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Contesting Empires
By: Hart, Jonathan
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
Based on extensive archival research, this book looks at the earlier contest of empires in the New World, especially among Spain, France and England, and then examines the opposition to empire, the promotion of empire and the question of slavery.
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Price: $69.95
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Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation
By: Railton, Ben
Published by: The University of Alabama Press
In this study of Gilded Age literature and culture, Ben Railton proposes that in the years after Reconstruction, Americas identity was often contested through distinct and competing conceptions of the nations history. Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation argues that the United States moved toward unifying and univocal historical narratives in the years between the Centennial and Columbian Expositions, that ongoing social conflict provided sites for complications of those narratives, and that works of historical literature offer some of the most revealing glimpses into the nature of those competing visions. Gilded Age scholarship often connects the period to the 20th-century American future, but this book shows that it is just as crucial to see how the era relates to the American past. Railton closely analyzes the 1876 and 1893 Expositions, finding that many of the periods central trends, from technology to imperialism, were intimately connected to particular visions of the nations history. Concerned with key social questions such as race, Native Americans, women, and the South, Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation provides close readings of a number of texts for the ways they highlight these issues. This book examines established classics (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Bostonians); newer additions to the canon (The Conjure Woman, Life Among the Piutes, The Story of Avis); largely forgotten best-sellers (Uncle Remus, The Grandissimes); unrecovered gems (Ploughed Under, Where the Battle Was Fought); and autobiographical works by Douglass and Truth, poems by Harper and Piatt, and short stories by Woolsonand Cooke. These readings, while illuminating the authors themselves, contribute to ongoing conversations over historical literatures definition and value, and a greater understanding of not only American society in the Gilded Age, but also debates on our shared but contested history that remain very much alive
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Price: $36.00
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A Country of Vast Designs
By: Merry, Robert W.
Published by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
When James K. Polk was elected president in 1844, the United States was locked in a bitter diplomatic struggle with Britain over the rich lands of the Oregon Territory, which included what is now Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Texas, not yet part of the Union, was threatened by a more powerful Mexico.
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Price: $30.00
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Cuba
By: Sweig, Julia E
Published by: Oxford University Press, USA
1. Before the 1959 Revolution: Cuban National Identity and the Great Powers 2. The Cuban Revolution and the Cold War, 1951-1991 3. The Cuban Revolution After the Cold War, 1991-2006 4. After Fidel, Under Raul
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Price: $15.00
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Decentralizing the State
By: O'Neill, Kathleen
Published by: Cambridge University Press
Decentralization is one of the most dramatic political and economic trends in the last few decades. This book seeks to address its causes, exploring decentralizing reforms in Bolivia, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela - five unexpected decentralizers.
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Price: $22.00
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Delaware Politics and Government
By: Boyer, William W (ed.); Ratledge, Edward C. (ed.)
Published by: Bison Books
This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of both the historical and the contemporary dimensions of the politics and government of the First State. Once a sparsely populated, agrarian, and relatively insignificant polity, Delaware has become a densely and diversely populated financial and legal center often called the corporation capital of the world. Delawares prime location has been central to its development and transition from a goods-producing economy to a fast-growing, service-based economy. Despite its diminutive size, Delaware is, in many ways, the nations preferred corporate home.
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Price: $35.00
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Demonic Grounds
By: McKittrick, Katherine
Published by: University of Minnesota Press
Demonic Grounds moves between past and present, archives and fiction, theory and everyday, to focus on places negotiated by black women during and after the transatlantic slave trade. Specifically, Katherine McKittrick addresses the geographic implications of slave auction blocks, Harriet Jacobs's attic, black Canada and New France, as well as the conceptual spaces of feminism and Sylvia Wynter's philosophies.
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Price: $60.00
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The Development of Mexico's Tourism Industry
By: Berger, Dina
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
Tourism, in Mexico, became official business by 1929. This book presents tourism as the leading and influential facet of the post-revolutionary modernization programme, and examines how it fostered nationalism and unity, and emerged as a form of foreign policy. The book chronicles how the industry emerged and shaped Mexican culture and politics.
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Price: $65.00
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Discovery of the Americas
By: Smith, Tom
Published by: Chelsea House Publishers
Interesting topics Include: Books and printing in the age of Columbus; The Inca Empire; The horse in North America; The legend of El Dorado; The Nootka Convention; The Pueblo Revolt; The role of California missions.
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Price: $48.00
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Early Republic
By: Frank, Andrew (ed.)
Published by: ABC-Clio
In a compilation of essays, Early Republic: People and Perspectives explores the varied experiences of many different groups of Americans across racial, gender, religious, and regional lines in the early years of the country.
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Price: $105.00
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