History of the Americas

On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moons shadow descended on the American West, darkening skies from Montana...

This book provides a fresh account of the major cultural and intellectual trends of the United State in the 1910s, a decade characterised by war, t...

Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as freedoms swift-winged angels. In 1813 those a...

This monograph reports on large-scale excavations at Paso de la Amada, an archaeological site in the Soconusco region of the Pacific coast of Mexic...

The history of the Episcopal Church is intimately bound up with the history of empire. The two grew in tandem in the modern era, and as they grew t...

This volume emerged from an international research colloquium jointly organised by National Museums Scotland and the Scottish Centre for Diaspora S...

The study writes a cultural history of transatlantic relations of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Using the example of the Neo-Spanish Domi...

In 1899, U.S. Secretary of State John Hay wrote six world powers calling for an Open Door in China that would guarantee equal trading opportunities...