No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920
6 best books like No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 (T.J. Jackson Lears): Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917, Grace, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925, Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement
| 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 | Eugene D. Genovese |
| ISBN | 0394716523 |
A fascinating, but vitally flawed, book, Roll, Jordan, Roll, is part Marxist-leaning polemic and part well-woven narratives of the slave experience in colonial and antebellum America. At just over 800 pages, Genovese's opus has become a classic in the field for its amazing scope and wide-ranging...
| 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 | T. Greenwood |
| ISBN | 0758250924 |
Every family photograph hides a story. Some are suffused with warmth and joy, others reflect the dull ache of disappointed dreams. For thirteen-year-old Trevor Kennedy, taking photos helps him make sense of his fractured world. His father, Kurt, struggles to keep a business going while also caring...
Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925
| Author | John Higham |
| ISBN | 0813531233 |
Higham's work stands as the seminal work in the history of American nativism. The work is a careful, well-documented study of nationalism and ethnic prejudice, and chronicles the power and violence of these two ideas in American society from 1860 to 1925. He significantly moves beyond previous treatments...
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...
