The Origin of Organized Crime in America

David Critchley

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in American History
• While the later history of the New York Mafia has received extensive attention, what has been conspicuously absent until now is an accurate and conver... Lees meer

James Monroe, John Marshall and 'The Excellence of Our Institutions', 1817-1825

Peter J Aschenbrenner

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in American History
• When James Monroe became president in 1817, the United States urgently needed a national transportation system to connect new states and territories i... Lees meer

After American Studies

Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in American History | nr. 8
• After American Studies is a timely critique of national and transnational approaches to community, and their forms of belonging and trans/patriotisms.... Lees meer

Reagan's "Boys" and the Children of the Greatest Generation

Jonathan M Bullinger

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in American History
• During the 1980s and 1990s, aging Baby Boomer parents constructed a particular type of memory as they attempted to laud their own parents' wartime acc... Lees meer

Public Health and the Us Military

Bobby A Wintermute

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in American History
• Public Health and the US Military is a cultural history of the US Army Medical Department focusing on its accomplishments and organization coincident ... Lees meer

Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City, 1770-1870

Kay Retzlaff

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in American History | nr. 20
• Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City, 1770-1870: Bridget's Belfast examines how Irish immigrants shaped and reshaped their identity in a rural... Lees meer

The Liberal Dilemma

Jonathan Michaels

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in American History
• This volume explores the response of liberals to rightwing attacks during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and early 1950s, establishing it as a defens... Lees meer

Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition

Francesco Landolfi

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in American History
• This book aims to highlight the causes why the Prohibition Era led to an evolution of the New York mob from a rural, ethnic and small-scale to an urba... Lees meer

Education and the Racial Dynamics of Settler Colonialism in Early America

James O'Neil Spady

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in American History
• This is the first historical monograph to demonstrate settler colonialism's significance for Early America. Based on a nuanced reading of the archive ... Lees meer

George W Bush Administration Propaganda for an Invasion of Iraq

Larry Hartenian

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in American History
• Hartenian's history of George W Bush propaganda for an invasion of Iraq returns the administration's approach to its conceptual origins. Hartenian pla... Lees meer

The Disinformation Age

Eric Cheyfitz

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in American History | nr. 7
• The Disinformation Age , beginning in the present and going back to the American colonial period, constructs an original historical explanation for th... Lees meer

Reagan's "Boys" and the Children of the Greatest Generation

Jonathan M Bullinger

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in American History
• During the 1980s and 1990s, aging Baby Boomer parents constructed a particular type of memory as they attempted to laud their own parents' wartime acc... Lees meer

The White House and White Africa

Eddie Michel

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in American History
• This book offers an insightful analysis of presidential policy towards Rhodesia during the UDI era of 1965-1979. Michel provides an informative accoun... Lees meer

Famine Irish and the American Racial State

Peter D O'Neill

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in American History | nr. 6
• Interdisciplinary and transnational in scope, this book analyzes an array of state theories, literary figures, religious apparatuses, cultural artifac... Lees meer

Exploring the Next Frontier

Matthew Wilhelm Kapell

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in American History | nr. 4
• The 1960s and early 70s saw the evolution of Frontier Myths even as scholars were renouncing the interpretive value of myths themselves. Works like Jo... Lees meer

Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City, 1770-1870

Kay Retzlaff

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in American History
• This book explains how class, status, and gender affected individual and community perceptions of ethnicity in a rural New England community. It inves... Lees meer

America's Vietnam War and Its French Connection

Frank Cain

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in American History | nr. 5
• That America was drawn into the Vietnam War by the French has been recognized, but rarely explored. This book analyzes the years from 1945 with the Fr... Lees meer

An Unfamiliar America

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in American History
• This collection focuses on conceptions of the unfamiliar from the viewpoint of mainstream American history: aliens, immigrants, ethnic groups, and pre... Lees meer

A Brief History of the Subordination of African Americans in the U.S.

Alexander Polikoff, Elizabeth Lassar

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in American History
• This "brief history" presents the essential story of the subordination of African Americans in the U.S., captured in a 1968 cartoon by Pulitzer-prize-... Lees meer

Polish American Voices

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in American History
• This volume presents 145 primary source documents of Polish immigrants from different waves and backgrounds speaking about their lives, concerns, and ... Lees meer

Education and the Racial Dynamics of Settler Colonialism in Early America

Spady

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in American History
• This is the first historical monograph to demonstrate settler colonialism's significance for Early America. Based on a nuanced reading of the archive ... Lees meer

The Overseers of Early American Slavery

Laura R Sandy

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in American History
• Enmeshed in the exploitative world of racial slavery, overseers were central figures in the management of early American plantation enterprises. All t... Lees meer

George W Bush Administration Propaganda for an Invasion of Iraq

Larry Hartenian

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in American History
• Hartenian's history of George W Bush propaganda for an invasion of Iraq returns the administration's approach to its conceptual origins. Hartenian pla... Lees meer

The Civil War and Slavery Reconsidered

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in American History
• Following the suggestion of the historian Peter Parish, these essays probe "the edges" of slavery and the sectional conflict. The authors seek to reco... Lees meer