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''An important book . . . that I wish every member of Congress and would-be president would carefully study.'' -- George McGovern ''A timely and valuable study that makes a useful contribution to preserving the Constitution and our hopes for survival.'' -- Journal of American History ''To Chain the Dog of War does an excellent job of putting ......
This vitally important volume places the problem of wife beating in a broad cultural context in a search for strategies to reform societies, including our own, that are prone to this pernicious form of violence. Based on first hand ethnographic data on more than a dozen societies, including a number in Oceania, this collection explores the ......
How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
Working poor women, feminist activism, and the birth of a new era of grassroots empowerment
Launched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia. There, the federal government found unexpected allies among working-class white women devoted to a local tradition of citizen ......
How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
Working poor women, feminist activism, and the birth of a new era of grassroots empowerment
Launched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia. There, the federal government found unexpected allies among working-class white women devoted to a local tradition of citizen ......
A story of the growth of the new South, To Make My Bread revolves around a family of Appalachian mountaineers - small farmers, hunters, and moonshiners - driven by economic conditions to the milltown and transformed into millhands, strikers, and rebels against the established order. Recognized as one of the major works on the Gastonia textile ......
The Holocaust takes on a riveting immediacy in these true stories of the everyday, understated heroism that saved thousands of Jews from annihilation at the hands of the Third Reich. Combining personal interviews with contemporary and vintage photographs, To Save a Life pairs the stories of a handful of rescuers with those of the people they ......
The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865
To Tell A Free Story traces in unprecedented detail the history of black America's most innovative literary tradition -- the autobiography -- from its beginnings to the end of the slavery era.
''Searing. . . . With an even hand and understated prose, Ms. Rosenberg, now a New York City psychotherapist, bravely depicts Nazi carnage in chilling detail.'' -- Susan Shapiro, New York Times Book Review ''[A] harrowing account of intrigue and danger with all the elements of a war movie adventure.'' -- Miriam Rinn, The Forward This memoir of how ......
Co-winner of the 1998 Poet's Prize Long known as a master narrative poet, Sydney Lea combines a sure lyrical ear with a storyteller's eye for plot, character, and physical detail. His poems, according to Stanley Plumly, ''live at the level at which lyricism is crowded with the daily lives of those who will not or cannot speak for themselves--the ......
