History of the Americas

Sustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTA provides the only book-length study of the impact on residents of the US-Mexico border of NAFTA's Environmental and Labor Side Accords, which required each state to enforce labor and environmental regulations.

"e;The voices of soldiers, sailors and civilians, northerners and southerners, generals and privates, combine to create a distinctively American chorus.

The politics of slavery and slave trade in nineteenth-century Cuba and Brazil is the subject of this acclaimed study, first published in Brazil in 2010 and now available for the first time in English.

Pope Francis, in his recent exhortation Amoris Laetitia (';Joy of Love'), praises marriage as a unique ';friendship marked by passion' and ';a free, faithful, and exclusive love.

A profusely illustrated, popularly-written volume with original comic art, FDR and the New Deal For Beginners will shed new light upon a story now regaining visibility thanks to the recent economic crisis and prominent reformer, President Obama, in the White House.

Imagine the tension that existed between the emerging nations and governments throughout the Latin American world and the cultural life of former enslaved Africans and their descendants.

Winner of the Tennessee History Book Award (Tennessee Historical Society and Tennessee Historical Commission), 2021 Was Nashville once home to a giant race of humans?

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Dancehall: its simultaneously a source of raucous energy in the streets of Kingston, Jamaica; a way of life for a group of professional artists and music professionals; and a force of stability and tension within the community.

Sounds American provides new perspectives on the relationship between nationalism and cultural production by examining how Americans grappled with musical diversity in the early national and antebellum eras.

The role of Spain in the birth of the United States is a little known and little understood aspect of U.

Seattle is often listed as one of the most walkable cities in the United States.

Noam Chomsky is a pioneering scholar in the field of linguistics, but he is better known as a public intellectual: an iconoclastic, radical critic of US politics and foreign policy.

Ranging from the 1840s through the early twenty-first century, this study of shared political, economic, and cultural histories fills significant gaps in our understanding of Paraguayan-U.

How did culture and identity take root as the new nations and state institutions were being fashioned across Latin America after the wars of independence?

Most histories of the Civil Rights Movement start with all the players in place--among them organized groups of African Americans, White Citizens' Councils, nervous politicians, and religious leaders struggling to find the right course.

It might surprise you who’s a fan of poetry — when it meets them where they are.

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In this fascinating book Kathleen M.

The author's interest in preserving the history of the community that he was raised in and providing an insight into the rustic lifestyle of the people living in the Boston Mountain range of the Arkansas Ozarks during the early to mid-1900s sparked his interest in writing this book.

If cleanliness is next to godliness, do our closets have anything to say about the state of our souls?

This book offers a rare opportunity to read about how a scholar's teaching informs his research, in this case an examination of the nature of American conservatism.

Detailed and fully illustrated account of the Philadelphia campaign 1777, with over 150 photographs, maps and contemporary artwork.

The material in the book has its genesis with Ireland's early relationship with Spain dating back to the eighteenth century when thousands of Irish emigrated from Ireland to that country.

An insightful personal memoir that contrasts firsthand the dream of the Cuban Revolution as it was in the early 1960s with the deprivations, hardships, and loss of hope that haunt Cuban society today.

Some Confederates called him a "e;Bluebelly,"e; "e;Mudsill,"e; and even a "e;Lincolnite"e; (for President Abraham Lincoln), but the name that has carried down through the decades is simply "e;Billy Yank.

Popular Catholic columnist, blogger, and podcaster Deacon Tom Fox guides you along the path to renewal with simple, yet spiritually challenging devotions for every day of Lent, the Triduum, and Easter Sunday.

The first full-length biography of the well-connected, but nearly forgotten frontier politician of antebellum America.

The battle for equality in education during the civil rights era came at a cost to Black Americans on the frontlines.

The United States is an exceptional place to call home thanks to the character of the American people.

This beloved prayer book brings the treasury of Catholic prayers and devotion to a new generation.

Every four years presidential hopefuls and the national media travel the primary election circuit through Iowa and New Hampshire.

A few minutes a day can change your life during Lent.

A concise history of Custer's Last Stand with maps, facts, historical significance, and more.

Providing a fresh look at a crucial aspect of the American Civil War, this new study explores the day-to-day life of people in the Confederate States of America as they struggled to cope with a crisis that spared no one, military or civilian.

This study of the importance of the little-known Civil War battle is "e;a well written, thoroughly researched, amply illustrated, and engaging story"e; (Civil War Courier).

A nation of peacekeepers or soldiers?

A fresh biography of a neglected figure in Southern history who played a pivotal role in the Civil War.

In 1822, White authorities in Charleston, South Carolina, learned of plans among the city's enslaved and free Black population to lead an armed antislavery rebellion.

In his inaugural address, President John F.

Black history in America: Fort Sumter to Barack Obama.