History of the Americas

The history of the execution of women in the United States has largely been ignored and scholars have given scant attention to gender issues in capital punishment.

This book examines the functions of sculpture during the Preclassic period in Mesoamerica and its significance in statements of social identity.

Esta obra constituye una vision panoramica de todos los ciclos misioneros presentes a lo largo de cuatro siglos en nuestra Amazonia.

Since 1871 the Cape Hatteras lighthouse has been a welcome sight for sailors entering the treacherous region off North Carolina's Outer Banks known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic.

Covering their lives from childhood to the end of the Georgia governorship, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter is one of the few major biographies of an American president that pays significant attention to the First Lady.

Avihu Zakai analyzes Jonathan Edwards's redemptive mode of historical thought in the context of the Enlightenment.

Even Mississippi textbooks rarely mention the part Mississippi men and women played in World War I.

The remote, unforgiving landscape and colossaland unpredictably unstablemountain ranges of Alaska have kept at bay many a faint-hearted outsider, but the lure of this territory's beauty, as well as its rich and vast resources, continues to entice adventuresome natives and outsiders alike.

When women picketed the White House demanding the vote on January 10, 1917, they broke new ground in political activism.

How is Donald Trump's presidency likely to affect the reputation and popular standing of the Republican Party?

As its interests have become deeply tied to the Middle East, the United States has long sought to develop a usable understanding of the people, politics, and cultures of the region.

During the late eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain sent joint mapping expeditions to draw a nearly 10,000-mile border between Brazil and Spanish South America.

This volume of original essays by leading scholars is an innovative, thorough introduction to the history and culture of California.

America's Road to Empire surveys and analyses United States' foreign relations from the country's independence in 1776 until its entry into World War One in 1917, using primary source materials and case studies.

The persistence of a raced-based division of labor has been a compelling reality in all former slave societies in the Americas.

Short-listed for the Ottawa Book Awards, 2010 This is the story of the creation and first four decades of one of Canada's pre-eminent cultural organizations.

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Conflicts and controversies at home and abroad have led Americans to focus on Islam more than ever before.

Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon.

The Navy of the 21st Century, 2001- 2022 presents an all- inclusive listing of the ships that have served in the US Navy since the start of the new century.

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Asian Security Handbook focuses on the new challenges to security in the Asia-Pacific region presented by international terrorism.

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At times mirroring and at times shockingly disparate to the rise of traditional white American medicine, the history of African-American health care is a story of traditional healers; root doctors; granny midwives; underappreciated and overworked African-American physicians; scrupulous and unscrupulous white doctors and scientists; governmental support and neglect; epidemics; and poverty.

Edited and with contributions by Liisa North and Alan Simmons, this collection explores the participation of the oppressed and marginalised Guatemalan refugees, most of them indigenous Mayas who fled from the army's razed-earth campaign of the early 1980s, in government negotiations regarding the conditions for return.

A collection of fantastical and macabre Gullah-inspired folklore that illuminates African-American life in nineteenth-century South Carolina.

On May 25th, 1946, after 22 years as a congressional secretary, Jane Pratt was elected as North Carolina's first congresswoman.

In 1791 when the Constitutional Act created a legislative assembly for Upper Canada, the colonists and their British rulers decreed that the operating criminal justice system in the area be adopted from England, to avoid any undue influence from the nearby United States.

Shows how the policies, practices, forms and historical dynamics of the American empire repeat those of the British empire.

Natural disasters and the dire effects of climate change cause massive population displacements and lead to some of the most intractable political and humanitarian challenges seen today.

Revelations of abuse at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison and the U.

This book traces the connections between American westward expansion and German colonialism from the late eighteenth century to World War II.

This book examines the regional history of the American West in relation to the rest of the United States, emphasizing cultural and political history.

Most histories of modern American politics tell a similar story: that the Sunbelt, with its business friendly environment, right-to-work laws, and fierce spirit of frontier individualism, provided the seedbed for popular conservatism.

Among the regional landed elites in the Western World of the mid-1800s, the two most formidable were the owners of slave plantations in the Southern states of the U.

Extinguishing a public health threat is difficult under any condition, let alone during a sweeping national revolution.

In 1880, ancient-growth forest still covered two-thirds of West Virginia, but by the 1920s lumbermen had denuded the entire region.

As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what would be omitted from the historical record.

This ambitious volume shows how nineteenth-century Spanish American writers used the discourses of modernity to envision the place of women at all levels of social and even political life in the modern, utopian nation.

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From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody period of international expansion in the Caribbean.

Offering a unique approach to studying one of the most eventful eras in American history, this volume looks at a dozen key events of the 1960s and 1970s and considers the possible paths history might have taken if the outcomes had been different.

An authoritative one-volume history of the origins and development of American higher educationThis book tells the compelling saga of American higher education from the founding of Harvard College in 1636 to the outbreak of World War II.

Argues that workers'' compensation laws created new employment discrimination against disabled people and a new injury culture that treated employees and their injuries instrumentally.

First published in 1798, this Revolutionary War memoir is one of the few ever written by a senior Continental Army commander.

During the first half of the twentieth century, the city of Memphis was governed by the Shelby County Democratic Party controlled by Edward Hull Crump, described by Time magazine as "e;the most absolute political boss in the US.