History of the Americas Books
The University of Alabama Press Fighting Monsters in the Abyss The Second
Book SynopsisOffers an insightful analysis of the efforts by the second administration of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez to resolve a decades-long Marxist insurgency in one of Latin America's most important nations. Continuing work from his prior books about earlier Colombian presidents, Harvey F. Kline illuminates the surprising successes and setbacks in Uribe's response to this existential threat.
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The University of Alabama Press Beside the Troubled Waters A Black Doctor Remembers Life Medicine and Civil Rights in an Alabama Town
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The University of Alabama Press Educating the Sons of Sugar
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The University of Alabama Press Their Determination to Remain
Book SynopsisTells the remarkable story of a North Carolina Cherokee community who avoided forced removal on the Trail of Tears. The book explores the complexities of race and gender in this region of the antebellum South and the real impacts of racism on the community.Trade ReviewTheir Determination to Remain is a wonderful book. Lance Greene unearths stories from soil and archives alike to craft a vivid and humane Cherokee history. The writing is clear and concrete, bringing characters to life in a cacophony that reverberates across the hills and valleys of the Great Smoky mountains. We have much to learn not just from Greene’s narrative but also from the methods by which he creates it." - Elizabeth Fenn, author of Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People"Lance Greene adeptly weaves together historical and archaeological evidence in this insightful study of survivance in Cherokee town areas of southwestern North Carolina during and after the tumultuous and tragic episodes of the Removal era. Aspects of Cherokee landscape and lifeways and the social fabric of towns enabled communities of Native Americans, African Americans, and Anglo Americans to endure. Connections between people, place, and the past persisted, and this history shapes the Cherokee towns present in the area today. Recommended reading for anybody interested in Indigenous studies, archaeology in the southern Appalachians, and the history and culture of the American South." - Christopher B. Rodning, author of Center Places and Cherokee Towns: Archaeological Perspectives on Native American Architecture and Landscape in the Southern Appalachians"Greene reveals a remarkably complex and thoroughly unexpected story of successful Cherokee resistance to the US Indian Removal policy, followed by the resurgence of Cherokee community in the aftermath of the Trail of Tears. At the center of these efforts was the enigmatic Welch family of southwestern North Carolina, a well-informed and well-connected Anglo-Cherokee household that applied nuanced legal strategies and extralegal maneuvers to shield themselves and their community from deportation. Their story weaves complicated intersections of race, gender, class, and ethnicity as they bridged the divides between the indigenous and white worlds. Greene’s archaeological examinations of the Welch family plantation bring material immediacy to that intersectionality and the family’s struggles to create and maintain their distinctive identity in the antebellum mountain South." - Brett Riggs, author of May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History Cultures of Western North Carolina"In Their Determination to Remain, Lance Greene tells the fascinating, but heretofore little-known story of the Cherokee Welch family, slaveholding planters who resisted removal in the 1830s and helped to establish a new Cherokee community in the mountains of southwestern North Carolina after the Trail of Tears. Combining archaeology with meticulous archival research, Greene explores the methods used by Cherokee people to rebuild their lives in the wake of removal, while tracing relationships among the Welches, their enslaved African American workers, and the culturally traditional Cherokee community that shared the family's land. Microhistory at its best, the book represents a significant contribution to the literature on Cherokee and southern Appalachian history, as well as studies of slavery in Indian country." - Andrew Denson, author of Monuments to Absence: Cherokee Removal and the Contest over Southern Memory"Greene's study of the Welch family and Welch’s Town is unique, Their Determination to Remain will contribute to the larger body of scholarship on Cherokees, Indian Removal, community studies, and family history. The latter, in particular, has been growing in popularity and offers opportunities for cross-over interest by general readers as well as academic/student readers." - Rose Stremlau, author of Sustaining the Cherokee Family: Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Slavery in America A Reader and Guide
