History of the Americas

The telephone looms large in our lives, as ever present in modern societies as cars and television.

In Latinamericanism after 9/11, John Beverley explores Latinamericanist cultural theory in relation to new modes of political mobilization in Latin America.

At first glance, the Ford Foundation and the black power movement would make an unlikely partnership.

In the Bible, faith is contrasted with sight, not with reason.

A compelling intellectual and literary history of midcentury AmericaIn a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat.

Some consider American agriculture as one of the wonders of the modern world.

This concise biography of the world famous revolutionary Che Guevara provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of his remarkable life, tragic death, and enduring political legacy.

Texas Blues allows artists to speak in their own words, revealing the dynamics of blues, from its beginnings in cotton fields and shotgun shacks to its migration across boundaries of age and race to seize the musical imagination of the entire world.

Under the Skin investigates the role of cross-cultural body modification in seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century North America, revealing that the practices of tattooing and scalping were crucial to interactions between Natives and newcomers.

Shaped by the Westis a two-volume primary source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens.

How did a relatively unknown priest from Argentina rise so quickly from obscurity to one of the top leaders of the twenty-first century?

The one thing for which this century will be remembered 500 years from now was: This was the century when we began the exploration of space.

The Union Army's Red River Campaign began on March 12, 1864, with a two-pronged attack aimed at gaining control of Shreveport, Louisiana.

Finalist, Weber-Clements PrizeLuminaries of the Harlem RenaissanceLangston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Wallace Thurman, and Arna Bontemps, among othersare associated with, well .

The Constitution of the United States divides war powers between the executive and legislative branches to guard against ill-advised or unnecessary military action.

A clearly structured and well-informed synthesis of developments and events in Brazilian history from the colonial period to the present, this volume is aimed at non-specialized readers and students, seeking a straightforward introduction to this unique Latin American country.

Child came to Lower Canada from Massachussetts in 1812 and made his fortune as a smuggler during the War of 1812.

Although Theodore Roosevelt has been the subject of numerous books, there has not been a single volume that traces Roosevelt's interaction with the U.

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleAs controversial in politics as he was in the military, Ulysses S.

Nationalism in nineteenth-century America operated through a collection of symbols, signifiers citizens could invest with meaning and understanding.

With Washington on the Brazos: Cradle of the Texas Republic, noted historian Richard B.

The New Hollywood of the late 1960s and 1970s is among the most exciting and influential periods in the history of film.

A thrilling history of the Office of Strategic Services, America's precursor to the CIA, and its secret operations behind enemy lines during World War II.

The most up-to-date and insightful overview available on the environmental history of the West Coast of the United States, a region of extraordinary physical beauty distinguished by its inhabitants' efforts to both sustain and exploit their natural resources.

The National Basketball Association (NBA), founded over 75 years ago, is staging a 21st century takeover.

This collection examines the complex struggle for supremacy conducted between the United States and Britain in the decade following World War I.

In post-World War II America and especially during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s, the psychologist Rollo May contributed profoundly to the popular and professional response to a widely felt sense of personal emptiness amid a culture in crisis.

For many people, the world of politics is defined by ideologies.

Women of the Constitution follows in the footsteps of the 1912 work The Wives of the Signers, which was devoted to biographical sketches of the spouses of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

Enrich each day with wisdom from our greatest spiritual thinkers.

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This book provides historians and genealogists with a one-stop guide to every Civil War-related manuscript collection stored in Georgia's many repositories.

Called to Question is Sr.

The backstudio picture, or the movie about movie-making, is a staple of Hollywood film production harking back to the silent era and extending to the present day.

An Irish immigrant, a collection agent for crime bosses, a professional boxer, and a prolific gambler, John Morrissey was-if nothing else-an unlikely candidate to become one of the most important figures in the history of Thoroughbred racing.

After the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked, Well, Doctor, what have we gota Republic or a Monarchy?

Originally published in 1964, The Struggle for Equality presents an incisive and vivid look at the abolitionist movement and the legal basis it provided to the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

This book sheds light on the outcomes of social movements in Brazil.

Inside one of the nations most important works on raceTwo Societies: The Rioting of 1967 and the Writing of the Kerner Report studies the 150 riots that occurred throughout the country in 1967 and how this infamous report was written in only seven months and unanimously adopted by both Republicans and Democrats.

A pioneering account of the links between Portugal and Brazil which survived despite the demise of the Portuguese Atlantic empire.

Dean Acheson was one of the most influential Secretaries of State in U.

Perhaps more than any other two colleges, Harvard and Yale gave form to American intercollegiate athletics--a form that was inspired by the Oxford-Cambridge rivalry overseas, and that was imitated by colleges and universities throughout the United States.

In November 2001, James E.

A political history of the most famous desegregation crisis in AmericaThe desegregation crisis in Little Rock is a landmark of American history: on September 4, 1957, after the Supreme Court struck down racial segregation in public schools, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called up the National Guard to surround Little Rock Central High School, preventing black students from going in.

Promises of justice and equality made in the U.

What are Christian women thinking about mission?

Exploring and Expanding Literacy Histories of the United States brings together new scholarship and critical perspectives hitherto missing from dominant narratives to offer a racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse record of the history of American reading instruction.