Interdisciplinary Studies

Exploring the Crescent City from the ground up, Richard Campanella takes us on a winding journey toward explaining the city's distinct urbanism and...

The Mountain District Primitive Baptist Association enfolds churches in four counties in the Blue Ridge Mountains-North Carolina''s Ashe and Allegh...

Most non-Central Americans think of the narrow neck between Mexico and Colombia in terms of dramatic past revolutions and lauded peace agreement...

Profiles of America is the only source that pulls together, in one place, statistical, historical and descriptive information about almost every pl...

This book presents current research findings in the study of globalization. Topics discussed include foreign investment in U.S. securities; dispute...

The central axiom of Teaching the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century is that the classroom functions as a site for research and collaboration: not on...

In many ways, this book is very different from almost all other books on this topic, not because this book does not depend on any individual case, ...

China''''s Ruling executive body, the State Council, established the China Investment Corporation (CIC), a sovereign wealth fund, in September 2007...

A one-of-a-kind reference book, Tennessee Tragedies examines a wide variety of disasters that have occurred in the Volunteer State over the past se...

Mountain Homespun will be of special interest to those studying southern Appalachian handicrafts, the 1890s handicraft revival, and northern Protes...

From 1900 through the 1940s Latino baseball players suffered discrimination, poor accommodations, low pay and homesickness to play a game they l...

Profiles of America is the only source that pulls together, in one place, statistical, historical and descriptive information about almost every pl...

Profiles of America is the only source that pulls together, in one place, statistical, historical and descriptive information about almost every pl...

The large scale, practical uses of natural gas were initially introduced by innovators Joseph Pew and George Westinghouse for the steel and glas...

Beginning with Number 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensi...

The current horrific malaise in the state of Iraq has its roots in the US-led destruction of Iraq in 1991, followed by a decade of harsh US-led int...

Looting Greece examines how and why the Syriza party, which took power in January 2015 promising to end eliminate debt, end austerity, and return G...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the U.S. recognised the independence of all the former Central Asian republics, supported their adm...