Tony Ballantyne ist Professor für Geschichte an der University of Otago in Neuseeland. Zu seinen Arbeitsschwerpunkten zählen die Kulturgeschichte des Britischen Empire sowie transnationale Ansätze in der Imperial- und Kolonialgeschichte. Er veröffentlichte unter anderem «Orientalism and Race» (2002) sowie «Between Colonialism and Diaspora» (2006).
Antoinette Burton hat die Catherine C.-and-Bruce-A.-Bastian-Professur für Globale und Transnationale Studien am Lehrstuhl für Geschichte an der University of Illinois in Urbana inne. Zu ihren Arbeitsschwerpunkten gehören die Geschichte Großbritanniens und seines Weltreichs im 19. und 20.Jahrhundert sowie insbesondere die Geschichte Indiens während der Kolonialzeit sowie Genderfragen. Sie veröffentlichte unter anderem «Burdens of History» (1994), «At the Heart of the Empire» (1998), «Dwelling in the Archive» (2003), «The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau» (2007) und «Empire in Question» (2011).
Akira Iriye war bis zu seiner Emeritierung Professor für Geschichte an der Harvard Universität. 1988 war er Präsident der American Historical Association. Er ist Träger hoher amerikanischer und japanischer Auszeichnungen und hat zahlreiche Publikationen vor allem zur Geschichte der internationalen Beziehungen und zur Gobalgeschichte des 20.Jahrhunderts vorgelegt.
Charles S. Maier hat die Leverett Saltonstall Professur für Geschichte an der Harvard University inne. Zu seinen wichtigsten Veröffentlichungen zählen «Recasting Bourgeois Europe» (1975), «In Search of Stability» (1988), «The Unmasterable Past» (1988, dt. «Die Gegenwart der Vergangenheit»), «Dissolution» (1997, dt. «Das Verschwinden der DDR und der Untergang des Kommunismus») und «Among Empires» (2006). Zur Zeit arbeitet er an einer Geschichte des Territoriums und seiner Veränderungen in der Neuzeit.
Jürgen Osterhammel ist Professor für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte an der Universität Konstanz und Träger des «Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preises». 2012 erhält er den «Gerda-Henkel-Preis».
Emily S. Rosenberg ist Professorin für Geschichte an der University of California in Irvine. Zu ihren Spezialgebieten gehören die transnationale Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten, insbesondere die wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen Beziehungen, sowie Fragen der Erinnerungskultur. Sie veröffentlichte unter anderem «Spreading the American Dream» (1982), «Financial Missionaries to the World» (1999) und «A Date Which Will Live» (2003).
Steven C. Topik ist Professor für Geschichte an der University of California in Irvine. Zu seinen Forschungsschwerpunkten zählen die politische Ökonomie und der internationale Handel in Lateinamerika und weltweit. Er veröffentlichte unter anderem «Trade and Gunboats. The United States and Brazil in the Age of Empire» (1996) und, zusammen mit Kenneth Pomeranz, «The World That Trade Created» (2006). Zur Zeit arbeitet er an einer Weltgeschichte des Kaffees.
Allen Wells hat die Roger Howell, Jr. Professur für Geschichte am Bowdoin College. Inne. Zu seinen Veröffentlichungen zählen unter anderem «Tropical Zion» (2009) und, zusammen mit Gilbert M. Joseph, «Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval» (1996).
