Americas

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825366797Author Klaus LoschFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 730g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825365929Author Frederike OffizierFormat HardbackPage Count 555Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 730g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825364571Author Georgiana BanitaFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825363628Author Marc PrieweFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825363499Author Katja KurzFormat HardbackPage Count 271Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 721g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825363338Author Sebastian M HerrmannFormat HardbackPage Count 249Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 381g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825361785Author Susanne LeikamFormat HardbackPage Count 394Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825357351Author Karsten FitzFormat HardbackPage Count 337Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 853g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825315351Author Hans-Jurgen GrabbeFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 703g

Explores the role of performance in US presidential politics Combines theoretical argument and original interviews with leaders in U.S. presidential speechwriting Proposes a new perspective on the contemporary rise of mainstreamed populism by exploring...

This book aims to use soccer as a tool to understand key elements of Brazil's history from the overthrown of the Monarchy in 1889 to the 1930 Revolution that brought Getulio Vargas to power-the so called First Republic. More specifically, this book will...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785279249Author Rosana BarbosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825363833Author Antje KleyFormat HardbackPage Count 510Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 680g

The first full account of the journey and discoveries of an archaeological expedition into the rugged American Southwest.In 1931 a group from Harvard University's Peabody Museum accomplished something that had never been attempted in the history of...

When routine coverage of JFK's Dallas visit suddenly evolved into reporting a worldwide tragedy, KRLD reporters assumed the duty of reassuring a shocked nation and an anxious world. Broadcast journalism came of age in that crisis, and KRLD News earned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570983924Author Charles R. Butch Farabee, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Roberts Rinehart PublishersPublisher Roberts Rinehart...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568330037Author A. A. HoehlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Madison BooksPublisher Madison BooksWeight(grams) 413g

The record of the American economy since 1945 offers an embarrassment of riches for the historian, and Wyatt Wells has brought them together in a compact and incisive history. His theme is how greatly many economic circumstances changed—and how many...

Here, back in print in paperback, is one of the most brilliant and dramatic historical narratives ever written about the American experience. Eric Goldman tells a story of the wise and the shortsighted, the bold and the timid, the generous and the...

In the suffering and poverty of the Great Depression, American morale received a shock as powerful as the economic collapse. Many Americans who had nurtured a deep faith in democracy, hard work, and a free economy suddenly found themselves questioning...

As separate entities and later a unified state, the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago boast very unique histories. Initially claimed by the Spanish in 1498, these territories were affected by the imperialist thrusts of various European nations...

South America is a vast, relatively isolated, landmass that includes 12 independent countries and one region (Guyane Francaise) with diverse ethnic groups speaking hundreds of different languages and dialects, and extraordinary creativity. Indigenous...

Beyond 1619 brings an Atlantic and hemispheric perspective to the year 1619 as a marker of American slavery's origins and the beginnings of the Black experience in what would become the United States by situating the roots of racial slavery in a broader,...

The book is a comparative history of twentieth-century Cuban campesinos in two regions in Cuba marked by extreme differences in race, gender, and land tenure: Oriente and Escambray. It explores the ways these differences articulated with state formation...

Eighteen. Twenty-one. Sixty-five. In America today, we recognize these numbers as key transitions in our lives-precise moments when our rights and opportunities change-when we become eligible to cast a vote, buy a drink, or enroll in Medicare. This...

Eighteen. Twenty-one. Sixty-five. In America today, we recognize these numbers as key transitions in our lives-precise moments when our rights and opportunities change-when we become eligible to cast a vote, buy a drink, or enroll in Medicare. This...

Between 1500 and the middle of the nineteenth century, some 12.5 million slaves were sent as bonded labour from Africa to the European settlements in the Americas. Shaping the New World introduces students to the origins, growth, and consolidation of...

This collection of compact biographies puts a human face on the sweeping historical processes that shaped contemporary societies throughout the Atlantic world. Focusing on life stories that represented movement across or around the Atlantic Ocean from...

One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans he thought were slaves. They weren't. Having earlier seized control...

Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This study analyses the history of puppet, mask, and performing object theatre in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930741112Author Guillermo A. CockFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLAPublisher Cotsen Institute of Archaeology...

Portuguese and Brazilian slave-traders shipped at least four million slaves to Brazil-in contrast to the five hundred thousand slaves that English vessels brought to the Americas. Controlling the vast number of slaves in Brazil became of primary...

From the glitz of inaugural balls to the pomp and circumstance of the State of the Union address, the American presidency is rife with symbolism and ceremony.In Celebrating the Republic, Sandra Moats examines how the first five presidents-with special...

In the wake of Watergate, Congress passed the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) in an effort to prevent the corruption of future elections. The U.S. Supreme Court, in Buckley v. Valeo (1976), defined corruption as quid pro quo-/u201cget for...

North America took its political shape in the crisis of the 1860s, marked by Canadian Confederation, the U.S. Civil War, the restoration of the Mexican Republic, and numerous wars and treaty regimes conducted between these states and indigenous peoples...

A memoir by William H. Whyte. The battle for control of Guadalcanal in 1942 and what the Americans learned from it forms the heart of the book. The battle was the first real test of land combat between the United States and Japan.Book InformationISBN...

Covers American history from Reconstruction through the first half of Reagan's administration.Book InformationISBN 9780822600275Author Martin RidgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Rowman & LittlefieldPublisher Rowman &...

A pioneering look at the queer history, politics, and spaces of the Twin CitiesThe Twin Cities is home to one of the largest and most vital GLBT populations in the nation-and one of the highest percentages of gay residents in the country. Drawn from the...

A detailed study of early historical preservation efforts between the 1780s and the 1850s In Historic Real Estate, Whitney Martinko shows how Americans in the fledgling United States pointed to evidence of the past in the world around them and debated...

From the Antebellum Era through the Gilded Age, New York City's leading art institutions were lightning rods for conflict. In the decades before the Civil War, art promoters believed that aesthetic taste could foster national unity and assuage urban...