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  • Defending the Master Race

    Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant

    Scholars have labeled Madison Grant everything from the “nation’s most influential racist” to the “greatest conservationist that ever lived.” His life illuminates early twentieth-century America as it was heading toward the American Century, and his legacy is still very much with us today, from the speeches of immigrant-bashing politicians to the international efforts to arrest climate change. ... Leer más

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    **From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women.“Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard.”—**The New York TimesAngela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from ... Leer más

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  • Wilderness and the American Mind

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    Roderick Nash’s classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of books ... Leer más

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  • Not So Black and White

    A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics

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    Is white privilege real? Does American history begin in 1619 or 1776? Why has left-wing antisemitism grown? How racist is the working class? Who benefits most, when anti-racists speak in racial terms? These very different questions have all emerged from today's heated debates around race, identity and culture. The "culture wars" have generated ferocious argument, but little clarity. Not So Black ... Leer más

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  • Freedom Dreams

    The Black Radical Imagination

    Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C. L. R. James to Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X, Kelley writes of the hope that Communism offered, the mindscapes of Surrealism, the transformative potential of radical feminism, and of the four-hundred-year-old dream ... Leer más

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  • Working Toward Whiteness

    How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

    How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white?David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness, a classic study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness, Roediger continues ... Leer más

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  • A Fierce Discontent

    The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in A

    The Progressive Era, a few brief decades around the turn of the last century, still burns in American memory for its outsized personalities: Theodore Roosevelt, whose energy glinted through his pince-nez; Carry Nation, who smashed saloons with her axe and helped stop an entire nation from drinking; women suffragists, who marched in the streets until they finally achieved the vote; Andrew Carnegie ... Leer más

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  • Illiberal Reformers

    Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era

    The pivotal and troubling role of progressive-era economics in the shaping of modern American liberalismIn Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of the regulatory welfare state, which, they believed, would humanize and rationalize industrial capitalism. But ... Leer más

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  • A Nation of Immigrants

    Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s

    This collection brings together a wide array of writings on Canadian immigrant history, including many highly regarded, influential essays. Though most of the chapters have been previously published, the editors have also commissioned original contributions on understudied topics in the field.The readings highlight the social history of immigrants, their pre-migration traditions as well as ... Leer más

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  • Mapping the Nation

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    Women and Subversion during World War I

    A concise and highly readable study of women's influence on a crucial era in American political and cultural history.Kathleen Kennedy's unique study explores the arrests, trials, and defenses of women charged under the Wartime Emergency Laws passed soon after the US entered World War I. These women, often members of the political left, whose anti-war or pro-labor activity brought them to the ... Leer más

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  • The Rise of the American Conservation Movement

    Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection

    In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. She shows how race, class, and gender influenced every aspect of the movement, including the establishment of parks; campaigns to protect wild game, birds, and fish; forest conservation; outdoor recreation; and the ... Leer más

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