History of the Americas

First published in 1982, Worldwide Family History is an essential reference and guide for the professional genealogist and the interested amateur alike.

This collection examines the political themes and strategies utilized by candidate Bush in 1988 and President Bush in 1992, as told by the actual players as well as presidential and political scholars.

L'auteur présente ici les mémoires et récits inédits de Rodolphe Lemieux, politicien québécois du début du XXe siècle ayant occupé plusieurs fonctions importantes sur la scène fédérale.

Paris Blues by Harold Flender is a poignant and evocative novel that explores the lives of two expatriate American jazz musicians searching for freedom, purpose, and meaning in post-war Paris.

Why are so many Americans leaving church?

You've heard his name, you've probably heard your pastor quote him, but who is he really?

The success of the Underground Railroad depended on the participation of sympathizers in hundreds of areas throughout the country, each operating independently.

The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor was the most ambitious and significant labor organization of the Gilded Age.

L’Arctique est souvent perçu comme une région isolée du reste du monde, entre autres en raison des conditions difficiles, des populations clairsemées et des infrastructures limitées.

This concise biography tells the story of John Dewey, a pioneer of pragmatism and the first original school of philosophy created in America.

The life and times of Dante's soaring poetic allegory of the soul's redemptive journey toward GodWritten during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy describes the poet's travels through hell, purgatory, and paradise, exploring the state of the human soul after death.

A vivid account of the literary culture of the Spanish-speaking Americas from the time of Columbus to Latin American Independence, this Very Short Introduction explores the origins of Latin American literature in Spanish and tells the story of how Spanish literary language developed and flourished in the New World.

When Helping Hurts is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation with over 300,000 copies in print.

Was einmal als Wettlauf um die Moderne tituliert worden ist – die Rivalitäten der beiden Aufsteigernationen an der vorigen Jahrhundertwende, Amerika und Deutschland –, gehört zu den spannendsten Gründungsgeschichten unserer Zeit.

None of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 could have imagined a few years earlier that they would be part of such an event.