Product Description: This fascinating collection examines murder jurisprudence the social rules that govern the arrest, trial, and punishment of people accused of murder in the United States from the colonial period to the present. The contributors show how changing social mores have influenced the application of murder law by highlighting the ways cultural biases like racism, changing ideas about childhood and insanity, and the ameliorative effects of middle class status and paternal imagery both helped and handicapped persons accused of murder...read more

Discusses the history of German immigration to the United States and covers key issues, including the reasons for immigration, the struggles faced, and how the culture influenced Americans.

Discusses the history of Russian immigration to the United States and covers key issues, including the reasons for immigration, the struggles faced, and how the culture influenced Americans.

Discusses the history of Mexican immigration to the United States and covers key issues, including the reasons for immigration, the struggles faced, and how the culture influenced Americans.

Discusses the history of African involuntary and voluntary immigration to the United States and covers key issues, including the struggles faced and how the culture influenced Americans.

Presents a history of Irish immigration into the United States, including the reasons promoting settlement into America, and the how the Irish eventually gained political power and prosperity.

Discusses the history of Polish immigration to the United States and covers key issues, including the reasons for immigration, the struggles faced, and how the culture influenced Americans.

Discusses the history of Chinese immigration to the United States and covers key issues, including the reasons for immigration, the struggles faced, and how the culture influenced Americans.

Discusses the history of Italian immigration to the United States and covers key issues, including the reasons for immigration, the struggles faced, and how the culture influenced Americans.

Discusses the history of Greek immigration to the United States and covers key issues, including the reasons for immigration, the struggles faced, and how the culture influenced Americans.

Discusses the history of Japanese immigration to the United States and covers key issues, including the reasons for immigration, the struggles faced, and how the culture influenced Americans.

Discusses the history of Jewish immigration to the United States and covers key issues, including the reasons for immigration, the struggles faced, and how the culture influenced Americans.

Product Description: Designed for American history survey courses, this collection of essays offers insights into topics in American history such as republicanism, nativism, feminism and imperialism. The essays aim to provide students with a grounding in the definitions and historical background of these concepts...read more

Product Description: Given the fundamental changes that transformed American society in the years between Benjamin Franklin's apprenticeship in a printer's shop and mid-19th-century efforts to organize labouring men and women, no social group offers a more interesting spectacle than skilled tradesmen or artisans...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Autowork focuses on the character of automobile work in the modern factory and the relationships between autoworkers, their union, and management from 1913 to the present. Two-thirds of the essays are devoted to the post-World War II period, which historians have not examined as extensively as the early years of the automobile industry...read more

Labor Divided is the first anthology on race, ethnicity and the history of American working-class struggles to give substantial attention to the experiences of African-American, Asian, and Hispanic workers as well as to the experiences of workers from European backgrounds. The essays in Labor Divided cover a time period of more than a century. They focus on the experiences of service workers as well as factory workers, women as well as men. Because the American labor force presently is absorbing significant numbers of workers from abroad, and especially Asian and Hispanic workers, this volume will be of great interest to readers seeking historical perspectives on contemporary economic developments.

Product Description: Life and Labor brings together the most stimulating scholarship in the field of labor history today. Its fifteen essays explore the impact of industrialization and technology on the lives of working people and their responses to the changes in society over the past one-hundred-fifty years...read more