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Book SynopsisTwenty Irish immigrants, suspected of belonging to a secret terrorist organization called the Molly Maguires, were executed in Pennsylvania in the 1870s for the murder of sixteen men. Ever since, there has been enormous disagreement over who the Molly Maguires were, what they did, and why they did it, as virtually everything we now know about the Molly Maguires is based on the hostile descriptions of their contemporaries.Arguing that such sources are inadequate to serve as the basis for a factual narrative, Kevin Kenny examines the ideology behind contemporary evidence to explain how and why a particular meaning came to be associated with the Molly Maguires in Ireland and Pennsylvania. At the same time, this work examines new archival evidence from Ireland that establishes that the American Molly Maguires were a rare transatlantic strand of the violent protest endemic in the Irish countryside.Combining social and cultural history, Making Sense of the Molly Maguires offers a new explanaTable of ContentsAbbreviations Used in Footnotes Preface to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition Introduction Ch. 1 Whiteboys, Ribbonmen, and Molly Maguires Ch. 2 The World of Antracite Ch. 3 Enter the Molly Maguires Ch. 4 The Rise of a Labor Movement Ch. 5 The Reading Railroad Takes Control Ch. 6 The Return of the Molly Maguires Ch. 7 Rough Justice Ch. 8 The Molly Maguires on Trial Ch. 9 Black Thursday Epilogue Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe relationship between early Mormons and the United States was marked by anxiety and hostility, heightened over the course of the nineteenth century by the assassination of Mormon leaders, the Saints'' exile from Missouri and Illinois, the military occupation of the Utah territory, and the national crusade against those who practiced plural marriage. Nineteenth-century Latter-day Saints looked forward to apocalyptic events that would unseat corrupt governments across the globe, particularly the tyrannical government of the United States. The infamous White Horse Prophecy referred to this coming American apocalypse as a terrible revolution in the land of America, such as has never been seen before; for the land will be literally left without a supreme government. Mormons envisioned divine deliverance by way of plagues, natural disasters, foreign invasions, American Indian raids, slave uprisings, or civil war unleashed on American cities and American people. For the Saints, these violeTrade ReviewCertainly, the book reveals a rich lode of apocalypticism that persists and changes within religious traditions that lay claim to be the restoration of all things prior to the earth's final dispensation. In so doing, it invites promising further work by scholars of religious futurism. * Tona Hangen, BYU Studies Quarterly *It is when he begins to explore understudied material... that this book really starts to break new ground and offer not simply new history, but new perspectives on the trajectory of the new religious movement that Joseph Smith founded. * Matthew Bowman, Claremont Graduate University, Journal of Mormon History *Blythe's most admirable achievement with this volume is his ability to provide a fascinating, easily accessible, but still truly academic, thoroughly researched, and meticulously presented cultural and social history of the Latter-day Saints in the United States, structured around the theme of the apocalypse ... I wholeheartedly recommend Terrible Revolution. * Iren E. Annus, Nova Religio *...this volume is a unique contribution to the literature on American religious history. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * D. S. Azzolina, CHOICE *The title may include "Terrible," but this book is anything but. It is a unique contribution to understanding the history, theology, and folklore surrounding the much-anticipated end times through the eyes of the church and its lay members. * Kevin Folkman, Association For Mormon Letters *Terrible Revolution was one of the most exciting and well-researched books I've read in a while. It is a book that you want to complete in one sitting, but don't. Instead, you show restraint and space out the reading because you want to savor the history and enjoy it a moment longer. * Christopher Angulo, Association of Mormon Letters blog *Christopher Blythe has written an essential guide for understanding the religious culture of Mormonism. Terrible Revolution takes readers from early expectations of an imminent Second Coming, to the White Horse Prophecy, to contemporary preppers. An essential text. * John G. Turner, author of Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet *In this illuminating study, Christopher Blythe spins a masterful narrative that combines an impressive breadth of sources, official and popular, to tell a story still unfolding in the 21st century." -Terryl Givens, author of Wrestling the Angel: The Foundations of Mormon ThoughtBlythe's Terrible Revolution offers a smart, original, and compelling analysis of the evolving role of apocalyptic thinking in the LDS Church. Blythe has marshalled thousands of sources, some long hidden away in obscure places, and diligently connected them to larger social and political trends." -Matthew Avery Sutton, author of American Apocalypse: A History of Modern EvangelicalismBlythe does a terrific job walking the reader through the shifts and nuances of the multiple apocalyptic themes that pepper the LDS imagination, both officially and unofficially." -Amy Hoyt, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought Ik YThe Latter-day Saints of the nineteenth century belonged to an apocalyptic tradition, argues historian and folklorist Christopher Blythe in his highly informative book Terrible Revolution....Blythe charts the rise and fall of Mormon apocalyptic discourse over the two-hundred- year history of the Restoration. He defines "apocalyptic" as "the belief that society was headed toward cataclysmic events that would uproot the current social order in favor of a divine order that would be established in its place". * Patrick Q. Mason, Journal of Book of Mormon Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: The Apocalyptic Tradition in Early Mormonism Chapter Two: "Long Shall His Blood...Stain Illinois": Martyrology and Malediction Chapter Three: The Geography of Mormon Apocalyptic Chapter Four: The Judgments Begin: Apocalypticism in Utah Territory Chapter Five: The Americanization of Mormon Apocalyptic Chapter Six - Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Apocalyptic Trajectories Afterword: Apocalypticism in the "Mormon Moment" Notes Index

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Book SynopsisOn Thanksgiving night, 1915, a small band of hooded men gathered atop Stone Mountain, an imposing granite butte just outside Atlanta. With a flag fluttering in the wind beside them, a Bible open to the twelfth chapter of Romans, and a flaming cross to light the night sky above, William Joseph Simmons and his disciples proclaimed themselves the new Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, named for the infamous secret order in which many of their fathers had served after the Civil War. Unsure of their footing in the New South and longing for the provincial, patriarchal world of the past, the men of the second Klan saw themselves as an army in training for a war between the races. They boasted that they had bonded into an invisible phalanx...to stand as impregnable as a tower against every encroachment upon the white man''s liberty...in the white man''s country, under the white man''s flag.Behind the Mask of Chivalry brings the invisible phalanx into broad daylight, culling from history the names, the life stories, and the driving passions of the anonymous Klansmen beneath the white hoods and robes. Using an unusual and rich cache of internal Klan records from Athens, Georgia, to anchor her observations, Nancy MacLean combines a fine-grained portrait of a local Klan world with a penetrating analysis of the second Klan''s ideas and politics nationwide. No other right-wing movement has ever achieved as much power as the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s, and this book shows how and why it did. MacLean reveals that the movement mobilized its millions of American followers largely through campaigns waged over issues that today would be called family values: Prohibition violation, premarital sex, lewd movies, anxieties about women''s changing roles, and worries over waning parental authority. Neither elites nor poor white trash, most of the Klan rank and file were married, middle-aged, and middle class. Local meetings, or klonklaves, featured readings of the minutes, plans for recruitment campaigns and Klan barbecues, and distribution of educational materials--Christ and Other Klansmen was one popular tome. Nonetheless, as mundane as proceedings often were at the local level, crusades over morals always operated in the service of the Klan''s larger agenda of virulent racial hatred and middle-class revanchism. The men who deplored sex among young people and sought to restore the power of husbands and fathers were also sworn to reclaim the white man''s country, striving to take the vote from blacks and bar immigrants. Comparing the Klan to the European fascist movements that grew out of the crucible of the first World War, MacLean maintains that the remarkable scope and frenzy of the movement reflected less on members'' power within their communities than on the challenges to that power posed by African Americans, Jews, Catholics, immigrants, and white women and youth who did not obey the Klan''s canon of appropriate conduct. In vigilante terror, the Klan''s night riders acted out their movement''s brutal determination to maintain inherited hierarchies of race, class, and gender.Compellingly readable and impeccably researched, Behind the Mask of Chivalry is an unforgettable investigation of a crucial era in American history, and the social conditions, cultural currents, and ordinary men that built this archetypal American reactionary movement. In this thirtieth anniversary edition, MacLean reflects on this history amidst the resurgence of right-wing populism, white power activism, and political violence in the twenty-first century.

