Immigration, Diversity, and Broadcasting in the United States 1990—2001
By Vibert C. Cambridge
The last decade of the twentieth century brought a maturing of the new racial and ethnic communities in the United States and the emergence of diversity and multiculturalism as dominant fields of discourse in legal, educational, and cultural contexts.
American History · History · 21st century · Americas · North America · United States · Race and Ethnicity · Television - History and Criticism · International Studies · Sociology · Media Studies · Journalism · Global Issues · African American Studies
Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution
Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas
By Karen Kampwirth
In many Latin American countries, guerrilla struggle and feminism have been linked in surprising ways. Women were mobilized by the thousands to promote revolutionary agendas that had little to do with increasing gender equality. They ended up creating a uniquely Latin American version of feminism that combined revolutionary goals of economic equality and social justice with typically feminist aims of equality, nonviolence, and reproductive rights.Drawing
Gender Studies · International Studies · Women’s Studies · Sociology · Political Science · North America · Mexico · El Salvador · Americas · Central America · Nicaragua · Latin American Studies
Threatening Others
Nicaraguans and the Formation of National Identities in Costa Rica
By Carlos Sandoval-Garcia
During the last two decades, a decline in public investment has undermined some of the national values and institutions of Costa Rica. The resulting sense of dislocation and loss is usually projected onto Nicaraguan “immigrants.”Threatening Others: Nicaraguans and the Formation of National Identities in Costa Rica explores the representation of the Nicaraguan “other” in the Costa Rican imagery.
Latin American History · History · Race and Ethnicity · History | Modern | 20th Century · Costa Rica · Nationalism · Emigration and Immigration · Americas · Central America · Nicaragua · International Studies · Latin American Studies
Gabriela Mistral
The Audacious Traveler
Edited by Marjorie Agosín
Gabriela Mistral is the only Latin American woman writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Even so, her extraordinary achievements in poetry, narrative, and political essays remain largely untold. Gabriela Mistral: The Audacious Traveler explores boldly and thoughtfully the complex legacy of Mistral and the way in which her work continues to define Latin America.Edited
Gender Studies · History | Modern | 20th Century · Chile · Americas · South America · Brazil · International Studies · Women’s Studies · Biography & Autobiography | General · Literature · Latin American Studies · Latin American Literature
Flash Effect
Science and the Rhetorical Origins of Cold War America
By David J. Tietge
The ways science and technology are portrayed in advertising, in the news, in our politics, and in the culture at large inform the way we respond to these particular facts of life. The better we are at recognizing the rhetorical intentions of the purveyors of information and promoters of mass culture, the more adept we become at responding intelligently to them.Flash
American History · Sociology · History · Cold War · History | Modern | 20th Century · United States · North America · Americas · History of Science
The House and Senate in the 1790s
Petitioning, Lobbying, and Institutional Development
Edited by Kenneth R. Bowling and Donald R. Kennon
Amid the turbulent swirl of foreign intrigue, external and internal threats to the young nation’s existence, and the domestic partisan wrangling of the 1790s, the United States Congress solidified its role as the national legislature. The ten essays in The House and Senate in the 1790s demonstrate the mechanisms by which this bicameral legislature developed its institutional identity.
History · American History · Political Science · American History, Revolutionary Period · 18th century · United States · North America · Americas
Christian Missionaries and the State in the Third World
Edited by Hölger Bernt Hansen and Michael Twaddle
The fact that many of the leaders in the Third World were educated by Christian missionaries is a decisive factor in world politics today. Christian Missionaries and the State in the Third World provides examples of how these missionaries contributed to the construction, destruction, and reconstruction of state structures in Africa and the Caribbean, through educational activity and attempts at healing and trade, as well as by preaching, prayer, and other sacramental endeavors.In
Religion | Religion, Politics & State · African History · Religion | Christianity · Caribbean Islands · Americas · Africa · African Studies
Art As Image
Prints and Promotion in Cincinnati, Ohio
Edited by Alice M. Cornell
Illustrates the spectacular technological and artistic developments in the nineteenth-century printing trade from the earliest days of the Old Northwest Territory.
Art · North America · United States · Midwest · Ohio · History · Ohio and Regional · American History · Art History · Business and Economics · Americas
Terror in the Countryside
Campesino Responses to Political Violence in Guatemala, 1954–1985
By Rachel A. May
The key to democratization lies within the experience of the popular movements. Those who engaged in the popular struggle in Guatemala have a deep understanding of substantive democratic behavior, and the experience of Guatemala’s civil society should be the cornerstone for building a meaningful formal democracy.In Terror in the Countryside Rachel May offers an in-depth examination of the relationship between political violence and civil society.
