Category - Business & Economics
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Capitalism in America: An Economic History of the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From the legendary former Fed Chairman and the acclaimed Economist writer and historian, the full, epic story of America's evolution from a small...
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Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A propulsive and “entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) history chronicling the conception and creation of the iconic Disneyland theme park, as...
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The Wealth of Nations, Volumes 1-3
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The classic economic treatise that insipired Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century The publication of The Wealth of Nations in 177...
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threatIn the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution ...
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Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America's First Lady of Food
HardcoverOriginal price $52.00Original price $52.00 - Original price $52.00Original price $52.00Current price $50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /IN 1945, FORTUNE MAGAZINE named Betty Crocker the second most popular American woman, right behind Eleanor Roosevelt, and dubbed Betty America's ...
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Finance in America: An Unfinished Story
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The economic crisis of 2008 led to an unprecedented focus on the world of high finance--and revealed it to be far more arcane and influential tha...
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Defining Memory: Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities
PaperbackOriginal price $56.00 - Original price $56.00Original price $56.00$73.99$73.99 - $73.99Current price $73.99| /This second edition of Defining Memory offers readers multiple lenses for viewing and discussing local institutions. New chapters analyze the way...
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Coal, Iron, and Slaves: Industrial Slavery in Maryland and Virginia, 1715$1865
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780313205224 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Publication Date: 05-10-1979 Pages: 283 Product Dimensio...
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Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Until the early nineteenth century, "risk" was a specialized term: it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract. Freaks of Fortu...
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A New American Labor Movement: The Decline of Collective Bargaining and the Rise of Direct Action
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Describes how new kinds of direct-action labor movements are emerging to reshape American labor activism in the twenty-first century.Product Detail...
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The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism
HardcoverOriginal price $46.00 - Original price $46.00Original price $46.00$61.99$61.99 - $61.99Current price $61.99| /A powerful case that the economic shocks of the 1970s hastened both the end of the Cold War and the rise of neoliberalism by forcing governments to...
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Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Crap. We all have it. Filling drawers. Overflowing bins and baskets. Proudly displayed or stuffed in boxes in basements and garages. Big and small....
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Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, employers and powerful individuals deployed a variety of tactics to control ordinary peo...
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Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, employers and powerful individuals deployed a variety of tactics to control ordinary peo...
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The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger's widely accl...
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Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780691241722 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Princeton University Press Publication Date: 12-20-2022 Pages: 248 Product D...
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The Strikers of Coachella: A Rank-And-File History of the Ufw Movement
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /The past decades have borne witness to the United Farm Workers' (UFW) tenacious hold on the country's imagination. Since 2008, the UFW has lent its...
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The Strikers of Coachella: A Rank-And-File History of the Ufw Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The past decades have borne witness to the United Farm Workers' (UFW) tenacious hold on the country's imagination. Since 2008, the UFW has lent its...
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Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /A masterful history of the LGBT workforce in America Workplaces have traditionally been viewed as "straight spaces" in which queer people passed. A...
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Harvard Square: A Love Story
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /"Harvard Square isn't what it used to be." Spend any time there, and you're bound to hear that lament. Yet people have been saying the very same th...
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Easy Money: American Puritans and the Invention of Modern Currency
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /A sweeping history of the American invention of modern money. Economists endlessly debate the nature of legal tender monetary systems--coins and bi...
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At the Base of the Giant's Throat: The Past and Future of America's Great Dams
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /There are ninety thousand registered dams in the United States, fifty thousand of them classified as "major." Nearly all of this infrastructure was...
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Leadership: In Turbulent Times
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The New York Times bestselling book about the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns...
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Thank You for Shopping: The Golden Age of Minnesota Department Stores
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Throughout the twentieth century, department stores ruled the retail landscapes of downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul. More than just shopping cente...
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