Bøker av Daniel J. Walkowitz

In recent decades, Jewish heritage tourism has grown to occupy a major space within the world of museums and memorials. But there is a critical omission - Jewish socialist history is absent from heritage tourist sites. Daniel Walkowitz analyses this gap in public history, presenting the absence of Jewish socialism as a case study in the politics of history and memory.

Focusing on the history of social workers, this is an examination of the changed and contested meaning of the term ""middle class"" over the last 100 years. It explores the interplay of race, ethnicity and gender, and studies the trade union movement within the mostly female field of social work.

A look at how the history of country and folk dancing in America is deeply intermeshed with that of political liberalism and the "old left"

Walking, seeing, and being seen in the city - as voyeur or as the subject of surveillance - have a long and contested history. This book examines the physical experience of city walking - determined by architecture, street signs, traffic lights, and each walker's differently abled body - alongside the subtler class, racial, and more.