American category: 24906 books
by Michael P. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
The focus of this work is a reconstruction of the life and career of an Ulster-Scot fur trader, George Galphin (pronounced Golfin), who immigrated to South Carolina in the colonial period. The thesis of this work is that his life and career helped to shape the history of the backcountry of Georgia...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
This collection of eleven original essays goes beyond traditional, border-driven studies to place the histories of Native Americans, indigenous peoples, and First Nation peoples in a larger context than merely that of the dominant nation.
As Transnational Indians in the North American West...
American Honor
The Creation of the Nation's Ideals during the Revolutionary Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
The American Revolution was not only a revolution for liberty and freedom, it was also a revolution of ethics, reshaping what colonial Americans understood as "honor" and "virtue." As Craig Bruce Smith demonstrates, these concepts were crucial aspects of Revolutionary Americans'...
Race on Trial
Law and Justice in American History
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2002
This book of twelve original essays will bring together two themes of American culture: law and race. The essays fall into four groups: cases that are essential to the history of race in America; cases that illustrate the treatment of race in American history; cases of great fame that became the trials...
Between the Novel and the News
The Emergence of American Women's Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
While American literary history has long acknowledged the profound influence of journalism on canonical male writers, Sari Edelstein argues that American women writers were also influenced by a dynamic relationship with the mainstream press. From the early republic through the turn of the twentieth...
by Devorah Heitner
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
In Black Power TV, Devorah Heitner chronicles the emergence of Black public affairs television starting in 1968. She examines two local shows, New York's Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant and Boston's Say Brother, and the national programs Soul! and Black Journal. These shows offered viewers radical and innovative...
Native Americans and the Christian Right
The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
In Native Americans and the Christian Right, Andrea Smith advances social movement theory beyond simplistic understandings of social-justice activism as either right-wing or left-wing and urges a more open-minded approach to the role of religion in social movements. In examining the interplay of biblical...
Authentic American Indian Beadwork and How to Do It
With 50 Charts for Bead Weaving and 21 Full-Size Patterns for Applique
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Craftspeople who admire striking Indian designs can now create beautiful, colorful beadwork originated by the Chippewa, Iroquois, Pawnee, Seminole, Winnebago, and other American Indian tribes.This book is a complete guide to this time-honored handicraft, offering step-by-step instructions, clear diagrams,...
States, American Indian Nations, and Intergovernmental Politics
Sovereignty, Conflict, and the Uncertainty of Taxes
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
American Indian nations are sovereign political entities within the United States. They have complex relationships with the federal government and increasingly with state governments. Regulatory conflict between Native nations and states has increased as Native nations have developed their own independent...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
After generations of being rendered virtually invisible by the US academy in critical anthologies and literary histories, writing by Latin Americans of African ancestry has become represented by a booming corpus of intellectual and critical investigation. This volume aims to provide an introduction...
Politicizing Asian American Literature
Towards a Critical Multiculturalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
This book examines U.S. multiculturalism from the perspective of Asian American writings, drawing contrasts between politically acquiescent multiculturalism and politically conscious multiculturalism. Chae discusses the works of writers who have highlighted a critical awareness of Asian Americans’...
Taking Haiti
Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
The U.S. invasion of Haiti in July 1915 marked the start of a military occupation that lasted for nineteen years--and fed an American fascination with Haiti that flourished even longer. Exploring the cultural dimensions of U.S. contact with Haiti during the occupation and its aftermath, Mary Renda...
Post-Racial or Most-Racial?
Race and Politics in the Obama Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
When Barack Obama won the presidency, many posited that we were entering into a post-racial period in American politics. Regrettably, the reality hasn’t lived up to that expectation. Instead, Americans’ political beliefs have become significantly more polarized by racial considerations than they...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
The Cambridge Companion to Latina/o American Literature provides a thorough yet accessible overview of a literary phenomenon that has been rapidly globalizing over the past two decades. It takes an innovative approach that underscores the importance of understanding Latina/o literature not merely...