America's Social Arsonist: Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century 9780520280830, 0520280830, 9780520964174, 0520964179

America's Social Arsonist: Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century 9780520964174

"A good organizer is a social arsonist who goes around setting people on fire."—Fred Ross Raised by conserva

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This Is Our Land : Grassroots Environmentalism in the Late Twentieth Century [1 ed.] 9780813565644, 9780813565637

In "This is Our Land," environmental historian Cody Ferguson documents a little-noted but important change in

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This Is Our Land: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Late Twentieth Century 9780813565644

In the last three decades of the twentieth century, the environmental movement experienced a quiet revolution. In This i

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Peasants without the Party: Grassroots Movements in Twentieth Century China 9781317463108, 1563248395, 1563248409, 9781563248405, 9781563248399

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Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History 9781400824748, 1400824745

Progressive-era "poverty warriors" cast poverty in America as a problem of unemployment, low wages, labor expl

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Social Democracy and the Working Class: In Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany 9781317885764, 9780582298149, 0582298156, 0582298148

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Latina Activists across Borders: Women’s Grassroots Organizing in Mexico and Texas 9780822389873

Compares women's organizing efforts in Mexico and in the borderlands to assess the way Latina mobilization and acti

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Maternalism Reconsidered: Motherhood, Welfare and Social Policy in the Twentieth Century 0857454676, 9780857454676

Beginning in the late 19th century, competing ideas about motherhood had a profound impact on the development and implem

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Mining and Social Change: Durham County in the Twentieth Century 1317448480, 9781317448488

The strong community ties of mining villages are the central concern of this book, which deals with the social history a

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Maternalism Reconsidered: Motherhood, Welfare and Social Policy in the Twentieth Century 9780857454676

Beginning in the late 19th century, competing ideas about motherhood had a profound impact on the development and implem

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