Harlan Miners Speak Members of the National Committee for the Defense, Members of; Hennen, John C
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The Dreiser Committee, including writers Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, and Sherwood Anderson, investigated the desperate situation of striking Kentucky miners in November 1931. When the ...Communist-led National Miners Union competed against the more conservative United Mine Workers of America for greater union membership, class resentment turned to warfare. Harlan Miners Speak, originally published in 1932, is an invaluable record that illustrates the living and working conditions of the miners during the 1930s. This edition of Harlan Miners Speak, with a new introduction by noted historian John C. Hennen, offers readers an in-depth look at a pivotal crisis in the complex history of this controversial form of energy production.
Pursuing happiness Lebergott, Stanley
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Whether watching baseball or undergoing heart surgery, Americans have bought a variety of goods and services to achieve happiness. Here is a provocative look at what they have chosen to purchase. ...Stanley Lebergott maintains that the average consumer has behaved more reasonably than many distinguished critics of "materialism" have suggested. He sees consumers seeking to make an uncertain and often cruel world into a pleasanter and more convenient place--and, for the most part, succeeding. With refreshing common sense, he reminds us of what many "luxuries" have meant, especially for women: increased income since 1900 has been used largely to lighten the backbreaking labor once required by household chores.
Originally published in 1996.
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This engagingly written study provides a very useful analysis of modern Jewish politics in the interwar European and American diaspora. Mendelsohn, a distinguished historian of modern Jewry, ...discusses the opposing visions of the Jewish future as formulated by various political parties and organizations in an effort to solve the ‘Jewish question.’ The book begins by attempting a typology of these Jewish groups, dividing them into a number of schools or ‘camps,’ thereby suggesting a ‘geography’ of Jewish politics by locating the ‘core areas’ of the various Jewish political camps. This is followed by an analysis of the competition among the various Jewish political camps for hegemony in the Jewish world. The discussion focuses on the situation in the United States and in Poland, the two largest diasporas, in the 1920s and 1930s. The final chapters of the book ask the following questions: what were the sources of appeal of the various Jewish political camps (such as the Jewish left and Jewish nationalism)? Secondly, to what extent did the various Jewish political factions succeed in their efforts to implement their plans for the Jewish future? And finally, in what ways was Jewish politics similar to, or different from, the politics of other minority groups in Europe and America? A brief conclusion discusses the great changes that have occurred in the world of Jewish politics since World War II.
Explores the genocidal events of the period from 1939 to 1952, particularly focussing on the Second World War, and its aftermath, the Holocaust and it's lasting impact, and the latter part of the ...Stalinist regime, and seeks to integrate them into a single, coherent history.
Explores the genocidal events of the period from 1912 to 1938, particularly focussing on the Balkans, the Great War, and the emergence of the Stalin and Hitler States, and seeks to integrate them ...into a single, coherent history.
This article is based on a paper presented in San Francisco, California on December 5, 2015 at the 22nd Meeting of Friends of the Museum of Russian Culture. This is translated from the original ...Czech. The author's thanks are owed particularly to the Chief Archivist of the Museum of Russian Culture, Margarita Meniailenko.The text deals with the collections of the Slavonic Library (a section of the National Library of the Czech Republic) that are connected with the theme of Russian emigration. Besides the history of the Slavonic Library, whose creation in 1924 is associated with the project of systematic help to Russian émigrés (the so-called Russian Action), it also describes the structure and composition of the exceptionally rich collection related to Russian émigrés. In addition, it characterizes the methods of making documents accessible to researchers, and the system of Slavonic Library catalogues and digitization projects concerning emigration documents from 1918-1945.
Community Newspapers and Japanese-American Incarceration Camps critically examines the tendency of journalists in all corners of the craft to be timid in times of war, precisely when the public's ...need for accurate information is so pressing.
