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The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States

Alexander Keyssar

Basic Books, 2001

Don't take it for granted
The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States should be on your required reading list if you are interested in the history of the democratic experiment in the United States. Alexander Keyssar has produced that most unusual book-both ...

By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876 (American Presidential Elections)

Michael F. Holt

University Press of Kansas, 2008

Political history at its best
You might think you know the key details of this landmark election, but Michael Holt's account will interest everyone who cares about Presidential races. He writes well, offers fascinating anecdotes, and sheds new light on the importance of intraparty factionalism in ...

Manage for Profit, Not for Market Share: A Guide to Greater Profits in Highly Contested Markets

Hermann Simon, Frank Luby

Harvard Business School Press, 2006

An important and timely study of the issues concerning adoptive profit versus market share in today's volatile stock market
Expertly co-authored by Hermann Simon (Founder and Chariman of Simon-Kucher and Partners Strategy and Marketing Consultants, Germany), and SKP partners of Boston's division, Frank F. Bilstein and Frank Luby, Manage For Profit Not For Market Share: A Guide To Greater ...

Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752

Jonathan I. Israel

Oxford University Press, USA, 2009

A stunning work
No number of stars is enough for this book. The scholarship is amazing, the narrative clear and fascinating from start to finish, the topic more relevant than ever. This book and its predecessor (Radical Enlightenment) are two of the best books I have read in many ...

Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement
Phil Brown

Columbia University Press, 2007

The increase in environmentally induced diseases and the loosening of regulation and safety measures have inspired a massive challenge to established ways of looking at health and the environment. Communities with disease clusters, women facing a growing breast cancer incidence rate, and people of color concerned about the asthma epidemic have ...

Thai Women In The Global Labor Force: Consuming Desires, Contested Selves
Mary Beth Mills

Rutgers University Press, 1999

Most research on female labor migration in Thailand focuses on that country's infamous sex industry. Mary Beth Mills offers the first extended ethnographic analysis of rural women's movement into less visible occupations, paying particular attention to the hundreds of thousands of young women who fill the factories and sweatshops of the Bangkok ...

Going Wild: Hunting, Animals Rights, and the Contested Meaning of Nature

Jan E. Dizard

University of Massachusetts Press, 1999

Excellent Overview of a Complex Subject
The focus of this book is our relationship to what is often termed "wilderness" and to the various flora and fauna that inhabit it. Particularly, Dizzard examines the controversey surrounding a particular area in Massachusets. The story he tells, and this book ...

The Contested Public Square: The Crisis of Christianity and Politics

Greg Forster

IVP Academic, 2008

An Excellent Introduction to the Evolution of Christian Political Thought
The Contested Public Square by Greg Forster is "an introduction to Christian political thought," with a special focus on "the political effects of the Reformation and the Enlightenment in Western Europe [and America]." It traces the evolution of that theory through ...

The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado

Elliott West

University Press of Kansas, 2000

Outstanding!
The Contested Plains, by one of the most imaginative Western historians writing today, is a masterpiece in the field. It puts peoples-white and Indian-together in a complicated field of action--the Plains and the Rockies in the 19th century. West shows us a world of ...

Intersex and Identity: The Contested Self

Sharon E. Preves

Rutgers University Press, 2003

Wow - what an eye opener
I highly recommend this book for anyone wanting to learn what intersex means and what it means to be intersexed. The stories are heart breaking and heart warming all at the same time. I found myself experiencing a wide range of emotions from the deepest sense of ...

Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics Since Independence
Daniel T. Rodgers

Harvard University Press, 1998

Contention, argument, and power have always been the tradition in American political talk. Any country that began in a revolution was bound to have this history. But the language of argument uses particular words with particular, sometimes shifting, meanings and to know what they are and what they meant over time is a critical contribution to ...

Culturally Contested Literacies: America's 'Rainbow Uderclass' and Urban Schools
Guofang Li

Routledge, 2007

"Culturally Contested Literacies" is a vivid ethnographic account of the everyday cross-cultural living and schooling experiences of six culturally-diverse families in urban America. Documenting the ways in which these families learn about literacies and their meanings in relation to schools, inner city environments, and other ethnic groups, ...

Contested Terrain: A New History of Nature and People in the Adirondacks (Regional)

Philip G. Terrie

Syracuse University Press, 2008

This book is much better than Schneider's.
I have always loved the Adirondacks, but after reading this astonishingly well-written book I have a new appreciation for this remarkable region. If you're a fellow Adirondacks-lover I HIGHLY recommend this book. Also, if you have time to read only one history of the ...

Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush (California History Sesquicentennial Series)

University of California Press, 1998

Scholarly essays about pre-gold rush California.
This book looks at pre-gold rush California from varorious angles. Essays on native California history, along with indigenous actions during early occupation years are major parts of this text. The history of "Californio" women and indigenous sexuality are also ...

Breaking the Deadlock: The 2000 Election, the Constitution, and the Courts

Richard A. Posner

Princeton University Press, 2001

Every vote must count? What's a "vote" anyway?
Judge Richard Posner performs an invaluable service by cutting through the Cherminsky and Sunstein left-wing legal clutter surrounding Florida Election 2000. Judge Posner delivers clear legal analysis that is still accessible to the educated layperson. His overall ...