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  • The Fulton Fish Market

    A History

    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
    The Fulton Fish Market stands out as an iconic New York institution. At first a neighborhood retail market for many different kinds of food, it became the nation’s largest fish and seafood wholesaling center by the late nineteenth century. Waves of immigrants worked at the Fulton Fish Market and then introduced the rest of the city to their seafood traditions. In popular culture, the market ... Leer más

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  • The Fulton Fish Market

    A History

    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
    The Fulton Fish Market stands out as an iconic New York institution. At first a neighborhood retail market for many different kinds of food, it became the nation’s largest fish and seafood wholesaling center by the late nineteenth century. Waves of immigrants worked at the Fulton Fish Market and then introduced the rest of the city to their seafood traditions. In popular culture, the market ... Leer más

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  • Representation and Rebellion

    The Rockefeller Plan at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, 1914-1942

    In response to the tragedy of the Ludlow Massacre, John D. Rockefeller Jr. introduced one of the nation’s first employee representation plans (ERPs) to the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company in 1915. With the advice of William Mackenzie King, who would go on to become prime minister of Canada, the plan—which came to be known as the Rockefeller Plan—was in use until 1942 and became the model for ERPs ... Leer más

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  • Nut Country

    Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy

    "Taps the fascinating history of a surprisingly understudied place—Dallas . . . to reorient our understanding of America's Republican Right." —Darren Dochuk, author of Anointed with OilOn the morning of November 22, 1963, President Kennedy told Jackie as they started for Dallas, "We're heading into nut country today." That day's events ultimately obscured and revealed just how right he was: Oswald ... Leer más

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  • The Gulf

    The Making of An American Sea

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  • Progressivism

    A Very Short Introduction

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    After decades of conservative dominance, the election of Barack Obama may signal the beginning of a new progressive era. But what exactly is progressivism? What role has it played in the political, social, and economic history of America? This very timely Very Short Introduction offers an engaging overview of progressivism in America--its origins, guiding principles, major leaders and major ... Leer más

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  • The Big Oyster

    History on the Half Shell

    Before New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster. Now award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its most fascinating inhabitants–the oyster, whose influence on the great metropolis remains unparalleled.For centuries New York was famous for its oysters, which until the early 1900s played such a ... Leer más

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  • Calvin Coolidge

    The American Presidents Series: The 30th President, 1923-1929

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    The austere president who presided over the Roaring Twenties and whose conservatism masked an innovative approach to national leadership.He was known as "Silent Cal." Buttoned up and tight-lipped, Calvin Coolidge seemed out of place as the leader of a nation plunging headlong into the modern era. His six years in office were a time of flappers, speakeasies, and a stock market boom, but his focus ... Leer más

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    The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise

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    “The American taxpayer”—angered by government waste and satisfied only with spending cuts—has preoccupied elected officials and political commentators since the Reagan Revolution. But resistance to progressive taxation has older, deeper roots. American Tax Resisters presents the full history of the American anti-tax movement that has defended the pursuit of limited taxes on wealth and battled ... Leer más

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    How a Louisiana Family Built the Tabasco Empire

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