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“marko maunula”

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  • Gwinnett County, Georgia, and the Transformation of the American South, 1818–2018

    by Julia Brock, William D. Bryan, Richard A. Cook Jr., Lisa L. Crutchfield, Edward Hatfield, Keith Hebert, R. Scott Huffard Jr., Jr., David Mason, Marko Maunula, Erica Metcalfe, Katheryn L. Nikolich, David B. Parker, Bradley R. Rice, Carey Olmstead Shellman ...
    In Gwinnett County’s two hundred years, the area has been western, southern, rural, suburban, and now increasingly urban. Its stories include the displacement of Native peoples, white settlement, legal battles over Indian Removal, slavery and cotton, the Civil War and the Lost Cause, New South railroad and town development, Reconstruction and Jim Crow, business development and finance in a ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Guten Tag, Y'all

    Globalization and the South Carolina Piedmont, 1950-2000

    by Marko Maunula ...
    Nicknamed "Euroville," Spartanburg, South Carolina, is a home away from home for BMW, Michelin, Ciba-Geigy, and numerous other European corporations. Enriching our understanding of what globalization means to millions of small-town, blue-collar Americans, Guten Tag, Y'all looks at Spartanburg as a model of how determined communities can shape and influence globalization to their benefit—and liking ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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  • Michelle Obama

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    This YA biography of the former First Lady considers her journey from Chicago to the White House in the larger context of African American history.Michelle Obama grew up on Chicago's South Side, and while the world outside her door was chaotic and ever-changing, her family provided a stable environment in which she could grow and flourish. This biography of the former First Lady shows how a girl ... Read more

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  • Michelle

    A Biography

    by Liza Mundy ...
    She can be funny and sharp-tongued, warm and blunt, empathic and demanding. Who is the woman Barack Obama calls "the boss"? In Michelle, Washington Post writer Liza Mundy paints a revealing and intimate portrait, taking us inside the marriage of the most dynamic couple in politics today. She shows how well they complement each other: Michelle, the highly organized, sometimes intimidating, list ... Read more

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  • Uneven Ground

    Appalachia Since 1945

    by Ronald D. Eller ...
    This award-winning history examines the politics of progress in America through a close look at industrial development in Appalachia since WWII.Appalachia has played a complex role in the unfolding of American history. Early-twentieth-century critics of modernity saw the region as a remnant of frontier life that should be preserved and protected. However, supporters of material production and ... Read more

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  • Hurricane Katrina

    The Mississippi Story

    by James Patterson Smith ...
    This book presents the fullest account yet written of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Rooted in a wealth of oral histories, it tells the dramatic but underreported story of a people who confronted the unprecedented devastation of sixty five thousand homes when the eye wall and powerful northeast quadrant of the hurricane swept a record thirty-foot storm surge across ... Read more

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  • Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith

    New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina

    by Vincanne Adams ...
    Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith is an ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans. It is also a sobering exploration of the privatization of vital social services under market-driven governance. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, public agencies subcontracted disaster relief to private companies that turned the humanitarian work of recovery into lucrative business. ... Read more

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  • Bernie Sanders: In His Own Words

    250 Quotes from America's Political Revolutionary

    Edited by Chamois Holschuh ...
    Here is a collection of the most salient hard-hitting, no-nonsense quotes that have made Bernie Sanders the beloved leader of our revolution. The longest-serving independent in US congressional history, Sanders currently serves as US senator from Vermont and is in the race for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president. Hundreds of thousands of people across the country are flocking to ... Read more

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  • For a Dollar and a Dream

    State Lotteries in Modern America

    by Jonathan D. Cohen ...
    This first comprehensive history of America's lottery obsession explores the spread of state lotteries and how players and policymakers alike got hooked on wishful dreams of an elusive jackpot. Every week, one in eight Americans place a bet on the dream of a life-changing lottery jackpot. Americans spend more on lottery tickets annually than on video streaming services, concert tickets, books, ... Read more

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  • The Southern Key

    Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s

    by Michael Goldfield ...
    A sweeping account of Southern political economy in the New Deal era. The golden key to understanding the last 75 years of American political development, the eminent labor relations scholar Michael Goldfield argues, lies in the contests between labor and capital in the American South during the 1930s and 1940s. Labor agitation and unionization efforts in the South in the New Deal era were ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • William Frantz Public School

    A Story of Race, Resistance, Resiliency, and Recovery in New Orleans

    by Corine Cadle Meredith Brown, Connie L. Schaffer, Meg White, Martha Graham Viator ...
    Series Book 65 - History of Schools and Schooling
    Why should you care about what happened to William Frantz Public School? Yes, Ruby Bridges entered the iconic doors of William Frantz in 1960, but the building’s unique role in New Orleans school desegregation is only one part of the important history of this school. Many additional and equally important stories have unfolded within its walls and the neighborhoods surrounding it. These stories ... Read more

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