Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917
8 best books like Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 (Matthew Frye Jacobson): The Wretched of the Earth, The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age, Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917, Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist, Catholicism and American Freedom: A History
The Wretched of the Earth
| Author | Frantz Fanon |
| ISBN | 0802141323 |
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism...
| Author | Patricia Cline Cohen |
| ISBN | 0679740759 |
In 1836, the murder of a young prostitute made headlines in New York City and around the country, inaugurating a sex-and-death sensationalism in news reporting that haunts us today. Patricia Cline Cohen goes behind these first lurid accounts to reconstruct the story of the mysterious victim, Helen...
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 | 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....
Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution
| Author | Tucker Carlson |
| ISBN | 1508246351 |
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The popular FOX News star of Tucker Carlson Tonight offers his signature fearless and funny political commentary on how America’s ruling class has failed everyday Americans.
“You look on in horror, helpless and desperate.
You have nowhere to go.
You’re...
| 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 | Nick Salvatore |
| ISBN | 0252074521 |
I was a long-time member of the Socialist Party. One of the reasons was familial. Father and his father had both belonged. Another was because two of my heroes, Norman M. Thomas and Eugene V. Debs, had belonged. When I was young, Thomas was still around. I recall reading about his death one day while in our...
Catholicism and American Freedom: A History
Catholicism and American Freedom is a groundbreaking historical account of the tensions (and occasional alliances) between Catholic and American understandings of a healthy society and the individual person, including dramatic conflicts over issues such as slavery, public education, economic...
