Anglo-American Crossroads

Anglo-American Crossroads
Title Anglo-American Crossroads PDF eBook
Author Mark Clapson
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 225
Release 2013-01-10
Genre History
ISBN 1441141499

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A critical and original evaluation of American influences on urban reconstruction and regeneration in post-war Britain.

Collisions at the Crossroads

Collisions at the Crossroads
Title Collisions at the Crossroads PDF eBook
Author Genevieve Carpio
Publisher University of California Press
Pages 386
Release 2019-04-16
Genre History
ISBN 0520298829

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There are few places where mobility has shaped identity as widely as the American West, but some locations and populations sit at its major crossroads, maintaining control over place and mobility, labor and race. In Collisions at the Crossroads, Genevieve Carpio argues that mobility, both permission to move freely and prohibitions on movement, helped shape racial formation in the eastern suburbs of Los Angeles and the Inland Empire throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By examining policies and forces as different as historical societies, Indian boarding schools, bicycle ordinances, immigration policy, incarceration, traffic checkpoints, and Route 66 heritage, she shows how local authorities constructed a racial hierarchy by allowing some people to move freely while placing limits on the mobility of others. Highlighting the ways people of color have negotiated their place within these systems, Carpio reveals a compelling and perceptive analysis of spatial mobility through physical movement and residence.

Continental Crossroads

Continental Crossroads
Title Continental Crossroads PDF eBook
Author Samuel Truett
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 378
Release 2004
Genre History
ISBN 9780822333890

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Focuses on the modern Mexican-American borderlands, where a boundary line seems to separate two dissimilar cultures and economies.

Yalta 1945

Yalta 1945
Title Yalta 1945 PDF eBook
Author Fraser J. Harbutt
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 469
Release 2010-02-15
Genre History
ISBN 0521856779

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This book examines Allied diplomacy from 1941 to 1946, challenging Americocentric views and highlighting the significance of Europe's diplomatic role. Harbutt argues that the Yalta conference of February 1945 was a pivotal moment that signaled a shift from a pre-existing "Europe/America" framework to the "East/West" conception that led to the Cold War.

Empire's Crossroads

Empire's Crossroads
Title Empire's Crossroads PDF eBook
Author Carrie Gibson
Publisher Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Pages 650
Release 2014-11-11
Genre History
ISBN 0802192351

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A “wide-ranging, vivid” narrative history of one of the most coveted and complex regions of the world: the Caribbean (The Observer). Ever since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers. In Empire’s Crossroads, British American historian Carrie Gibson offers a panoramic view of the region from the northern rim of South America up to Cuba and its rich, important history. After that fateful landing in 1492, the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, and even the Swedes, Scots, and Germans sought their fortunes in the islands for the next two centuries. These fraught years gave way to a booming age of sugar, horrendous slavery, and extravagant wealth, as well as the Haitian Revolution and the long struggles for independence that ushered in the modern era. Gibson tells not only of imperial expansion—European and American—but also of life as it is lived in the islands, from before Columbus through the tumultuous twentieth century. Told “in fluid, colorful prose peppered with telling anecdotes,” Empire’s Crossroads provides an essential account of five centuries of history (Foreign Affairs). “Judicious, readable and extremely well-informed . . . Too many people know the Caribbean only as a tourist destination; [Gibson] takes us, instead, into its fascinating, complex and often tragic past. No vacation there will ever feel quite the same again.” —Adam Hochschild, author of To End All Wars and King Leopold’s Ghost

Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire

Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire
Title Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire PDF eBook
Author Timothy J. Shannon
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 292
Release 2002
Genre History
ISBN 9780801488184

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On the eve of the Seven Years' War in North America, the British crown convened the Albany Congress, an Anglo-Iroquois treaty conference, in response to a crisis that threatened imperial expansion. British authorities hoped to address the impending collapse of Indian trade and diplomacy in the northern colonies, a problem exacerbated by uncooperative, resistant colonial governments. In the first book on the subject in more than forty-five years, Timothy J. Shannon definitively rewrites the historical record on the Albany Congress. Challenging the received wisdom that has equated the Congress and the plan of colonial union it produced with the origins of American independence, Shannon demonstrates conclusively the Congress's importance in the wider context of Britain's eighteenth-century Atlantic empire. In the process, the author poses a formidable challenge to the Iroquois Influence Thesis. The Six Nations, he writes, had nothing to do with the drafting of the Albany Plan, which borrowed its model of constitutional union not from the Iroquois but from the colonial delegates' British cousins. Far from serving as a dress rehearsal for the Constitutional Convention, the Albany Congress marked, for colonists and Iroquois alike, a passage from an independent, commercial pattern of intercultural relations to a hierarchical, bureaucratic imperialism wielded by a distant authority.

Religion and Public Life in the Southern Crossroads

Religion and Public Life in the Southern Crossroads
Title Religion and Public Life in the Southern Crossroads PDF eBook
Author William D. Lindsey
Publisher Altamira Press
Pages 200
Release 2005
Genre Political Science
ISBN

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An overview of public religion in Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas.