American History Books

New and Published Books

1. Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement

   By Marc Stein

   Series: American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century

   Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement provides a new narrative history of U.S. gay and lesbian activism, drawing on primary research in the field and the best scholarship on the history of the gay and lesbian movement. Focusing on four decades of social, cultural, and political change in the...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. Media and the Creation of Babe Ruth

   By Patrick Adam Trimble

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   Babe Ruth is among the most lasting of American icons. A baseball player who emerged from the sports pages of the Jazz Age, he has become one of the dominant symbols of traditional cultural values, nationalism, and masculine identity. His is a media persona that has changed drastically over the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Womanism, Literature, and the Transformation of the Black Community, 1965–1980

   By Kalenda C. Eaton

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   This book examines how cultural and ideological reactions to activism in the post-Civil Rights Black community were depicted in fiction written by Black women writers, 1965–1980. By recognizing and often challenging prevailing cultural paradigms within the post-Civil Rights era, writers such as...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850–1924

   By Jennifer Snow

   Series: Studies in Asian Americans

   This book examines how in defending Asian rights and their own version of Christian idealism against scientific racism, missionaries developed a complex theology of race that prefigured modern ideologies of multiculturalism and reached its final, belated culmination in the liberal Protestant...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. The State and Indigenous Movements

   By Keri E. Iyall Smith

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   Using the comparative historical method, this book looks at the experience of indigenous peoples, specifically the Native Hawaiians, showing how a nation can express culture and citizenship while seeking ways to attain greater sovereignty over territory, culture, and politics....

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. The State, Removal and Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Mexico, 1620-2000

   By Claudia Haake

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   This book investigates the forced migration of the Delawares in the United States and the Yaquis in Mexico, focusing primarily on the impact removal from tribal lands had on the (ethnic) identity of these two indigenous societies. It analyzes Native responses to colonial and state policies to...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Language, Gender, and Citizenship in American Literature, 1789–1919

   By Amy Dunham Strand

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   Examining language debates and literary texts from Noah Webster to H.L. Mencken and from Washington Irving to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this book demonstrates how gender arose in passionate discussions about language to address concerns about national identity and national citizenship elicited by...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

   By Mary McCartin Wearn

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   Returning to a foundational moment in the history of the American family, Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how various authors of the period represented the maternal role – an office that came to a new, social prominence at the end of the eighteenth century....

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. Intelligence Cooperation and the War on Terror

   Anglo-American Security Relations after 9/11

   By Adam D.M. Svendsen

   Series: Studies in Intelligence

   This book provides an in-depth analysis of UK-US intelligence cooperation in the post-9/11 world. Seeking to connect an analysis of intelligence liaison with the wider realm of Anglo-American Relations, the book draws on a wide range of interviews and consultations with key actors in both countries...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
10. Race, Social Science and the Crisis of Manhood, 1890-1970

    We are the Supermen

    By Malinda Alaine Lindquist

    Series: Routledge Studies in African American History

    Black Social Science and the Crisis of Manhood, 1890-1970 describes the young black male crisis, why we are largely unfamiliar with the story of the black superman, and why this matters to contemporary debates. It does so by returning to the work of those original black social scientists to explore...

    Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge