The Lives of Dwarfs : Their Journey from Public Curiosity Toward Social Liberation

Betty M. Adelson
Hardcover - $57.95

Historically, they have borne the labels "freaks" and "oddities": they have been collected as pets, displayed as spectacles, and treated as comic relief. Now, for the first time, in this elegant and comprehensive volume, the lives of dwarfs are explo ...

The House of Bondage : Or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves

Octavia V. Rogers Albert
Hardcover - $208.95

Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists in Texas :

Paul Barton
Paperback - $44.95

"Dr. Barton's book will provide an arena for significant dialogue among scholars, as well as between Catholics and Protestants, on the nature and significance of Hispanic Protestantism in the United States.... There is no question that this book is a ...

Ethnicity & Equality : France in the Balance

Azouz Begag
Paperback - $24.95

In the fall of 2005 the streets of France were rocked by civil disturbances on a scale unseen for decades. Only months earlier Azouz Begag, France’ s first minister for equal opportunities and first-ever cabinet minister of North African immigr ...

The Industrial Revolution and Work in Nineteenth Century Europe

L. Berlanstein
Paperback - $88.95

A generation of labor history, highlighted in this volume, has revealed the inadequacies of the Industrial Revolution as a way of conceptualizing economic change. This volume brings the debate on working-class formation up-to-date.

Peasants and Governments - An Economic Analysis

David Bevan
Hardcover - $460.95

The first of two companion volumes on trade shocks in controlled economies, the authors here address the relationship between micro and macroeconomics through analysis of an external macro shock--the coffee price boom--on two developing countries who ...

Postville : A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America

Stephen G. Bloom
Paperback - $24.95

A conflict between two deeply rooted traditions raises the specter of anti-Semitism and provokes a struggle over a community's future of how to accommodate diverse but equally powerful traditions, and how small towns can compete with big money.

Agrarian Bengal

Sugata Bose
Paperback - $80.95

Considers Indian economic and social history and draws important conclusions about peasant politics in general.

Working Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960

Joanna Bourke
Paperback - $88.95

This textbook looks at the construction of class within the intimate contexts of the body, the home, the marketplace, the locality and the nation to assess how the subjective identity of the working class' has been mainta

Brotherman

Herb Boyd
Paperback - $36.95

"[AN] OUTSTANDING COLLECTION...
The powerful opening excerpt by Frederick Douglass evokes his boyhood as a slave, and the collection closes with an eloquent discussion of the race problem today by Cornel West. A distinguished addition to black stu ...