American History

This work, first published in 1977, is a study of African responses to European conquest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book examines the decades of French conquest as an episode in African, rather than European, colonial or military history...

This book engages the reality of the new historical genres practised today (such as historical re-enactments, gaming history, social media, graphic narratives and first-person narratives of, memoirs of trauma, and film-history) which compete with the traditional model of historical prose (such as mo..

This work dramatically revises scholarship on the cultural impact of trans-Atlantic slavery between Africa and Brazil...

Rethinking the American Antinuclear Movement provides a short, accessible overview of this important social and political movement, highlighting key events and figures, the strengths and weaknesses of the activists, and its lasting effects on the country...

Rethinking the American Labor Movement tells the story of the various groups and incidents that make up what we think of as the 'labor movement,' and shows that these efforts are political in nature and form a social movement that has shaped the trajectory of American life...

Rethinking the American Prison Movement provides a short, accessible overview of an important and transformational ongoing struggle for social change, highlighting key individuals and events, influential networks, strong alliances and coalitions, difficult challenges and obstacles, major successes a..

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

The welfare rights movement was an interracial protest movement of poor women on AFDC who demanded reform of welfare policy, greater respect and dignity, and financial support to properly raise and care for their children. In short, they pushed for a right to welfare. Lasting from the early 1960s to..

The welfare rights movement was an interracial protest movement of poor women on AFDC who demanded reform of welfare policy, greater respect and dignity, and financial support to properly raise and care for their children. In short, they pushed for a right to welfare. Lasting from the early 1960s to..

This abridged version of Harriet Martineau's narrative of her travels in Jacksonian America preserves her reporting on slavery and other current topics of the day, as well as her insights on women's place in society, and her observations and vignettes of famous people such as John Calhoun...

This abridged version of Harriet Martineau's narrative of her travels in Jacksonian America preserves her reporting on slavery and other current topics of the day, as well as her insights on women's place in society, and her observations and vignettes of famous people such as John Calhoun...

First published in 1984. This is the first serious study of revisionism as a movement and one of the only studies of right-wing German socialist foreign policy views in the Wilhelmine era...