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  Factory Girls

  From Village to City in a Changing China

  by Leslie T. Chang

  An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China. China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls , Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing, tells the story of these workers primarily through the lives of two young women, whom she... (more)
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  North and South

  by Elizabeth Gaskell

  Along with her disgraced father and sickly mother, Margaret Hale is exiled from her comfortable (and predictable) life in southern England to the ugly northern industrial town of Milton. Surprisingly, her social consciousness awakens — and it's intensified by the local mill-owner, John Thornton, in a stormy relationship that combines fierce opposition with passionate attraction..
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  Chime

  by Franny Billingsley

  Briony has a secret. It is a secret that killed her stepmother, ruined her sister's mind, and will end her life, if anyone were to know. She has powers. Then Eldric comes along with his golden lion eyes and a great mane of tawny hair. He is as natural as the sun, and he treats her as if she is extraordinary. And everything starts to change . . . Chime is a haunting, brilliantly written novel that will stay with... (more)
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  Fordlandia

  The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

  by Greg Grandin

  The stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. His intention was to grow rubber, but the project rapidly evolved into a more ambitious bid to export America itself, along with its golf courses, ice-cream shops,... (more)
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  Letting Swift River Go

  by Jane Yolen, Barbara Cooney

  Relates Sally Jane's experience of changing times in rural America, as she lives through the drowning of the Swift River towns in western Massachusetts to form the Quabbin Reservoir.
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  Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century

  The Structures of Everyday Life

  The Limits of the Possible

  by Fernand Braudel

  By examining in detail the material life of pre-industrial peoples around the world, Fernand Braudel significantly changed the way historians view their subject. Volume I describes food and drink, dress and housing, demography and family structure, energy and technology, money and credit, and the growth of towns.
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  Civilization and Capitalism

  The Wheels of Commerce, 15th-18th Century (Volume 2)

  by Fernand Braudel

  The subject of The Wheels of Commerce is the development of mechanisms of exchangeshops, markets, trade networks, and bankingin the pre- industrial stages of capitalism.
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  The Unsettling of America

  Culture and Agriculture

  by Wendell Berry

  Berry's assessment of modern agriculture and its relationship to American culture--our health, economy, personal relationships, morals, and spiritual values--is more timely than ever. This new edition of Berry's work presents a a classic testament to the value of the American family farm.
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  Haweswater

  by Sarah Hall

  The village of Marsdale is a quiet corner of the world, cradled in a remote dale in England's lovely Lake District. The rhythm of life in the deeply religious, sheltered community has not changed for centuries. But in 1936, when Waterworks representative Jack Ligget from industrial Manchester arrives with plans to build a new reservoir, he brings the much feared threat of impending change to this bucolic hamlet.... (more)
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  The Art of the Commonplace

  The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

  by Wendell Berry, Norman Wirzba

  The Art of the Commonplace gathers twenty-one essays by Wendell Berry that offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urban culture. These essays promote a clearly defined and compelling vision important to all people dissatisfied with the stress, anxiety, disease, and destructiveness of contemporary American culture. Why is agriculture becoming culturally irrelevant, and at what cost? What are the forces of... (more)
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  Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930 (Studies in Rural Culture)

  by Hal S. Barron

  How rural northerners from New England to North Dakota met the rise of industrial society and consumer culture. Between 1870 and 1930, communities in the rural North faced a number of challenges. Author Hal S. Barron shows that by consolidating traditional rural values and agrarian fundamentalism, country people successfully created a distinct rural subculture that continued well into the 20th century. Illustrated... (more)
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  A Young People's History of the United States

  by Rebecca Stefoff

  Volumes One and Two of the bestselling series now in a single enhanced edition! Now in paperback with illustrations, this is the new, revised, and updated single volume young adult edition of Howard Zinn’s classic telling of American history. A Young People’s History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and... (more)
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  The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

  by Alain de Botton

  To some degree, what the reader takes way from Alain de Botton's The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work will be influenced by what that particular reader brings to it. If you are looking for a serious and exhaustive analysis of work and how it affects both our psychological equilibrium and general sense of well-being, you may be disappointed; although de Botton draws on a variety of examples (some straightforward and... (more)
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  Organic Manifesto

  How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe

  by Maria Rodale

  Rodale was founded on the belief that organic gardening is the key to better health both for us and for the planet, and never has this message been more urgent. Now Maria Rodale, chairman of Rodale, sheds new light on the state of 21st century farming. She examines the unholy alliances that have formed between the chemical companies that produce fertilizer and genetically altered seeds, the agricultural... (more)
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  The China Boom and its Discontents

  by Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (eds)

  China is shaping the global economy as never before. An insatiable demand for commodities, energy resources and capital, and deepening integration to the world economy has won China acclaim. Yet 25 years of rapid industrial development, far-reaching economic reforms and increasing international competition have also created an array of challenging domestic policy demands.
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  Marching Men

  by Sherwood Anderson

• Geronimo's Story of His Life Taken Down and Edited ByS. M. Barrett

  

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  Geronimo's Story of His Life Taken Down and Edited By

  by S. M. Barrett

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  The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers 1st (first) Edition by Standage, Tom (2007)

  by Tom Standage

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  China into Africa: Trade, Aid, and Influence

  by Robert I. Rotberg

  Africa has long attracted China. We can date their first certain involvement from the fourteenth century, but East African city-states may have been trading with southern China even earlier. In the mid-twentieth century, Maoist China funded and educated sub-Saharan African anticolonial liberation movements and leaders, and the PRC then assisted new sub-Saharan nations. Africa and China are now immersed in their... (more)
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  Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture (October Books)

  by Jonathan Crary

  Suspensions of Perception is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or listen to anything result from crucial changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to the second half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the period from about 1880 to 1905, Jonathan Crary examines the connections... (more)