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The powerful interconnections of poet Denise Levertov's life and work

Understanding an infamous political movement's grounding in festivity and defiance

Reconceptualises the orphanage as day care

An intimate biography of honky-tonk great Faron Young

Presents the racism, history and unique drive behind the changing roles of Latin baseball players.

Explores how the city's eight-hour movement intersected with a Protestant religious culture that supported long hours to keep workers from idleness, intemperance, and secular leisure activities.

Marvin Miller changed major league baseball and the business of sports. Drawing on research and interviews with Miller and others, this book offers the first biography covering the pivotal labor leader's entire life and career.

Provides a more nuanced view of the musical world of Bach's time while revealing in more specific terms than ever how and why Bach's own music remains fresh and compelling.

Expands how we understand intellectual possibilities, economic success, and social mobility in post-Reconstruction America.

Analyzes and challenges the crucial boundary that separates an artistic concept from its actual implementation in life.

This pioneering study treats sex tourism as a complex and multidimensional phenomenon that involves a range of activities and erotic connections, from sex work to romantic transnational relationships.

A thematic foundation for an interdisciplinary conversation about gendered resistance in locations including Brazil, Yemen, India, and the United States.

Offers important perspectives on the relationship of labour and the state.

Examines the regional and national history that shaped Cline's career and the popular culture that she so profoundly influenced with her music.

The accordion in the new world

Presents early twentieth-century Chicago as a vital centrepiece of Black thought and expression

Probing the intersection of music and racial politics in California

An introductory analysis of Korean American religious practices and community

The extraordinary life of labor activist, immigrant, and feminist, Bessie Abramowitz Hillman

New issues at the heart of Bach studies

A collection of stories of black women who were not slaves during the era of slavery.

Like rock n' roll, bluegrass exploded out of a post-World War II atmosphere in which more Americans opened their ears to more different kinds of music than ever before. This title capture the story of this dynamic and beloved music.

A collection of poems which includes an account of the poet's life, along with photos and explanatory notes.

Presents the collected works of Vincent Ferrini, known as the people's poet of the 20th century.

Presents a comparative examination of NYC and London's dockworkers rank-and-file union members movements to successfully challenged union hierarchy and nation-states. This work examines the dynamics of work and work stoppage, showing how issues of race, organized crime, and union affiliation, shaped waterfront uprisings.

The 1936 Olympic Games played a key role in the development of both Hitler's Third Reich and international sporting competition. This volume offers an analysis of Germany's preparations for the Games and the attempts by the Nazi regime to allay the international concerns about Hitler's racist ideals and expansionist ambitions.

Why is soccer the sport of choice in South America, while baseball has soared to popularity in the Caribbean? How did cricket become India's national sport, while China is a stronghold of table tennis? This book deals with these questions.