Sweet Tyranny
Sweet Tyranny

Author: Kathleen Mapes

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2010-10-01

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0252091809

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In this innovative grassroots to global study, Kathleen Mapes explores how the sugar beet industry transformed the rural Midwest by introducing large factories, contract farming, and foreign migrant labor. Identifying rural areas as centers for modern American industrialism, Mapes contributes to an ongoing reorientation of labor history from urban factory workers to rural migrant workers. She engages with a full range of individuals, including Midwestern family farmers, industrialists, Eastern European and Mexican immigrants, child laborers, rural reformers, Washington politicos, and colonial interests. Engagingly written, Sweet Tyranny demonstrates that capitalism was not solely a force from above but was influenced by the people below who defended their interests in an ever-expanding imperialist market.

Leif and the Fall
Leif and the Fall

Author: Allison Sweet Grant

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2020-09-08

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1984815490

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Persistence and creativity can lead to amazing things, as Leif the leaf discovers in this lovely storybook from Allison Sweet Grant and Adam Grant, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Originals. Leif is a leaf. A worried leaf. It is autumn, and Leif is afraid to fall. "All leaves fall in the fall," say the other leaves. But Leif is determined to find a different way down, and with his friend Laurel, he uses the resources around him to create a net, a kite, a parachute in hopes of softening his landing. The clock is ticking, the wind is blowing. What will happen when a gust of wind pulls Leif from his branch? In a culture that prizes achievement, kids are often afraid to fail--failing to realize that some of the very ideas that don't work are steps along the path to ones that will.

New Deals
New Deals

Author: Colin Gordon

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994-07-29

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780521457552

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This book, an economic history of the interwar era, is the first major reinterpretation of the New Deal in thirty years.