Integrates the findings of the 'new' labor history into the established framework of nineteenth-century American labor history. This title is suitable for the students of nineteenth-century America.
Integrates the findings of the 'new' labor history into the established framework of nineteenth-century American labor history. This title is suitable...
Is class outmoded as a basis for understanding labor history? This significant new collection emphatically says No Touching on such subjects as migrant labor, religion, ethnicity, agricultural history, and gender, these thirteen essays by former students of David Montgomery -- a preeminent leader in labor circles as well as in academia -- demonstrate the sheer diversity of the field today.
Is class outmoded as a basis for understanding labor history? This significant new collection emphatically says No Touching on such subjects as migra...
Why was Massachusetts one of the few Northern states to grant African-American males the right to vote? Why did it pass personal liberty laws, which helped protect fugitive slaves from federal authorities in the two decades immediately preceding the Civil War? Beyond Garrison finds answers to these important questions in unfamiliar and surprising places. Its protagonists are not the noble supporters of American abolitionism grouped around William Lloyd Garrison, but, rather, ordinary men and women in country towns and villages, encouraged by African-American activists throughout the state....
Why was Massachusetts one of the few Northern states to grant African-American males the right to vote? Why did it pass personal liberty laws, which h...
Long ago dubbed the "Paradise of America," Northampton, Massachusetts, is also known as the home of visionaries -- from the Reverend Jonathan Edwards, father of the First Great Awakening, to George W. Benson, brother-in-law of William Lloyd Garrison and a founder of the utopian Northampton Association for Education and Industry. During the mid-nineteenth century the town became a center of political abolitionism and a hub in the Underground Railroad. In this book, Bruce Laurie profiles five rebellious figures who launched Northampton's abolitionist movement -- Sylvester Judd Jr., John...
Long ago dubbed the "Paradise of America," Northampton, Massachusetts, is also known as the home of visionaries -- from the Reverend Jonathan Edwar...
