The Chinese Must Go. Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America, Paperback - Beth Lew-Williams

Publisher: Harvard University PressAuthor(s): Beth Lew-WilliamsIllustration(s): 6 MapsNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 156 x 2...

Making the Chinese Mexican is the first book to examine the Chinese diaspora in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. It presents a fresh perspective on imm...

Illustrates how states appeal to popular morality to forge new group identities and mobilize violence against perceived threats. In an era where st...

Explains the emergence of physical chemistry in America by presenting a series of lively portraits of such pivotal figures as Wilhelm Ostwald, A A ...

Reducere. Within a "Nation of Laws, " come to the birthplace of America's industrial might, and see a Nation, testing and being tested by its Laws--in city s...

Co-Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Wall Street ...

Reducere. ``There has never been an America without Muslims``--so begins Amir Hussain, one of the most important scholars and teachers of Islam in America. H...

Reducere. On 14 May 1804, one Captain Meriwether Lewis and his companion William Clark led a thirty-three-man expedition to the new lands of Louisiana. 8, 00...

The exciting story of the Welsh immigrants and their descendants who made a disproportionate contribution to the creation and growth of the wealthi...

Reducere. Beyond the legend of the creation of the American flag, we know very little about the facts of Betsy Ross' life. Perhaps with one snip of her sciss...

Reducere. From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America's railroad titans In 1869, when the final spik...

Reducere. The first book to show that immigration laws in the US have always been motivated by racial exclusion and the desire to save the idea of a white Am...

Reducere. History as it's supposed to be told: true and thrilling. History is about so much more than memorizing facts. It is, as more than half of the word ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

In Blood and Boundaries, Stuart B. Schwartz takes us to late medieval Latin America to show how Spain and Portugal's policies of exclusion and disc...

Reducere. 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 ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Eagle and the Dragon takes the reader on an epic journey of thousands of miles by sea and land across three continents.When Senator ...

Reducere. This history of the Crow Indians links their nineteenth-century nomadic life and their modern existence. The Crows not only withstood the dislocati...

A New York Times bestselling author reveals the story of a nearly forgotten moment in American history, when mass violence was not an aberration, b...

Based on John Kingdon's theory of the multiple streams, the book explains the origins of the legislative process and its outcomes by examining the ...

Reducere. The images of the 1920s have been indelibly imprinted on the American imagination-from jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, the Model T Ford, Babe...

Reducere. Lillian Smith Book AwardsNorthern sympathizer in the Confederate capital, daring spymaster, postwar politician: Elizabeth Van Lew was one of the mo...

Why Political Democracy Must Go is an insightful analysis of the origins of the socialist movement in the United States, written by famed journalis...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

From one old woman's prayer a young girl was brought to faith, a missionary was sent to Africa and then a church was born from among the people of ...

Reducere. 1. Trauma Of War 3: 462. The Vatican 6: 333. Impending Doom 4: 154. Manipulation Of Tragedy 4: 175. Tsunami 5: 106. The Bliss Of Ignorants 4: 517. ...

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every coun...

Reducere. Shame influences more of our thoughts and actions than many other emotions. Used as a punishment for bad behavior, shame acts as an incentive for u...

Rozsika Parker's re-evaluation of the reciprocal relationship between women and embroidery has brought stitchery out from the private world of fema...

Long before Greeks dominated the ancient Mediterranean, Phoenicians were the lords of the sea. Setting out from their Levantine cities, they introd...

Evidence indicating that the U.S. employed germ weapons in the Korean War and a lively but scholarly skewering of official denials.

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge from the recent proliferation of specialized scholarship on the per...

The idea of civilization recurs frequently in reflections on international politics. However, International Relations academic writings on civiliza...

Reducere. Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred years. Though associated with...

Reducere. Against the backgrounds of World War II, the Cold War, the construction of Pax Americana, the Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy assassination, and ...

Reducere. Ralph Roberts, actor, masseur, and former Pentagon liaison, could frequently be found in the kitchen of Lee Strasberg's NYC apartment on Central Pa...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Saptarishi (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University) Ba...

Small Town Capitalism in Western India: Artisans, Merchants, and the Making of the Informal Economy, 1870–1960 - Douglas E. Haynes

"38.1 million people in America are living in poverty; and millions of all Americans live near the federal poverty line." -United States Census Bur...

Hugh Aldersey-Williams transports us to the Dutch Golden Age - a time of immense scientific and artistic innovation - in this histo-biography of Ch...

Victims of Violence: For the Record presents readers with an innovative and timely lens through which to examine contemporary acts of violent victi...

Reducere. Between World War I and World War II, African Americans' quest for civil rights took on a more aggressive character as a new group of black activis...