Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving Indigenous people a larger role in determining exhibition content. In...więcej »
Available for the first time in English, Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra's magisterial history of the foods and eating habits of Puerto Rico unfolds into an examination of Puerto Rican society from the Sp...więcej »
A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, ra...więcej »
Chicken--both the bird and the food--has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women from the slavery era to the present. It has provided food and a source of income for their fami...więcej »
In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imperial conquest against the Philippine Republic. Over t...więcej »
This is a lucid and factual exposition thoroughly documented and supported by references to official publications. The introduction by Fraenkel is an exposition of the labor courts in the German ju...więcej »
Bireley explores the anti-Machavellian tradition of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe and the writers who cultivated it, including Giovanni Botero and Justus Lipsius. The tradition produce...więcej »
In this study of the development of international legislation by the International Labor Organization, the author emphasizes the primary importance of a flexible process in making, interpreting, an...więcej »
Tracing the deep roots of women's activism in America, Anne Boylan explores the flourishing of women's volunteer associations in the decades following the Revolution. She examines the entire spectr...więcej »
In the mid-1840s, Warner McCary, an ex-slave from Mississippi, claimed a new identity for himself, traveling around the nation as Choctaw performer "Okah Tubbee." He soon married Lucy Stanton, a di...więcej »
The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Sme...więcej »
The years after World War I saw a different sort of war in the American South, as Modernism began to contest the "New South Creed" for the allegiance of Southern intellectuals. In The War Withi...więcej »
This is a heartening and inspiring story of the regeneration of the southern piedmont region after the desolation of war and reconstruction had all but destroyed its economy and disrupted its socia...więcej »
This book is a powerful and convincing attack on modern mechanized thinking, psychology, and progress. Hertz believes that the bourgeois emphasis on the external material must be focused on the inw...więcej »
Histories of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era tend to characterize the United States as an expansionist nation bent on Americanizing the world without being transformed itself. In Consumers' I...więcej »
Seidenberg sees the history of man as a conflict between instinct and intelligence. He regards change as a temporary condition in the development of mankind, and explores in this bold and far-reach...więcej »
This ambitious work uncovers the constitutional foundations of that most essential institution of modern democracy, the political party. Taking on Richard Hofstadter's classic The Idea of a Part...więcej »
This brilliant new study is the first comprehensive and penetrating exploration of the complex and important aesthetic and intellectual relationship between the Jameses. Hocks relates organically w...więcej »
It is the purpose of this study to show how the rate-making rule and its procedure were developed, to consider the difficulties that were experienced under this rule, to discuss the new methods of ...więcej »
All nations make themselves up as they go along, but not all make themselves up in the same way. In this study, Alon Confino explores how Germans turned national and argues that they imagined the n...więcej »