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Young Oxford History of African Americans
Young Oxford History of Women in the United States
From a Raw Deal to a New Deal
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From a Raw Deal to a New Deal: African Americans 1929-1945 (The Young Oxford History of African Americans ; Vol. 8)
Author: Joe William Trotter  
ISBN: 0195087712   /   Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA   /   1996-04-25
List Price: $25.00
Bank closings, soup kitchens, bread lines, unemployed workers begging for work--these images defined the 1930s and '40s in America. For African Americans the era was a study in contrasts: black workers had the highest unemployment rate at a time when ... Read more
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The Tried and the True
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The Tried and the True: Native American Women Confronting Colonization (The Young Oxford History of Women in the United States, Vol 1)
Author: John Demos  
ISBN: 0195081420   /   Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA   /   1995-03-27
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The first of the women we now call Native American were among the prehistoric nomads who crossed a land bridge between Asia and North America 40,000 years ago. Over centuries, these humans formed larger bands, and eventually farming villages and even ... Read more
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Pushing the Limits
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Pushing the Limits: American Women 1940-1961 (Young Oxford History of Women in the United States , Vol 9)
Author: Elaine Tyler May  
ISBN: 0195124073   /   Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA   /   1998-02-26
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Americans living in the mid 20th century saw momentous change. A decade of severe economic depression in the 1930s was followed by the largest scale war the world had ever seen. In Pushing the Limits, Elaine Tyler May shows how women's lives in the U ... Read more
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The Limits of Independence
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The Limits of Independence: American Women 1760-1800 (Young Oxford History of Women in the United States , Vol 3)
Author: Marylynn Salmon  
ISBN: 0195124014   /   Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA   /   1998-03-26
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The second half of the 18th century saw a handful of English colonies transform themselves into a nation. This process involved not only a revolution against the British crown but also the uniting of a diverse population; in addition to the English w ... Read more
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The Colonial Mosaic
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The Colonial Mosaic: American Women 1600-1760 (Young Oxford History of Women in the United States Series ))
Author: Jane Kamensky  
ISBN: 0195124006   /   Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA   /   1998-03-26
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Colonial "women's work" was hard, physical labor. In the South, the urgency of farming crops for export stretched a woman's workday from sunrise to sunset. It was not much different in New England, though the goal was more often to maintain the famil ... Read more
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Into the Fire
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Into the Fire: African Americans Since 1970 (Young Oxford History of African Americans, V. 10)
Author: Robin D G Kelley  
ISBN: 0195087011   /   Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA   /   1996-04-25
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When something goes from bad to worse, we say it "fell out of the frying pan and into the fire." This timeless phrases succinctly captures what has happened to the majority of African Americans since the 1970s. The civil rights movement of the 1960s ... Read more
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Though Justice Sleeps
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Though Justice Sleeps: African Americans 1880-1900 (Young Oxford History of African Americans, Vol 6)
Author: Barbara Bair  
ISBN: 0195093437   /   Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA   /   1997-04-03
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The period of Reconstruction that followed the end of the Civil War was a time of both tremendous promise and the deep conflict of ideas. At stake was the question of what the racial future of America would be. In the years between 1880 and 1900, the ... Read more
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Revolutionary Citizens
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Revolutionary Citizens: African Americans 1776-1804 (The Young Oxford History of African Americans, V. 3)
Author: Daniel C Littlefield  
ISBN: 0195087151   /   Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA   /   1997-04-03
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It is not entirely clear who provoked the British musket fire at the Custom House in Boston on March 5, 1770, but the volley wounded eight men and killed five. Crispus Attucks, a tall, young mulatto, was one of the men who died in the confrontation. ... Read more
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From Ballots to Breadlines
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From Ballots to Breadlines: American Women 1920-1940 (Young Oxford History of Women in the United States , Vol 8) (Young Oxford History of Women in the United States , Vol 8)
Author: Sarah Jane Deutsch  
ISBN: 0195124065   /   Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA   /   1998-03-26
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The Roaring Twenties are remembered as years of prosperity and frivolity that ended abruptly with the Great Depression of the 1930s. But for women there was continuity to these years, as their ability to effect change in political, cultural, and econ ... Read more
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The Limits of Independence
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The Limits of Independence: American Women 1760-1800 (The Young Oxford History of Women in the United States, Vol 3)
Author: Marylynn Salmon  
ISBN: B0017J9PPO   /   Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press   /   1994-01-01
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