A collection of articles that describe the relationships and encounters between Native Americans and Europeans throughout American history.
"Contextual in approch, this text draws on socio-economic and political studies as well as histories of religion, science, literature, and popular culture, and explores the diverse, conflicted history of American art and architecture.
American Encounters is a long-awaited dynamic new narrative of the history of American art that focuses on historical encounters among diverse cultures, upon broad structural transformations such as the rise...
Through literature, film, song, and dance, American Encounters explores an alternative history of attraction and desire between the U.S. and Greater Mexico, offering a vision of hope for the future.
Based on the travels of Griffis, Morse, and Hearn in the late 1800s, these stories evoke the immediacy of daily experience in Meiji, Japan, a nation still feudal in many of its habits yet captivating to Westerners for its gentleness, beauty ...
See William Stivers, America's Confrontation with Revolutionary Change in the Middle East, 1948–83 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986). 60. W. W. Rostow, The Diffusion of Power: An Essay in Recent History (New York: Macmillan, 1972), ...
José Amalio, “Galeria das ladras,” O Malho, July 6, 1929, 10; “Sempre as domesticas: Um furto numa casa de familia,” A Notícia, April 23, 1926, 4; Ernesto Silva, letter to the editor, Diario Nacional, October 5, 1928; reprinted in ...
Essays that suggest new ways of understanding the role that US actors and agencies have played in Latin America." - publisher. ""Close Encounters" is an unusual achievement, especially for a collection of essays.
In Traveling between Worlds, six authors explore the connectedness between Germans and Americans in the nineteenth century and their mutual impact on transatlantic history.
We Are Left without a Father Here is a transnational history of working people's struggles and a gendered analysis of populism and colonialism in mid-twentieth-century Puerto Rico.
In Extinction and the Human Timothy Sweet ponders the realities of animal extinction and endangerment and the often divergent Native American and Euro-American narratives that surround them, focusing especially on the force of human impact ...