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Since 1845, the United States Naval Academy has prepared professional military leaders at its Annapolis, Maryland, campus. Dispelling the myth that the Academy is a bastion of tradition unmarked by progress, H. Michael Gelfand examines challenges to the Naval Academy's culture from both inside and outside the Academy's walls between 1949 and 2000.

During the Cold War an unlikely coalition of poets, editors, and politicians converged in an attempt to discredit - if not destroy - the American modernist avant-garde. In Counter-Revolution of the Word Alan Filreis narrates the story of this movement and assesses its effect on American poetry and poetics.

In the first full biography of Lieutenant General John McAllister Schofield (1831-1906), Donald B. Connelly examines the career of one of the leading commanders in the western theatre during the Civil War. In doing so, Connelly illuminates the role of politics in the formulation of military policy, during both war and peace, in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Founder of Henry Street Settlement on New York's Lower East Side as well as the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, Lillian Wald (1867-1940) was a remarkable social welfare activist. She was also a second-generation German Jewish. Marjorie Feld offers a critical biography of Wald in which she examines the crucial and complex significance of Wald's ethnicity to her life's work.

Created by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and sung by generations of black performers, Porgy and Bess has been both embraced and reviled since its debut in 1935. In this comprehensive account, Ellen Noonan examines the opera's long history of invention and reinvention as a barometer of twentieth-century American expectations about race, culture, and the struggle for equality.

In the 1960s, increasing numbers of African American students entered predominantly white colleges and universities in northern and western USA. This work focuses on the women of this pioneering generation, examining their educational strategies and experiences.

Reproducing the British Caribbean: Sex, Gender, and Population Politics after Slavery

Formed soon after Pearl Harbor, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were officially responsible only for the nation's military forces. Analysing the wartime rise of military influence in US foreign policy, Mark Stoler focuses on the evolution of and debates over US and Allied global strategy.

The control of land remains the crucial issue in the Arab-Israel conflict. Kenneth Stein investigates in detail and without polemics how and why Jews acquired land from Arabs in Palestine during the British Mandate, and he reaches conclusions that are challenging and suprising.

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.

Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve and rebury the remains of Confederate soldiers scattered throughout the region. This title claims these women's place in the historical narrative by exploring their role as the creators and purveyors of Confederate tradition between 1865 and 1915.

Reveals the vibrant, transnational, and multiethnic world of working-class women's politics. This title presents the Italian working-class women who helped shape the vibrant, transnational, radical political culture that expanded into the emerging industrial union movement.

Pursuit of Unity: A Political History of the American South

Peru's indigenous peoples played a key role in the tortured tale of Shining Path guerrillas from the 1960s through the first decade of the twenty-first century. Emphasising the years leading up to the peak period of violence from 1980 to 2000, when 69,000 people lost their lives, Miguel La Serna asks why some Andean peasants chose to embrace Shining Path ideology and others did not.

Harmony of the Spirits: Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania

Presents an account of marriage and divorce in America in the twentieth century, focusing on the development of the idea of marriage as 'work'. This book describes how professionals and the public worked together to define the nature of marital work throughout the twentieth century.

Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans and the Fight for Freedom

Revolution of 1861: The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict

Myths of Demilitarization in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920-1960

Provides readers of the Bible with an important tool for understanding the Scriptures. Based on the theory and practice of Greek rhetoric in the New Testament, George Kennedy's approach acknowledges that New Testament writers wrote to persuade an audience of the truth of their messages. These writers employed rhetorical conventions that were widely known and imitated in the society of the times.

Lillian Guerra argues that political violence and competing interpretations of the ""social unity"" proposed by Cuba's revolutionary patriot, Jose Marti, reveal conflicting visions of the nation - visions that differ in their ideological radicalism and in how they cast Cuba's relationship with the United States.

The United States established an academy for educating future army officers at West Point in 1802. Why, then, did it take this maritime nation forty-three more years to create a similar school for the navy? The Long Road to Annapolis examines the origins of the United States Naval Academy and the national debate that led to its founding.

Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation

Staff Officers in Gray: A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia

Confronting Captivity: Britain and the United States and Their POWs in Nazi Germany

Covering the coastal region from Ocracoke Inlet to the South Carolina border, this text examines the area's natural environment, highlighting the processes that have shaped, and continue to shape, North Carolina's southern coast.

What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920-1960

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the federal government sought to forcibly assimilate Native Americans into American society through systematised land allotment. Rose Stremlau illuminates the impact of this policy on the Cherokee Nation, particularly within individual families and communities in modern-day northeastern Oklahoma.

Places Catholic women at the forefront of two defining developments of the Progressive Era: the emergence of the 'New Woman' and Catholics' struggle to define their place in American culture. This book explores how debates over Catholic identity were intertwined with the renegotiation of American gender roles.