History of the Americas

This new book looks at British Politics in the 1760's and 1770's during the American Revolution.

This rereading of the history of American westward expansion examines the destruction of Native American cultures as a successful campaign of "e;counterinsurgency.

The first comprehensive history of African Americans in the Palmetto State, spanning five centuries.

Respected scholar William Bennett reacquaints America with its heritage in the second volume of America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II).

The United States had never lost a war that is, until 1975, when it was forced to flee Saigon in humiliation after losing to what Lyndon Johnson called a "e;raggedy-ass little fourth-rate country.

Offering the widest scope of any study of one of popular music's most important eras, Songs of the Vietnam Conflict treats both anti-war and pro-government songs of the 1960s and early 1970s, from widely known selections such as Give Peace a Chance and Blowin' in the Wind to a variety of more obscure works.

Many of American journalism's best-known and most cherished stories are exaggerated, dubious, or apocryphal.

A complex history of rum, from its production to its consumption, and from its origins in the Caribbean to its impact on the Atlantic world It was strong.

Foreshadowing the twentieth-century experience, the Spanish American War was America's first modern foreign war.

In A Class by Themselves?

Colonel Frank Wolford, the acclaimed Civil War colonel of the First Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, is remembered today primarily for his unenviable reputation.

Updated and revised from the popular 2002 edition, with full-colour maps and new images throughout, this is a concise study of the American Revolutionary War.

The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration offers a systematic account of population movements to and from the region over the last 150 years, spanning from the massive transoceanic migration of the 1870s to contemporary intraregional and transnational movements.

Sheds new light on a transformation process: the struggle to create a modern Atlantic order in the long twentieth century.

In this succinct text, Jonathan Michaels examines the rise of anti-communist sentiment in the postwar United States, exploring the factors that facilitated McCarthyism and assessing the long-term effects on US politics and culture.

Commodification refers most explicitly to the activities of turning things into commodities and of commercializing that which is not commercial in essence.

Connected at the chest by a band of flesh, Chang and Eng Bunker toured the United States and the world from the 1820s to the 1870s, placing themselves and their extraordinary bodies on exhibit as "e;freaks of nature"e; and "e;Oriental curiosities.

Memorials to Shattered Myths: Vietnam to 9/11 traces the evolution and consequences of a new hybrid paradigm, which grants a heroic status to victims of national tragedies, and by extension to their families, thereby creating a class of privileged participants in the permanent memorial process.

This book unearths ancestral wisdom to address the needs of oppressed women in both the Global South and Global North.

Despite having undergone major advances in recent years, the history of technology in Latin America is still an understudied topic.

Winner of the Mormon History Association Best Book AwardWhat do Americans really think about Mormons, and why?

Colorblind Racial Profiling outlines the history of racial profiling practices and policies in the United States from 1974 to the present day.

The second volume of this authoritative biography of Americas first admiral examines the last ten years of David Glasgow Farraguts life, which included the ever-fascinating period of the Civil War.

The first comprehensive analytical bibliography of Atlantic Canadian imprints, this volume covers some 320 books, pamphlets, broadsides, government publications, and serials.

A History of Religion in America: From the First Settlements through the Civil War provides comprehensive coverage of the history of religion in America from the pre-colonial era through the aftermath of the Civil War.

This book profiles the port of Charles Town, South Carolina, during the two-year period leading up to the Declaration of Independence.

What made Henry Kissinger the kind of diplomat he was?

The world watched with fear in November 1979, when Iranian students infiltrated and occupied the American embassy in Tehran.

The students who came to the United States in the early twentieth century to become modern Chinese by studying at American universities played pivotal roles in Chinese intellectual, economic, and diplomatic life upon their return to China.

An FBI agent and USA Today-bestselling author present the true story of the lawman's pursuit of James "e;Whitey"e; Bulger, Jr.

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This book tells the story of 1960-a tumultuous, transitional year that unleashed the forces that eventually reshaped the American nation and the entire planet, to the joy of millions and the sorrow of millions more.

One of Canada's longest unresolved issues is the historical and present-day failure of the country's governments to recognize treaties made between Aboriginal peoples and the Crown.

From the 1870s to the 1930s, the Lake Superior Ojibwes of Minnesota and Wisconsin faced dramatic economic, political, and social changes.

This study offers a new interpretation of the Puritan "e;Antinomian"e; controversy and a skillful analysis of its wider and long term social and cultural significance.

Focusing on one of the most fascinating and debated figures in the history of modern Brazil, Stringing Together a Nation is the first full-length study of the life and career of Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon (1865-1958) to be published in English.

Presenting a detailed look at the individuals, themes, and moments that shaped this important Progressive Era in American history, this valuable reference spans 25 years of reform and provides multidisciplinary insights into the period.

Chronicling over forty years of changes in African-American popular culture, the Regal Theatre (1928-1968) was the largest movie-stage-show venue ever constructed for a Black community.

Drawing on the wisdom gleaned from thriving mega-churches and innovative business leaders while anchoring their vision in the Eucharistic center of Catholic faith, Fr.

Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous creatures of classic Hollywood horror, which thrilled audiences with their sheer grotesqueness.

In a supplement to his The American Language, H.

Too often, the lives and works of authors who called Upstate New York home are overshadowed by the icons of New York City.

As an age of empire and industry dawned in the wake of American Civil War, Southerners grappled with what it meant to be modern.

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Offers a new interpretation of the lynching of Sam Hose through the lens of the religious culture in the evangelical American South.