History of the Americas

This Palgrave Pivot is a personal and universal history of gain and loss.

The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera traces the development of the Florida-Alabama coast as a tourist destination from the late 1920s and early 1930s, when it was sparsely populated with "e;small fishing villages,"e; through to the tragic and devastating BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010.

This book highlights educational innovations from Latin American researchers, offering culturally relevant practices and perspectives.

For most historians, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the hostilities of the Civil War and the dashed hopes of Reconstruction give way to the nationalizing forces of cultural reunion, a process that is said to have downplayed sectional grievances and celebrated racial and industrial harmony.

For 350 years, Protestantism was the dominant religion in America-and its influence spilled over in many directions into the wider culture.

In Sweatshop Capital, Beth Robinson examines the brutal sweatshop labor conditions that produced American consumer goods from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries, as well as the labor and social movements that contested them.

The 1954 Brown v.

This book provides the first major transatlantic history of Irish serving women, drawing on four years of archival research in Dublin, Belfast, New York, Boston, London and Liverpool.

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways.

Janisse Ray was a babe in arms when a boat of her father's construction cracked open and went down in the mighty Altamaha River.

This monograph explores how Chilean urban workers translated nineteenth-century European political philosophy according to their conditions, locality, and colonial history.

This volume charts an era of rapid growth for the United States.

Today hop growing remains a viable commercial enterprise only in parts of the far western United States-notably in Washington.

As a young man, John B.

The first comprehensive history of Bright Leaf tobacco culture of any state to appear in fifty years, this book explores tobacco's influence in South Carolina from its beginnings in the colonial period to its heyday at the turn of the century, the impact of the Depression, the New Deal, and World War II, and on to present-day controversies about health risks due to smoking.

Practical Insight on Praying for the Sick from Two Bestselling AuthorsIf you could sit down and talk privately with two world-renowned leaders in healing ministry--away from the spotlights, stages, and eager crowds--this is the conversation you would have!

Covering an era from the early twentieth century to the present, this volume features twenty-seven South Carolina women of varied backgrounds whose stories reflect the ever-widening array of activities and occupations in which women were engaged in a transformative era that included depression, world wars, and dramatic changes in the role of women.

Virginia Women is the first of two volumes exploring the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals.

This Palgrave Pivot is a personal and universal history of gain and loss.

Covering an era from the early twentieth century to the present, this volume features twenty-seven South Carolina women of varied backgrounds whose stories reflect the ever-widening array of activities and occupations in which women were engaged in a transformative era that included depression, world wars, and dramatic changes in the role of women.

This book provides the first major transatlantic history of Irish serving women, drawing on four years of archival research in Dublin, Belfast, New York, Boston, London and Liverpool.

James Habersham was an early American success story.

Nationalism in the New World brings together work by scholars from the United States, Canada, Latin America, and Europe to discuss the common problem of how the nations of the Americas grappled with the basic questions of nationalism: Who are we?

In September 1950, Horace Ward, an African American student from La Grange, Georgia, applied to law school at the University of Georgia.

';This is a powerful word for our times.

You name it, we can't do it.

Alison Prentice's 1977 groundbreaking monograph The School Promoters is a revisionist account of public education's emergence.

Throughout his long and illustrious career, Benjamin Franklin nursed a not-so-secret desire to annex Canada and make it American.

"e;En la patria de la solidaridad, no hay extranjeros.

Over a decade ago, the publication of Divided Houses ushered in a new field of scholarship on gender and the Civil War.

This campaign-by-campaign analysis of the War Between the States presents the action from the opening shots at Fort Sumter to the furled flags at Appomattox.

Exploring the relationship among blacks, religion, and the environment, this book examines how blacks have understood and related to the environment throughout their history.

Fascinating stories of the age-old tug-of-war between prisons struggling to keep inmates inside and escapees desperate to get out.

Exploring the relationship among blacks, religion, and the environment, this book examines how blacks have understood and related to the environment throughout their history.

In A Thousand Paper Cuts, Anjali Nath considers the paper worlds made and destroyed by US imperialism.

Fascinating stories of the age-old tug-of-war between prisons struggling to keep inmates inside and escapees desperate to get out.

Throughout his long and illustrious career, Benjamin Franklin nursed a not-so-secret desire to annex Canada and make it American.

The Fellowship Church explores the evolution of the American religious left through a case study of the African American intellectual and theologian Howard Thurman, and the physical embodiment of his thought: The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples.

The book "e;The History of Jerusalem (also known as The History of Jerusalem)"e; by Lebanese historian and journalist Khalil Sarkis presents an important historical work that addresses the city of Jerusalem, the cradle of religions, the crossroads of civilizations, and the arena of conflict throughout the ages.

In the writings of ancient Christians, the near-ubiquitous references to the fear of God have traditionally been seen as a generic placeholder for piety.

Prayers That Get Results, from USA Today Bestselling Author and Healing Prayer Minister· More than 140 powerful, Scripture-based prayers · Covers every major topic in life· Learn to pray effectively for breakthrough, healing, freedom, and victoryThe most effective way to pray is to pray God's word back to Him.

In this richly illustrated volume, featuring more than fifty black-and-white illustrations and a beautiful eight-page color insert, Barbara Novak describes how for fifty extraordinary years, American society drew from the idea of Nature its most cherished ideals.

The definitive history of the US labor movement's complicity in Zionist settler colonialism, and a call for today's labor militants to organize in solidarity with Palestinians.