Municipal Workers and Urban Power in the Twentieth Century
Francis Ryan
A history of the largest union in the AFL-CIO and its growth in a major American city
320 pages
| 6 x 9
| 2 figures, 30 halftones
The Talkshow in Media Culture
Wayne Munson
The postmodern phenomenon of the talkshow and its place in American culture
288 pages
| 6 x 9
David F. García
The life and times of one of Cuba's most important musicians
224 pages
| 6 x 9
| 5 tables, 18 figures, 12 halftones
Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities
Andrew Hurley
A framework for stabilizing and strengthening inner-city neighborhoods through the public interpretation of historic landscapes
248 pages
| 6 x 9
| 3 maps 14 halftones
Sisters in Shape, Black Women's Fitness, and Feminist Identity Politics
Kimberly J. Lau
How Black women's engagement in improving health and fitness raises questions about feminism and the construction of black female identity
204 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
U.S. Pedagogies of Colonialism and Occupation in the Philippines and Japan
Malini Johar Schueller
Making visible the afterlives of U.S. colonial and occupation tutelage in the Philippines and Japan
312 pages
| 6 x 9
| 11 line drawings, 1 halftone
Mass Culture in America's Decade of Disaster
Timothy Recuber
Examines the media’s coverage of four American disasters, arguing that media attention directs our concern for the suffering of others toward efforts to soothe our own emotional turmoil
228 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 5 tables
McCarthyism Aimed at the Press
Edward Alwood
Shines a new light on a dark era in American journalism
216 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
Kenneth L. Ames
A richly illustrated and provocative discussion of Victorian culture through an exploration of common household goods
280 pages
| 8.5 x 11
| 192 halftones
Indian American Youth Culture in New York City
Sunaina Marr Maira
Making the desi scene in New York
256 pages
| 6 x 9
| 16 halftones
John P. Hewitt
A theory about what it means to be an individual within contemporary American society
304 pages
| 6 x 9
Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut
Ghassan Moussawi
The first comprehensive study to employ the lens of queer lives in the Arab World to understand everyday life disruptions, conflicts, and violence
210 pages
| 6 x 9
| 1 table, 2 figures, 3 halftones
Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line
Roderick D. Bush
How the marginalization of African Americans turned into a social phenomenon for the nation and world
264 pages
| 6 x 9
Randy Martin
How investment banking and playing the market moved from Wall Street to Main Street
240 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
Recreation and Religion in God's Square Mile
Troy Messenger
An accessible account of the first permanent religious meeting ground in the U.S.
192 pages
| 6 x 9
| 26 halftones
Community Development and Local Theology
Mary Ann Hinsdale, Helen M. Lewis and S. Maxine Waller
An Appalachian community develops a theology of liberation
400 pages
| 6 x 9
| 3 figures, 25 halftones, 1 map
Picking Up the Baton of Athlete Activism
David Steele
Examining American athletes' activism for racial and social justice, on and off the field
218 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
How American Yiddish Theatre Survived Adversity through Satire
Joel Schechter
A lively examination of Yiddish theatre during the Great Depression
304 pages
| 6 x 9
| 10 figures, 15 halftones
Mike Wallace
A long-awaited dispatch from the history front in today's culture war
336 pages
| 6 x 9
| 5 figures, 10 halftones
Urban Space and Organized Resistance in New Haven
Mandi Isaacs Jackson
A lively account of social protest and urban renewal in a struggling American city
296 pages
| 6 x 9
| 1 table, 5 figures, 45 halftones
Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music
Mari Yoshihara
Why do so many Asians devote their lives to playing Western classical music?
288 pages
| 6 x 9
| 18 halftones
Edited by John McMillian, and Paul Buhle
You didn't have to be there
280 pages
| 7 x 10
The Pacific Coast Canned-Salmon Industry, 1870-1942
Chris Friday
Asian and Asian American workers resist oppression and shape their own lives
296 pages
| 6 x 9
| 6 tables, 6 halftones
Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority
James Kyung-Jin Lee
What happens when illness betrays Asian American fantasies of indefinite progress?
224 pages
| 6 x 9
Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage
Josephine Lee
A fascinating inquiry into the territory of race and ethnicity in American theater
256 pages
| 6 x 9
| 21 halftones
Historical Perspectives
Edited by Carmen Teresa Whalen and Víctor Vázquez-Hernández
Histories of the Puerto Rican experience
320 pages
| 6 x 9
| 5 tables, 20 halftones
Civil Liberties Debates from the Internment to McCarthyism and the Radical 1960s
Masumi Izumi
Now in Paperback—Dissecting the complex relationship among race, national security, and civil liberties in “the age of American concentration camps”
268 pages
| 6 x 9
| 3 halftones
The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara
Edited by Linda Janet Holmes and Cheryl A. Wall
An anthology that celebrates the life and work of a major African American writer
320 pages
| 6 x 9
| 16 halftones
Edited by Susan Tucker, Katherine Ott, and Patricia Buckler
The first book about the history and practice of keeping scrapbooks
344 pages
| 7 x 10
| 72 halftones
A Social History of Tobacco
Eric Burns
From the author of The Spirits of America, an energetic history of tobacco use
296 pages
| 6 x 9
A Social History of Alcohol
Eric Burns
A history of "the great American thirst"
344 pages
| 6 x 9
A Photographic History, 1890-1940
Fredric M. Miller, Allen F. Davis, and Morris Vogel
Photographic memories of Philadelphia, volume 1
312 pages
| 8 x 10
| 282 halftones
Solidarity Remembered
Jack Metzgar
A middle-class son remembers his father's union and the steel strike of 1959
320 pages
| 6 x 9
| 2 tables, 1 figure, 16 halftones
The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York
Renqiu Yu
Chinese laundry workers unite to fight racism and economic discrimination
253 pages
| 6 x 9
| 8 figs.
Universities, Administrative Labor, and the Professional Turn
Randy Martin
A balanced review of the changing nature of the corporate university
272 pages
| 6 x 9
| 1 table
South Asian American Literature and the Idea of America
Rajini Srikanth
Literature that takes us beyond identity to empathy
304 pages
| 6 x 9