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Insisting that politics and ideology must remain at the forefront of any        examination of nineteenth-century America, Foner reasserts the centrality of the        Civil War to the people of that period. Taken together, the essays work towards        reintegrating the social, political, and intellectual history of the nineteenth        century....

America is fascinated by violence - where it comes from in ourselves, how it spreads through society, and what effect it has on the next generation. This collection of essays examines numerous facets of violence in contemporary American culture, ranging across literature, film, philosophy, religion, fairy tales, children's play, photojournalism,...

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Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare StateCaring for America is the definitive history of care work and its surprisingly central role in the American labor movement and class politics from the New Deal to the present. Authors Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein create a narrative of the home care industry that interweaves four...

This book discusses the interplay among bees, agriculture and the environment. Both managed and wild bees are critical for successful pollination of numerous fruit, vegetable, oilseed and legume seed crops and are considered here. So is treatment of how bees also impact the agro-ecosystem in ways beyond simple pollination, such as by transporting...