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AMERICAN HISTORY - GENERAL



FEEDING THE WOLF: JOHN B. RAYNER AND THE POLITICS OF RACE, 1850-1918

By CANTRELL, GREGG

150 pages, paperback, ISBN: (0-88295-961-1)

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While the story of John B. Rayner is not widely known, this African American educator and Populist leader, the son of a politically powerful white slaveholder from North Carolina, was a political maverick who dared to challenge the Democratic Party and the Post-Civil War South's racial orthodoxy.

Indeed, John B. Rayner's story sometimes triumphant, occasionally shameful, mostly tragic has much to tell us about the tumultuous era in which he lived. His early experiences as a local Republican officeholder in the 1870s illustrate many of the contradictory features of Reconstruction. Likewise, his rise to prominence as an orator, organizer, and political strategist for the Texas People's Party in the 1890s illuminates both the promise and disappointment of the agrarian movement and the limits of political inclusion. Finally, Rayner's zigzag course after 1900 depicts the nearly impossible position that a talented, politically active African American found himself in during the age of Jim Crow.

Ideal for use as supplementary reading for courses in Southern, Texas, and African American history, Professor Cantrell's compelling study is certain to be enjoyed by history students of all levels.



RICKEY AND ROBINSON: THE PREACHER, THE PLAYER & AMERICA'S GAME

By CHALBERG, JOHN C.

270 pages, paperback, ISBN: (0-88295-952-2)
PHOTO ESSAY
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On August 28, 1945, a scout for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team escorted an intriguing, if not exactly youthful, prospect into the intriguing, if not exactly welcoming, office of a veteran baseball man who had already revolutionized the sport at least once. Jackie Robinson meet Branch Rickey.

What actually happened in that cluttered room over the course of the next few hours will never be known for certain, but without a doubt this meeting set in motion changes in major league baseball and in the nation that would echo long after the postwar became the Cold War.

Though baseball necessarily lies at the heart of this fascinating dual biography, the stories of these two remarkable men touch many of the most important issues and changes in American life from 1895-1970-the transition from rural to urban America, two World Wars and the war in Vietnam, the Red Scare, the evolution of mass media, and, of course, the Civil Rights movement-their lives spanning most of the century that they helped to shape. Alone, each story is a good one. Combined-and they can hardly be separated-the Rickey-Robinson story becomes compelling, even mythical.

For those readers not particularly interested in baseball, Rickey and Robinson will surely help them appreciate the game's place in American history. At the same time, those who do not have to be persuaded that baseball truly is America's game will treasure this remarkable work. This unique book is certain to make informative and entertaining reading for a variety of courses in sport history, recent America, popular culture, and the U.S. survey



THE FOUR FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

By CONKIN, PAUL

137 pages, paperback, ISBN: (0-88295-914-X)

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Professor Paul Conkin explores in this concise book the four foundations of American Government: 1. The Consent of a Sovereign People; 2. Limited Government; 3. Balanced Government; 4. Democratic Participation. He explains that too often, contemporary policy debates rest upon completely mistaken conceptions of the founding principles, instead of these four foundations.



THE WILSON ERA: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF ARTHUR S. LINK (CLOTH)

By COOPER, JOHN M. / NEU, CHARLES, EDS.

336 pages, paperback, ISBN: (0-88295-877-1)

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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.



THE SHAPING OF MODERN AMERICA, 1877-1920, 3rd Ed.

By DeSANTIS, VINCENT

344 pages, paperback, ISBN: (0-88273-953-0)

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In the years between the Civil War and the First World War, Americans lived in a nation quite different from that of their parents-the values of a burgeoning industrial and urban society transforming traditional notions of democracy. At the same time, other far-reaching developments-the eclipsing of countryside and farm by city and factory, substantial changes in communications and transportation, revolutionary innovations in agriculture, a large wave of immigration, the rise of labor unions, and the emergence of the United States as a world power-gave these years a distinctive character and established the foundations of modern America.

Revised to reflect the latest scholarship on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, this classic text remains a great choice as a core text for courses in the Gilded Age or as a highly useful supplement for the U.S. history survey.



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 AMERICAN ECONOMY: FROM THE GREAT CRASH TO THE THIRD INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

By FINKELSTEIN, JOSEPH

277 pages, paperback, ISBN: (0-88295-873-9)
CHARTS, GRAPHS
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The American Economy from the Great Crash to the Third Industrial Revolution is a concise examination of U.S. economic history since the beginning of the Great Depression. The text focuses on the crucial socioeconomic issues of our present age and provides a glimpse of the tremendous changes in store as the United States and the world enter what Professor Finkelstein calls the "Third Industrial Revolution."

The first seven chapters discuss important developments and events since 1929 especially with regard to business, labor, agriculture, and governmental policy. Chapters eight and nine discuss present issues including the legacy of deregulation, the overburdened infrastructure, environmental abuse, urban problems, and health care expenses. The last two chapters discuss the Third Industrial Revolution, a profound transformation created by microprocessors, lasers, fiber optics, biogenetics, etc. The author believes that this transformation will be even more profound than the First Industrial Revolution (which ushered in the machine age at the beginning of the nineteenth century) or the Second (the age of the automobile, electricity, and large-scale chemical production).



THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION, 2nd Ed.

By FRANKLIN, JOHN HOPE

155 pages, paperback, ISBN: (0-88295-907-7)

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While many historians have dealt with the Emancipation Proclamation as a phase or an aspect of the Civil War, few have given more than scant attention to the evolution of the document in the mind of Lincoln, the circumstances and conditions that led to its writing, its impact on the course of the war, and its significance for later generations. Professor John Hope Franklin's answer to this need, first published in 1963, is available again for the first time in many years. This edition includes a new preface, photo essay, and a reproduction of the 1863 handwritten draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, making it an ideal supplementary text for U.S. and African American survey courses as well as for more specialized courses on the Civil War and Reconstruction.



RECENT AMERICA: THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1945, 2nd Ed.

By GRANTHAM, DEWEY W.

502 pages, paperback, ISBN: (0-88295-941-7)
Includes Photographs, Maps & Charts, Suggestions for Further Reading, and Index.
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Extensively revised and expanded, this lavishly illustrated and thoughtfully organized book is based on a large body of historical writing, as well as the work of social scientists, journalists, and other authors on the contemporary scene.

"In several different and important ways, Professor Grantham brings the political history of recent America alive for new generations of students. . . ."-Nancy Beck Young, McKendree College



Japanese Americans and World War II: Mass Removal, Imprisonment, and Redress, 3rd Ed.

By Hata, Donald Teruo, and Nadine Ishitani Hata

36 pages, paperback, staple binding, ISBN: 978-0-88295-248-2
Map of Concentration Camps and Extensive Bibliography
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Like its predecessors, the third edition of Japanese Americans and World War II—a 36-page bound pamphlet—provides students of U.S., Asian American, World War II history with essential but too-often overlooked (at least in most standard U.S. survey textbooks) information on what may well be one of the most disgraceful episodes in American history.

Yet as painful as the details of the so-called internment of American citizens and legal immigrants was, Japanese Americans in World War II also chronicles the courage and resourcefulness of the Nikkei, during their imprisonment and in the years that followed, never abandoning the United States but demanding the respect they had earned—even as they struggled within the Japanese American community to define exactly what “citizenship” meant and how best to ask for—and get—the official apology they had waited so long to hear.

Completely updated and including a complete and expanded bibliography, this highly readable and affordable little pamphlet is a perfect supplement to the U.S. survey and a variety of more-specialized courses.



INDIANS IN AMERICAN HISTORY: AN INTRODUCTION, 2nd Ed.

By HOXIE, FREDERICK E. / IVERSON, PETER, EDS.

304 pages, paperback, ISBN: (0-88295-939-5)
PHOTOS, MAPS
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Like its highly popular and distinctive predecessor, this new edition of Indians in American History strives to fully integrate Indians into the conventional U.S. history narrative. Meticulously reedited throughout, this beautifully illustrated book features fourteen essays by fifteen authors who speak from a variety of disciplines and perspectives.

Table of Contents:
Introduction, Indian/White Relations: A View from the Other Side of the "Frontier," by Alfonso Ortiz
1. America Before Columbus, by James A. Brown
2. The Indians' Old World: Native Americans and the Coming of Europeans, by Neal Salisbury
3. Indians in the Colonial Spanish Borderlands, by Henry F. Dobyns
4. Native Americans and the American Revolution: Historic Stories and Shifting Frontier Conflict, by Kenneth M. Morrison
5. Indian Tribes and the American Constitution, by Charles F. Wilkinson
6. Indians in Southern History, by Theda Perdue
7. National Expansion from the Indian Perspective, by R. David Edmunds
8. How the West Was Lost, by William T. Hagan
9. The Curious Story of Reformers and the American Indians, by Frederick E. Hoxie
10. Modern America and the Indian, by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
11. The Struggle for Indian Civil Rights, by Richard West, Jr.
12. The 1970s: New Leaders for Indian Country, by Mark N. Trahant
13. The Hearts of Nations: American Indian Women in the Twentieth Century, by Paivi Hoikkala




THE UNITED STATES: A BRIEF NARRATIVE HISTORY, 2nd Ed.

By HULLAR, LINK, and SCOTT NELSON

248 pages, paperback, ISBN: (978-088295-229-1)
MAPS, HIGLIGHTED TERMS, CHAPTER REVIEWS, INDEX. APPENDICES INCLUDE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, and a LIST OF U.S. PRESIDENTS
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Like its popular predecessor, the second edition of The United States: A Brief History is a basic, readable, and affordable core text for the introductory survey of United States history. The book is not intended as the only resource for students in such courses: its length, approach, and price encourage the use of supplementary books, research projects, and primary documents (many of which are now available on the Internet). Nevertheless, this innovative survey will come as a welcome relief to the average student, who may be intimidated, overwhelmed, and overextended financially by the massive texts that dominate the genre. Even many so-called brief editions can weigh in a nearly a thousand pages, leaving many student readers lost in a maze of confusing, daunting, and expensive information.

The new edition boasts an introduction by Philip Weeks on the pre-Columbian American Indian nations who inhabited what became the continental United States—an important chapter in the history of the nation. Furthermore, the text has been refined or altered in places—both to accommodate new information and in response to the feedback of both students and instructors.

In taking a cultural literacy approach to decide what to include in the text, Hullar and Nelson highlight names, terms, and concepts common to an educated person’s understanding of American history. Big ideas, major themes, important events, and basic facts unfold in a chronological narrative that tells a lively story in user-friendly fashion. Each chapter concludes with a list of important terms for study and short-essay questions. The appendices include for handy reference an annotated text of The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States, and a list of the Presidents of the United States.



WOODROW WILSON: REVOLUTION, WAR AND PEACE

By LINK, ARTHUR S.

138 pages, paperback, ISBN: (0-88295-798-8)

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Professor Arthur S. Link, Director and Editor of The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, brings his considerable expertise and understanding of Wilson the man and the diplomat to this reexamination of Wilson's handling of foreign affairs. Link explores the ideas, assumptions, and ambitions that guided Wilson's methods of forming policy, and his diplomatic techniques. The author also goes on to consider some of the larger questions concerning Wilson's desire for neutrality, American entry into World War I, and Wilson's fight for American membership in the League of Nations.



IN THE EAGLE'S SHADOW: THE UNITED STATES AND LATIN AMERICA

By LONGLEY, KYLE

340, paperback, ISBN: (0-88295-968-9)
MAPS, PHOTOGRAPHS, SUGGESTED READINGS, INDEX
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All too often undergraduate readers find themselves overwhelmed by textbooks on the history of American foreign relations-the scholarly tone leaving them frustrated, the onslaught of names, events, policies, and counterpolicies leaving them unable to realize important continuties in a multidimensional story.

It is with the student reader in mind that Professor Kyle Longley and Harlan Davidson, Inc., proudly present In the Eagle's Shadow, a concise narrative history that in straight-forward language relates the long and complex history of the relationships between the United States and the nations of Latin America.

In order to help student readers contextulize the historical process, Professor Longley clearly lays out then consistently underscores the major themes in U.S.-Latin American relations-interdependence, the U.S. drive toward hemispheric hegemony and Latin America's various forms of resistance to it, and the rise of Latino Americans, peoples with a long and growing influence on U.S. culture and society, including the formation of foreign policy.

Finally, by weaving the relevant interpretations of leading scholars directly into the narrative, Professor Longley has crafted a new kind of foreign relations textbook that will engage student readers even as it enables them to form meaningful perspectives on the long and ongoing relationships that shape the history as well as the daily lives of all peoples who call the Americas home.

In the Eagle's Shadowis ideal for use a core text for courses in American Foreign Relations and makes engaging supplementary reading for survey courses in U.S. as well as Latin American History.



THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE: PRIMARY SOURCES ON THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN LABOR, INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, AND WORKING-CLASS CULTURE

By REES, JONATHAN and JONATHAN Z. S. POLLACK

264 pages, paperback, ISBN: (0-88295-225-0)
54 EDITED DOCUMENTS, PHOTOGRAPHS, INTRODUCTIONS, DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
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The first all-primary source reader in labor history published in nearly one hundred years, The Voice of the People presents excerpts from fifty-four primary sources to blend labor history’s traditional focus on the growth of a union movement with windows into all aspects of workers lives—their workplaces, their unions, their home lives and their culture—the engaging selections mirroring the great diversity of the American workforce from the colonial era to the present.