Book SynopsisDesigned specially for undergraduate course use, this textbook is both an introduction to the study of American slavery and a reader of core texts on the subject. No other volume that combines both primary and secondary readings covers such a span of timefrom the early seventeenth century to the Civil War.Trade ReviewI am impressed by the organization, content, and coverage of this reader. The editor has blended most, if not all, of the latest developments in the field of slavery studies with appropriate documents. He has done so in a very organized and logical fashion, and I would not hesitate to assign this work in my undergraduate classes." —Christine Daniels, Michigan State University"The combination of secondary and primary extracts with substantial editorial pieces is particularly impressive. The overview, followed by essays for each section, looks good. Often editorial pieces in other works are too brief. The coverage of the colonial period as well as later years is a significant strength, and the balance between thematic and chronological emphasis is good." —Michael Tadman, University of Liverpool"Kenneth Morgan then is to be complimented for attempting to bring together a range of documents, essays, and short synopsis, all into one work accessible to undergraduate students. All of us who teach undergraduate history courses, whether surveys or upper division courses will be in Morgan’s debt for producing a work that should stimulate classroom discussion. . . . Kenneth Morgan has done a remarkable job synthesizing a tremendous amount of historical research. . . . He has also managed to put into the hands of students and scholars a concise volume that tells us a great deal about the institution of slavery. This is clearly an important work that students and teachers will do well to consult as a very useful resource." —H-Net
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University of Georgia Press Black Judas William Hannibal Thomas and The
Book SynopsisWilliam Hannibal Thomas served with distinction in the US Colored Troops in the Civil War and was a preacher, teacher, lawyer, state legislator, and journalist following Appomattox. Black Judas is a biography of Thomas, a publishing history of his book The American Negro, and an analysis of that book's significance to American racial thought.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press A Curious Garden of Herbs Cultivated and Wild
Book SynopsisA richly illustrated collection of herbal fact and lore that illuminates the ""why"" rather than the ""how"" of the historical kitchen garden. Rather than offering a how-to of gardening methods, Kay Moss and Suzanne Simmons trace herbs and their uses back to earlier times and places.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The Untold War at Sea Americas Revolutionary
Book SynopsisThe first book to place American privateers and their experiences during the War for Independence front and centre. Kylie Hulbert tells the story of privateers at home and abroad while chronicling their experiences, engagements, cruises, and court cases.
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University of Georgia Press Commanders of the Dining Room Biographic
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1904, Commanders of the Dining Room features brief biographies of more than fifty African American head waiters and front-of-house restaurant staff, giving insight into the traditions and personalities that shaped these culinary institutions.Trade ReviewThe story of these men provides a powerful addition to a growing attention on black political, social, and economic activism on the eve of codified Jim Crow segregation, a legalized apartheid that fell over the land at the very moment when these waiters gathered in Chicago to form their organization. . . . One can easily imagine curious hands leaving through the pages of this work and finding upon them a truth that transforms not only their conception of history but also supplies an inspired imagining of what is possible in their own life.""- Justin A. Nystrom, author of Creole Italian: Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orleans Food Culture
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University of Georgia Press Wanted A Nation Black Americans and Haiti
Book SynopsisPresents a complex panorama of the emergence of African American identity and argues that Haiti should be considered as an essential prism to understand how African Americans forged their identity in the nineteenth century.Trade ReviewThis is a terrific book that brings new material and interpretations to a burgeoning field of study surrounding the links between the United States and Haiti and the place of Haiti in African American practice and thought. It places anglophone and francophone writing and scholarship into dialogue in an important and innovative way." - Laurent Dubois, author of Haiti: The Aftershocks of History
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Ohio University Press Art and Activism
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Duke University Press Victorian Jamaica
