Americas

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The experiences of children in America have long been a source of scholarly fascination and general interest. In American Childhoods, Joseph Illick brings together his own extensive research...

This book is a history of the three Guianas, now known as Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. Though histories of each of the countries exist, this is the first work in a century to consider the three countries as a group, and thus the first to present...

This important new book, which focuses on the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, but which looks back to the earlier decades of the century and has a conclusion dealing with the 1970s to 1990s, maps the world of those known as 'trade' - ostensibly straight men who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717800063Author Herbert ApthekerFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.

As Protestantism expanded across the Atlantic world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, most evangelists were not white Anglo-Americans, as scholars have long assumed, but members of the same groups that missionaries were trying to convert...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780366137763Author Foreign Broadcast Information ServiceFormat HardbackPage Count 839Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780365489368Author U. S. Foreign Agricultural ServiceFormat HardbackPage Count 30Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten Books

The Play World chronicles the history and evolution of the concept of play as a universal part of childhood. Examining texts and toys coming out of Europe between 1631 and 1914, Patricia Anne Simpson argues that German material, literary, and pedagogical...

A detailed, systematic and comprehensive study of all important aspects of the Paraguayan rural economy and the countryside during the period between the end of the Triple Alliance war and the coming of the new Agrarian Statute.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825362379Author Udo J HebelFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 1293g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825363475Author Klara Stephanie SzlezakFormat HardbackPage Count 346Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 671g

Former CIA case officer and author of Operation Hotel California and the forthcoming Beyond Repair, Charles S. Faddis takes a look at the state of homeland security and attempts to answer the question, “Are we really any safer than we were on 9/11?” ...

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...

In the first major, in-depth study since World War II, Michael P. Riccards provides a narrative history of the U.S. presidency, showing how the chief executives and their personalities shaped national events. Riccards provides coverage of each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807600191Author Robert E. ManningFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint George Braziller IncPublisher George Braziller IncWeight(grams) 1155g

Cornelius Michael Buckley, S.J. delves into Stephen Larigaudelle Dubuisson's life, using him as the point of departure to describe the tensions among Jesuits in Maryland after the restoration of the order in 1814. A refugee of the violent slave...

Today's copyright wars can seem unprecedented. Sparked by the digital revolution that has made copyright--and its violation--a part of everyday life, fights over intellectual property have pitted creators, Hollywood, and governments against consumers,...

A collection of writings by Thomas Paine previously unseen since their first appearance, including political pieces, private letters and verse. Covers his Common Sense years in the revolutionary American colonies; his time in Europe, when he published...

In this expertly crafted, richly detailed guide, Raymond Leslie Williams explores the cultural, political, and historical events that have shaped the Latin American and Caribbean novel since the end of World War II. In addition to works originally...

In 2001 the Royal Library in Copenhagen launched a digital facsimile on the Internet of the unique manuscript Nueva coronica from 1616 by the ethnic Andean Felipe Guaman Poma. These new technical studies supplement the facsimile with a description and...

Senators and Representatives are frequently asked to support or sponsor proposals recognizing historic events and outstanding achievements by individuals or institutions. Among the various forms of recognition that Congress bestows, the Congressional...

With the death of Abraham Lincoln on April 15, 1865, Andrew Johnson was plunged into a national political morass. Johnson, a Southern Democrat and advocate of states' rights, had been chosen as Lincoln's second-term running mate. Now as Lincoln's...

Why do so many different people with widely dissimilar ideas and customs get along as Americans? In American Beliefs, John McElroy identifies and explains those essential ideas that promote the unity of a vast nation and a diversified people-because they...

History is not a snap-shot. Events happen, and the true record of them follows at a distance. Sometimes the early report is too voluminous, and it takes time to reduce it to truth by a winnowing process that divides chaff from grain. This has been the...

This book which was originally published in 1915 is a window into the world of a century ago, when Woodrow Wilson was wondering whether or not America should enter WWI. Former president Theodore Roosevelt lays out the moral and political case for coming...

This book, written by Charles Herman Senn (1864-1934) and originally published in 1915, brings the old recipes and techniques of cooking from during the war. It provides a unique window into peoples' lives and how they survived during the war. The book...

Finalist, 2016 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award One of Bustle's Books For Your Civil Disobedience Reading List Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States, emphasizing the way Americans responded to injustices Dissent: The History...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825361921Author Frank WilkerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825360030Author Udo J HebelFormat HardbackPage Count 652Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 862g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825368609Author Rudiger KunowFormat HardbackPage Count 483Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 2000g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555977092Author Margaret Lazarus DeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782251339597Author Francois BaldyFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Les Belles LettresPublisher Les Belles LettresWeight(grams) 821g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825366056Author Juliane BraunFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 467g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788867283286Author Elena BaracaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint ViellaPublisher ViellaWeight(grams) 45g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825363604Author Eva BischoffFormat HardbackPage Count 237Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825351397Author Ingrid GessnerFormat HardbackPage Count 395Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 590g

In contemporary discourse, much of the discussion of U.S. border politics focuses on the Southwest. In Bootlegged Aliens, however, Ashley Johnson Bavery considers the North as a borderlands region, demonstrating how this often-overlooked border...

Natural Designs chronicles the life and work of the earliest and most influential Spanish historian of the New World, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478–1557). Through a combination of biography and visual and textual analysis, Elizabeth Gansen explores...

Eugenics and scientific racism are experiencing a resurgence, and an understanding of the ideas of Ales Hrdlicka can help combat them. Today, the racial science of the early twentieth century is both untenable and contemptible. This book is about an arch...