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  • Banana Wars

    Power, Production, and History in the Americas

    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

  • Foreign in a Domestic Sense

    Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    In this groundbreaking study of American imperialism, leading legal scholars address the problem of the U.S. territories. Foreign in a Domestic Sense will redefine the boundaries of constitutional scholarship.More than four million U.S. citizens currently live in five “unincorporated” U.S. territories. The inhabitants of these vestiges of an American empire are denied full representation in ... Read more

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  • Mexico’s Once and Future Revolution

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

    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

  • From Silver to Cocaine

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

    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 Unpredictability of the Past

    Memories of the Asia-Pacific War in U.S.-East Asian Relations

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    In The Unpredictability of the Past, an international group of historians examines how collective memories of the Asia-Pacific War continue to affect relations among China, Japan, and the United States. The contributors are primarily concerned with the history of international relations broadly conceived to encompass not only governments but also nongovernmental groups and organizations that ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Haunted by Empire

    Geographies of Intimacy in North American History

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    A milestone in U.S. historiography, Haunted by Empire brings postcolonial critiques to bear on North American history and draws on that history to question the analytic conventions of postcolonial studies. The contributors to this innovative collection examine the critical role of “domains of the intimate” in the consolidation of colonial power. They demonstrate how the categories of difference ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Continental Crossroads

    Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.The U.S.-Mexico borderlands have long supported a web of relationships that transcend the U.S. and Mexican nations. Yet national histories usually overlook these complex connections. Continental Crossroads rediscovers this forgotten terrain, laying the foundations for a new borderlands ... Read more

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  • Empire and Dissent

    The United States and Latin America

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Since the early nineteenth century, the United States has repeatedly intervened in the affairs of Latin American nations to pursue its own interests and to “protect” those countries from other imperial powers or from internal “threats.” The resentment and opposition generated by the encroachment of U.S. power has been evident in the recurrent attempts of Latin American nations to pull away from U ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • September 11 in History

    A Watershed Moment?

    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

  • Rural Revolt in Mexico

    U.S. Intervention and the Domain of Subaltern Politics

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Rural Revolt in Mexico is a historical investigation of how subaltern political activity engages imperialism, capitalism, and the United States. In this volume, Daniel Nugent has gathered a group of leading scholars whose work examines the relationship of revolts by peasants and Indians in Mexico to the past century of U.S. intervention—from the rural rebellions of the 1840s through the 1910 ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The American Colonial State in the Philippines

    Global Perspectives

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    In 1898 the United States declared sovereignty over the Philippines, an archipelago of seven thousand islands inhabited by seven million people of various ethnicities. While it became a colonial power at the zenith of global imperialism, the United States nevertheless conceived of its rule as exceptional—an exercise in benevolence rather than in tyranny and exploitation. In this volume, Julian Go ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Juan Soldado

    Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Paul J. Vanderwood offers a fascinating look at the events, beliefs, and circumstances that have motivated popular devotion to Juan Soldado, a Mexican folk saint. In his mortal incarnation, Juan Soldado was Juan Castillo Morales, a twenty-four-year-old soldier convicted of and quickly executed for the rape and murder of eight-year-old Olga Camacho in Tijuana in 1938. Immediately after Morales’s ... Read more

    $28.79 USD