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• Author : Jefferson Cowie
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release Date : 2017-04-18

Where does the New Deal fit in the big picture of American history? What does it mean for us today? What happened to the economic equality it once engendered? In The Great Exception, Jefferson Cowie provides new answers to these important questions. In the period between the Great Depression and

• Author : Carey McWilliams
• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• Release Date : 1999-04-02

This edition is graced by a new foreword by Lewis Lapham.

• Author : Jefferson Cowie
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release Date : 2016-01-12

How the New Deal was a unique historical moment and what this reveals about U.S. politics, economics, and culture Where does the New Deal fit in the big picture of American history? What does it mean for us today? What happened to the economic equality it once engendered? In

• Author : Jefferson Cowie
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2016-01-26

The New Deal: where does it fit in the big picture of American history? What does it mean for us today? What happened to the economic equality it once engendered? In The Great Exception, Jefferson Cowie provides new answers to these big questions. Beginning in the Great Depression and through

• Author : Jefferson R. Cowie
• Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
• Release Date : 2011-03-01

An epic account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the '70s, Stayin' Alive is a wide-ranging cultural and political history that presents the decade in a whole new light. Jefferson Cowie's edgy and incisive book - part political intrigue, part labor

• Author : Gary Gerstle,Joel Isaac
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• Release Date : 2020-11-10

States of Exception in American History brings to light the remarkable number of instances since the Founding in which the protections of the Constitution have been overridden, held in abeyance, or deliberately weakened for certain members of the polity. In the United States, derogations from the rule of law seem

• Author : Giorgio Agamben
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• Release Date : 2008-07-18

Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorist activities and their subsequent trials by a military commission. Here, distinguished Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben uses such circumstances to

• Author : Jefferson Cowie,Joseph Heathcott,Barry Bluestone
• Publisher : Cornell University Press
• Release Date : 2003

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• Author : Rachel Kushner
• Publisher : New Directions Publishing
• Release Date : 2015-03-24

Three early stories of myth, regime, and harlotry by the acclaimed author of The Flamethrowers. An explorer’s whereabouts keeps a queen in waiting; a faith healer’s illegal radio broadcasts give hope to an oppressed people; a president’s offer of ice cream surprises a prostitute expecting to cooperate

• Author : Christian Jungersen
• Publisher : Anchor Books
• Release Date : 2014-10-07

Struggling to protect her son and herself from her increasingly volatile, once-respected husband whose brain-degenerative condition has led him to defraud a school, Mia faces tough legal and moral dilemmas.

• Author : Senior Lecturer in French Studies Emmanuel Godin,Emmanuel Godin,Tony Chafer
• Publisher : Berghahn Books
• Release Date : 2005

The notion of French exceptionalism is deeply embedded in the nation's self-image and in a range of political and academic discourses. Recently, the debate about whether France really is "exceptional" has acquired a critical edge. Against the background of introspection about the nature of "national identity," some proclaim "normalisation" and

• Author : Carey McWilliams
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1949

Read online California the Great Exception written by Carey McWilliams, published by which was released on 1949. Download full California the Great Exception Books now! Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle.

• Author : Ian Stock
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2018

Ian Stock's gripping The Great Exception offers an alternative interpretation of what it means to teach and proposes a perspective on the profession that represents the actual work of teachers in a fairer and more accurate way.

• Author : Kiran Klaus Patel
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release Date : 2017-05-09

The New Deal: A Global History provides a radically new interpretation of a pivotal period in US history. The first comprehensive study of the New Deal in a global context, the book compares American responses to the international crisis of capitalism and democracy during the 1930s to responses by other

• Author : Jefferson Cowie
• Publisher : The New Press
• Release Date : 2001

The highly acclaimed account of one renowned company's labor struggles in its rise to global power. Globalization is the lead story of the new century, but its roots reach back nearly one hundred years, to major corporations' quest for stable, inexpensive, and pliant sources of labor. Before the largest companies