Author : Charles William Calhoun
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 13,13 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780842050319
A collection of biographical sketches that profile the lives of ordinary Americans from colonial times through the Reconstruction.
Author : Eric Arnesen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780842029872
Assembles biographical stories of famous leaders and unknown activists, covering the 18th century up to 1970. Relates to enslaved artisans, interracial unionism, immigration, Jewish radicalism and gender, the New Black Politics, reverse migration in World War II, the United Farm Workers Union, etc.
Author : Charles W. Calhoun
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 22,58 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780842051293
Calhoun (history, East Carolina U., Greenville) offers a reader of 19 biographical essays from a series surveying modern US history from the perspective of a diversity of citizens: e.g. a former slave, interned Japanese immigrants, and champions of various causes. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Por
Author : David L. Anderson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 22,91 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780842029438
In the brief biographical essays of The Human Tradition in America since 1945, students will meet a wide range of diverse individuals-both men and women, rich and poor, powerful and vulnerable-who represent key elements of post-World War II America.
Author : Donald W. Whisenhunt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 12,30 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780842050128
American society in the years from 1920 to 1945 experienced great transformation and upheaval. Significant changes in the role of government, in the nation's world outlook, in the economy, in technology, and in the social order challenged those who lived in this tumultuous period framed by the two world wars.p This transformation lies at the core of this collection of biographical essays. Each individual in his or her own way grappled with the difficulties of the times. Some of those included here were well known in their day and afterwards, but many led lives now obscured by the passage of time. In these essays are men and women, African-Americans, Hispanics, whites, and Native Americans from all regions of the country. Written by leading and rising scholars, these never-before-published pieces provide students with a greater understanding of a period that in many ways represents an important last chapter in the creation of modern America. p Providing a rich portrait through biography of the interwar years, The Human Tradition in America between the Wars is an excellent text for the following courses: Twentieth Century American History to 1945, American history survey, the Depression and the New Deal, and American social and cultural history.p
Author : Roger Biles
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 19,57 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780842029933
Introduces problems and concerns facing different groups of urban Americans at different times through biographical readings.
Author : Benson Tong
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 14,77 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780842028615
The Human Tradition in the American West is an engrossing collection of 13 biographies of men and women whose contributions to the development of the American West have largely been left untold in the history books. This volume goes beyond the traditional biographical reader by including the lives that collectively offer racial and gender diversity as well as differing class and sexual orientation backgrounds. Editors Benson Tong and Regan A. Lutz have assembled an impressive group of scholars whose succinct and well-written accounts will give students a more complete understanding of this diverse, dynamic region of the United States. This book is an excellent resource for courses on the American West, U.S. history survey courses and courses in American social and cultural history.
Author : Clark Davis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,11 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780842050272
During the past three centuries, California has stood at the crossroads of European, Asian, Native American and Latino cultures, and seen the best and worst of multiracial and multi-ethnic interaction. The Human Tradition in California captures the region's rich history and takes readers into the daily lives of ordinary Californians at key moments in time. Professors Davis and Igler have selected essays that emphasize how individual people and communities have experienced and influenced the broad social, cultural, political and economic forces that have shaped California history. Organized chronologically from the pre-mission period through the late-twentieth century, this book taps into the whole spectrum of Californian experience and offers new perspectives on the state's complex social character. The story is personalized through the use of mini-biographies, drawing readers directly into the narrative.
Author : James C. Klotter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,27 MB
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1461601649
The importance of the South in the development of the United States has always been clear, but in recent decades the rise of the sunbelt-politically, economically, and culturally-has made the significance of the region's history all the more apparent. In The Human Tradition in the Old South, Professor James C. Klotter has gathered twelve insightful essays that explore the region's past and ponder its place in the broader story of the nation. This highly readable volume presents the South's rich and varied history through the lives of a wide range of individuals-men and women, African Americans, whites, and Native Americans from many different Southern states. Written by well-established scholars these mini-biographies collectively range in time from the late colonial/early national period to the present. Filled with lively stories of fascinating Southerners and the times in which they lived, The Human Tradition in the Old South is ideal for courses on Southern history, social history, race relations, and the American history survey course.
Author : James C. Klotter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780742544765
In The Human Tradition in the New South, historian James C. Klotter brings together twelve biographical essays that explore the region's political, economic, and social development since the Civil War. Like all books in this series, these essays chronicle the lives of ordinary Americans whose lives and contributions help to highlight the great transformations that occurred in the South. With profiles ranging from Winnie Davis to Dizzy Dean, from Ralph David Abernathy to Harland Sanders, The Human Tradition in the New South brings to life this dynamic and vibrant region and is an excellent resource for courses in Southern history, race relations, social history, and the American history survey.