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Book SynopsisWhat does U.S. history look like with women at the center of the story? From Pocahantas to military women serving in the Iraq war, this survey chronicles the contributions, recognized and unrecognized, that women have made to the American experience. Committed to a multicultural approach to women''s history, the narrative opens not with the European settlers who came to America but with the Native American peoples who were already there. Women who seized opportunities for political and cultural influence during and after the American Revolution were mainly white women. Women''s domestic and waged labor shaped the Northern economy, and slavery affected the lives of Southern women, both free and enslaved. Women took the lead in 19th century movements such as temperance, moral reform, and abolitionism, as well as women''s rights. The demand for the vote first enunciated at Seneca Falls in 1848 culminated in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. New patterns of work, leisure, and education shaped modern women''s lives after 1920, as did international events such as the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. Women played especially large roles in the civil rights movement and the revival of feminism, as well as in the backlash these movements provoked.Moving beyond the well-documented lives of white middle-class women, this survey recognizes the diversity of American women''s experiences defined by race, ethnicity, and class, but also geography, sexual orientation, age, and religion. At the core of the narrative is the recognition that gender--the changing historical and cultural constructions of roles assigned to the biological differences of the sexes--is central to understanding the history of American women''s lives, and the history of the United States.Trade ReviewI imagine that a reader new to U.S. women's history would come away from this book with a sense of the ways in which race, ethnicity, and class intersect with gender and the forces that have shaped women's lives from the past into the present. And that is the intent of the volume. * Leila J. Rupp, The American Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of illustrations ; Preface ; Chapter 1: In the Beginning: North America's Women to 1750 ; Chapter 2: Freedom's Ferment, 1750-1848 ; Chapter 3: The Challenges of Citizenship, 1848-1920 ; Chapter 4: Modern American Women, 1920 to the present ; References ; Further reading ; Index

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Book SynopsisIn the middle of the twentieth century, liberal intellectuals and policymakers in the United States came to see poverty as a global problem. Applying Progressive era and Depression insights about the causes of poverty to the post-World War II challenges posed by the Cold War and decolonization, they developed new ideas about why poverty persisted. The problem, they argued, was that the poor at home and abroad were alienated from the enormous opportunities industrial capitalism provided. Left unsolved, that problem, they believed, would threaten world peace. In The Poverty of the World, Sheyda Jahanbani brings together the histories of US foreign relations and domestic politics to explain why, during a period of unprecedented affluence, Americans rediscovered poverty and supported major policy initiative to combat it. Revisiting a moment of triumph for American liberals in the 1940s, Jahanbani shows how the US''s newfound role as a global superpower prompted novel ideas among liberal thTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction "The World's Problem in Miniature": Global Poverty in the American Century Chapter 1 "This World-Wide Need": John Collier and the Origins of the Global War on Poverty Chapter 2 "Not Modern Men": Oscar Lewis's Theory of Global Poverty Chapter 3 "The Only War We Seek": Discovering World Poverty and Building an Empire of Affluence Chapter 4 "Challenge to Affluence": Promoting Poverty-Fighting as the National Purpose Chapter 5 "The United States Contains an Underdeveloped Nation": World Poverty Comes Home Chapter 6 "One Global War on Poverty": Building a Volunteer Army for the Empire of Affluence Chapter 7 "Living Poor": Representing the Global War on Poverty Conclusion Neither Peace nor Honor Won: Retreat in the Global War on Poverty Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the struggle for influence that dominated the planning and development of Chicago's South Side during the Progressive Era. This work examines the University of Chicago, Chicago's public parks, and the Black Belt to consider how community leaders looked to the physical design of the city to shape its culture and promote civic interaction.Trade Review"Bachin incisively charts the development of key urban institutions and landscapes that helped constitute the messy vitality of Chicago's late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century public realm." - Daniel Bluestone, Journal of American History "This is an ambitious book filled with important insights about issues of public space and its use by urban residents.... It is thoughtful, very well written, and should be read and appreciated by anyone interested in Chicago or cities generally. It is also a gentle reminder that people are as important as structures and spaces in trying to understand urban development." - Maureen A. Flanagan, American Historical Review"

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Book SynopsisA study of Progressive history from its emergence in the early 1900s to the 1940s. Focusing on the movement's most important representatives, Breisach demonstrates that Progressive history is distinguished by its unique combination of beliefs in the objective reality of historical facts and in the inevitable progress of the human race.

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Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive economic history of retirement in America. With life expectancy increasing, the retirement rate of men over age 64 has risen. The author looks at factors underlying this increase and shows the dramatic implications of findings for the general public and the US government.

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Book SynopsisThis analysis of the future of the human community suggest that new social and political identities and regional associations will be needed to solve global problems. It shows how such "mutualism" will require a change in the way institutions interact on local, national and international levels.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: The New Ideology 2: Endism and the American Self-Image 3: The Meaning of Historical Change 4: The Search for Order 5: Modernity and the Messiah of Progress 6: The End of Progress 7: The New Realities 8: The Epoch of Mutualism 9: Facing the Future Notes Index

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Book SynopsisPresents a reappraisal of the causes and consequences of a movement that ultimately transformed the nature of social insurance and the American workplace. This book argues that workers' compensation, rather than being an early progressive victory, succeeded because all relevant parties - labor, lawyers, and legislators - benefited from the ruling.Trade Review"This is surely the very best book ever written about the passage of workers' compensation, an instant 'classic' in historical political economy." - Robert A. Margo, Southern Economic Journal "Substantial, well-written, and compelling.... The end result is an in-depth analysis of how workers' compensation was created and initially implemented in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century." - Christopher R. Larrison, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare"

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Book SynopsisA consideration of pragmatism in America that demonstrates how it provides the most critically resilient and constructive response to the intellectual challenges of postmodernism.

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Book SynopsisIn his usual incantatory style, Taussig takes on palm oil, one of the most perniciously exploitative commodities in our world today.

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Book SynopsisExplains how life insurance corporations shaped how we understand American life spans and Americans as risks

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A withering broadside against the immaturity that infests American politics, revealing itself in populism and demagoguery. Both the left and the right take it on the chin in this tough-minded analysis by Wolfe. . . . This is a persuasive and alarming book."--Kirkus Reviews "Wisdom is rare, political wisdom more so. Writing with characteristic lucidity and deep care for democracy's future, Alan Wolfe's mobilization of intellectual heroes and acute observations about popular suspicion and populist politics, narcissistic leadership and irresponsible simplification, offers an uncommon exception. By instructing and inspiring, this book's quest for democratic maturity will stimulate rich conversation about knowledge and responsibility, not only within the academy but well beyond." --Ira Katznelson, author of Fear Itself "A comprehensive polemic that references dozens of distinguished thinkers throughout history while offering a withering view on the maturity of this nation. . . . Wolfe's message is that America needs to grow up. It has to look for character in its leaders and not seek simple solutions to complex problems. . . . Wolfe has produced a work that explores America's intellectual history and analyzes the Trump phenomenon in a way that will advance the understanding of how we got in this mess."--Splice Today "In The Politics of Petulance, Alan Wolfe delivers a bracing piece of advice--take a look in the mirror, whether you voted for Donald Trump or no--to every American agonizing over the question of how our country came to be governed by an immature, ignorant bully. Wolfe, a longtime intellectual provocateur, has a knack for illuminating and elucidating the beating heart of his main argument--and this is especially valuable for readers who sometimes disagree with him, as I sometimes do, about particular aspects of intellectual history. His most important observation in this timely book is that Americans who waste their time disdaining Washington and blaming everyone else for Trumpism need once again to stop ignoring the better angels of our history and recognize the noble possibilities of politics." --Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies "Alan Wolfe amply vindicates his position as one of our country's most valuable public intellectuals in this fascinating analysis of our current political condition. The heart of the book is a valuable reexamination of a group of prominent mid-twentieth-century intellectuals, most importantly Richard Hofstadter and Daniel Bell, and Wolfe's delineation of what he labels a 'mature liberalism' suitable for a complex political system and which he fears is lacking today. Some of his older readers will still remember those Wolfe writes about, but, like Wolfe himself, may look at them in a new light; younger readers will find an introduction to a group of thinkers who still have something to teach. For all readers, though, it will offer a chance to imbibe Wolfe's own thoughtful reflections about a country he loves and is correctly worried about." --Sanford Levinson, An Argument Open to All: Reading the Federalist in the 21st Century "Not merely a withering indictment of Donald Trump and his most ardent supporters, but of an entire American body politic mired in immaturity." --Charleston Post and Courier "Wolfe describes and examines a host of postwar political thinkers, many of whom, like Hannah Arendt and Joseph Schumpeter, had come from the horrors of Europe. . . . Wolfe is at his best when he is discussing these writers, first-class thinkers who responded powerfully to their era's challenges. He contrasts their response to what he sees as the lamer reaction of the contemporary intellectual community to Trump--and suggests we no longer have a core of all-star intellectuals but instead a shallower group of 'thought leaders.' And he tries to draw lessons from the writing of the old school of mature liberals to apply to the present day, a time, he says, when our political immaturity has led to the politics of petulance. . . . The Politics of Petulance join[s] an impressive array of books and essays that may, someday, have a future intellectual historian using them as examples to lament the fact that his or her contemporaries are not as eloquent or important as the group that arose in the Trump era to combat the threats to our way of life." --Norm Ornstein "New York Times Book Review "

