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Working People and Class Consciousness in Detroit, 1875-1900
''Solidarity and Fragmentation should be required reading for anyone involved in the current labor movement -- indeed, for anyone interested in the prospects for radical change in America. . . . It is radical history at its best, speaking directly to the descendants of radicals and social visionaries about the lessons of their past.'' -- Monthly ......
''This book has proved for me the best edition of Poe's short fiction for classroom use. Its best feature, among many good ones, is its ample annotations. Those annotations, indispensable for such an allusive author as Poe, illuminate the text at every turn. I heartily recommend it to teachers and students alike.''--Sidney P. Moss, professor ......
Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875-1925
In this pioneering study, David Emmons tells the story of Butte's large and assertive population of Irish immigrants. He traces their backgrounds in Ireland, the building of an ethnic community in Butte, the nature and hazards of their work in the copper mines, and the complex interplay between Irish nationalism and worker consciousness.From a ......
''In its hard headed, richly documented concreteness, it is worth a thousand polemics.'' -- New York Times, from a review of the first edition''The Curse deserves a place in every women's studies library collection.'' -- Sharon Golub, editor of Lifting the curse of Menstruation''A stimulating and useful book, both for the scholarly and the general ......
A Descriptive Bibliography of Travel Over the Great Central Overland Route to Oregon, California, Utah, Colorado, Montana, and Other Western States and Territories, 1812-1866
This massive annotated bibliography of all known significant eyewitness accounts of 19th-century central overland travel fills a conspicuous gap in historical literature, and will greatly accelerate future research, writing, and collecting in this important phase of western Americana. Platte River Road Narratives includes not only all identifiable ......
Historic Sites and Markers is an indispensable guide for travelers who wish to retrace the various frontier routes taken by the Mormons and other pioneers in their treks westward. Traversing fifteen states from New York to California, Stanley Kimball presents some of America's most famous trails--the Mormon, the Oregon-California, the Santa Fe, ......
''This is the edition of The Jungle that historians of labor and immigration history have long needed. James Barrett's meticulous editing has located Upton Sinclair's classic novel precisely in the social and political history of the early twentieth century.''-- David Montgomery, Yale University
Robert Parker ranges widely through literary history and theory to give the poems of Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79) the serious critical attention they deserve. The Unbeliever shows that Bishop's poems, already famous for their clear and quiet tone, also struggle with confusion and wonder about things she can never make quiet or clear.
Anne Sexton (1928-74) was among the most daring of New England's confessional poets. Long after her death, the ''confessional'' label has prevented readers and critics from appreciating the full range of Sexton's poetic achievement. Sexton: Selected Criticism cracks open the critical bell jar surrounding Sexton to reveal a lively, ongoing ......
