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  • - Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century
    av Matthew Solomon
    339,-

    Reveals how professional magicians shaped the early history of cinema. This book focuses on the work of the professional illusionists who actually made magic with moving pictures between 1895 and 1929. It combines film and theatre history to uncover the evidence of the exchanges between magic and filmmaking in the United States and France.

  • - African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry
    av Tiffany M. Gill
    315

    Shows how black beauticians in the Jim Crow era parlayed their economic independence and access to a public community space into platforms for activism. This book argues that the beauty industry played a crucial role in the creation of the modern black female identity.

  • av Robert Toplin
    315

    Provides a balanced assessment of how mainstream cinema portrays the American past.

  • - Race, Radio, and Rhythm and Blues in Chicago
    av Richard E. Stamz & Patrick A. Roberts
    275,-

    As either observer or participant, radio deejay and political activist Richard E Stamz witnessed every significant period in the history of blues and jazz in the last century. This book presents the story of his life. It is also a window into milestones of African American history.

  • av Joseph M. Turrini
    335 - 1 235

    While historians have chronicled labour history in team sports such as baseball and football or have lumped track and field into larger studies of Olympic history, the author scrupulously details the efforts of athletes to reorder labour relations in track and field and to end their decades-long power struggle with governing bodies.

  • - The Life and Times of Jean Aberbach and Hill and Range Songs
    av Bar Biszick-Lockwood
    1 399

    Presents an account of the life and times of Jean Aberbach, the elusive music publishing legend who, with his brother Julian, built one of music history's most powerful popular music publishing companies: Hill and Range Songs. This book weaves an adventure story that demystifies this occupation.

  • - The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War
    av Scott Christianson
    295 - 1 249

    Recounts the life and epic rescue of captured fugitive slave Charles Nalle of Culpeper, Virginia, who was forcibly liberated by Harriet Tubman and others in Troy, New York, on April 27, 1860. This title follows Nalle from his enslavement by the Hansborough family in Virginia through his escape by the Underground Railroad.

  • - Popular Blues in America, 1850-1920
    av Peter C. Muir
    399 - 1 399

    The first comprehensive examination of the early blues industry and the music it produced

  • av Norman Caulfield
    305 - 1 235

    A cogent analysis of North American trade unions' precipitous decline in recent decades

  • - Workplace Safety and Health Regulation in America, 1880-1940
    av Donald W. Rogers
    645

    A broad, historical appraisal of the evolution of work safety and health regulation in the U.S.

  • - An Intimate Portrait
    av Walter Rimler
    249 - 375,-

    The dramatic story of a legendary American composer

  • av Kenneth Morgan
    299

    Personally enigmatic and often described as difficult to work with, Fritz Reiner was nevertheless renowned for the dynamic galvanization of the orchestras he led, a nearly unrivalled technical ability, and high professional standards. This book is a portrait of a man who was both his own worst enemy and one of the true titans of his profession.

  • av Him Mark Lai
    349 - 1 235

    Traces the shadowy history of Chinese leftism and the role of the Kuomintang of China in influencing affairs in America. This title penetrates the overly politicized portrayals of a history shaped by global alliances and enmities and the hard intolerance of the Cold War era.

  • av Fran Markowitz
    339,-

    An anthropological analysis of Sarajevo and its cultural complexities that examines contemporary issues of social divisiveness, pluralism, and intergroup dynamics in the context of national identity and state formation.

  • - Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South
    av Jarod Roll
    335

    Documents an alternative tradition of American protest by linking working-class political movements to grassroots religious revivals. This book reveals how ordinary rural citizens in the south used the resources and their shared faith to defend their agrarian livelihoods amid the political and economic upheaval of the first half of 20th century.

  • av Pero Gaglo Dagbovie
    315

    Offers perspectives on black history - its scholarship and pedagogy, scholars and interpreters, and evolution as a profession. This book discusses various issues and themes for understanding and analyzing African American history, the 20th century black historical enterprise, and the teaching of African American history for the 21st century.

  • - A Social History of the Movement for Homosexual Rights
    av C. Todd White
    369

    A rich and definitive history of the gay rights movement's West Coast origins

  • - The Fight for a New American Labor Movement
    av Steven K. Ashby
    319,-

    A dramatic story of worker resistance in a pivotal labor struggle

  • - Mormon Recreation, 1890-1940
    av Richard Ian Kimball
    315,-

    A unique look at the Latter-day Saints' recreational efforts intended to "Mormonize" a rising generation of young men and women

  • - Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry
    av Liesl Miller Orenic
    319

    The challenges and successes of unionization at four U.S. airlines, with a focus on baggage handlers

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    359

    A stimulating variety of approaches to the history of a distinctive Midwestern city

  • - 100 Years of Sports in the Windy City
     
    299

    A celebration of the fast, the strong, the agile, and the tricky throughout Chicago's storied sports history

  • av Brian R. Dirck
    259,-

    What the law did to and for Abraham Lincoln, and its important impact on his future presidency

  • - Stories that Guide Women's Lives
     
    369

    Exploring the narratives that orient the lives of women scholars

  • - Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class
    av Lisa B. Thompson
    305 - 1 235

    Representing the sexuality of black middle class women in contemporary popular culture

  • - Scandal in Organized Labor
    av David Witwer
    359 - 1 399

    A detailed account of labor corruption in the 1930s and the zealous journalist who railed against it

  • - The wrong place for the Right people
    av Terry Trilling-Josephson & Barney Josephson
    255 - 425,-

    The story of the night club impresario whose wildly successful interracial club, Cafe Society, changed the American artistic landscape forever

  • av George B. Kirsch
    279

    An inclusive narrative of golf's history and popularity in the United States

  • - Composing an American Life
    av Denise Von Glahn
    335,99 - 1 399

  • - From Arcadia to Utopia, 1900-1955
    av Eric Saylor
    539,-

    Eric Saylor is an associate professor of musicology at Drake University. He coedited Blackness in Opera and The Sea in the British Musical Imagination.

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