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Book SynopsisThe queer recluse, the shambling farmer, the clannish hill folkwhite rural populations have long disturbed the American imagination, alternately revered as moral, healthy, and hardworking, and feared as antisocial or socially uncouth. InPeculiarPlaces, Ryan Lee Cartwright examines the deep archive of these contrary formations, mapping racialized queer and disability histories of white social nonconformity across the rural twentieth-century United States. Sensationalized accounts of white rural communities' aberrant sexualities, racial intermingling, gender transgressions, and anomalous bodies and minds, which proliferated from the turn of the century, created a national view of the perversity of white rural poverty for the American public.Cartwright contendsthat these accounts, extracted and estranged from their own ambivalent forum of community gossip, must be read in kind: through a racialized, materialist queercrip optic of the deeply familiar and mundane. Taking in popular scienTrade Review“Peculiar Places represents applied queercrip theory at its best. Cartwright’s writing is lucid, even page-turning, and his scholarship sound and persuasive, arguing that sensationalized accounts of the disabled, dispossessed, and marginalized in twentieth-century rural America can be repurposed to unpack countless norms and deviancies. In its bold theoretical interventions, innovative historical analysis, and stunning argumentation, Peculiar Places is outstanding, a model of intellectual courage. This pathbreaking work will inspire and steer scholarship for decades to come.” * John Howard, King’s College London *“By offering detailed analyses of quotidian encounters, Cartwright reveals the complex ways ‘poor rural white folks living on the margins’ were defined, pathologized, surveilled, and violated. But rather than present binary narratives of ableist victimization and heroic transgression, Cartwright underscores the way these same people often relied on racial hierarchies and settler claims to indigenous land. Peculiar Places offers a way of doing disability studies that can simultaneously recognize queercrip practices of interdependence and violence.” * Alison Kafer, University of Texas at Austin *"Offers generative contributions, more broadly, to the field of queer studies through a nuanced and complicated view of the rural, and. . . a necessary intersectional queer lens to rural studies. Ultimately, [Peculiar Places] asks the reader to interrogate not just ways of looking but also the implications of being seen. " * Cleveland Review of Books *"Peculiar Places challenges the reader to consider the complex interconnections and interdependencies of race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability in rural spaces in an effective and accessible manner. As such, this book contributes to a better understanding of the anti-idyllic lens through which individuals are taught to read rural America." * Gender Forum *"Ryan Lee Cartwright’s Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity is a clear and well-researched book, one that deploys insights from queer and disability studies to explore the contradictory place of white rural nonconformity." * H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsIntroduction: QueerCrip Historical Analysis and the Rural White Anti-Idyll One: Harlots from the Hollow: Eugenic Detectives on the Lookout for the Rural White Hovel Family Two: Curious Scenes: The Fringes of Rural Rehabilitation in 1930s Documentary Photography Three: Madness in the Dead Heart: Ed Gein and the Fabrication of the Transgender Heartland “Psycho” Killer Myth Four: “Maimed in Body and Spirit”: The Spectacle of White Appalachian Poverty Tours during the 1960s Five: Banjos, Chainsaws, and Sodomy: Making 1970s Rural Horror Films and the Apex of the Anti-Idyll Six: Estranged but Not Strangers: Nonconformity Encounters Identity in 1990s Hate-Crime Documentaries Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn these previously uncollected essays, Smith argues that American philosophers like Peirce, James, Royce, and Dewey have forged a unique philosophical tradition--one that is rich and complex enough to represent a genuine alternative to the analytic, phenomenological, and hermeneutical traditions which have originated in Britain or Europe. In my judgment, John Smith has no equal today in combining two scholarly qualities: the analysis of philosophical texts with penetration and rigor, and the discernment of what it is in these texts that matters. These qualities are in evidence throughout the essays in America's Philosophical Vision. Whether he is evaluating Rorty's view of Dewey; the pragmatic theory of experience and truth; theories of freedom, creativity, and the self; Royce's conception of community; or synoptic philosophic visions, Smith always succeeds in uniting a comprehensive understanding of philosophic writings with a sure grasp of their import for human culture and aspiration. It is a great benefit to students of American thought that these papers have now been collected into one volume.--James Gouinlock, Emory University

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Book SynopsisOn October 15, 1994, Jean-Bertrand Aristide was returned to power as Haiti's leader. In a blend of political, historical and moral concerns, the author of this study here provides an account of Aristide's reinstatement and explores the uncertain fate of democracy in Haiti.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Prologue Ch. 1: A Democratic Vision for Haiti Ch. 2: International Efforts to Restore Aristide to the Presidency Ch. 3: Haiti since Aristide's Return: A Preliminary View Ch. 4: Searching for Democratic Alternatives in Support of Human Rights Ch. 5: A Democratic Vision Ch. 6: The Difficulties of the Transition Ch. 7: The Aristide Government's Proposal: Strategy of Social and Economic Reconstruction Ch. 8: Haiti since Aristide's Return: A Closer Look Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe history of Christianity in America has been marked by recurring periods of religious revivals or awakenings. In this book, George M. Thomas addresses the economic and political context of evangelical revivalism and its historical linkages with economic expansion and Republicanism in the nineteenth century. Thomas argues that large-scale change results in social movements that articulate new organizations and definitions of individual, society, authority, and cosmos. Drawing on religious newspapers, party policies and agendas, and quantitative analyses of voting patterns and census data, he claims that revivalism in this period framed the rules and identities of the expanding market economy and the national policy. Subtle and complex...Fascinating.--Randolph Roth, Pennsylvania History [Revivalism and Cultural Change] should be read with interest by those interested in religious movements as well as the connections among religion, economics, and politics.--Charles L. Harper, Contempo

