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by Tanya Harmer
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Fidel Castro described Salvador Allende's democratic election as president of Chile in 1970 as the most important revolutionary triumph in Latin America after the Cuban revolution. Yet celebrations were short lived. In Washington, the Nixon administration vowed to destroy Allende's left-wing government...
The Slave Catchers
Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850-1860
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In this thoroughly researched documentation of a historically controversial issue, the author considers the background, passage, and constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Law. The author's relation of public opinion and the executive policy regarding the much disputed law will help the reader reach...
by Marial Iglesias Utset
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
In this cultural history of Cuba during the United States' brief but influential occupation from 1898 to 1902--a key transitional period following the Spanish-American War--Marial Iglesias Utset sheds light on the complex set of pressures that guided the formation and production of a burgeoning Cuban...
Free Hearts and Free Homes
Gender and American Antislavery Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
By exploring the intersection of gender and politics in the antebellum North, Michael Pierson examines how antislavery political parties capitalized on the emerging family practices and ideologies that accompanied the market revolution.
From the birth of the Liberty party in 1840 through the...
Reconstructing the Household
Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In Reconstructing the Household, Peter Bardaglio examines the connections between race, gender, sexuality, and the law in the nineteenth-century South. He focuses on miscegenation, rape, incest, child custody, and adoption laws to show how southerners struggled with the conflicts and stresses that...
Emancipation's Diaspora
Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
Most studies of emancipation's consequences have focused on the South. Moving the discussion to the North, Leslie Schwalm enriches our understanding of the national impact of the transition from slavery to freedom. Emancipation's Diaspora follows the lives and experiences of thousands of men and women...
Internal Improvement
National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2002
When the people of British North America threw off their colonial bonds, they sought more than freedom from bad government: most of the founding generation also desired the freedom to create and enjoy good, popular, responsive government. This book traces the central issue on which early Americans...
Crisis and Commitment
United States Policy Toward Taiwan, 1950-1955
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This analytical study examines in comprehensive detail the making of the American military and political commitment to Taiwan during the first half of the 1950s. Starting with President Truman's declaration in January 1950 that the United States would not militarily assist Taiwan's Nationalist Chinese...
The Road to Confrontation
American Policy toward China and Korea
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Concentrating on U.S. concerns for credibility abroad, Stueck uses recently declassified documents and many interviews to analyze the origins of the Sino-American confrontation in Korea in late 1950. He demonstrates how personalities (Secretary of State Marshall and General MacArthur) and bureaucracies...
Seeds of Empire
Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that...
Sexual Injustice
Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Focusing on six major Supreme Court cases during the 1960s and 1970s, Marc Stein examines the generally liberal rulings on birth control, abortion, interracial marriage, and obscenity in Griswold, Eisenstadt, Roe, Loving, and Fanny Hill alongside a profoundly conservative ruling on homosexuality in...
Before Eminent Domain
Toward a History of Expropriation of Land for the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
In this concise history of expropriation of land for the common good in Europe and North America from medieval times to 1800, Susan Reynolds contextualizes the history of an important legal doctrine regarding the relationship between government and the institution of private property.
Before...
The Southern Diaspora
How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Between 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together for the first time the histories of these black and white migrants, James Gregory traces their paths and experiences in a comprehensive new study that demonstrates how this regional diaspora reshaped America...
The History of Randolph-Macon Woman's College
From the Founding in 1891 Through the Year of 1949-1950
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The history of Randolph-Macon Woman's College has a claim upon the attention of all who are interested in the education and achievement of women. Its course through the years is set forth in the present volume, in which the author has dealt with the pattern of life developed in the cultivation of...