History of the Americas

This title was originally published in 1951.

This Element foregrounds Native American conceptions of sovereignty in order to elucidate settler colonialism in American colonial history.

A compelling intellectual and literary history of midcentury AmericaIn a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat.

President John F.

This new history of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, focuses on the growth and evolution of the Congregation through the years 19441999.

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Desde muy joven, Alexander von Humboldt entró en contacto con las eminencias científicas y políticas de su época.

In his prize-winning memoir, Reconciliation Road, John Marshall recounts a road trip around America in search of the truth about his famous grandfather General S.

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A COMPANION TO THE ERA OF ANDREW JACKSON More than perhaps any other president, Andrew Jackson s story mirrored that of the United States; from his childhood during the American Revolution, through his military actions against both Native Americans and Great Britain, and continuing into his career in politics.

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.

The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with startling acuity.

In Chapters in Brazil's Colonial History, Capistrano de Abreu created an integrated history of Brazil in a landmark work of scholarship that is also a literary masterpiece.

In 1528, the Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and his three companions were shipwrecked and, looking for help, began an eight-year trek through the deserts of the American West.

In his highly praised book Faith and the Presidency, Gary Scott Smith cast a revealing light on the role religion has played in presidential politics throughout our nation's history, offering comprehensive, even-handed examinations of the role of religion in the lives, politics, and policies of eleven presidents.

The United States currently has the largest prison population on the planet.

Power in the Village explores the formation of late-nineteenth-century Italian rural society in southern Brazil, through an examination of how Italian peasants in northern Italy and southern Brazil solved issues related to family honor.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"e;The seminal book on the child-separation policy.

Theodore Roosevelt is well-known as a rancher, hunter, naturalist, soldier, historian, explorer, and statesman.

This is the first comprehensive biography of Willie Brown, one of California's most enduring and controversial politicians.

From October 1864 to November 1865, the officers of the CSS Shenandoah carried the Confederacy and the conflict of the Civil War around the globe through extreme weather, alien surroundings, and the people they encountered.

Across North America, Islam is portrayed as a religion of immigrants, converts, and cultural outsiders.

In spring 2014 Peggy Kokernot Kaplan, a former Trinity University athlete and cofounder of the womens track team, emailed her alma maters athletic department asking the school to post statistics from the teams 1975 season.

Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914-1977), nicknamed Bitita, was a destitute black Brazilian woman born in the rural interior who migrated to the industrial city of Sao Paulo.

Monte Carlo and Las Vegas have become synonymous with casino gambling.

To Try Men's Souls: Loyalty Tests in American History offers the first comprehensive narrative of how governments in the United States have used oaths and other tests to define, demand, and police allegiance.

This volume provides the first survey in English of the Dutch involvement in the Atlantic slave trade and slave system.

Perhaps no city has a more fabled past than Chicago, home of legendary Al Capone.

A detailed history of communities of escaped slaves who survived in South Carolina swampsMaroon communities were small, secret encampments formed by runaway slaves, typically in isolated and defensible sections of wilderness.

In the 1950s, most of the American public opposed diplomatic and trade relations with Communist China; traditional historiography blames this widespread hostility for the tensions between China and the United States during Dwight D.

In this culminating work of a long and distinguished career, historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown looks at the theme of honor-a subject on which he was the acknowledged expert-and places it in a broader historical and cultural context than ever before.

For the first time, the major essays of distinguished Canadian scholar S.

This book sheds new light on the life and times of Theodore Roosevelt, drawing on a remarkable set of oral histories gathered in the 1950s from those who knew him.

The history of Wesleyan family of churches doctrinesWhat are our core beliefs?

Federalismincluding its meanings and limitsremains one of the most contested principles in constitutional law.

These essays chart major contributions to recent historiography.

The phenomenon of the supper club-as unique to the Upper Midwest as great lakes, cheese curds, and Curly Lambeau-is explored for the first time in this attractive and engaging book.

The American South has experienced remarkable change over the past half century.

If the frontier, in all its boundless possibility, was a central organizing metaphor for much of U.

On a hot summer night in 1930, three black teenagers accused of murdering a young white man and raping his girlfriend waited for justice in an Indiana jail.

Declaring a War on Poverty in 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson proclaimed: We shall not rest until that war is won.

A compelling reconstruction of the life of a black suffragist, Adella Hunt Logan, blending family lore, historical research, and literary imagination"e;Both a definitive rendering of a life and a remarkable study of the interplay of race and gender in an America whose shadows still haunt us today.

Today, we think of Canada as a compassionate, open country to which refugees from other countries have always been welcome.

MacNamara reveals how ordinary women and men legitimized birth control through private moral action, as opposed to public advocacy, in the early twentieth century.

This book reappraises the origins of the European Union through the lens of the private experts who advised Western governments on war and peace throughout the 1940s, particularly the partnership between the so-called 'Father of Europe' Jean Monnet and the US think tank Council on Foreign Relations.

This Violent Empire traces the origins of American violence, racism, and paranoia to the founding moments of the new nation and the initial instability of Americans' national sense of self.