The Puritans called Baptists "the troublers of churches in all places" and hounded them out of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Four hundred years later, Baptists are the second-largest religious group in Am
This bilingual volume contains 28 essays presented in English or Spanish on the current state of international investment law in Latin America, focusing on areas of conflict and potential consequences
America invertida introduces twenty-two Uruguayan poets under the age of forty to English-speaking audiences for the first time. Kercheval paired poets and translators to produce a rich volume based o
From Samuel Huntington’s highly controversial Who Are We? to the urgent appeal of Naomi Wolf’s The End of America, Americans are increasingly reflecting on questions of democracy, multiculturalism, an
He challenged the Supreme Court on his right to be called citizen―and wonWhen American-born Wong Kim Ark returns home to San Francisco after a visit to China, he’s stopped and told he cannot enter: he isn’t American. What happens next would forever change the national conversation on who is and isn’t American. After being imprisoned on a ship for months, Wong Kim Ark takes his case to the Supreme Court and argues any person born in America is an American citizen.I am an American: The Wong Kim Ark Story is an important picture book that introduces young readers to the young man who challenged the Supreme Court for his right to be an American citizen and won, confirming birthright citizenship for all Americans.
Who Am I? is the bittersweet memoir of a Chinese American who came to this country as a twenty-year-old graduate student and stayed to become one of America’s most innovative intellectuals,
This book is the harvest of my observations and reflections about the great American society of which i am a proud member. Greatful to be adopted, after been abandonned by my own country-Egypt, still
Poetry. Italian & Italian American Studies "Here I am, Father. By now even time has surrendered his whitened scepterand you return, ancestral figure, or perhaps it is I who walk the path. Father, I w
COLLECTING THE RICHEST MARVEL ADVENTURES FOR YOUNG READERS!The legend of CAPTAIN AMERICAN begins here when Steve Rogers survives a WWII experiment to become a Super-Soldier and the Sentinel of Liberty! He’ll face off against Hydra, P.R.O.D.O.K., the Rhino, A.I.M., and even am army of genetically re-created cavemen. Shield-slinging adventures lead to Avengers team-ups with Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Black Widow, Iron Man, and more!By writers SCOTT GRAY, ROGER LANGRIDGE, PAUL TOBIN, TODD DEZAGO, and J.M. DeMATTEIS with artists CRAIG ROUSSEAU, RONAN CLINQUET, CHRIS CROSS, LOU KANG, and WELLINTON ALVES.Collects Marvel Adventures Super Heroes Vol. 1 #8 and #12, and Marvel Adventures Super Heroes Vol. 2 #3, #5, #15, #16, and #21.
Originally published in Mexico in 1970, Indigenous and Popular Thinking in Am?rica is the first book by the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch (1922–79) to be translated into English. At its c
Drawing on history, psychology, folklore, linguistics, anthropology, and the arts, this book challenges "wooden Indian" stereotypes to redefine negative attitudes and humorless approaches to Native Am
América Gonzales es empleada de un hotel en una isla en la costa de Puerto Rico, donde limpia los cuartos de extranjeros ricos que miran de reojo. Su madre alcohólica le tiene resentimiento
Text and about 100 color and b&w photographs, drawings, and maps bring to life the evidence left behind by ancient Native Americans throughout North America. Thomas (archaeologist and curator, Am
Twentieth-Century America offers a succinct, comprehensive, and objective examination of recent American history. From Progressivism and the New Deal up to the present, Reeves covers all aspects of Am
Benjamin Hoffmann’s L’Amérique posthume examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in the works of French writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This Engl
Why has "America" - that is, the United States of America - become so much more than simply a place in the imagination of so many people around the world? In both Europe and Latin Am
Bridges the gap between global farmers and fishermen and American consumers America now imports twice as much food as it did a decade ago. What does this increased reliance on imported food mean for t