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  • The Bootleg Coal Rebellion

    The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry: 1925–1942

    Told with great intimacy and compassion, The Bootleg Coal Rebellion uncovers a long-buried history of resistance and resilience among depression-era miners in Pennsylvania, who sunk their own mines on company grounds and fought police, bankers, coal companies and courts to form a union that would safeguard not just their livelihoods, but protect their collective autonomy as citizens and workers ... Leer más

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  • The Bootleg Coal Rebellion

    The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925 1942

    Told with great intimacy and compassion, The Bootleg Coal Rebellion uncovers a long-buried history of resistance and resilience among Depression-era miners in Pennsylvania, who sunk their own mines on company grounds and fought police, bankers, coal companies and courts to form a union that would safeguard not just their livelihoods but protect their collective autonomy as citizens and workers for ... Leer más

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    West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom

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  • Detroit

    A Biography

    At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial hub—and then the bottom fell out. Detroit : A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America's great cities and one of the nation's greatest urban failures. This authoritative yet accessible narrative seeks to explain how the city ... Leer más

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  • Neither Snow Nor Rain

    A History of the United States Postal Service

    de Devin Leonard ...
    " [The] book makes you care what happens to its main protagonist, the U.S. Postal Service itself. And, as such, it leaves you at the end in suspense." — USA TodayFounded by Benjamin Franklin, the United States Postal Service was the information network that bound far-flung Americans together, and yet, it is slowly vanishing. Critics say it is slow and archaic. Mail volume is down. The workforce is ... Leer más

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  • Land of Promise

    An Economic History of the United States

    de Michael Lind ...
    Michael Lind's Land of Promise is "[an] ambitious economic history of the United States . . . rich with details" ( New York Times Book Review).How did a weak collection of former British colonies become an industrial, financial, and military colossus?From the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, the American economy has been transformed by wave after wave of emerging technology: the steam ... Leer más

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  • "All Labor Has Dignity"

    Series Libro 5 - King Legacy
    An unprecedented and timely collection of Dr. King’s speeches on labor rights and economic justiceCovering all the civil rights movement highlights--Montgomery, Albany, Birmingham, Selma, Chicago, and Memphis--award-winning historian Michael K. Honey introduces and traces Dr. King's dream of economic equality. Gathered in one volume for the first time, the majority of these speeches will be new to ... Leer más

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  • The Origins of the Urban Crisis

    Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - Updated Edition

    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    The reasons behind Detroit’s persistent racialized poverty after World War IIOnce America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America’s racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that ... Leer más

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  • Not in My Neighborhood

    How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City

    Baltimore is the setting for (and typifies) one of the most penetrating examinations of bigotry and residential segregation ever published in the United States. Antero Pietila shows how continued discrimination practices toward African Americans and Jews have shaped the cities in which we now live. Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government's ... Leer más

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  • A Few Red Drops

    The Chicago Race Riot of 1919

    This mesmerizing narrative nonfiction draws on contemporary accounts as it traces the roots of an explosion that had been building for decades in race relations, politics, business, and clashes of culture.Coretta Scott King Award winner * Carter G. Woodson Book Award from the National Council for the Social StudiesOn a hot day in July 1919, five black youths went swimming in Lake Michigan, ... Leer más

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  • American Pharaoh

    Mayor Richard J. Daley–His Battle for Chicago and the Nation

    The story of an American city, an iron-fisted mayor, and an era of protest and turmoil: "Superb . . . one of the finest political biographies of recent years." — Library JournalThis is the story of Mayor Richard J. Daley and his rise from the working-class Irish neighborhood of his childhood to his role as one of the most important figures in twentieth-century American politics. It's a tale of the ... Leer más

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  • Strike!

    Jeremy Brecher’s Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. Involving nationwide general strikes, the seizure of vast industrial establishments, nonviolent direct action on a massive scale, and armed battles with artillery and tanks, this exciting hidden history is told from the point of view of the rank-and-file ... Leer más

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