The American Constitution was hammered out in debates by the founding fathers at the 1787 Philadelphia Convention. This book contains James Madison's notes on the debates which provide a first-hand view of the drafting of the nation's fundamental charter. An introduction by Winton U. Solberg places the origins of the Constitution in the broader ......
Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780-1910 (POD)
''Blewett challenges historians to incorporate gender analysis and a tradition of working women's protest into the history of the American labor movement.''-- Georgia Historical Quarterly ''[Blewett's] detailed reconstruction of feminist perspectives in shoeworker protest and the divisions created by the competing loyalties to sisterhood and to ......
''A fascinating story that holds the reader's interest from beginning to end. It is well written and thoroughly researched, and makes a real contribution to American labor history.'' -- Journal of Economic History ''Nelson has, to my mind, written the definitive account of one of the most dramatic episodes in American labor history. It should ......
''This marvelous book captures in a most poignant and accurate way what life is like for the millions who still make up the 'blue collar' backbone of American industry.'' -- Barry Bluestone, author of The Deindustrialization of America ''A richly detailed, well-crafted portrait of a cross section of autoworkers in the midst of an identity crisis ......
More than 4,200 residents of Detroit's ''Poletown'' community lost their homes in the 1980s when the neighborhood was razed to accommodate construction of a Cadillac plant on land where generations of Polish immigrants had lived, worked, and worshipped. Poletown is the story of the only group in Detroit to oppose the construction plan: the Poles ......
Leon Trotsky is officially condemned in a nation he, with Lenin, was most responsible for establishing. He is publicly regarded as the Soviet Union's greatest traitor. This book provides a portrait of the man and the movement he inspired. It recounts the years during which Trotsky was in exile.
Poetry, Painting, and Gardening during the Eighteenth Century (POD)
Eighteenth-century England saw the rise of a ''peculiarly English'' art form -- landscape gardening -- and a corresponding change in attitudes toward the natural world. While the French, who lived under tyranny, had tightly organized, restrictive gardens, the ''free'' English enjoyed gardens where they were at liberty to wander. John Dixon Hunt ......
''No one writes more thoughtfully or interestingly about the history of the profession than Higham does.''--Laurence Veysey, University of California, Santa Cruz.''A classic in the field, probably the best overall picture of American historiography we have.''--Richard L. Bushman, University of Delaware.
''Abraham Lincoln was a member of the Illinois Legislature from 1834 to 1842 -- one of the Long Nine, as the Sangamon County delegation was known, all its members being more than six feet tall. It was during these eight years that he came as close to scandal as he was ever to come in his public or private life. Did he, or did he not, engage in ......