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Book SynopsisWe need to go back to the beginning of the idea of "public opinion" and a mass public to understand what the American public has become. Trade Review"Herbst explores the forces that shape the amorphous thing known as “public opinion,” concerning herself with its quality more than its specific content." * Foreign Affairs *"In A Troubled Birth, Susan Herbst, an eminent thought leader on public opinion in American democracy, helps us grapple with these tensions by taking us back to the formidable shaping of public opinion in the 1930s and the trappings that have followed us since...A Troubled Birth is a must‐read for anyone grappling with ideas of the American 'public' and how to assess public opinion in the face of so many social, technological, and political changes. Herbst masterfully weaves history with contemporary reality, encouraging her array of readers to reevaluate their own biases by looking at where they originated." * Political Science Quarterly *"Susan Herbst’s A Troubled Birth is an engaging and original analysis of American public opinion in the 1930s. This is not a book about the content of public opinion. Rather, it examines how a particular vision of the American public came into being during this turbulent and pivotal decade." * Perspectives on Politics *“Anyone looking to understand how US democracy ended up in its current troubled state of affairs will benefit from reading A Troubled Birth. Herbst has long been teaching us to reconsider what we mean by public opinion better than anyone, and she’s done it again masterfully here.” -- Katherine Cramer, University of Wisconsin–Madison“In this engaging and wide-ranging book, Herbst emphasizes the importance of broader cultural history in showing that the advent of scientific polling and pollsters in the 1930s did not merely offer a way to measure public opinion for the pursuit of American democracy.  For better or ill, they along with the mass media (radio and newspapers), economic crisis (and how individuals cope with it), President Franklin Roosevelt’s leadership and communication style, political divisions (including on race and immigration), debates in the academic world, entertainment and early “infotainment,” and other visible developments in the United States (and worldwide), that have their counterparts today, turned public opinion which had been relatively amorphous concept into a tangible, multifaceted, and contentious one. This is an illuminating and impressive work.” -- Robert Y. Shapiro, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: Birth of a Public 2 President in the Maelstrom: FDR as Public Opinion Theorist 3 Twisted Populism: Pollsters and Delusions of Citizenship 4 A Consuming Public: The Strange and Magnificent New York World’s Fair 5 Radio Embraces Race and Immigration, Awkwardly 6 Interlude: A Depression Needn’t Be So Depressing 7 Public Opinion and Its Problems: Some Ways Forward Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBased on long-term ethnographic fieldwork at the Caribbean Court of Justice, A Region among States explores the possibility of constituting a region on a geopolitical and ideological terrain dominated by the nation-state. How is it that a great swath of the independent, English-speaking Caribbean continues to accept the judicial oversight of their former colonizer via the British institution of the Privy Council? And what possibilities might the Caribbean Court of Justicea judicial institution responsive to the region, not to any single nationoffer for untangling sovereignty and regionhood, law and modernity, and postcolonial Caribbean identity? Joining the Court as an intern, Lee Cabatingan studied its work up close: she attended each court hearing and numerous staff meetings, served on committees, assisted with the organization of conferences, and helped prepare speeches and presentations for the judges. She now offers insight into not only how the Court positions itself vis-à-vis the Caribbean region and the world but also whether the Courtand, perhaps, the region itself as an overarching constructmight ever achieve a real measure of popular success. In their quest for an accepting, eager constituency, the Court is undertaking a project of extrajudicial region building that borrows from the toolbox of the nation-state. In each chapter, Cabatingan takes us into an analytical dimension familiar from studies of nation and state buildingmyth, territory, people, language, and brandto help us understand not only the Court and its ambitions but also the regionalist project, beset as it is with false starts and disappointments, as a potential alternative to the sovereign state.Trade Review“This is an empathetic and rigorous anthropology of the CCJ. Sharply constructed and with flowing writing, Cabatingan’s ethnography brings together questions and approaches from postcolonial regionalism, legal anthropology, and Caribbean studies. Through eye-opening conversations with judges and throughout the court, interwoven with a careful study of media and archival material, she shows how the delicate balance between the work of adjudication and of political region making raises dilemmas that otherwise remain right below the surface.” * Naor Ben-Yehoyada, author of The Mediterranean Incarnate *“This fascinating study of the CCJ deftly mines the peripheries of the court’s work to show successfully how the court uses and reimagines the tools of statecraft in its central effort of promoting a region. The book’s rich analysis of the array of activities of and feelings about the CCJ is a great contribution to what we know about the complex work of new apex courts and scholarly debates about region-making projects in the Caribbean.” * Tracy Robinson, coeditor of Transitions in Caribbean Law *Table of ContentsOrientation: The Caribbean Court of Justice 1 Introduction 2 A Myth 3 A Territory 4 A People 5 A Language 6 A Brand 7 A Region Acknowledgments Appendix: Methods and Positionality Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Nuanced and subtle. . . A compelling addition to the ongoing conversation on journalism and how it is practiced and consumed.” * Kirkus Reviews *"Democracy has been dying in the darkness for quite some time. What The View From Somewhere makes dazzlingly clear is that saving journalism will mean saving it from a false notion of objectivity." * The New Republic *"[A] thoughtfully researched series of essays. . . . Wallace makes his case by carefully tracing the history of so-called objectivity in journalism. . . . As his story moves into the present, [he] persuasively argues that collective action can remedy traditional reporting’s blind spots." * Bookforum *"I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of objectivity and how those in power are able to dictate what is truth and what is acceptable in journalism. With everything happening right now in the world, reading about how Black, queer, and other marginalized reporters have navigated and challenged this idea throughout history has been particularly illuminating and comforting." * The Atlantic *"In an age when traditional journalistic practices and assumptions are failing, this book should be on the desk of every journalist and every student of journalism. . . . [Wallace] shows how journalism can move away from the traditional, self-destructive professional model to a more effective model of public journalism and citizen journalism. Essential." * CHOICE *"An outstanding and urgently needed critique of journalistic orthodoxy. . . Ought to be required reading in journalism schools everywhere." * PopMatters *“Wallace dissects modern definitions of ‘neutrality’ in news and points to journalism’s historic trailblazers—queer, Black, and immigrant reporters—to remind us how marginalized people have suffered at the hands of so-called ‘objective news’ and how we must urgently resist and reframe those definitions. An essential book for reporters, editors, and consumers of news.” * Seema Yasmin, Emmy Award–winning journalist, medical doctor, and Stanford University professor *“The View From Somewhere is brilliant. Wallace slays the myth of journalistic objectivity, forcing the reader to wrestle with something profound: that all readers and creators of journalism have subjectivities, and that we can better perceive and create depictions of truth if we all examine these subjectivities instead of pretending that they don’t exist.” * Steven Thrasher, journalist and Northwestern University professor *“Wallace asks the right questions and makes a powerful case for a reexamination of what journalism is and how it can best serve the public. American journalists will readily admit, I think, that our industry has let down the broader community in recent years. Wallace posits a new solution for how we might avoid the mistakes of the past and move forward in a productive way. The View from Somewhere is both a fascinating dissection of our political body and a passionate plea for reform. It's also a darn good read.” * Celeste Headlee, author of We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. How Black Lives Matter Made the News 2. The Deviants: Race, Lynching, and the Origins of “Objectivity” 3. The Agitators: Journalists as Labor Leaders 4. Drowning in Facts: “Objectivity,” Ambiguity, and Vietnam 5. “Public Radio Voice” 6. Straight News, Gay Media, and the AIDS Crisis 7. Journalism’s Purity Ritual 8. “Can’t You Find Any More Women to Attack?”: What Happens When Facts Don’t Matter 9. Truth and the Lost Cause 10. The “Assault on Reality”: Trans People and Subjectivity 11. The View from Somewhere Conclusion: The End of Journalism Acknowledgments Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“With crisp prose and a sweeping narrative arc, Akiboh offers an original, ambitious, and deeply researched work of scholarship. By focusing on the uses and meanings of US national symbols that were exported to the colonies—flags, stamps, and currency—Akiboh uncovers the quotidian practices that made real the experience of colonialism. These symbols were everyday reminders to colonial subjects that they were living under US rule. And they were never just symbols. As Akiboh compellingly demonstrates, they have been at ‘the center of debates about national identity, inclusion, and exclusion in the US colonial empire.’” -- Sarah Miller-Davenport, Columbia University“This is terrific scholarship. Akiboh presents a highly original, impressively researched, clearly written, and helpfully illustrated study of the official accoutrements of US imperialism.” -- Bartholomew Sparrow, University of Texas at Austin“Akiboh’s original and compelling story shows us that empire was as much a matter of stamps, money, and flags as it was about raw colonial domination—and that indeed the latter did not happen without the former. At once seminal and revelatory, this book covers uncharted territory in the historiography of American empire and of empire more broadly.” -- Julian Go, University of Chicago“In this vividly written history, Akiboh traces ideas and artifacts in motion. Whether saluting the Stars and Stripes, raising a seditious flag, or marking political heroes on the stamps of the independent Philippines, colonized people throughout the Pacific made and remade the meanings of national symbols. Imperial Material boldly demonstrates that at stake in these contests was nothing less than life or death.” -- Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology“Imperial Material is an important, innovative history that examines the crucial role of quotidian objects in effort to foster allegiance or loyalty. Akiboh shows how the imperial fetishization of flags, stamps, and currency reveals imperial insecurity about its reliance on the colonized for the imperial arrangement to work. In turn, the objects serve to foster pride in a newly decolonized nation. A major contribution to our understanding of the affective dimension of US empire.” -- Naoko Shibusawa, Brown UniversityTable of Contents List of Figures A Note on Terminology: On Mainlands and Americans Introduction: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire 1 What Followed the Flag 2 Pocket-Sized Imperialism 3 Symbolic Supremacy 4 The Object(s) of Occupation 5 Symbolic Decolonization Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn eye-opening examination of the ties between American gun culture and white male supremacy from the American Revolution to today. One-third of American adultsapproximately 86 million peopleown firearms. This is not just for protection or hunting. Although many associate gun-centric ideology with individualist and libertarian traditions in American political culture, Race, Rights, and Rifles shows that it rests on an equally old but different foundation. Instead, Alexandra Filindra shows that American gun culture can be traced back to the American Revolution when republican notions of civic duty were fused with a belief in white male supremacy and a commitment to maintaining racial and gender hierarchies. Drawing on wide-ranging historical and contemporary evidence, Race, Rights, and Rifles traces how this ideology emerged during the Revolution and became embedded in America's institutions, from state militias to the National Rifle Association (NRA).Utilizing original survey data,Trade Review"This is a deeply informed, persuasive book, offering a compelling overview of how Americans became militarized and how that militarization is increasing....An enlightening, timely study of the evolution of arguments about gun ownership." * Kirkus (starred review) *“Theoretically ambitious, empirically rich, and politically pertinent, Race, Rights and Rifles examines how guns relate to US citizenship. Reconstructing the political history of guns in the US and dissecting its ongoing impact on the present-day, Race, Rights and Rifles shows how ascriptive republicanism transforms the right to self-defense—a basic human impulse for survival—into a rallying point for political polarization and a justification for an investment in illiberal democracy.” -- Jennifer Dawn Carlson | author of "Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy"“Why are gun killings in the United States an everyday occurrence? Race, Rights, and Rifles blends intellectual and political history, an eye-opening account of the National Rifle Association (NRA), and contemporary public opinion data to provide compelling answers. Alexandra Filindra shows that the American Revolution fused white male gun ownership with ideals of republican civic virtue in ways that the NRA has long championed. Consequentially, this has led a shocking number of Americans to believe that they have a fundamental right to engage in vigilante violence—like invading the Capitol or shooting a Black teenager who mistakenly knocks on the wrong door.” -- Rogers Smith | University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction Part One: Historical Foundations Chapter 1 Republican Ideology in Early America Chapter 2 An Exclusive Vision of Virtue and Citizenship Chapter 3 Militias and the Institutionalization of Ascriptive Republicanism Chapter 4 Cultural Transmission Part Two: The Origins and Worldview of the NRA Chapter 5 The Emergence of the NRA Chapter 6 An Organization of White Men Chapter 7 Political Virtue Chapter 8 Political Corruption Chapter 9 The NRA’s Theory of Democracy Part Three: Ascriptive Republicanism in Contemporary White Public Opinion Chapter 10 Ascriptive Republicanism and White Gun Attitudes Today Chapter 11 From “Stand Your Ground” to “Stand Back and Stand By” Conclusion Democratic Stability in Peril Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking look at the transformation of SoHo. American cities entered a new phase when, beginning in the 1950s, artists and developers looked upon a decaying industrial zone in Lower Manhattan and saw, not blight, but opportunity: cheap rents, lax regulation, and wide open spaces. Thus, SoHo was born. From 1960 to 1980, residents transformed the industrial neighborhood into an artist district, creating the conditions under which it evolved into an upper-income, gentrified area. Introducing the ideastill potent in city planning todaythat art could be harnessed to drive municipal prosperity, SoHo was the forerunner of gentrified districts in cities nationwide, spawning the notion of the creative class. In The Lofts of SoHo, Aaron Shkuda studies the transition of the district from industrial space to artists' enclave to affluent residential area, focusing on the legacy of urban renewal in and around SoHo and the growth of artist-led redevelopment. Shkuda explores conflicts be

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Book SynopsisTensions between Protestantism and Catholicism dominated politics in nineteenth-century Canada, occasionally erupting into violence. While some liberal politicians and community leaders believed that equal treatment of Protestants and Catholics would defuse these ancient quarrels, other Protestant liberals perceived a battle for the soul of the nation.Protestant Liberty offers a new interpretation of nineteenth-century liberalism by re-examining the role of religion in Canadian politics. While this era's liberal thought is often characterized as being neutral toward religion, James Forbes argues that the origins of Canadian liberalism were firmly rooted in the British tradition of Protestantism and were based on the premise of guarding against the advance of supposedly illiberal faiths, especially Catholicism. After the union of Upper Canada with predominantly French-Catholic Lower Canada in 1840, this Protestant ideal of liberty came into conflict with a more neutral aTrade Review“Protestant Liberty provides readers with new and interesting perspectives by taking seriously the adage that one cannot understand nineteenth-century British North American history, politics, and political ideology without understanding the fundamental role of religion in that world. Particularly unique is James Forbes’s examination of the Dissenting Protestant groups as a collective, looking across denominations to determine where sectarianism could be set aside for collective political action.” Robynne Rogers Healey, Trinity Western University and author of From Quaker to Upper Canadian: Faith and Community among Yonge Street Friends, 1801–1850

