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How did a black sport, plagued by drug scandal and decimated by white flight, come to achieve such prominence? What are the subtle and not-so-subtle racial codes that define how the game is played and perceived, and the reception of its high-profile stars? This title deals with these questions.
In recent years, Peter N. Stearns has established himself as a historian of American emotional life. Now Stearns reveals the dichotomy at the heart of the national character: a self-indulgent hedonism and the famed American informality on the one hand, and a repressiveness on the other.
Social, Racial, and Environmental Injustice on the Shoreline
Explores how elites restrict access to public beaches around the globe Beaches are a beloved form of public space. Yet there has been an alarming global trend of restricting access to public sections of beaches to ensure that waterfront property owners can enjoy the shoreline exclusively or develop the land for commercial use. Beach Politics ......
Social, Racial, and Environmental Injustice on the Shoreline
Explores how elites restrict access to public beaches around the globe Beaches are a beloved form of public space. Yet there has been an alarming global trend of restricting access to public sections of beaches to ensure that waterfront property owners can enjoy the shoreline exclusively or develop the land for commercial use. Beach Politics ......
And Other Essays in 19th and 20th Century Feminist History
Spanning two decades of research and writing, this volume presents the influential and insightful work of Sally Alexander, one of Britain's most reputed feminist historians. Whether analyzing women's factory work, the emergence of the Victorian women's movement, or women's voices during the Spanish civil war, or charting the lives of women in the ......
And Other Essays in 19th and 20th Century Feminist History
Spanning two decades of research and writing, this volume presents the influential and insightful work of Sally Alexander, one of Britain's most reputed feminist historians. Whether analyzing women's factory work, the emergence of the Victorian women's movement, or women's voices during the Spanish civil war, or charting the lives of women in the ......