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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2020, Lauren Markham went to Greece to cover the burning of a refugee camp on Lesbos. Some said the refugees had done it, to destroy what had become their prison. Others said it was the island's fascists, or the government itself, enraged at the burden they bore for an overwhelming global problem. Soon - too soon - six young Afghan refugees were arrested. As she immersed herself in the reporting, Markham, an American of Greek heritage who had been...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
[First edition].
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 audio file (11 hr., 21 min.))
Language
English
Description
"Conversations about gender equity in the workplace accelerated in the 2010s, with debates inside Hollywood specifically pointing to broader systemic problems of employment disparities and exploitative labor practices. Compounded by the devastating #MeToo revelations, these problems led to a wide-scale call for change. The Value Gap traces female-driven filmmaking across development, financing, production, film festivals, marketing, and distribution,...
Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"Financial advisor and founder of RUNWAY lifts up historically undervalued Black entrepreneurs and proves the worth of eschewing traditional venture capitalist for community-based investors and partners. Believe-in-You Money is a call to action to move away from extractive, individualistic, exploitative approaches to capital and entrepreneurship. It asks us to instead move toward transformational, restorative, regenerative, interdependent relationships,...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First HarperOne hardcover [edition].
Physical Desc
678 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A history of England from the Norman Conquest through the twentieth century, told through the stories of ordinary women"--
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[1976]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A photographic essay that chronicles life in Louisville, Kentucky in the 1920s. This book is about people who passed through the First War on their way to the Great Depression. During the war, they had experienced government intervention and regulation of their food, their labor, and their thoughts more severe than their grandparents had experienced during the Civil War.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
x, 286 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An English émigré who became America's first professional architect, Benjamin Henry Latrobe put his stamp on the built landscape of the new republic. Latrobe contributed to such iconic structures as the south wing of the US Capitol building, the White House, and the Navy Yard. He created some of the early republic's greatest neoclassical interiors, including the Statuary Hall and the Senate, House, and Supreme Court Chambers. As a young man, Latrobe...
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
213 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by generations of her family's unwavering belief in the power of education, Pashtana Durrani recognized her calling early in life: to educate Afghanistan's girls and young women, raised in a society where learning is forbidden. In a country devastated by war and violence, heeding that call seemed both impossible and dangerous. Pashtana founded the nonprofit LEARN and developed a program for getting educational materials directly into the...
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xii, 224 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"To date, every scholarly book on the history of medicine and slavery has a single author. Each is thus beholden to the practical limitations of single-authored texts. 'Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery,' by contrast, brings together scholars of diverse places and empires around the Atlantic to make a novel intervention into these histories by including diverse actors, wide-ranging periodization, and spanning across multiple empires. Contributors...
Author
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xiv, 366 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Recounts the enormous influence of artists in the evolution of six southern cities--Atlanta, Charleston, New Orleans, Louisville, Austin, and Miami--from 1865 to 1950 ... Pollack surveys these New South cities with an eye to understanding how each locale shaped its artistic and aesthetic self-perception across a spectrum of economic, political, gender, and race issues. She also discusses Lost Cause imagery, present in all the studied municipalities"--Dust...
Author
Publisher
West Virginia University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 198 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Bruce Crawford, a southwest Virginia journalist-writer of the radical tradition and one of the first to interpret Appalachian labor history"--
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xi, 273 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This book argues that racism and white supremacist attitudes in the North, and not just the opposition of Andrew Johnson, blocked the adoption of Black suffrage (for men) in 1865. The virulent, racist tactics of the Democratic Party, as well as racism among a minority of Republicans and the small size of the northern Black population helped explain why the vigorous efforts of northern Blacks, southern Blacks, abolitionists, and Radical Republicans...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A bestselling music historian follows Jelly Roll Morton on a journey through the hidden worlds and forbidden songs of early blues and jazz. In Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories, Elijah Wald takes readers on a journey into the hidden and censored world of early blues and jazz, guided by the legendary New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton. Morton became nationally famous as a composer and bandleader in the 1920s, but got his start...
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
251 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When we think about the origins of Cuban immigration to the United States, we often imagine the anti-Communist exiles who fled the regime of Fidel Castro and settled in South Florida during the 1950s and 1960s. But before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, working-class migrants from prerevolutionary Cuba crossed the Florida Straits and made Ybor City the center of the immigrant South and the global capital of the Cuban cigar industry. Located...
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