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Book SynopsisBy employing new 'optics' and a comparative approach, this book helps us recognize the unexpected and unsettling connections between America's 'western' empire and Nazi Germany's 'eastern' empire, linking histories previously thought of as totally unrelated and leading readers towards a deep revisioning of the 'American West' and the 'Nazi East'.Trade Review“This book provides a valuable and uncharted insight into two dark moments of history. Kakel deserves considerable credit for tackling such an important and scarcely addressed topic. … Kakel’s work provides a fascinating and detailed assessment of two atrocity-laden nationalist projects and does so by unearthing profound insight without obscuring the individual histories. Any scholar of transnational history would do well to read this work and incorporate its lessons and approach into their own work and teaching models.” (Derrick J. Angermeier, H-War, H-Net Reviews, March 2018)Table of ContentsMaps and Illustrations Preface Introduction PART I: CONTINENTAL IMPERIALISM Empire: National Projects of 'Space' and 'Race' Racial 'Othering': 'Manufacturing Difference' PART II: SETTLER COLONIALISM Conquest and Expansion: 'Obtaining' New 'Living Space' Colonization: 'Peopling' the Empire 'Out-Group' Policy: 'Eliminating' the 'Natives' PART III: FRONTIER GENOCIDE War and Genocide: 'Cleansing' the Lebensraum Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDrugs and Empires introduces new research that re-evaluates the relationship between intoxicants and empires in the modern world. It re-examines controversies about such issues as the Asian opium trade or the sale of alcohol in Africa and addresses new areas of research, including the impact of imperial drugs profits on American history.Table of ContentsIntroduction; J.H.Mills & P. Barton PART 1: CONSUMPTION China, British imperialism and the myth of the 'Opium Plague'; F.Dikötter , L.Laamann & X.Zhou Developing Habits: Opium and Tobacco in the Indonesian Archipelago, c. 1619-c. 1794; G.B.Souza Early British encounters with the Indian opium eater; R.Newman 'Cannot we induce the people of England to eat opium?' The moral economy of opium in colonial India; J.F.Richards PART 2: CONTROL Opium and the Trading World of Western India in the Early Nineteenth Century; A.Farooqui Dangerous Drinks and the Colonial State: 'Illicit' Gin Prohibition and Control in Colonial Nigeria; C.J.Korieh Empire and Excise: Drugs and drink revenue and the fate of states in south Asia; M.J.Gilbert Powders, Potions and Tablets: The 'quinine fraud' in British India, 1890 to 1939; P.Barton PART 3: 'HIGH' POLITICS Colonial Africa and the international politics of cannabis: Egypt, South Africa and the origins of global control; J.H.Mills 'A grave danger to the peace of the East': Opium and Imperial Rivalry in China, 1895-1920; W.O.Walker III 'Wolf by the Ears': The Dilemmas of Imperial Opium Policymaking in the 20th Century; W.B.McAllister The Trade-Off: Chinese Opium Traders and Antebellum Reform in the United States, 1815-1860; K.Gray

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Book SynopsisThis volume of the acclaimed series deals with suits the Supreme Court decided in 1796 and 1797, years in which the Court laid the foundation for its authority to exercise judicial review and for the first time the justices overturned the decision of a state's highest court.Trade ReviewA fine introduction gives flesh and blood to the Supreme Court...A key resource for scholarship on the Court as well as the history of the early republic. -- Lynned Curry H-Net This set, which is projected for eight volumes and began appearing in 1985, is a model of scrupulous scholarship. -- Jack Ray American Reference Books Annual Another superbly edited volume in an important collection. -- George Van Cleve American Journal of Legal HistoryTable of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS GUIDE TO EDITORIAL METHOD Organization of Volume 7 Selecting Documents for Publication Annotating Documents GUIDE TO EDITORIAL APPARATUS Descriptive Symbols for Documents Repository Symbols Short Titles and Abbreviations Newspaper Coverage, 1787-1801 ADVANCE \ INTRODUCTION ADVANCE \ MACDONOGH v. DANNERY Introduction James Sullivan and Perez Morton to Thomas Dannery-March 23, 1795 Peter S. Du Ponceau to Joseph Fauchet-- April 14, 1795 Decree of the Circuit Court-[October 19, 1795] Writ of Error-October 19, 1795 Assignment of Errors-[October 19-December 22, 1795] Thomas MacDonogh to James Bland Burges-November 30, 1795 Citation and Return of Service-December 22 and 31, 1795 Joinder in Error-February 1, 1796 William Tilghmanis Notes of Arguments and Opinions in the Supreme Court-February 4 and 5, 1796 Special Mandate-February 19, 1796 James Sullivan to John Lowell-March 2, 1796 Memorial of Perez Morton-March 11, 1796 ADVANCE \ SOUTHERN PRIZE CASES Introduction ADVANCE \ WALLACE v. BRIG CAESAR William Bradford, Jr., to Edmund Randolph-May 9, 1795 Assignment of Errors-June 19, 1795 James Whitefield to Samuel Bayard-June 30, 1795 Joinder in Error-August 3, 1795 Writ of Error-December 11, 1795 Citation-[December 11-19, 1795] Certificate of Nathaniel Pendleton-December 12, 1795 Agreement of Attornies-December 19, 1795 ? to Jacob Wagner-[December 19-22, 1795] Benjamin Moodie to Jacob Read-December 29, 1795 Benjamin Moodie to Jacob Read-January 4, 1796 Benjamin Moodie to Jacob Read-January 11, 1796 James Iredellis Notes on the Record-[February 3-26, 1796] James Iredellis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court-February 26 and 27, 1796 Peter S. Du Ponceau to Gortier, Nadau & Company-February 29, 1796 Special Mandate-March 12, 1796 [Peter S. Du Ponceau and Jared Ingersoll] to Gortier, Nadau & Company-March 19, 1796 ADVANCE \ MOODIE v. SHIP MERMAID Benjamin Moodie to Phineas Bond-December 17, 1794 Benjamin Moodie to Phineas Bond-April 28, 1795 Benjamin Moodie to George Miller-May 8, 1795 Writ of Error-November 13, 1795 Assignment of Errors-[November 13, 1795] Citation-[November 13, 1795] Joinder in Error-[November 13, 1795] James Iredellis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court-February 17-20, 1796 Peter S. Du Ponceau to Abraham Sasportas-February 29, 1796 James Iredellis Notes for a Supreme Court Opinion-[March 1, 1796] Peter S. Du Ponceau to Abraham Sasportas-March 1, 1796 Benjamin Moodie to George Miller-April 27, 1796 ADVANCE \ COTTON v. WALLACE Joseph Clay, Jr., to Thomas Gibbons-May 15, 1795 Assignment of Errors-June 17, 1795 Citation-June 22, 1795 Writ of Error-December 11, 1795 Citation-[December 11-19, 1795] James Iredellis Notes on the Record-[February 3-March 2, 1796] Special Mandate-March 2, 1796 Benjamin Moodie to Phineas Bond-April 23, 1796 William Patersonis Notes of Arguments and Opinion in the Supreme Court-August [2 and 9], 1796 Special Mandate-August 9, 1796 ADVANCE \ GEYER v. MICHEL James Iredellis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court-March 3-5, 1796 James Iredellis Notes for a Supreme Court Opinion-[March 14, 1796] James Iredellis Revised Notes for a Supreme Court Opinion-[March 14, 1796] ADVANCE \ MOODIE v. SHIP PHOEBE ANN James Iredellis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court-August 6, 1796 Benjamin Moodie to Phineas Bond-August 19, 1796 ADVANCE \ WARE v. HYLTON Introduction iJudex,i New-York Journal-May 4, 1790 James Madison to Edmund Pendleton-January 2, 1791 Daniel L. Hylton to Thomas Jefferson-May 29, 1791 [Daniel L. Hylton] to [Patrick Henry]-March 6, 1792 Daniel L. Hylton to Thomas Jefferson-May 25, 1792 John Hamilton to Lord Grenville-April 4, 1793 James Iredell to Samuel Johnston-May 29, 1793 James Iredellis Notes of Arguments in the Circuit Court-May 29-June 1, 1793 James Iredellis Notes on iPayment of Debts into the Treasuryi (I)-[ca. June 7, 1793] James Iredellis Notes on iPayment of Debts into the Treasuryi (II)-[ca. June 7, 1793] James Iredellis Circuit Court Opinion-June 7, 1793 John Jayis Circuit Court Opinion-June 7, 1793 Extract of a Letter from an Anonymous Correspondent in Richmond, Dunlapis American Daily Advertiser-June 7, 1793 John Nicholas to John Breckinridge-June 9, 1793 Phineas Bond to Lord Grenville-June 25, 1793 Richard Hanson to [John Tyndale Ware]-October 8, 1793 Writ of Error-June 6, 1794 Citation-[June 6-28, 1794] Assignment of Error-[June 6-July 10, 1794] Daniel L. Hylton to Joseph Jones-January 17, 1795 John Hopkins to Oliver Wolcott, Jr.-January 18, 1795 Jeremiah Smith to William Plumer-January 28, 1795 Jeremiah Smith to William Plumer-February 7, 1795 William Tilghmanis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court-February 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, 1796 Thomas Lee Shippen Diary Entry-February 17, 1796 Jeremiah Smith to William Plumer-February 17, 1796 James Madison to James Monroe-February 26, 1796 John Milledge to Sheftall Sheftall-February 26, 1796 Gazette of the United States-March 5, 1796 William Tilghmanis Notes on the Justicesi Opinions-March 7, 1796 Philadelphia Gazette-March 8, 1796 Phineas Bond to Lord Grenville-March 8, 1796 Jeremiah Smith to William Plumer-March 9, 1796 Order of the Supreme Court-March 14, 1796 Samuel Johnston to James Iredell-April 9, 1796 John Marshall to James Iredell-December 15, 1796 ADVANCE \ HYLTON v. UNITED STATES Introduction Edward Carrington to Tench Coxe-July 28, 1794 Tench Coxe to Edward Carrington-August 26, 1794 Daily Advertiser-December 22, 1794 Tench Coxe to Edward Carrington-January 14, 1795 Tench Coxe to Alexander Hamilton-January 14, 1795 Alexander Hamilton to Tench Coxe-January 28, 1795 Edmund Pendleton to James Madison-January 30, 1795 Tench Coxe to John Marshall-February 1, 1795 Tench Coxe to Edward Carrington-February 1, 1795 Tench Coxe to Edward Carrington-February 2, 1795 St. George Tucker to James Monroe-March 8, 1795 Tench Coxe to Edward Carrington-April 24, 1795 Tench Coxe to Edward Carrington-April 26, 1795 Declaration and Plea-[May 27, 1795] Agreement of Counsel-[May 27, 1795] John Tayloris Circuit Court Argument-May [27], 1795 John Wickhamis Circuit Court Argument-May [28], 1795 John Tayloris Circuit Court Argument-May [28], 1795 Circuit Court Judgment-June 2, 1795 Writ of Error and Return-[June 2, 1795] Assignment of Error-[June 2, 1795] Oliver Wolcott, Jr., to Tench Coxe-June 18, 1795 Tench Coxe to Edward Carrington-June 18, 1795 Tench Coxe to William Bradford, Jr., and Oliver Wolcott, Jr.-June 28, 1795 Tench Coxe to Edward Carrington-June 30, 1795 William Bradford, Jr., to Alexander Hamilton-July 2, 1795 Tench Coxe to Edward Carrington-July 16, 1795 Tench Coxe to Edward Carrington-July 24, 1795 Tench Coxe to Edward Carrington-August 1, 1795 William Bradford, Jr., to Alexander Hamilton-August 4, 1795 Tench Coxe to Edward Carrington-August 13, 1795 Edward Carrington to the People of Virginia, Virginia Gazette, and General Advertiser-August 23, 1795 Tench Coxe to Edward Carrington-January 9, 1796 Tench Coxe to Charles Lee-January 9, 1796 Oliver Wolcott, Jr., to Alexander Hamilton-January 15, 1796 Tench Coxe to Edward Carrington-January 17, 1796 Agreement of Daniel L. Hylton-January 25, 1796 Tench Coxe to Charles Lee-January 28, 1796 Tench Coxe to Edward Carrington-February 7, 1796 James Madison to Edmund Pendleton-February 7, 1796 Jared Ingersoll to James Madison-[February 9], 1796 iSome Remarks on the Argument of Mr. Wickhami by Edmund Pendleton, Aurora-February 11, 1796 Theodore Sedgwick to Ephraim Williams-February 16, 1796 Alexander Hamiltonis iBriefi-[before February 17, 1796] Alexander Hamiltonis iOpinioni-[before February 17, 1796] James Iredellis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court-February 23, 24, and 25, 1796 Gazette of the United States-February 25, 1796 James Iredell to Hannah Iredell-February 26, 1796 James Madison to James Monroe-February 26, 1796 John Milledge to Mr. Sheftall-February 26, 1796 Letter from an Anonymous Correspondent, Gazette of the United States-February 26, 1796 Jeremiah Smith to William Plumer-February 27, 1796 Tench Coxe to United States House of Representatives-February 29, 1796 Account of Alexander Campbell-March 1, 1796 Account of Jared Ingersoll-March 4, 1796 James Madison to Thomas Jefferson-March 6, 1796 Account of Alexander Hamilton-March 7, 1796 Ezekiel Gilbert to Peter Van Schaack-March 8, 1796 William Tilghmanis Notes on the Justicesi Opinions-March 8, 1796 Philadelphia Gazette-March 8, 1796 Jeremiah Smith to William Plumer-March 9, 1796 Special Mandate-March 11, 1796 William Plumer to Jeremiah Smith-March 15, 1796 Tench Coxe to Edward Carrington, John Kilty, and Thomas Marshall-March 16, 1796 Account of Jacob Wagner-June 2, 1796 A Sketch of the Finances of the United States by Albert Gallatin-November 12, 1796 UNITED STATES v. JUDGE OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA Introduction Libel-[January 6, 1796] William Patersonis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court-March [12] and 14, 1796 PINTADO v. SHIP SAN JOSEPH; UNITED STATES v. LA VENGEANCE Introduction PINTADO v. SHIP SAN JOSEPH Writ of Error-April 20, 1796 Statement of Facts-[April 20, 1796] Citation-April 20, 1796 Assignment of Errors-[April 20-July 8, 1796] Peter S. Du Ponceau to Brockholst Livingston-June 13, 1796 Agreement of Counsel-June 28, 1796 Agreement of Counsel-July 8, 1796 Peter S. Du Ponceau to Robert Troup-July 11, 1796 Joinder in Error-August 1, 1796 Peter S. Du Ponceau to Edward Livingston-August 5, 1796 Peter S. Du Ponceau to Edward Livingston-August 8, 1796 Peter S. Du Ponceau to Edward Livingston-August 10, 1796 Special Mandate-August 10, 1796 Peter S. Du Ponceau to Robert Troup-August 17, 1796 Peter S. Du Ponceau to Robert Troup-August 20, 1796 UNITED STATES v. LA VENGEANCE Writ of Error-April 20, 1796 Statement of Facts-[April 20, 1796] Citation-April 20, 1796 Assignment of Errors-[April 20-July 8, 1796] Peter S. Du Ponceau to Brockholst Livingston-June 13, 1796 Agreement of Counsel-June 28, 1796 Agreement of Counsel-July 8, 1796 Peter S. Du Ponceau to Robert Troup-July 11, 1796 Peter S. Du Ponceau to Edward Livingston-August 5, 1796 Peter S. Du Ponceau to Edward Livingston-August 8, 1796 Peter S. Du Ponceau to Edward Livingston-August 10, 1796 Peter S. Du Ponceau to Edward Livingston-August 11, 1796 Special Mandate-August 11, 1796 Peter S. Du Ponceau to Robert Troup-August 17, 1796 OLNEY v. ARNOLD; OLNEY v. DEXTER Introduction Jeremiah Olney to Edward Dexter-November 7, 1792 Edward Dexter to Jeremiah Olney-November 7, 1792 Jeremiah Olney to William Channing-November 13, 1792 Jeremiah Olney to Alexander Hamilton-November 15, 1792 Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Olney-November 27, 1792 Jeremiah Olney to Alexander Hamilton-December 13, 1792 Arthur Fenner to Theodore Foster-December 30, 1792 Jeremiah Olney to Alexander Hamilton-April 14, 1794 Welcome Arnold to [Benjamin Bourne]-April 22, 1794 Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Olney-April 24, 1794 Jeremiah Olney to Alexander Hamilton-April 24, 1794 Jeremiah Olney to Alexander Hamilton-August 11, 1794 Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Olney-September 9, 1794 Jeremiah Olney to Alexander Hamilton-September 19, 1794 Jeremiah Olney to Edmund T. Ellery-September 23, 1794 Edmund T. Ellery to Jeremiah Olney-September 25, 1794 Samuel Bayard to David Leonard Barnes-September 29, 1794 Writ of Error-October 18, 1794 Bond on a Writ of Error-October 18, 1794 Citation--October 18, 1794 Jeremiah Olney to Walter Cooke--December 12, 1794 Return on a Writ of Error--[December 12-16, 1794] Jeremiah Olney to Alexander Hamilton--December 16, 1794 William Bradford, Jr., to Alexander Hamilton--January 13, [1795] Welcome Arnold to [Benjamin Bourne]--January 14, 1795 Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Olney--January 22, 1795 Assignment of Errors--[January 22-February 23, 1795] Samuel Dexter to Welcome Arnold--January 31, 1795 Samuel Dexter to [Welcome Arnold]--February 18, 1795 Welcome Arnold to Benjamin Bourne--February 24, 1795 Oliver Wolcott, Jr., to Jeremiah Olney--January 15, 1796 James Iredellis Notes on the Record--[February 3-March 2, 1796] Jonathan Arnold to Welcome Arnold--February 16, 1796 James Iredellis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court--March 2, 1796 William Patersonis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court--March 2, 1796 Jonathan Arnold to Welcome Arnold--March 12, 1796 Jeremiah Olney to Charles Lee--March 29, 1796 Jeremiah Olney to Oliver Wolcott, Jr.--March 29, 1796 James Iredellis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court--August 6, 1796 William Patersonis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court--August [6], 1796 Judgments of the Supreme Court--August 11, 1796 Jeremiah Olney to Charles Lee--August 26, 1796 Jeremiah Olney to Charles Lee--August 30, 1796 Jeremiah Olney to Oliver Wolcott, Jr.