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Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850-1920 Second Edition

Rodgers Daniel T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226136233, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
336 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

The phrase "a strong work ethic" conjures images of hard-driving employees working diligently for long hours. But where did this ideal come from, and how has it been buffeted by changes in work itself? While seemingly rooted in America's Puritan heri...

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Business & Economics

Rise of the Public Authority Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century America

Radford Gail

ISBN: PB: 9780226037721, ISBN: HB: 9780226037691, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 5 halftones, 3 line illus.

In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies and meeting the infrastructure needs of a newly urban, industrial nation. Stymied by legal barriers,...

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America

Gender Studies

Nature's Noblemen Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-century American West

Rico Monica

ISBN: HB: 9780300136067, Yale University Press, July 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

In this fascinating book Monica Rico explores the myth of the American West in the nineteenth century as a place for men to assert their masculinity by "roughing it" in the wilderness and reveals how this myth played out in a transatlantic context. R...

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America

Rush to Gold France, the French, and the California Gold Rush, 1848-1854

Rohrbough Malcolm J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300181401, Yale University Press, July 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

The California Gold Rush began in 1848 and incited many "wagons west". However, only half of the 300,000 gold seekers travelled by land. The other half travelled by sea. And it's the story of this second group that interests Malcolum Rohrbough in his...

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America

Republic Afloat Law, Honor, and Citizenship in Maritime America

Raffety Matthew Taylor

ISBN: HB: 9780226924007, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones

In the years before the Civil War, many Americans saw the sea as a world apart, an often violent and insular culture governed by its own definitions of honor and ruled by its own authorities. The truth, however, is that legal cases that originated at...

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America

Buffalo Bill in Bologna The Americanization of the World, 1869-1922

Rydell Robert W., Kroes Rob

ISBN: PB: 9780226007120, ISBN: HB: 9780226732428, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 37 halftones

When it comes to the production and distribution of mass culture, no country in modern times has come close to rivaling the success of America. From blue jeans in central Europe to Elvis Presley's face on a Republic of Chad postage stamp, the reach o...

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Philosophy

America

American Nietzsche A History of an Icon and His Ideas

Ratner-Rosenhagen Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780226006765, ISBN: HB: 9780226705811, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
464 pp., 23x15 cm, 21 halftones

If you were looking for a philosopher likely to appeal to Americans, Friedrich Nietzsche would be far from your first choice. After all, in his blazing career, Nietzsche took aim at nearly all the foundations of modern American life: Christian morali...

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America

General

Alaska Native Cultures and Issues Responses to Frequently Asked Questions

Roderick Libby

ISBN: PB: 9781602230910, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2010
102 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 16 halftones

Making up more than ten percent of Alaska's population, Native Alaskans are the state's largest minority group. Yet most non-Native Alaskans know surprisingly little about the histories and cultures of their indigenous neighbors, or about the importa...

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America

Jewish Studies

American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise

Reinharz Shulamit, Raider Mark A.

ISBN: PB: 9781584654391, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2004
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Despite a historical record that shows sustained involvement of American Jewish women with early Zionism and Palestine, this topic has received scant scholarly attention. A major contribution to Zionist history, women's history, and American history,...

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