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  • The Right to Vote

    The Contested History of Democracy in the United States

    by Alexander Keyssar ...
    Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the disputed presidential contest of 2000 through the 2008 campaign and the election of Barack Obama. The Right to Vote is a sweeping ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?

    by Alexander Keyssar ...
    With every presidential election, Americans puzzle over the peculiar mechanism of the Electoral College. The author of the Pulitzer finalist The Right to Vote explains the enduring problem of this controversial institution.Every four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through the Electoral College, an arcane institution that permits the loser of the popular vote ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?

    by Alexander Keyssar ...
    Narrated by Stephen Bowlby ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 26 min

    With every presidential election, Americans puzzle over the peculiar mechanism of the Electoral College. The author of the Pulitzer finalist The Right to Vote explains the enduring problem of this controversial institution.Every four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through the Electoral College, an arcane institution that permits the loser of the popular vote ... Read more

    $24.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Dulcinea in the Factory

    Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Colombia's Industrial Experiment, 1905-1960

    by Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Andrew Gordon, Daniel James, Alexander Keyssar ...
    Series series Comparative and International Working-Class History
    Before it became the center of Latin American drug trafficking, the Colombian city of Medellín was famous as a success story of industrialization, a place where protectionist tariffs had created a “capitalist paradise.” By the 1960s, the city’s textile industrialists were presenting themselves as the architects of a social stability that rested on Catholic piety and strict sexual norms. Dulcinea ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Cultures in Contact

    World Migrations in the Second Millennium

    by Dirk Hoerder, Andrew Gordon, Alexander Keyssar, Daniel James ...
    Series series Comparative and International Working-Class History
    A landmark work on human migration around the globe, Cultures in Contact provides a history of the world told through the movements of its people. It is a broad, pioneering interpretation of the scope, patterns, and consequences of human migrations over the past ten centuries. In this magnum opus thirty years in the making, Dirk Hoerder reconceptualizes the history of migration and immigration, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Like Cattle and Horses

    Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1895-1927

    by S. A. Smith, Andrew Gordon, Alexander Keyssar, Daniel James ...
    Series series Comparative and International Working-Class History
    In Like Cattle and Horses Steve Smith connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. Moving from the late nineteenth century, when foreign companies first set up factories on Chinese soil, to 1927, when the labor movement created by the Chinese Communist Party was crushed by Chiang Kai-shek, Smith uses a host of documents—journalistic accounts of strikes, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Working Difference

    Women's Working Lives in Hungary and Austria, 1945-1995

    by Éva Fodor, Andrew Gordon, Daniel James, Alexander Keyssar ...
    Series series Comparative and International Working-Class History
    Working Difference is one of the first comparative, historical studies of women's professional access to public institutions in a state socialist and a capitalist society. Éva Fodor examines women's inclusion in and exclusion from positions of authority in Austria and Hungary in the latter half of the twentieth century. Until the end of World War II women's lives in the two countries, which were ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work

    A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York

    by Nancy L. Green, Andrew Gordon, Daniel James, Alexander Keyssar ...
    Series series Comparative and International Working-Class History
    Nancy L. Green offers a critical and lively look at New York’s Seventh Avenue and the Parisian Sentier in this first comparative study of the two historical centers of the women’s garment industry. Torn between mass production and "art," this industry is one of the few manufacturing sectors left in the service-centered cities of today. Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work tells the story of urban ... Read more

    $28.79 USD