A Concise History of History: Global Historiography from Antiquity to the Present
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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how -the good life- in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located …
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Once America's "arsenal of democracy, " Detroit has become the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's dilemma of racial and economic inequality, Thomas Sugrue asks why D…
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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The Taming of the Shrew
Love and wit conquer all in Shakespeare's sparkling comedy of self-delusion and disguise.
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Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
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Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City
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A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837
A quarter-century after its first publication, A Shopkeeper's Millennium remains a landmark work--brilliant both as a new interpretation of the intimate connections among politics, economy, and religi…
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