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As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migrants, the city became a center of consumer capitalism. This work argues that this mass consumer marketplace generated a vibrant intellectual life and planted seeds of political dissent against the dehumanizing effects of white capitalism.

Between 1968 and 1980, fears about family deterioration and national decline were ubiquitous in American political culture. This work shows that these perceptions of decline profoundly shaped one another. It explores the fears that not only shaped an earlier era but also have reverberated into our own time.

Understanding ethnicity as an intersection of class, national origins, and religion, this title demonstrates that the white ethnic populations of New York had significantly diverging views on authority and dissent, community and individuality, secularism and spirituality, and obligation and entitlement.

Demonstrates that between the 1690s and 1780s, Indian peoples including Caddos, Apaches, Payayas, and others formed relationships with Spaniards in Texas that refuted European claims of imperial control. Examining six realms of encounter, this work shows that native categories of gender provided the political structure of Indian-Spanish relations.

In 1950, Mexican American miners went on strike for fair working conditions in Hanover, New Mexico. When an injunction prohibited miners from picketing, their wives took over the picket lines - an unprecedented act. This title examines the building of a leftist union that linked class justice to ethnic equality.

From curtains to clothing, from around-the-world parties to arts and crafts of the homelands exhibits, this work presents a different perspective on the United States in the world by shifting attention from exports to imports, from production to consumption, and from men to women.

Islam is often described as abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body. Examining Sufi conceptions of the body in religious writings from the late fifteenth through the nineteenth century, this title demonstrates that literature from this era often treated saints' physical bodies as sites of sacred power.

The period following Mexico's war with the United States in 1847 was characterized by violent conflicts for control of the national government. This book explores events in the Oaxaca district of Ixtlan, where Zapotec Indians supported the liberal cause and sought to exercise influence over statewide and national politics.

Shedding light on contemporary campaigns to encourage marriage among welfare recipients and to prosecute ""deadbeat dads,"" this book traces the efforts of Progressive reformers to make ""runaway husbands"" support their families. It analyzes the history of antidesertion reform from its emergence in social policy debates.

Contemporary notions of friendship regularly place it in the private sphere, associated with feminized forms of sympathy and affection. In an exploration of early American literature and culture, this book uncovers friendships built on a classical model that is both public and political in nature.

Collects twenty-four of the author's major essays and reviews, as well as a sampling of entries on literary theory and contemporary culture from his award-winning weblog. This work offers an array of interventions into matters - academic and nonacademic.

After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, thousands of southern women went to the polls for the first time. This book examines the consequences this had in states across the South. It shows that from polling places to the halls of state legislatures, women altered the political landscape in ways both symbolic and substantive.

Taking an ethnographic approach to understanding urban violence, this work examines the problems of crime and police corruption that have led to widespread misery and human rights violations in many of Latin America's new democracies. It argues that public policy change is not enough to stop the vicious cycle of crime and corruption.

Late nineteenth-century San Francisco was an ethnically diverse but male-dominated society. Within this booming marketplace, some women stepped beyond their roles as wives, caregivers, and homemakers to start businesses that combined family concerns with money-making activities. This work traces the experiences of these women entrepreneurs.

During the Civil War, its devastating aftermath, and the decades following, many southern white women turned to writing as a way to make sense of their experiences. Combining varied historical and literary sources, this book argues that women served as guardians of the collective memory of the war and helped define and reshape southern identity.

One of the churches struck by probable arson in 1996 was Little Zion Baptist Church in Alabama. This book draws on the voices and memories of church members to share a history of Little Zion, from its beginnings as a brush arbor around the time of emancipation, to its key role in the civil rights movement, to its burning and its rebuilding.

Providing a picture of the interaction of sexuality, politics, and public policy, this work explores how these measures were enforced. This work offers an analysis which demonstrates that the cultural context that characterized certain populations as sexually dangerous worked in tandem with the political context that denied them the right to vote.

In 1812, a series of revolts known collectively as the Aponte Rebellion erupted across the island of Cuba, comprising one of the largest and most important slave insurrections in Caribbean history. This title provides an analysis of the rebellion, situating it in local, colonial, imperial, and Atlantic World contexts.

Path to Mechanized Shoe Production in the United States

When Anglo-Americans looked west after the Revolution, they hoped to see a blank slate to build their republic. But, French settlers had inhabited the territory. Images of these French settlers saturated every American text. This work argues that these representations played a significant role in developing the identity of the new nation.

Explores the failure of Germany's largest political party to stave off the Nazi threat. In this revisionist evaluation, Donna Harsch argues that the party's internal dynamics immobilized the SPD. Harsch looks closely at Social Democratic ideology, structure, and political culture, examining how each impinged upon the party's response to economic disaster, parliamentary crisis, and the Nazis.

Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the Biographical Act

Discusses apocalytptic narrative schemes in Romola, Adam Bede, Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, and The Legend of Jubal. In the context of nineteenth-century British interpretation of the prophesies, this study reveals an unsuspected visionary poetics in Eliot's writings and demonstrates that her later works rewrite Protestant apocalyptics in both romantic and satiric styles.

Presenting an analysis of the American literary history, this work offers important insights into the practices, beliefs, and values that shaped the discipline. It reveals the forces, both inside and outside the academy, that propelled the rise of American literary history and persist as influences on the work of practitioners of the field.

Examines the roles of the Polish and Czech governments-in-exile, the Soviets, and the United Nations War Crimes Commission in the formulation of a joint policy on war crimes, as well as the neutral governments' stand on the question of asylum for war criminals. This volume sheds light on an important and least understood aspect of World War II.

Offers an interpretation of the Revolutionary period that places women at the center. This book provides a synthesis of the scholarship on women's experiences during the era, as well as a nuanced understanding that moves beyond a view of the war as either a ""golden age"" or a disaster for women.

Even after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, the Civil War continued to be fought, and surrenders negotiated, on different fronts. This book looks at the most notable of these negotiations that occurred at Bennett Place, when Confederate General Joseph E Johnston surrendered the Army of Tennessee to Union General William T Sherman.

Covering 92 million acres from Virginia to Texas, the longleaf pine ecosystem was one of the biologically diverse ecosystems. The author explores the history of these forests and the biodiversity within them, telling the story through first-person travel accounts and interviews with foresters, ecologists, biologists, botanists, and landowners.

Blending history with the study of material culture, the author sheds light on the ironic convergence of anti-Catholicism and the Gothic Revival movement in nineteenth-century America. He shows how architectural and artistic features became tools through which Protestants adapted to America's commercialization.

Comparing prostitution and courtship with a new working-class practice of heterosexual barter called ""treating"" during the period between 1900 and 1945, this book examines changes in sexual morality and sexual and economic practices in New York.