Book SynopsisFeaturing 270 full color images, Victorian Jamaica explores the extraordinary archive of visual representation and material objects to provide a comprehensive and pluralistic account of Jamaican society during Queen Victoria's reign, thereby expanding our understanding of the wider history of the British Empire and Atlantic world during this period.Trade Review"The many contributors give a detail and depth unachievable in a single-authored book, and one thing that makes Victorian Jamaica special is the picture it begins to make visible of Jamaican life as a whole." -- William Ghosh * TLS *"The volume illustrates in graphic and rigorous detail how visuality and material objects helped embody rapidly transforming racial and gendered subjectivities." -- Utathya Chattopadhyaya * Victorian Literature and Culture *"Victorian Jamaica is a striking achievement. This hefty tome goes a long way toward filling a significant historiographical gap on the nineteenth century history of this Caribbean island." -- Stephen G. Hague * Itinerario *"Victorian Jamaica is a must-read for anyone interested in the complex negotiations over freedom, citizenship, economic agency, and cultural production in the period that followed the legal abolition of slavery in Jamaica." -- Sasha Turner * Social History *"With its emphasis on material culture, Victorian Jamaica extends significantly the conventional archive of sources for studying nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Jamaica and its transnational contexts, and serves to counteract many of the silences of the written archive. . . . This superb collection, emphasizing constraint, accommodation, and transformation, contributes significantly to postcolonial studies and to rethinking pasts and presents on both sides of the Atlantic." -- Charles V. Carnegie * New West Indian Guide *"The contributors to this volume weave a complex and multitextured picture of Victorian Jamaica, and it must be said that the book is much more coherent than many such collections. It makes an extremely important contribution to our understanding of Jamaica—both in and of itself and within the wider contexts of the British empire and Atlantic region. . . . Victorian Jamaica provides a visually compelling engagement with the period, evoking a manysided portrait of this unique Caribbean colony in a time of social conflict, political upheaval, and economic transformation." -- Christer Petley * History *"Barringer and Modest’s Victorian Jamaica is a big, brilliant, beautiful attempt to render Jamaican history outside of the big, empire-scaling events that courted and court the attention of observers elsewhere. . . . It renders the ordinary rhythms of this full world in elegant, beautifully reproduced detail. Victorian Jamaica should become an important resource for researchers in, and teachers of, Caribbean history and culture, visual culture and race, and global Victorian studies." -- Chris Taylor * Nineteenth-Century Contexts *"Bursting with gorgeous, high-quality images throughout its many pages, Victorian Jamaica is itself a stunning repository of nineteenth-century sources on the island. It documents the many facets of daily life, and it produces a rich sense of the colonial experience. . . . Perhaps more than any other book on the subject, Victorian Jamaica reveals the messiness of categories in a colonized space, at all levels of society." -- Daniel Livesay * The Historian *“Victorian Jamaica is far more than a collection of essays; it is at once an encyclopedia and a box of delights, and like both objects it is likely to include in its contents something that will appeal...to anyone interested in the intertwined histories of Britain and the Caribbean in a politically volatile yet culturally rich era.” -- Natalie Zacek * Victorian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xxi Introduction / Wayne Modest and Tim Barringer 1 Object Lessons Introduction to Object Lessons Wayne Modest and Tim Barringer 51 1. The Cruickshank Lock, circa 1838 / Wayne Modest 55 2. Table, circa 1830–1840 / John Cross 59 3. A Tread-Mill Scene in Jamaica, 1837 / Diana Paton 61 4. Sligoville with Misson Premises, 1843 / Catherine Hall 63 5. A View of Coke Chapel from the Parade, circa 1846–1847 / James Robertson 67 6. The Ordinance of Baptism / Dianne M. Stewart 69 7. Kidd's New Plan of the City of Kingston, Jamaica, 1854 / Rivke Jaffe 8. Grave of Eighty Rebels near Morant Bay, Jamaica / Wayne Modest 77 9. Map Recording of Rebellion of 1865 / Gad Heuman 79 10. The Vale of St. Thomas, Jamaica, 1867 / Jennifer Raab 83 11. Newcastle, Jamaica, 1884 / Tim Barringer 85 12. Opening the Railway Line at Porus / James Robertson 89 13. Day School Children, Jamaica / Patrick Bryan 91 14. Wedding Group, Jamaica / Anthony Bogues 95 15. Child's Outdoor Cap. Lace-bark, circa 1850–1861 / Steeve O. Buckridge 97 16. Portrait of a Woman of Chinese Origin, circa 1895–1861 / Patrick Bryan 99 17. Mary Seacole, 1871 / Jan Marsh 103 18. Fatima, circa 1886 / Erica Moiah James 105 19. Selection of Jamaican Wood Samples Made for the 1891 Exhibition / Veerle Poupeye, Nicole