Whether as wine, beer, or spirits, alcohol has had a constant and often controversial role
in social life. In his innovative book on the attitudes toward and consumption of alcohol, Rod Phillips surveys a 9,000-year cultural and economic history, uncovering ...
After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest
followed the magnetic pull home—only to discover that her native South Texas had been radically transformed in her absence. Ravaged by drug wars and barricaded ...
The nineteenth-century American Colonization Society (ACS) project of persuading all American free blacks to emigrate
to the ACS colony of Liberia could never be accomplished. Few free blacks volunteered, and greater numbers would have overwhelmed the meager resources of the ...
Antebellum mainline Protestant ministers are often portrayed as heralds of a national 'faith' in republican
progress that reached its high point in the three decades before the Civil War. Mark Hanley argues, however, that the liberal culture that emerged in ...
While it was not until 1871 that slavery in Cuba was finally abolished, African-descended people
had high hopes for legal, social, and economic advancement as the republican period started. In Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic, Melina Pappademos analyzes ...
In the mid-nineteenth century, Cuba's infamous coolie trade brought well over 100,000 Chinese indentured laborers
to its shores. Though subjected to abominable conditions, they were followed during subsequent decades by smaller numbers of merchants, craftsmen, and free migrants searching for ...
In the early twentieth century, the United States set out to guarantee economic and political
stability in the Caribbean without intrusive and controversial military interventions—and ended up achieving exactly the opposite. Using military and government records from the United States ...
The United States established an academy for educating future army officers at West Point in
1802. Why, then, did it take this maritime nation forty-three more years to create a similar school for the navy? The Long Road to Annapolis ...