History of the Americas

By the early eighteenth century, the rapid expansion of the British empire had created a technological problem: communication and networking became increasingly vital yet harder to maintain.

This definitive biography offers a new critical assessment of the life, works, and ideas of Herbert E.

An unmanned aerial vehicle, commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot on board.

The Science of the Soul challenges long-standing notions of Puritan provincialism as antithetical to the Enlightenment.

John R.

The Native American on a horse is an archetypal Hollywood image, but though such equestrian-focused societies were a relatively short-lived consequence of European expansion overseas, they were not restricted to North America's Plains.

Mapping a New Museum seeks to rethink the museum's role in today's politically conscious world.

Canoe and Canvas offers a detailed portrait of the summer encampments of the American Canoe Association between 1880 and 1910.

Examines the contested process of colonial education in the Philippines in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War.

Beginning with the famous opening to the Declaration of Independence ("e;When in the course of human events.

The Mapuche are the most numerous, most vocal and most politically involved indigenous people in modern Chile.

For the first time, the true story of "e;The Yellow Rose of Texas"e; is told in full, revealing a host of new insights and perspectives on one of America's most popular stories.

After the Long Silence offers a ground-breaking, meticulously researched criticism of Brazilian contemporary performance created by its post-dictatorship generation, whose work expresses the consequences of decades of state-imposed censorship.

With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Kiffin Yates Rockwell, from Asheville, North Carolina, volunteered to fight for France.

Of all of the Founding Fathers of the American republic none, with the possible exception of Thomas Jefferson, has evoked more passions and aroused more controversy than Alexander Hamilton.

A vital reminder of the importance of academic freedom, Threatening Anthropology offers a meticulously detailed account of how U.

This book uncovers how human rights gained meaning and power for Americans in the 1940s, the 1970s and today.

Before she was Wichita, Kansas, she was a collection of grass huts, home to the ancestors of the Wichita Indians.

"e;I have often wondered for what good end the sensations of Grief could be intended.

This book explores the relationship between cities and their commercial airports.

This is a study of one of the leading politicians of Independent Mexico, Jose Maria Tornel y Mendivil, whose loyalty to Santa Anna and whose skills as a writer led him to play a crucial role in enabling the caudillo's repeated rise to power during this period.

In Latin America, evangelical Protestantism poses an increasing challenge to Catholicism's long-established religious hegemony.

Profiling 24 of the adult children of the most recognizable figures in the civil rights movement, this book collects the intimate, moving stories of families who were pulled apart by the horrors of the struggle or brought together by their efforts to change America.

Adam Sandler movies, HBO's Entourage, and such magazines as Maxim and FHM all trade in and appeal to one character the modern boy-man.

Landscapes of Devils is a rich, historically grounded ethnography of the western Toba, an indigenous people in northern Argentina's Gran Chaco region.

George Washington ranks as one of the great military leaders in history.

This book charts the development of forensic anthropology teams in Latin America and surveys their main characteristics, achievements, and challenges in light of a recent past fraught with state repression and violence.

Revelations of the profound effect and long legacy of America's post-Civil War Reconstruction In Landscapes of Freedom, Rebecca Capobianco Toy tells the story of an emblematic community of freedpeople during the Civil War era.

The United States has never had an officially established national church.

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The acclaimed chronicler of America's upper classes reveals their preferred enclaves and secret hideaways across the country.

In Sex Trafficking, Scandal, and the Transformation of Journalism, Gretchen Soderlund offers a new way to understand sensationalism in both newspapers and reform movements.

In this book, Rafael R.

In this entertaining history, Gregory McNamee explores the many ethnic and cultural traditions that have contributed to the food of the Southwest.

The first slaves imported to America did not see themselves as "e;African"e; but rather as Temne, Igbo, or Yoruban.

Charleston is a city of stories.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Christians carried on an intense debate concerning the doctrine of prayer.

The question of how U.

Flawed Giant--the monumental concluding volume to Robert Dallek's biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson--provides the most through, engrossing account ever published of Johnson's years in the national spotlight.

The captivating, colorful, and controversial history of South Carolina continues to warrant fresh explorations.

The mid-seventeenth century saw both the expansion of the Baptist sect and the rise and growth of Quakerism.

In short episodic chapters, Kayser and King create a history of this storied minor league, providing a broad picture of the shifting character of baseball operations over the past century or so.

Approximately 8,000 Canadian civilians were imprisoned during the First World War because of their ethnic ties to Germany, Austria-Hungary, and other enemy nations.

In the new edition of this definitive work on the history of the revolutionary socialist current in the United States that came to be identified as "e;American Trotskyism,"e; Paul Le Blanc offers fresh reflections on this history for scholars and activists in the twenty-first century.

Little attention has been paid to the settlement of Germans in Kansas, and Roberta Reb Allens Once We Were Strangers helps to fill that void.

Taylor Branchs groundbreaking book about the modern presidency, The Clinton Tapes, invites readers into private dialogue with a gifted, tormented, resilient president.

"e;The famous trail of romantic western lore was established in about 1610 by Spanish settlers of Mexico who had explored western and southern regions of North America long before the French and English arrived.

Dieses zweibändige Werk erzählt eine kohärente und leicht verständliche Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika.