The Closet and the Cul-De-Sac

Clayton Howard

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• The right to privacy is a pivotal concept in the culture wars that have galvanized American politics for the past several decades. It has become a ral... Lees meer

Beyond the New Deal Order

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• Ever since introducing the concept in the late 1980s, historians have been debating the origins, nature, scope, and limitations of the New Deal order-... Lees meer

Let Us Fight as Free Men

Christine Knauer

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• Today, the military is one the most racially diverse institutions in the United States. But for many decades African American soldiers battled racial ... Lees meer

The Education of Jane Addams

Victoria Bissell Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The Education of Jane Addams traces, with unprecedented care, Addams's three-decade journ... Lees meer

Homeless

Ella Howard

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• The homeless have the legal right to exist in modern American cities, yet antihomeless ordinances deny them access to many public spaces. How did prev... Lees meer

Migrant Citizenship

Verónica Martínez-Matsuda

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• An examination of the Farm Security Administration's migrant camp system and the people it served Today's concern for the quality of the produce on ou... Lees meer

Visions of Progress

Doug Rossinow

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• Liberals and leftists in the United States have not always been estranged from one another as they are today. Historian Doug Rossinow examines how the... Lees meer

Moral Minority

David R Swartz

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• In 1973, nearly a decade before the height of the Moral Majority, a group of progressive activists assembled in a Chicago YMCA to strategize about how... Lees meer

Queer Clout

Timothy Stewart-Winter

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• In postwar America, the path to political power for gays and lesbians led through city hall. By the late 1980s, politicians and elected officials, who... Lees meer

Out of the Horrors of War

Audra Jennings

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• From workplace accidents to polio epidemics and new waves of immigration to the returning veterans of World War II, the first half of the twentieth ce... Lees meer

Peace and Freedom

Simon Hall

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• Two great social causes held center stage in American politics in the 1960s: the civil rights movement and the antiwar groundswell in the face of a de... Lees meer

Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right

Seth Dowland

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• During the last three decades of the twentieth century, evangelical leaders and conservative politicians developed a political agenda that thrust "fam... Lees meer

The 4-H Harvest

Gabriel N Rosenberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• 4-H, the iconic rural youth program run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has enrolled more than 70 million Americans over the last century. As t... Lees meer

City of Dispossessions

Kyle T Mays

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• In July 2013, Detroit became the largest city in U.S. history to declare bankruptcy. The underlying causes were decades of deindustrialization, white ... Lees meer

Before Harlem

Marcy S Sacks

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• In the years between 1880 and 1915, New York City and its environs underwent a tremendous demographic transformation with the arrival of millions of E... Lees meer

This Is My Jail

Melanie Newport

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• While state and federal prisons like Attica and Alcatraz occupy a central place in the national consciousness, most incarceration in the United States... Lees meer

Equality on Trial

Katherine Turk

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• In 1964, as part of its landmark Civil Rights Act, Congress outlawed workplace discrimination on the basis of such personal attributes as sex, race, a... Lees meer

In the Heat of the Summer

Michael W Flamm

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• On the morning of July 16, 1964, a white police officer in New York City shot and killed a black teenager, James Powell, across the street from the hi... Lees meer

In the Heat of the Summer

Michael W Flamm

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• On the morning of July 16, 1964, a white police officer in New York City shot and killed a black teenager, James Powell, across the street from the hi... Lees meer

People Must Live by Work

Steven Attewell

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• In People Must Live by Work , Steven Attewell presents the history of an idea--direct job creation--that transformed the role of government in amelior... Lees meer

The Battle for Welfare Rights

Felicia Kornbluh

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• The Battle for Welfare Rights chronicles an American war on poverty fought first and foremost by poor people themselves. It tells the fascinating stor... Lees meer

Latinos and the Liberal City

Eduardo Contreras

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• The "Latino vote" has become a mantra in political media, as journalists, pundits, and social scientists regularly weigh in on Latinos' loyalty to the... Lees meer

The Port Huron Statement

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• The Port Huron Statement was the most important manifesto of the New Left student movement of the 1960s. Initially drafted by Tom Hayden and debated o... Lees meer

Biotech

Eric J Vettel

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• The seemingly unlimited reach of powerful biotechnologies and the attendant growth of the multibillion-dollar industry have raised difficult questions... Lees meer