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Heber C. Kimball was Mormonism's most colorful leader and a major force in shaping, sustaining, and spreading the Mormon faith. Only Joseph Smith and Brigham Young wielded as much authority or had as much influence during the first four decades of the Mormon church. This is the first comprehensive and objective biography of Kimball since 1888. ......
Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement
The important role of the Temperance movement throughout American history is analyzed as clashes and conflicts between rival social systems, cultures, and status groups. Sometimes the ''dry'' is winning the classic battle for prestige and political power. Sometimes, as in today's society, he is losing.This significant contribution to the theory of ......
New Perspectives on Administrative Theory and Practice
''This volume makes a special contribution to organizational analysis by developing the community element's influence on action and outcomes in organizational settings. To understand the volume is to understand what is meant by the community element and to appreciate its influence on organizational behavior. . . . The issues are whether or not ......
The Transformation of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice Cultures since 1880
''Daniel exposes the human cost of the epic capitalist transformation of cotton culture, as well as the injustices and inadequacies of the federal programs that have governed the lives of southern farmers in all three crops since the New Deal. . . . His book is a major contribution to Southern history.'' -- Journal of American History''A fresh, ......
The Progressives' Achievement in American Civilization, 1889-1920
Ministers of Reform vividly depicts the spiritual odyssey of an entire generation and shows how Protestant roots and a common ''climate of creativity'' nurtured a host of Progressive leaders from all walks of life. Crunden demonstrates that the same spirit of nnovation and moral rectitude so typical of the era's politics also characterized its ......
Contexts and Texts of the Controversy about Women in England, 1540-1640
Half Humankind is the first study to provide modernized and annotated editions of the key documents from the controversy about women in Renaissance England. The selections -- ten treatises debating the merits of womankind and six eulogies and condemnations depicting actual women -- range in style from careful logic and studied eloquence to ribald ......
For anyone interested in the auspicious beginnings of ''one of the finest poets of our time'' (San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle), this book is a small treasure. Dear John, Dear Coltrane was Michael S. Harper's first book of poems and a nominee for the National Book Award. Of it the Virginia Quarterly Review observed: ''Harper's is a poetry of ......
The Many and the Few recounts the dramatic ''inside'' story of one of the pivotal strikes in American history. For six weeks in 1937, workers at General Motors' Flint, Michigan, plant refused to budge from their sit-down strike. That action changed the course of industrial and labor history, when General Motors finally agreed to recognize the ......
