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Presents a cultural and political history of Filipinos and the Philippines. This title examines the period from the onset of US colonialism in 1898 to the emergence of a Filipino diaspora in the 1990s. It reveals how, under what circumstances, and with what effects the concept of the nation has been produced and deployed in the Philippines.

Centring her analysis around several major Puerto Rican anti-prostitution campaigns, the author exposes the race-related double standards of sexual norms and practices in Puerto Rico between 1870 and 1920, the period that witnessed Puerto Rico's shift from Spanish to US colonialism.

Bringing together Mexican, Soviet, and North American (as well as British) perspectives, this book shows how the convergence of each country's domestic and foreign policies precluded them from a harmonious triangular relationship. It contributes to an understanding of the international dimension of the Mexican revolution.

Demonstrates how caution, confusion, and conflicting goals marked US relations with Trujillo and set the tone for the ambivalent Cold War relations that prevailed until Trujillo's assassination in 1961. This title is for suitable Latin Americanists, historians, political scientists, and specialists in international relations and diplomacy.

The story of the rise and fall of the gambling industry in Tijuana during the Jazz Age opens into a history of the development of that area and Southern California.

An analysis of the ways that General Rafael Trujillos dictatorship (1930-1961) pervaded everyday life in the Dominican Republics capital, Santo Domingo.

This chronicle of the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States in the interwar years shows how that exchange affected both countries ideas of race and nation.

A history of the oil industrys rise in Venezuela focused especially on the experiences and perceptions of industry employees, both American and Venezuelan.

Discusses the national and transnational implications of local developments in two sugar mill communities in Cuba.

An argument that tourist literature and U.S. military guides have shaped Americans understanding of Vietnam and projections of U.S. power since the mid-twentieth century.

A history of Sosua, a Dominican Republic settlement founded as a refuge for Jews fleeing Nazi Europe, and an analysis of the geopolitics underlying the settlements formation.

In the mid-1930s the Mexican government expropriated millions of acres of land from hundreds of US property owners as part of President Cardenas' land redistribution program. This title analyzes this conflict at the local, regional, national, and international levels in a nuanced way that combines social, economic, political, and cultural history.

An insider's account of lucha libre, the popular Mexican version of professional wrestling. It explores lucha libre as a cultural performance, an occupational subculture, and a set of symbols that circulate through Mexican culture and politics. It shows how a sport imported from the US in the 1930s came to be an iconic symbol of Mexican culture.

Presents an argument that Spanish Civil War marked President Franklin D Roosevelt's first attempt to challenge fascist aggression in Europe. This book describes the evolution of Roosevelt's thinking about the Spanish Civil War in relation to America's geopolitical interests, as well as fierce controversy in the United States over Spanish policy.

An analysis of migration, labor-management collaboration, and the mobility of capital based on case studies in New England and Colombia.

Between the world wars, Paris welcomed not only a number of glamorous American expatriates including Jospehine Baker and F Scott Fitzgerald, but also a dynamic musical style emerging in the United States: jazz. This title examines how and why jazz became so widely performed in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s and also why it was so controversial.

An ethnographic study of indigenous opposition to processes of economic globalization, arguing that neoliberal economic reforms both provoked a crisis of governance and created the conditions for a disruptive indigenous movement in Ecuador

In 1910 Mexicans rebelled against an imperfect dictatorship; after 1940 they ended up with what some called the perfect dictatorship. This book brings together historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists to offer a radical new understanding of the emergence and persistence of the modern Mexican state.

Re-examining the Cold War in Latin America, this book examines international contests over political power and cultural representation. It focuses on state houses and diplomatic board rooms manned by Latin American and international governing elites; on the relations among states regionally; and on the dynamics between the superpowers themselves.

Weaving U.S. history into the larger fabric of world history, the contributors to Crossing Empires de-exceptionalize the American empire, placing it in a global transimperial context as a way to grasp the power relations that shape imperial formations.

Weaving U.S. history into the larger fabric of world history, the contributors to Crossing Empires de-exceptionalize the American empire, placing it in a global transimperial context as a way to grasp the power relations that shape imperial formations.

Emily S. Rosenberg is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900–1930 and A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory, both also published by Duke University Press, and the editor of A World Connecting, 1870–1945.Shanon Fitzpatrick is a Faculty Lecturer in the Department of History at McGill University.¿

Explores the interplay between various dimensions of imperial power and the dissent and resistance it seems to regularly engender. This title includes several essays that provide historical perspective on contemporary US - hemispheric relations.

Examines how collective memories of Asia-Pacific War continue to affect relations among China, Japan, and United States. This book explores how American ideas about Japanese history shaped US occupation policy following Japan's surrender in 1945.

Examines the commodity chains that have connected producers in Latin America with consumers around the world for five hundred years

Brings postcolonial critiques to bear on North American history and draws on that history to question the analytic conventions of postcolonial studies. This collection examines the critical role of "domains of the intimate" in the consolidation of colonial power.

Essays explore a transnational vision of the U.S./Mexico borderlands, and analyze this region's race, class, and gender inequalities in historical perspective.

Within hours after the collapse of the Twin Towers, the idea that the September 11 attacks had "changed everything" permeated American popular and political discussion. Bringing together leading scholars of history, law, literature, and Islam, this book asks whether the attacks and their aftermath truly marked a transition in US.

Attempts to examine the creation and administration of the American colonial state from comparative, global perspectives. Tracking the connections, circuits, and contests across, within, and between empires which shaped America's colonial regime, this work sheds light on the complexities of American imperialism and turn-of-the-century colonialism.