American History
American History 20C American History Injury Impoverished Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era Nate Holdren | Drake University, Iowa
Combining archival research, critical theory, and gender- and disability-analysis, Nate Holdren argues that Progressive Era reform to employee injury law created new employment discrimination against disabled people and a new injury culture that treated employees and their injuries instrumentally. • Approaches Gilded Age compensation laws from a critical perspective • Shows how gender, disability, and class intersect in the issue of workplace injury • Offers tools and concepts to analyze the complexity of justice and injustice Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society 300pp 2 tables April 2020 9781108488709 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108657730
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LBJ’s 1968 Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America’s Year of Upheaval Kyle Longley | Arizona State University
Drawing on an extensive trove of written and oral sources, Longley explores how President Lyndon Baines Johnson perceived the most significant events of 1968 and how he responded. He highlights many of the challenges faced by the president during this year, which LBJ characterized as a ‘year of a continuous nightmare’. • Analyzes the crisis management style of a President • Features modern continuities in policymaking and political discourse, providing readers with a better understanding of the ongoing debates in today’s political sphere • Highlights the challenges facing a president after five years of almost non-stop change and a rising conservative backlash 374pp 12 b/w illus. January 2020 9781316643471 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 15.95 April 2018 9781107193031 Hardback GBP 23.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108140379
Nature at War American Environments and World War II Thomas Robertson
This anthology is the first sustained examination of American involvement in World War II through an environmental lens, focusing on how the War remade American landscapes, institutions, and environmental thinking, and how wartime developments shaped the contours of postwar American environments and environmental thinking. • Offers an in-depth examination of the twelve dimensions of the wartime environmental experience in the United States • Reveals how transportation networks, mines, farms, factories, and training camps transformed the US into an ‘Arsenal of Democracy’ • Contributes to the understanding of the military-industrial complex and the roots of the Great Acceleration and the Cold War 387pp 24 b/w illus. 6 maps 10 tables April 2020 9781108419765 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 April 2020 9781108412070 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781108304146
African American History Advocates of Freedom African American Transatlantic Abolitionism in the British Isles Hannah-Rose Murray | University of Edinburgh
Focusing on unexplored testimony, this book highlights numerous ways in which African Americans challenged slavery on British soil. Written with a wide audience in mind, it appeals to those who have an interest in American slavery and abolition, black activism, and the transatlantic journeys of African Americans to Britain. • Creates a framework for analysing activist resistance to slavery in the British Isles • Highlights anti-slavery activism in Britain after the American Civil War, an area vastly neglected by scholars • Updates and radically alters the scholarly field on transatlantic abolitionism after 1865 Slaveries since Emancipation 378pp September 2020 9781108487511 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108767057
American Slavery, American Imperialism US Perceptions of Global Servitude, 1870–1914 Catherine Armstrong | Loughborough University
Armstrong charts the legacy of slavery in the United States by tracing the representations of global slavery’s victims and perpetrators in popular culture after the Civil War. In doing so, she reveals the rhetorical manoeuvres that were used to justify exploitation and forced labour both in the US and globally. • Considers the global implications of U.S. slavery and demonstrates its relevance to the contemporary world • Draws on newspapers, cartoons, and popular media to understand the legacy of slavery • Explains how global trends were key to the economic and cultural aftermath of slavery Slaveries since Emancipation 412pp 87 b/w illus. 26 tables 300pp 9 b/w illus. July 2020 9781108477093 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108663908
As If She Were Free A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas Erica L. Ball | Occidental College, Los Angeles
Based on original archival sources, this sweeping and groundbreaking work brings together the biographies of twenty-four women of African descent to reveal how enslaved and recently freed women sought, imagined, and found freedom in the Americas from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. • Offers a new history of freedom by showing how women acted as agents of emancipation • Takes a comparative and comprehensive approach to the history of slavery and emancipation, rather than focusing on one nation or region • All chapters are original work and written by senior and rising women historians 320pp October 2020 9781108493406 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 October 2020 9781108737036 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108623957
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