History of the Americas

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The Osage empire, as most histories claim, was built by Osage mens prowess at hunting and war.

In this powerful and moving memoir, Robert Beecham tells of his Civil War experiences, both as an enlisted man in the fabled Iron Brigade of the Army of the Potomac and as an officer commanding a newly raised African-American unit.

The history of New York City's urban development often centers on titanic municipal figures like Robert Moses and on prominent inner Manhattan sites like Central Park.

The definitive history of the Wesleyan movement in the United States.

A comprehensive filmography, this book is composed of lengthy entries on about 75 films depicting legendary New Mexico outlaw Billy the Kid--from the lost Billy the Kid (1911) to the blockbuster Young Guns (1988) to the direct-to-video 1313: Billy the Kid(2012) and everything in between.

Pathogens for War explores how Canada and its allies have attempted to deal with the threat of germ warfare, one of the most fearful weapons of mass destruction, since the Second World War.

Pearls have enthralled global consumers since antiquity, and the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella explicitly charged Columbus with finding pearls, as well as gold and silver, when he sailed westward in 1492.

Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country.

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Russell Jeung's spiritual memoir shares the difficult, often joyful, and sometimes harrowing account of his life in East Oakland's Murder Dubs neighborhood and of his Chinese-Hakka history.

The Transformational Decade shows the transformation that took place in American life from the attack on the World Trade Center to the emergence of the Obama presidency.

Using a variant of structuration theory, what Paul C.

Known for its natural beauty, Oregon has a unique and remarkable history.

This reference provides background information about the Watergate crisis and discusses its significance to U.

In Mock Classicism Nilo Couret presents an alternate history of Latin American cinema that traces the popularity and cultural significance of film comedies as responses to modernization and the forerunners to a more explicitly political New Latin American Cinema of the 1960s.

Beyond Belief: Surviving the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in France presents a demographic study of the behaviors of Protestants and Catholics in a town in southeastern France between 1650 and 1715.

Few historians are bold enough to go after America's sacred cows in their very own pastures.

Herein, for the first time, is revealed the impact and scope of the basic repeating rifle in the Civil War.

The first comparative history of European settlers' trading, pirating, and colonizing activities in the Caribbean.

Unearthing the demographic past of the Caribbean to illuminate its cultural origins and transformations.

A thrilling true crime narrative and groundbreaking historical account, Dime Novel Desperadoes recovers the long-forgotten story of Ed and Lon Maxwell, the outlaw brothers from Illinois who once rivaled Jesse and Frank James in national notoriety.

Building Nations from Diversity explores the question of whether the Canadian "e;mosaic"e; has differed from the American "e;melting pot"e; and provides an informative comparison of both countries' historical and present-day similarities and differences.

This insightful study offers a fresh perspective on the life and career of champion boxer Joe Louis.

Historians have often glorified eighteenth-century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty.

The result of a perfect storm of factors that culminated in a great moral catastrophe, the Salem witch trials of 1692 took a breathtaking toll on the young English colony of Massachusetts.

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As anyone familiar with both the stereotypes and the scholarship related to Wesley knows, tricky interpretive questions abound: was Wesley a conservative, high church Tory or a revolutionary protodemocrat or proto-Marxist?

At the onset of World War II, the U.

American women played in important part in Protestant foreign missionary work from its early days at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

A valued adviser and trusted insider in the highest echelon of U.

An examination of the Farm Security Administration's migrant camp system and the people it servedToday's concern for the quality of the produce on our plates has done little to guarantee U.

No-No Boy, John Okadas only published novel, centers on a Japanese American who refuses to fight for the country that incarcerated him and his people in World War II and, upon release from federal prison after the war, is cast out by his divided community.

Many youth arrive at confirmation classes without a basic grasp of key Bible stories or Christian traditions.

The ocean is one of the few untamed places on earthunpredictable and unsympathetic to the lives lost there.

A wealth of stories showing why Philadelphia was America's first great city in the years before the Revolution.

Reflections on, and interviews with, US presidents from Nixon to George W.

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.

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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.

First published in September 1992, the book traces the nature and development of the fundamental legal relationships among slaves, masters, and third parties.

A revelatory political history that uncovers the innocence of alleged Communist spy Alger Hiss and points a finger at who was really behind one of the most sensational and divisive accusations of the twentieth century.

This title was originally published in 1938.

The nature of the threats facing America today has drastically reduced the margin for error in senior political appointments.

The Maya of the Yucatan have long been drawn into the Mexican state's attempt to create modern Mexican citizens (mestizos).

A new history of Asian peace since 1979 that considers America's paradoxical role After more than a century of recurring conflict, the countries of the Asia-Pacific region have managed something remarkable: avoiding war among nations.

A Booklist Best Book of the Year: "e;The definitive history of the life and death of America's most iconic housing project,"e; Chicago's Cabrini-Green (David Simon, creator of The Wire).

The language of exile, focused with theological and biblical narratives and coupled with depictions of real-life exilic communities, can equip church leaders as agents in the creation of new communities.