In Solidarity and Survival, three generations of Iowa workers tell of their unrelenting efforts to create a labor movement in the coal mines and on the rails, in packinghouses and farm equipment plants, on construction sites and in hospital wards. Drawing on nearly one thousand interviews...

"In the first decades of the 1800s, after almost three centuries of Iberian rule, former Spanish territories fragmented into more than a dozen new polities. Edge of Empire analyzes the emergence of Montevideo as a hot spot of Atlantic trade and regional center of power, often opposing Buenos...

Critical mass -- Economics lesson for economists and others -- The political economy of world power -- America at home -- America abroad -- New Deal at home and abroad -- USSR : another political economy -- Nazi Germany : the enabler -- Reluctant empire -- Disorder and early sorrow : the sixties...