Burning Books

Haig A. Bosmajian
Hardcover - $117.95

For over 2000 years, book burners have laid their torches to millions of books condemned as heretical, blasphemous, immoral, obscene, subversive or seditious. This work provides a detailed account of book burning worldwide over the past 2000 years. T ...

Gig : Americans Talk about Their Jobs

John Bowe
Paperback - $27.95

"Amazing . . . a gem of a book that uses only the strength of the human voice to tell an American story -- sometimes dark, always fascinating."
-- "USA Today
"The accounts are wonderfully revealing, with gritty and almost shockingly honest det ...

Masters & Lords : Mid-19th-Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers

Shearer D. Bowman
Hardcover - $235.95

Among regional landed elites in the Western World of the mid-1800s, the two most formidable were the owners of slave plantations in the Southern states of the U.S. and the proprietors of manorial estates in the provinces of Prussian East Elbia. Maste ...

Literacy in American Lives

Deborah Brandt
Paperback - $68.95

Literacy in American Lives traces the changing conditions of literacy learning over the past century as they were felt in the lives of ordinary Americans born between 1895 and 1985. The book demonstrates what sharply rising standards for literacy hav ...

Working and Caring Over the Twentieth Century : Change and Continuity in Four-Generation Families

Julia Brannen
Hardcover - $159.95

Increased longevity and better health are changing the nature of family life. In the context of changes in the world of work, increased divorce and a declining welfare state, multi-generation or "beanpole families" are a potential new resource for fa ...

A Social History of the American Negro : Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States (1921)

Benjamin Griffith Brawley
Paperback - $57.95

Liberty & Conscience : A Documentary History of the Experiences of Conscientious Objectors in America Through the Civil War

Peter Brock
Paperback - $82.95

Although the act of conscientious objection entered modern consciousness most strikingly as a result of the Vietnam War, Americans have long struggled to reconcile their politics, pacifist beliefs, and compulsory military service. While conscientious ...

Liberty and Conscience : A Documentary History of the Experiences of Conscientious Objectors in America Through the Civil War

Peter Brock
Hardcover - $208.95

Although the act of conscientious objection entered modern consciousness most strikingly as a result of the Vietnam War, Americans have long struggled to reconcile their politics, pacifist beliefs, and compulsory military service. While conscientious ...

Car Crash Culture

Mikita Brottman
Paperback - $33.95

This book explores the grim underside of America's cult of the automobile and the frequently conspiratorial speculations that arise whenever people die in cars. Looking at fatal celebrity car accidents and other examples of death by automobile throug ...

Living Water : Vodka and Russian Society on the Eve of Emancipation

David Christian
Hardcover - $474.95

This is a study of the social, economic, and political role of vodka in nineteenth-century Russia. Since the "Green Serpent" first appeared in sixteenth-century Muscovy, it has played a vital part in Russian life. Vodka became an essential ingredient ...