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“daniel p ott”

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  • Harvesting History

    McCormick's Reaper, Heritage Branding, and Historical Forgery

    by Daniel P. Ott ...
    Harvesting History explores how the highly contentious claim of Cyrus McCormick’s 1831 invention of the reaper came to be incorporated into the American historical canon as a fact. Spanning the late 1870s to the 1930s, Daniel P. Ott reveals how the McCormick family and various affiliated businesses created a usable past about their departed patriarch, Cyrus McCormick, and his role in creating ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

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  • Land of Desire

    Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture

    by William R. Leach ...
    This monumental work of cultural history was nominated for a National Book Award. It chronicles America's transformation, beginning in 1880, into a nation of consumers, devoted to a cult of comfort, bodily well-being, and endless acquisition. 24 pages of photos. ... Read more

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  • Feminine Ingenuity

    How Women Inventors Changed America

    by Anne L. MacDonald ...
    "Written with clarity and a lively eye both for detail and for the progress of feminism in the United States."SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEIn this fascinating study of American women inventors, historian Anne Macdonald shows how creative, resourceful, and entrepreneurial women helped to shatter the ancient stereotypes of mechanically inept womanhood. In presenting their stories, Anne Macdonald's ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • False Prophets

    by James Hoopes ...
    According to Jim Hoopes, the fundamental principles on which business is based-authority, power, control-are increasingly at odds with principles of life in a democratic society-freedom, equality, individualism. False Prophets critically examines the pioneering theories of the early management thinkers, such as Taylor, Follett, Mayo, and Deming, which intended to democratize corporate life yet ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Hubert Harrison

    The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918

    by Jeffrey B. Perry ...
    Hubert Harrison was an immensely skilled writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist who, more than any other political leader of his era, combined class consciousness and anti-white-supremacist race consciousness into a coherent political radicalism. Harrison's ideas profoundly influenced "New Negro" militants, including A. Philip Randolph and Marcus Garvey, and his synthesis of ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Only the Clothes on Her Back

    Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States

    by Laura F. Edwards ...
    An innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those who lacked power and status in American society. What can dresses, bedlinens, waistcoats, pantaloons, shoes, and kerchiefs tell us about the legal status of the least powerful members of American society? In the hands of eminent historian Laura F. Edwards, these textiles tell a revealing story of ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

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  • In Pursuit of Privilege

    A History of New York City's Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis

    by Clifton Hood ...
    A history that extends from the 1750s to the present, In Pursuit of Privilege recounts upper-class New Yorkers' struggle to create a distinct world guarded against outsiders, even as economic growth and democratic opportunity enabled aspirants to gain entrance. Despite their efforts, New York City's upper class has been drawn into the larger story of the city both through class conflict and ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Production of Difference

    Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History

    by David R. Roediger, Elizabeth D. Esch ...
    In 1907, pioneering labor historian and economist John Commons argued that U.S. management had shown just one "symptom of originality," namely "playing one race against the other." In this eye-opening book, David Roediger and Elizabeth Esch offer a radically new way of understanding the history of management in the United States, placing race, migration, and empire at the center of what has ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • To ’Joy My Freedom

    Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War

    by Tera W. Hunter ...
    As the Civil War drew to a close, newly emancipated black women workers made their way to Atlanta—the economic hub of the newly emerging urban and industrial south—in order to build an independent and free life on the rubble of their enslaved past. In an original and dramatic work of scholarship, Tera Hunter traces their lives in the postbellum era and reveals the centrality of their labors to the ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Carter G. Woodson in Washington, D.C.

    The Father of Black History

    by Pero Gaglo Dagbovie ...
    An in-depth look at the iconic African American scholar's life in—and his contributions to—our nation's capital.The discipline of black history has its roots firmly planted at 1538 Ninth Street, Northwest, in Washington, DC. The Victorian row house in "Black Broadway" was once the modest office-home of Carter G. Woodson. The home was also the headquarters of the Association for the Study of ... Read more

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  • For the Common Good

    A New History of Higher Education in America

    by Charles Dorn ...
    Series series American Institutions and Society
    Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the investment? Are the humanities coming to an end? What, exactly, is higher education good for?In For the Common Good, Charles Dorn challenges the rhetoric of America's so-called crisis in higher education by investigating two centuries of college and university history. From the community ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • No Right to An Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

    The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era

    by Jacqueline Jones ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY • A “sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive” portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston, from “a gifted practitioner of labor history and urban history” (Tiya Miles, National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried)Impassioned antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation’s hub of radical ... Read more

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