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  • Pembroke

    A Rural, Black Community on the Illinois Dunes

    par Dave Baron ...
    Winner, ISHS Annual Award for a Scholarly Publication, 2017With a population of about two thousand, Pembroke Township, one of the largest rural, black communities north of the Mason-Dixon Line, sits in an isolated corner of Kankakee County, Illinois, sixty-five miles south of Chicago. It is also one of the poorest places in the nation. Many black farmers from the South came to this area during the ... En savoir plus

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  • Deer Hunting with Jesus

    Dispatches from America's Class War

    par Joe Bageant ...
    Years before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor -- and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowledged class war.By turns tender, incendiary, and seriously funny, this book is a call to arms for fellow progressives with little real understanding of "the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • All Over but the Shoutin'

    par Rick Bragg ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winner and bestselling author, "a grand memoir.... Bragg tells about the South with such power and bone-naked love ... he will make you cry" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution).This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $16.99 CAD Maintenant $1.99 CAD

  • Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: the best of Joe Bageant

    the best of Joe Bageant

    par Joe Bageant ...
    Essentially, it comes down to the fact that a very large portion of Americans are crazier than shithouse rats and are being led by a gang of pathological misfits, most of whom are preachers and politicians.In 2004, at the age of 58, writer Joe Bageant sensed that the internet could give him editorial freedom. Without having to deal with gatekeepers, he began writing about what he was really ... En savoir plus

    $48.99 CAD

  • Interstate 69

    The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway

    par Matt Dellinger ...
    Interstate 69 is an enlightening journey through the heart of America. With this epic tale of one vast and controversial road project, Matt Dellinger brings to life the country’s complex political, social, and economic landscape.The 1,400-mile extension of I-69 south from Indianapolis, if completed, will connect Canada to Mexico through Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Those Who Work, Those Who Don't

    Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America

    When the rural poor prioritize issues such as the right to bear arms, and disapprove of welfare despite their economic concerns, they are often dismissed as uneducated and backward by academics and political analysts. In Those Who Work, Those Who Don't, Jennifer Sherman offers a much-needed sympathetic understanding of poor rural Americans, persuasively arguing that the growing cultural ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Worlds Apart

    Poverty and Politics in Rural America, Second Edition

    First published in 1999, Worlds Apart examined the nature of poverty through the stories of real people in three remote rural areas of the United States: New England, Appalachia, and the Mississippi Delta. In this new edition, Duncan returns to her original research, interviewing some of the same people as well as some new key informants. Duncan provides powerful new insights into the dynamics of ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Wisconsin Agriculture

    A History

    par Jerry Apps ...
    "I'm embarrassed to say I thought I knew anything substantial about Wisconsin agriculture or its history before I read this book. 'Wisconsin Agriculture' should be required reading in history classes from high school to the collegiate level. It makes me thankful that Jerry Apps has such a sense of commitment to Wisconsin's agricultural heritage--and to getting the story right." --Pam Jahnke, Farm ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Psychiatry in Indiana

    The First 175 Years

    In Psychiatry in Indiana: The First 175 Years, authors Philip M. Coons, M.D., and Elizabeth S. Bowman, M.D., paint a fascinating, compelling, and vibrant portrait of the history of psychiatry in Indiana from its beginnings when Indiana was a territory up through present day, relying on meticulous research and personal anecdotes from former psychiatric employees of Indianas mental health facilities ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Remaking the Heartland

    Middle America since the 1950s

    par Robert Wuthnow ...
    The social transformation of the American Midwest in the postwar eraFor many Americans, the Midwest is a vast unknown. In Remaking the Heartland, Robert Wuthnow sets out to rectify this. He shows how the region has undergone extraordinary social transformations over the past half-century and proven itself surprisingly resilient in the face of such hardships as the Great Depression and the movement ... En savoir plus

    $42.99 CAD

  • Ghost Dances

    Proving Up on the Great Plains

    Growing up in South Dakota, Josh Garrett-Davis knew he would leave. But as a young adult, he kept going back -- in dreams and reality and by way of books. With this beautifully written narrative about a seemingly empty but actually rich and complex place, he has reclaimed his childhood, his unusual family, and the Great Plains.Among the subjects and people that bring his Midwestern Plains to life ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • One Small Farm

    Photographs of a Wisconsin Way of Life

    par Craig Schreiner ...
    “People’s lives are written on the fields of old farms. The rows of the fields are like lines on a page, blank and white in winter, filled in with each year’s story of happiness, disappointment, drought, rain, sun, scarcity, plenty. The chapters accumulate, and people enter and leave the narrative. Only the farm goes on.”—From the IntroductionIn One Small Farm, Craig Schreiner’s evocative color ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD