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  • Mexico’s Once and Future Revolution

    Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century

    by Gilbert M. Joseph, Jürgen Buchenau ...
    In this concise historical analysis of the Mexican Revolution, Gilbert M. Joseph and Jürgen Buchenau explore the revolution's causes, dynamics, consequences, and legacies. They do so from varied perspectives, including those of campesinos and workers; politicians, artists, intellectuals, and students; women and men; the well-heeled, the dispossessed, and the multitude in the middle. In the process ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Banana Wars

    Power, Production, and History in the Americas

    by Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Over the past century, the banana industry has radically transformed Latin America and the Caribbean and become a major site of United States–Latin American interaction. Banana Wars is a history of the Americas told through the cultural, political, economic, and agricultural processes that brought bananas from the forests of Latin America and the Caribbean to the breakfast tables of the United ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Empire of Care

    Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History

    by Catherine Ceniza Choy, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    In western countries, including the United States, foreign-trained nurses constitute a crucial labor supply. Far and away the largest number of these nurses come from the Philippines. Why is it that a developing nation with a comparatively greater need for trained medical professionals sends so many of its nurses to work in wealthier countries? Catherine Ceniza Choy engages this question through ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Aloha Betrayed

    Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism

    by Noenoe K. Silva, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In 1897, as a white oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition drive to protest. Ninety-five percent of the native population signed the petition, causing the annexation treaty to fail in the U.S. Senate. This event was unknown to many contemporary Hawaiians until Noenoe K. Silva rediscovered the petition in the process of ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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    50 Classic Thriller Short Stories Vol 1: Works by Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Wallace, Edith Nesbit...and many more !

    by Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Wallace, Edith Nesbit, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur O. Friel, Edward S. Ellis, Gilbert Parker, Cy Warman, Damien Storan ...
    Narrated by Joseph Linehan‎‏, Steven Collins ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 54 min

    This Audiobook contains the following works: 1. The Builder [Frank L. Packard 2. The Man Who Didn't Count [Frank L. Packard] 3. Red Petals [Frederick Merrick White] 4. The Other Man's Story [Frederick Merrick White] 5. The Shebeeners [Frederick Merrick White] 6. The Waterwitch [Frederick Merrick White] 7. The Brand of the Wild [G.B Lancaster] 8. A Fair Smuggler [George Newnes] 9. A Castaway of the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Communication and Empire

    Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860-1930

    by Dwayne R. Winseck, Robert M. Pike, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Filling in a key chapter in communications history, Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike offer an in-depth examination of the rise of the “global media” between 1860 and 1930. They analyze the connections between the development of a global communication infrastructure, the creation of national telegraph and wireless systems, and news agencies and the content they provided. Conventional histories ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • From Silver to Cocaine

    Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000

    by Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Demonstrating that globalization is a centuries-old phenomenon, From Silver to Cocaine examines the commodity chains that have connected producers in Latin America with consumers around the world for five hundred years. In clear, accessible essays, historians from Latin America, England, and the United States trace the paths of many of Latin America’s most important exports: coffee, bananas, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Enduring Legacy

    Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela

    by Miguel Tinker Salas, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Oil has played a major role in Venezuela’s economy since the first gusher was discovered along Lake Maracaibo in 1922. As Miguel Tinker Salas demonstrates, oil has also transformed the country’s social, cultural, and political landscapes. In The Enduring Legacy, Tinker Salas traces the history of the oil industry’s rise in Venezuela from the beginning of the twentieth century, paying particular ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • September 11 in History

    A Watershed Moment?

    by Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg, Marilyn B. Young, Elaine Tyler May ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Hours after the collapse of the Twin Towers, the idea that the September 11 attacks had “changed everything” permeated American popular and political discussion. In the period since then, the events of September 11 have been used to justify profound changes in U.S. public policy and foreign relations. Bringing together leading scholars of history, law, literature, and Islam, September 11 in ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • In the Shadows of State and Capital

    The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995

    by Steve Striffler, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Winner of the 2001 President’s Award of the Social Science History AssociationIn the Shadows of State and Capital tells the story of how Ecuadorian peasants gained, and then lost, control of the banana industry. Providing an ethnographic history of the emergence of subcontracting within Latin American agriculture and of the central role played by class conflict in this process, Steve Striffler ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Emperors in the Jungle

    The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama

    by John Lindsay-Poland, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg, Guillermo Castro ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Emperors in the Jungle is an exposé of key episodes in the military involvement of the United States in Panama. Investigative journalism at its best, this book reveals how U.S. ideas about taming tropical jungles and people, combined with commercial and military objectives, shaped more than a century of intervention and environmental engineering in a small, strategically located nation. Whether ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Tropical Zion

    General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosúa

    by Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg, Allen Wells, PhD ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Seven hundred and fifty Jewish refugees fled Nazi Germany and founded the agricultural settlement of Sosúa in the Dominican Republic, then ruled by one of Latin America’s most repressive dictators, General Rafael Trujillo. In Tropical Zion, Allen Wells, a distinguished historian and the son of a Sosúa settler, tells the compelling story of General Trujillo, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and those ... Read more

    $28.79 USD