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Is class outmoded as a basis for understanding labor history? This collection emphatically answers, "No!" These thirteen essays delve into subjects like migrant labor, religion, ethnicity, agricultural history, and gender. Written by former students of preeminent labor figure and historian David Montgomery, the works advance the argument that class remains indispensable to the study of working Americans and their place in the broad drama of our shared national history.
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Highlights the significant historical contributions of some of Louisiana's most noteworthy and also overlooked women from the eighteenth century to the present. This volume underscores the cultural, social, and political distinctiveness of the state and showcases how these women affected its history.
Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, volume 2, highlights the significant historical contributions of some of Louisiana’s most noteworthy and also overlooked women from the eighteenth century to the present. This volume underscores the cultural, social, and political distinctiveness of the state as well as showcases the actions and activities of women who greatly affected the history of Louisiana in profound and interesting ways. These essays on women at the forefront of Louisiana and national events include information about Sarah Morgan; Janet Mary Riley; Lindy Claiborne Boggs; Lucy Alston Pirrie; Appoline Patout, Mary Ann Patout, and Ida Patout Burns; Lulu White; Neda Jurisich, Eva V...
Developed from a lecture series at La Salle College, Philadelphia. Bibliographical footnotes. Introduction, by J.P. O'Grady. --The Germans, by A.J. App.--The Irish, by J.P. O'Grady.--The British, by D.J. McCarthy.--The Italians, by J.B. Duff.--The Magyars, by G. Barany.--The South Slavs, by G.J. Prpic.--The Czechs, by O. Odlozilik.--The Slovaks and Carpatho-Ruthenians, by V.S. Mamatey.--The Mid-European Union, by A.J. May.--The Poles, by L.L. Gerson.--The Jews, by M. Tenzer.