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  • Spreading the American Dream

    American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890–1945

    "Provides fresh insights into the way governmental power was used to shape the American domestic marketplace, and how that visible hand was again used overseas." —Walter LaFeber, Cornell UniversityThis book urges us to consider whether the American Dream of promoting abundance, egalitarianism, and mobility avoided the pitfalls of exploitation and human degradation that most expansionist powers ... Read more

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  • A Date Which Will Live

    Pearl Harbor in American Memory

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    December 7, 1941—the date of Japan’s surprise attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor—is "a date which will live" in American history and memory, but the stories that will live and the meanings attributed to them are hardly settled. In movies, books, and magazines, at memorial sites and public ceremonies, and on television and the internet, Pearl Harbor lives in a thousand guises and symbolizes ... Read more

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  • A Century of Revolution

    Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America's Long Cold War

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through the mobilizations and terror in Central America, the Southern Cone, and the Andes during the 1970s and 1980s. In his introduction to A Century of Revolution, Greg Grandin argues that the dynamics of political violence and terror in Latin ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • In from the Cold

    Latin America's New Encounter with the Cold War

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Over the last decade, studies of the Cold War have mushroomed globally. Unfortunately, work on Latin America has not been well represented in either theoretical or empirical discussions of the broader conflict. With some notable exceptions, studies have proceeded in rather conventional channels, focusing on U.S. policy objectives and high-profile leaders (Fidel Castro) and events (the Cuban ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Fragments of a Golden Age

    The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    During the twentieth century the Mexican government invested in the creation and promotion of a national culture more aggressively than any other state in the western hemisphere. Fragments of a Golden Age provides a comprehensive cultural history of the vibrant Mexico that emerged after 1940. Agreeing that the politics of culture and its production, dissemination, and reception constitute one of ... Read more

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  • Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History

    Essays from the North

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History is a collection that embraces a new social and cultural history of Latin America that is not divorced from politics and other arenas of power. True to the intellectual vision of Brazilian historian Emilia Viotti da Costa, one of Latin America’s most distinguished scholars, the contributors actively revisit the political—as both a theme of ... Read more

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  • Financial Missionaries to the World

    The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Financial Missionaries to the World establishes the broad scope and significance of "dollar diplomacy"—the use of international lending and advising—to early-twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy. Combining diplomatic, economic, and cultural history, the distinguished historian Emily S. Rosenberg shows how private bank loans were extended to leverage the acceptance of American financial advisers ... Read more

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  • Aloha Betrayed

    Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism

    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In 1897, as a white oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition drive to protest. Ninety-five percent of the native population signed the petition, causing the annexation treaty to fail in the U.S. Senate. This event was unknown to many contemporary Hawaiians until Noenoe K. Silva rediscovered the petition in the process of ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Empire of Care

    Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    In western countries, including the United States, foreign-trained nurses constitute a crucial labor supply. Far and away the largest number of these nurses come from the Philippines. Why is it that a developing nation with a comparatively greater need for trained medical professionals sends so many of its nurses to work in wealthier countries? Catherine Ceniza Choy engages this question through ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Enduring Legacy

    Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Oil has played a major role in Venezuela’s economy since the first gusher was discovered along Lake Maracaibo in 1922. As Miguel Tinker Salas demonstrates, oil has also transformed the country’s social, cultural, and political landscapes. In The Enduring Legacy, Tinker Salas traces the history of the oil industry’s rise in Venezuela from the beginning of the twentieth century, paying particular ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Banana Wars

    Power, Production, and History in the Americas

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Over the past century, the banana industry has radically transformed Latin America and the Caribbean and become a major site of United States–Latin American interaction. Banana Wars is a history of the Americas told through the cultural, political, economic, and agricultural processes that brought bananas from the forests of Latin America and the Caribbean to the breakfast tables of the United ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Communication and Empire

    Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860-1930

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Filling in a key chapter in communications history, Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike offer an in-depth examination of the rise of the “global media” between 1860 and 1930. They analyze the connections between the development of a global communication infrastructure, the creation of national telegraph and wireless systems, and news agencies and the content they provided. Conventional histories ... Read more

    $28.79 USD