46 Ebooks von Emily S. Rosenberg
Akira Iriye & Jürgen Osterhammel: Geschichte der Welt 1870-1945
Weltgeschichte ist lange Zeit als eine Geschichte des Aufstiegs und Niedergangs einer kleinen Zahl von „Hochkulturen“ geschrieben worden. Unter diesen Kulturen schienen Europa oder der atlantische „W …
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Shanon Fitzpatrick & Emily S. Rosenberg: Body and Nation
Body and Nation interrogates the connections among the body, the nation, and the world in twentieth-century U.S. history. The idea that bodies and bodily characteristics are heavily freighted with va …
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€38.45
Stephen Gundle: Between Hollywood and Moscow
In the postwar years, Italy underwent a far-reaching process of industrialization that transformed the country into a leading industrial power. Throughout most of this period, the Italian Communist P …
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Christina Duffy Burnett & Burke Marshall: Foreign in a Domestic Sense
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 sc …
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€41.12
Fred Rosen: Empire and Dissent
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 ot …
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€35.95
Daniel Nugent: Rural Revolt in Mexico
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 …
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€39.75
Gilbert M. Joseph & Anne Rubenstein: Fragments of a Golden Age
During the twentieth century the Mexican government invested in the creation and promotion of a national culture more aggressively than any other state in the western hemisphere. Fragments of a Golde …
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€43.36
Georges Eugene Fouron & Nina Glick Schiller: Georges Woke Up Laughing
Combining history, autobiography, and ethnography, Georges Woke Up Laughing provides a portrait of the Haitian experience of migration to the United States that illuminates the phenomenon of long-dis …
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€38.22
Gilbert M. Joseph: Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History
Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History is a collection that embraces a new social and cultural history of Latin America that is not divorced from politics and other arenas of power. True …
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€39.84
Steve Striffler: In the Shadows of State and Capital
Winner of the 2001 President’s Award of the Social Science History Association In the Shadows of State and Capital tells the story of how Ecuadorian peasants gained, and then lost, control of the ban …
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€34.69
Catherine Ceniza Choy: Empire of Care
In western countries, including the United States, foreign-trained nurses constitute a crucial labor supply. Far and away the largest number of these nurses come from the Philippines. Why is it that …
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€35.70
Anne L. Foster & Julian Go: American Colonial State in the Philippines
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 powe …
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€37.25
John Lindsay-Poland: Emperors in the Jungle
Emperors in the Jungle is an expose of key episodes in the military involvement of the United States in Panama. Investigative journalism at its best, this book reveals how U.S. ideas about taming tro …
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€35.83
Mary L. Dudziak: September 11 in History
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, t …
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€34.65
Jeffrey H. Jackson: Making Jazz French
Between the world wars, Paris welcomed not only a number of glamorous American expatriates, including Josephine Baker and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also a dynamic musical style emerging in the United …
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€35.93
Emily S. Rosenberg: Financial Missionaries to the World
Winner of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize Financial Missionaries to the World establishes the broad scope and significance of "dollar diplom …
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€38.53
Mark Moberg & Steve Striffler: Banana Wars
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 t …
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Suzana Sawyer: Crude Chronicles
Ecuador is the third-largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the western United States. As the source of this oil, the Ecuadorian Amazon has borne the far-reaching social and environmental consequen …
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€37.26
Lesley Gill: School of the Americas
Located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, the School of the Americas (soa) is a U.S. Army center that has trained more than sixty thousand soldiers and police, mostly from Latin America, in count …
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€37.15
Seth Jacobs: America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam
America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam rethinks the motivations behind one of the most ruinous foreign-policy decisions of the postwar era: America’s commitment to preserve an independent South Vietnam und …
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Noenoe K. Silva: Aloha Betrayed
In 1897, as a white oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai’i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition drive to protest. Ninety-five percent of the native population sign …
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Samuel Truett & Elliott Young: Continental Crossroads
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 …
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€38.18
Paul J Vanderwood: Juan Soldado
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 Sold …
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€38.47
Elliott Young: Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border
Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border rescues an understudied episode from the footnotes of history. On September 15, 1891, Garza, a Mexican journalist and political activist, led a …
