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"Finalist for the 2012 Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction, Contemporary (1900-Present), Western Writers of America" Rachel St. John is associate professor of history at New York University.
The first transnational history of the U.S.-Mexico border
Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line...
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Martin Klimke is research fellow at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies at the University of Heidelberg.
Using previously classified documents and original interviews, The Other Alliance examines the channels of cooperation between American and West German student movements throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, and the reactions these relationships provoked from the U.S. government. Revising...
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"Winner of the 2013 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society" Donna R. Gabaccia is professor of history and former director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. Her many books include We Are What We Eat and Immigration and American Diversity.
A new history exploring U.S. immigration in global context
Histories investigating U.S. immigration have often portrayed America as...
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Jeffrey A. Engel is director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. Mark Atwood Lawrence is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Andrew Preston is reader in American history at the University of Cambridge.
A one-of-a-kind anthology of primary texts in American foreign relations
How should America wield its enormous power beyond its borders? Should it adhere to grand principles or...
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"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Dorothy Sue Cobble is Distinguished Professor of History and Labor Studies Emerita at Rutgers University. Her many books include The Sex of Class, Feminism Unfinished, and The Other Women's Movement (Princeton). Website www.dorothysuecobble.com
A history of the twentieth-century feminists who fought for the rights of women, workers, and the poor, both in the United States and abroad
For the Many...
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"Winner of the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" Mark Atwood Lawrence teaches history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam and The Vietnam War: A Concise International History.
A groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.S. liberal ambitions in the developing world and at home in the...
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"Co-Winner of the Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Book Prize, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)" "Winner of the Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award, Latin American Studies Association" "Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" "Winner of the William M. LeoGrande Prize, American University's Center for Latin...
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Katy Hull is lecturer in American studies at the University of Amsterdam.
A historical look at the American fascination with Italian fascism during the interwar period
In the interwar years, the United States grappled with economic volatility, and Americans expressed anxieties about a decline in moral values, the erosion of families and communities, and the decay of democracy. These issues prompted a profound ambivalence toward modernity, leading...
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"Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" "Winner of the Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" "Winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award, American Historical Association" "Honorable Mention for the Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award" Roberto Saba is assistant professor of American Studies at Wesleyan...
10) The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics
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"Winner of the 2015 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" Adam Ewing is assistant professor of African American studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.
A groundbreaking exploration of Garveyism's global influence during the interwar years and beyond
Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program...
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