing revolution led American policymakers to welcome Mussolini's coming to power and to support fascism in Italy for most of the interwar period.

Fraden explores artist Rhodessa Jones's theater work with incarcerated women, known as the Medea Project. Balancing narrative and commentary, Fraden chronicles the process of turning the inmates' personal stories into public performance and investigates the possibilities for communication and social change of such combinations of art and activism.

Studies the relations between Nazi Germany and the German minority populations of other European countries, examining these ties within the context of Hitler's foreign policy and the racial policies of SS Chief Heinrich Himmler. Lumans shows how the Reich's racial and political interests in these German minorities between helped determine its behaviour toward neighbouring states.

In the isolated North Carolina mountains, old-timers relive their lives in bits and pieces. Lauterer introduces thirty-five mountain folk whose memories and experiences bridge two centuries, a generation whose moral values and skills are fast becoming obsolete, a people who give the South and America its deeply rooted heritage. Originally published in 1980.

This book is the fruit of the first systematic attempt to explore the role of state governments in the scientific effort of the US. The author presents the activities of six state governments--California, Connecticut, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, and Wisconsin.