The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
10 best books like The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (Alfred D. Chandler Jr.): The Stationery Shop, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia, A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist, The Search for Order, 1877-1920, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
| Author | Marjan Kamali |
| ISBN | 1982107480 |
Look at love
How it tangles
With the one fallen in love
Look at spirit
How if fuses with earth
Giving it new life
Five lyrical, heart-wrenching/ripping/breaking into pieces, soul shaking, perception changing, revolutionary, magical, eternal love stars!
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Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
| Author | Kathleen M. Brown |
| ISBN | 0807846236 |
Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery in Virginia....
| Author | Lizabeth Cohen |
| ISBN | 0375707379 |
In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life.
Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption...
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...
| 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...
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
| Author | Max Tegmark |
| ISBN | 1846144760 |
Our Mathematical Universe is a journey to explore the mysteries uncovered by cosmology and to discover the nature of reality. Our Big Bang, our distant future, parallel worlds, the sub-atomic and intergalactic - none of them are what they seem. But there is a way to understand this immense strangeness...
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
| Author | Anand Giridharadas |
| ISBN | 0451493249 |
An insider's groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve.
Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded...
| 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...
| Author | Robert H. Wiebe |
| ISBN | 0809001047 |
At the end of Reconstruction, the lives of most Americans were still controlled by the values of the village, the conventional 19th-century beliefs in individualism, laissez-faire, progress, and a divinely ordained social system. But in the last decades of the century, the spread of science and...
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
| Author | Lizabeth Cohen |
| ISBN | 0521428386 |
It is hard to believe that this book is over twenty years old. I still refer to it when discussing the Great Depression and the formation of the New Deal coalition of the 1930s. I think the greatest strength of the book is the detailed description Cohen gives us of the social safety net that existed in the...
