This pathbreaking volume explores the history of occupational safety and health in America from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s. Thirteen essays tell a story of the exploitation of workers as measured by shortened lives, high disease rates, and painful injuries. Scholars from a variety of disciplines examine the history of protection and compensation for injured workers, state and federal involvement, controversies over the dangers of lead, and the three emblematic industrial diseases of this century radium poisoning, asbestos-related diseases, and brown lung.
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This pathbreaking volume explores the history of occupational safety and health in America from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s. Thirteen ...
"To give a sense of immediacy and vividness to the long period in such a short space is a major achievement." History
"Huppert s book is a little masterpiece every teacher should welcome." Renaissance Quarterly
A work of genuine social history, After the Black Death leads the reader into the real villages and cities of European society. For this second edition, George Huppert has added a new chapter on the incessant warfare of the age and thoroughly updated the bibliographical essay.
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Praise for the first edition:
"To give a sense of immediacy and vividness to the long period in such a short space is a major achievement." ...
" . . . a sweeping, analytical synethsis of collective violence from the colonial experience to the present." -American Studies "Gilje has written 'the book' on rioting throughout American history." -The Historian ." . . a thorough, illuminating, and at times harrowing account of man's inhumanity to man." -William and Mary Quarterly " . . . fulfills its title's promise as an encyclopedic study . . . an impressive accomplishment and required reading for anyone interested in America's contentious past." -Journal of the Early Republic "Gilje has written a thought-provoking survey of the social...
" . . . a sweeping, analytical synethsis of collective violence from the colonial experience to the present." -American Studies "Gilje has written 'th...
In France, both political culture and theatrical performances have drawn upon melodrama. This "melodramatic thread" helped weave the country's political life as it moved from monarchy to democracy. By examining the relationship between public ceremonies and theatrical performance, James R. Lehning sheds light on democratization in modern France. He explores the extent to which the dramatic forms were present in the public performance of political power. By concentrating on the Republic and the Revolution and on theatrical performance, Lehning affirms the importance of examining the...
In France, both political culture and theatrical performances have drawn upon melodrama. This "melodramatic thread" helped weave the country's poli...
..". a model of judiciousness and integrative analysis... " --Research in African Literatures
Poet and anthropologist Michael Jackson brings to this study of the folktales of the Kuranko people of Sierra Leone a sensitivity to the philosophical nuances of literature.
..". a model of judiciousness and integrative analysis... " --Research in African Literatures
Poet and anthropologist Michael Jackson brings ...
