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The industrialists
The first complete history of US industry's most influential and controversial lobbyistFounded in 1895, the National Association of Manufacturers—NAM—helped make manufacturing the basis of the US economy and a major source of jobs in the twentieth century. The Industrialists traces the history of...
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The jewish question
In this updated and completely revised second edition, Enzo Traverso carefully reconstructs the intellectual debate surrounding the "Jewish Question' over a century of Marxist thought.
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The jewish south
A panoramic history of the Jewish American South, from European colonization to todayIn 1669, the Carolina colony issued the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which offered freedom of worship to “Jews, heathens, and other dissenters,” ushering in an era that would see Jews settle in cities a...
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The jews in western europe, 1400–1600
Through a broad-ranging collection of documents, John Edwards sets out to present a vivid picture of the Jewish presence in European life during this vital and turbulent period.
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The jews of italy
A sweeping history of the Italian Jewish experience from antiquity to todayJews arrived in ancient Rome before Christianity existed, and they have maintained a continuous and influential presence in Italy for more than twenty centuries—the longest in Western Europe. The Jews of Italy is an engagi...
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The john carlos story
John Carlos, the man behind the most iconic moment of the Black Power movement, tells his story.
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The killing season
The definitive account of one of the twentieth century’s most brutal, yet least examined, episodes of genocide and detentionThe Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century—the shocking antileftis...
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The land where nothing works
Tracing the origins of Britain’s current malaise to the abandonment of social democracyWhat has happened to Britain? As drivers on its roads can attest, it is the pothole capital of Europe. Once-beautiful towns now feature peeling paint, weeds, and broken railings. Public services are no longer f...
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The language of the english street sign
This book opens readers’ eyes to something they see all the time but take for granted: street signs. It is a portrait of the signs on modern English streets: what they look like, who and what they are for, how they link to English history and how they form part of life in multilingual England today.
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The lean years
A fascinating, comprehensive study of the American workforce, from the "roaring twenties" through the Great Depression.
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The letters of joe hill
The legend of Joe Hill, brought to life through his letters, songs, and writings.
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The loneliness of the black republican
The story of black conservatives in the Republican Party from the New Deal to Ronald ReaganCovering more than four decades of American social and political history, The Loneliness of the Black Republican examines the ideas and actions of black Republican activists, officials, and politicians, fro...
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The lucky ones
The Lucky Ones uncovers the story of the Tape family in post-gold rush, racially explosive San Francisco. Mae Ngai paints a fascinating picture of how the role of immigration broker allowed patriarch Jeu Dip (Joseph Tape) to both protest and profit from discrimination, and of the Tapes as the fir...
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The machiavellian moment
Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness arising from the ideal of the classical republic revived by Machiavelli and ot...
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The management of hate
Since German reunification in 1990, there has been widespread concern about marginalized young people who, faced with bleak prospects for their future, have embraced increasingly violent forms of racist nationalism that glorify the country's Nazi past. The Management of Hate, Nitzan Shoshan’s riv...
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The many deaths of jew süss
New historical insights into one of the most infamous episodes in the history of anti-SemitismJoseph Süss Oppenheimer—“Jew Süss”—is one of the most iconic figures in the history of anti-Semitism. In 1733, Oppenheimer became the “court Jew” of Carl Alexander, the duke of the small German state of ...
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The mexican heartland
A major new history of capitalism from the perspective of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, who sustained and resisted it for centuriesThe Mexican Heartland provides a new history of capitalism from the perspective of the landed communities surrounding Mexico City. In a sweeping analytical narrat...
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The mexican revolution
Why did the Mexican Revolution happen? What makes it distinctive? Was it even a revolution at all?
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The model minority stereotype
This sourcebook assists readers in locating research on the model minority stereotype of Asian American success. Each thematic chapter challenges the stereotype, and the second edition includes updated contents and a twelfth chapter, making it the most comprehensive book on the model minority myt...
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The most tenacious of minorities
Since arriving in Rome more than 2,000 years ago, the Jewish communities of Italy have retained their identity over millennia. This book traces the foundations of their community, focusing on their economic, intellectual, and social lives as they moved between northern and southern Italy. Over th...
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The new negro
An authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black people drew on to challenge the brutal, totalizing system of Jim Crow racismThis book brings together a wealth of readings on the metaphor of the “New Negro,” charting how generations of thinkers debated it...
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The northern grand tour
The untold story of the British who travelled to Northern Europe to encounter the men and manners of the modern worldConventional understanding of the Grand Tour of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is personified by the figure of a languid young British aristocrat sent to Italy to see the...
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The october revolution in prospect and retrospect
Using Robert Brenner's analysis of capitalism's origins as a framework, Marot examines Soviet attempts at building a post-capitalist society.
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The ohlone way
Selected by the San Francisco Chronicle’s as one of the top 100 western nonfiction books of the twentieth century.“Beautifully imagined and written.”—Alice WalkerOne of the most ground-breaking and highly-acclaimed titles that Heyday has published, The Ohlone Way describes the culture of the Indi...
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The origins of collective decision making
With invaluable insight and poignant analysis, Blunden traces the hidden origins of three paradigms of decision-making: Counsel, Majority, and Consensus.
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The other within
The Marranos were former Jews forced to convert to Christianity in Spain and Portugal, and their later descendents. Despite economic and some political advancement, these "Conversos" suffered social stigma and were persecuted by the Inquisition. In this unconventional history, Yirmiyahu Yovel tel...
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The outsiders
The history of Europe as a continent of refugeesEuropean history has been permeated with refugees. The Outsiders chronicles every major refugee movement since 1492, when the Catholic rulers of Spain set in motion the first mass flight and expulsion in modern European history. Philipp Ther provide...
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The pastoral care of women in late medieval england
A close examination of religious texts illuminates the way in which parish priests dealt with their female parishioners in the Middle Ages.The question of how priests were taught to think about and care for female parishioners is the topic of this book. As neither misogynist villains nor saintly ...
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The people’s justice
A major new interpretation of the French Revolution that brings to life the criminal tribunals at the heart of the Republic’s political culture In The People’s Justice, Carla Hesse offers a sweeping reappraisal of political violence in the French Revolution. From Charles Dickens to Hannah Arendt,...
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The perils of interpreting
A fascinating history of China’s relations with the West—told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney’s fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the East...
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The petrograd workers in the russian revolution
Two definitive works on the early days of the Russian Revolution, now collected in one captivating volume.
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The politics of the precariat
An innovative reading of the social history of Brazil using the "politics of the precariat" as an analytical vector.
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The poverty of work
This study takes readers inside the world of temping to discover a type of work dreadfully insecure yet growing rapidly.
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The promise and peril of credit
How an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalismThe Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in the West’s centuries-long struggle to define the place of private finance in the social and polit...
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The radical writings of jack nusan porter
Porter draws from the past to explain the present, walking the precarious bridge between allegiance to Israel and the Jewish people and the universal rights of all people. This collection combines theory, sociology, film studies, literary criticism, post-modern thought, and politics to understand...
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The red international of labour unions (rilu) 1920 - 1937
The first major scholarly account of one of the international communist movement’s most important organizations.
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The silenced majority
Goodman and Moynihan take an anti-establishment stance and get to the heart of today's critical news stories and political events.
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The sinking middle class
A fierce, historically informed polemic against the idea that the middle class is the key to US greatness, past and future.
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The slow moon climbs
A surprising look at the role of menopause in human history—and why we should change the ways we think about itAre the ways we look at menopause all wrong? Susan Mattern says yes and, in The Slow Moon Climbs, reveals just how wrong we have been. From the rainforests of Paraguay to the streets of ...
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The social basis of the female question
The first full-length English translation of the 1909 book from the revolutionary Russian Marxist feminist Alexandra Kollontai on the state of the contemporary bourgeois women’s movement and the role of working-class women in the struggle for women’s equality. In this classic text from 1909, Ale...
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The song dynasty
A definitive new history of China’s influential Song dynasty and its pivotal role in East Asia and beyond, by one of its leading historiansDespite constant pressure from the powerful steppe empires on its borders, the Song dynasty lasted for more than three centuries, from 960 to 1279, becoming o...
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The soviet century
An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet UnionThe Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in the USSR? What did it look, feel, smell, and sound like...
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The struggle for the people’s king
How the misuses of Martin Luther King’s legacy divide us and undermine democracyIn the post–civil rights era, wide-ranging groups have made civil rights claims that echo those made by Black civil rights activists of the 1960s, from people with disabilities to women’s rights activists and LGBTQ co...
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The study
A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance libraryWith the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe’s cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells the remarkable story of the Renaissance studio...
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