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Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Frequent insights, stimulating historical comparisons, and command of the data relating to Cuba's economic and social performance." -- Foreign Affairs Uncritically lauded by the left and impulsively denounced by the right, the Cuban Revolution is almost universally viewed one dimensionally. In this book, Samuel Farber, one of its most informed left-wing critics, provides a much-needed critical assessment of the Revolution's impact and legacy. "The...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth exploration of the greatest food crisis the nation has ever faced -- the Great Depression -- and how it transformed America's culinary culture. The decade-long Great Depression, a period of shifts in the country's political and social landscape, forever changed the way America eats. Before 1929, America's relationship...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"From one of most prominent figures in the field of meditation comes a guidebook for how to use mindfulness to build our inner strength, find balance, and help create a better world In today's fractured world we're constantly flooded with breaking news that cause anger, grief, and pain. People are feeling more stressed out than ever and in the face of this fear and anxiety they can feel so burnt out and overwhelmed that they end up frozen in their...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of the Boston Post Road, which connected New York City and Boston and evolved into the nation's first major highway system, and describes the road's importance to the political, economic, and social development of the United States.
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Series
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Easily the most thorough and best-grounded account of the coal-based system of heating in the nineteenth-century United States...authoritative." -- The New England Quarterly Home Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake American society. Sean Patrick Adams reconstructs the ways in which the "industrial hearth" appeared in American cities, the methods...
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The wild, combative inside story of the most stunning upset in the history of presidential elections: Harry Truman's 1948 victory over Tom Dewey. Outstanding ... by far the best yet about the fateful [1948] election." -- Minneapolis Star-Tribune "Coherent, compelling ... A skillful, authoritative investigation." -- Kirkus Reviews Award-winning historian David Pietrusza unpacks the most ingloriously iconic headline in the history of presidential elections...
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