Latin American History · International Studies · History · Violence in Society · History | Modern | 20th Century · Guatemala · Central America · Americas · Latin American Studies
Managing the Counterrevolution
The United States and Guatemala, 1954–1961
By Stephen M. Streeter
The Eisenhower administration’s intervention in Guatemala is one of the most closely studied covert operations in the history of the Cold War. Yet we know far more about the 1954 coup itself than its aftermath. This book uses the concept of “counterrevolution” to trace the Eisenhower administration’s efforts to restore U.S. hegemony in a nation whose reform governments had antagonized U.S. economic interests and the local elite.Comparing the Guatemalan case to U.S.-sponsored
History · Americas · Central America · Guatemala · American History · International Studies · Political Science · Latin American Studies · Latin American History · World and Comparative History · Violence in Society
West Virginia Quilts and Quiltmakers
Echoes from the Hills
By Fawn Valentine
Tucked away in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, preserved for generations, handmade bed quilts are windows into the past. In 1983, three West Virginia county extension agents discussed the need to locate and document their state’s historic quilts. Mary Nell Godbey, Margaret Meador, and Mary Lou Schmidt joined with other concerned women to found the West Virginia Heritage Quilt Search.The
Art History · Americas · North America · United States · Appalachia · Women’s Studies · Ohio and Regional · American History · History · Textile Arts · Quilting · Gender Studies · Social Science | Regional Studies
Staking Her Claim
The Life of Belinda Mulrooney, Klondike and Alaska Entrepreneur
By Melanie J. Mayer and Robert N. DeArmond
If Horatio Alger had imagined a female heroine in the same mold as one of the young male heroes in his rags-to-riches stories, she would have looked like Belinda Mulrooney. Smart, ambitious, competitive, and courageous, Belinda Mulrooney was destined through her legendary pioneering in the wilds of the Yukon basin to found towns and many businesses. She built two fortunes, supported her family, was an ally to other working women, and triumphed in what was considered a man’s world.In
Gender Studies · Gold Rush · 19th century · Americas · North America · Canada · Yukon · Women’s Studies · Biography & Autobiography | General · Literature · American History · History · Women’s History
Peasants in Arms
War and Peace in the Mountains of Nicaragua, 1979–1994
By Lynn Horton
Drawing on testimonies from contra collaborators and ex-combatants, as well as pro-Sandinista peasants, this book presents a dynamic account of the growing divisions between peasants from the area of Quilalí who took up arms in defense of revolutionary programs and ideals such as land reform and equality and those who opposed the FSLN.Peasants
Latin American History · Latin American Studies · Political Science · International Studies · History · Violence in Society · Nicaragua · Central America · Americas
Mountain People in a Flat Land
A Popular History of Appalachian Migration to Northeast Ohio, 1940–1965
By Carl E. Feather
First popular history of Appalachian migration to one community—Ashtabula County, an industrial center in the fabled “best location in the nation.”
History · Midwest · Ohio · History | Modern | 20th Century · Americas · North America · United States · Appalachia · Ohio and Regional · American History · Social Science | Regional Studies
Athens, Ohio
The Village Years
By Robert L. Daniel
In a lively style peppered with firsthand accounts by the people who made Athens, author Robert L. Daniel narrates his tale with wry humor and a sharp eye for detail.
History · American History · Ohio and Regional · Social Science | Regional Studies · Appalachia · United States · North America · Americas · Athens, Ohio
Panamanian Militarism
A Historical Interpretation
By Carlos Guevara Mann
Carlos Guevara Mann argues that Panamanian militarism, a consequence of the breakdown of legitimacy that occurred in the early nineteenth century, is more a manifestation of a deeply-rooted political tradition than an isolated phenomenon of the late twentieth century. He examines the variable US policy approach to domestic stability with the overall context of US hegemony in the isthmus and its shaping of Panamanian militarism.Focusing
History · Central America · Panama · Violence in Society · International Studies · Political Science · Latin American Studies · Latin American History · World and Comparative History · Americas
Theory in the Practice of the Nicaraguan Revolution
By Bruce E. Wright
Even in the period following the electoral defeat of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in 1990, the revolution of 1979 continues to have a profound effect on the political economy of Nicaragua.
Business and Economics · Public Policy · History | Modern | 20th Century · International Studies · Political Science · Latin American History · History · Labor History · Americas · Central America · Nicaragua · Sandinistas · Latin American Studies
Perspectives on War and Peace in Central America
Edited by Sung Ho Kim and Thomas W. Walker
This volume records the perspectives of a highly diverse group of prominent individuals who met late in 1988 in an important international symposium concerned with the continuing conflicts in Central America.
Business and Economics · Peace Studies · Violence in Society · History · International Studies · Political Science · Latin American History · Central America · Americas · Latin American Studies
Juscelino Kubitschek and the Development of Brazil
By Robert J. Alexander
Kubitschek was one of the most important political leaders of Brazil during the twentieth century. As president, he pushed decisively for the industrialization of the largest of the Latin American nations. He also provided his country with the most democratic regime it had ever experienced. His leadership stimulated a flowering of Brazilian culture in literature, art, music, and architecture.
History · Latin American History · History | Modern | 20th Century · Nationalism · Brazil · South America · Americas · Latin American Studies
Shawnee!
The Ceremonialism of a Native Indian Tribe and Its Cultural Background
By James H. Howard
Comprehensive account of Shawnee culture including musical notations of Shawnee songs, maps, and heirloom photographs.
Native American Studies · Ohio · Ohio and Regional · History · Midwest · United States · North America · Americas
