This book provides students with a brief, accessible introduction to new scholarship in US family history, from the colonial era to the present. Designed for classroom use, chapters address issues of religion, politics, and the shift...Loe edasi...
This book addresses issues of religion, politics, and the shifting relationship between the family and the state. It offers a nuanced look at how scholars are engaging with family history in the first quarter of the twenty-first century: the sources...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198852209)
An up-to-date, one-volume account of American history which takes readers from the beginning of human settlement in North America to the second Trump administration. The fifteen chapters offer fresh perspectives on familiar events in American histor...Loe edasi...
The first fully illustrated history of Juneteenth and other Emancipation Day celebrations, told through photographs, art, and an engrossing narrative from an award-winning historian....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Down East Books,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781684752249)
More likely than not, visitor photos of Acadia National Park include trees, whether the sharp spires of spruce and fir perched atop Otter Cliffs, streaks of pitch pines on the ledges of the Beehive, gnarled birches on Cadillac Mountain, or the jack...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN-13: 9781421453170)
Ideas, practices, and human priorities: culture in the unstable environment of the early Caribbean colonies. Early French colonization in the Caribbean from the 1620s to circa 1730 brought great demographic, economic, and agricultural cha...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300282313)
A centennial celebration of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and its vital role in the development of Black Studies In 1926, the Afro–Puerto Rican bibliophile Arturo Schomburg’s collection of four thousand books, pa...Loe edasi...
The commemoration of a nations past is a highly contested process, fraught with identity politics and competing interests. For over a century even as the government of Canada denied them the rights to recognize or practise their cultures Indigenous...Loe edasi...
The next phase of the war over reproduction in America Personhood is a field guide to the seemingly boundless tactical resourcefulness of the anti-abortion movement.Margaret Talbot, New Yorker Whats next for the battle over abortion? Mary Ziegler...Loe edasi...
Although the great majority of Canadians lived in rural communities until the early 1900s, rural life has often been dismissed as marginal to the countrys economic development. Not a Simpler Time challenges this view, arguing that the strategies, sk...Loe edasi...
From the New York?Times bestselling author of The Girls of Atomic City and The Last Castle comes a sweeping chronicle challenging the traditional mythology of the nations beginnings and championing the un...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781049805221)
From fistfights to scandals, Unparliamentary provides a sourced account of unexpected events that have marked the history of Canada’s Parliament. It offers an intriguing look into surprising moments that occurred on Parliament Hill,...Loe edasi...
This volume focuses on the connection between ecological thought and the technological arts in Mexico to challenge assumptions that ecological thought is a domain exclusive to the arts of the Global North and reconceive it as an inventive nexus of m...Loe edasi...
The Routledge Handbook on the Sociology and History of Cinema and Television in Latin America explores the historical and sociological dimensions of Latin American cinema and television from the 1960s and 1970s onward. The ...Loe edasi...
This book retraces the story of the Dragon, a corvette of the French Navy of the king Louis XVI, engaged in secret against the backdrop of the American Revolutionary War. Taking an inductive approach, the work begins by describing the unidentified w...Loe edasi...
Taking into account politics, history and aesthetics, this edited volume explores the main expressions of primitivism in Iberian and Transatlantic modernisms....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780190265519)
The Oxford Handbook of Revolutionary Elections in the Americas, 1800-1910, presents a unique comparative political history spanning from Jeffersons election to the campaign that led to the Mexican revolution of 1910. By focusing on revolutionary el...Loe edasi...
This book uncovers the history of the concession stand in American moviegoing, which was coined The Second Box Office by trade press magazines in the 1930s, such was its importance to the economic viability of movie theatres. Even today, it is not...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226850146)
On the eugenic origins of US reproductive laws—and the surprising policy changes needed to remedy it. The US government spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to promote and facilitate contraception. Whereas other wealthy...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226850160)
On the eugenic origins of US reproductive laws—and the surprising policy changes needed to remedy it. The US government spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to promote and facilitate contraception. Whereas other wealthy...Loe edasi...
This book provides a succinct history of a medium-sized silk-weaving firm, Grout & Co, concentrating on the Canadian branch plant it set up following the First World War and operated for three decades. Extraordinarily full records of this proto-mult...Loe edasi...
From a preeminent King scholar, the origin story of the man, minister, and civil rights hero who would lead the nation and change the world.We know who Martin Luther King, Jr. became, but who was he at the beginning of his life? How...Loe edasi...
A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech “The American Dream,” part of Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. At Lincoln University on June 6, 1961, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. proposed his vi...Loe edasi...
A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech “The American Dream,” part of Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.At Lincoln University on June 6, 1961, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. proposed his...Loe edasi...
This book is for readers with an interest in law or history, especially those curious about the Revolution and the origins of American government. It draws on a wide variety of primary sources to explain how the Declaration of Independence founded a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009789035)
This book is for readers with an interest in law or history, especially those curious about the Revolution and the origins of American government. It draws on a wide variety of primary sources to explain how the Declaration of Independence founded a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Post Hill Press, ISBN-13: 9798895656488)
A behind-the-scenes story of the last sixty years of American politics, told with purpose and humor by a political legend who worked with ten presidents, made deals with both Obama and Trump, and believes that serving in public office is the best wa...Loe edasi...
