History of the Americas

Between 1889 and 1919, Weetman Pearson became one of the world's most important engineering contractors, a pioneer in the international oil industry, and one of Britain's wealthiest men.

A fascinating new angle on presidential history, assessing the performances of the presidents in their freshman year of the toughest job in the world.

By and about the greatest celebrities of frontier America, these are the stories of their adventures told in their own words through excerpts from autobiographies, articles they wrote, newspaper interviews, private journals, personal letters, and court testimony.

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present.

On every front, 24 hours a day, you and your wealth face threats of an intensity that would have been unimaginable only a few short years ago.

'A landmark piece of non-fiction' Janet Maslin, The New York TimesFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is one of the great untold stories of American history: the migration of black citizens who fled the south and went north in search of a better life From 1915 to 1970, an exodus of almost six million people would change the face of America.

Poetry that recounts Great Lakes shipwrecks through imagination and history.

Some consider American agriculture as one of the wonders of the modern world.

Living in Infamy examines the history of disfranchisement for criminal conviction in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

This is the story of Irish-born Henry Ross Halpin, who by the age of 16 began a long association with the fur trade and Canada's native peoples, was thrice employed by the Hudson's Bay Company, and became an Indian agent (18851901).

Were Acadians better off than their rural counterparts in old regime France?

The work of considering, imagining, and theorizing the U.

This is the first major study to comprehensively analyse English encounters with the New World in the sixteenth century and their impact on early English understandings of America and changing approaches to exploration and settlement.

We Are Left without a Father Here is a transnational history of working people's struggles and a gendered analysis of populism and colonialism in mid-twentieth-century Puerto Rico.

This book begins with an audacious question: Has there ever been a better home for Jews than Canada?

A Family Practice is the sweeping saga of four generations of doctors, Russell men seeking innovative ways to sustain themselves as medical practitioners in the American South from the early nineteenth to the latter half of the twentieth century.

Taking American mobilization in WWII as its departure point, this book offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to the history of militarization in the United States since 1940.

A unique compilation of diverse sources, many in English translation for the first time, this book documents the Mexican Revolution, explains its popular and agrarian nature, and helps to clarify its often perplexing conflicts, alliances, and issues.

The essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries.

The Removal of the Five Tribes from what is now the Southeastern part of the United States to the area that would become the state of Oklahoma is a topic widely researched and studied.

A panoramic social history of hurricanes in the CaribbeanThe diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule.

Explores the religious world of the young urban Catholics who conspired to kill Mexican President Álvaro Obregón in 1928.

In 2012, media outlets from CNN to EWTN announced that Leah Libresco, a gifted young intellectual, columnist, and prolific blogger on the Atheist channel on Patheos, was converting to Catholicism.

Religion in the Americas explores the fluid, dynamic, and complex nature of religion across Latin America and its diasporic communities in the United States.

A biography and history of the Native American chief, his people, and their forced exodus at the hands of the US government.

"e; The South continues to be the most distinctive region in American politics.

In this groundbreaking work, Amanda Porterfield explores the long intertwining of religion and commerce in the history of incorporation in the United States.

In his farewell address, Dwight D.

In 1912, a group of ambitious young men, including future Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter and future journalistic giant Walter Lippmann, became disillusioned by the sluggish progress of change in the Taft Administration.

How much of what we know about the history of the Old West is true?

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Veteran journalist and southern storyteller Tom Poland has been writing about the disappearing rural South for nearly four decades.

Law in early America was culturally special, not just a foundation for history but for the culture that bound the nation and its collective identity.

The Klondike bar is America's favorite ice cream novelty.

In 1960, University of Illinois professor Leo Koch wrote a public letter condoning premarital sex.

After the First World War, many Canadians were concerned with the possibility of national regeneration.

This case study of the Peruvian altiplano, the vast high-altitude plains surrounding Lake Titicaca, combines economic and social analysis with cultural and institutional history.

Alongside Moctezuma and Benito Juarez, Pancho Villa is probably the best-known figure in Mexican history.

In 1992, Florida voters approved an amendment to the state's Constitution creating eight-year term limits for legislators-making Florida the second-largest state, after California, to implement such a law.

Current research on the history and evolution of moral standards and their role in Southern societyFor more than thirty years, the study of honor has been fundamental to understanding southern culture and history.

Documents uncovered from the late FBI director's secret files reveal for the first time the shocking extent of FBI activities in collecting and using derogatory information about prominent Americans and political groups.

The former French colony of Acadiapermanently renamed Nova Scotia by the British when they began an ambitious occupation of the territory in 1710witnessed one of the bitterest struggles in the British empire.

How Napoleon's legacy infused American debates over empire in the nineteenth century No individual dominated the early nineteenth century like Napoleon Bonaparte, the titanic figure who came to embody the French Revolution and nearly brought all of Europe to heel.