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  • Accounting for Capitalism

    The World the Clerk Made

    par Michael Zakim ...
    The clerk attended his desk and counter at the intersection of two great themes of modern historical experience: the development of a market economy and of a society governed from below. Who better illustrates the daily practice and production of this modernity than someone of no particular account assigned with overseeing all the new buying and selling? In Accounting for Capitalism, Michael Zakim ... En savoir plus

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  • Capitalism Takes Command

    The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America

    Modifié par Michael Zakim, Gary J. Kornblith ...
    Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America’s transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories. Building on but moving past these studies, Capitalism Takes Command presents a history of family farming, general incorporation laws, mortgage payments, inheritance practices, office systems, and risk management—an ... En savoir plus

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  • An American Dilemma

    The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Volume 2

    par Gunnar Myrdal ...
    Collections series Black & African-American Studies
    In this landmark effort to understand African American people in the New World, Gunnar Myrdal provides deep insight into the contradictions of American democracy as well as a study of a people within a people. The title of the book, An American Dilemma, refers to the moral contradiction of a nation torn between allegiance to its highest ideals and awareness of the base realities of racial ... En savoir plus

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  • Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775

    Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate new aspects of slavery in colonial America by focusing on North Carolina, which has largely been ignored by scholars in favor of the more mature slave systems in the Chesapeake and South Carolina. Kay and Cary demonstrate that North Carolina’s fast-growing slave population, increasingly bound on large plantations, included many slaves born in Africa who ... En savoir plus

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  • The Organization of American Culture, 1700-1900

    Private Institutions, Elites, and the Origins of American Nationality

    par Peter D. Hall ...
    Nationality, argues Peter Hall, did not follow directly from the colonists' declatation of independence from England, nor from the political union of the states under the Constitution of 1789. It was, rather, the product of organizations which socialized individuals to a national outlook. These institutions were the private corportions which Americans used after 1790 to carry on their central ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Stony the Road

    Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

    **“Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current politics we recognize African-American history—the spot under our country’s rug where the terrorism and injustices of white supremacy are habitually swept. Stony the Road lifts the rug." —Nell Irvin Painter, New York Times Book ReviewA profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans ... En savoir plus

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  • The Making of African America

    The Four Great Migrations

    par Ira Berlin ...
    A leading historian offers a sweeping new account of the African American experience over four centuriesFour great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation of one million slaves to the interior of the antebellum South; the movement of more than six million blacks to the ... En savoir plus

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  • A Tolerable Anarchy

    par Jedediah Purdy ...
    In A Tolerable Anarchy, Jedediah Purdy traces the history of the American understanding of freedom, an ideal that has inspired the country’s best—and worst—moments, from independence and emancipation to war and economic uncertainty. Working from portraits of famous American lives, like Frederick Douglas and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Purdy asks crucial questions about our relationship to liberty: Does ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $14.99 CAD Maintenant $10.99 CAD

  • Ages of American Capitalism

    A History of the United States

    par Jonathan Levy ...
    **A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present—and argues that we’ve reached a turning point that will define the era ahead.“A monumental achievement, sure to become a classic.”—Zachary D. Carter, author of The Price of Peace**In this ambitious single-volume history of the United States, economic historian Jonathan Levy reveals how ... En savoir plus

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  • CITY OF WOMEN

    In this brilliant and vivid study of life in New York City during the years between the creation of the republic and the Civil War, a distinguished historian explores the position of men and women in both the poor and middle classes, the conflict between women of the laboring poor and those of the genteel classes who tried to help them and the ways in which laboring women traced out unforeseen ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $19.99 CAD Maintenant $6.99 CAD

  • The Majority Finds Its Past

    Placing Women in History

    par Gerda Lerner ...
    Lauded for its contribution to the theory and conceptualization of the field of women’s history and for its sensitivity to the differences of class, ethnicity, race, and culture among women, The Majority Finds Its Past became a classic volume in women’s history following its publication in 1979. This edition includes a foreword by Linda K. Kerber, introducing a new generation of readers to Gerda ... En savoir plus

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  • Race & Economics

    How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?

    Walter E. Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and still face in the present to show that that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to political allocation, is in the best interests of minorities. He debunks many common labor market myths and reveals how excessive government regulation and the minimum-wage law have imposed incalculable ... En savoir plus

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