History of the Americas

This is the first and only biography of Jeane Kirkpatrick, who became an iconic figure in the 1980s as Ronald Reagan's UN ambassador and the most forceful presence in the administration, outside of the President himself, in shaping the Reagan Doctrine and fighting the Cold War to a victorious conclusion.

In many churches, the work of evangelism and social justice is relegated to clergy, staff, or special committees.

For most Canadians today, Labour Day is the last gasp of summer fun: the final long weekend before returning to the everyday routine of work or school.

Fought on July 28, 1864, the Battle of Ezra Church was a dramatic engagement during the Civil War's Atlanta campaign.

A history of the Sandinista takeover of this Central American nation and the uneasy decades leading up to it, with maps, photos, and illustrations.

At the height of the Civil War in 1863, the Union instated the first-ever federal draft.

On 10 December 1910, Giacomo Puccini's seventh opera, La fanciulla del West, had its premiere before a sold-out audience at New York City's Metropolitan Opera House.

This book examines how popular music is able to approach subjects of bio-politics, climate change, solastalgia, and anthropomorphisation, alongside its more common diet of songs about love, dancing, and break-ups - all while satisfying its primary remit of being entertaining and listenable.

In The Mayan in the Mall, J.

"e;San Francisco has no single landmark by which the world may identify it,"e; according to San Francisco in the 1930s, originally published in 1940.

Gregory Weeks's Embracing Autonomy departs from other general treatments of Latin American-US relations not by putting US policy aside but by bringing in the Latin American and global contexts more closely and thus avoiding the incomplete picture provided by a narrow focus solely on the policies of the United States.

Few people would have expected bloodshed in Kansas Territory.

The importance of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the history of the United States cannot be overstated.

In the years following the American Civil War, many participantsgenerals, politicians, journalists, and soldiersauthored first-hand accounts of their unique experiences.

A comprehensive, annotated, illustrated bibliography, with essays placing the work in perspective and describing the underground press of the day.

A revision of the popular previous edition published more than a decade earlier, this work examines today's U.

Norwegian emigrant traffic through Canada began in earnest after the repeal of the British Navigation Acts (1849) and was precipitated by a lucrative timber trade between Canada and Britain.

In this classic interpretation of the 1930s rise of industrial unionism, Gary Gerstle challenges the popular historical notion that American workers' embrace of "e;Americanism"e; and other patriotic sentiments in the post-World War I years indicated their fundamental political conservatism.

Adoniram Judson was not only a historic figurehead in the first wave of foreign missionaries from the United States and a hero in his own day, but his story still wins the admiration of Christians even today.

Tracing the life course of American teenagers in the mid-twentieth century, Into One's Own presents a compelling historical portrait of growing up.

This book provides a concise and accessible history of the relationship between the individual and capitalism in the United States.

Taking an ethnographic approach to understanding urban violence, Enrique Desmond Arias examines the ongoing problems of crime and police corruption that have led to widespread misery and human rights violations in many of Latin Americas new democracies.

Deep Waters is an intimate account of the principal events and personalities involved in the successful development of the Canadian nuclear power system (CANDU), an achievement that is arguably one of Canada's greatest scientific and technical successes of the twentieth century.

Since the 1980s, successive Canadian institutions and federal governments as well as Christian churches have attempted to grapple with the malignant legacy of residential schooling through official apologies, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

None of the founding fathers seems more elusive than Thomas Jefferson.

In 1946, with its own minister for the first time, the Department of External Affairs embarked on a period of impressive growth and assumed responsibility for a broader range of foreign policy issues than ever before.

A University of Tradition is a fascinating compilation of history, customs, pictures, and facts about Purdue University from its founding in 1869 to the present day.

A new history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines.

The Fighting Newfoundlander is a vivid history of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment - the "e;Blue Puttees"e; - and its heroic contributions to the war effort.

In the thirty years after World War II, American intellectual and artistic life changed as dramatically as did the rest of society.

In a lively account of the American tuna industry over the past century, celebrated food writer and scholar Andrew F.

This history of the 1787 Constitutional Convention uses a chronological narrative format to capture the complexity, messiness, and unfolding daily drama behind the writing of the U.

This book reveals how the concept of ''anti-Americanism'' has been misused for over 200 years to stifle domestic dissent and dismiss foreign criticism.

This Palgrave Pivot presents a concise yet comprehensive history of sociology in Ecuador.

No One Was Turned Away is a book about the importance of public hospitals to New York City.

In Rediscovering Japan, Reintroducing Christendom Japan's unvoiced Christian history and cultural roots are examined from an alternative perspective.

The content of the gospel never changes; however, communicating it constantly fluctuates.

The story behind the creation of the first archives in the new United States Archives, the foundational resource for historical research, do not emerge from a vacuum.

This book explores US foreign policy, specifically the history of America's entry into the War of 1812, the First World War, the Korean War and the First Gulf War.

A Silent Revolution?

The question of the impact of slavery has gained new importance in debates on the history of economic development, capitalism and inequality.

National security in the interest of preserving the well-being of a country is arguably the first and most important responsibility of any democratic government.

This book tells how a group of Protestant theologians forged a theology of international engagement for America in the 1930s and 40s, and how in doing so they informed the public rationale for the United States' participation in World War II and stimulated American leadership in establishing both secular and international organizations for the promotion of world order.

The evolution of the Rangers' missions in Panama, the first Gulf War, Somalia and the post 9/11 invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, written by an expert on modern Special Forces units.

Biography of Ernie Goodman, a Detroit lawyer and political activist who played a key role in social justice cases.

The available material in English discussing Latin American anarchism tends to be fragmentary, country-specific, or focused on single individuals.

This title was originally published in 1968.

Freedom''s Captives offers a compelling, narrative-driven history of the gradual abolition of slavery in the majority-black Colombian Pacific.