This volume brings together an impressive collection of important works covering nearly every aspect of early Native American history, from contact and exchange to diplomacy, religion, warfare, and disease.
This provocative book regroups the areas of North America into divisions according to economic and social resources and needs.
In American Character, Colin Woodard traces these two key strands in American politics through the four centuries of the nation’s existence, from the first colonies through the Gilded Age, Great Depression and the present day, and he ...
The American nations; or, Outlines of their general history, ancient and modern
Several other individuals not already noted warrant special mention: Jorge CañizaresEsquerra, Arif Dirlik, Florencia Mallon, Steve J. Stern, Colleen Dunlavy, Susan SleeperSmith, Selçuk Esenbel, Jeffrey Herf, and the seventy foreign and ...
Categorized into eight geographical regions, this encyclopedic reference examines the history, beliefs, traditions, languages, and lifestyles of indigenous peoples of North America.
“An incisive look at immigration, assimilation, and national identity” (Kirkus Reviews) and the landmark immigration law that transformed the face of the nation more than fifty years ago, as told through the stories of immigrant ...
The American Nations; Or: Outlines of Their General History, Ancient and Modern: Including the Whole History of the Earth and...
Colin Woodard tells the story of the genesis and epic confrontations between these visions of our nation's path and purpose through the lives of the key figures who created them, a cast of characters whose personal quirks and virtues, gifts ...
This is where Marissa K. López locates the origins of Chicano literature, which is now and always has been “postnational,” encompassing the wealthy, the poor, the white, and the mestizo.
12, 1853; McWilliams, Southern California Country, 60; Cleland, Cattle on a Thousand Hills, 90–96; Deverell, Whitewashed Adobe, 13–18. 46. J. A. Stout, Liberators, 27–31; Faulk, “Colonization Plan for Northern Sonora,” 296–300. 47.