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Book History of Bourbon  Scott  Harrison and Nicholas counties  Kentucky

Download or read book History of Bourbon Scott Harrison and Nicholas counties Kentucky written by William Henry Perrin and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 1882-01-01 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of U S  Labor and Working Class History

Download or read book Encyclopedia of U S Labor and Working Class History written by Eric Arnesen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-16 with total page 1734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A RUSA 2007 Outstanding Reference Title The Encyclopedia of US Labor and Working-Class History provides sweeping coverage of US labor history. Containing over 650 entries, the Encyclopedia encompasses labor history from the colonial era to the present. Articles focus on states, regions, periods, economic sectors and occupations, race-relations, ethnicity, and religion, concepts and developments in labor economics, environmentalism, globalization, legal history, trade unions, strikes, organizations, individuals, management relations, and government agencies and commissions. Articles cover such issues as immigration and migratory labor, women and labor, labor in every war effort, slavery and the slave-trade, union-resistance by corporations such as Wal-Mart, and the history of cronyism and corruption, and the mafia within elements of labor history. Labor history is also considered in its representation in film, music, literature, and education. Important articles cover the perception of working-class culture, such as the surge in sympathy for the working class following September 11, 2001. Written as an objective social history, the Encyclopedia encapsulates the rise and decline, and continuous change of US labor history into the twenty-first century.

Book The Southern Cultivator and Industrial Journal

Download or read book The Southern Cultivator and Industrial Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Early History of Soybeans and Soyfoods Worldwide  1915 1923

Download or read book Early History of Soybeans and Soyfoods Worldwide 1915 1923 written by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi and published by Soyinfo Center. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 1334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 315 photographs and illustrations. Free of charge in digital PDF format.

Book The Social Origins of the Urban South

Download or read book The Social Origins of the Urban South written by Louis M. Kyriakoudes and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thousands of black and white southerners left farms and rural towns to try their fate in the region's cities. This transition brought about significant economic, social, and cultural changes in both ur

Book Industrial Development and Manufacturers  Record

Download or read book Industrial Development and Manufacturers Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines

Download or read book The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines written by Peter Brooker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains 44 original essays on the role of periodicals in the United States and Canada. Over 120 magazines are discussed by expert contributors, completely reshaping our understanding of the construction and emergence of modernism.

Book The Industrial Revolution

Download or read book The Industrial Revolution written by James S. Olson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise guide zooms in on the period of American history known as the Industrial Revolution, from its earliest beginnings in the mid-18th century to just after the First World War. This book is a concise reference source on the era in American history known as the Industrial Revolution—a period characterized by urbanization, mass immigration, organization of labor, and an immense gap between wealthy industrialists and the poor. It serves as an ideal resource for students preparing to take the AP U.S. history exam as well as being useful to undergraduates and anyone interested in this important period. Using encyclopedic entries on important events, key people, and trends of the time, the era is examined through the exploration of key themes such as agriculture, business, economy, finance, labor, and politics. Other features of the book include sample documents-based essay questions, rigorous thematic tagging of encyclopedic entries, a detailed chronology, and primary source documents—all of which guide readers through the material and aid in their comprehension of the Industrial Revolution's historical significance. Content covers factories, mass production, the progressive movement, muckrakers, populists, laissez-faire economics, social Darwinism, and robber barons, among other topics.

Book Poor Man s Fortune

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jarod Roll
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2020-04-08
  • ISBN : 1469656302
  • Pages : 357 pages

Download or read book Poor Man s Fortune written by Jarod Roll and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White working-class conservatives have played a decisive role in American history, particularly in their opposition to social justice movements, radical critiques of capitalism, and government help for the poor and sick. While this pattern is largely seen as a post-1960s development, Poor Man's Fortune tells a different story, excavating the long history of white working-class conservatism in the century from the Civil War to World War II. With a close study of metal miners in the Tri-State district of Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, Jarod Roll reveals why successive generations of white, native-born men willingly and repeatedly opposed labor unions and government-led health and safety reforms, even during the New Deal. With painstaking research, Roll shows how the miners' choices reflected a deep-seated, durable belief that hard-working American white men could prosper under capitalism, and exposes the grim costs of this view for these men and their communities, for organized labor, and for political movements seeking a more just and secure society. Roll's story shows how American inequalities are in part the result of a white working-class conservative tradition driven by grassroots assertions of racial, gendered, and national privilege.

