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Stories from the front line of the war in El Salvador are juxtaposed with tales of Hollywood-mythological childhood, and the history of Los Angeles...

A highly original account of the evolution of the family unit Current debates about the future of the family are often based on serious misconcepti...

For the first time in a generation chain gangs have reappeared on the roads of the American South. Associated in the past with racial terrorism, th...

Bombing its way into the headlines of the early 1970s, the Weather Underground was one of the most dramatic symbols of the anger felt by young Amer...

What do men—white straight men in particular—want? In a series of witty and provocative investigations of American popular culture, Fred Pfeil expo...

The ignominious failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 marked the culmination of a curious episode at the height of the Cold War. At the end o...

“It is frightening to think the [Jon Wiener] teaches history at a university ... ”—Jacques Derrida“Wiener takes the modern university as his beat, ...

A powerful debunking of the myths of globalization. What are the implications for culture and politics of the current fashion for talking about glo...

Winner of the 2001 Carey McWilliams AwardIs the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River? Will California soon hold...

Over the past decade American labor has faced a tidal wave of wage cuts, plant closures and broken strikes. In this first comprehensive history of ...

In the years of the Reagan–Bush era, the controversy over ‘political correctness’ erupted on American campuses, spreading to the mainstream media a...

Our Own Time retells the story of American labor by focusing on the politics of time and the movements for a shorter working day. It argues that th...

Towards the Abolition of Whiteness collects David Roediger’s recent essays, many published here for the first time, and counts the costs of whitene...

Who speaks for science in a technologically dominated society? In his latest work of cultural criticism Andrew Ross contends that this question yie...

‘Exquisite Corpse’ was a game played by the surrealists in which someone drew on a piece of paper, folded it and passed it to the next person to dr...

They Must Be Represented examines documentary in print, photography, television and film from the 1930s through the 1980s, using the lens of recent...

Discussion of fiction, poetry and cultural history is given central place in Wald’s analysis. From this perspective he argues that the contemporary...

A Plague on Your Houses is a scorching indictment of the decision to close fire companies in New York in the 1970s and a frightening study of the w...

During the 1980s, university-based intellectuals came under heavy fire from both radicals and conservatives. They were accused by the former of bet...

In the age of decentralization, instant communications, and the subordination of locality to the demands of a globalizing market, contemporary citi...

This innovative and absorbing book surveys a little known chapter in the story of American urbanism—the history of communities built and owned by s...