Smythe-Johnson, and O'Neil Lawrence 109 20. Illustration of an Obeah Figure, 1893 / Diana Paton 111 21. Castleton Gardens / Krista A.Thompson 115 22. Queen Victoria, 1915 / Petrina Dacres 117 Part I. Making Victorian Subjects 1. State Formation in Victorian Jamaica / Diana Paton 125 2. Victorian Jamaica: The View from the Colonial Office / Gad Heuman 139 3. Liberalism, Colonial Power, Subjectivities, and the Technologies of Pastoral Coloniality: The Jamaican Case / Anthony Bogues 156 4. Dirt, Disease, and Difference in Victorian Jamaica: The Politics of Sanitary Reform n the Milroy Report of 1852 / Rivke Jaffe 174 5. Creating Good Colonial Citizens: Industrial Schools and Reformatories in Victorian Jamaica / Shani Roper 190 6. Botany in Victorian Jamaica / Mark Nesbitt 209 7. Victorian Sport in Jamaica, 1863–1909 / Julian Cresser 240 8. Rewriting the Past: Imperial Histories of Antislavery Nation / Catherine Hall 263 Part II. Visual and Material Cultures 9. Land, Labor, Landscape: Views of the Plantation in Victorian Jamaica / Tim Barringer 281 10. The Duperly Family and Photography in Victorian Jamaica / David Boxer 322 11. Noel B. Livingston's Gallery of Illustrious Jamaicans / Gillian Forrester 357 12. Picturing South Asians in Victorian Jamaica / Anna Arabindan-Kesson 395 13. Victorian Furniture in Jamaica / John M. Cross 420 14. Jamacia's Victorian Architectures: 1834–1907 / James Robertson 439 15. Creole Architecture in Victorian Jamaica / Elizabeth Pigou-Dennis 474 16. "Keeping Alive Before the People's Eyes This Great Event": Kingston's Queen Victoria Monument / Petrina Dacres 493 17. "A Period of Exhibitions": World's Fairs, Museums, and the Laboring Black Body in Jamaica / Wayne Modest 523 Part III. Race, Performance, Ritual 18. "Most Intensely Jamaican": The Rise of Brown Identity in Jamaica / Belinda Edmondson 553 19. "Black Skin, White Mask?": Race, Class, and the Politics of Dress in Victorian Jamaican Society, 1837–1901 / Steeve O. Buckridge 577 20. Kumina: A Spiritual Vocabulary of Nationhood in Victorian Jamaica / Dianne M. Stewart 602 21. Jamaican Performance in the Age of Emancipation / Nadia Ellis 622 22. Black Jamaica and the Victorian Musical Imaginary / Daniel T. Neely 641 23. "A Mysterious Murder": Considering Jamaican Victorianism / Faith Smith 658 Contributors 675 Index 685
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University of Pittsburgh Press A Spaceship for All
Book SynopsisWhen the Apollo 11 astronauts returned from humanity's first voyage to the moon in 1969, NASA officials advocated for more ambitious missions. But with the civil rights movement, environmental concerns, the Vietnam War, and other social crises taking up much of the public's attention, they lacked the support to make those ambitions a reality. Instead, the space agency had to think more modestly and pragmatically, crafting a program that could leverage the excitement of Apollo while promising relevance for average Americans. The resulting initiative, the space shuttle, would become the centerpiece of NASA human space flight activity for forty years, opening opportunities for the public to engage with and participate in space projects in new ways. The People's Spaceship traces how and why NASA painstakingly connected the vehicle to so many segments of society. Underscoring the successes and challenges endured in the process, Amy Paige Kaminski shares the story of how the space shuttle be
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University of Pittsburgh Press Profitable Offices
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University of New Mexico Press Charlie Siringos West An Interpretive Biography
Book SynopsisCharlie Siringo (1855-1928) lived the quintessential life of adventure on the American frontier as a cowboy, Pinkerton detective, writer, and later as a consultant for early western films. Howard Lamar's biography deftly shares Siringo's story within seventy-five pivotal years of western history.
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Leonaur Ltd On the Border with Crook
Book SynopsisEyewitness to the Indian WarsThe author of this book, Captain John Bourke, served on Crook''s staff for sixteen years between 1870-86. This put him in an ideal position to witness campaigns against the Indian tribes on the Western Plains, waged by the United States Army under the command of a general who was described by Sherman as ''the greatest Indian fighter the army ever had.'' Bourke proved not only to be an excellent cavalry officer, but also a man with a keen sense of history and a fine talent for observation. As a consequence, this book is regarded as one of the best books of Western history ever published and is now recognised as a classic by those interested in the subject. Bourke takes his readers on iconic campaigns and enables them to share his experience in the company of an eyewitness. Excitingly related here are tales of memorable exploits on the Great Plains and against the Apaches, with famous tribes and great men such as Geronimo, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.
