Captured Peace
Elites and Peacebuilding in El Salvador
By Christine J. Wade
The most comprehensive, up-to-date book on Salvadoran politics of the last twenty-five years.
Political Science · Latin American Studies · International Studies · Peace Studies · El Salvador · Central America · Americas
American Pogrom
The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics
By Charles L. Lumpkins
On July 2 and 3, 1917, a mob of white men and women looted and torched the homes and businesses of African Americans in the small industrial city of East St. Louis, Illinois. When the terror ended, the attackers had destroyed property worth millions of dollars, razed several neighborhoods, injured hundreds, and forced at least seven thousand black townspeople to seek refuge across the Mississippi River in St. Louis, Missouri.
American History · History | African American · Illinois · Violence in Society · Law · Legal and Constitutional History · Race and Ethnicity · History | Modern | 20th Century · Americas · North America · African American Studies · United States · Midwest · History · American History, Midwest
Peasants in Arms
War and Peace in the Mountains of Nicaragua, 1979–1994
By Lynn Horton
Drawing on testimonies from contra collaborators and ex-combatants, as well as pro-Sandinista peasants, this book presents a dynamic account of the growing divisions between peasants from the area of Quilalí who took up arms in defense of revolutionary programs and ideals such as land reform and equality and those who opposed the FSLN.Peasants
Latin American History · Latin American Studies · Political Science · International Studies · History · Violence in Society · Nicaragua · Central America · Americas
Threatening Others
Nicaraguans and the Formation of National Identities in Costa Rica
By Carlos Sandoval-Garcia
During the last two decades, a decline in public investment has undermined some of the national values and institutions of Costa Rica. The resulting sense of dislocation and loss is usually projected onto Nicaraguan “immigrants.”Threatening Others: Nicaraguans and the Formation of National Identities in Costa Rica explores the representation of the Nicaraguan “other” in the Costa Rican imagery.
Latin American History · History · Race and Ethnicity · History | Modern | 20th Century · Costa Rica · Nationalism · Emigration and Immigration · Americas · Central America · Nicaragua · International Studies · Latin American Studies
Immigration, Diversity, and Broadcasting in the United States 1990—2001
By Vibert C. Cambridge
The last decade of the twentieth century brought a maturing of the new racial and ethnic communities in the United States and the emergence of diversity and multiculturalism as dominant fields of discourse in legal, educational, and cultural contexts.
American History · History · 21st century · Americas · North America · United States · Race and Ethnicity · Television - History and Criticism · International Studies · Sociology · Media Studies · Journalism · Global Issues · African American Studies
Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution
Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas
By Karen Kampwirth
In many Latin American countries, guerrilla struggle and feminism have been linked in surprising ways. Women were mobilized by the thousands to promote revolutionary agendas that had little to do with increasing gender equality. They ended up creating a uniquely Latin American version of feminism that combined revolutionary goals of economic equality and social justice with typically feminist aims of equality, nonviolence, and reproductive rights.Drawing
Gender Studies · International Studies · Women’s Studies · Sociology · Political Science · North America · Mexico · El Salvador · Americas · Central America · Nicaragua · Latin American Studies
Ohio’s War
The Civil War in Documents
Edited by Christine Dee
In 1860, Ohio was among the most influential states in the nation. As the third-most-populous state and the largest in the middle west, it embraced those elements that were in concert-but also at odds-in American society during the Civil War era. Ohio’s War uses documents from that vibrant and tumultuous time to reveal how Ohio’s soldiers and civilians experienced the Civil War.
History · Military History · 19th century · American Civil War · Americas · North America · United States · Midwest · Ohio · American History · American History, Midwest
Citizen-General
Jacob Dolson Cox and the Civil War Era
By Eugene D. Schmiel
The wrenching events of the Civil War transformed not only the United States but also the men unexpectedly called on to lead their fellow citizens in this first modern example of total war. Jacob Dolson Cox, a former divinity student with no formal military training, was among those who rose to the challenge. In a conflict in which “political generals” often proved less than competent, Cox, the consummate citizen general, emerged as one of the best commanders in the Union army.
American Civil War · American History · History · Military History · United States · North America · Americas · Ohio and Regional
Protecting the Empire’s Frontier
Officers of the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot during Its North American Service, 1767–1776
By Steven M. Baule
Protecting the Empire’s Frontier tells stories of the roughly eighty officers who served in the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot, which served British interests in America during the crucial period from 1767 through 1776.
Irish History · American History · Military History · 18th century · Europe · Northern Europe · United Kingdom · Americas · North America · History
Thinking Outside the Girl Box
Teaming Up with Resilient Youth in Appalachia
By Linda Spatig and Layne Amerikaner
Written in an accessible, engaging style and drawing on collaborative ethnographic research that the girls themselves helped conduct, Thinking Outside the Girl Box tells the true story of an innovative program determined to challenge the small, disempowering “boxes” girls and women are so often expected to live in.
Women’s Studies · Anthropology · Appalachia · United States · North America · Americas
Shake Terribly the Earth
Stories from an Appalachian Family
By Sarah Beth Childers
In a thoughtful, humorous voice born of Appalachian storytelling, Childers brings to life family tales that affected the entire region to make sense of her personal journey and find the joy and clarity that often emerge after the earth shakes terribly beneath us.
Memoir · Creative Nonfiction · Appalachia · United States · North America · Americas · Literature · Social Science | Regional Studies · Ohio and Regional
Dragging Wyatt Earp
A Personal History of Dodge City
By Robert Rebein
In Dragging Wyatt Earp essayist Robert Rebein explores what it means to grow up in, leave, and ultimately return to the iconic Western town of Dodge City, Kansas. In chapters ranging from memoir to reportage to revisionist history, Rebein contrasts his hometown’s Old West heritage with a New West reality that includes salvage yards, beefpacking plants, and bored teenagers cruising up and down Wyatt Earp Boulevard.Along
Memoir · American Literature · Americas · North America · United States · Creative Nonfiction · Literature
The Collected Letters of Henry Northrup Castle
By Henry Northrup Castle
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Edited by George Herbert Mead and Helen Castle Mead
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Introduction by Alfred L. Castle
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Foreword by Marvin Krislov
Castle’s correspondence with family members and with George Herbert Mead— one of America’s most influential philosophers and his best friend at Oberlin College—reveals many of the intellectual, economic, and cultural forces that shaped American thought.
Letters · Biography & Autobiography | General · American Studies · Ohio and Regional · Ohio · Midwest · United States · North America · Americas
Prosperity Far Distant
The Journal of an American Farmer, 1933–1934
By Charles M. Wiltse
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Edited by Michael J. Birkner
Fresh from receiving a doctorate from Cornell University in 1933, but unable to find work, Charles M. Wiltse joined his parents on the small farm they had recently purchased in southern Ohio. There, the Wiltses scratched out a living selling eggs, corn, and other farm goods at prices that were barely enough to keep the farm intact.In wry and often affecting prose, Wiltse recorded a year in the life of this quintessentially American place during the Great Depression.
Literary Collections | Diaries & Journals · Americas · North America · United States · Appalachia · Ohio and Regional · Social Science | Regional Studies · History · American History · Food Studies · American Studies · Great Depression
The Engraving Trade in Early Cincinnati
With a Brief Account of the Beginning of the Lithographic Trade
By Donald C. O'Brien
Examines the vibrant engraving industry that helped fuel the growth of the “Queen City” and established its influence as the midwestern center for the print and engraving trade.
Art · Art History · Ohio and Regional · Ohio · Midwest · United States · North America · Americas · American History, Midwest
