Since their inception in the mid-19th century, World Fairs have introduced Americans to exotic pleasures, like belly dancing and the ferris wheel, and groundbreaking technologies such as telephones and x-rays. Profiling more than 30 fairs from 1853 to 1984, the authors demonstrate how the fairs reflected and influenced the ideals and complexities of their times. Includes archival photo of exhibits and souvenirs. ...

A historical record in words and pictures of American society in the years after World War II. At that time the self-image among America's white middle class was affluence and moral superiority, but it hid an undercurrent of racism, political witch hunts, and alienation. This dissonance between words of the social critics and photographic images of how Americans wanted to see themselves make the upheavals of the 1960s understandable. 170 photos. ...

Labor Pains is an insider's account of the struggle to rebuild a vibrant and powerful trade union movement in the United States. It takes as its starting point the daily experience of a union organizer, and brings that experience to life. It enables us to grasp how the conflicting demands of race, class, and gender are lived in the new union movement.<P>The role of the unions is defined mainly by larger economic and political agendas. ...

An audacious work, "Schnitzler's Century" presents an era filled with science and superstition, revolutionaries and reactionaries, eros and anxiety--in short, an age of contradiction rendered remarkably clear by an eloquent historian. 13 illustrations. ...

Written in 1883, this political and economic treatise is even more pertinent today than at the time of its first publication. Sumner champions the rights of the individual over the state and organized pressure groups. He defines the important role that the "Forgotten Man" must play in our social and economic development. ...

At the start of the nineteenth century, churches in Providence sought to bring together rich and poor "as Members of One great Family". Within a few decades, however, congregations had split along class lines, with plebeian men and women choosing to worship at their own meetinghouses. In this innovative and compelling history, Mark S. Schantz explores the relationship between religious culture and class formation in a New England ...

This comprehensive anthology of newly translated writings presents some of Aron's most important essays in 20th-century intellectual history and political commentary. ...

The intellectual spark that set off the flames of revolution in France and the United States was the same one that prompted a change in the way women viewed themselves and their role in society. Initially, the struggle for equal rights was meant to apply only to men but the strength of an ideal took hold and a movement was born. ideas Triumphant is the history of the reproductive rights movement from its early roots in post-revolutionary France ...

The intellectual spark that set off the flames of revolution in France and the United States was the same one that prompted a change in the way women viewed themselves and their role in society. Initially, the struggle for equal rights was meant to apply only to men but the strength of an ideal took hold and a movement was born. ideas Triumphant is the history of the reproductive rights movement from its early roots in post-revolutionary France ...

The following volume on the ancient methods of religious healing and the pagan healing gods is presented as an introductory historical study. The author has selected for study several of those great civilizations that preceded and overlapped the Christian era, from the birth of history to the time when paganism was suppressed by the edict of Emperor Theodosius. Contents: Healing Gods of: Ancient Egypt; Babylonia and Assyria; Pagan Semites; ...