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Oakpast History of the Donner Party
Book SynopsisA tragic legend of the way WestThe story of the Donner Party is a tragic and infamous episode in the history of the 19th century pioneer migrations that crossed continental America. In May 1846 eighty-seven pioneers set out westward from Missouri headed for new lives in California. Persuaded to take an allegedly quicker route through Utah and Nevada, by someone who had never travelled that route by wagon train, they attempted the so-called ''Hastings Cutoff.'' The extra weight of the wagons slowed the party''s progress and instead of reaching their destination by September they found themselves grinding to a halt in the Sierra Nevada mountains in November, with winter already upon them. As the temperature dropped and snow began to fall, the group took shelter around a small lake, but their supplies were running low. In December a party of fifteen men and women struck out on snowshoes in an attempt to reach California on foot; more than half of them died of exposure and starvation, the survivors resorting to cannibalism. The first rescue party found the remnants of the lake-side group huddled in its encampment in February 1847. Of the original party only forty seven survived to reach California, all in an advanced state of emaciation and most, it is judged, had by that time resorted to eating human flesh. The reports of cannibalism spread to the public at large and elevated this episode into a compelling horror story. The fascination with the story of the Donner Party, with all its macabre connotations, has endured to the present day.Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.
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Simon & Schuster Ltd No Higher Honour
Book SynopsisThe long-awaited memoir of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's years in Washington
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Kent State University Press Kindly Medicine
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Cornell University Press Troubled Relations
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPacific Historical Review Clymer's study remains the definitive account of U.S.-Cambodian relations. It is traditional diplomatic history at its best. * Pacific Historical Review *An admirable and impressively researched piece of diplomatic history. * Journal of American History *The book contains fresh revelations on nearly every page... an admirable balance between detail and the larger context of Asian and world geopolitics. -- Andrew Rotter, Ferrell Committee ChairTable of ContentsTable of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments 1: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Encounters 2: Cambodia: The View from the United States, 1940–1954 3: From Optimism to the Year of Troubles, 1954–1960 4: A Casualty of War: To the Break in Relations, 1961–1965 5: Prelude to Tragedy: The United States Nonrelationship with Cambodia, 1965–1969 6: Richard Nixon and Cambodia: Diplomatic Relations and Bombs 7: Sticking with Lon Nol 8: Dénouement: Gerald Ford, Henry Kissinger, and the Fall of Cambodia 9: Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and Cambodia 10: Toward a New Beginning Epilogue Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of Manitoba Press Pathways of Reconciliation Indigenous and
Book SynopsisRecognising that reconciliation is not only an ultimate goal, but a decolonizing process of journeying in ways that embody everyday acts of resistance, resurgence, and solidarity, coupled with renewed commitments to justice, dialogue, and relationship-building, Pathways of Reconciliation helps readers find their way forward.Table of Contents Introduction Ch. 1 Paved with Comfortable Intentions: Moving Beyond Liberal Multiculturalism and Civil Rights Frames on the Road to Transformative Reconciliation Ch. 2 Perceptions on Truth and Reconciliation: Lessons from Gacaca in Post-Genocide Rwanda Ch. 3 Monitoring That Reconciles: Reflecting on the TRC's Call for a National Council for Reconciliation Ch. 4 A Move to Distract: Mobilizing Truth and Reconciliation in Settler Colonial States Ch. 5 Teaching Truth Before Reconciliation Ch. 6 “The Honour of Righting a Wrong:” Circles for Reconciliation Ch. 7 What Does Reconciliation Mean to Newcomers Post-TRC? Ch. 8 Healing from Residential School Experiences: Support Workers and Elders on Healing and the Role of Mental Health Professionals Ch. 9 Learning and reconciliation for the collaborative governance of forestland in northwestern Ontario, Canada Ch. 10 Bending to the Prevailing Wind: How Apology Repetition Helps Speakers and Hearers Walk Together Ch. 11 How do I reconcile Child and Family Services’ practice of cultural genocide with my own practice as a CFS social worker? Ch. 12 Repatriation, Reconciliation, and Refiguring Relationships. A Case study of the return of children's artwork from the Alberni Indian Residential School to Survivors and their families Conclusion
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MP-MTB University of Manitoba Press Settler City Limits Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West
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Museum of New Mexico Press Old Santa Fe Today
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University Press of the Pacific Fort Huachuca The Story of a Frontier Post
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Trine Day Americas Secret Establishment
Book SynopsisTakes a behind-the-scenes look at Yale's mysterious society, the Order of the Skull and Bones, and its prominent members, numbering among them Tafts, Rockefellers, Pillsburys, and Bushes. This book reveals that far from being a campus fraternity, the society is more concerned with the success of its members in the post-collegiate world.
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Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd Hopes Last Home
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American History Press A Spirited War George Washington and the Ghosts
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DOS Gatos Press ShallowRooted Heart
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New London Librarium Quilombo dos Palmares Brazils Lost Nation of
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Cambridge University Press Americas Wars
Book SynopsisThe collapse of the Soviet Union ushered in American global hegemony in world affairs. In the post-Cold War period, both Democrat and Republican governments intervened, fought insurgencies, and changed regimes. In America''s Wars, Thomas Henriksen explores how America tried to remake the world by militarily invading a host of nations beset with civil wars, ethnic cleansing, brutal dictators, and devastating humanitarian conditions. The immediate post-Cold War years saw the United States carrying out interventions in the name of Western-style democracy, humanitarianism, and liberal internationalism in Panama, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo. Later, the 9/11 terrorist attacks led America into larger-scale military incursions to defend itself from further assaults by al Qaeda in Afghanistan and from perceived nuclear arms in Iraq, while fighting small-footprint conflicts in Africa, Asia, and Arabia. This era is coming to an end with the resurgence of great power rivalry and rising threTrade Review'Thomas Henriksen has given us a brisk and incisive tour d'horizon of American foreign policy in the three decades since the end of the Cold War. With admirable concision, America's Wars recounts the shifts in U.S. strategic posture from hegemonic hyperpower in the 1990s, to the war on terror in the early 2000s, to emerging great-power competition with China and Russia. And with unmatched clarity and urgency, Henriksen also traces the persistent themes of increasingly high-tech warfare as well as deepening American fatigue with the burdens of 'exuberant internationalism.' Must reading for all who would understand the evolution of the complex threat environment taking shape as the twenty-first century unfolds.' David M. Kennedy, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945'This is a rich history of America's post-cold war military interventions: in the past, the United States undertook ambitious interventions, often with less risk of larger conflagrations. In this era of great power competition, the calculations will be more complex. Students and policy makers will benefit from this excellent assessment.' Nadia Schadlow, author of War and the Art of Governance: Consolidating Combat Success into Political Victory'The most glaring truth about the collapse of the Soviet bloc from 1989 to 1991 is that it proved not to be 'the end of history.' As Thomas Henriksen chronicles is this insightful if painful narrative, America's post-Cold War presidents have squandered the nation's power, prestige, and prosperity in one after another 'forever war.'' Walter A. McDougall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Tragedy of U.S Foreign Policy: How American Civil Religion betrayed the National Interest'In this excellent, balanced, and well-informed survey of US military interventions over the past thirty years, Henriksen provides a sober reminder that salafi jihadist terrorists will not end their war against the United States simply because we declare those wars to be over.' Colin Dueck, author of Age of Iron: On Conservative NationalismTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. An end and a beginning: From cold war to Panama invasion for regime change; 2. The Persian Gulf war and its aftermath; 3. Wars other than war, wars in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo; 4. Afghanistan: Regime change and building society in the graveyard of empires; 5. The Iraq war: Changing a regime, building democracy, and fighting an insurgency; 6. America's small-footprint wars: Asia, Africa, & the Middle East; 7. America's larger forever wars – Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq; 8. A conclusion: The new era.
