History of the Americas

The year 2015 marked the centennial of the 1915 United States occupation of Haiti and Haitis resistance to that signal event in its history. This s...

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a host of journalists, ministers, medical doctors, businessmen, lawyers, labor leaders, p...

This book offers a consciously eclectic approach to the rich history of Pennsylvania in the period from 1740 to 1950. Combining original research ...

Letters from a Sailor is based on 85 letters written by Conrad Lyman Ostroot, who served in the U.S. Navy during World War I. The letters are poign...

This book tells the story of how America's national leadership failed the nation and produced the greatest foreign policy disaster in American hist...

Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork at the Caribbean Court of Justice, A Region among States explores the possibility of constituting a regio...

This short book brings to life a unique and spectacular set of events in Latin American history. In November 1910, shortly after the inauguration o...

In this new and expanded third edition of Unburdened by Conscience, Anthony W. Neal forcefully argues that influential historians have been unable ...

The fully updated third edition of Farewell, My Nation considers the complex and often tragic relationships between American Indians, white America...

In the company of bank robbers and grave diggers, desperados and cunning Indians, brewers and failing inventors, Alex Capus visits the Wild West's ...

Long before the United States had presidents from the world of movies and reality TV, we had scores of politicians with connections to country musi...

Did You Know? This book is available as a Wiley E-Text. The Wiley E-Text is a complete digital version of the text that makes time spent studying ...

Capitalism and the Senses is the first edited volume to explore how the forces of capitalism are entangled with everyday sensory experience. If the...

After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passa...

French naturalist and medical doctor Aimé Bonpland (17731858) was one of the most important scientific explorers of South America in the early nine...