Americas

2019 marks the 200th anniversary of one of the most important Supreme Court decisions in American history: McCulloch v. Maryland. The state of Maryland tried to impede the establishment of the Bank of the United States, but Chief Justice John Marshall...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062440020Author Fred KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773370125Author David SpectorFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Great Plains Publications LtdPublisher Great Plains Publications LtdWeight(grams)...

New Homes for Old was one of ten volumes published by the Carnegie Corporation on "Methods of Americanization." Reappearing near the end of four decades of massive immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, the volumes were "to give as clear a notion...

Ideologues and Presidents argues that ideologues have been gaining influence in the modern presidency. There were plenty of ideologues in the New Deal, but they worked at cross purposes and could not count on the backing of the cagey pragmatist in the...

This is the thirty-first volume in Religion and Public Life, formerly This World, a series on religion and public affairs. This ongoing series seeks to provide a wide-ranging forum for differing views on religious and ethical considerations. The essays...

The "progressive" reading of history focuses on two major antecedents for the origins of the United States' 1898 war with Spain: the 1896 presidential election and the Hearst-Pulitzer press war that, reportedly, generated an irresistible clamor from an...

America was a source of fascination to Europeans arriving there during the course of the nineteenth century. At first glance, the New World was very similar to the societies they left behind in their native countries, but in many aspects of politics,...

The Spirit of the Constitution covers the impact and reputation of both McCulloch and Justice Marshall himself throughout American history. 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of one of the most important Supreme Court decisions in American history:...

The Right in the Americas discusses the origins, development, and current state of conservative and right-wing movements in ten countries in the Americas. The growth of the right is one of the most important issues of the moment in global politics...

An Open Access edition of this book will be made available on publication on our website and on the OAPEN Library, funded by the LUP Open Access Author Fund. The history of Louisiana from slavery until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 shows that unique...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602232235Author Sheila NickersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressDimensions(mm) 229mm...

The Hunted Whale is a spectacular photographic exploration of the material culture of American whaling in the age of sail. Before the coming of steam and diesel ships with instruments of mechanized slaughter, the hunt was a relatively even contest...

A scrapbook can tell us much about a person's life or one period of someone's life: joys and sorrows, challenges and successes, problems and solutions. Memories of a Tuskegee Airmen Nurse and Her Military Sisters focuses on a four-year period from 1942...

Pathologizing Black Bodies reconsiders the black body as a site of cultural and corporeal interchange; one involving violence and oppression, leaving memory and trauma sedimented in cultural conventions, political arrangements, social institutions and,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993909535Author George RichFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Mamu Tshishkutamashutau - Innu Education Inc.Publisher Mamu Tshishkutamashutau - Innu...

First published in 1990. This text includes information of Cuba in 1986, split over four reporting quarters. The economic crisis, resulting from Fidel Castro's traditional subordination of economic matters to international and political objectives, is...

The Paraguayan revolt of 1721-1735 was the first of sev-eral events that presaged the Hispanic American Inde-pendence movements of the early nineteenth century. Exist-ing works on the revolt, though, are either too short, superficial, or inaccurate. The...

Published to commemorate the Deering Library's 75th anniversary, this book explores the Deering and McCormick families, who funded the project; the building's distinctive Collegiate Gothic architecture; its lore as a campus institution; and its role in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780772668547Author Kathryn BridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Royal British Columbia MuseumPublisher Royal British Columbia MuseumWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063068612Author Editors of Texas MonthlyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Examines the evolving lives of two men who were crucial political figures in the consequential decades prior to the Civil WarAlthough neither of them lived to see the Civil War, John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun did as much any two political figures...

The gold epaulettes that George Washington wore into battle. A Union soldier's bloody shirt in the wake of the Civil War. A crushed wristwatch after the 9/11 attacks. The bullet-riddled door of the Pulse nightclub. Volatile and shape-shifting, relics...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608012060Author Olaf KaltmeierFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans PressWeight(grams)...

An Open Access edition of this book will be made available on publication on our website and on the OAPEN Library, funded by the LUP Open Access Author Fund. The history of Louisiana from slavery until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 shows that unique...

Honorable mention, 2017 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award from the Caribbean Studies Association This book begins with a simple question: why do so many Dominicans deny the African components of their DNA, culture, and history? Seeking answers, Milagros...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608012077Author Albert MankeFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans PressWeight(grams)...

From anti-Reagan riots in West Berlin to pictures of revolutionary Nicaragua, it is impossible to examine global social protest movements of the 1970s and '80s without addressing how these movements imagined the Americas. By examining historical...

The life and legacy of a young Argentinian woman whose disappearance in 1976 haunts those she left behind Marc Raboy always felt a "subliminal interest" in Argentina. His grandfather had left his village in Ukraine in 1908 as a young man and spent a...

Nancy Christie innovatively and significantly transforms the writing of Quebec history between 1763 and 1837 by locating Quebec within new British practices of imperial governance asserted in the wake of the Seven Years War. Breaking with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500295113Author George R MilnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Thames & HudsonPublisher Thames & HudsonWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 239mm *...

During the 1930s, the world of photography was unsettled, exciting, and boisterous. John Raeburn's A Staggering Revolution recreates the energy of the era by surveying photography's rich variety of innovation, exploring the aesthetic and cultural...

C. Vann Woodward is one of the most significant historians of the post-Reconstruction South. Over his career of nearly seven decades, he wrote nine books; won the Bancroft and Pulitzer Prizes; penned hundreds of book reviews, opinion pieces, and...

One hundred and fifty years after Kansas was admitted to the Union, we still find ourselves fascinated by the specter of "Bleeding Kansas" and the violence that preceded the American Civil War by five years. Although ample attention has been devoted to...

Although they came from distinct polities and peoples who spoke different languages, slaves from the African Gold Coast were collectively identified by Europeans as "Coromantee" or "Mina." Why these ethnic labels were embraced and how they were utilized...

Among his many accomplishments, Jonathan Edwards was an effective mentor who trained many leaders for the church in colonial America, but his pastoral work is often overlooked. Rhys S. Bezzant investigates the background, method, theological rationale,...

This book looks at New York City's recurrent role as a symbol of modernization in early twentieth-century Spanish narrative. It explores the connections between the contradictory reactions to modernization and the crisis of Spanish national identity...

This award-winning book provides a unique window on how America began to intervene in world affairs. In exploring what might be called the prehistory of Dollar Diplomacy, Cyrus Veeser brings together developments in New York, Washington, Santo Domingo,...

When a seven-million-vote margin of victory and 306 electoral votes pointed to Joe Biden as the victor in the 2020 Presidential Election, Trump-fueled conspiracy theories exploded. In The Big Truth, CBS's Chief Washington correspondent Major...