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Cambridge University Press American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World
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Cambridge University Press A History of Chile 18082018
Book SynopsisThis new edition investigates the various reasons for Chileans spurning the Pinochet Constitution in favor of another system, and covers the formation and critical events of the Lagos, Bachelet, and Piñera regimes, their relations with nearby nations, and the cultural and economic changes that have occurred within the country.Trade Review'This superb third edition carries forward to 2002-2018 the excellent breadth and depth of the previous volumes. Once again, the authors draw on profound knowledge of Chile and its scholars to cover political, economic, social, and cultural history. This book is highly recommended.' Paul W. Drake, Professor Emeritus, University of California San Diego'Sater and Collier's magisterial volume tells the story of Chile's evolution from a remote Spanish colony to a modern nation. The balanced, richly detailed narrative continues to impress new readers. Respected for its elegant prose and judicious treatment of events and personalities, this book is an indispensable aid to any student of Chilean history.' John R. Bawden, author of The Pinochet Generation: The Chilean Military in the Twentieth CenturyTable of ContentsPart I. Birth of a nation-state, 1800s–1830s: 1. Colonial foundations, 1540–1810; 2. Independence, 1808–30; 3. The conservative settlement, 1830–41; Part II. The rise of a republic, 1830s–1880s: 4. A time of progress, 1830s–1870s; 5. The liberal impulse, 1841–76; 6. Crisis and war, 1876–83; Part III. The nitrate era, 1880s–1930s: 7. The Parliamentary period, 1882–1920; 8. The Lion and the Mule, 1920–38; Part IV. Industrial advance and the dawn of mass politics, 1930s–1960s: 9. The radicals, the general of hope, and the Lion's Son, 1938–64; 10. The industrial impulse, 1930s–1960s; Part V. Democracy and dictatorship, 1960s–2000s: 11. Revolution in liberty, 1964–70; 12. The Chilean road to socialism, 1970–73; 13. The Pinochet years; 14. Re-encounter with history, 1990–2002; 15. Adapting to the twenty first century 2002 – 2018.
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Cambridge University Press North Korea Tricontinentalism and the Latin
Book SynopsisExamines the flourishing relationship between North Korea, Cuba, and the Latin American Left through the 1960s, offering a new understanding of North Korean foreign policy and the rise of Tricontinentalism. An important addition to studies on the international Left and the Cold War.
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Cambridge University Press Brazil
Book SynopsisThis book is the first modern survey of the economic and social history of Brazil from early man to today. A fantastic overview for students and scholars interested in the economic and social landscape of Brazil.Trade Review'This book is essential reading for any social scientist working on Brazil; an up to date, data-based history emphasizing demography and economy from earliest times to the present that does not avoid discussion of the social and political implications of that nation's history and its emergence as a global power.' Stuart B. Schwartz, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsPreface; 1. The setting – climate and soils of Brazil; 2. The peopling of Brazil to 1700; 3. The colonial economy and society; 4. The nineteenth-century economy; 5. The nineteenth-century society; 6: Industrialization and urbanization; 7. Liberalization and globalization; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Understanding the American South
Book SynopsisAmericans in the twenty-first century find themselves searching for new understandings of their history. They seek explanations for chronic political polarization, acute pandemic polarization, social media addiction, heightened concern over global warming and armed global conflict, widening cultural and economic gaps between city and countryside, persistent racial tensions, gender divides, tensions over abortion rights and the public school curriculum, and a forty-year pattern of increasing economic inequality in the United States. Americans are looking for a past that can help them understand the divided and fractious present, a past that enlightens and inspires. In this collection of original essays, Lacy K. Ford uses the past to inform the present, as he provides a deeper, more nuanced understanding of American history and the American South''s complicated relationship with it.
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Cambridge University Press The Link That Divides
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Cambridge University Press Stereotypes in Black
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Cambridge University Press Art and AntiRacism in Latin America
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Cambridge University Press An Unholy Pedagogy
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Legare Street Press The Civil War in Chowan County North Carolina
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LIGHTNING SOURCE UK LTD Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country Through
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Legare Street Press Paraguay
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Legare Street Press DanishAmerican Diplomacy 17761920
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Legare Street Press Calendar of the Sir William Johnson Manuscripts
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Legare Street Press Mirabilia Dei Inter Indicos or The Rise and
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LIGHTNING SOURCE UK LTD The Speech of William O. Goode
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Legare Street Press An Answer to the Question
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