. At its best, this offers enlightening glimpses of the impact of white settlers on American Indians, early stirrings of the labor movement, the hardships imposed by slavery, and "the capacity of ordinary people to alter the very process of history." However, the book is marred by sweeping assertions ("More and more people were now making their living in ways that challen
- Title : Who Built America? Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 1: From Conquest and Colonization through Reconstruction and the Great Uprising of 1877
- Author : American Social History Project
- Rating : 4.51 (809 Vote)
- Publish : 2016-11-5
- Format : Hardcover
- Pages : 606 Pages
- Asin : 0394546636
- Language : English
. At its best, this offers enlightening glimpses of the impact of white settlers on American Indians, early stirrings of the labor movement, the hardships imposed by slavery, and "the capacity of ordinary people to alter the very process of history." However, the book is marred by sweeping assertions ("More and more people were now making their living in ways that challenged the values of the revolutionary generation"), a careless blunder (that Andrew Johnson was not impeached) and a relentless contempt for wealth: virtue is here the province of those with modest means. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly Workers, women and minorities are the focus of a volume more successful as a textbook than as a history for the general reader. Also, this America is inhabited not so much by individuals as by economic groups: the British "invaders" (meaning the colonists, not Redcoat soldiers), Northern merchant elite, mill women, landlords and, of course, the "poor, cringing tenant." The text is lAt last, an American history about working Americans: what they thought, what they did, what happened to them. Volume One takes us from conquest and colonization through industrial expansion, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Great Uprising of 1877It's been a full life.In "Values of the Game," Bradley credits much of his success to the game of basketball and the life lessons he learned on the court. It had much more easily referenced information and more user-friendly instructions, both written and illustrated. Unfortunately, Stevie is taken, and it will remain to be seen whether the rumors about her long-time boyfriend are true or not. The tax program on the CD had some flaws. Kessler was in France when Majorca came under the pro-Nazi Franco control in September 1937; so he did not return there, and died in Lyons at the end of November that year.I have concentrated on the political aspects of the diary. For example, page 127 "About Cauli-Rice" explains about the usage of cauliflower rice, which I've always used to sub for rice - it never dawned on me to use it as an orzo replacement, as mentioned - but where's the recipe for it? Page 87. It contains a lot of amazing photos from different squadrons with descriptive photo captions and brief narratives. This is the type of storytelling I admire and appreciate.Finally, for readers of the series, we learn a lot more about the mysterious Maestro, who I had been confusing as the head of the House of Usher. We are dropped into the end of a hundred-years war. Fabulous! It's like bottled magic. Th
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