Bücher der Reihe H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series

Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions. In this groundbreaking study, thirteen leading scholars explore the idea of transatlanticism--or a shared "Atlantic world" experience--through the lens of architecture, built spaces, and landscapes in the British Atlantic from the seventeenth century through the mid-nineteenth century. Examining town planning, churches, forts, merchants' stores, state houses, and farm houses, this collection shows how the powerful visual language of architecture and design allowed the people of this era to maintain common cultural experiences across different landscapes while still forming their individuality.By studying the interplay between physical construction and social themes that include identity, gender, taste, domesticity, politics, and race, the authors interpret material culture in a way that particularly emphasizes the people who built, occupied, and used the spaces and reflects the complex cultural exchanges between Britain and the New World.

In 2007 anthropologist John M. Coggeshall stumbled upon the small community of Liberia, in the Blue Ridge foothills. There he met Mable Owens Clarke and her family, the remaining members of a small African American community still living on land obtained immediately after the Civil War. This intimate history tells the story of five generations of the Clarke family and their friends and neighbours.

Wilhelm II (1859-1941), King of Prussia and German Emperor from 1888 to 1918, reigned during a period of unprecedented economic, cultural, and intellectual achievement in Germany. In this book and a second volume, historian Lamar Cecil provides the first comprehensive biography of one of modern history's most powerful - and most misunderstood - rulers.

Provides a cultural history of the sustained encounter between the peoples of the United States and Cuba and of the ways that this encounter helped shape Cubans' identity, nationality, and sense of modernity from the early 1850s until the revolution of 1959.

For much of the 19th century and all of the 20th, the per capita rate of suicide in Cuba was the highest in Latin America and among the highest in the world - a condition made all the more extraordinary in light of Cuba's historic ties to the Catholic church. This title presents an illustrated social and cultural history of suicide in Cuba.

Revolt of the Provinces: The Regionalist Movement in America, 1920-1945

Presents the words of Indigenous people who have shaped Native American rights movements from the late nineteenth century through the present day. Presenting essays, letters, interviews, speeches, government documents, and other testimony, Donald M. Cobb shows how tribal leaders, intellectuals, and activists deployed a variety of protest methods to demand Indigenous sovereignty.

An analysis of the dynamic relationship between culture, power and policy in Nicaragua over 300 years. Spanning many forms - including literature, music, film - the book explores the evolution of Nicaraguan culture, its manipulation for political purposes and the opposition to cultural policy.

A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (1828-93) set out to fulfil his formerly enslaved father's dying wish that he should leave America to start a new life in Africa. Tracing Vaughan's journey from South Carolina to Liberia to several parts of Yorubaland, Lisa Lindsay documents this "free" man's struggle to find economic and political autonomy.

Meaning Over Memory: Recasting the Teaching of Culture and History

Miguel La Serna's gripping history of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) provides vital insight into both the history of modern Peru and the link between political violence and the culture of communications in Latin America.

At a time when access to health care in the United States is being widely debated, the author argues that an even more important issue is being overlooked. Although necessary health care should be available to all who need it, he says, the health-care debate assumes that everyone requires massive amounts of expensive care to stay healthy.

A history of the Protestant evangelization of Jews in America from 1880 to 2000. Based on research in missionary archives as well as Jewish writings, it analyzes the theology and activities of both the missions and the converts, and describes the reactions of the Jewish community.

Reaching back to the origins of antievolutionism in the 1920s, and continuing to the promotion of intelligent design, this title analyzes the creationism movement, one of the most formidable political movements of the twentieth century. It tells the story of the 1925 Scopes 'monkey' trial and reinterprets its meaning.

This collection of thirteen essays brings together original work from sixteen scholars in various disciplines, ranging from theatre and literature to history and music, to address the complex roles of black performers, entrepreneurs, and consumers in American mass culture during the early twentieth century.

The essential handbook for successful small newspapers.

In this comprehensive study of the role of religion in American education, the author argues that public schools and universities must take religion seriously. The book argues both for a radical change and for taking a middle course in America's culture wars.

When the US government forced 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative tribunals to pass judgment on who was loyal and who was disloyal. This book relates the story of how military and civilian bureaucrats judged these tens of thousands of American citizens during wartime.

Over several decades, the Dominican Republic has experienced striking political stagnation despite dramatic socioeconomic transformations. In this text, the author offers an explanation for the country's political evolution, which considers the influence of the USA and other international forces.

Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power: British Guiana's Struggle for Independence

What are the basic values and commitments of American liberals? This title answers this question. Tracing a tradition that extends from James Madison through Franklin Delano Roosevelt to today, this title emphasizes liberalism's distribution of power throughout society in order to secure freedom and equality.