The Agrarian Dispute

John Dwyer

• Hardcover | Engels | American Encounters/Global Interactions
• In the mid-1930s the Mexican government expropriated millions of acres of land from hundreds of U.S. property owners as part of President Lázaro Cárde... Lees meer

Beyond Shangri-La

John Kenneth Knaus

• Hardcover | Engels | American Encounters/Global Interactions
• Beyond Shangri-La chronicles relations between the Tibetans and the United States since 1908, when a Dalai Lama first met with U.S. representatives. W... Lees meer

We Are Left Without a Father Here

Eileen J Suárez Findlay

• Paperback | Engels | American Encounters/Global Interactions
• We Are Left without a Father Here is a transnational history of working people's struggles and a gendered analysis of populism and colonialism in mid-... Lees meer

Buying into the Regime

Heidi Tinsman

• Paperback | Engels | American Encounters/Global Interactions
• Buying into the Regime is a transnational history of how Chilean grapes created new forms of consumption and labor politics in both the United States ... Lees meer

The American Colonial State in the Philippines

• Paperback | Engels | American Encounters/Global Interactions
• In 1898 the United States declared sovereignty over the Philippines, an archipelago of seven thousand islands inhabited by seven million people of var... Lees meer

Fragments of a Golden Age

• Paperback | Engels | 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 stat... Lees meer

Making Jazz French

Jeffrey H Jackson

• Hardcover | Engels | American Encounters/Global Interactions
• Between the world wars, Paris welcomed not only a number of glamorous American expatriates, including Josephine Baker and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but als... Lees meer

Crossing Empires

• Hardcover | Engels | American Encounters/Global Interactions
• Weaving U.S. history into the larger fabric of world history, the contributors to Crossing Empires de-exceptionalize the American empire, placing it i... Lees meer

Haunted by Empire

• Hardcover | Engels | American Encounters/Global Interactions
• A milestone in U.S. historiography, Haunted by Empire brings postcolonial critiques to bear on North American history and draws on that history to que... Lees meer

Georges Woke Up Laughing

Nina Glick Schiller, Georges Eugene Fouron

• Hardcover | Engels | American Encounters/Global Interactions
• Combining history, autobiography, and ethnography, Georges Woke Up Laughing provides a portrait of the Haitian experience of migration to the United S... Lees meer

In Search of the Amazon

Seth Garfield

• Hardcover | Engels | American Encounters/Global Interactions
• Chronicling the dramatic history of the Brazilian Amazon during the Second World War, Seth Garfield provides fresh perspectives on contemporary enviro... Lees meer

Blazing Cane

Gillian McGillivray

• Paperback | Engels | American Encounters/Global Interactions
• Sugar was Cuba's principal export from the late eighteenth century throughout much of the twentieth, and during that time, the majority of the island'... Lees meer

Rural Revolt in Mexico

• Hardcover | Engels | American Encounters/Global Interactions
• Rural Revolt in Mexico is a historical investigation of how subaltern political activity engages imperialism, capitalism, and the United States. In th... Lees meer

Paradoxes of Nostalgia

Penny M Von Eschen

• Paperback | Engels | American Encounters/Global Interactions
• In Paradoxes of Nostalgia Penny M. Von Eschen offers a sweeping examination of the cold war's afterlife and the lingering shadows it casts over geopol... Lees meer

The Enduring Legacy

Miguel Tinker Salas

• Paperback | Engels | 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 demonstr... Lees meer

From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras

Jennifer Bickham Mendez

• Hardcover | Engels | American Encounters/Global Interactions
• From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras is a major contribution to the study of globalization, labor, and women's movements. Jennifer Bickham Mendez p... Lees meer

Empire of Care

Catherine Ceniza Choy

• Hardcover | Engels | 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 ... Lees meer

The American Colonial State in the Philippines

• Hardcover | Engels | American Encounters/Global Interactions
• In 1898 the United States declared sovereignty over the Philippines, an archipelago of seven thousand islands inhabited by seven million people of var... Lees meer

The Dictator Next Door

Eric Paul Roorda

• Hardcover | Engels | American Encounters/Global Interactions
• The question of how U.S. foreign policy should manage relations with autocratic governments, particularly in the Caribbean and Latin America, has alwa... Lees meer

Foreign in a Domestic Sense

• Hardcover | Engels | American Encounters/Global Interactions
• In this groundbreaking study of American imperialism, leading legal scholars address the problem of the U.S. territories. Foreign in a Domestic Sense ... Lees meer

A Century of Revolution

• Hardcover | Engels | American Encounters/Global Interactions
• Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 19... Lees meer

Uneven Encounters

Micol Seigel

• Hardcover | Engels | American Encounters/Global Interactions
• In Uneven Encounters , Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States in the years between the World War... Lees meer

Close Encounters of Empire

• Paperback | Engels | American Encounters/Global Interactions
• New concerns with the intersections of culture and power, historical agency, and the complexity of social and political life are producing new questio... Lees meer

From Silver to Cocaine

• Hardcover | Engels | American Encounters/Global Interactions
• Demonstrating that globalization is a centuries-old phenomenon, From Silver to Cocaine examines the commodity chains that have connected producers in ... Lees meer