Rabbi Chiel's history of the Jewish community in Manitoba grew out of a curiosity about the colour and vitality of Jewish life in this Canadian prairie province which was impressed upon him during a ten-year residence in Winnipeg.
One of the few publicly known communists in the South, Junius Scales organized textile workers, fought segregation, and was the only American to be imprisoned under the membership clause of the Smith Act during the McCarthy years.
This anthology of new essays by an international group of preeminent scholars explores the ground-breaking work of Hayden White, whose thought, beginning with his seminal Metahistory (1973), has revolutionized the way we think about the philosophy of history, historiography, narrative, and the relation between history and literature.
The continued history of Beaufort County, South Carolina, during and following the Civil WarIn Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1861-1893, the second of three volumes on the history of Beaufort County, Stephen R.
Merchant John Banister (1707-1767) of Newport, Rhode Island, wore many hats: exporter, importer, wholesaler, retailer, money-lender, extender of credit and insurer, owner and outfitter of sailing vessels, and ship builder for the slave trade.
At the international level the twentieth century was characterized by the rise in national self-determination in the Third World and by the rise of US power.
A mix of thematic essays, reference entries, and primary source documents covering the role of religion in American history and life from the colonial era to the present.
Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate.
Reformed theology is one of the major Protestant theological traditions in the United States and Western Europe, one that includes various forms of Presbyterianism and dozens of other denominations, all deeply influenced by the Genevan reformer John Calvin.
Nancy Christie innovatively and significantly transforms the writing of Quebec history between 1763 and 1837 by locating Quebec within new British practices of imperial governance asserted in the wake of the Seven Years War.
This book breaks new ground in our understanding of a pivotal period in the history of American foreign policy, the early Cold War, and the struggle for dominance in China between the Nationalists and Communists.
Journey back a century and a half back in time to one of the most significant meetings in US history, without which more than half of the American population wouldn't be allowed to vote.
John Nelson was an entrepreneur born in the mid-seventeenth century--a man, in Richard Johnson's words, "e;operating ahead of the government and settled society from which he came,"e; who "e;responded to conventions and conditions derived from several different and often competing cultures.
"e;Incredibly detailed and well-documented"e; (San Francisco Book Review), a revelatory history of the actions of five Indian Nations during the Civil War.
"e;When Harry Met Sally"e; is only the most iconic of popular American movies, books, and articles that pose the question of whether friendships between men and women are possible.
The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Miracle of Dunkirk tells the story of the Texans who fought Santa Anna's troops at the Battle of the Alamo.
Originally published in 1976, this monumental volume is a study of one of the major migrations of modern times - the result of which has been significantly to alter the history of the United States and of the whole Middle East.
The contention of Film and the American Presidency is that over the twentieth century the cinema has been a silent partner in setting the parameters of what we might call the presidential imaginary.
THE TEXAS ALMANAC 20162017 includes these new feature articles: *; A history of Texas' various food regionsfrom Tex-Mex to barbecuewritten by Dotty Griffith, longtime food writer for The Dallas Morning News and author of The Texas Holiday Cookbook, Celebrating Barbecue, and Wild About Chili.
The NPR reporter offers an “engaging and enlightening” window into late-90s Cuba, “from the cafes in Havana to the mysterious lairs of Santiago de Cuba” (Kirkus Reviews).
Building Democracy in Brazil is an empirical analysis of the constitution-making process that Brazil underwent in the 1980s as it moved from an authoritarian military regime to a democratic civilian government.
Best Nineteenth-Century Book Award Winner, 2018, Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth-Century Section Moral electricitya term coined by American transcendentalists in the 1850s to describe the force of nature that was literacy and education in shaping a greater society.