History of the Americas

L’Arctique est souvent perçu comme une région isolée du reste du monde, entre autres en raison des conditions difficiles, des populations clairsemées et des infrastructures limitées.

This international analysis of theatrical case studies illustrates the ways that theater was an arena both of protest and, simultaneously, racist and imperialist exploitations of the colonized and enslaved body.

This book explores the new types of political organization that emerged in Western Europe and the United States during the nineteenth century, from popular meetings to single-issue organizations and political parties.

British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965 calls attention to the shifting grounds of cultural expression by highlighting Hollywood as a site that unsettled definitions and narratives of colonialism and national identity for prominent British novelists such as Christopher Isherwood, P.

The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, which involved approximately 30,000 workers, is Canada's best-known strike.

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.

This study of early cities in Mesoamerica will contribute significantly to the world-wide discourse on early cities and urbanism.

How American respectability has been built by maligning those who don't make the gradeHow did Americans come to think of themselves as respectable members of the middle class?

A history of the African American woman's experience in America and an analysis of the relationship between sexism and racism.

This volume collects new angles and perspectives on issues shaping the development of the Caribbean.

Official companion guide to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Civil War Trails initiative.

When someone gets hurt in an accident we reflexively ask a set of questions which ultimately comes down to who was blameworthy?

Euclides da Cunha's classic account of the brutal campaigns against religious mystic Antonio Conselheiro has been called the Bible of Brazilian nationality.

This book describes and analyses the provincial government's role in municipal and regional planning.

Do racial minorities in the United States assimilate to American values and institutions, or do they retain ethnic ties and cultures?

The definitive history of Seattle's 1999 World Trade Organization protests, featuring over 100 original interviews and timed to the event's twenty-fifth anniversary.

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How important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentalists to create a political philosophy to fight slaveryIn Fighting for the Higher Law, Peter Wirzbicki explores how important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentalists to create a political philosophy that fired the radical struggle against American slavery.

One of Canada's longest unresolved issues is the historical and present-day failure of the country's governments to recognize treaties made between Aboriginal peoples and the Crown.

The first synagogue in colonial America was built in New York City in 1730 on land that was purchased for GBP100 plus a loaf of sugar and one pound of Bohea tea.

Was Canada's Dominion experiment of 1867 an experiment in political domination?

Sam Haselby offers a new and persuasive account of the role of religion in the formation of American nationality, showing how a contest within Protestantism reshaped American political culture and led to the creation of an enduring religious nationalism.

This historical study looks at how reformers have used urban planning and architecture to improve the health of urban residents of the United States.

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If countless books and movies are to be believed, America's Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain men-a man's world.

First published in 1996, "e;Remove Not the Ancient Landmark"e; explores the ways that public monuments symbolize and convey moral values.

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In ten original studies, former students and colleagues of Maurice Careless, one of Canada's most distinguished historians, explore both traditional and hitherto neglected topics in the development of nineteenth-century Ontario.

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This text focuses on the relationship of Hong Kong with the adjacent Chinese province Guangdong, the territories most directly involved in the 1997 transfer of Hong Kong to Chinese rule.

Illuminating a classic case from the turbulent civil rights era of the 1960s, two of Americas foremost legal historiansKermit Hall and Melvin Urofskyprovide a compact and highly readable updating of one of the most memorable decisions in the Supreme Courts canon.

Centering Animals in Latin American History writes animals back into the history of colonial and postcolonial Latin America.

With 110 million members worldwide, Baptists are surpassed only by Roman Catholic and Orthodox groups as the largest segment of Christians.

Brazils northeastern state of Bahia has built its economy around attracting international tourists to what is billed as the locus of Afro-Brazilian culture and the epicenter of Brazilian racial harmony.

En un tiempo en el que se están derribando monumentos a personajes históricos asociados al colonialismo y se están retirando sus nombres de los espacios públicos, una retrospectiva sobre los 500 años de la conquista de México por parte de los españoles parece un atrevimiento.

In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M.

The Western European and Mediterranean Theaters in World War II is a concise, comprehensive guide for students, teachers, and history buffs of the Second World War.

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This book examines the "e;constitutional faith"e; that has, since 1788, been a central component of American "e;civil religion.

Each year, millions of tourists are drawn to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to experience first-hand the quintessential pastoral--both as an escape from urban life and as a rare opportunity to become immersed in history.

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Until his death in 1877, Brigham Young guided the religious, economic, and political life of the Mormon community, whose settlements spread throughout the West and provoked a profound political, legal, and even military confrontation with the American nation.