M.B - Americas 2

In this new work, one of the world's leading historians of US foreign relations, Lloyd E.Ambrosius, addresses enduring questions about American political culture and statecraft by focusing on Presid……続きを見る

“Although Mexican migrant workers have toiled in the fields of the Pacific Northwest since the turn of the century, and although they comprise the largest work force in the region’s agriculture toda……続きを見る

This magisterial study, ten years in the making by one of the field's most distinguished historians, will be the first to explore the impact fugitive slaves had on the politics of the critical decad……続きを見る

White supremacist groups are highly secretive, so their public propaganda tells us little about their operations or the people they attract. To understand the world of organized racism it is necessa……続きを見る

On African-American Rhetoric traces the arc of strategic language use by African Americans from rhetorical forms such as slave narratives and the spirituals to Black digital expression and contempor……続きを見る

Using a structurationist, phenomenological structuralism understanding of practical consciousness constitution as derived from what the author calls Haitian epistemology, Haitian/Vilokan Idealism, t……続きを見る

Practicing Oral History to Connect University to Community illustrates best practices for using oral histories to foster a closer relationship between institutions of higher learning and the communi……続きを見る

The story of the famed race to the Moon between the US and the USSR has been told countless times. The strategies of these two superpowers have often been paralleled in a way that highlights their f……続きを見る

How can the simple choice of a men’s suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of free-labor wool rather than slave-grown cotton. In Moral Commerce, Julie L. Holcomb trace……続きを見る

This book provides an insight into the Afro-Brazilian experience of racism in Brazil from the 19th Century to the present day, exploring people of African Ancestry’s responses to racism in the conte……続きを見る

Twelve scholars representing a variety of academic fields contribute to this study of slavery in the French Caribbean colonies, which ranges historically from the 1770s to Haiti's declaration of ind……続きを見る

Otiginally published in 1975. At the time that Louis Galambos published The Public Image of Big Business in America in 1975, America had matured into a bureaucratic state. The expression of the mili……続きを見る

Originally published in 1969. In The Most Unsordid Act, Warren Kimball provides a history of the Lend-Lease idea. The genesis and development of the Lend-Lease idea, although spanning less than two ……続きを見る

Who was Jackie Kennedy? Elеgаnt and роiѕеd еvеn in mоmеntѕ of еxtrеmе сriѕiѕ: Jасkiе Kеnnеdу was a rоlе mоdеl fоr women of hеr timе аnd соntinuеѕ tо remain ѕо tоdау. Whаt are the elements thаt соmро……続きを見る

Discover the REAL truth behind African American History. You will be amazed to learn about some of the great African Americans and their legacies. 続きを見る

Have you ever wondered how the world got to where it is today? Get ready to discover the rich history of our planet. You will be astonished to learn about some of the events that have occurred! 続きを見る

Francis Daniel Pastorius was one of the first German settlers to Pennsylvania and a touchstone figure of German-American cultural heritage. This monumental anthology presents a selection of his many……続きを見る

Originally published in 2006. For many Americans at the turn of the twentieth century and into the 1920s, the city of New York conjured dark images of crime, poverty, and the desperation of crowded ……続きを見る

Outside of major metropolitan areas, the fight for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights has had its own unique and rich historyーone that is quite different from the national narrative set……続きを見る

Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror is a comprehensive account of the massive earthquake that hit San Francisco in 1906. The earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on……続きを見る

This book examines the cultural production of Catalan intellectuals in Cuba through a reading of texts and journeys that show the contrapuntal relationship between transcultural identities and narra……続きを見る

Historicizing both emotions and politics, this open access book argues that the historical work of emotion is most clearly understood in terms of the dynamics of institutionalization. This is shown ……続きを見る

Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Chile-Mission der Menzinger Schwestern vom Heiligen Kreuz Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts. In der Mission konnten sie in Bereichen agieren, die in Europa normalerweise ……続きを見る

The modern, centralized American state was supposedly born in the Great Depression of the 1930s. Kimberley S. Johnson argues that this conventional wisdom is wrong. Cooperative federalism was not bo……続きを見る

Donald J. Trump ran on a platform that, among other things, promised to "drain the swamp" that is Washington, DC. Part of that draining would entail what his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, would ca……続きを見る

Journalism in the Civil War Era presents the historical context of Civil War journalismーplacing the press of the era within the entire nineteenth century. It gives a broad account of journalism in ……続きを見る

Depuis plus d'une vingtaine d'années de séjours prolongés chez les Indiens navajos, l'anthropologue de terrain Marie-Claude Feltes-Strigler a tissé les liens étroits avec de nombreux membres du peup……続きを見る

Het McCarthyisme, het hoogtepunt van de rode schrik die de Verenigde Staten vanaf de jaren twintig in zijn greep hield, is een bepalende episode in de naoorlogse Amerikaanse geschiedenis. Hoewel de ……続きを見る

Ο Μακαρθισμός, το αποκορύφωμα του κόκκινου φόβου που κατέλαβε τις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες από τη δεκαετία του 1920 και μετά, αποτελεί ένα καθοριστικό επεισόδιο της μεταπολεμικής αμερικανικής ιστορίας. Αν……続きを見る

O McCarthyism, o culminar do susto vermelho que tomou conta dos Estados Unidos a partir dos anos 20, é um episódio marcante na história americana do pós-guerra. Embora a caça às bruxas não tenha com……続きを見る