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The Progressives' Achievement in American Civilization, 1889-1920
Ministers of Reform vividly depicts the spiritual odyssey of an entire generation and shows how Protestant roots and a common ''climate of creativity'' nurtured a host of Progressive leaders from all walks of life. Crunden demonstrates that the same spirit of nnovation and moral rectitude so typical of the era's politics also characterized its ......
Contexts and Texts of the Controversy about Women in England, 1540-1640
Half Humankind is the first study to provide modernized and annotated editions of the key documents from the controversy about women in Renaissance England. The selections -- ten treatises debating the merits of womankind and six eulogies and condemnations depicting actual women -- range in style from careful logic and studied eloquence to ribald ......
For anyone interested in the auspicious beginnings of ''one of the finest poets of our time'' (San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle), this book is a small treasure. Dear John, Dear Coltrane was Michael S. Harper's first book of poems and a nominee for the National Book Award. Of it the Virginia Quarterly Review observed: ''Harper's is a poetry of ......
The Many and the Few recounts the dramatic ''inside'' story of one of the pivotal strikes in American history. For six weeks in 1937, workers at General Motors' Flint, Michigan, plant refused to budge from their sit-down strike. That action changed the course of industrial and labor history, when General Motors finally agreed to recognize the ......
The symbolic manifestations, purposes, and uses of politics are revealed in this provocative analysis of the institution of politics and man as a political animal. Unlike the conventional study of politics that deals with how people get the things they want through government, this book concentrates on how politics influence what they want, what ......
American Workers from the Revolution to the Present
Written by some of our nation's top historians, Working for Democracy is the first book to examine the politics of American workers from the revolution to the present in terms of broad struggles for power in society at large.In more than a dozen chapters, the topics range from the committees of artisan ''republicans'' at the time of the American ......
A perennial choice for courses on antebellum America, Jacksonian America continues to be a popular classroom text with scholars of the period, even among those who bridle at Pessen's iconoclastic views of Old Hickory and his ''inegalitarian society.''''Probably no other single volume will be so useful for undergraduates seeking a lively and ......
Regional poetry at its best, where the strongly articulated local voice slips easily, persuasively, and movingly into the universal. -- J. R. Willingham,
Focusing on the operation and influence of the Knights of Labor --- the leading labor organization of the nineteenth century --- Workingmen's Democracy explores the dreams, achievements, and failures of a movement that sought to renew the democratic potential of American institutions.''The pick of a growing crop of studies on the American working ......