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Michel Gobat: Confronting the American Dream
Michel Gobat deftly interweaves political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic history to analyze the reactions of Nicaraguans to U.S. intervention in their country from the heyday of Manifest Destiny …
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€39.62
Jennifer Bickham Mendez: From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras
From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras is a major contribution to the study of globalization, labor, and women’s movements. Jennifer Bickham Mendez presents a detailed ethnographic account of the Ni …
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€37.17
Emily S. Rosenberg: Date Which Will Live
December 7, 1941-the date of Japan’s surprise attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor-is "a date which will live" in American history and memory, but the stories that will live and the mea …
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Ann Laura Stoler: Haunted by Empire
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 st …
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Zephyr Frank & Carlos Marichal: From Silver to Cocaine
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 …
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Aviva Chomsky: Linked Labor Histories
Exploring globalization from a labor history perspective, Aviva Chomsky provides historically grounded analyses of migration, labor-management collaboration, and the mobility of capital. She illumina …
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€39.66
John Dwyer: Agrarian Dispute
In the mid-1930s the Mexican government expropriated millions of acres of land from hundreds of U.S. property owners as part of President Lazaro Cardenas’s land redistribution program. Because no com …
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€39.53
Robert M. Pike & Dwayne R. Winseck: Communication and Empire
Filling in a key chapter in communications history, Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike offer an in-depth examination of the rise of the "global media" between 1860 and 1930. They analyze …
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€41.02
Marc Gallicchio: Unpredictability of the Past
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 Stat …
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€38.34
Dominic Tierney: FDR and the Spanish Civil War
What was the relationship between President Franklin D. Roosevelt, architect of America’s rise to global power, and the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War, which inspired passion and sacrifice, and shaped the …
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€34.18
Gilbert M. Joseph & Daniela Spenser: In from the Cold
Over the last decade, studies of the Cold War have mushroomed globally. Unfortunately, work on Latin America has not been well represented in either theoretical or empirical discussions of the broade …
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€40.95
Gillian McGillivray: Blazing Cane
Sugar was Cuba’s principal export from the late eighteenth century throughout much of the twentieth, and during that time, the majority of the island’s population depended on sugar production for its …
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€39.89
Dina Berger & Andrew Grant Wood: Holiday in Mexico
With its archaeological sites, colonial architecture, pristine beaches, and alluring cities, Mexico has long been an attractive destination for travelers. The tourist industry ranks third in contribu …
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€39.83
Heather Levi: World of Lucha Libre
The World of Lucha Libre is an insider’s account of lucha libre, the popular Mexican form of professional wrestling. Heather Levi spent more than a year immersed in the world of wrestling in Mexico C …
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Paul J Vanderwood: Satan’s Playground
Satan’s Playground chronicles the rise and fall of the tumultuous and lucrative gambling industry that developed just south of the U.S.-Mexico border in the early twentieth century. As prohibitions a …
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Allen Wells: Tropical Zion
Seven hundred and fifty Jewish refugees fled Nazi Germany and founded the agricultural settlement of Sosua in the Dominican Republic, then ruled by one of Latin America’s most repressive dictators, G …
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Miguel Tinker Salas: Enduring Legacy
Oil has played a major role in Venezuela’s economy since the first gusher was discovered along Lake Maracaibo in 1922. As Miguel Tinker Salas demonstrates, oil has also transformed the country’s soci …
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Scott Laderman: Tours of Vietnam
In Tours of Vietnam, Scott Laderman demonstrates how tourist literature has shaped Americans‘ understanding of Vietnam and projections of United States power since the mid-twentieth century. Laderman …
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Barbara Reeves-Ellington & Connie A. Shemo: Competing Kingdoms
Competing Kingdoms rethinks the importance of women and religion within U.S. imperial culture from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth. In an era when the United States was emerging as …
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€40.92
Andrew R Graybill & Benjamin Johnson: Bridging National Borders in North America
Despite a shared interest in using borders to explore the paradoxes of state-making and national histories, historians of the U.S.-Canada border region and those focused on the U.S.-Mexico borderland …
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Greg Grandin & Gilbert M. Joseph: Century of Revolution
Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through the mobilizations and terror in Centra …
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€41.01
Anne L. Foster: Projections of Power
Throughout its history, the United States has been both imperialistic and anticolonial: imperialistic in its expansion across the continent and across oceans to colonies such as the Philippines, and …
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€34.61