In this narrative analysis, Mr. Andrew examines the underlying ideas and principal objectives of the most ambitious and controversial American reform effort since the New Deal. “An acute examination.”
A compact and incisive history of the American economy since 1945, concentrating on the development of economic policy, economic structure, and ideas about both, and explaining the complex interaction
Great scientific and technological breakthroughs in the twentieth century enabled American farmers to produce bountiful harvests that ensured an abundant and relatively cheap food supply. But this agr
Looks at the origins of the international women's movement beginning with debate over "the woman question" and continuing with the leadership of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Matthews (American history, U. of Western Ontario) narrates a phase of women's struggle that shared more conceptions, goals, and methods with the struggles of the 1960s and 1970s than with the more re
Analyzing the struggle by evangelical Protestants for the mind and soul of America in the decades before the Civil War, Johnson lucidly explores the nature of the evangelical message, the conflict of
A lively survey of Chicago’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 and how the Great Fair mirrored American values and tastes at the turn of the century. “Instructive of our times and an excellent brief study.
The first compact history of jazz to place it within broader context. With an eye on the music, the musicians, and the audience, Mr. Peretti traces the emergence of jazz and follows its progress to th
Michael W. Fitzgerald's new interpretation of Reconstruction shows how the internal dynamics of this first freedom movement played into the hands of white racist reactionaries in the South. Splendid F
The race for the White House in 1968 was a watershed event in American politics. In this brilliantly succinct narrative analysis, Lewis Gould shows how the events of that tumultuous year changed the w
Examines factors that have shaped our national environmental consciousness, and traces the shift from the conservation ethic of the early twentieth century to the present-day concern with the quality
