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  • From Front Porch to Back Seat

    Courtship in Twentieth-Century America

    de Beth L. Bailey ...
    From gentleman callers to big men on campus, from Coke dates to "parking," From Front Porch to Back Seat is the vivid history of dating in America. In chronicling a dramatic shift in patterns of courtship between the 1920s and the 1960s, Beth Bailey offers a provocative view of how we sought out mates-and of what accounted for our behavior. More than a quarter-century has passed since the dating ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • From Front Porch to Back Seat

    Courtship in Twentieth-Century America

    de Beth L. Bailey ...
    From gentleman callers to big men on campus, from Coke dates to "parking," From Front Porch to Back Seat is the vivid history of dating in America. In chronicling a dramatic shift in patterns of courtship between the 1920s and the 1960s, Beth Bailey offers a provocative view of how we sought out mates-and of what accounted for our behavior. More than a quarter-century has passed since the dating ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Beyond Hospitality

    Migration, Multiculturalism, and the Church

    de Charles A. Cook, Lorajoy Tira-Dimangondayao, Lauren Goldbeck, Majd AlAjji, Ray Aldred, Monetta Bailey, Andrew Barron, Roberto and Luisa Bolivar, Justin Bradbury, Sam George, Rick Love, Clint Mix, Karl Mueller, Sam Owusu, Yaw Perbi, Amador “Jojo” Remigio, Narry Santos, Brian Seim, Jennifer Singh, Minho Song, Beth Stovell, Sadiri Joy Tira ...
    The Canadian landscape continues to change as we welcome people from every corner of the world. The church in Canada has historically been on the forefront of assisting new Canadians to settle in this country. But is that enough? The contributors to this book believe that it is time for the local church to move beyond acts of hospitality in order to engage with immigrants and welcome them into ... Leer más

    $14.52 USD

  • An Army Afire

    How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era

    de Beth Bailey ...
    By the late 1960s, what had been widely heralded as the best qualified, best-trained army in US history was descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end. Morale was tanking. AWOL rates were rising. And in August 1968, a group of Black soldiers seized control of the infamous Long Binh Jail, burned buildings, and beat a white inmate to death with a shovel. The days of “same mud, same ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Mastering the Corporate Chess Game

    Strategies for Advancing Your Career

    de Cynthia Groves, Sean Hand, Cameron Rogers, Cherylyn Harley Lebon, Ivy Cohen, Tye Threats, Lizzy Conroy, Ann Beth Stebbins, Becky Bailey Bristol0, Jen Dalton1 ...
    A playbook for decoding unspoken rules of work culture and accelerating up the corporate ladderEvery workplace operates on a set of unwritten norms that shape its internal culture. While business schools and management programs can provide excellent training in finance, marketing, strategy, and research methods, they rarely prepare students for how to discern these unspoken rules that are crucial ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    An Army Afire

    How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era

    de Beth Bailey ...
    Narrado por Terrence Kidd ...

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    12 hora 52 minutos

    By the late 1960s, what had been widely heralded as the best qualified, best-trained army in United States history was descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end. Morale was tanking. AWOL rates were rising. And in August 1968, a group of Black soldiers seized control of the infamous Long Binh Jail, burned buildings, and beat a white inmate to death with a shovel. The days of "same ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • America's Army

    Making the All-Volunteer Force

    de Beth Bailey ...
    In 1973, not long after the last American combat troops returned from Vietnam, President Nixon fulfilled his campaign promise and ended the draft. No longer would young men find their futures determined by the selective service system; nor would the U.S. military have a guaranteed source of recruits.America’s Army is the story of the all-volunteer force, from the draft protests and policy ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Sex in the Heartland

    de Beth Bailey ...
    Sex in the Heartland is the story of the sexual revolution in a small university town in the quintessential heartland state of Kansas. Bypassing the oft-told tales of radicals and revolutionaries on either coast, Beth Bailey argues that the revolution was forged in towns and cities alike, as "ordinary" people struggled over the boundaries of public and private sexual behavior in postwar America ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • America in the Seventies

    Edición de Beth Bailey, David Farber ...
    Series series CultureAmerica
    Tucked between the activist Sixties and the conservative Eighties lies a largely misunderstood and still under-appreciated decade. Now nine leading scholars of postwar America offer a revealing look at the Seventies and their rightful place in the epic narrative of American historyThis is the first major work to relate the economic decline and cultural despair of the Seventies to the creative ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s

    de David Farber, Beth Bailey ...
    Series series Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures
    The 1960s continue to be the subject of passionate debate and political controversy, a touchstone in struggles over the meaning of the American past and the direction of the American future. Amid the polemics and the myths, making sense of the Sixties and its legacies presents a challenge. This book is for all those who want to take it on. Because there are so many facets to this unique and ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Beyond Pearl Harbor

    A Pacific History

    Edición de Beth Bailey, David Farber ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    In the United States, December 7, 1941, may live in infamy, in President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s phrase, but for most Americans the date’s significance begins and ends with the attack on Pearl Harbor. On December 8 (December 7 on the other side of the International Date Line) Japanese military forces hit eight major targets, all but one on western colonial possessions and military outposts in the ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The First Strange Place

    The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii

    de Beth Bailey, David Farber ...
    Just as World War I introduced Americans to Europe, making an indelible impression on thousands of farmboys who were changed forever “after they saw Paree,” so World War II was the beginning of America’s encounter with the East – an encounter whose effects are still being felt and absorbed. No single place was more symbolic of this initial encounter than Hawaii, the target of the first ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD