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The Harlem Globetrotters werent from Harlem, and they didnt start out as globetrotters. Globetrotter is the fascinating biography of Abe Saperstein, a Jewish immigrant who took an obscure group of Black basketball players from Chicagos South Side, created the Harlem Globetrotters, and turned them into a worldwide sensation.

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This study traces the colorful history of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) as an alliance of primarily midwestern editors in the 1920s to a slightly more diverse 1,000-member organization cautiously poised to enter the 21st century.

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She offers information on the types of shops and goods they offered, the people who owned and operated them, those who frequented them, and the contribution of shops and shopping to the Victorian lifestyle and economy.

Shopping in Victorian England reached a level of importance not wholly appreciated even by Victorians themselves.

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An insightful collection of essays focused on American men, women, and children from a range of economic classes and ethnic backgrounds during the Great Depression.

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A study of youth, commerce, and leisure that explores the reimagination, remaking, and regulation of the post-war city after dark. Using a case study of Sheffield, this book considers the relationship between young people and their local environment and the meaning of leisure in post-war Britain.

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Explores the Gullah culture's direct link to Africa, via the sea islands of the American southeast. This book explores not only the history of Gullah, but takes the reader behind the scenes of Gullah culture to show what it is like to grow up, live, and celebrate in this American community.

Explores the history of this lifestyle, looking at how Gypsies have maintained their distinctive culture and how they have adapted to the twenty-first century, and focusses on a range of traditional Gypsy occupations including harvesting, horse-dealing, fortune-telling and rat-catching.

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Hard sell explores advertising in Britain in the 1950s and 60s through extensive new archival research in Britain and America, combining the study of business practices with analysis of television and press advertisements. -- .

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Details the triumphs and failures of freedpeople in their struggles to claim their own lands on which their forefathers had toiled and died.

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Haunted Britain offers a new emotional and cultural history of the Great War as told through the spiritualist and psychical research movements between 1914 and 1939.

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This book provides a comprehensive description of what being sick and receiving "medical care" was like in 19th-century America, allowing modern readers to truly appreciate the scale of the improvements in healthcare theory and practice.

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Provides readers with unrivalled access to a comprehensive range of sources on the provision of medical care during the nineteenth centrury -- .

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This study examines Herbert Hoovers role as a progressive reformer, a humanitarian, and a proponent for the middle class and argues that despite the Depression, Hoover's accomplishments helped lay the foundations for the modern American economy and political system.

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This book, a companion to the authors acclaimed Emile and Isaac Pereire (2015), sheds new light on elite Jewish families in nineteenth-century France.

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Examination of the popular film and fiction consumed by Britons in the 1920s and 1930s -- .

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Examination of the popular film and fiction consumed by Britons in the 1920s and 1930s -- .

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This work unravels the myths surrounding the gold rushes in order to reveal the hidden histories of the Wiradjuri people, of the graziers and convicts who occupied the Wiradjuri lands, and of the multi- cultural gold boom community that endured for generations after the boom had passed.

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Focusing on the United States and Germany, this book takes a comparative approach in examining environmental history. It also considers questions facing environmental historians - How can we historicise nature Is nature a historical actor How have human beings interacted with nature and what patterns have emerged

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This text presents an encyclopaedic overview of the 1970s, including entries on the prominent people, significant events, issues and controversies of the decade, and entries on the film, music and culture of the era that challenged the core of traditional American convictions.

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