The Best American History Essays 2007
1. Auflage
Erschienen am 30. April 2016
IX, 284 Seiten
978-1-137-06439-4 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
This second annual volume from the Organization of American Historians, containing the best American history articles published between the summers of 2005 and 2006, provides a quick and comprehensiveoverview ofthe topwork and the current intellectual trendsin the field of American history. With contributions froma diverse group of historians, thiscollection appealsboth to scholars and to lovers of history alike.
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Person
Jacqueline Jones isHarry S. Truman Professor of American History, Brandeis University.
Inhalt
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 From Captives to Slaves: Commodifying Indian Women in the Borderlands
- Chapter 2 "Meddling with Emancipation:" Baptists, Authority, and the Rift over Slavery in the Upper South
- Chapter 3 The Afterlives of Lewis and Clark
- Chapter 4 Revisiting Nashoba: Slavery, Utopia, and Frances Wright in America, 1818-1826
- Chapter 5 Outlawing "Coolies": Race, Nation, and Empire in the Age of Emancipation
- Chapter 6 "The Dread Void of Uncertainty": Naming the Dead in the American Civil War
- Chapter 7 Diplomatic Wives: The Politics of Domesticity and the "Social Game" in the U.S. Foreign Service, 1905-1941
- Chapter 8 The Flying Machine in the Garden: Parks and Airports, 1918-1938
- Chapter 9 Miscegenation and Competing Definitions of Race in Twentieth-Century Louisiana
- Chapter 10 The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past
- Other Articles Nominated for the 2007 Competition
- Index
