History of the Americas

This volume is an authoritative introduction to the history of African Americans in US popular culture, examining its development from the early nineteenth century to the present.

No period of United States history is more important and still less understood than Reconstruction.

In the years immediately following the Civil War the formative years for an emerging society of freed African Americans in Mississippi there was much debate over the general purpose of black schools and who would control them.

Nineteenth-century farm families needed land for the next generation.

Since 1492, the distinct cultures, peoples, and languages of four continents have met in the Caribbean and intermingled in wave after wave of post-Columbian encounters, with foods and their styles of preparation being among the most consumable of the converging cultural elements.

An examination of the legacy of the Caribbean Irish, who few know were some of the earliest settlers in the British West Indies.

Apologetic methodology has been the subject of intense debate in Reformed circles.

Connecticut privateer Nathaniel Fanning (1755-1805) was captured by the British during the Revolutionary War.

The distinctive beverage of the Western world, bourbon is Kentucky's illustrious gift to the world of spirits.

Linguistic Rivalries weaves together anthropological accounts of diaspora, nation, and empire to explore and analyze the multi-faceted processes of globalization characterizing the migration and social integration experiences of Tamil-speaking immigrants and refugees from India and Sri Lanka to Montreal, Quebec in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

As the twentieth century began, Black and white southerners alike dealt with low life expectancy and poor healthcare in a region synonymous with early death.

As one of America's most important missionaries, Junpero Serra is widely recognized as the founding father of California's missions.

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The Hudsons Bay Company as an Imperial Factor: 1821-1869 explores the rise, consolidation, and eventual decline of the Hudsons Bay Companys fur trade monopoly in British North America.

This is the first scholarly study of the life of the black Peruvian saint, Martín de Porres (1579–1639).

Fundamental theology is traditionally viewed as the starting point for the various disciplines within Catholic theology; it is the place where solid foundations are established for further research and engagement with the vast terrain of historical, systematic, philosophical, and sacramental/liturgical theology.

I am not like Hudson Taylor, David Livingstone, or William Carey.

This two-volume encyclopedia offers a unique insight into the Civil War from a state and local perspective, showing how the American experience of the conflict varied significantly based on location.

In the 1960s, twenty-thousand young Americans landed in South America to serve as Peace Corps volunteers.

Grit, Not Glamour celebrates the contributions of our foremothers who devoted their lives to farming and ranching related pursuits.

"e;The Mystical Path of the Golden Dawn"e; by Megan V.

The Los Angeles Times called the first volume of The Gold and the Blue "e;a major contribution to our understanding of American research universities.

First published in 1770 and running to over one million words, Raynal's Histoire philosophique et politique des etablissements des Europeens dans les Deux Indes was an immediate bestseller that was to go through numerous editions in various languages.

In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, residents of the city's iconic Mission District bucked the city-wide development plan, defiantly announcing that in their neighborhood, they would be calling the shots.

In Idea of Liberty in Canada during the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, 1776-1838, Michel Ducharme shows that Canadian intellectual and political history between the American Revolution and the Upper and Lower Canada rebellions of 1837-38 can be better understood by considering it in relation to the broad framework of revolution in the Atlantic world between 1776 and 1838.

Monumental and revelatory, Free Labor explores labor activism throughout the country during a period of incredible diversity and fluidity: the American Civil War.

Blessed with vast expanses of virgin timber, a good harbor, and a San Francisco market for its lumber, the Coos Bay area once dubbed itself "e;a poor man's paradise.

Making Heretics is a major new narrative of the famous Massachusetts disputes of the late 1630s misleadingly labeled the "e;antinomian controversy"e; by later historians.

Between the Great War and Pearl Harbor, conservative labor leaders declared themselves America's "e;first line of defense"e; against Communism.

A lively, take along account of Alaska's sweeping history made vivid with historical photos and entertaining essays.

Adherents of originalism often present it as a theory that constrains legal decision-making in a clear and objective manner that is based on the text and original meaning of the Constitution, in contrast to the supposedly subjective and activist jurisprudence of those who promote a living Constitution.

Religion and empire were inseparable forces in the early modern Atlantic world.

Rickie Solinger's passionate and powerful history serves to remind us of the importance of the feminist efforts that led to Roe v.

The Banff–Bow Valley in western Alberta is the heart of spiritual and economic life for the Nakoda peoples.

Books on Early American History and Culture, 1971-1980: An Annotated Bibliography continues a series of bibliographies listing book-length works on North America and the Caribbean prior to 1815.

1912 is the first 'golden year' in the career of D.

Each year, Green Festivals across the nation draw over 100,000 people to their "e;party with a purpose.

The Man in the High Castle is an Amazon TV show, based on the Philip K.

This is an ambitious study of an important theme in early American culture and society.

Unconquered explores the complex world of Iroquois warfare, providing a narrative overview of nearly two hundred years of Iroquois conflict during the colonial era of North America.

With an eye on serious Christian development, Kenneth Collins and Jason Vickers have arranged this collection of the sermons of John Wesley in terms of the way of salvation in general and the "e;ordo salutis"e; in particular.

Chicago is home to the third-largest concentration of Puerto Ricans in the United States, but scholarship on the city rarely accounts for their presence.

This study is an exploration of US Cuban theatrical performances written and staged primarily between 1980 and 2000.

The Civil War and the World War II stand as the two great cataclysms of American history.

In 1969, the federal and New Brunswick governments created Kouchibouguac National Park on the province’s east coast.

En collaboration avec Hélène Bois, Jean-Paul Rouleau, Gilles Routhier et Jean SextonLes combats de Gérard Dion pour la démocratisation de notre société et la modernisation du Québec feront de ce pionnier des relations du travail l’un des grands artisans de la Révolution tranquille : à preuve, son engagement en faveur de la déconfessionalisation de la CTCC (future CSN), de la réforme de notre système scolaire, de l’obtention du Code du travail en 1964, du droit de grève dans le secteur public et de la défense des intérêts du Québec.

Originally published in 1975, this assessment of the American Civil War is a broad treatment of the war as a major historical event, set in the context of a detailed picture of two governments, economies and societies at war.