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Americans have long identified themselves with material goods. In this study, Paul Mullins sifts through this continent's historical archaeological record to trace the evolution of North American consumer culture.

Material culture --- Social archaeology --- Consumption (Economics) --- Materialism --- Archaeology and history --- Social aspects --- History.

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Globalization. --- International economic relations --- Globalization --- Materialism --- International Commerce --- Commerce --- Business & Economics --- Economic aspects --- International economic relations. --- Materialism. --- Economic aspects. --- Physicalism --- Economic policy, Foreign --- Economic relations, Foreign --- Economics, International --- Foreign economic policy --- Foreign economic relations --- Interdependence of nations --- International economic policy --- International economics --- New international economic order --- Matérialisme historique --- Animism --- Philosophy --- Positivism --- Dualism --- Idealism --- Mechanism (Philosophy) --- Monism --- Realism --- Economic policy --- International relations --- Economic sanctions --- E-books --- Historical materialism --- Relations économiques internationales --- Matérialisme historique --- Mondialisation --- materialisme --- globalisering

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This book boldly unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon-and one driven solely by Western interests-by offering a compelling new perspective on global interconnectivity in the nineteenth century. Jeremy Prestholdt examines East African consumers' changing desires for material goods from around the world in an era of sweeping social and economic change. Exploring complex webs of local consumer demands that affected patterns of exchange and production as far away as India and the United States, the book challenges presumptions that Africa's global relationships have always been dictated by outsiders. Full of rich and often-surprising vignettes that outline forgotten trajectories of global trade and consumption, it powerfully demonstrates how contemporary globalization is foreshadowed in deep histories of intersecting and reciprocal relationships across vast distances.

Consumer behavior --- Globalization --- 19th century. --- africa. --- african consumers. --- career. --- college students. --- consumer demands. --- consumerism. --- consumption. --- east africa. --- economic change. --- engaging. --- global politics. --- global relationships. --- globalization. --- historical. --- india. --- interconnectivity. --- materialism. --- modern history. --- nonfiction. --- political science. --- politics. --- postcolonialism. --- social change. --- united states. --- western expansion. --- western interests. --- western world. --- world history. --- world trade.

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One of the quintessential goals of the American Dream is to own land and a home, a place to raise one’s family and prove one’s prosperity. Particularly for immigrant families, home ownership is a way to assimilate into American culture and community. However, Latinos, who make up the country’s largest minority population, have largely been unable to gain this level of inclusion. Instead, they are forced to cling to the fringes of property rights and ownership through overcrowded rentals, transitory living arrangements, and, at best, home acquisitions through subprime lenders.In Tierra y Libertad, Steven W. Bender traces the history of Latinos’ struggle for adequate housing opportunities, from the nineteenth century to today’s anti-immigrant policies and national mortgage crisis. Spanning southwest to northeast, rural to urban, Bender analyzes the legal hurdles that prevent better housing opportunities and offers ways to approach sweeping legal reform. Tierra y Libertad combines historical, cultural, legal, and personal perspectives to document the Latino community’s ongoing struggle to make America home.

Hispanic Americans --- American Dream. --- Immigrants --- Hispanics (United States) --- Latino Americans --- Latinos (United States) --- Spanish Americans in the United States --- Spanish-speaking people (United States) --- Spanish-surnamed people (United States) --- Housing. --- Idealism, American --- Materialism --- Success --- Ethnology --- Latin Americans --- Spanish Americans (Latin America) --- American Dream --- Housing --- E-books --- Latinxs --- Bender. --- Latinos. --- Libertad. --- Steven. --- Tierra. --- adequate. --- anti-immigrant. --- century. --- crisis. --- from. --- history. --- housing. --- mortgage. --- national. --- nineteenth. --- opportunities. --- policies. --- struggle. --- todays. --- traces.

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The two volumes of Marxism and Historical Practice bring together a wide range of essays written by one of the major Marxist historians of the last fifty years. Collected in Volume II, Interventions and Appreciations , are articles and reviews capturing the breadth of Palmer’s interests as a radical historian. Cultural forms and representational productions are analysed; political readings of historiography and pioneering historical practice provided. Themes as diverse as the analytic and political contributions of Eric Hobsbawm and E.P. Thompson, the conflicted legacies of American Trotskyism, and the representation of class politics in Scorsese’s Gangs of New York are covered.

Working class --- Labor --- Labor movement --- Social conflict --- Communism --- Marxian historiography. --- Historiography, Marxian --- Marxist historiography --- Marxist theory of history (Historiography) --- Historiography --- Historical materialism --- Bolshevism --- Communist movements --- Leninism --- Maoism --- Marxism --- Trotskyism --- Collectivism --- Totalitarianism --- Post-communism --- Socialism --- Village communities --- Class conflict --- Class struggle --- Conflict, Social --- Social tensions --- Interpersonal conflict --- Social psychology --- Sociology --- Labor and laboring classes --- Social movements --- Manpower --- Work --- Commons (Social order) --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- History. --- Employment --- Marxian historiography --- History --- E-books