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Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West
Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Columbian Exposition
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
Japanese Buddhism was introduced to a wide Western audience when a delegation of Buddhist priests attended the World's Parliament of Religions, part of the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In describing and analyzing this event, Judith Snodgrass challenges the predominant view of Orientalism...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Summer 2013 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 3, Number 2
June 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editor's Note
William Blair
Articles
Stephen Cushman
When Lincoln Met Emerson
Christopher Phillips
Lincoln's Grasp of War: Hard War and the Politics of Neutrality and Slavery in...
by Thomas D. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. As Thomas Morris clearly shows, racial slavery came to the English colonies as an institution without strict legal definitions or guidelines. Specifically,...
That Infernal Little Cuban Republic
The United States and the Cuban Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Lars Schoultz offers a comprehensive chronicle of U.S. policy toward the Cuban Revolution. Using a rich array of documents and firsthand interviews with U.S. and Cuban officials, he tells the story of the attempts and failures of ten U.S. administrations to end the Cuban Revolution. He concludes that...
Sing Not War
The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered--or struggled to reenter--the lives and communities they had left behind. In Sing Not War, James Marten explores how the nineteenth century's "Greatest Generation" attempted to blend back into society and how their experiences...
The Mario Garcia Omnibus E-book
Includes Blowout! and The Latino Generation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
This Omnibus E-Book brings together Mario Garcia's landmark books on Latino Studies.
The Latino Generation: Voices of the New America
Latinos are already the largest minority group in the United States, and experts estimate that by 2050, one out of three Americans will identify themselves...
English Law in the Age of the Black Death, 1348-1381
A Transformation of Governance and Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Robert Palmer's pathbreaking study shows how the Black Death triggered massive changes in both governance and law in fourteenth-century England, establishing the mechanisms by which the law adapted to social needs for centuries thereafter. The Black Death killed one-third of the English population...
Come Shouting to Zion
African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and intellectual transformations in American history. Come Shouting to Zion is the first comprehensive exploration of the processes by which this remarkable transition occurred....
Making Home Work
Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
During the westward expansion of America, white middle-class ideals of home and domestic work were used to measure differences between white and Native American women. Yet the vision of America as "home" was more than a metaphor for women's stake in the process of conquest--it took deliberate...
The Business of Genocide
The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
During World War II, hundreds of thousands of prisoners were worked to death by the Nazis under a brutal system of slave labor in the concentration camps. By 1942, this vast network of slavery extended across all of German-occupied Europe, but the whole operation was run by a surprisingly small staff...
by S. Jonathan Wiesen
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
In the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust, West German industrialists faced a major crisis in their public image. With mounting revelations about the use of forced and slave labor, the "Aryanization" of Jewish property, and corporate profiteering under National Socialism, industrialists emerged...
The Church in the Barrio
Mexican American Ethno-Catholicism in Houston
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
In a story that spans from the founding of immigrant parishes in the early twentieth century to the rise of the Chicano civil rights movement in the early 1970s, Roberto R. Trevino discusses how an intertwining of ethnic identity and Catholic faith equipped Mexican Americans in Houston to overcome...
Woman's World/Woman's Empire
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective, 1880-1930
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Frances Willard founded the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1884 to carry the message of women's emancipation throughout the world. Based in the United States, the WCTU rapidly became an international organization, with affiliates in forty-two countries. Ian Tyrrell tells the extraordinary story...
Gathering to Save a Nation
Lincoln and the Union's War Governors
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
In this rich study of Union governors and their role in the Civil War, Stephen D. Engle examines how these politicians were pivotal in securing victory. In a time of limited federal authority, governors were an essential part of the machine that maintained the Union while it mobilized and sustained...