Book Our Appalachia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laurel Shackelford
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2014-10-17
  • ISBN : 0813158249
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book Our Appalachia written by Laurel Shackelford and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books have been written about Appalachia, but few have voiced its concerns with the warmth and directness of this one. From hundreds of interviews gathered by the Appalachian Oral History Project, editors Laurel Shackelford and Bill Weinberg have woven a rich verbal tapestry that portrays the people and the region in all their variety. The words on the page have the ring of truth, for these are the people of Appalachia speaking for themselves. Here they recollect an earlier time of isolation but of independence and neighborliness. For a nearer time they tell of the great changes that took place in Appalachia with the growth of coal mining and railroads and the disruption of old ways. Persisting through the years and sounding clearly in the interviews are the dignity of the Appalachian people and their close ties with the land, despite the exploitation and change they have endured. When first published, Our Appalachia was widely praised. This new edition again makes available an authentic source of social history for all those with an interest in the region.

Book A History of Muhlenberg County

Download or read book A History of Muhlenberg County written by Otto A. Rothert and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1984 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnstone's account is of the long-established families of the Dumfriesshire region of Scotland and, secondarily, of the so-called "Border Wars" which were waged from the twelfth century between the dominant Scottish families of South Dumfriesshire and the English in North Cumberland. Our reprint is from the important second edition, which contains an expanded chapter on the Border Wars.

Book A New System of Geography and Universal History of the Known World

Download or read book A New System of Geography and Universal History of the Known World written by John Evans and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inventing the Feeble Mind

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Trent
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016-11-01
  • ISBN : 0199396205
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book Inventing the Feeble Mind written by James Trent and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of this disability from its several identifications over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness, mental defect, mental deficiency, mental retardation, and most recently intellectual disability. Using institutional records, private correspondence, personal memories, and rare photographs, James Trent argues that the economic vulnerability of intellectually disabled people (and often their families), more than the claims made for their intellectual and social limitations, has shaped meaning, services, and policies in United States history.

Book History of Illinois and Her People

Download or read book History of Illinois and Her People written by George Washington Smith and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Making Democracy Work Better

Download or read book Making Democracy Work Better written by Richard A. Couto and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2003-07-11 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decade of the 1980s marked a triumph for market capitalism. As politicians of all stripes sought to reinvent government in the image of private enterprise, they looked to the voluntary sector for allies to assuage the human costs of reductions in public policies of social welfare. This book details the "savage side" of market capitalism in Appalachia and explains the social, political, and economic roles that mediating structures play in mitigating it. Profiling the work of twenty-three such mediating structures--community-based organizations that battled to provide social safety nets, fight environmental assaults, and upgrade the education and job skills of Appalachian residents--Richard Couto distills the practical lessons to be found in their successes and shortcomings. Couto argues that a broader set of democratic dimensions be used in taking the measure of civil society and public policy in the twenty-first century. He shows that mediating structures promote the democratic prospect of reduced inequality and increased communal bonds when they provide and advocate for new forms and increased amounts of social capital--the public goods and moral resources that we invest in one another as members of a community.

Book Inventing the Feeble Mind

    Book Details:
  • Author : James W. Trent (Jr.)
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 0199396183
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book Inventing the Feeble Mind written by James W. Trent (Jr.) and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of intellectual disability from its several identifications in the United States over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness, mental deficiency and defectiveness, mental retardation, and most recently intellectual disability.