American History Books

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1. Chicago Korean-Americans: Identity and Politics in a Transnational Community

   By Jung-Sun Park

   Based on a Chicago Korean-American case, this dissertation examines the transformation of identity and politics in a transnational immigrant community in the late 1980s and early 1990s....

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-94881-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Ideologies of US Foreign Policy: From Pearl Harbour to the Present

   By John Callaghan, Brendon O'Connor

   This is a comprehensive account of the historical and political development of Uniuted States Foreign Policy from Pearl Harbour to the present day....

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-47431-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Rethinking the American Anti-War Movement

   By Simon Hall

   Between 1965 and 1973, thousands of ordinary Americans participated in one of the most remarkable and significant people's movements in American history. Through marches, rallies, draft resistance, teach-ins, and non-violent demonstrations at both the national and local levels, Americans vehemently...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-80084-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. The Harlem Renaissance in the American West: The New Negro's WEstern Experience

   Edited by Cary D Wintz, Bruce A. Glasrud

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-88688-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Rethinking the Asian American Movement

   By Daryl Maeda

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-80082-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Rethinking the Welfare Rights Movement

   By Premilla Nadasen

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-80086-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Gaming the Past

   By Jeremiah McCall

   Despite the growing number of books designed to radically reconsider the educational value of video games as powerful learning tools, there are very few practical guidelines conveniently available for prospective history and social studies teachers who actually want to use these teaching and...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-88760-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Transatlantic Relations since 1945: An Introduction

   By Jussi Hanhimaki, Benedikt Schoenborn, Barbara Zancheta

   The transatlantic relationship has been the bedrock of international relations since the end of World War II. This new textbook will focus on the period since the defeat of Nazi Germany, when the multitude of links between United States and Western Europe were created, extended, and multiplied.&...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-48698-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing

   By Margarita Marinova

   This book examines the diverse practices of crossing boundaries, tactics of translation, and experiences of double and multiple political and national attachments, evident in textual products of Russo-American travel encounters during an understudied period (from the end of the American Civil War...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-88271-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Crime and the Rise of Modern America: A History from 1865–1941

    By Kristofer Allerfeldt

    Crime and the Rise of Modern America is a thematic history of crime in the USA from the time of Lee’s surrender at Appomattox to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. Kristofer Allerfeldt takes the period of American history where the country was changing into a truly modern, unified nation, and...

    March 2011 | 978-0-415-80045-7 | Paperback (Routledge)