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AMERICAN CONSUMER SOCIETY, 1865-2005: FROM HEARTH TO HDTV

By Blaszczyk, Regina Lee
A volume in The American History Series
384, paperback, ISBN: (978-0-88295-264-2
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This startlingly original and highly readable volume adds a new richness and depth to an element of U.S. history that is all too often taken for granted. In American Consumer Society, Regina Lee Blaszczyk examines the emergence of consumerism in the Victorian era, and, in tracing its evolution over the next 140 years, shows how the emergence of a mass market was followed by its fragmentation. Niche marketing focused on successive waves of new consumers as each made its presence known: Irish immigrants, urban African Americans, teenagers, computer geeks, and soccer moms, to name but a few.

Blaszczyk demonstrates that middle-class consumerism is an intrinsic part of American identity, but exactly how consumerism reflected that identity changed over time. Initially driven to imitate those who had already achieved success, Americans eventually began to use their purchases to express themselves. This led to a fundamental change in American culture—one in which the American reverence for things was replaced by a passion for experiences. New Millennium families no longer treasured exquisite china or dress in fine clothes, but they’ll spare no expense on being able to make phone calls, retrieve emails, watch ESPN, or visit web sites at any place, any time. Victorian mothers just wouldn’t understand.

Using materials and techniques from business history, art history, anthropology, sociology, material culture, and good story-telling, this lavishly illustrated and highly thoughtful narrative offers a compelling re-interpretation of American culture through the lens of consumerism, making it perfect for use not only as supplementary reading in the U.S. survey, but also for a variety of courses in Business, Culture, Economics, Marketing, and Fashion and Design history.

GOING TO THE SOURCES: A GUIDE TO HISTORICAL RESEARCH AND WRITING, 4th Ed.

By BRUNDAGE, ANTHONY

141 pages, paperback, ISBN: (978-0-88295-253-6)
SAMPLE STUDENT PAPER, APPENDICES, AND INDEX
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The Fourth Edition of our highly affordable and convenient text remains an excellent tool for students faced with the daunting task of writing their first research paper or historiographical essay. The book begins with a chapter that describes the different schools of thought of history, setting the stage for a discussion of the different types of historical sources and the organization of the historical profession. Then Going to the Sources becomes a hands-on manual, helping the reader identify, find, and evaluate the many sources available to researchers. In addition to enhanced coverage of technological tools, this fourth edition features an entirely new chapter, "Getting the Most Out of History Books," practical advice to help students read more critically. New and updated appendices provide easy examples of style for footnotes, endnotes, and bibliographical entries, as well as a list of commonly used abbreviations.

MEXICAN MOSAIC: A BRIEF HISTORY OF MEXICO

By BUCHENAU, JURGEN
A volume in The Global History Series
164 pages, paperback, ISBN: (978-0-88295-263-3)
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The most concise introduction to Mexican history on the market, this new book emphasizes two major themes as organizing principles: Mexico in the global community, and the negotiation of power. In keeping with the overarching purpose of the Global History Series, Mexican Mosaic analyzes the way Mexicans interacted with the United States and the rest of the outside world. As political leaders, soldiers, consumers, entrepreneurs, and migrants—indeed, in all aspects of their lives—Mexican men and women have increasingly confronted global influences, by no means limited to their interrelationships with the culture and economy their powerful neighbors to the north. The second theme analyzes the way Mexicans have contested and negotiated their place in a society marked by great social differences, limited access to political power, impartial justice, and repeated upheaval.

Though the volume focuses on political and economic history, colorful anecdotes and brief biographical sketches give readers an appreciation of Mexico’s cultural and social history, specifically of how ordinary Mexicans lived, making Mexican Mosaic the ideal core text for undergraduates of all levels and insightful and supplementary reading for survey courses in Latin American, World, and Diplomatic history.

THE HISTORY OF TEXAS, 4th Ed.

By CALVERT, ROBERT A., ARNOLDO De LEON, and GREGG CANTRELL

503 pages, paperback, ISBN: (978-0-88295-255-0)
MAPS, PHOTOGRAPHS, TABLES, TIMELINES, APPENDIX, and INDEX. INSTRUCTOR'S TESTBANK AVAILABLE

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The principle that all people make history continues to drive the Fourth Edition of our well-loved text, one that considers carefully the different cultures within the state as well as the unique heritage shared by all Texans.

Unlike other surveys of the Lone Star State, The History of Texas goes beyond accounts of well-known figures to consider the lives of ordinary Texans, as seen in the continued and expanded coverage of topics such as agriculture, industrialization, urbanization, economic disparity, migration patterns, and demographic change. Like its predecessors, the Fourth Edition features the history of folklore, music, literature, sports, religion, and other important aspects of Texas culture that help determine the flavor of Texas, past and present.

In response to the feedback of instructors and students alike, this edition has been reedited and revised, making it more accessible to student readers of all levels and representative of the very latest historical research. Additions include broader discussions of American Indian peoples, the activities in Texas of the French explorer La Salle, the lead up to and the battles and other events comprising the Texas Revolution, and the affinity between Texas and southern culture that ensued once the Republic became a state in 1845. In addition, the description of Reconstruction in Texas has been reorganized and simplified to help students grasp better this complex topic. Naturally, the final chapter has—in light of the rapid movements in politics, the economy, and culture—undergone extensive revision, bringing the coverage through the election of 2006.

Still the best-illustrated survey of Texas history, The History of Texas remains the most inclusive, relevant, and up-to-date account of all those who call the Lone Star State home.

A complimentary Instructor's Test Bank for the Fourth Edition of The History of Texas is available on CD-ROM.

NORTH to AZTLAN: A HISTORY OF MEXICAN AMERICANS IN THE UNITED STATES, 2nd Ed.

By DE LEON, ARNOLDO, and RICHARD GRISWOLD del CASTILLO

312 pages, paperback, ISBN: (978-088295-243-7)
MAPS, PHOTOGRAPHS, TABLES, BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY, CHRONOLOGY, GLOSSARY, NOTES and REFERENCES, and INDEX
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Contemporary observers often quip that the American Southwest has become “Mexicanized,” but this view ignores the history of the region as well as the social reality. Mexican people and their culture have been continuously present in the territory for the past four hundred years, and Mexican Americans were actors in United States history long before the national media began to focus on them—even long before an international border existed between the United States and Mexico.

North to Aztlán, an inclusive, readable, and affordable survey history, explores the Indian roots, culture, society, lifestyles, politics, and art of Mexican Americans and the contributions of the people to and their influence on American history and the mainstream culture.

Though cognizant of changing interpretations that divide scholars, Drs. De León and Griswold del Castillo provide a holistic vision of the development of Mexican American society, one that attributes great importance to immigration (before and after 1900) and the ongoing influence of new arrivals on the evolving identity of Mexican Americans. Also showcased is the role of gender in shaping the cultural and political history of La Raza, as exemplified by the stories of outstanding Mexicana and Chicana leaders as well as those of largely unsung female heros, among them ranch and business owners and managers, labor leaders, community activists, and artists and writers. In short, readers will come away from this extensively revised and completely up-to-date second edition with a new understanding of the lives of a people who currently compose the largest minority in the nation.

Completely revised, re-edited, and redesigned, featuring a great many new photographs and maps, North to Aztlán is certain to take its rightful place as the best college-level survey text of Americans of Mexican descent on the market today.

MEXICAN AMERICANS IN TEXAS: A BRIEF HISTORY, 3rd Ed.

By DeLEON, ARNOLDO

248 pages, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-88295-268-0
PHOTO-ESSAY: Los Tejanos, MAPS, GLOSSARY, NOTES, and INDEX
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This third edition of our ground-breaking publication, the first survey of Tejanos, has been completely updated to present a concise political, cultural, and social history of Mexican Americans in Texas from the Spanish colonial era to the present day, a time when people of Mexican descent are poised to become the demographic majority in the Lone Star.

Writing specifically for the college-level student and careful to include a consensus of the latest literature in this strong and continually growing field, Professor De León portrays Tejanos as active subjects, not merely objects, in the ongoing Texas story. Complemented by a stunning photographic essay and a helpful glossary, and featuring new biographical vignettes that now introduce and set the context for each chapter, this third edition of our well-loved text is certain to be even more engaging and relevant to readers of all levels.

And while the book targets a wide reading audience, it is ideally fit for classroom use. Professors teaching courses in Texas, western, and borderlands history will find it an ideal complement to their class lectures and other outside reading assignments. Of particular interest to students will be discussions describing the survival techniques Tejanos developed to withstand poverty and disadvantage, the process of assimilation over many generations, the changes engendered by the Chicano Movement of the 1960s, the role of political figures such as José Antonio Navarro, J. T. Canales, Alonso Perales, Héctor P. García, or Irma Rangel, or the impact of court cases like which Hernández v. Texas or Plyler v. Doe that changed the direction of Mexican American history.

LABOR IN AMERICA: A HISTORY, 8th Ed.

By DUBOFSKY, MELVYN and FOSTER RHEA DULLES

479 pages, paperback, ISBN: (978-0-88295-273-4)
Four Banks of Photographs, Further Reading, and Index
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Even since the last edition of this milestone text was released six years ago, unions have continued to shed members; union membership in the private sector of the economy has fallen to levels not seen since the nineteenth century; the forces of economic liberalization (neo-liberalism), capital mobility, and globalization have affected measurably the material standard of living enjoyed by workers in the United States; and mass immigration from the Southern Hemisphere and Asia has continued to restructure the domestic labor force.

Yet even in the face of anti-union legislation, a continuing decline in the number of organized workers, and the fear of stateless, if not faceless terrorism—the shadow of “911” in which we still live, in preparing this new edition of his classic text Professor Dubofsky has hewn to the lines laid out in the previous seven in seeking to encourage today’s students of labor history to learn about those who built the United States and who will shape its future.

In addition to taking the narrative right up to the present, a recent history that includes the election of 2008 as well as the tumultuous blow suffered by the U.S. and world economy in 2008-09, this eighth edition features an entirely new (fourth) bank of photographs and, in light of the avalanche of new scholarly work over the last decade, a complete overhauling of the book’s extensive and critical Further Readings section in order to note the very best works from the profuse recent scholarship that explores the history of working people in all its diversity.

“However grim the present may seem for workers and the labor movement, their future—as the last half-century testifies—remains open. As has happened several times in the past, a revitalized labor movement may yet emerge in the course of the twenty-first century.” —Melvyn Dubofsky

* We are pleased to offer the seventh edition of our classic labor-history survey, Labor in America: A History, with an important new labor-history reader, The Voice of the People: Primary Sources in the History of American Labor, Industrial Relations, and Working-Class Culture edited by Jonathan Rees and Jonathan Z. S. Pollack (see below), as a combined set for the special discounted price of $49.95.

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The Atlantic World: A History, 1400-1888

By Egerton, Douglas R., Alison Games, Jane G. Landers, Kris Lane, and Donald R. Wright

530 pages, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-88295-245-1
Illustrations,Photographs, Maps, Charts, Suggested Readings, and Index
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Before the voyage of Columbus in 1492, the Atlantic Ocean stood as a barrier to contact between the people (and their ideas and institutions), plants, animals, and microbes of Eurasia and Africa on the one hand and the Americas on the other. Following Columbus’s voyage, the Atlantic turned into a conduit for transferring these things among the four continents bordering the ocean in ways that affected people living on each of them.

The appearance of The Atlantic World marks an important achievement, for it stands out as the first successful attempt to combine the many strains of Atlantic history into a comprehensive, thoughtful narrative. At the core of this ground-breaking and eloquently written survey lies a consideration of the relationships among people living in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, with a focus on how these relationships played important roles—often the most important roles—in how the histories of the people involved unfolded. The ways of life of millions of people changed, sometimes for the better but often for the worse, because of their relationship to the larger Atlantic world. And unlike existing texts dealing with one or another aspect of Atlantic history, The Atlantic World does not subjugate the history of Africa and South America to those of the “British Atlantic” or Europe.

With historians and other scholars beginning to reconceptualize the Atlantic World as a dynamic zone of exchange in which people, commodities, and ideas circulated from the mid-fifteenth century until the dawn of the twentieth century, the interconnections between people along the Atlantic rim create a coherent region, one in which events in one corner inevitably altered the course of history in another. As this book testifies, Atlantic history, properly understood, is history without borders—in which national narratives take backstage to the larger examination of interdependence and cultural transmission.

Conceived of and produced by a team of distinguished authors with countless hours of teaching experience at the college level, this thoughtfully organized, beautifully written, and lavishly illustrated book will set the standard for all future surveys intended as a core text for the new and rapidly growing courses in Atlantic History.

THE METHODS AND SKILLS OF HISTORY: A PRACTICAL GUIDE, 3rd Ed.

By FURAY, CONAL, and MICHAEL J. SALEVOURIS
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282 pages, paperback, ISBN: (978-0-88295-272-7)
PHOTOGRAPHS, MAPS, EXERCISES, WRITING CAPSULES, APPENDICES, and INDEX
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Like its predecessors, the third edition of one of our most popular texts, The Methods and Skills of History: A Practical Guide, is a dynamic text/workbook that combines theory with "hands on" practice, providing engaging essays, documents, and exercises designed to make history more meaningful and accessible to student readers—whether they are majoring in history, taking a history course as an elective, or simply reading history on their own—as well as strengthen their critical-thinking and communication skills.

While this third edition retains the essence of its highly successful predecessor in the form of its practical, timely advice on research and writing and “field-tested” exercises, it features important modifications as well, including a reorganization of the chapters to progress even more smoothly from a theoretical discussion of the nature of history (Part I), to practical considerations involved in confronting historical accounts (Part II) to actually “doing” history (Part III). The final section (Part IV) provides a brief overview of how history as a discipline evolved and how it relates to other academic disciplines, as well as appendices that comprise interesting historical documents and helpful source references and bibliographies.

CONQUESTS & CONSEQUENCES: THE AMERICAN WEST from FRONTIER to REGION

By HIGHAM, CAROL L., and WILLIAM H. KATERBERG

475 pages, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-88295-270-3
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Harlan Davidson is proud to offer a bold new approach to a survey history of the American West, a co-publication with the Buffalo Bill Historical Center . . .

Conquests and Consequences tells the story of the American West as the meeting of peoples and encounters with new environments. It emphasizes the efforts of Spanish, French, English, and American empires to control the region and impose their way of life on its Native peoples and landscapes, but also shows how empire builders sometimes adapted to the people and lands they encountered. Conquests always had unexpected consequences. This story has a cast of colorful characters, from the Indian warriors and gunslingers made into icons by Western novels and films to miners filled with gold fever, farm families dreaming of owning their own land, suburban tourists at national parks with their children packed in family cars, and legal and illegal immigrants looking for work and a better life.

Lavishly illustrated with more than 100 photographs and maps—and certain to be the most accessible and affordable text on the market—Conquests and Consequencesdoes not shy away from controversial questions or the significance and meaning of Western American history. It pits the famous “frontier thesis” of Frederick Jackson Turner against competing ways of understanding the history of the U.S. West—from “borderlands” approaches to the “metropolitan thesis” of Western Canadian Historians, frontiers as zones of racial conflict, and the “New Western History” of the 1980s and 1990s. It encourages readers to consider what these diverse perspectives on the region and its history have to say about the present and future of the American “empire.”

NORTH CAROLINA: CHANGE and TRADITION in a SOUTHERN STATE

By LINK, WILLIAM A.

481 pages, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-88295-267-3
MAPS, PHOTOGRAPHS, SUGGESTED READINGS, APPENDIX, and INDEX
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In this long-awaited survey history, William Link examines the fascinating history of North Carolina through the lens of strong but seemingly contradictory historical patterns: powerful forces of traditionalism punctuated by hierarchies of class, race relations, and gender that seemingly clashed, especially during the last century, with potent forces of modernization and a “progressive” element that welcomed, even embraced, change. The result answers meaningful questions that all Tar Heels ask about the history and the future of the unique and quickly growing state they call home.

Taking the North Carolina story from moments before first contact all the way to the elections of 2008, this book provides a great new resource for all college-level instructors and students of North Carolina history.

"We badly need a scholarly history of North Carolina. William Link's volume is sound in conception, research, and analysis. It is especially penetrating on the related subjects of slavery and race, but also deals well with politics and social history more broadly."--Harry Watson, UNC-Chapel Hill

"Bill Link has written a valuable contribution for college-level classes in North Carolina history. His well-written text is balanced in terms of chronolgoy and topic selection. North Carolina: Change and Tradition in a Southern State is a significant and welcome addition to current North Carolina history texts."--L. Scott Philyaw, Western Carolina University

AMERICAN BUSINESS SINCE 1920: HOW IT WORKED, 2nd Ed.

By McCraw, THOMAS K.
A volime in The American History Series
354 pages, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-88295-266-6
THREE PHOTO-ESSAYS, BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY, and INDEX
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It’s safe to say that since the first appearance of Thomas McCraw’s contribution to Harlan Davidson’s American History Series in 2000, American business has taken some of the most dramatic, perhaps most incredible, turns in its history.

Far more than an update, the second edition of one of our most popular texts has been carefully revised and reorganized—not only to include necessary new coverage but to present more fully and forcefully the book’s central argument and major themes, making this new edition even more “teachable” for instructors and accessible to student readers.

Unique in the market for its breadth of coverage and depth of analysis, the new edition of our uncommonly readable book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas K. McCraw will continue as a classic supplementary text in a variety of undergraduate as well as graduate courses and seminars.

Featuring three banks of striking photographs and a completely up-to-date bibliographic essay, this compact, enjoyable work will be highly appreciated by all students of U.S. business history and the art of administration.

HITLER, STALIN AND MUSSOLINI: TOTALITARIANISM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, 3rd Ed.

By PAULEY, BRUCE F.
A volume in The European History Series
360 pages, paperback, ISBN: (978-0-88295-269-7
MAPS, PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY, BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY, and INDEX
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One of the most popular volumes in our European History Series, Bruce Pauley's inventive work continues to provide readers a unique interpretive comparison of the economics, propaganda, culture, and education and healthcare systems of all three forms of European totalitarianism, punctuated by vivid portraits of the dictators' youths, early careers, personal relationships, management styles, and cults of personality.

With so many totalitarian or near-totalitarian regimes remaining in the world today or struggling to emerge from the shadows of totalitarianism, it is clear that one cannot dismiss the totalitarian dictatorships discussed in this book as mere intellectual curiosities with no relevance to the present. This newest edition of Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini includes entirely new maps and a number of new photographs, considers the very latest scholarship—much of which has been published since 2002—and provides fascinating new details including the use of terror, Stalin’s lack of preparedness for war in 1941, the attempted reforms of Nikita Krushchev and Mikhail Gorbachev, and the changes that have taken place in the former dictatorships since the turn of the twenty-first century.

Inventing the American Woman: An Inclusive History, 4th Ed. Volume I: To 1877

By Riley, Glenda
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316 pages, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-88295-250-5
Maps, Photographic Essays, Student Study Guides (per chapter), Suggestions for further Reading, and Index
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When the first edition of this groundbreaking survey of U.S. women’s history first appeared in 1986, no one could have predicted its spectacular success and widespread support—or the vast proliferation of women’s history courses in the nation’s high schools, colleges, and universities.

Informed by the generous feedback of many of “Inventing"’s loyal users—student readers and instructors from every region of the nation—the fourth edition of Glenda Riley’s dynamic text remains the most inclusive, accessible, and affordable choice as a core text for the Women’s History course, as well as useful supplementary reading for courses in Women’s Studies and the U.S. survey.

Completely up to date, with expanded coverage of women in the military, sports, women’s healthcare, divorce, and women of color—especially Spanish-speaking, American Indian, African American, and Asian American women—this well-balanced, interpretive account portrays the myriad of women’s experiences as they shaped and were shaped by American history, and redounds as a remarkable feat of insight and inclusion. As always, each volume features a stunning photographic essay, a visual account from the colonial era to the present.

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Inventing the American Woman: An Inclusive History, 4th Ed. Volume II: Since 1877

By Riley, Glenda
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330 pages, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-88295-251-2
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Inventing the American Woman: An Inclusive History, 4th Ed. Two-Volume Set

By Riley, Glenda

646 pages, paperback, ISBN: 2 Volume Set
Maps, Photographic Essays, Student Study Guides (per chapter), Suggestions for further Reading, and Index
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CALIFORNIA: A HISTORY, 7th Ed.

By ROLLE, ANDREW, and ARTHUR VERGE

450, paperback, ISBN: (ISBN: 978-0-88295-256-7)
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Since its original publication, Andrew Rolle's classic work has been enjoyed by more than 100,000 persons, students and general readers alike. Like its predecessors, the seventh edition of California: A History recounts the state's history from its origins to the present in an engaging manner, while seeking a balance between conflicting viewpoints. Today especially, Californians face severe implications of the state's overwhelming diversity and continuing population explosion. This seventh edition incorporates these dramatic new developments in a historical context, pondering implications for the future. Likewise, those sections of the book devoted to women, the environment, immigration (legal and illegal), crime, sports, energy, and transportation have all been expanded. The most obvious change to this edition is the addition of Arthur Verge as coauthor, and loyal users will be delighted to see the addition of many new photographs that also help keep our "classic" text vibrant and current.

MICHIGAN: A HISTORY OF THE GREAT LAKES STATE, 4th Ed.

By RUBENSTEIN, BRUCE A., and LAWRENCE E. ZIEWACZ

360 pages, paperback, ISBN: (978-0-88295-257-4)
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Informed by the latest research and taking the long and fascinating history of Michigan right up to the present, this fourth edition of the leading survey of the Great Lakes State features a thoughtful redesign of its maps, new photographs, and expanded coverage, including the social and economic impact of tribal operated casino gaming on the state's American Indian population; environmental issues; agriculture; education; the latest developments in the Jimmy Hoffa mystery; literary and media contributions; Michigan's return to prominence in the realm of collegiate and professional sports, politics in the twenty-first century, the revitalization of Detroit, and the deepening economic decline since 2003.

IN THE WAKE OF COLUMBUS: THE IMPACT OF THE NEW WORLD ON EUROPE, 1492-1650, 2nd Ed.

By Schlesinger, Roger
A Volume in The European History Series
172 pages, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-88295-249-9
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About 500 years ago, Christopher Columbus “discovered” the Americas, an event that was to change radically the lives of all indigenous Americans and shape their subsequent histories. Often overlooked, is the fact that the encounter of the so-called old and new worlds also brought considerable, even momentous, changes to European peoples and societies.

In the second edition of one of our most popular texts, Roger Schlesinger details the fascinating clash of cultures and considers the impact of the exploration and conquest of America on the civilization of early modern Europe—including the subsequent development of intellectual thought, the introduction of new products and foods that changed radically the diet, and how the acquisition of new lands and resources came to shape a culture of acquisitiveness that changed the world differential of power and saw Europe rise to global dominance.

Updated throughout and featuring an entirely new bank of illustrations, the second edition of In the Wake of Columbus is certain to provide students with a brief, highly readable, and startlingly interesting insight into an often-neglected aspect of the dynamic flow of ideas and commodities—moving east as well as west—that followed first contact. Like its predecessor, this book makes perfect supplementary reading for survey courses in European, World, and Atlantic History and Western Civilization.

WOMEN AND GENDER IN THE NEW SOUTH, 1865-1945

By TURNER, ELIZABETH HAYES
A volume in The American History Series
312 pages, paperback, ISBN: (978-0-88295-265-9)
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In every age and in every culture there have been women who challenged the prevailing gender prescriptions and struck a nerve, resulting in waves of either change or repression. In Women and Gender in the New South, Elizabeth Hayes Turner draws on a multiplicity of sources—part of the great outpouring of works in the field of women’s history that has emerged in the past 40 years—to bring together in one volume the history of conservative, moderate, and even radical women’s groups. The book demonstrates how women and men from different racial and economic backgrounds not only weathered but also shaped the political and cultural landscape of the New South. Employing women's history, gender analysis, and race and class studies, Women and Gender in the New South shapes this accumulated scholarship into an interpretative overlay that takes southern women and men from the ravages of one war to the opportunities of another.

“Turner’s work is a smart, engagingly-written, and valuable analysis of how white and black women fared during this critical period. . . . The field of southern women’s history is extraordinarily vibrant, and Turner captures the best of it, synthesizes in into a short narrative, and makes it all look easy.”

—Stephanie Cole, University of Texas at Arlington

LOUISIANA: A HISTORY, 5th Ed.

By WALL, BENNETT H., Ed. By LIGHT TOWNSEND CUMMINS, JUDITH KELLEHER SCHAFER, EDWARD F. HAAS, AND MICHAEL L. KURTZ. With an Introduction by John C. Rodrigue

514, paperback, ISBN: (978-0-88295-258-1)
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From its ancient Indian peoples to its troubled beginning as a French colony to the tragic events of Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana has a history that, whatever else one might say about the state, has never been dull. This fifth edition of our classic survey history of Louisiana reflects a re-examination on the part of its esteemed team of authors of recent historical findings as well as of their own research, ensuring that Louisiana: A History will continue to present the most comprehensive and current account of the many different peoples that have and currently do make the rich, colorful land known as Louisiana their home.

World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis: Volume I

By Wallech, Steven, Craig Hendricks, Touraj Daryaee, Anne Lynne Negus, Peter Wan, Gordon Morris Bakken
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288 pages, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-88295-244-4
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It will be immediately apparent to anyone familiar with the full-length or even so-called concise world history surveys currently on the market that this book stands alone: its interesting and recurrent themes—conceptual bridges that span the many centuries—give it a unique voice. Its format helps the reader see the larger picture, to conceptualize patterns over time by importing concepts from one unit to another. And while this book might not offer flashy four-color maps and illustrations, its price and length speak for themselves. Too often students are required to pay a great deal of money for books they have no hope of finishing, let alone comprehending or remembering much longer than a day after turning in the last exam.

With decades of combined experience teaching World History—in community colleges and four-year institutions—our team of authors has witnessed firsthand the frustration instructors and students of world history experience with current survey textbooks. Deeming a new approach necessary, they have spent the last several years conceiving of and writing World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis.

Whether you are new to the field of world history or have taught the subject for years, we think you will find this new approach both refreshing and effective, and that you will agree that a thematic analysis goes a long way toward making a complicated compendium of human numbers, economies, and cultures—the “one darn thing after another” phenomenon that gives World history a bad name—meaningful to student readers.

* A complimentary computer Test Bank on CD-Rom for both PCs and Macs will be available to all instructors.

World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis: Volume II

By Wallech, Steven, Craig Hendricks, Touraj Daryaee, Anne Lynne Negus, Peter Wan, Gordon Morris Bakken
*** ALSO AVAILABLE AS A TWO-VOLUME SET AT A DISCOUNTED PRICE, SEE BELOW ***
332 pages, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-88295-252-9
Maps, Illustrations, Photographs, Suggested Readings, and Index.
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World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis - 2 Volume Set @ Discounted Price

By Wallech, Steven, Craig Hendricks, Touraj Daryaee, Anne Lynne Negus, Peter Wan, Gordon Morris Bakken

560 pages, paperback, ISBN: 2 Volume Set
Maps, Illustrations, Photographs, Suggested Readings, and Index
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Preserving the Nation: The Conservation and Environmental Movements, 1870-2000

