A Green Democratic Revolution
...why some are ready to enter in coalitions with both right and left political parties, as is the case in Germany and Austria. From a left populist perspective, the more...
Birth Right
...of maternity care throughout the world. Many developed countries, including several in Western Europe, such as Great Britain, Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands, use midwives as the primary birthing attendants...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...the Adolph Friedlander Company, Hamburg, Germany, ca. 1880. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. As the objects of Bailey, Waters, and Julien spill out of conventional "frames"...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...numbers, vetting projects, and trading horses in an effort that to longtime observers must have seemed a fool's errand. Competition, not collaboration, had long characterized metropolitan relationships and it wasn't...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...named Rose, valued at $700. The full listing reads: Slave Cicero 1,000, slave Sophia 300, slave Jane 400 Slave Jack 800, slave Rose 700, slave David 800, old woman 100...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...this map, click here. At the most distant zoom level, only Stevens mills with significant union action are labeled. The larger the marker the greater the number of employees and...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), 10. Along with the automobile, telephone, and electricity, radio emerged as a key technological component in the negotiations between rural people and government agencies over...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
Appendix I: Background on the Family of Francis Tinney Charles Teney manumitted Francis's father William Don Otius Teney on November 15, 1827, along with William's siblings Ann and Andrew and their...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...its factory-town founding in 1872 through its acquisition of the moniker "Toxic Town USA" in 2002. The book reconstructs the history of two "chemical dramas" that played out in Anniston...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...area and to the vast number of absentee landowners. Natural resource identification, mapping, and purchasing occurred as early as the eighteenth century, but these absentee holdings could not be fully...