Arranged into four parts, each of which begins with an original overview of the corresponding period in American history, this unique compilation of edited documents—each of which is preceded by a contextual introduction—offers students the opportunity to explore for themselves how specific events as well as general trends in American labor history affected real people, whether farm laborers, slaves, servants, mill hands, prostitutes, assembly-line workers, office temps, fast-food employees, or union leaders.

While its organization and diverse range make it an excellent companion to Harlan Davidson’s popular Labor in America,* The Voice of the People can also stand alone or be used as an engaging supplement for any course in labor or United States history.

* We are pleased to offer this important new labor-history reader, The Voice of the People: Primary Sources in the History of American Labor, Industrial Relations, and Working-Class Culture with the seventh edition of our classic labor-history survey, Labor in America: A History by Melvyn Dubofsky and Foster Rhea Dulles (see above), as a combined set for the special discounted price of $49.95.

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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
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.

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



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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THINK ANEW, ACT ANEW: ABRAHAM LINCOLN ON SLAVERY, FREEDOM AND UNION

By SIMPSON, BROOKS D.

205 pages, paperback, ISBN: (0-88295-975-1)
BIBLIOG.
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In the hope of shedding light on questions that continue to spark debate among historians and students of Lincoln, Brooks Simpson presents Think Anew, Act Anew, a concise and inventively annotated collection of documents written by Abraham Lincoln that focus on the interrelated themes of slavery, union, emancipation, and reconstruction. How did Lincoln define equality? How did he harmonize his rejection of slavery as immoral with his toleration of it where it existed? What were his views on race, and did they change over time? What did freedom mean to him?

This unique selection of Lincoln's own words offers readers a chance to explore for themselves how Lincoln understood the prevailing concerns of his America. Professor Simpson provides contextual information in introductions to each of the book's eight chapters and all sixty-four documents are preceded by a brief note.



"THEY MADE US MANY PROMISES": THE AMERICAN INDIAN EXPERIENCE, 1524 TO THE PRESENT, 2nd Ed.

By WEEKS, PHILIP, ED.

330 pages, paperback, ISBN: (0-88295-965-4)
PHOTOGRAPHS, MAPS, SUGGESTED READINGS, and INDEX
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A descendant of The American Indian Experience, this compelling anthology showcases the work of sixteen specialists. Those chapters retained from the original volume have been carefully revised to make them more accesible to the average undergraduate, while six entirely new and original essays consider important topics: American Indian women; Indian-Spanish relations in the Greater Southwest in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Indian affairs during the Civil War; the ongoing issue of Native Sovereignty; U.S. Indian policy since the Nixon Administration; and the emotional fight over Repatriation.

Designed for use as a core text in one- or two-semester courses in American Indian History or as a supplement to any standard U.S. History survey, "They Made Us Many Promises"is certain to challenge readers' assumptions about the past and current roles of Indians in American society.

Contents and Contributors

Black Gowns and Massachusetts Men: Indian-White Relations in New France and New England to 1701 by James P. Ronda

Mutual Distrust and Mutual Dependency: Indian-white Relations in the Era of the Anglo-French Wars for Empire, 1689-1763 by Dwight L. Smith

Facing Off: Indian-Spanish Rivalry in the Greater Southwest, 1528-1821 by David La Vere

The Trail of Tears: Removal of the Southern Indians in the Jeffersonian-Jacksonian Era by Theda Perdue

Blue, Gray, and Red: Indian Affairs during the American Civil War by Philip Weeks

Ambiguity and Misunderstanding: The Struggle between the U.S. Army and the Indians for the Great Plains by Thomas W. Dunlay

The Bitter Years: Western Indian Reservation Life by Donald J. Berthrong

Reformers' Images of the American Indians: The Late Nineteenth Century by William T. Hagan

From Bullets to Boarding Schools: The Educational Assault on American Indians by David Wallace Adams

The Divided Heart: The Indian New Deal by Graham D. Taylor

Dislocated: The Federal Policy of Termination and Relocation, 1945-1960 by Donald L. FixicoFinally Acknowledging Native Peoples: American Indian Policies since the Nixon Administration by Laurence M. Hauptman

Bury My Heart in Smog: Urban Indians by Blue Clark

Native Sovereignty: Then and Now in California and the Northwest by Clifford E. Trafzer

Traditions and Transformations: American Indian Women in Historical Perspective by Paivi Hoikkala

Our Dead Are Never Forgotten: American Indian Struggles for Burial Rights and Protections by James Riding In