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Cultural History of Cuba during the U.S. Occupation, 1898-1902

Examines how and why domestic workers, the largest category of working women before 1940, were excluded from labour protections that formed the foundation of the welfare state. Looking at the debate over domestic service from both sides of the class divide, this assesses middle-class women's reform programs as well as household workers' efforts to determine their own working conditions.

That Infernal Little Cuban Republic: The United States and the Cuban Revolution

Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England

African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance

North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955

Engineering Nature: Water, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise

When Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 prompted several Southern states to secede, the North was sharply divided over how to respond. This book, the study in over fifty years of how the North handled the secession crisis, follows the decision-making process from bitter partisan rancor to consensus.

Offering a view of National Football League since 1960, this book looks at the development of the sport and at the image of NFL and its place in American life. It traces the evolution of Super Bowl, development of NFL Films and ESPN, rise of the commissioner as corporate CEO, the management of player demands, and changing attitudes toward race.

Examines the formation of African American and Native American citizenship, belonging, and identity in the US by comparing educational experiences in Kansas between 1880 and 1935. This comparative history of two non-white races provides a revealing analysis of the intersection of education, social control, and resistance, and the formation and meaning of identity for minority groups in the US.

Verbal persuasion entails the presentation of a persona by the speaker that affects an audience for good or ill. In this book, James May explores the role and extent of Cicero's use of ethos and demonstrates its persuasive effect. May discusses the importance of ethos, not just in classical rhetorical theory but also in the social, political, and judicial milieu of ancient Rome.

For good reason, the second and third days of the Battle of Gettysburg have received the lion's share of attention from historians. This book describes the engagements in McPherson Woods, at the Railroad Cuts, on Oak Ridge, on Seminary Ridge, and at Blocher's Knoll. Throughout, it challenges many long-held assumptions about the battle.

Introducing a model for the transnational history of the United States, this title places Mexican Americans at the centre of the Texas creation story. It focuses on Mexican-Texan, or Tejano, society in a period of political transition beginning with the year of Mexican independence.

Argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral history and untapped archival sources, this title explains how a relatively small city with a history of African American settlement produced such compelling and influential forms of Black Power politics.

Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States. This book examines relations among newcomers and between newcomers and Native people - focusing on political sovereignty, religion, trade, sexuality, and the land - from initial encounters to Oregon's statehood.

This evocative novel - justly famous for its vividly detailed depiction of the cityscape and the city's customs, social interactions, and political activities - assumed singular importance in Mexican popular culture after its original publication in 1903. The book inspired several film adaptations, a music score, a radio series, a television soap opera, and a pornographic comic book.

Offering a glimpse into the lives of African American men, women, and children on the cusp of freedom, this title chronicles one of the first collective migrations of blacks from the South to the North during and after the Civil War. It shows that even in the North, white sympathy did not continue after the Civil War.

The history of Colombia has been a stirring one, both in colonial and postcolonial epochs. The story is told here in its entirety - the beginnings of conquest and settlement, early history, the revolution to gain independence from Spain, the formation of three states including Colombia into a federation, and finally complete independence for the Colombian republic.

North Carolina: An Economic and Social Profile

The impact of the theater on colonial culture is approached in this study from the viewpoint of the historian rather than the dramatist. From the faded prints of playbills, newspaper advertisements, and court records, the men, women, and children who brought theater to America come to life with their great and petty problems.

From the beginning, South Carolina's history has been the story of the growth of a low-country aristocracy of wealth and political power and the gradual emergence of its opposition by the yeoman up country. Few states offer such rich materials for a popular history as this unique, American saga.

Here is a study of Salem, Massachusetts, as that community went about conducting a self-study to discover its needs and moved toward meeting some of them. The story of how a committee was appointed and what it finally accomplished makes a fascinating study of community organisation.

Wagstaff's personal acquaintance with many of the university men whom he describes, his profound understanding of the forces that shaped the institution's history, and his keen wit and lively imagination make this a valuable record.

Traces railroad development in the US South through a cast of remarkable entrepreneurs and the subsequent creation of the Southern Railway's network. This is also a full account of the many innovations wrought by the Southern's leaders.

The story of the desperate effort made by these civilized and intelligent people to preserve their homes and become American citizens. The fact that these law-abiding, peaceful residents of the mountains were herded into stockades, marched overland a thousand miles, and robbed of nearly all their possessions is a little-known and dismal page in American history.

For over a quarter of a century, Dr. Ferguson has been experimenting with the blood of animals and human beings to unravel the very complex chemical processes that underlie blood clotting. The author gives a detailed account of his many original technical procedures. His experimental data and the described results amply consolidate current theories and provide a firm basis for new advances.

The history of Randolph-Macon Woman's College has a claim upon the attention of all who are interested in the education and achievement of women. Its course through the years is set forth in the present volume, in which the author has dealt with the pattern of life developed in the cultivation of the liberal arts.

Chile, one of the smallest, is at the same time one of the most progressive of the South American countries. Throughout the colonial and national periods, its history presents a continuity in political, social, and economic development and a stability in institutions equaled by none of her sister republics - a story clearly and graphically told by Galdames.

This story of Ducktown is actually the story of the Great Copper Basin in southeastern Tennessee, one of the oldest copper districts in the country. The narrative covers the period from the removal of the Cherokees in the 1830s to the building of the railroads through the region in 1890, and it centres around the experience of Julius Eckhardt Raht, an early settler of the region.