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  • The Skull Collectors

    Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead

    by Ann Fabian ...
    When Philadelphia naturalist Samuel George Morton died in 1851, no one cut off his head, boiled away its flesh, and added his grinning skull to a collection of crania. It would have been strange, but perhaps fitting, had Morton's skull wound up in a collector's cabinet, for Morton himself had collected hundreds of skulls over the course of a long career. Friends, diplomats, doctors, soldiers, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Unvarnished Truth

    Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Ann Fabian ...
    The practice of selling one's tale of woe to make a buck has long been a part of American culture. The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America is a powerful cultural history of how ordinary Americans crafted and sold their stories of hardship and calamity during the nineteenth century. Ann Fabian examines the tales of beggars, convicts, ex-slaves, prisoners of the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Card Sharps and Bucket Shops

    Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Ann Fabian ...
    In a highly readable work that engages topics in American cultural, social and business history, Ann Fabian details the place of gambling in industrializing America. Card Sharps and Bucket Shops investigates the relationship between gambling and other ways of making profit, such as speculation and land investment, which became entrenched during the nineteenth century. While all these undertakings ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Race and Retail

    Consumption across the Color Line

    by Mia Bay, Ann Fabian, Naa Oyo A. Kwate, Geraldo L. Cadava, Traci Parker, Bridget Kenny, John W. Heaton, Ellen D. Wu, Neiset Bayouth0, Johana Londoño1, Erualdo R. González2, Stacey A. Sutton3, Melissa L. Cooper4, Siobhan Carter-David5, Jerome D. Williams6, Geraldine Rosa Henderson7, Sophia R. Evett8, Anne-Marie G. Hakstian9, Azure B. Thompson0, Sharese N. Porter1 ...
    Series series Rutgers Studies on Race and Ethnicity
    Race has long shaped shopping experiences for many Americans. Retail exchanges and establishments have made headlines as flashpoints for conflict not only between blacks and whites, but also between whites, Mexicans, Asian Americans, and a wide variety of other ethnic groups, who have at times found themselves unwelcome at white-owned businesses.Race and Retail documents the extent to which retail ... Read more

    $24.49 USD