History of the Americas

In the patriotic aftermath of Pearl Harbor, African Americans demanded the right to play their part in the war against Japan. As they soon learned,...

Fundamental tenets of colonial historiography are challenged by showing that US capital investment into this colony did not lead to the disappearan...

Why did Britain and Argentina go to war over a wintry archipelago that was home to an unprofitable colony? Could the Falklands War, in fact, have b...

Drawing on a wide and rich array of sources, this book explores the nature and extent of Dutch trade and commerce in the Río de la Plata during thr...

Bringing to life the interaction between America, its peoples, and metropolitan gentlemen in early seventeenth-century England, this book argues th...

As runaway slaves fled from the South to escape bondage, slave catchers followed in their wake. The arrival of fugitives and slave catchers in the ...

Antifascism has received little attention compared to its enemy. No historian or social scientist has previously attempted to define its nature and...

A vivid social history of Baltimore's prostitution trade and its evolution throughout the nineteenth century, Bawdy City centers women in a story o...

In this stunning work chronicling the authors exploration of his own pastand the lives of many hundreds of thousands of nameless immigrants who str...

All of us are entitled to the protections of law against violence, to a high quality education, to decent employment that respects our dignity, and...

This book provides new, feminist perspectives on famous family law cases that span generations. The chapters take court decisions and rewrite them ...

All of us are entitled to the protections of law against violence, to a high quality education, to decent employment that respects our dignity, and...

This book presents a quantitative history of constitutional law in the United States and brings together humanistic and social-scientific approache...

Slavery's expansion across the globe often escapes notice because it operates as an underground criminal enterprise, rather than as a legal institu...

Lincoln and the Democrats describes the vexatious behavior of a two-party system in war and points to the sound parts of the American system which ...

Early American artists and political thinkers wrestled with the challenges of forming a cohesive, if not coherent, culture and political structure ...

On the night of Sunday, October 16, 1859, hoping to bring about the eventual end of slavery, radical abolitionist John Brown launched an armed atta...