social conditions

Text and photographs look at the United States in the twenty-first century.

Explores the aspects of urban life in colonial America, including working conditions, class hierarchy, housing, disease, and poverty.

A discussion of the U.S. culture war over fundamental social and religious values, with articles and documents that provide examples of the phenomenon within the study of politics in the United States.

Traces the history of Saudi Arabia and Yemen, describing each country's climate, plants and animals, ethnic groups, languages, religion, settlement patterns, and demographic trends, and discussing industry, resources, government, and the struggles of the people.

An overview of the Persian Gulf States of Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates that provides information on land, people, economy, government, society, cultural life, and history and examines struggles the countries and people have faced.

Tells the story of how the people of Chabannes, a small village in unoccupied France during World War II, provided safety for four hundred Jewish refugee children, housing them in a local chateau that was used as a school. Includes accounts from some of the students, teachers, and townspeople.

This volume, addressing labor, poverty, prison reform, slavery and abolition, temperance and Prohibition, women's rights, and women's suffrage, presents overviews of reform movements that alternately tore apart and mended the fabric of American society.

Explores how the United States transitioned from a rural nation into an industrial giant thanks to progressivism during the Gilded Age.

"Just 75 years ago, the Gulf nation of Qatar was a backwater, reliant on pearl diving. Today it is a gas-laden parvenu with seemingly limitless wealth and ambition. Skyscrapers, museums and futuristic football stadiums rise out of the desert and Ferraris race through the streets. But in the shadows, migrant workers toil in the heat for risible amounts. Inside Qatar reveals how real people live in this surreal place, a land of both great opportunity and great iniquity. Ahead of Qatar's time in the limelight as host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, anthropologist John McManus lifts a lid on the hidden worlds of its gilded princes, manual laborers and domestic workers, its teachers and policemen, culture vultures and thrill seekers"-- Provided by publisher.

"Winds whipped dark clouds of dust across the dry, open croplands of the Great Plains. How did this tragedy begin and what took the country through the worst of this extreme drought in the Dust Bowl? Learn about this trying time with easy-to-understand content tied to the curriculum of upper-elementary and middle school students written at a 2nd to 3rd grade reading level. Dyslexia friendly font and design make learning accessible and a recap at the end promotes checking for understanding that aids comprehension. It's key U.S. history curriculum made approachable for all"--.