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  • Industrial Sunset

    The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984

    de Steven High ...
    Series series Heritage
    Plant shutdowns in Canada and the United States from 1969 to 1984 led to an ongoing and ravaging industrial decline of the Great Lakes Region. Industrial Sunset offers a comparative regional analysis of the economic and cultural devastation caused by the shutdowns, and provides an insightful examination of how mill and factory workers on both sides of the border made sense of their own ... Leer más

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  • Taking Hawaii

    How Thirteen Honolulu Businessmen Overthrew the Queen of Hawaii in 1893, With a Bluff

    The true story of a queen deposed, a five-year police state, an attempted counter-coup, and the end of an independent nation.On a January afternoon in 1893, men hunkered down behind sandbagged emplacements in the streets of Honolulu, with rifles, machine guns, and cannon ready to open fire. Troops and police loyal to the queen of the sovereign nation of Hawaii faced off against a small number of ... Leer más

    $193 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Economics of Innocent Fraud

    Truth For Our Time

    John Kenneth Galbraith has long been at the center of American economics, in key positions of responsibility during the New Deal, World War II, and since, guiding policy and debate. His trenchant new book distills this lifetime of experience in the public and private sectors; it is a scathing critique of matters as they stand today.Sounding the alarm about the increasing gap between reality and ... Leer más

    $215 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Hard Choices

    Financial Exclusion, Fringe Banks and Poverty in Urban Canada

    When low-income city dwellers lack access to mainstream banking services, many end up turning to ‘fringe banks,’ such as cheque-cashers and pawnshops, for some or all of their financial transactions. This predicament of ‘financial exclusion’ – faced by those underserved by conventional financial institutions – is comprehensively examined in Jerry Buckland's powerful study, Hard Choices.The first ... Leer más

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  • The Declining Significance of Race

    Blacks and Changing American Institutions

    When first published in 1980, The Declining Significance of Race immediately sparked controversy with its contentious thesis that race was becoming less of a deciding factor in the life chances of black Americans than class. This new edition of the seminal book includes a new afterword in which William Julius Wilson not only reflects on the debate surrounding the book, but also presents a ... Leer más

    $266 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Truly Disadvantaged

    The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy

    An assessment of the relationship between race and poverty in the United States, and potential solutions for the issue.Renowned American sociologist William Julius Wilson takes a look at the social transformation of inner-city ghettos, offering a sharp evaluation of the convergence of race and poverty. Rejecting both conservative and liberal interpretations of life in the inner city, Wilson offers ... Leer más

    $266 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Toxic Schools

    High-Poverty Education in New York and Amsterdam

    de Bowen Paulle ...
    Series series Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
    Violent urban schools loom large in our culture: for decades they have served as the centerpieces of political campaigns and as window dressing for brutal television shows and movies. Yet unequal access to quality schools remains the single greatest failing of our society—and one of the most hotly debated issues of our time. Of all the usual words used to describe non-selective city schools ... Leer más

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  • The Life of Vasco Nunez de Balboa

    Vasco Nunez de Balboa (1475 1519), Spanish explorer of the New World, is perhaps most famous for being the first European to discover the Pacific Ocean. Balboa explored modern-day Panama, and on its west coast he discovered the South Sea, which was later renamed the Pacific Ocean by Ferdinand Magellan. Balboa met an early death, being sentenced to death by his rival Pedrarias Davila, for alleged ... Leer más

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  • The New Geography

    How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape

    de Joel Kotkin ...
    In the blink of an eye, vast economic forces have created new types of communities and reinvented old ones. In The New Geography, acclaimed forecaster Joel Kotkin decodes the changes, and provides the first clear road map for where Americans will live and work in the decades to come, and why. He examines the new role of cities in America and takes us into the new American neighborhood. The New ... Leer más

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  • World City Syndrome

    Neoliberalism and Inequality in Cape Town

    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    The literature on ‘world cities’ has had an enormous influence on urban theory and planning alike. From Manila to London, academics and policy makers have attempted to understand, and to some extent strive for, world city status. This book is a study of Cape Town’s standing in this network of urban centres, and an investigation of the conceptual appropriateness of this world city hypothesis. ... Leer más

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  • And I Will Dwell in Their Midst

    Orthodox Jews in Suburbia

    de Etan Diamond ...
    “Suburbia may not seem like much of a place to pioneer, but for young, religiously committed Jewish families, it’s open territory.” This sentiment — expressed in the early 1970s by an Orthodox Jew in suburban Toronto — captures the essence of the suburban Orthodox Jewish experience of the late twentieth century. Although rarely associated with postwar suburbia, Orthodox Jews in metropolitan areas ... Leer más

    $467 MXN

  • The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Capitalism

    de David M. Kotz ...
    The collapse that began in 2008 continues to burden the world economy. David Kotz, one of the few academic economists to predict it, argues that the ongoing crisis is not simply the aftermath of financial panic and severe recession but is a structural crisis of neoliberal capitalism whose resolution will require major institutional restructuring. ... Leer más

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