{"product_id":"americas-forgotten-holiday-may-day-and-nationalism-1867-1960-hardcover","title":"America's Forgotten Holiday: May Day and Nationalism, 1867-1960 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDonna T. Haverty-Stacke\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough now a largely forgotten holiday in the United States, May Day was founded here in 1886 by an energized labor movement as a part of its struggle for the eight-hour day. In ensuing years, May Day took on new meaning, and by the early 1900s had become an annual rallying point for anarchists, socialists, and communists around the world. Yet American workers and radicals also used May Day to advance alternative definitions of what it meant to be an American and what America should be as a nation.\u003cbr\u003eMining contemporary newspapers, party and union records, oral histories, photographs, and rare film footage, America's Forgotten Holiday explains how May Days celebrants, through their colorful parades and mass meetings, both contributed to the construction of their own radical American identities and publicized alternative social and political models for the nation.\u003cbr\u003eThis fascinating story of May Day in America reveals how many contours of American nationalism developed in dialogue with political radicals and workers, and uncovers the cultural history of those who considered themselves both patriotic and dissenting Americans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDonna T. Haverty-Stacke is Professor of History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, where she teaches courses in U.S. cultural, urban, labor and legal history. Haverty-Stacke is the author of \u003ci\u003eAmerica's Forgotten Holiday: May Day and Nationalism, 1867 - 1960 \u003c\/i\u003e(NYU Press, 2009) and \u003ci\u003eTrotskyists on Trial: Free Speech and Political Persecution since the Age of FDR \u003c\/i\u003e(NYU Press, 2015) and co-editor with Daniel J. Walkowitz of \u003ci\u003eRethinking U.S. Labor History: Essays on the Working-Class Experience, 1756 - 2009 \u003c\/i\u003e(Continuum, 2010).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 314\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51817278800160,"sku":"9780814737057","price":102.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7ef453e0f663ccccb8fdb5311190d4b0.webp?v=1781099374","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/americas-forgotten-holiday-may-day-and-nationalism-1867-1960-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}