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1. | | Title: The comparative imagination: on the history of racism, nationalism, and social movements Author: Fredrickson, George M 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: In this collection of essays, an eminent American historian of race relations discusses issues central to our understanding of the history of racism, the role of racism, and the possibilites for justice in contemporary society. George M. Fredrickson provides an eloquent and vigorous examination of r . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. | | Title: On account of sex: the politics of women's issues, 1945-1968 Author: Harrison, Cynthia Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Examining the political activities of the period between 1920, when women gained the right to vote, and the mid-1960s, when the women's movement revived, Cynthia Harrison illuminates a long-neglected but vital chapter of women's history. Similar Items | 3. | | Title: Why Waco?: cults and the battle for religious freedom in AmericaAuthor: Tabor, James D 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion | United States History | SociologyPublisher's Description: The 1993 government assault on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, resulted in the deaths of four federal agents and eighty Branch Davidians, including seventeen children. Whether these tragic deaths could have been avoided is still debatable, but what seems clear is that the events in Te . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. | | Title: Into one's own: from youth to adulthood in the United States, 1920-1975 Author: Modell, John Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | United States History | AgingSimilar Items | 5. | | Title: Rethinking home: a case for writing local historyAuthor: Amato, Joseph Anthony Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Intellectual History | United States History | WritingPublisher's Description: Joseph A. Amato proposes a bold and innovative approach to writing local history in this imaginative, wide-ranging, and deeply engaging exploration of the meaning of place and home. Arguing that people of every place and time deserve a history, Amato draws on his background as a European cultural hi . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. | | Title: Their sisters' keepers: prostitution in New York City, 1830-1870 Author: Hill, Marilynn Wood Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | United States History | Women's Studies | American StudiesPublisher's Description: This intimate study of prostitutes in New York City during the mid-nineteenth century reveals these women in an entirely new light. Unlike traditional studies, Marilynn Wood Hill's account of prostitution's positive attractions, as well as its negative aspects, gives a fresh perspective to this much . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. | | Title: African-American Christianity: essays in historyAuthor: Johnson, Paul E 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | United States History | African American Studies | ChristianityPublisher's Description: Eight leading scholars have joined forces to give us the most comprehensive book to date on the history of African-American religion from the slavery period to the present.Beginning with Albert Raboteau's essay on the importance of the story of Exodus among African-American Christians and concluding . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. | | Title: Black workers remember: an oral history of segregation, unionism, and the freedom struggleAuthor: Honey, Michael K Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | United States History | Labor Studies | African American StudiesPublisher's Description: The labor of black workers has been crucial to economic development in the United States. Yet because of racism and segregation, their contribution remains largely unknown. Spanning the 1930s to the present, Black Workers Remember tells the hidden history of African American workers in their own wor . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. | | | 10. | | Title: The unvarnished truth: personal narratives in nineteenth-century AmericaAuthor: Fabian, Ann Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: American Studies | United States History | American LiteraturePublisher's Description: The practice of selling one's tale of woe to make a buck has long been a part of American culture. The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America is a powerful cultural history of how ordinary Americans crafted and sold their stories of hardship and calamity during the nine . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. | | Title: Melville's anatomiesAuthor: Otter, Samuel 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: American Studies | American Literature | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: In fascinating new contextual readings of four of Herman Melville's novels - Typee , White-Jacket, Moby-Dick , and Pierre - Samuel Otter delves into Melville's exorbitant prose to show how he anatomizes ideology, making it palpable and strange. Otter portrays Melville as deeply concerned with issues . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. | | Title: Rethinking American history in a global ageAuthor: Bender, Thomas Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | United States History | Intellectual History | HistoriographyPublisher's Description: In rethinking and reframing the American national narrative in a wider context, the contributors to this volume ask questions about both nationalism and the discipline of history itself. The essays offer fresh ways of thinking about the traditional themes and periods of American history. By locating . . . [more]Similar Items | 13. | | Title: Of one blood: abolitionism and the origins of racial equalityAuthor: Goodman, Paul 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | United States History | American StudiesPublisher's Description: The abolition movement is perhaps the most salient example of the struggle the United States has faced in its long and complex confrontation with the issue of race. In his final book, historian Paul Goodman, who died in 1995, presents a new and important interpretation of abolitionism. Goodman pays . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. | | Title: Savagism and civilization: a study of the Indian and the American mindAuthor: Pearce, Roy Harvey Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | United States History | Native American StudiesSimilar Items | 15. | | Title: Sex seen: the emergence of modern sexuality in AmericaAuthor: Ullman, Sharon R 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Gender Studies | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Sex Seen provides a complex and intriguing account of the changes that have taken place in the social construction of sexuality during the past century. Focusing on Sacramento, California, at the dawn of the twentieth century, Sharon Ullman juxtaposes early cinema, vaudeville performances, and popul . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. | | Title: Christian America?: what evangelicals really wantAuthor: Smith, Christian (Christian Stephen) 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion | American Studies | United States History | Sociology | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: In recent decades Protestant evangelicalism has become a conspicuous and--to many Americans, worrisome--part of this country's cultural and political landscape. But just how unified is the supposed constituency of the Christian Coalition? And who exactly are the people the Christian Right claims to . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. | | Title: Myths in stone: religious dimensions of Washington, D.CAuthor: Meyer, Jeffrey F Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | American Studies | Christianity | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Washington, D.C., is a city of powerful symbols - from the dominance of the Capitol dome and Washington Monument to the authority of the Smithsonian. This book takes us on a fascinating and informative tour of the nation's capital as Jeffrey F. Meyer unravels the complex symbolism of the city and ex . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. | | Title: Same bed, different dreams: managing U.S.-China relations, 1989-2000Author: Lampton, David M Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Politics | Asian History | China | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: The title of this unique insider's look at a crucial decade of Sino-American interchange derives from a Chinese expression that describes a relationship of two people whose lives are intimately intertwined but who do not fundamentally communicate with each other. David M. Lampton, former president o . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. | | Title: Colored White: transcending the racial pastAuthor: Roediger, David R Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | African American Studies | United States History | ImmigrationPublisher's Description: David R. Roediger's powerful book argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a "still white" nation. Race is decidedly not over. The critical portraits of contemporary icons that lead off the book--Rush Limbaugh, Bill Cli . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. | | Title: The cigarette papers Author: Glantz, Stanton A Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Politics | Medicine | Public Policy | Law | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Around-the-clock tobacco talks, multibillion-dollar lawsuits against the major cigarette companies, and legislative wrangling over how much to tax a pack of cigarettes - these are some of the most recent episodes in the war against the tobacco companies. The Cigarette Papers shows what started it al . . . [more]Similar Items |
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