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Author: Anne M. ButlerPub Date: 2000 This is the first book to deal in depth with the ugly realities that made life in prison even more difficult for women in the American West, revealing neglected and forgotten lives and for the first time adding their voices and experiences to the saga of the American West. learn more... |
Author: Ross MillerPub Date: 2000 Illuminates the birth of modernism in American and the development of a radically new architecture--tested in fire, the modern city emerged learn more... |
Author: Peter W. WilliamsPub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2000 learn more... |
Author: Kimberly Rae ConnorPub Date: March 2000 Extends the tradition of the slave narrative to contemporary artists and demonstrates how they all work toward a “liberation theology”--even though it may not be traditionally Christian or sacred. learn more... |
Author: Orm ÖverlandPub Date: July 2000 The author sums it up best: “What I call ‘homemaking myths’ are stories told in immigrant/ethnic groups both to bolster members’ confidence in their identities as Americans and to prove to other Americans, in particular the traditionally dominant groups, that their particular group has a unique right to a home in the United States. “ learn more... |
Author: Victoria GetisPub Date: August 2000 The author traces the many failings of today’s juvenile court system directly to the progressive reformers in Chicago who instituted the system in the belief that the state and science could “fix” the problems of troubled and youthful lawbreakers. learn more... |
Author: Henry S. SaltPub Date: 2000 A definitive and much-admired biography of Thoreau, now made available (and affordable!) in this first-ever paperback edition of Henry Salt’s final version. learn more... |
Author: Phineas T. Barnum Introduction by Terence WhalenPub Date: 2000 In this first reprinting in paperback of Barnum's “original” biography, it will be easy to understand how he was able to create the “Greatest Show on Earth,” a show as outrageous and entertaining as Barnum himself learn more... |
Author: Jerold WaltmanPub Date: May 2000 Arguing for recasting the debate over the minimum wage in terms of a political economy of citizenship, Waltman not only examines the history and details the processes of determining a miniumum wage, he advocates dealing with the issue out of a communal sense of responsibility. learn more... |
Author: Laura F. EdwardsPub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2004 Reveals a fascinating, more complete portrait of the women and women’s roles, political and social, that reach far beyond the air-headed, passive stereotypes of the slave and Southern Belle learn more... |
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