Commodifying Everything

Relationships of the Market

Edited by Susan Strasser

"Commodification" refers most explicitly to the activities of turning things into commodities and of commercializing that which is not commercial in essence. The mass marketing...

Published May 9th 2003 by Routledge.

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Riding the Rails

Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression

By Errol Lincoln Uys

"There is no feeling in the world like sitting in a side-door Pullman and watching the world go by, listening to the clickety-clack of the...

Published February 7th 2003 by Routledge.

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Ladies' Dispensatory

Edited by Carey Balaban, Jonathan Erlen, Richard Sederits

Leonard Sowerby's self-healing manual for women, The Ladies' Dispensatory, emerged in England in 1652 amidst an abundance of medical self-help books for the lay citizen....

Published December 13th 2002 by Routledge.

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The Routledge Atlas of American History

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This new edition presents a series of clear and detailed maps, accompanied by informative captions, facts, and figures, updated with additional maps and text. The...

Published December 5th 2002 by Routledge.

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The American Merchant Experience in Nineteenth Century Japan

By Kevin C. Murphy

American merchants established trading firms in the ports of Yokohama, Kobe and Nagasaki which operated from 1859-1899 until the repeal of the Unequal Treaties. Members...

Published November 7th 2002 by Routledge.

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Teaching the American Civil Rights Movement

Freedom's Bittersweet Song

Edited by Julie Buckner Armstrong, Susan Hult Edwards, Houston Bryan Roberson, Rhonda Y. Williams

The past fifteen years have seen renewed interest in the civil rights movement. Television documentaries, films and books have brought the struggles into our homes...

Published October 4th 2002 by Routledge.

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Rebels, Reformers, and Revolutionaries

Collected Essays and Second Thoughts

By Douglas R. Egerton

This collection of essays examines the lives and thoughts of three interrelated Southern groups - enslaved rebels, conservative white reformers, and white revolutionaries -presenting a...

Published September 6th 2002 by Routledge.

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The Mestizo Mind

The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization

By Serge Gruzinski

Mestizo: a person of mixed blood; specifically, a person of mixed European and American Indian ancestry.

Serge Gruzinski, the renowned historian of Latin America, offers a...

Published September 6th 2002 by Routledge.

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Shut Out

A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston

By Howard Bryant

Shut Out is the compelling story of Boston's racial divide viewed through the lens of one of the city's greatest institutions - its baseball team,...

Published August 30th 2002 by Routledge.

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Women's Work is Never Done

Comparative Studies in Care-Giving, Employment, and Social Policy Reform

Edited by Sylvia Bashevkin

Social critics, policy makers, and the public in general frequently overlook the crucial status of women as the main recipients of welfare and as providers...

Published August 30th 2002 by Routledge.

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