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Philip Hoff
Castleton State College 2011; US$ 24.99This is the story of one of the most exciting and important periods in Vermont history, and of the man most responsible for shaping it more...
Diaspora and Class Consciousness
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 133.00This book is an ethnographic study of the multi-linear process of racial knowledge formation among a relatively invisible population in the Chinese American community in Chicago, namely the working class. Shanshan Lan defines "Chinese immigrant workers" as Chinese immigrants with limited English language skills who work primarily at low-skill, blue-collar... more...
The Underground Railroad in DeKalb County, Illinois
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2013; US$ 45.00This book is about previously unidentified people who became Abolitionists involved in the antislavery movement from about 1840 to 1860. Although arrests were made in nearby counties, not one person was prosecuted for aiding a fugitive slave in DeKalb County, Illinois. First, the area Congregationalist, Universalist, Presbyterian and Wesleyan Methodist... more...
First Son
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 18.00"Mayor Richard M. Daley dropped the bomb at a routine news conference at City Hall on Tuesday. With no prelude or fanfare, Mr. Daley announced that he would not seek re-election when his term expires next year. 'Simply put, it's time,' he said." New York Times, September 7, 2010 With those four words, an era ended. After twenty-two... more...
Great American City
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 20.00For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories place us at the mercy of global forces beyond our control. These two perspectives dominate contemporary... more...
Popular Culture and the Enduring Myth of Chicago, 1871-1968
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 39.95This book is an examination of the image of Chicago in American popular culture between the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and Chicago's 1968 Democratic National Convention. more...
Our Town
Crown Publishing Group 2006; US$ 14.95The brutal lynching of two young black men in Marion, Indiana, on August 7, 1930, cast a shadow over the town that still lingers. It is only one event in the long and complicated history of race relations in Marion, a history much ignored and considered by many to be best forgotten. But the lynching cannot be forgotten. It is too much a part of the... more...
Jim Crow Nostalgia
University of Minnesota Press 2008; US$ 57.00In the Jim Crow era of the early twentieth century, Chicagos Bronzeville neighborhood on the citys South Side was a major center of African American cultural vitality and a destination for thousands of Southern blacks seeking new opportunities in the North during the Great Migration. After decades of decline, the 1980s saw several community... more...
Full Throttle
Wiley 2009; US$ 22.95Do you want to be charged up every day? Do you want to be focused for every meeting? Do you want greater health, balance and happiness? Facing a continual barrage of tasks coupled with a tough economy, many people feel completely drained by day’s end. To stay ahead of the game, you need to capitalize on your energy, to go full throttle when needed. Based... more...
The Women's Great Lakes Reader
Ladyslipper Press, Inc. 2001; US$ 24.95Women lighthouse keepers, fur traders, cooks on sailing vessels, missionaries, and fearless travelers all wrote of their lives on the Great Lakes, both publicly and in quiet testimonies such as letters, logbooks, and diaries. Their narratives, which span the centuries from 1789 to the present, are now collected in this anthology. Compiled in response... more...









