The Immigrant in America: Finns (reels 38-56); Irish (reels 57-71); Scotch-Irish (reels 72-73); Scots (reels 74-75)
Title | The Immigrant in America: Finns (reels 38-56); Irish (reels 57-71); Scotch-Irish (reels 72-73); Scots (reels 74-75) PDF eBook |
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Pages | 106 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Aliens |
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Eavesdropping on Hell
Title | Eavesdropping on Hell PDF eBook |
Author | Robert J. Hanyok |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0486481271 |
This official government publication investigates the impact of the Holocaust on the Western powers' intelligence-gathering community. It explains the archival organization of wartime records accumulated by the U.S. Army's Signal Intelligence Service and Britain's Government Code and Cypher School. It also summarizes Holocaust-related information intercepted during the war years.
The Wages of Whiteness
Title | The Wages of Whiteness PDF eBook |
Author | David R. Roediger |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2022-11-22 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1839768304 |
Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white working-class racism is underpinned by a complex series of psychological and ideological mechanisms that reinforce racial stereotypes, and thus help to forge the identities of white workers in opposition to Blacks.
North Dakota Historical Quarterly
Title | North Dakota Historical Quarterly PDF eBook |
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Pages | 394 |
Release | 1941 |
Genre | North Dakota |
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Humanitarianism in the Modern World
Title | Humanitarianism in the Modern World PDF eBook |
Author | Norbert Götz |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 371 |
Release | 2020-07-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108493521 |
A fresh look at two centuries of humanitarian history through a moral economy approach focusing on appeals, allocation, and accounting.
Reel Time
Title | Reel Time PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Morris Seiler |
Publisher | Athabasca University Press |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1926836995 |
In this authoritative work, Seiler and Seiler argues that the establishment and development of moviegoing and movie exhibition in Prairie Canada is best understood in the context of changing late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century social, economic, and technological developments. From the first entrepreneurs who attempted to lure customers in to movie exhibition halls, to the digital revolution and its impact on moviegoing, Reel Time highlights the pivotal role of amusement venues in shaping the leisure activities of working- and middle-class people across North America.
Erin's Heirs
Title | Erin's Heirs PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Clark |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2014-07-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0813150515 |
"They will melt like snowflakes in the sun," said one observer of nineteenth-century Irish emigrants to America. Not only did they not melt, they formed one of the most extensive and persistent ethnic subcultures in American history. Dennis Clark now offers an insightful analysis of the social means this group has used to perpetuate its distinctiveness amid the complexity of American urban life. Basing his study on family stories, oral interviews, organizational records, census data, radio scripts, and the recollections of revolutionaries and intellectuals, Clark offers an absorbing panorama that shows how identity, organization, communication, and leadership have combined to create the Irish-American tradition. In his pages we see gifted storytellers, tough dockworkers, scribbling editors, and colorful actresses playing their roles in the Irish-American saga. As Clark shows, the Irish have defended and extended their self-image by cultivating their ethnic identity through transmission of family memories and by correcting community portrayals of themselves in the press and theatre. They have strengthened their ethnic ties by mutual association in the labor force and professions and in response to social problems. And they have created a network of communications ranging from 150 years of Irish newspapers to America's longest-running ethnic radio show and a circuit of university teaching about Irish literature and history. From this framework of subcultural activity has arisen a fascinating gallery of leadership that has expressed and symbolized the vitality of the Irish-American experience. Although Clark draws his primary material from Philadelphia, he relates it to other cities to show that even though Irish communities have differed they have shared common fundamentals of social development. His study constitutes a pathbreaking theoretical explanation of the dynamics of Irish-American life.