Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War
10 best books like Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War (Thomas G. Andrews): Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, The Comanche Empire, The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America, The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History), The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815, Yucatan Before and After the Conquest
| Author | William Cronon |
| ISBN | 0393308731 |
In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its hinterland, Mr. Cronon opens a new window onto our...
| Author | Pekka Hämäläinen |
| ISBN | 0300126549 |
A groundbreaking history of the rise and decline of the vast and imposing Comanche empire
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico....
| Author | Brian M. Fagan |
| ISBN | 0465022723 |
The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history, how this altered climate affected historical events, and what it means for today's global warming. Building on research that has only recently confirmed that the world endured...
| Author | William Cronon |
| ISBN | 0809016346 |
The book that launched environmental history now updated.
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of...
For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links between scientific and technological advances,...
| Author | Richard White |
| ISBN | 0809015838 |
The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.
In this pioneering study, White explores the relationship between the natural history of the Columbia River and the human history of the Pacific Northwest...
| Author | Alfred W. Crosby |
| ISBN | 0521546184 |
People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world--North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain because in many cases they were achieved by using firearms against spears. Alfred Crosby,...
| Author | Patricia Nelson Limerick |
| ISBN | 0393304973 |
The 'settling' of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures–most with happy endings–and a process that came to an end with the 'closing' of the frontier in the 1890s.
But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues,...
| Author | Richard White |
| ISBN | 0521424607 |
An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations – stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans...
| Author | Diego de Landa |
| ISBN | 0486236226 |
These people also used certain characters or letters, with which they wrote in their books about the antiquities and their sciences. We found a great number of books in these letters and since they contained nothing but superstitions and falsehoods of the devil we burned them all, which they took most...
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
| Author | Mae M. Ngai |
| ISBN | 0691124299 |
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy--a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century.
Mae...
At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
| Author | Erika Lee |
| ISBN | 0807854484 |
With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in...
Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement
| Author | Katherine M Marino |
| ISBN | 1469649691 |
This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this movement were not based primarily in the United States, however, or in Europe. Instead, Katherine M. Marino introduces readers to a cast of remarkable...
