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Metis and the Medicine Line
Creating a Border and Dividing a People
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Born of encounters between Indigenous women and Euro-American men in the first decades of the nineteenth century, the Plains Metis people occupied contentious geographic and cultural spaces. Living in a disputed area of the northern Plains inhabited by various Indigenous nations and claimed by both...
"Big Bone Lick," "Big Talk," and "Flush"
An article from Southern Cultures 17:3, The Memory Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Mason-Dixon Lines
"Big Bone Lick," "Big Talk," and "Flush"
poetry by Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan drives home a similar message with three poems. They address "memory" on the grandest scale— not merely familial or communal but epochal and even...
by Jaime Amanda Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
Under policies instituted by the Confederacy, white Virginians and North Carolinians surrendered control over portions of their slave populations to state authorities, military officials, and the national government to defend their new nation. State and local officials cooperated with the Confederate...
Republics Ancient and Modern, Volume III
Inventions of Prudence: Constituting the American Regime
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
First published in 1992 and now available in paperback in three volumes, Paul Rahe's ambitious and provocative book bridges the gap between political theory, comparative history and government, and constitutional prudence. Rahe challenges prevailing interpretations of ancient Greek republicanism,...
Home Grown
Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Historian Isaac Campos combines wide-ranging archival research with the latest scholarship on the social and cultural dimensions of drug-related behavior in this telling of marijuana's remarkable history in Mexico. Introduced in the sixteenth century by the Spanish, cannabis came to Mexico as an industrial...
Adventurism and Empire
The Struggle for Mastery in the Louisiana-Florida Borderlands, 1762-1803
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
In this expansive book, David Narrett shows how the United States emerged as a successor empire to Great Britain through rivalry with Spain in the Mississippi Valley and Gulf Coast. As he traces currents of peace and war over four critical decades--from the close of the Seven Years War through the...
Nuclear Apartheid
The Quest for American Atomic Supremacy from World War II to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
After World War II, an atomic hierarchy emerged in the noncommunist world. Washington was at the top, followed over time by its NATO allies and then Israel, with the postcolonial world completely shut out. An Indian diplomat called the system "nuclear apartheid."
Drawing on recently...
The Mediating Nation
Late American Realism, Globalization, and the Progressive State
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
By the early twentieth century, as Woodrow Wilson would later declare, the United States had become both the literal embodiment of all the earth's peoples and a nation representing all other nations and cultures through its ethnic and cultural diversity. This idea of connection with all peoples, Nathaniel...
Nature's State
Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
An engaging blend of environmental theory and literary studies, Nature's State looks behind the myth of Alaska as America's "last frontier," a pristine and wild place on the fringes of our geographical imagination. Susan Kollin traces how this seemingly marginal space in American culture has in fact...
Hemingway's Nonfiction
The Public Voice
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This study explores Hemingway's newspaper and magazine journalism, his introductions and prefaces to books by others, his program notes on painting and sculpture exhibitions, and his statements in self-edited interviews. In doing so, it throws a new, oblique light on what has usually been regarded...
Mapping the Cold War
Cartography and the Framing of America’s International Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
In this fascinating history of Cold War cartography, Timothy Barney considers maps as central to the articulation of ideological tensions between American national interests and international aspirations. Barney argues that the borders, scales, projections, and other conventions of maps prescribed...
Confronting the Veil
Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2003
In this book, Jonathan Holloway explores the early lives and careers of economist Abram Harris Jr., sociologist E. Franklin Frazier, and political scientist Ralph Bunche--three black scholars who taught at Howard University during the New Deal and, together, formed the leading edge of American social...
Constructing Bangladesh
Religion, Ethnicity, and Language in an Islamic Nation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Highlighting the dynamic, pluralistic nature of Islamic civilization, Sufia M. Uddin examines the complex history of Islamic state formation in Bangladesh, formerly the eastern part of the Indian province of Bengal. Uddin focuses on significant moments in the region's history from medieval to modern...
The Virtues of Exit
On Resistance and Quitting Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Successful democracies rely on an active citizenry. They require citizens to participate by voting, serving on juries, and running for office. But what happens when those citizens purposefully opt out of politics? Exit—the act of leaving—is often thought of as purely instinctual, a part of the...