Invisible Stars : A Social History of Women in American Broadcasting

Donna L. Halper
Hardcover - $68.95

The early years of American broadcasting seem to be an exclusively white male preserve, but broadcast historian Donna Halper documents the countless contributions made by women in this field since its earliest days. This artful social history conside ...

Hubris and Hybrids : A Cultural History of Technology and Science

Mikael Hard
Hardcover - $212.95

Human societies have not always taken on new technology in appropriate ways. Innovations are double-edged swords that transform relationships among people, as well as between human societies and the natural world. Only through successful cultural app ...

Contesting Power

Douglas Haynes
Hardcover - $117.95

Riots, rebellions, and revolutions have always captured our attention. But moments of upheaval do not contrast as strongly with "normal" times as many social historians, sociologists, and political scientists have assumed. Offering examples from Sout ...

Bowing to Necessities : A History of Manners in America, 1620-1860

C. Dallett Hemphill
Hardcover - $208.95

Anglo-Americans wrestled with some profound cultural contradictions as they shifted from the hierarchical and patriarchal society of the seventeenth-century frontier to the modern and fluid class democracy of the mid-nineteenth century.

Bowing to N ...

Children, Childhood and English Society, 1880-1990

Harry Henderick
Hardcover - $128.95

This book is intended to be a guide to the burgeoning literature on the history of childhood. Harry Hendrick reviews the most important debates and main findings of a number of historians on a range of topics including the changing social constructio ...

Children, Childhood and English Society, 1880-1990

Harry Hendrick
Paperback - $44.95

This book is intended to be a guide to the burgeoning literature on the history of childhood. Harry Hendrick reviews the most important debates and main findings of a number of historians on a range of topics including the changing social constructio ...

A History of Childhood : Children and Childhood in the West from Medieval to Modern Times

Colin Heywood
Paperback - $60.95

In this lively and accessible book, Colin Heywood explores the changing experiences and perceptions of childhood from the early Middle Ages to the beginning of the twentieth century. Heywood examines the different ways in which people have thought ab ...

Experimental Americans : Celo and Utopian Community in the Twentieth Century

George L. Hicks
Hardcover - $80.95

From colonial times to the present, the United States has been home to a steady stream of utopian experimental communities. In Experimental Americans, George L. Hicks takes us inside one of the longer-lived of such communities, Celo Community in west ...

Age of Atonement : The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought, 1785-1865

Boyd Hilton
Paperback - $222.95

In this study of the British upper and middle classes during the first half of the 19th century, Boyd Hilton reveals that the people of this age were obsessed with catastrophe: wars, famines, pestilences, revolutions, floods, volcanoes, and the great ...

Steel and Steelworkers : Race and Class Struggle in Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh

John H. Hinshaw
Paperback - $53.95