The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age
7 best books like The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age (Alan Trachtenberg): 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, When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973, The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950, Catholicism and American Freedom: A History, Men Like That: A Southern Queer 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...
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 | Robert A. Orsi |
| ISBN | 0300091354 |
In a masterful evocation of Italian Harlem and the men and women who lived there, Robert Orsi examines how the annual festa of the Madonna of 115th Street both influenced and reflected the lives of the celebrants. His prize-winning book offers a new perspective on lived religion, the place of religion...
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...
Men Like That: A Southern Queer History
| Author | John Howard |
| ISBN | 0226354709 |
We don't usually associate thriving queer culture with rural America, but John Howard's unparalleled history of queer life in the South persuasively debunks the myth that same-sex desires can't find expression outside the big city. In fact, this book shows that the nominally conservative institutions...
