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Author: Nancy Lee Rhoden
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780842027489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of 17 biographies provides a unique opportunity for the reader to go beyond the popular heroes of the American Revolution and discover the diverse populace that inhabited the colonies during this pivotal point in history.
Author: Ian Kenneth Steele
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780842027007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text is a study of 16 individuals who lived during the colonial period of American history. These mini-biographies aim to highlight the exploits and actions of well-known and obscure individuals whose lives provide insight into the time in which they lived.
Author: Michael A. Morrison
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780842028356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new book consists of mini-biographies of 15 Americans who lived during the Antebellum period in American history. Part of The Human Tradition in America series, the anthology paints vivid portraits of the lives of lesser-known Americans. Raising new questions from fresh perspectives, this volume contributes to a broader understanding of the dynamic forces that shaped the political, economic, social, and institutional changes that characterized the antebellum period. Moving beyond the older, outdated historical narratives of political institutions and the great men who shaped them, these biographies offer revealing insights on gender roles and relations, working-class experiences, race, and local economic change and its effect on society and politics. The voices of these ordinary individuals-African Americans, women, ethnic groups, and workers-have until recently often been silent in history texts. At the same time, these biographies also reveal the major themes that were part of the history of the early republic and antebellum era, including the politics of the Jacksonian era, the democratization of politics and society, party formation, market revolution, territorial expansion, the removal of Indians from their territory, religious freedom, and slavery. Accessible and fascinating, these biographies present a vivid picture of the richly varied character of American life in the first half of the nine-teenth century. This book is ideal for courses on the Early National period, U.S. history survey, and American social and cultural history.
Author: Charles W. Calhoun
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1461644305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Human Tradition in America from the Colonial Era through Reconstruction is a collection of the best biographical sketches from several volumes in SR Books' popular Human Tradition in America Series. Compiled by Series Editor Charles W. Calhoun, this book brings American history to life by illuminating the lives of ordinary Americans. This examination of common individuals helps personalize the nation's past in a way that examining only broad concepts and forces cannot. By including a wide range of people with respect to ethnicity, race, gender and geographic region, Prof. Calhoun has developed a text that highlights the diversity of the American experience.
Author: Charles William Calhoun
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780842050319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of biographical sketches that profile the lives of ordinary Americans from colonial times through the Reconstruction.
Author: Jeffrey M. Pilcher
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780842029766
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Author: William H. Beezley
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 1997-09-01
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0585294607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSR Books' two popular Human Tradition in Latin America titles covering nineteenth- and twentieth-century history have been combined into one exciting new volume. The most compelling chapters from these books are now presented in The Human Tradition in Modern Latin America. This collection offers powerful, fascinating biographies of ordinary people caught in the sometimes devastating historical changes that have occurred in Latin America. From the turbulent struggles for independence in the 1800s to the profound and often overwhelming transformations that have accompanied modernization in this century, The Human Tradition in Modern Latin America personalizes the impact that revolution, economic upheaval, urbanization, the destruction of community life, and the disruption of both traditional family and gender roles have had on Latin Americans. The Human Tradition in Modern Latin America is an invaluable text for courses in Latin American studies. Nowhere else can such varied portraits be found as in these diverse and carefully researched essays written by leading scholars.
Author: Roger Biles
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780842029933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduces problems and concerns facing different groups of urban Americans at different times through biographical readings.
Author: Beatriz Gallotti Mamigonian
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780742567306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLike snapshots of everyday life in the past, the compelling biographies in this book document the making of the Black Atlantic world since the sixteenth century from the point of view of those who were part of it. Centering on the diaspora caused by the forced migration of Africans to Europe and across the Atlantic to the Americas, the chapters explore the slave trade, enslavement, resistance, adaptation, cultural transformations, and the quest for citizenship rights. The variety of experiences, constraints and choices depicted in the book and their changes across time and space defy the idea of a unified "black experience." At the same time, it is clear that in the twentieth century, "black" identity unified people of African descent who, along with other "minority" groups, struggled against colonialism and racism and presented alternatives to a version of modernity that excluded and alienated them. Drawing on a rich array of little-known documents, the contributors reconstruct the lives and times of some well-known characters along with ordinary people who rarely left written records and would otherwise have remained anonymous and unknown. Contributions by: Aaron P. Althouse, Alan Bloom, Marcus J. M. de Carvalho, Aisnara Perera Díaz, María de los Ángeles Meriño Fuentes, Flávio dos Santos Gomes, Hilary Jones, Beatriz G. Mamigonian, Charles Beatty Medina, Richard Price, Sally Price, Cassandra Pybus, Karen Racine, Ty M. Reese, João José Reis, Lorna Biddle Rinear, Meredith L. Roman, Maya Talmon-Chvaicer, and Jerome Teelucksingh.
Author: Benson Tong
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Human Tradition in the American West is an engrossing collection of 13 biographies of men and women whose contributions to the development of the American West have largely been left untold in the history books. This volume goes beyond the traditional biographical reader by including the lives that collectively offer racial and gender diversity as well as differing class and sexual orientation backgrounds. Editors Benson Tong and Regan A. Lutz have assembled an impressive group of scholars whose succinct and well-written accounts will give students a more complete understanding of this diverse, dynamic region of the United States. This book is an excellent resource for courses on the American West, U.S. history survey courses and courses in American social and cultural history.
