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  • Spreading the American Dream

    American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890–1945

    by Emily Rosenberg ...
    "Provides fresh insights into the way governmental power was used to shape the American domestic marketplace, and how that visible hand was again used overseas." —Walter LaFeber, Cornell UniversityThis book urges us to consider whether the American Dream of promoting abundance, egalitarianism, and mobility avoided the pitfalls of exploitation and human degradation that most expansionist powers ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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    Women in Clothes

    by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton, others ...
    Narrated by Gabra Zackman, Karen Sepulveda, Keisha Zollar, Fred Berman, Soneela Nankani, Nancy Wu, Emily Woo Zeller, Dara Rosenberg, Erin Moon, Piper Goodeve, Julia Farhat, Saskia Maarleveld, various narrators ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 14 min

    Women in Clothes is a book unlike any other. It is essentially a conversation among hundreds of women of all nationalities—famous, anonymous, religious, secular, married, single, young, old—on the subject of clothing, and how the garments we put on every day define and shape our lives.It began with a survey. The editors composed a list of more than fifty questions designed to prompt women to think ... Read more

    $34.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • A Date Which Will Live

    Pearl Harbor in American Memory

    by Emily S. Rosenberg, Gilbert M. Joseph ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    December 7, 1941—the date of Japan’s surprise attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor—is "a date which will live" in American history and memory, but the stories that will live and the meanings attributed to them are hardly settled. In movies, books, and magazines, at memorial sites and public ceremonies, and on television and the internet, Pearl Harbor lives in a thousand guises and symbolizes ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • A Century of Revolution

    Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America's Long Cold War

    by Emily S. Rosenberg, Friedrich Katz, Jocelyn Olcott ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through the mobilizations and terror in Central America, the Southern Cone, and the Andes during the 1970s and 1980s. In his introduction to A Century of Revolution, Greg Grandin argues that the dynamics of political violence and terror in Latin ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Enduring Legacy

    Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela

    by Miguel Tinker Salas, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Oil has played a major role in Venezuela’s economy since the first gusher was discovered along Lake Maracaibo in 1922. As Miguel Tinker Salas demonstrates, oil has also transformed the country’s social, cultural, and political landscapes. In The Enduring Legacy, Tinker Salas traces the history of the oil industry’s rise in Venezuela from the beginning of the twentieth century, paying particular ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History

    Essays from the North

    by Emily S. Rosenberg, Emilia Viotti da Costa, Steve J. Stern ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History is a collection that embraces a new social and cultural history of Latin America that is not divorced from politics and other arenas of power. True to the intellectual vision of Brazilian historian Emilia Viotti da Costa, one of Latin America’s most distinguished scholars, the contributors actively revisit the political—as both a theme of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • In from the Cold

    Latin America's New Encounter with the Cold War

    by Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Over the last decade, studies of the Cold War have mushroomed globally. Unfortunately, work on Latin America has not been well represented in either theoretical or empirical discussions of the broader conflict. With some notable exceptions, studies have proceeded in rather conventional channels, focusing on U.S. policy objectives and high-profile leaders (Fidel Castro) and events (the Cuban ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Financial Missionaries to the World

    The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930

    by Emily S. Rosenberg, Gilbert M. Joseph ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Financial Missionaries to the World establishes the broad scope and significance of "dollar diplomacy"—the use of international lending and advising—to early-twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy. Combining diplomatic, economic, and cultural history, the distinguished historian Emily S. Rosenberg shows how private bank loans were extended to leverage the acceptance of American financial advisers ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Aloha Betrayed

    Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism

    by Noenoe K. Silva, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In 1897, as a white oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition drive to protest. Ninety-five percent of the native population signed the petition, causing the annexation treaty to fail in the U.S. Senate. This event was unknown to many contemporary Hawaiians until Noenoe K. Silva rediscovered the petition in the process of ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fragments of a Golden Age

    The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940

    by Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    During the twentieth century the Mexican government invested in the creation and promotion of a national culture more aggressively than any other state in the western hemisphere. Fragments of a Golden Age provides a comprehensive cultural history of the vibrant Mexico that emerged after 1940. Agreeing that the politics of culture and its production, dissemination, and reception constitute one of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Communication and Empire

    Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860-1930

    by Dwayne R. Winseck, Robert M. Pike, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Filling in a key chapter in communications history, Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike offer an in-depth examination of the rise of the “global media” between 1860 and 1930. They analyze the connections between the development of a global communication infrastructure, the creation of national telegraph and wireless systems, and news agencies and the content they provided. Conventional histories ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • In the Shadows of State and Capital

    The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995

    by Steve Striffler, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Winner of the 2001 President’s Award of the Social Science History AssociationIn the Shadows of State and Capital tells the story of how Ecuadorian peasants gained, and then lost, control of the banana industry. Providing an ethnographic history of the emergence of subcontracting within Latin American agriculture and of the central role played by class conflict in this process, Steve Striffler ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD