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|  | Creation of the Modern World by Roy Porter
A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. AUTHOR: Roy Porter
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History 
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 | Southern History Across the Color Line by Nell Irvin Painter
The color line, once all too solid in southern public life, still exists in the study of southern history. As distinguished historian Nell Irvin Painter notes, historians often still write about the South as though people of different races occupied entirely different spheres. In truth, although blacks and whites were expected to remain in their assigned places in the southern social hierarchy, their lives were thoroughly entangled. In this powerful collection, Painter reaches across the color line to examine how race, gender, class, and individual subjectivity shaped the lives of black and white women and men in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century South. Through six essays, she explores such themes as interracial sex, white supremacy, and the physical and psychological violence of slavery, using insights gleaned from psychology and feminist social science as well as social, cultural, and intellectual history. At once pioneering and reflective, the book illustrates both the breadth of Painter's interests and the originality of her intellectual contributions. It will inspire and guide a new generation of historians who take her goal of transcending the color bar as their own. AUTHOR: Nell Irvin Painter
PUBLISHER: The University of North Carolina Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Families & Freedom by Ira Berlin, Leslie S. Rowland
Families and Freedom tells the story of the remaking of the African American family during the Civil War era. The editors draw upon the letters and testimony of freed slaves. Former slaves recount their experiences from the elation of finding lost family members to the sadness of discovering that long-lost spouses had remarried. The transition from slaves to free people is made vivid in the words of the people who traveled that road. AUTHOR: Ira Berlin, Leslie S. Rowland
PUBLISHER: New Press, The
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Pursuit of Equity by Alice Kessler-Harris
In this volume, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the transformation of some of the United States` most significant social policies. Tracing changing ideals of fairness from the 1920s to the 1970s, she shows how a deeply embedded set of beliefs, or gendered imagination shaped seemingly neutral social legislation to limit the freedom and equality of women. Law and custom generally sought to protect women from exploitation, and sometimes from employment itself; but at the same time, they assigned the most important benefits to wage work. Most policy makers (even female ones) assumed from the beginning that women would not be breadwinners. Kessler-Harris shows how ideas about what was fair for men as well as women influenced old age and unemployment insurance, fair labor standards, Federal income tax policy, and the new discussion of women`s rights that emerged after World War II. Only in the 1960s and 1970s did the gendered imagination begin to alter--yet the process is far from complete. AUTHOR: Alice Kessler-Harris
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Story of the Irish Race by Seumas Macmanus
The whole saga of the Irish from earliest times to the present -- the various races from the time of Firbolg and the quest and occupation by the Milesians Spain through the various invasions; history, culture, religion, laws, arts, ties, folklore, trade, literature, heroes Fein, Easter Uprising, etc. AUTHOR: Seumas Macmanus
PUBLISHER: Random House Value Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | German Light Panzers by Bryan Perrett
The light tanks of the Panzerwaffe make a fascinating subject for technical and historical study. The versatile and highly effective fighting machine almost brought Moscow into the grasp of the German army during Operation Barbarossa. AUTHOR: Bryan Perrett
PUBLISHER: Osprey Publishing, Limited
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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