American Studies

This title was first published in 2002. The Park Avenue Cubists explores the work of a group of American artists committed to the belief that American abstraction could make a unique contribution to the evolution of the visual experiments begun by the European Modernists. All were inspired by the wo..

As the insurgency continues to plague Iraq and coalition forces struggle to maintain control, this book seeks to answer the question of how the Iraq War came about...

More than simply providing a regional history of one of the most important Pan-African movements of the twentieth century, this book demonstrates the ways in which racial, class, and spatial dynamics resulted in complex, and at times, competing articulations of black nationalism...

More than simply providing a regional history of one of the most important Pan-African movements of the twentieth century, this book demonstrates the ways in which racial, class, and spatial dynamics resulted in complex, and at times, competing articulations of black nationalism...

The Routledge History of Italian Americans is a new multi-authored history of one of the largest ethnic groups in America, bringing together the best and brightest scholars and critics to create a narrative of the trials and triumphs of Italians in America. Concentrating on themes ranging from immig..

The State, Removal and Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Mexico, 1620-2000..

This book explores the relationship between the United States and the Malaysian economy, concentrating on the period 1870 to 1957, with particular focus on trade flows and foreign direct investment...

In this study, Marinova examines the diverse practices of crossing boundaries, tactics of translation, and experiences of double and multiple political and national attachments evident in texts about Russo-American encounters from the end of the American Civil War to the Russian Revolution of 1905. ..

This book examines the connections between two disparate yet persistently bound thematics -- mobility and intoxication -- and explores their central yet frequently misunderstood role in constructing subjectivity following the 1960s...

This book examines the connections between two disparate yet persistently bound thematics -- mobility and intoxication -- and explores their central yet frequently misunderstood role in constructing subjectivity following the 1960s...

This volume highlights an anthropological engagement with food and farm policy, foreign aid, and food justice as defined and codified through U.S. policy. The authors articulate the complexities, inequities, and power asymmetries created through U.S. policy and how that impacts workers, food securit..

Based on recently declassified documents, this book provides the first examination of the Truman administration’s decision to employ covert operations in the Cold War...