Bøger i Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism serien
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- Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960
408,95 - 1.359,95 kr. Focusing on Baltimore's wealthiest, whitest neighborhoods, Paige Glotzer offers a new understanding of the deeper roots of suburban segregation. She argues that the mid-twentieth-century policies that favored exclusionary housing were the culmination of a long-term effort by developers to use racism to structure suburban real estate markets.
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- 408,95 kr.
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- Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods
428,95 - 1.195,95 kr. Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant investigates early-twentieth-century campaigns for residential segregation laws in North Carolina to show how the version of white supremacy supported by middle-class white people differed from that supported by elites. Class divides halted Jim Crow from mandating separate neighborhoods for black and white southerners.
- Bog
- 428,95 kr.
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- New Histories
499,95 kr. American Capitalism presents cutting-edge research that makes capitalism a subject of historical inquiry. Venturing new angles on finance, debt, and credit; women's rights; slavery and political economy; labor; the racialization of capitalism; and the production of knowledge, it demonstrates the breadth and scope of the new history of capitalism.
- Bog
- 499,95 kr.
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- Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy
423,95 - 1.359,95 kr. Alex Sayf Cummings reveals the significance of North Carolina's Research Triangle Park to the emergence of the high-tech economy in a postindustrial United States. Brain Magnet pinpoints how it sheds new light on the origins of today's urban landscape, in which innovation is lauded as the engine of economic growth against a backdrop of inequality.
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- 423,95 kr.
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- How Labor Movements Changed New York
253,95 kr. City of Workers, City of Struggle brings together essays by leading historians of New York and a wealth of illustrations, offering rich descriptions of work, life, and political struggle. It recounts how workers have built formal and informal groups not only to advance their own interests but also to pursue a vision of what the city should be.
- Bog
- 253,95 kr.
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370,95 - 1.359,95 kr. This book brings together for the first time distinguished and rising scholars to consider the utility of the concept of racial capitalism across historical settings. By theorizing and testing racial capitalism in different circumstances, this book shows its analytical and political power for today's scholars and activists.
- Bog
- 370,95 kr.
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- A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America
459,95 kr. In Creditworthy, Josh Lauer explores the evolution of credit reporting from from an industry that relied on personal knowledge to the modern consumer data industry. He highlights the role that commercial surveillance has played in monitoring Americans' economic lives. p.p1
- Bog
- 459,95 kr.
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- New Histories
360,95 kr. American Capitalism presents cutting-edge research that makes capitalism a subject of historical inquiry. Venturing new angles on finance, debt, and credit; women's rights; slavery and political economy; labor; the racialization of capitalism; and the production of knowledge, it demonstrates the breadth and scope of the new history of capitalism.
- Bog
- 360,95 kr.
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- Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal
423,95 - 1.195,95 kr. Shennette Garrett-Scott explores black financial innovation and its transformative impact on U.S. capitalism through the story of the St. Luke Bank in Richmond, Virginia: the first and only bank run by black women. Banking on Freedom offers an unparalleled account of how black women carved out economic, social, and political power.
- Bog
- 423,95 kr.
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- How Labor Movements Changed New York
504,95 kr. City of Workers, City of Struggle brings together essays by leading historians of New York and a wealth of illustrations, offering rich descriptions of work, life, and political struggle. It recounts how workers have built formal and informal groups not only to advance their own interests but also to pursue a vision of what the city should be.
- Bog
- 504,95 kr.
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- The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs
306,95 - 457,95 kr. From Head Shops to Whole Foods writes a new history of social movements and capitalism by showing how activists embraced small businesses. Joshua Clark Davis uncovers the historical roots of contemporary interest in ethical consumption while exploring how today's companies have adopted the language-but not the mission-of social change.
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- 306,95 kr.
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- The Origins of the Mortgage Market and Federal Bailouts, 1913-1939
488,95 - 1.633,95 kr. Today, the federal government underwrites a financial system built around mortgage lending. In The Dead Pledge, Judge Glock reveals the surprising origins of this entanglement in forgotten economic ideas and policies that held sway from the early twentieth century through the Great Depression.
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- 488,95 kr.
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- The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina
422,95 - 1.633,95 kr. Justene Hill Edwards illuminates the inner workings of the slaves' economy and the strategies that enslaved people used to participate in the market. Focusing on South Carolina from the colonial period to the Civil War, she examines how the capitalist development of slavery influenced the economic lives of enslaved people.
- Bog
- 422,95 kr.
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- How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement
331,95 - 428,95 kr. David K. Johnson tells the story of the physique magazine produced by and for gay men to show how gay commerce was not a byproduct of the gay-rights movement but an important catalyst for it. He offers a vivid look into the lives of physique entrepreneurs and their customers, presenting a wealth of illustrations.
- Bog
- 331,95 kr.
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426,95 - 1.582,95 kr. - Bog
- 426,95 kr.