History of the Americas

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It was close to the small southern Belgian town of Mons that the shooting war began or the British Expeditionary Force in August 1914.

Although the passing of the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 banned African American slavery in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, making the new territory officially "e;free,"e; slavery in fact persisted in the region through the end of the Civil War.

This book surveys the impact of the Monroe Doctrine on United States relations with Latin America, with a particular focus on the Caribbean Basin, since its proclamation in 1823.

This anthology is the first sustained examination of American involvement in World War II through an environmental lens.

Since the mid-nineteenth century, public officials, reformers, journalists, and other elites have referred to "e;the labour question.

Working with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for the first time, Joan Mellen revisits the investigation of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, the only public official to have indicted, in 1969, a suspect in President John F.

Winner of a 2015 Catholic Press Award: Gender Issues Category (First Place).

Focuses on the successive indigenous cultures of Puerto Rico prior to 1493 The history of Puerto Rico has usually been envisioned as a sequence of colonizations-various indigenous peoples from Archaic through Taino were successively invaded, assimilated, or eliminated, followed by the Spanish entrada, which was then modified by African traditions and, since 1898, by the United States.

Brave Hearts: Indian Women of the Plains tells the story of Plains Indian women through a series of fascinating vignettes.

For the better part of two centuries, Wesley scholars have been given a picture of the family of John Wesley that focuses positively upon the relationships of John and his brother Charles and his mother Susanna.

A global cultural and intellectual history of African-descended Mexicans who gained social and demographic visibility after the Revolution of 1910.

A window into the social and cultural life of the South Carolina upcountry during the nineteenth centuryThe history of South Carolina's lowcountry has been well documented by historians, but the upcountry-the region of the state north and west of Columbia and the geologic fall line-has only recently begun to receive extensive scholarly attention.

The charisma of prophecy is found throughout the history of the global Pentecostal movement.

In Prosperos America, Walter W.

The Reformation-era writings that make up the Lutheran Confessions remain lively resources for Christian ministry and mission today.

This exciting new volume profiles several substantiated cases of female soldiers during the American Civil War, including Sarah Rosetta Wakeman (aka Private Lyons Wakeman, Union); Sarah Emma Edmonds (aka Private Frank Thompson, Union); Loreta Janeta Velazquez (aka Lieutenant Harry T.

This reference guide throws light on almost every aspect of postwar international history from the rise of Mao's China to the Bosnian Civil War.

Among the most pervasive of stereotypes imposed upon southern highlanders is that they were white, opposed slavery, and supported the Union before and during the Civil War, but the historical record suggests far different realities.

On October 6, 1948, a U.

This book shows how Maoism was globalized during the 1949-1976 period, highlighting the agency of both Latin American and Chinese actors.

Scalawag tells the surprising story of a white working-class boy who became an unlikely civil rights activist.

In a single convenient resource, this revised and updated edition of a classic text organizes and presents clearly the documents of the Catholic Church pertaining to medical ethics.

Arthur Ray, Jim Miller, and Frank Tough draw on a wide range of documentary sources to provide a rich and complex interpretation of the process that led to these historic agreements.

Throughout the Civil War, the influence of the popular press and its skillful use of propaganda was extremely significant in Kentucky.

Charlotte-based NationsBank, formerly named NCNB, became one of the nation's leading financial powers following its acquisition in 1988 of First Republic Bank of Texas and its merger in 1991 with Atlanta-based C&S/Sovran.

The book examines the historical, political and socioeconomic contexts in which indigenous communities in Paraguay are currently mobilizing for land rights.

In this pertinent and engaging volume leading Christian philosophers, theologians, and writers from all over the denominational map explode the black-and-white binaries that characterize both sides of the New Atheism debate.

One of the brightest Canadian scientists of his generation, Omond McKillop Solandt was a physiologist by training, an engineer by disposition, and a manager by necessity.

This book considers two key typifications within the Anglo-American captivity tradition: the Captive Self and the Captivating Other.

In 1921 and 1924, the United States passed laws to sharply reduce the influx of immigrants into the country.

The history of the Jeff Davis Artillery is the story of a company of Alabamians who fought with valor and distinction for the Confederacy during more than three and a half years of active service.

What makes a person call a particular place 'home'?

What corporate corruption, sexual abuse by clergy, and schoolyard bullying all have in common In the on-going attempts to overcome racism and sexism in North America today, we are overlooking another kind of discrimination that is no less damaging and equally unjustifiable.

This work concentrates on tracing the evolution of the so-called "e;red menace"e; phenomenon as a means of demonstrating the correlation between growing American paranoia and the success of the anticommunist campaign (1935-1955).

Race mixture, or mestizaje, has played a critical role in the history, culture, and politics of Latin America.

Journey Out of Darkness is a poignant collection of portraits, in words and photographs, of 19 former prisoners of war who bravely endured captivity in Nazi Germany in World War II.

Sally Hemings: Given Her Time is an exciting, concise biography tells that tells the extraordinary tale of Sally Hemings, mother of Thomas Jefferson's enslaved children.

Under constant pressure from the regime, and frequently jailed or imprisoned for their efforts, the signatories of Charter 77 went on to lead the resistance and spearhead a revolution: the Velvet Revolution of 1989.

In this sweeping regional history, anthropologist Robbie Ethridge traces the metamorphosis of the Native South from first contact in 1540 to the dawn of the eighteenth century, when indigenous people no longer lived in a purely Indian world but rather on the edge of an expanding European empire.

How can police remain effective and vital in an era of unprecedented technological advances, access to information, and the global transformation of crime?

Shortly after the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Daniel Patrick Moynihan authored a government report titled The Negro Family: A Case for National Action that captured the attention of President Lyndon Johnson.

Daily Life in the American West details the lives of American Indians, miners, cowboys, immigrants, and settlers who, together, populated the unique region that is the American West.

The legacy of the historic mutual aid organizing by US Mexicans, with its emphasis on self-help and community solidarity, continues to inform Mexican American activism and subtly influence a number of major US social movements.

From beer labels to literary classics like A River Runs Through It, trout fishing is a beloved feature of the iconography of the American West.