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Understand the daily choices, fears, and experiences of freedom seekers along the Underground Railroad. Delving into the lives and stories of everyday men and women either escaping slavery or helpin……続きを見る

"El carnero" es de una de las obras más originales e inclasificables de toda la literatura colonial y representa un texto imprescindible para la historia de Colombia y la fundación de Bogotá. Posee ……続きを見る

Anchoring an Empire is a bottom-up exploration of how gender and ethnicity shaped the lived experience of Spanish subjects across the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century isthmus of Panama. Focusing o……続きを見る

Winner, 2009 Rachel Carson Prize, Society for the Social Studies of ScienceWinner, 2012 Edward Kremers Award, American Institute of the History of Pharmacy The second half of the twentieth century w……続きを見る

American consumers today regard sugar as a mundane and sometimes even troublesome substance linked to hyperactivity in children and other health concerns. Yet two hundred years ago American consumer……続きを見る

Secret Histories claims that the history of the nation is hiddenーin plain sightーwithin the pages of twentieth-century American literature. David Wyatt argues that the nation's fiction and nonficti……続きを見る

Recounts Larry Hilton’s experiences as a Marine artilleryman facing constant danger in Vietnam. Vietnam Fire Mission reflects on Larry Hiton’s time in the U.S. Marine Corps, initially enlisting at 1……続きを見る

Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empire's many incur……続きを見る

In this groundbreaking reflection on America's relationship with war in the modern era, Gregory A. Daddis explores the deep-seated tension between faith in and fear of war that has shaped US grand s……続きを見る

Colonel William Prescott’s leadership at Bunker Hill exemplified American resilience, shaping the Revolutionary War’s course. In America, before the United States was established, there were a small……続きを見る

About the Book: A Brief Introduction to American English Literature Compiled and Edited by Uttiya Sarkar Based on the writings of Jesse Latour This book offers a concise yet comprehensive overview o……続きを見る

This book offers a compact, engaging, and informative narrative of the evolution of the United States from colonial resistance to the forging of a nation, through wars, revolutions, and reformations……続きを見る

In Imperfect Strangers**, Salim Yaqub argues that the 1970s were a pivotal decade for U.S.-Arab relations, whether at the upper levels of diplomacy, in street-level interactions, or in the realm of ……続きを見る

Are we one people, and one America? Or is there much more to it than that? Presidents like FDR, Lyndon Johnson, George H.W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan; are elections like those that created these great……続きを見る

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The Washington Post as "a work of enormous imagination and enterprise" and in The New York Times as "an important, original b……続きを見る

For three hundred years the ghetto defined Jewish culture in the late medieval and early modern period in Western Europe. In the nineteenth-century it was a free-floating concept which travelled to ……続きを見る

“At the core, Hit Refresh, is about us humans and the unique quality we call empathy, which will become ever more valuable in a world where the torrent of technology will disrupt the status quo like……続きを見る

Disgraced is a sweeping religious and cultural history of Protestant sex scandals in nineteenth and twentieth century America. Suzanna Krivulskaya investigates the cultural consequences of scandal, ……続きを見る

When Jackie Robinson made his debut at Ebbets Field on opening day in 1947, the Brooklyn Dodgers became the first major league team with a black player anywhere in its organization. By the end of th……続きを見る

What do you really know about Ancient America? 99 Percent of Earth's Ancient history is forgotten or deliberately eased. This book is one of Ten Great Forbidden Civilizations Books about Ancient Ali……続きを見る

This book uniquely reverses today’s MAGA conspiratorial concept of the deep state to reveal how a very real “deeper state” is evident throughout history, back to the founding of American democracy. ……続きを見る

Gender Inequality and Women’s Citizenship combines cases across Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago to highlight the range of systemic inequalities that impact women in the Anglo-Carib……続きを見る

Throughout the history of Western academia, there have been scholars who have interpreted and examined various aspects of human history and made it a point to universalize their own interpretations ……続きを見る

A unique memoir charting the modern political history of Los Angeles as told by one of its most consequential elected leaders. An activist with political skills can take on powerful special interes……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

Are you fascinated by the history of human migration? Do you want to know more about how the first people arrived in North America over 16,000 years ago? Look no further than this riveting account o……続きを見る

This book is committed to the issues related to social justice in the Caribbean, and seeks to increase dialogue among practitioners, unions, labor activists, academics, policy-makers and other indiv……続きを見る

Providing an accessible and comprehensive overview, The Story of the Salem Witch Trials explores the events between June 10 and September 22, 1692, when nineteen people were hanged, one was pressed ……続きを見る

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 'A……続きを見る

In brisk and engaging prose, this comprehensive introductory textbook traverses the broad sweep of US history since 1945. Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord explores how Americans from all walks of li……続きを見る