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  • Journey to the Abyss

    The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918

    by Harry Kessler ...
    These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler—patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat—present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle Époque Europe, a glittering world poised to be changed irrevocably by the Great War. Kessler’s immersion in the new art and literature of Paris, London, and Berlin ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Walter Rathenau: His Life and Work

    by Count Harry Kessler ...
    This early work on Walter Rathenau is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details the life and work of the German industrialist and politician Walter Rathenau. This fascinating work is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of anyone interested in the history of early twentieth century Europe. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Pursuit of Equity

    Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America

    by Alice Kessler-Harris ...
    Few historians have contributed more to our understanding of the history of women, and women's effect on history, than Alice Kessler-Harris. Author of the classic Out to Work, she is one of the country's leading scholars of gender, the economy, and public policy. In this volume, Kessler-Harris pierces the skin of arguments and legislation to grasp the preconceptions that have shaped the experience ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Bread Givers

    A Novel

    by Anzia Yezierska ...
    The classic novel of Jewish immigrants, with period photographs.This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and tells the story of Sara Smolinsky, the youngest daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, who rebels against her father's rigid conception of Jewish womanhood. Sarah's struggle towards independence and self-fulfillment resonates with a ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Shades of Life, Part One

    by Jude Southerland Kessler, Rande Kessler ...
    In 1965, The Beatles repeated every single thing they had done in 1964. They made a film for United Artists; this one was dubbed "Help!" instead of "A Hard Day's Night." They recorded a soundtrack and promoted the LP and film on the BBC. In June 1965, they went on a European Tour (just as they had embarked on a World Tour in June 1964). And in July, they attended the film premiere and gala in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Difficult Woman

    The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman

    by Alice Kessler-Harris ...
    Lillian Hellman was a giant of twentieth-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway. Yet the author of The Little Foxes and Toys in the Attic is today remembered more as a toxic, bitter survivor and literary fabulist, the woman of whom Mary McCarthy said, "Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'" In A Difficult Woman, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Democracy and the Welfare State

    The Two Wests in the Age of Austerity

    Edited by Alice Kessler-Harris, Maurizio Vaudagna ...
    After World War II, states on both sides of the Atlantic enacted comprehensive social benefits to protect working people and constrain capitalism. A widely shared consensus specifically linked social welfare to democratic citizenship, upholding greater equality as the glue that held nations together. Though the "two Wests," Europe and the United States, differ in crucial respects, they share a ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Democracy and the Welfare State

    The Two Wests in the Age of Austerity

    Edited by Alice Kessler-Harris, Maurizio Vaudagna ...
    After World War II, states on both sides of the Atlantic enacted comprehensive social benefits to protect working people and constrain capitalism. A widely shared consensus specifically linked social welfare to democratic citizenship, upholding greater equality as the glue that held nations together. Though the "two Wests," Europe and the United States, differ in crucial respects, they share a ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Women Have Always Worked

    A Concise History

    by Alice Kessler-Harris ...
    Series series Working Class in American History
    A classic since its original publication, Women Have Always Worked brought much-needed insight into the ways work has shaped female lives and sensibilities. Beginning in the colonial era, Alice Kessler-Harris looks at the public and private work spheres of diverse groups of women—housewives and trade unionists, immigrants and African Americans, professionals and menial laborers, and women from ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Some Forever

    Shades of Life, Part Two

    by Jude Southerland Kessler ...
    Some Forever whisks you away in the same frantic pace that enveloped The Beatles during the latter half of 1965. Experience The Beatles' iconic North American Tour with their majestic Shea Stadium concert, chaotic fan encounters in Houston, San Diego, and San Francisco, and historic "Rock'n'Roll Summit" with Elvis Presley. From the making of Rubber Soul to the poignant MBE investiture and The ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • U.S. History As Women's History

    New Feminist Essays

    Edited by Kathryn Kish Sklar, Alice Kessler-Harris, Linda K. Kerber ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    This outstanding collection of fifteen original essays represents innovative work by some of the most influential scholars in the field of women’s history. Covering a broad sweep of history from colonial to contemporary times and ranging over the fields of legal, social, political, and cultural history, this book, according to its editors, 'intrudes into regions of the American historical ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • A Woman's Wage

    Historical Meanings and Social Consequences

    by Alice Kessler-Harris ...
    Series series Blazer Lectures
    In this updated edition of a groundbreaking classic, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the meanings of women's wages in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on three issues that capture the transformation of women's roles: the battle over minimum wage for women, which exposes the relationship between family ideology and workplace demands; the argument concerning ... Read more

    $17.99 USD