A new introduction to the Constitution written on the semiquincentennial of American Independence, this book is packed with novel and surprising insights about the Constitutions original meaning, structure, and separation of powers, suitable for al...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009485715)
A new introduction to the Constitution written on the semiquincentennial of American Independence, this book is packed with novel and surprising insights about the Constitutions original meaning, structure, and separation of powers, suitable for al...Loe edasi...
This book collects over 20 original essays and a selection of photographs by the famous Swiss writer and photographer, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, from her time spent travelling in the United States during the late 1930s and early 40s. After a rediscove...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Third State Books Inc., ISBN-13: 9798890130006)
Amplify! My Fight for Asian America offers a meaningful look at the real stories behind the headlines, providing Asian Americans and allies of all backgrounds a vital resource to broaden their perspective on anti-Asian hate and contribut...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Center Street, ISBN-13: 9781546011637)
What do conservatives actually believe? In this powerful and inspiring manifesto, New York Times bestselling author and former Vice President Mike Pence pens a 21st-century version of The Conscience of a Conservative. With ca...Loe edasi...
This book provides students with a brief, accessible introduction to new scholarship in US family history, from the colonial era to the present. Designed for classroom use, chapters address issues of religion, politics, and the shift...Loe edasi...
This book addresses issues of religion, politics, and the shifting relationship between the family and the state. It offers a nuanced look at how scholars are engaging with family history in the first quarter of the twenty-first century: the sources...Loe edasi...
A compelling biography of one of our nations greatest journalists. Outstanding. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University Well-reported and -researched.Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling a...Loe edasi...
An original and outstanding new history of the New World... Magisterial Spectator An extraordinarily ambitious book . . . America, América reads at times as the historical equivalent of the great epic novels of Gabriel García Márquez...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198852209)
An up-to-date, one-volume account of American history which takes readers from the beginning of human settlement in North America to the second Trump administration. The fifteen chapters offer fresh perspectives on familiar events in American histor...Loe edasi...
The first fully illustrated history of Juneteenth and other Emancipation Day celebrations, told through photographs, art, and an engrossing narrative from an award-winning historian....Loe edasi...
Profiles of 50 historically significant American flags that chronicle the history of the country, timed to celebrate our nations 250th anniversary Few symbols hold the gravity and inspiration of the American flag. It has encouraged heroics...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781643365640)
How Jonathan Edwardss theology of equality laid foundations for early American abolitionism In this groundbreaking book, John T. Lowe reexamines Jonathan Edwardss legacy by focusing on the intersections among slavery, race, and theology...Loe edasi...
For Americas 250th birthday, a provocative argument that a Long Revolution formed the violently beating heart of American politics for decades after 1776...Loe edasi...
Introduces students to African-American innovators and their contributions to art, entertainment, sports, politics, religion, business, and popular culture....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Wayne State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780814352717)
His detailed account includes records of every known Detroit-area brewery through the late twentieth century, brand names of the beers and ales marketed in the region, production history, and a glossary of brewing terms—making this book an essential...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517912956)
This book recreates twenty days in April 1970 when a then-illegal strike by Minneapoliss public school teachers marked a singular moment of cultural upheaval-and forever changed the citys politics, labor law, educational climate, and the right to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517913441)
The complex and dramatic history of an illegal teachers’ strike that forever altered labor relations and Minnesota politics When viewed from our turbulent times, the Minneapolis of fifty years ago might seem serene, but Minneapol...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Down East Books,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781684752249)
More likely than not, visitor photos of Acadia National Park include trees, whether the sharp spires of spruce and fir perched atop Otter Cliffs, streaks of pitch pines on the ledges of the Beehive, gnarled birches on Cadillac Mountain, or the jack...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780271101439)
The Conquest That Never Was uncovers one of the most ambitious but disastrous campaigns of the early colonial period. Pedro de Alvaradobest known as Cortéss lieutenant in Mexico and later as the conqueror of Guatemalasought to extend his fame and fo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780271101422)
The Conquest That Never Was uncovers one of the most ambitious but disastrous campaigns of the early colonial period. Pedro de Alvaradobest known as Cortéss lieutenant in Mexico and later as the conqueror of Guatemalasought to extend his fame and fo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9780813081656)
A compelling story of scandal and reform at the highest levels of state government In the 1970s, justices on the Florida Supreme Court were popularly elected. But a number of scandals threatened to topple the court until public outrage le...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN-13: 9781421453170)
Ideas, practices, and human priorities: culture in the unstable environment of the early Caribbean colonies. Early French colonization in the Caribbean from the 1620s to circa 1730 brought great demographic, economic, and agricultural cha...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300282313)
A centennial celebration of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and its vital role in the development of Black Studies In 1926, the Afro–Puerto Rican bibliophile Arturo Schomburg’s collection of four thousand books, pa...Loe edasi...