By Wellock, Thomas R.
A Volume in The American History Series
340 pages, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-88295-254-3
Photographs, End Notes, Bibliographical Essay, and Index
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In the popular imagination, the roots of environmentalism lie in actions undertaken at the beginning of the twentieth century to conserve the nation’s natural resources and preserve its scenic wonders. To some extent, those who have chronicled environmentalism have reinforced this perception, often writing about the heroes who helped create national parks and save forests rather than considering fundamental trends. Although most make some mention of reformers who stressed curbing pollution and urban clean-up in the period after 1945, environmental histories rarely integrate the three strands of the movement into one comprehensive study.

In Preserving the Nation, Thomas Wellock explores the international, rural, and industrial roots of modern environmentalism that emerged in the last half of the nineteenth century—three related movements in response to a rapidly expanding economy and population that depleted the nation’s resources, damaged land in rural areas, and blighted cities. The first group favored the conservation and efficient management of natural resources for production. The second, the preservationists, sought to protect scenic and wilderness areas and to sustain the spirit of the nation’s pioneer heritage and virility. The third group, the urban environmentalists, sought reform to control industrial pollution and retard urban decay. Politically powerful and widely admired, resource management overshadowed the other two movements until the 1950s. After World War II, the two less-powerful strands of the movement, preservationism and urban environmentalism, wove into one, as the accelerating effects of affluence, scientific discovery, Cold War concerns, and suburbanization led the public to value outdoor amenities and a healthy environment. This renamed “environmental” movement focused less on efficient use of resources and more on creating healthy ecosystems and healthy people free of risks from pollution and hazardous wastes. By 1970, environmentalism enjoyed widespread popular support and bipartisan appeal.

What all three movements always shared was a common recognition of the limits of America’s natural resources and environment, a belief in preserving them for generations to come, and a faith in at least some government environmental action rather than relying purely on private solutions. Not only does the history of these movements bring to light much about the expanding role of government in environmental regulation and the growth of the modern American state, but a look at environmental campaigns over the course of the twentieth century reveals a great deal about the racial, gender, and class divisions at work in the ongoing efforts to preserve the environment.

Accessible, insightful, and highly affordable, Preserving the Nation makes an ideal core text for use in courses in Environmental History as well as thought-provoking supplemental reading for Twentieth-century America and the U.S. survey.

AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE COLONIAL ERA: FROM AFRICAN ORIGINS THROUGH THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 3rd Ed.

By WRIGHT, DONALD R.
A volume in The American History Series
279 pages, paperback, ISBN: (978-0-88295-274-1)
MAPS, BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY, INDEX
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Over recent decades few topics of American history have been subject to greater attention and more thorough revision than African Americans in colonial times. Acclaimed works by leading scholars, relying on new bodies of evidence and writing from a fresh, Atlantic perspective, have provided a broadened, more nuanced view of the topic. In this third edition of one of the most popular books in our American History Series, Donald Wright works new interpretations into a narrative that provides a clear understanding of the scope and nature of the early African-American experience. Included are discussions of African Americans’ African origins; the Atlantic slave trade, based on the latest data from an on-line Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database; the origins of slavery and race-based prejudice in the mainland colonies; the evolutionary formation of African-American culture; and the effects of the American Revolution on men and women of African descent, at the time and long thereafter.

This third edition views African Americans in the British North-American mainland colonies more as their contemporaries did: as persons from one of the four continents who interacted economically, socially, and politically over a period of 180 years in a vast, vibrant, complex Atlantic world. It shows how the mainland North-American society that resulted from these interactions reflected the mix of Atlantic cultures and how the republic that a group of these people eventually constructed used European ideas to support creation of a favorable situation for those in control, persons largely of European descent. The African and African-American men and women, whose forebears had added greatly to the region’s economic and cultural viability, found themselves in 1789 with the least benefit from the nation they helped bring into existence.

Of special value is the book’s bibliographical essay, an expansion and updating of earlier versions that led the historian Ira Berlin to label Wright “the historiographer of slavery in the early period.”