Author: Nan Enstad
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022653331X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Traditional narratives of capitalist change often rely on the myth of the willful entrepreneur from the global North who transforms the economy and delivers modernity—for good or ill—to the rest of the world. With Cigarettes, Inc., Nan Enstad upends this story, revealing the myriad cross-cultural encounters that produced corporate life before World War II. In this startling account of innovation and expansion, Enstad uncovers a corporate network rooted in Jim Crow segregation that stretched between the United States and China and beyond. Cigarettes, Inc. teems with a global cast—from Egyptian, American, and Chinese entrepreneurs to a multiracial set of farmers, merchants, factory workers, marketers, and even baseball players, jazz musicians, and sex workers. Through their stories, Cigarettes, Inc. accounts for the cigarette’s spectacular rise in popularity and in the process offers nothing less than a sweeping reinterpretation of corporate power itself.
Cigarettes, Inc.
Author: Nan Enstad
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022653331X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Traditional narratives of capitalist change often rely on the myth of the willful entrepreneur from the global North who transforms the economy and delivers modernity—for good or ill—to the rest of the world. With Cigarettes, Inc., Nan Enstad upends this story, revealing the myriad cross-cultural encounters that produced corporate life before World War II. In this startling account of innovation and expansion, Enstad uncovers a corporate network rooted in Jim Crow segregation that stretched between the United States and China and beyond. Cigarettes, Inc. teems with a global cast—from Egyptian, American, and Chinese entrepreneurs to a multiracial set of farmers, merchants, factory workers, marketers, and even baseball players, jazz musicians, and sex workers. Through their stories, Cigarettes, Inc. accounts for the cigarette’s spectacular rise in popularity and in the process offers nothing less than a sweeping reinterpretation of corporate power itself.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022653331X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Traditional narratives of capitalist change often rely on the myth of the willful entrepreneur from the global North who transforms the economy and delivers modernity—for good or ill—to the rest of the world. With Cigarettes, Inc., Nan Enstad upends this story, revealing the myriad cross-cultural encounters that produced corporate life before World War II. In this startling account of innovation and expansion, Enstad uncovers a corporate network rooted in Jim Crow segregation that stretched between the United States and China and beyond. Cigarettes, Inc. teems with a global cast—from Egyptian, American, and Chinese entrepreneurs to a multiracial set of farmers, merchants, factory workers, marketers, and even baseball players, jazz musicians, and sex workers. Through their stories, Cigarettes, Inc. accounts for the cigarette’s spectacular rise in popularity and in the process offers nothing less than a sweeping reinterpretation of corporate power itself.
Sundials and Roses of Yesterday
Author: Alice Morse Earle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110806518X
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
The American author Alice Morse Earle (1851-1911) practised a distinctive form of historical writing which made innovative use of material evidence in its focus on the details of everyday life. Lavishly illustrated, this 1902 work illuminates the social history of two 'garden delights': sundials and roses.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110806518X
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
The American author Alice Morse Earle (1851-1911) practised a distinctive form of historical writing which made innovative use of material evidence in its focus on the details of everyday life. Lavishly illustrated, this 1902 work illuminates the social history of two 'garden delights': sundials and roses.
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench
Author: Great Britain. Court of King's Bench
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Left Brain Trading
Author: Lewis Evans
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780973822229
Category : Fibonacci numbers
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780973822229
Category : Fibonacci numbers
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Upbuilding Black Durham
Author: Leslie Brown
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807877530
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
In the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress. Migration, urbanization, and industrialization had turned black Durham from a post-Civil War liberation community into the "capital of the black middle class." African Americans owned and operated mills, factories, churches, schools, and an array of retail services, shops, community organizations, and race institutions. Using interviews, narratives, and family stories, Leslie Brown animates the history of this remarkable city from emancipation to the civil rights era, as freedpeople and their descendants struggled among themselves and with whites to give meaning to black freedom. Brown paints Durham in the Jim Crow era as a place of dynamic change where despite common aspirations, gender and class conflicts emerged. Placing African American women at the center of the story, Brown describes how black Durham's multiple constituencies experienced a range of social conditions. Shifting the historical perspective away from seeing solidarity as essential to effective struggle or viewing dissent as a measure of weakness, Brown demonstrates that friction among African Americans generated rather than depleted energy, sparking many activist initiatives on behalf of the black community.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807877530
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
In the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress. Migration, urbanization, and industrialization had turned black Durham from a post-Civil War liberation community into the "capital of the black middle class." African Americans owned and operated mills, factories, churches, schools, and an array of retail services, shops, community organizations, and race institutions. Using interviews, narratives, and family stories, Leslie Brown animates the history of this remarkable city from emancipation to the civil rights era, as freedpeople and their descendants struggled among themselves and with whites to give meaning to black freedom. Brown paints Durham in the Jim Crow era as a place of dynamic change where despite common aspirations, gender and class conflicts emerged. Placing African American women at the center of the story, Brown describes how black Durham's multiple constituencies experienced a range of social conditions. Shifting the historical perspective away from seeing solidarity as essential to effective struggle or viewing dissent as a measure of weakness, Brown demonstrates that friction among African Americans generated rather than depleted energy, sparking many activist initiatives on behalf of the black community.
The Correspondence of Charles Hutton, (1737-1823)
Author: Charles Hutton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198805047
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This book is the first edition of the surviving correspondence of celebrated Georgain mathematician and educator Charles Hutton (1737-1823).
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198805047
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This book is the first edition of the surviving correspondence of celebrated Georgain mathematician and educator Charles Hutton (1737-1823).
Official Register of the United States
The New York City Directory, for ...
The Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society
Author: British and Foreign Bible Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Vols. 1-64 include extracts from correspondence.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Vols. 1-64 include extracts from correspondence.
An American Bookshelf, 1775
Author: Lawrence C. Wroth
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512819468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
American books in print during this significant period, with appendices giving full publication details of ten of the most important volumes in the group.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512819468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
American books in print during this significant period, with appendices giving full publication details of ten of the most important volumes in the group.