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For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (Women in American History)
Chana Kai Lee
University of Illinois Press, 2000
A Wonderful Book
I have read and heard so much about men in the Civil Rights Movement, and I have read so little about women. This book for me filled a gap.It told an exciting story with great eloquence. It portrayed the life of a heroine of the Civil Rights Movement, and described ...
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Immigrant Voices: New Lives in America, 1773-1986
University of Illinois Press, 1993
U.S. immigrants ARE U.S. history
Through primary source material from each American immigrant, Dublin presents a book that spans the American immigration experience from Revolutionary America to 1986. From a motley crew of different American immigrants, we see the drama and lives of different peoples ...
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Urban Land Use Planning, Fifth Edition
Philip R. Berke, David R Godschalk
University of Illinois Press, 2006
Great Condition - very satisfied!
Arrived in a timely manner and as good as new. Good reading so far too.
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City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860
Christine Stansell
University of Illinois Press, 1987
An illuinating look into the lives of working women of NYC.
Chritine Stansell has captured and vividly illuminated the lives of working women of the Industrial Revolution in NYC. I have studied this book for two classes and am sorry that I had not come across it sooner. If you are interested in the youth culture and the ways ...
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Thunder Below!: The USS *Barb* Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II
Eugene B. Fluckey
University of Illinois Press, 1997
thunder below
Fluckey's memoire, "Thunger Below" , ranks with the best of the WW 2 submarine histories. I am thankful he was able to write such a stirring story even many years after the events. His action descriptions and hisrecounting of the actual dialogue among officers and ...
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On Guerrilla Warfare
Mao Tse-tung, Samuel B Griffith
University of Illinois Press, 2000
A Profound Work
Looking at the other reviews on this book, many complain that it is a simple, out-dated work, with few insights provided. I see this book as being written with the goal of a general educating his soldiers. Short this book creates the structure of how the general ...
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Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
William R. Catton
University of Illinois Press, 1982
The seminal, absolutely finest environmental book ever written....
I bought this book months ago (my first of several copies), as I was trying to decide whether to buy Heinberg's "Peak Everything". I read one of the Heinberg reviews, which suggested that I buy "Overshoot...", and I was so impressed by the review that I purchased ...
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Why Art Cannot Be Taught: A HANDBOOK FOR ART STUDENTS
James Elkins
University of Illinois Press, 2001
QUESTION - Visual Arts "different" as an academic pursuit?!
The answer: I think so. The author changed my way of thinking about the subject of what is plausible in arts education in our time. The apprearance of total artistic freedom from judgement as formulated by postmodernists, yet the intrinsic nature of how the ...
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Myths America Lives By
Richard T. Hughes
University of Illinois Press, 2004
Excellent Discussion of American Myths
In this scintillating study of the development of the American epic, historian of religion Richard T. Hughes focuses on five major myths--and two lesser spin-off conceptions, manifest destiny and American capitalism--that gained currency with the earliest days of the ...
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Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings (Asian American Experience)
Sui Sin Far
University of Illinois Press, 1995
Great short stories!
I like Sui Sin Far a lot more than Maxine Hong Kingston or Amy Tan. I'm glad someone finally portrayed Asians correctly. You can always count on this important author.
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Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence & Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley
John Gaventa
University of Illinois Press, 1982
Excellent book on the nature of power
This book has some weaknesses, but it still deserves five stars for the introduction of the concept of "the third dimension of power" in which the powerless are deterred from struggling for the power they don't have. The significant aspect of this concept is that this ...
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The 1933 Chicago World's Fair: A Century of Progress
Cheryl R. Ganz
University of Illinois Press, 2008
Chicago's 1933 world's fair set a new direction for international expositions. Earlier fairs had exhibited technological advances, but Chicago's fair organizers used the very idea of progress to buoy national optimism during the Depression's darkest years. Orchestrated by business leaders and engineers, almost all former military men, the fair ...
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The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and Its Creators
Stephen Fox
University of Illinois Press, 1997
A crash course about the dynamic history of advertising!
This book is a must-have resource for anybody in or thinking of dabbling in advertising. It's a veritable who's who of the movers and shakers in the industry. Starting at advertising's humble beginnings, it covers most of the major successes and pitfalls, and sheds ...
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Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Blacks in the New World)
John Dittmer
University of Illinois Press, 1995
An essential book on civil rights movement history
Much of our common knowledge of U.S. civil rights movement's history comes from books and films portraying the nationally known struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. This book tells a different story - the struggles of the largely African American activists who, working ...
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