History of the Americas

Information concerning the island of Cuba was exceedingly unsatisfactory character until the search-light of American inquiry was thrown upon it from the beginning of the war for Cuban liberty early in 1895.

Press, Power, and Culture in Imperial Brazil introduces recent Brazilian scholarship to English-language readers, providing fresh perspectives on newspaper and periodical culture in the Brazilian empire from 1822 to 1889.

Using the comparative historical method, this book looks at the experience of indigenous peoples, specifically the Native Hawaiians, showing how a nation can express culture and citizenship while seeking ways to attain greater sovereignty over territory, culture, and politics.

Entertaining and scrupulously researched, Chicago '68 reconstructs the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago-an epochal moment in American cultural and political history.

After being wounded and awarded the Bronze Star for valor as a Marine infantry platoon commander in Vietnam, Arnold Punaro thought he'd left the battlefield behind.

Sweet Air rewrites the history of early twentieth-century pop music in modernist terms.

How Rabbi Stephen S.

Philip Hale (1854-1934) helped put Boston on the Transatlantic map through his music writing.

Entre 1867 et 2000, le gouvernement canadien a placé plus de 150 000 enfants autochtones dans des pensionnats d’un bout à l’autre du pays.

An A-Z of Modern America is a comprehensive cultural dictionary which defines contemporary America through its history and civilization.

In Elusive Equality, Jeffrey L.

At the same time as modern capitalism became an engine of progress and a source of inequality, the United States rose to global power.

Letters from California: 1846-1847 offers an unparalleled glimpse into Californias early days, written during the transformative period surrounding the Mexican-American War.

The need for a third printing of Church and Sect in Canada reflects the continuing interest in this pioneer study of the development of religious organization in Canadian society.

Minnesotas past is defined by its remarkable natural resources, and shaped by its native peoples and early settlers.

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A new edition of this economic, social and political history of Bolivia from pre-conquest times to the present day.

President Roosevelt gave an opportunity to study American energy and initiative and its freedom from all formulas and methods.

Everywhere we turn in Canadian local politics - from policing to transit, education to public health, planning to utilities - we encounter a peculiar institutional animal: the special purpose body.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of regional integration in the contemporary Caribbean, challenging the value of the neoliberal ideology that permeates regionalism discourse.

Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years reconstructs the life of Emma Goldman through significant texts and documents.

This book shows how disinformation spread by partisan organizations and media platforms undermines institutional legitimacy on which authoritative information depends.

This book focuses on the era during which the cause of tuberculosis had been identified, and public health officials were seeking to prevent it, but scientists had not yet found a cure.

This book was first published in French in the wake of events which have come to be known in Quebec as the 'October crisis of 1970.

In this abundantly illustrated volume, Bernard Herman provides a history of urban dwellings and the people who built and lived in them in early America.

American living standards improved considerably between 1900 and 2000.

When he took office in 1969, the term that Richard Nixon embraced to describe his plan for ending the American war in Vietnam was "e;Vietnamization,"e; the process of withdrawing US troops and turning over responsibility for the war to the South Vietnamese government.

The War of 1812 ranged over a remarkably large territory, as the fledgling United States battled Great Britain at sea and on land across what is now the eastern half of the U.

Much is known about Nixon's actual visit to China, but the story of how it all came together has never been told until now.

While making up a smaller percentage of Minnesotas population compared to national averages, African Americans have had a profound influence on the history and culture of the state from its earliest days to the present.

Once an obscure group of outcasts from the ghettoes of West Kingston, Jamaica, the Rastafarians have transformed themselves into a vibrant movement, firmly grounded in Jamaican society and beyond.

The confinement of some 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, often called the Japanese American internment, has been described as the worst official civil rights violation of modern U.

In this classic book on the meaning of multiculturalism in larger American society, Gary Okihiro explores the significance of Asian American experiences from the perspectives of historical consciousness, race, gender, class, and culture.

The Vietnam War coincided with, and in many ways caused, an enormous cultural schism in the United States.

This groundbreaking study of the politics of secession combines traditional political history with current work in anthropology and gender and ritual studies.

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.

The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance is an outstanding collection of specially written essays that charts the emergence, development, and diversity of African American Theatre and Performance-from the nineteenth-century African Grove Theatre to Afrofuturism.

A native of northern Russia, Alexander Baranov was a middle-aged merchant trader with no prior experience in the fur trade when, in 1790, he arrived in North America to assume command over Russias highly profitable sea otter business.

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Race in American History brings together a number of established scholars, as well as younger scholars on the rise, to provide a scholarly overview for those interested in the role of religion and race in American history.

For too long, the American constitutional tradition has been defined solely by the U.

From Norfolk Naval Base, the world's largest naval base, to the Norfolk Southern Railway, one of North America's largest railroads, Historic Photos of Norfolk is a photographic history collected from the areas top archives.

Pemmican Empire explores the fascinating and little-known environmental history of the role of pemmican (bison fat) in the opening of the British-American West.

Identifies town site locations and clarifies entries from the earliest documents and maps of explorers in Alabama This encyclopedic work is a listing of 398 ancient towns recorded within the present boundaries of the state of Alabama, containing basic information on each village's ethnic affiliation, time period, geographic location, descriptions, and (if any) movements.

In the first comprehensive history of the fraternity known to outsiders primarily for its secrecy and rituals, Steven Bullock traces Freemasonry through its first century in America.

Rethinking the American Labor Movement tells the story of the various groups and incidents that make up what we think of as the "e;labor movement.