--September 16, 1796 Jeremiah Olney to Jacob Wagner--October 15, 1796 Jeremiah Olney to Jacob Wagner--November 28, 1796 ADVANCE \ DELCOL v. ARNOLD Introduction Jonathan Arnold to Welcome Arnold--November [6],1795 Writ of Error--November 13, 1795 Citation--November 13, 1795 Assignment of Errors--[November 13, 1795-December 22, 1795] Joinder in Error--February 1, 1796 Jonathan Arnold to Welcome Arnold--February 16, 1796 Proceedings of the Supreme Court--[February 27-March 10, 1796] James Iredellis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court--February 27, 1796 Material Points of the Case--[February 29, 1796] James Iredellis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court--February 29, 1796 William Patersonis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court--February 29, 1796 James Iredellis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court--March 1, 1796 William Patersonis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court--March 1, 1796 James Iredellis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court--March 8, 1796 William Patersonis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court--March 8, 1796 James Iredellis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court--March 9, 1796 William Patersonis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court--March 9, 1796 Jonathan Arnold to Welcome Arnold--March 12, 1796 Proceedings of the Supreme Court--[August 5-11, 1796] William Patersonis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court--August [5], 1796 James Iredellis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court--August 10, 1796 William Patersonis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court--[August 10, 1796] William Patersonis Supreme Court Opinion--[August 11, 1796] HILLS v. ROSS Introduction Protest of Gideon Davis Pendleton--June 6, 1794 Extract of a Letter from an Anonymous Correspondent in Savannah, Argus--May 10, 1795 Deposition of Gideon Davis Pendleton--June 23, 1795 Joseph Clay, Jr.is Objections to the Taking of Testimony De Bene Esse--June 23, 1795 Peter S. Du Ponceau to John Y. Noel--August 1, 1795 Writ of Error--[December 11, 1795] Citation--[December 11-19, 1795] Assignment of Errors--February 1, 1796 Joinder in Error--February 1, 1796 Material Points of the Case--[ca. February 26, 1796] James Iredellis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court--February 26, 1796 Proceedings of the Supreme Court--[February 26, 1796] Agreement on Depositions--March 3, 1796 Peter S. Du Ponceau to Hills, May & Woodbridge--March 3, 1796 Deposition of Nathaniel Pendleton--June 13, 1796 Deposition of Robert Dillon--June 27, 1796 Deposition of John Wallace--June 29, 1796 Deposition of William Belcher--June 29, 1796 Interrogatories to William Belcher--[June 29, 1796] Answer of William Belcher--June 29, 1796 William Patersonis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court--August [2], 3, and 4, 1796 Proceedings of the Supreme Court--August 12, 1796 Remittit Damna--August 12, 1796 WISCART v. DAUCHY Introduction Decree of the United States Circuit Court for the District of Virginia--[December 12, 1795] Petition for Writ of Error--December 21, [1795] Writ of Error--December 21, 1795 Citation--December 21, 1795 William Patersonis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court--[August 10, 1796] Special Mandate--August 12, 1796 Charles Lee to Timothy Pickering--July 27, 1797 ARCAMBAL v. WISEMAN; WISEMAN v. ARCAMBAL Introduction iEstimate of Damagesi--June 24, 1796 Writ of Error--June 25, 1796 Citation--June 25, 1796 James Iredellis Notes of Arguments in the Supreme Court--August [12], 1796 Remittit Damna--August 12, 1796 CLERKE v. HARWOOD; COURT v. VAN BIBBER; COURT v. WELLS; COURT v. ROBINSON Introduction CLERKE v. HARWOOD Affidavit of Richard Harwood--March 16, 1781 Receipt of Richard Harwood--March 16, 1781 iCase Statedi--[October 12, 1791] Judgment of the General Court of the Western Shore--[October 1790 term] Writ of Error--August 1796 Citation--October 11, 1796 Oath of Return of Service--November 28, 1796 Assignment of Errors--[February 6-11, 1797] Minutes of the General Court of the Western Shore--May 25, 1797 HUNTER v. FAIRFAXiS DEVISEE Introduction Petition for Writ of Error--[November 23-December 12, 1795] Petition for Postponement--January 22, 1796 Writ of Error--January 24, 1796 David Hunter to Alexander Hamilton--July 7, 1796 John Marshall to Henry Lee--July [20], 1796 Petition for Postponement--July 29, 1796 Proceedings of the Virginia House of Delegates--November 19, 1796 John Marshall to John Wise--November 24, 1796 James Iredell to Arthur Iredell--October 7, 1797 BROWN v. VAN BRAAM Introduction Proceedings and Judgment of the United States Circuit Court for the District of Rhode Island--November [25], 1796 Writ of Error--November 25, 1796 Citation--November 25, 1796 Assignment of Errors--[ca. February 7, 1797] David Leonard Barnes to Le Roy, Bayard & McEvers--September 10, 1797 David Leonard Barnes to John Brown--October 17, 1797 JENNINGS v. BRIG PERSEVERANCE Introduction Benjamin Moodie to David Leonard Barnes--August 28, 1795 Writ of Error--July 2, 1796 Citation--July 2, 1796 Edmund T. Ellery to David Leonard Barnes--July 6, 1796 Assignment of Errors--[February 7, 1797] Special Mandate--February 13, 1797 Receipt of Louis Arcambal--July 19, 1797 ADVANCE \ FENNIMORE v. UNITED STATES Introduction Notes of Arguments in the Circuit Court--April 4, 1793 James Iredellis Notes of Arguments in the Circuit Court--April 4, 1793 James Iredellis Notes on Cases Cited--[April 4-5, 1793] James Iredellis Circuit Court Opinion--April 5, 1793 Consent Rule--[April 6, 1793] William Patersonis Notes on the Declaration and Special Verdict--[April 2-4, 1795] William Patersonis Notes of Arguments in the Circuit Court--[April 2-4, 1795] Writ of Error--April 4, 1795 Recognizance--August 6, 1795 Assignment of Errors--[August 10, 1796] Writ of Certiorari--[July 19, 1797] BROWN v. BARRY Introduction James Iredellis Notes of Arguments in the Circuit Court--[June 6, 1797] James Iredellis Notes of Arguments in the Circuit Court--June 7, 1797 Assignment of Errors--[June 7-15, 1797] Writ of Error--June 15, 1797 Citation--June 28, 1797 Proceedings of the Supreme Court--[August 8-15, 1797] Special Mandate--August 15, 1797 COURT v. VAN BIBBER; COURT v. WELLS; COURT v. ROBINSON Writ of Scire Facias--December 31, 1788 Writ of Error--August 10, 1796 Citation--November 11, 1796 Assignment of Errors--[August 7-15, 1797] Minutes of the General Court of the Western Shore--November 1, 1797 Cornelius H. Gist to William Cooke--November 27, 1797 HAMILTON v. MOORE Introduction John Hamilton to Lord Grenville--April 4, 1793 Plea of William Moore--[May 1, 1793] William Paterson to John Read, Jr.--March 16, 1799 William Paterson to John Read, Jr.--May 27, 1799 ADVANCE \ BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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Book SynopsisAlex Zamalin offers a groundbreaking examination of African American visions of utopia and their counterutopian counterparts. Considering figures linked to racial separatism, postracialism, anticolonialism, Pan-Africanism, and Afrofuturism, he argues that the black utopian tradition continues to challenge American political thought and culture.Trade ReviewFor its recovery of utopian thinking as creatively and politically productive in African American literature, however, Zamalin earns high marks. -- Joel Wendland-Liu, Grand Valley State University * Journal of American Ethnic History *What makes this book worth examining are the vivid, detailed dreams envisioned — and made concrete — despite oppression, despite years of torture. -- Rochelle Spencer * On the Sewall *An instructive guide for all those who are interested in deepening their knowledge of American history and thinking critically about American politics. . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Covering considerable ground with unusual eloquence and depth, Alex Zamalin brilliantly elucidates the contours of a black utopian tradition that poses a forceful challenge to our contemporary modes of political theorizing. Like the utopias and dystopias it delineates, Black Utopia both inspires and unsettles the reader in critically productive ways. This is first-rate scholarship. -- Simon Stow, John Marshall Professor of Government and American Studies, College of William and MaryCrisply written and compellingly argued, Black Utopia traces a remarkable genealogy of black utopian and anti-utopian thought from Martin Delany in the early nineteenth century to Octavia Butler in the early twenty-first. A versatile cultural historian and political theorist, Alex Zamalin reveals that the democratic hope for racial equality and social justice has historically overcome dystopian conditions, ranging from slavery to present-day racism, while animating the African American intellectual imagination. -- Gene Andrew Jarrett, author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American LiteratureAlex Zamalin's focus in this engaging text is the underside of the more familiar modes of African American writing. From this hidden ground, he captures imaginative creations that have been fed by African American doubts, fears, and despair about democracy and racial equality in America. These creations have been both utopian and dystopian as opposed to strategic and reformist. Beginning with Martin Delany and concluding with Octavia Butler, Black Utopia is an exquisite introduction to this more hidden strain of African American thought. -- Paget Henry, author of Caliban’s Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean PhilosophyAlex Zamalin balances generosity and critique in a careful yet energetic and buoyant manner. -- Joseph Winters, author of Hope Draped in Black: Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of ProgressTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Utopia and Black American Thought1. Martin Delany’s Experiment in Escape2. Turn-of-the-Century Black Literary Utopianism3. W. E. B. Du Bois’s World of Utopian Intimacy4. George S. Schuyler, Irony, and Utopia5. Richard Wright’s Black Power and Anticolonial Antiutopianism6. Sun Ra and Cosmic Blackness7. Samuel Delany and the Ambiguity of Utopia8. Octavia Butler and the Politics of Utopian TranscendenceConclusion: Black Utopia and the Contemporary Political ImaginationNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisWho are the millions of people marching against the Trump administration? American Resistance traces activists from the streets back to the communities and congressional districts around the country where they live, work, and vote. Using innovative data, Dana R. Fisher analyzes how resistance groups have channeled outrage into activism.Trade ReviewAmerican Resistance is an important book, not only as a portrait of our moment but also as a challenge to traditional understandings of protest politics. Dana R. Fisher shows how wrong it is—especially in the Trump era—to draw sharp lines between protest and electoral action. She details what drove millions to come out in revolt against Trump, explains who they are, and demonstrates how the early marches translated into the unprecedented political engagement of 2018. There are lessons here for 2020 and beyond. -- E. J. Dionne, Jr., coauthor of One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet DeportedAmerican Resistance charts the course of the anti-Trump surge in activism and organizing, shedding light on crucial realities and busting myths along the way. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the people-powered movements that are changing American politics in the Trump era. -- Leah Greenberg, co-executive director, IndivisibleAfter the shocking 2016 election, millions of Americans took to streets and meeting halls to fight President Trump’s agenda and revitalize U.S. democracy. Using interviews with the leaders of national political groups and surveys of thousands of participants in D.C. protest marches, Dana R. Fisher offers a window into their passionate, loosely coordinated efforts to boost 2018 Democratic fortunes in Congress and the states while proclaiming a very un-Trumpian vision for the country’s future. -- Theda Skocpol, director, Scholars Strategy Network, and Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Harvard UniversityExactly what happened between the 2016 election of Donald Trump and the 2018 takeover of the House of Representatives by Democrats, and how did it happen? While conventional wisdom lazily suggested a pendulum swing, Dana R. Fisher, using survey data of participants in the two-year-long Resistance, gets under the skin of this movement to help us understand how it initially came together and then was able to sustain itself through the 2018 elections. More than just a fascinating piece of sociological research, Fisher's study will be a valuable resource for movement activists, helping them better understand the inner dynamics of their organizing work. -- James Zogby, founder of the Arab American Institute and board member of Our RevolutionTerrific. -- Micah L. Sifry * The New Republic *The comprehensive guide to the Resistance: the backlash to the 2016 elections, the Blue Wave of 2018, and the enthusiasm leading to 2020. -- Ian Silverii * Colorado Politics *The book accomplishes the challenging task of informing a general audience with an interest in social movements while bringing original data and a wealth of political science and sociological research to bear on the study of “the Resistance.” * Perspectives on Politics *American Resistance will appeal to social movement scholars as well as anyone interested in understanding contemporary social change efforts. * Mobilization *Fisher’s work is unapologetically descriptive, drawing from a unique series of surveys of protestors in Washington, DC in 2017 and 2018...The data that resulted from these surveys are the most important contribution of Fisher’s book, as measuring the attitudes of protestors is a fraught business. * Contemporary Sociology *Recommended. * Choice *For anyone concerned about the state of civic engagement, Fisher presents a treasure trove of new evidence, some of it interesting and encouraging * Social Forces *Interestingly, although American Resistance focuses on protests and protesters, the book may be most effective at illustrating how a lot of people are working hard to change society even when—and perhaps especially when—they are not visible in the streets. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. How Did We Get Here?2. Resistance in the Streets3. Organizing the Resistance in the Districts4. Resistance in the Districts5. Looking Back While Marching Forward Methodological AppendixNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisAmerica’s Response to China has long been the standard resource for a succinct, historically grounded assessment of an increasingly complicated relationship. For this sixth edition, Warren I. Cohen adds an analysis of the policies of Barack Obama and the complications of the presidency of Donald Trump.Trade ReviewCohen . . . [is] the leading historian of Sino-American relations of his generation. This book has much to offer both newcomers to its subject as well as those who have been studying relations between these two countries nearly as long as its author. * American Diplomacy *A fresh new look at the history of United States diplomacy toward China . . . The subject will never be the same again. -- John King Fairbank * American Political Science Review *Careful, well-documented. * Political Science Quarterly *Lucid and concise . . . a model of its kind, thoughtful, even-tempered, and extremely well-written. * Pacific Historical Review *Provocative and perceptive. * China Quarterly *A venerable work. -- Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom * The Daily Beast *Table of ContentsPreface to the Sixth EditionAcknowledgments to the Sixth EditionRomanization TablePrologue: The Barbarians and the Tribute System1. The Development of the Treaty System2. The United States as a Power in East Asia3. In the Light of the Rising Sun4. The Response to Chinese Nationalism5. China as an Abstraction—the Conflict with Japan6. Communism in China7. The Great Aberration8. Rapprochement—at Last9. In the Shadow of Tiananmen10. America in the Age of Chinese PowerConcluding ThoughtsNotesBibliographical EssayIndex

