United States category: 34172 books
Building the American Republic, Volume 2
A Narrative History from 1877
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Building the American Republic combines centuries of perspectives and voices into a fluid narrative of the United States. Throughout their respective volumes, Harry L. Watson and Jane Dailey take care to integrate varied scholarly perspectives and work to engage a diverse readership by addressing...
by Humberto Garza
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Humberto Garza asks intriguing questions: Why were historical figures such as Commodore Stockton, Commodore Sloat, Consul Thomas O. Larkin, and Brigadier General Kearny securing for the United States all of Mexico’s territories (Alta California, Nuevo Mexico, and the Southwest) in July 1846, only two...
Política
Nuevomexicanos and American Political Incorporation, 1821–1910
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Política offers a stunning revisionist understanding of the early political incorporation of Mexican-origin peoples into the U.S. body politic in the nineteenth century. Historical sociologist Phillip B. Gonzales reexamines the fundamental issue in New Mexico’s history, namely, the dramatic shift...
An Unwanted War
The Diplomacy of the United States and Spain Over Cuba, 1895-1898
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Offner clarifies the complex relations of the United States, Spain, and Cuba leading up to the Spanish-American War and contends that the war was not wanted by any of the parties but was nonetheless unavoidable. He shows that a final round of peace negotiations failed in large part because internal political constraints limited diplomatic flexibility.
The Long War
A New History of U.S. National Security Policy Since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
Essays by a diverse and distinguished group of historians, political scientists, and sociologists examine the alarms, emergencies, controversies, and confusions that have characterized America's Cold War, the post-Cold War interval of the 1990s, and today's "Global War on Terror." This "Long...
Killing Machine
The American Presidency in the Age of Drone Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
With Obama’s election to the presidency in 2008, many believed the United States had entered a new era: Obama came into office with high expectations that he would end the war in Iraq and initiate a new foreign policy that would reestablish American values and the United States’ leadership role...
A Tale of Two Eagles
The US-Mexico Bilateral Defense Relationship Post Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
The United States and Mexico share a history shaped in the 19th century by numerous US forces interventions into Mexican territory and US expropriation of considerable swaths of Mexican territory. However, in spite of structural impediments and a history of resentment by Mexico of US intervention...
On Becoming Cuban
Identity, Nationality, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
With this masterful work, Louis A. Perez Jr. transforms the way we view Cuba and its relationship with the United States. On Becoming Cuban is a sweeping cultural history of the sustained encounter between the peoples of the two countries and of the ways that this encounter helped shape Cubans' identity,...
by Neil A. Wynn
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
The 1930s were dominated by economic collapse, stagnation, and mass unemployment. This crisis enabled the Democrats to recapture the White House and embark upon a period of reform unsurpassed until the 1960s. Roosevelt's New Deal laid the foundations of a welfare system that was further consolidated...
by Franklin Hanford
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
A paper read before the Scottsville Literary Society, January 22, 1917.
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
*Includes the seminal Brown v. Board decision, which Marshall successfully argued.*Includes a timeline of Marshall's life, including important cases and events.*Includes pictures of Marshall and important people in his life. *Includes live footnotes and a Table of Contents. "A child born to a black mother...
How Race Is Made in America
Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
How Race Is Made in America examines Mexican Americans—from 1924, when American law drastically reduced immigration into the United States, to 1965, when many quotas were abolished—to understand how broad themes of race and citizenship are constructed. These years shaped the emergence of what...
Ballot Battles
The History of Disputed Elections in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The 2000 presidential race resulted in the highest-profile ballot battle in over a century. But it is far from the only American election determined by a handful of votes and marred by claims of fraud. Since the founding of the nation, violence frequently erupted as the votes were being counted, and...
by Elizabeth Dale
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
This book chronicles the development of criminal law in America, from the beginning of the constitutional era (1789) through the rise of the New Deal order (1939). Elizabeth Dale discusses the changes in criminal law during that period, tracing shifts in policing, law, the courts and punishment. She...