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| 1. |  | Title: Between craft and class: skilled workers and factory politics in the United States and Britain, 1890-1922  Author: Haydu, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology | United States History | European History | Labor Studies | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Between Craft and Class provides an incisive new look at workers' responses to the momentous economic changes surrounding them in the early years of the twentieth century. In this work, Haydu focuses on the reaction of skilled metal workers to new production methods that threatened time-honored craf . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: At the heart of the Empire: Indians and the colonial encounter in late-Victorian Britain Author: Burton, Antoinette M 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Women's Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | South Asia | Victorian History | Travel | European History | Asian History Publisher's Description: Antoinette Burton focuses on the experiences of three Victorian travelers in Britain to illustrate how "Englishness" was made and remade in relation to imperialism. The accounts left by these three sojourners - all prominent, educated Indians - represent complex, critical ethnographies of "native" m . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Licensing entertainment: the elevation of novel reading in Britain, 1684-1750 Author: Warner, William Beatty Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature | European History | Print Media | English Literature Publisher's Description: Novels have been a respectable component of culture for so long that it is difficult for twentieth-century observers to grasp the unease produced by novel reading in the eighteenth century. William Warner shows how the earliest novels in Britain, published in small-format print media, provoked early . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000 Author: Endelman, Todd M Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Jewish Studies | European History | Ethnic Studies | Immigration Publisher's Description: In Todd Endelman's spare and elegant narrative, the history of British Jewry in the modern period is characterized by a curious mixture of prominence and inconspicuousness. British Jews have been central to the unfolding of key political events of the modern period, especially the establishment of t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Pulling the devil's kingdom down: the Salvation Army in Victorian Britain Author: Walker, Pamela J 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Christianity | Victorian History | Religion | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Those people in uniforms who ring bells and raise money for the poor during the holiday season belong to a religious movement that in 1865 combined early feminism, street preaching, holiness theology, and intentionally outrageous singing into what soon became the Salvation Army. In Pulling the Devil . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: A science of impurity: water analysis in nineteenth century Britain Author: Hamlin, Christopher 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | History and Philosophy of Science Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: The war come home: disabled veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939 Author: Cohen, Deborah 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | European History | German Studies | Military History | European Studies Publisher's Description: Disabled veterans were the First World War's most conspicuous legacy. Nearly eight million men in Europe returned from the First World War permanently disabled by injury or disease. In The War Come Home, Deborah Cohen offers a comparative analysis of the very different ways in which two belligerent . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: The fabrication of labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914 Author: Biernacki, Richard 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Sociology | Labor Studies | European History Publisher's Description: This monumental study demonstrates the power of culture to define the meaning of labor. Drawing on massive archival evidence from Britain and Germany, as well as historical evidence from France and Italy, The Fabrication of Labor shows how the very nature of labor as a commodity differed fundamental . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: The struggle for the breeches: gender and the making of the British working class Author: Clark, Anna Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | European History | Gender Studies | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: Linking the personal and the political, Anna Clark depicts the making of the working class in Britain as a "struggle for the breeches." The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries witnessed significant changes in notions of masculinity and femininity, the sexual division of labor, and sexual . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Opium regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952 Author: Brook, Timothy 1951- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | China | Asian History Publisher's Description: Opium is more than just a drug extracted from poppies. Over the past two centuries it has been a palliative medicine, an addictive substance, a powerful mechanism for concentrating and transferring wealth and power between nations, and the anchor for a now vanished sociocultural world in and around . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Farewell to the factory: auto workers in the late twentieth century Author: Milkman, Ruth 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Sociology | Politics Publisher's Description: This study exposes the human side of the decline of the U.S. auto industry, tracing the experiences of two key groups of General Motors workers: those who took a cash buyout and left the factory, and those who remained and felt the effects of new technology and other workplace changes. Milkman's ext . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Social paralysis and social change: British working-class education in the nineteenth century Author: Smelser, Neil J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | History | European History | Education Publisher's Description: Neil Smelser's Social Paralysis and Social Change is one of the most comprehensive histories of mass education ever written. It tells the story of how working-class education in nineteenth-century Britain - often paralyzed by class, religious, and economic conflict - struggled forward toward change. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: The middling sort: commerce, gender, and the family in England, 1680-1780 Author: Hunt, Margaret R 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Gender Studies | Social Science Publisher's Description: To be one of "the middling sort" in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, one way or another, to the world of commerce. In a lively study that combines narrative and alternately poignant and hilarious anecdotes with convincing analysis, Margaret R. Hunt . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Nobody's story: the vanishing acts of women writers in the marketplace, 1670-1820 Author: Gallagher, Catherine Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Women's Studies | European History Publisher's Description: Exploring the careers of five influential women writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century, Catherine Gallagher reveals the connections between the increasing prestige of female authorship, the economy of credit and debt, and the rise of the novel. The "nobodies" of her title are not ignored, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Secure from rash assault: sustaining the Victorian environment Author: Winter, James H 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Victorian History | Ecology | Geography | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Nineteenth-century Britain led the world in technological innovation and urbanization, and unprecedented population growth contributed as well to the "rash assault," to quote Wordsworth, on Victorian countrysides. Yet James Winter finds that the British environment was generally spared widespread ec . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: A different shade of colonialism: Egypt, Great Britain, and the mastery of the Sudan Author: Powell, Eve Troutt Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern Studies | Postcolonial Studies | European History Publisher's Description: This incisive study adds a new dimension to discussions of Egypt's nationalist response to the phenomenon of colonialism as well as to discussions of colonialism and nationalism in general. Eve M. Troutt Powell challenges many accepted tenets of the binary relationship between European empires and n . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: An empire on display: English, Indian, and Australian exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War Author: Hoffenberg, Peter H 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | European History | Victorian History | Asian History | South Asia | Pacific Rim Studies | European Studies Publisher's Description: The grand exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are the lens through which Peter Hoffenberg examines the economic, cultural, and social forces that helped define Britain and the British Empire. He focuses on major exhibitions in England, Australia, and India between the Great Exhibition of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Battling for American labor: wobblies, craft workers, and the making of the union movement Author: Kimeldorf, Howard Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: American Studies | Sociology | History | United States History | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: In this incisive reinterpretation of the history of the American labor movement, Howard Kimeldorf challenges received thinking about rank-and-file workers and the character of their unions. Battling for American Labor answers the baffling question of how, while mounting some of the most aggressive c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: The fountain of privilege: political foundations of markets in Old Regime France and England Author: Root, Hilton L Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Politics | Economics and Business | European History | Sociology | French Studies Publisher's Description: Hilton Root's new book applies contemporary economic and political theory to answer long-standing historical questions about modernization. It contrasts political stability in Georgian England with the collapse of the Old Regime in France. Why did a century of economic expansion rupture France's pol . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Countering colonization: Native American women and Great Lakes missions, 1630-1900 Author: Devens, Carol Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Native American Studies | American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | Women's Studies | Religion Publisher's Description: With Countering Colonization , Carol Devens offers a well-documented, revisionary history of Native American women. From the time of early Jesuit missionaries to the late nineteenth century, Devens brings Ojibwa, Cree, and Montagnais-Naskapi women of the Upper Great Lakes region to the fore. Far fro . . . [more] Similar Items |