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Book SynopsisBuried Beneath the City uses urban archaeology to retell the history of New York, from the deeper layers of the past to the topsoil of recent history. The book explores the ever-evolving city and the day-to-day world of its residents through artifacts.Trade ReviewWhat a fascinating and inspiring book! Exploring thousands of years of New York City’s ecological, material, and social history, Buried Beneath the City shows us not only what we can learn from the material leavings of the past but also how archaeologists work to make sense of this evidence. -- Elizabeth Blackmar, coauthor of The Park and the People: A History of Central ParkThis beautiful book demonstrates how much is available to recover from beneath our feet in New York City. The authors guide us sure-handedly through the pre-twentieth century collision of cultures that still affects our world today. -- Leslie M. Harris, author of In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863Buried Beneath the City unearths a new vista, the remains of the days before Europeans arrived and of lost quotidian life since. Take a revealing self-guided underground expedition through material evidence that sheds light on the periods and people neglected by the documentary record. -- Sam Roberts, author of A History of New York in 101 ObjectsThis is a terrific book, one well worthy of reading. Writing a book accessible to all readers, the authors present the complexities and the unique contributions of archaeological excavation and thorough research on the recovered artifacts to our understanding of the panorama of human occupation of a living city. I applaud the authors for their success. -- Martha Zierden, coauthor of Charleston: An Archeology of Life in a Coastal CommunityTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Indigenous Peoples Before the City2. Dutch Beginnings, 1624–16643. The British Colonial City and the Nascent Republic, 1664–18004. Growing Pains, 1800–18405. Development of the Modern City, 1840–1898ConclusionAppendix A: The New York City Landmarks and Historic Districts Discussed in the BookAppendix B: Archaeological Sites Within New York City Discussed in the BookAcknowledgmentsNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisExpands and enrichs African diaspora history in the AmericasTrade Review"A pioneering effort to write the history of Africans in colonial Spanish America using the African diaspora paradigm. The authors fully demonstrate the considerable potential of this approach."--Kris Lane, author of The Colour of Paradise: The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires"A page-turning secret society history based on solid research and accuracy."--Southern Historian“Africans to Spanish America is both useful and provocative, with chapters drawing on a range of methodological approaches to explore the complexities and nuances of racial identity in diverse Spanish American societies.”-- Journal of Latin American Studies"Aside from "expanding" diasporic history geographically, Africans to Spanish America also reminds us that between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries the experiences of people of African descent in Spanish America were more varied than the paradigmatic plantation-centered historiography of the Caribbean and Brazil has implied."--New West Indiana Guide"Expands the spatial and chronological contours of the African diaspora. A rich anthology comprised of short, clearly argued, and jargon-free essays."--Hispanic American Historical Review"Deeply researched work. The essays pay due attention to the religious and political institutions that enabled Spanish colonial rule but show how African-descended subjects--in a departure from third-wave scholarship--identified with those institutions more often than they resisted them."--American Historical Review"The authors add valuable knowledge to the literature on slavery and colonialism in the Americas as they shift attention to the earliest phases of European imperialism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and to locations throughout the hemisphere. . . . An empirically rich work that contributes valuable knowledge to a fast-growing field of research."--International Migration Review"A truly significant contribution to the field of the African Diaspora in colonial Spanish America in the era of slavery and slave society. The volume's most striking feature is the depth of inquiry into various features of Spanish American slave society and their impact on the lives of people of African descent and on the character of the colonial societies and imperial policy."--David Barry Gaspar, coeditor of Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the AmericasTable of ContentsIntroduction 1Sherwin K. Bryant, Ben Vinson III, and Rachel Sarah O'ToolePart 1. Complicating Identity in the African Diaspora to Spanish America 1. The Shape of a Diaspora: The Movement of Afro-Iberians to Colonial Spanish America 27Leo J. Garofalo 2. African Diasporic Ethnicity in Mexico City to 1650 50Frank "Trey" Proctor III 3. To Be Free and Lucumi: Ana de la Calle and Making African Diaspora Identities in Colonial Peru 73Rachel Sarah O'ToolePart 2. Royal Subjects, Loyal Christians, and Saints in the Alley 4. Between the Cross and the Sword: Religious Conquest and Maroon Legitimacy in Colonial Esmeraldas 95Charles Beatty-Medina 5. Afro-Mexican Saintly Devotion in a Mexico City Alley 114Joan C. Bristol 6. "The Lord walks among the pots and pans": Religious Servants of Colonial Lima 136Nancy E. van DeusenPart 3. Comparisons and Whitening Revisited: Race and Gender in Colonial Cuba 7. Whitening Revisited: Nineteenth-Century Cuban Counterpoints 163Karen Y. Morrison 8. Tensions of Race, Gender, and Midwifery in Colonial Cuba 186Michele Reid-Vazquez 9. The African American Experience in Comparative Perspective: The Current Question of the Debate 206Herbert S. Klein Glossary 223 Bibliography 229 List of Contributors 263 Acknowledgments 268 Index 269

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