Nat. - Americas 1

Cette anthologie rassemble des points de vue d'écrivain.e.s et des textes théoriques. À la fois personnels et engagés, ces écrits montrent la richesse et la fécondité de la pensée autochtone. En plu……続きを見る

Black Religion in America is an introduction to the religious history of African Americans from the period of slavery to the twenty-first century. It analyses Black people’s varying religious respon……続きを見る

The Pursuit of Justice is the first book to examine three separate instances of soldiers risking their lives during wartime to protest injustices being perpetrated by military authorities: within th……続きを見る

This book explains how the debate over originalism emerged from the interaction of constitutional theory, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, and American political development. Refuting the contention th……続きを見る

In this book, Natalia Sobrevilla Perea reconstructs the history of the armed forces in nineteenth-century Peru and reveals what it meant to be a member. By centering the experiences of individuals, ……続きを見る

Despite twenty-first-century fears of nuclear conflagrations with North Korea, Russia, and Iran, the Cuban Missile Crisis is the closest the United States has come to nuclear war. That history has l……続きを見る

This biography explores General Philip H. Sheridan’s impact on the United States during and after the tumultuous Civil War era, offering a new insight into Sheridan’s changing perspectives on leader……続きを見る

**“Utterly captivating and beautifully written, this book is a hugely entertaining and enlightening exploration of a bird so wickedly smart, curious, and social, it boggles the mind.”ーJennifer Acke……続きを見る

Essential World Cup Reading | Featured in The New York Times’ ‘What to Read During the World Cup’ Wall Street Journal reporters Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg offer a deeply reported account of ……続きを見る

Juan de la Rosa. Memorias del último soldado de la Independencia de Nataniel Aguirre (Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1843-Montevideo, Uruguay, 1888), se publicó en 1885 en Cochabamba. Es una novela que narra ……続きを見る

Since the discovery of abundant oil resources in the 1920s, Venezuela has had an economically privileged position among the nations of Latin America, which has led to its being treated by economic a……続きを見る

“Who hasn’t stayed up late reading South Sea tales? Christina Thompson’s Sea People is a South Sea tale to top them all.”ーRichard Rhodes, author of Energy: A Human History and the Pulitzer Prize wi……続きを見る

Originally published in 1973. Professor Nathans illuminates the changes wrought by Jacksonian democracy on the career of Daniel Webster, a major political figure, and on the destiny of a major polit……続きを見る

This narrative of a shipwreck on the Florida coast in 1696 and the suffering and heroism of the survivors was first published in Philadelphia three years later under the title GOD'S PROTECTING PROVI……続きを見る

Perpetrators within? provides the first ethnographic account of the experiences of military families of the Argentine dictatorship (1976-83). At the crossover of multiple disciplines, this groundbre……続きを見る

From the diverse proto-musicals of the mid-1800s, through the revues of the 1920s, the ‘true musicals’ of the 1940s, the politicization of the 1960s, the ‘mega-musicals’ of the 1980s, and the explos……続きを見る

Few today think of Andrew Jackson, the American military hero and president, as a religious man. Nevertheless, Jackson considered himself a Christian throughout his life. Raised a "rigid presbeteria……続きを見る

This book focuses on the gradual deterioration of the British-American relationship that led to the American Revolution. Starting in 1721, the author explores how the relationship between Britain an……続きを見る

Un exhaustivo análisis sobre el papel representado por Argentina en la escena internacional entre 1960 y 2000. Un riguroso análisis de las profesoras Melisa Deciancio y Diana Tussie sobre el papel r……続きを見る

Now in its second edition, The Routledge Atlas of African American History traces the epic journey of African Americans’ four hundred years in North America. With more than 75 full-color maps, chart……続きを見る

Native Americans in the United States, similar to other indigenous people, created political, economic, and social movements to meet and adjust to major changes that impacted their cultures. For cen……続きを見る

Few, if any, U.S. writers are as important to the history of world literature as Edgar Allan Poe, and few, if any, U.S. authors owe so much of their current reputations to the process of translation……続きを見る

Renewing America’s Civic Compact addresses the chief challenges and principal tensions in the operation of our civil society in order to consider possible paths forward. The meritocracy, multicultur……続きを見る

The largest collection of never-before published letters from and to Civil War hero Joshua Chamberlain provides a foundation for a new look at the life of one of the War's most enduring legends. His……続きを見る

A panoramic, "persuasive and inspiring" (New Yorker) new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress ……続きを見る

Through careful, detailed consideration of a host of primary documents about the young activists who formed the Underground Railroad's underappreciated operational workforce, this book offers fresh ……続きを見る

A comprehensive, compelling, and clearly written title that provides a rich examination of the history of Asians in the United States, covering well-established Asian American groups as well as emer……続きを見る

A thrilling narrative history of how one rap battle in New York transformed American culture forever. July 3, 1981, was a pivotal night for the future of America's newest art form: hip hop. In New Y……続きを見る

Through in-depth socio-historical analysis of discourses and processes of quantification around school performance and student failure rates in Brazil, this volume highlights the prevalence of Euroc……続きを見る

From the New York Times: "The astonishing stories in Shipwrecked ... [offer] a fresh perspective on the mess of pitched emotions and politics in a nation at war over slavery." Historian Jonathan W. ……続きを見る