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“patricia strach”

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  • The Politics of Trash

    How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890–1929

    by Patricia Strach, Kathleen S. Sullivan ...
    The Politics of Trash explains how municipal trash collection solved odorous urban problems using nongovernmental and often unseemly means. Focusing on the persistent problems of filth and the frustration of generations of reformers unable to clean their cities, Patricia Strach and Kathleen S. Sullivan tell a story of dirty politics and administrative innovation that made rapidly expanding ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Hiding Politics in Plain Sight

    Cause Marketing, Corporate Influence, and Breast Cancer Policymaking

    by Patricia Strach ...
    As late as the 1980s, breast cancer was a stigmatized disease, so much so that local reporters avoided using the word "breast" in their stories and early breast cancer organizations steered clear of it in their names. But activists with business backgrounds began to partner with corporations for sponsored runs and cause-marketing products, from which a portion of the proceeds would benefit breast ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • Ramp Hollow

    The Ordeal of Appalachia

    by Steven Stoll ...
    How the United States underdeveloped AppalachiaAppalachia—among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America—has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original investigation into the history of Appalachia and its place in U.S. history, with a special emphasis on how ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Race & Economics

    How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?

    by Walter E. Williams ...
    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 ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Distinct Alien Race

    The Untold Story of Franco-Americans, Industrialization, Immigration, Religious strife

    by David Vermette ...
    Americans don’t think of Canada as a source of potential terrorists—speaking a foreign tongue, serving a foreign religion, and invading their country. But when a million French-Canadians crossed the border between 1840 and 1930, many seeking work in New England’s burgeoning textile industry, they were cast as foot soldiers in an alleged Roman Catholic plot. A Distinct Alien Race places these ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Clean and White

    A History of Environmental Racism in the United States

    by Carl A Zimring ...
    Series Book 1 - Children and Youth in America
    "A comprehensive . . . and provocative exploration of environmental racism from the founding of the republic until the 1960s" ( American Historical Review)Clean and White offers a history of environmental racism in the United States focusing on constructions of race and hygiene. In the wake of the civil war, as the nation encountered emancipation, mass immigration, and the growth of an urbanized ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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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  • Consuming Power

    A Social History of American Energies

    by David E. Nye ...
    Nye uses energy as a touchstone to examine the lives of ordinary people engaged in normal activities.How did the United States become the world's largest consumer of energy? David Nye shows that this is less a question about the development of technology than it is a question about the development of culture. In Consuming Power, Nye uses energy as a touchstone to examine the lives of ordinary ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • The Movement

    The African American Struggle for Civil Rights

    by Thomas C. Holt ...
    The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans, but it prefigured as well the moral premises and methods of struggle for other historically oppressed groups seeking equal standing in ... Read more

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  • Plantation Kingdom

    The American South and Its Global Commodities

    by Richard Follett, Sven Beckert, Peter Coclanis, Barbara M. Hahn ...
    Series series The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series
    How global competition brought the plantation kingdom to its knees.In 1850, America’s plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco grew throughout a vast farming empire that stretched from Maryland to Texas. Four million enslaved African Americans toiled the fields, producing global commodities that enriched the most powerful ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Growing a Sustainable City?

    The Question of Urban Agriculture

    by Hamil Pearsall, Christina D. Rosan ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    Urban agriculture offers promising solutions to many different urban problems, such as blighted vacant lots, food insecurity, storm water runoff, and unemployment. These objectives connect to many cities’ broader goal of “sustainability,” but tensions among stakeholders have started to emerge in cities as urban agriculture is incorporated into the policymaking framework.Growing a Sustainable City? ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Organizing America

    Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism

    by Charles Perrow ...
    American society today is shaped not nearly as much by vast open spaces as it is by vast, bureaucratic organizations. Over half the working population toils away at enterprises with 500 or more employees--up from zero percent in 1800. Is this institutional immensity the logical outcome of technological forces in an all-efficient market, as some have argued? In this book, the first organizational ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD