Miles Roby, the heir to a ruined Maine logging and paper mill empire, tries to hold his family together and provide for his parents.

Many black strategies of daily resistance have been obscured--until now. Race rebels, argues Kelley, have created strategies of resistance, movements, and entire subcultures.

This book is the best-known work of Engels, and in many ways still the best study of the working class in Victorian England.

.A particular strength of the book is Stowell's description of the horrendous accidents, the toll in human life, and the continual disruption of craft, business, and ordinary movement engendered by building railroads into the heart of ...

Blackface and blackness : the minstrel show in American culture -- Love and theft : "racial" production and the social unconscious of blackface -- White kids and no kids at all : working-class culture and languages of race -- The blackening ...

In one village in western Thebes, villagers worked for centuries on the Egyptian tombs and created timeless beauty.

Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption?

The horrifying conditions of the Chicago stockyards are revealed through this narrative of a young immigrant's struggles in America.

Counting the costs of whiteness in the American past and present.