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War! What Is It Good For?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 361

War! What Is It Good For?

African Americans' long campaign for "the right to fight" forced Harry Truman to issue his 1948 executive order calling for equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed forces. In War! What Is It Good For?, Kimberley Phillips examines how blacks' participation in the nation's wars after Truman's order and their protracted struggles for equal citizenship galvanized a vibrant antiwar activism that reshaped their struggles for freedom. Using an array of sources--from newspapers and government documents to literature, music, and film--and tracing the period from World War II to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Phillips considers how federal policies that desegregated the military also mainta...

Fear City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

Fear City

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST An epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster—and an anatomy of the austerity politics that continue to shape the world today When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the country’s largest metropolis fail? How could the capital of the financial world go bankrupt? Yet the city was indeed billions of dollars in the red, with no way to pay back its debts. Bankers and politicians alike seized upon the situation as evidence that social liberalism, which New York famously exemplified, was unworkable. The city had to slash services, freeze wages, and fire thousands of ...

Medieval Maidens
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Medieval Maidens

The medieval landscape, as viewed through the eyes of scholars, was hardly populated by women. Particularly, young unmarried women or "maidens" have been paid little attention. This book aims to fill that gap by examining the meaning, experiences and voices of young womanhood. The life-phase of “adolescence” was different for maidens than for young men, and as such merits study in its own right. At the same time a study of young womanhood provides insights into ideals of feminine gender roles and identities at different social levels.

Invisible Hands
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 377

Invisible Hands

Beginning in the mid-1930s, a handful of prominent American businessmen forged alliances with the aim of rescuing America from socialism and the "nanny state." This book reveals the story of a step-by-step campaign to promote an ideological revolution

What's Good for Business
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 279

What's Good for Business

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-04-10
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  • Publisher: OUP USA

This book provides a sweeping interpretation of how business mobilized to influence public policy and elections since World War II.

Before Orientalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 325

Before Orientalism

A distinct European perspective on Asia emerged in the late Middle Ages. Early reports of a homogeneous "India" of marvels and monsters gave way to accounts written by medieval travelers that indulged readers' curiosity about far-flung landscapes and cultures without exhibiting the attitudes evident in the later writings of aspiring imperialists. Mining the accounts of more than twenty Europeans who made—or claimed to have made—journeys to Mongolia, China, India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia between the mid-thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries, Kim Phillips reconstructs a medieval European vision of Asia that was by turns critical, neutral, and admiring. In offering a cultural histo...

1973 to the Present
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 27

1973 to the Present

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Diving into the murky waters of recent history, Phillips-Fein takes an intriguing look at scholarship in American history of the past 40-plus years, and discovers an era starting to develop a distinction of its own beyond the previous post-World War IIclassification.

AlabamaNorth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

AlabamaNorth

Examines the experiences and activities of African-Americans in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1915 through 1945, discussing migration, the labor market, organized labor, community, and more.

Ultimate Guide to Instagram for Business
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

Ultimate Guide to Instagram for Business

Are you ready to tap into Instagram’s booming network of 1.386 billion viable customers? Your customers are on Instagram right now waiting to buy from you. With this all-new updated Ultimate Guide to Instagram, Second Edition, social media marketing expert Kim Walsh Phillips highlights what’s new and innovative, and gives you the tools you need to get an immediate return on investment. From updated cross-platform branding and marketing advice, to all new practical blueprints for funneling followers, this guide unlocks the latest secrets successful entrepreneurs use to grow their following and drive sales directly from Instagram. Inside, readers will learn: To uncover who your right-fit c...

Sexualities in History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 484

Sexualities in History

  • Categories: Sex

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.