Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age
10 best books like Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Daniel T. Rodgers): Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age, When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973, The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917, Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917, The Global Cold War
Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
| Author | Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore |
| ISBN | 0807845965 |
Glenda Gilmore explores the pivotal and interconnected roles played by gender and race in North Carolina politics from the period immediately preceding the disfranchisement of black men in 1900 to the time black and white women gained the vote in 1920. Gender and Jim Crow argues that the ideology of...
A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920
| Author | Michael E. McGerr |
| ISBN | 0195183657 |
With America's current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat of the disappearance of the middle class, the Progressive Era stands out as a time when the middle class had enough influence on the country to start its own revolution. Before the Progressive Era most...
| Author | Gordon S. Wood |
| ISBN | 0679736883 |
In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed...
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
| Author | Michel Foucault |
| ISBN | 0679724699 |
This is a perfect example of the kind of writing characterised by Clive James as prose that ‘scorns the earth for fear of a puncture’. Foucault may be able to think – it's not easy to tell – but he certainly can't write.
Everywhere there is an apparent desire to render a simple thought impenetrable....
| Author | Alan Trachtenberg |
| ISBN | 0809058286 |
A classic examination of the roots of corporate culture, newly revised and updated for the twenty first century
Alan Trachtenberg presents a balanced analysis of the expansion of capitalist power in the last third of the nineteenth century and the cultural changes it brought in its wake....
When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973
| Author | Leslie J. Reagan |
| ISBN | 0520216571 |
As we approach the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, it's crucial to look back to the time when abortion was illegal. Leslie Reagan traces the practice and policing of abortion, which although illegal was nonetheless widely available, but always with threats for both doctor and patient. In a time when...
| Author | Edmund S. Morgan |
| ISBN | 0321478061 |
Caught between the ideals of God's Law and the practical needs of the people, John Winthrop walked a line few could tread. In every aspect of our society today we see the workings of the tension between individual freedom and the demands of authority. Here is the story of the people that brought this idea...
| Author | Gail Bederman |
| ISBN | 0226041395 |
When former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries came out of retirement on the fourth of July, 1910 to fight current black heavywight champion Jack Johnson in Reno, Nevada, he boasted that he was doing it "for the sole purpose of proving that a white man is better than a negro." Jeffries, though, was trounced....
| Author | Matthew Frye Jacobson |
| ISBN | 0809016281 |
How a new American identity was forged by immigration and expansion a century ago.
In Barbarian Virtues, Matthew Frye Jacobson offers a keenly argued and persuasive history of the close relationship between immigration and America's newly expansionist ambitions at the turn of the twentieth...
The Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States indelibly shaped the world we live in today--especially international politics, economics, and military affairs. This volume shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the 20th century created the foundations for most of...
