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Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York by Luc Sante
azw3 |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Luc Sante [Sante, Luc]

We are requested by the Dead Rabbits to state that the Dead Rabbit club members are not thieves, that they did not participate in the riot with the Bowery Boys, ...
( Category: Criminology February 28,2020 )
Blackshirts & Reds by Michael Parenti
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Parenti

One-Way Democracy More important than democratic rule was free-market “reform ,” a code word for capitalist restoration. As long as democracy could be used to destabilize one-party communist rule, it ...
( Category: Fascism February 28,2020 )
Passionate Declarations by Howard Zinn
epub, pdf |eng | 2003-02-27 | Author:Howard Zinn

One of the things said most often about the United States is that there is very little class consciousness. But there is strong evidence that this view is mistaken. Back ...
( Category: Democracy February 28,2020 )
Iron, Steam & Money by Roger Osborne
epub |eng | 2013-04-28 | Author:Roger Osborne [Roger Osborne]

Sir Richard Arkwright Arkwright extended his empire into Staffordshire, Manchester and, with a spectacular visit in 1784, Scotland. By then mills were already using his machines illegally at Penicuik, Rothesay ...
( Category: Economic History February 28,2020 )
Status in Classical Athens by Kamen Deborah;
epub |eng | 2013-02-27 | Author:Kamen, Deborah;

* * * 1 On the status of nothoi, see, e.g., Harrison 1968, 61–68; Humphreys 1974; MacDowell 1976; Rhodes 1978; C. Patterson 1990. The most thorough treatment of the status ...
( Category: Women in History February 28,2020 )
Savage Girls and Wild Boys by Michael Newton
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Newton

CHAPTER SIX The Wolf-Children I: Kamala and Amala Koko is also creative … She signed ME CRY THERE when she saw a picture of a gorilla in a bath, apparently ...
( Category: Experimental Psychology February 28,2020 )
The Theory of Business Enterprise by Thorstein Veblen
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Thorstein Veblen [Veblen, Thorstein]

A further consideration bearing on the later phases of the business situation may be added. The great coalitions and the business manœuvres connected with them have the effect of adding ...
( Category: Free Enterprise February 27,2020 )
Power and the Idealists by Paul Berman
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Berman

II. Makiya grew up in Baghdad in the nineteen-fifties and sixties—he, too, a child of privilege. His father was an architect prominent in Iraq and throughout the Middle East. Frank ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism February 27,2020 )
The Fight for the Four Freedoms by Harvey J. Kaye
epub |eng | | Author:Harvey J. Kaye

CHAPTER TEN * * * “What has it been asked to do that it has not done?” Dwight Eisenhower never cited the Four Freedoms as President. But he never lost ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism February 27,2020 )
The Regency Revolution by Morrison Robert;
epub |eng | | Author:Morrison, Robert;

PUBLISHED IN April 1816, this illustration of the farm compound of La Haye Sainte plainly shows the damage it sustained ten months earlier during the Battle of Waterloo. It was ...
( Category: Women in History February 27,2020 )
Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy by Sugata Bose
epub |eng | 2011-02-11 | Author:Sugata Bose [Bose, Sugata]

to do was rubber-stamp the multifarious discontents seething in the Indian countryside and, to a limited extent, in towns as well. As the year drew on, however, the movement showed ...
( Category: Historiography February 27,2020 )
Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
epub |eng | | Author:Ben Mezrich

Seventeen Boston, Halloween 1995 Vegas had Fight Night. New Orleans had Mardi Gras. Boston had Halloween. Thousands of college students howling through the streets, dressed in costumes that were usually ...
( Category: Gambling February 27,2020 )
The Foundations of History by Stephen Leach
epub |eng | 2017-01-24 | Author:Stephen Leach

For Collingwood, ‘[w]ords are historical and social facts’. [47] This suggests that certain fundamental questions asked of written evidence will be the same as that concerning unwritten evidence - for ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources February 27,2020 )
On the Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
epub |eng | 2012-10-25 | Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

IX THE MARKS OF A GOOD GOVERNMENT The question “What absolutely is the best government?” is unanswerable as well as indeterminate; or rather, there are as many good answers as ...
( Category: History & Theory February 27,2020 )
Historians Debate the Rise of the West by Jonathan Daly
epub |eng | 2014-07-11 | Author:Jonathan Daly [Daly, Jonathan]

Conclusion The work of scholars analyzed in this chapter attribute the West’s rise neither to alleged virtues of Europeans nor historical accidents but largely to policies and practices of Europeans ...
( Category: Historiography February 27,2020 )

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