The commemoration of a nations past is a highly contested process, fraught with identity politics and competing interests. For over a century even as the government of Canada denied them the rights to recognize or practise their cultures Indigenous...Loe edasi...
Robert Hunter, John Mayer, Dennis McNally, Brigid Meier
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Da Capo, ISBN-13: 9780306835162)
Published at last in 2024 to a celebratory reception among historians, critics, and Deadheads, the legendary lost manuscript of Grateful Dead co-founder and primary lyricist Robert Hunter, written in the early 1960s—a wry, richly observed, and enl...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: St Martin's Press, ISBN-13: 9781250851079)
New York Times journalist Jesse Wegman tells the story of James Wilson, a Founding Father whose bold vision shaped American democracy but whose legacy was lost to scandal.As a young lawyer, James Wilson made a celebrated case...Loe edasi...
The next phase of the war over reproduction in America Personhood is a field guide to the seemingly boundless tactical resourcefulness of the anti-abortion movement.Margaret Talbot, New Yorker Whats next for the battle over abortion? Mary Ziegler...Loe edasi...
Although the great majority of Canadians lived in rural communities until the early 1900s, rural life has often been dismissed as marginal to the countrys economic development. Not a Simpler Time challenges this view, arguing that the strategies, sk...Loe edasi...
From the New York?Times bestselling author of The Girls of Atomic City and The Last Castle comes a sweeping chronicle challenging the traditional mythology of the nations beginnings and championing the un...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House Inc, ISBN-13: 9780593728628)
The remarkable untold story of a network of amateur researchers who debunked the Warren Report, raising questions about JFKs assassination that remain unanswered to this day—a riveting history of obsession, heartbreak, and the myth of the great A...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517916107)
Shipwreck stories from along Minnesotas north shore of Lake Superior and Isle Royale Against the backdrop of the extraordinary history of Great Lakes shipping, Too Much Sea for Their Decks chronicles shipwrecked schooners, wooden freighte...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781049805221)
From fistfights to scandals, Unparliamentary provides a sourced account of unexpected events that have marked the history of Canada’s Parliament. It offers an intriguing look into surprising moments that occurred on Parliament Hill,...Loe edasi...
Joel Zapata, Andrew Reynolds, Alex Hunt, John Beusterien
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN-13: 9780806197005)
For centuries Mexican people of the plainsor los Llaneroshave inhabited and embodied the borderland region known today as the Southern Great Plains. Yet their central presence in the area is often forgotten. This diverse collection of essays brings...Loe edasi...
This volume focuses on the connection between ecological thought and the technological arts in Mexico to challenge assumptions that ecological thought is a domain exclusive to the arts of the Global North and reconceive it as an inventive nexus of m...Loe edasi...
The Routledge Handbook on the Sociology and History of Cinema and Television in Latin America explores the historical and sociological dimensions of Latin American cinema and television from the 1960s and 1970s onward. The ...Loe edasi...
This book retraces the story of the Dragon, a corvette of the French Navy of the king Louis XVI, engaged in secret against the backdrop of the American Revolutionary War. Taking an inductive approach, the work begins by describing the unidentified w...Loe edasi...
Taking into account politics, history and aesthetics, this edited volume explores the main expressions of primitivism in Iberian and Transatlantic modernisms....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780190265519)
The Oxford Handbook of Revolutionary Elections in the Americas, 1800-1910, presents a unique comparative political history spanning from Jeffersons election to the campaign that led to the Mexican revolution of 1910. By focusing on revolutionary el...Loe edasi...
This book uncovers the history of the concession stand in American moviegoing, which was coined The Second Box Office by trade press magazines in the 1930s, such was its importance to the economic viability of movie theatres. Even today, it is not...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226850146)
On the eugenic origins of US reproductive laws—and the surprising policy changes needed to remedy it. The US government spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to promote and facilitate contraception. Whereas other wealthy...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226850160)
On the eugenic origins of US reproductive laws—and the surprising policy changes needed to remedy it. The US government spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to promote and facilitate contraception. Whereas other wealthy...Loe edasi...
Sari: Kathie and Ed Cox Jr. Books on Conservation Leadership
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781648433917)
The story of state parks in Texas is a compelling one, rich with environmental and cultural history. Environmental geographer and scientist Jason P. Julians visits to each state park, initially for outdoor recreation and then for research, sparked...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada, ISBN-13: 9781487006419)
For readers of Thomas King’s The Inconvenient Indian and Chelsea Vowel’s Indigenous Writes, Tireless Runners tells the history of colonization from pre-contact to the present day through the multi-generational st...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Simon & Schuster, ISBN-13: 9781982175993)
An exploration of how African American innovators and artistswhose impact and financial value in American music, movies, and TV is disproportionately greater than their numbershave fought for and often won the rights to own and benefit from their ow...Loe edasi...
This book provides a succinct history of a medium-sized silk-weaving firm, Grout & Co, concentrating on the Canadian branch plant it set up following the First World War and operated for three decades. Extraordinarily full records of this proto-mult...Loe edasi...
