Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85 0300266588, 9780300266580, 9780300274561

The Cadres: Backbone of the Revolution

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The Backbone of the World (Trespass collection) 9781542034449

An American Indian woman’s past and future collide in unthinkable ways in this richly imagined short story of deep secre

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The General Strike of 1842

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Wedding of the waters: the Erie Canal and the making of a great nation 9780393340204, 0393340201

From the Publisher: The building of the Erie Canal, like the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Panama Canal, i

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The Devil's Backbone 9780292759961

The last the boy Papa saw of his Momma, she was galloping away on her horse Precious in the saddle her father took from

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Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 9780801465178

Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first non-fiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by an

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Undelivered: From the Great Postal Strike of 1970 to the Manufactured Crisis of the U.S. Postal Service 9781469655475, 9781469655451, 9781469655468

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Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity 9780520926769

Drawing from literary history, social theory, and political critique, this far-reaching study explores the utopian narra

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The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display 9780300236439

The Great Exhibition of 1851, held in London’s spectacular Crystal Palace, was the first world’s fair and the first indu

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Spineless : the science of jellyfish and the art of growing a backbone 9781760640583, 1760640581, 9781760640644, 1760640646

A former ocean biologist describes how she rediscovered her passion for marine science while investigating the enigmatic

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