Routledge Advances in American History
Race and the Politics of Fear: A History of an American Oligarchic Construct
1st Edition
By J. Noel Hubler
May 15, 2025
Race and the Politics of Fear is a study of the role of race in American political history. It takes a novel approach by using Aristotle’s theory of the mixed regime to analyze the American system. Aristotle’s mixed regime - containing elements of oligarchy and democracy - was well-known to the ...
Polish American Voices: A Documentary History, 1608–2020
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, James S. Pula
May 05, 2025
This volume presents 145 primary source documents of Polish immigrants from different waves and backgrounds speaking about their lives, concerns, and viewpoints in their own voices, while they grapple with issues of identity and strive to make sense of their lives in the context of migration. Poles...
Human Rights and Sovereign Standards in US Security: “Freedom Will Be Defended”
1st Edition
By Sarah Earnshaw
March 30, 2025
This book examines the history of human rights in US security imaginaries and provides a theoretical framework to explore the common-sense assumptions around US foreign relations and the universality of the human. The inability, or unwillingness, to provide fundamental freedoms is a central feature...
Polish American History before 1939: Polish-American History from 1854 to 2004, Volume 1
1st Edition
By Adam Walaszek
December 18, 2024
The history of private lives of the first and second generations of Polish immigrants in the United States is viewed from the perspective of migrants themselves. What did the migrants do? How did they behave? How protagonists (men, women, children) with their own words presented their experience? ...
The Townsend Family in the Emerging American West, 1856–1926: Searching for the Motherlode
1st Edition
By Susan E. James
November 18, 2024
This book examines the life of the Townsend family and the events that occurred during the period of 1856–1926 that shaped an expanding American West. Bryant and Julia (Riley) Townsend and their three children were born into an age of rapid change and competing cultures. Witnesses to a century of ...
America’s First Vaccination: The Controversy of 1721-22
1st Edition
By Barbara Heifferon
October 07, 2024
This book explores the response to a new scientific advance in medicine three hundred years ago to understand how this discourse revealed religious, racial, anti-intellectual, and other ideologies the first time documented vaccinations were introduced in America. This text serves as a case study ...
African Americans and the Nigerian Civil War, 1967–1970: ‘Black America Cares’
1st Edition
By James A. Farquharson
July 22, 2024
This book is the first to recover and analyse at length the extent, complexity, and character of African American responses to the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970). Far from having only marginal significance, the Nigerian Civil War collided at full velocity with the conflicting discourses and ideas ...
The Friendships of John Adams, 1774-1801: The Art of Politics
1st Edition
By Jamie Macpherson
July 22, 2024
This book presents the first extended analysis of the friendship network of John Adams, forged during his lengthy public career from 1774-1801. While scholars have considered historic friendships, this monograph examines Adams’s friendship network within a generation of revolutionaries. The six ...
Polish American History after 1939: Polish American History from 1854 to 2004, Volume 2
1st Edition
By Joanna Wojdon
June 03, 2024
This book is the second in a three-part, multi-authored study of Polish American history which aims to present the history of Polish Americans in the United States from the beginning of Polish presence on the continent to the current times, shown against a broad historical background of ...
James Monroe, John Marshall and ‘The Excellence of Our Institutions’, 1817–1825: How Monroe’s Presidency Became 'An Important Epoch in the History of the Civilized World'
1st Edition
By Peter J. Aschenbrenner
May 27, 2024
When James Monroe became president in 1817, the United States urgently needed a national transportation system to connect new states and territories in the west with older states facing the Atlantic Ocean. In 1824, the Supreme Court declared that Congress had the power to regulate traffic on ...
Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition: Gotham and the Age of Recklessness, 1920–1933
1st Edition
By Francesco Landolfi
May 27, 2024
This book aims to highlight the causes why the Prohibition Era led to an evolution of the New York mob from a rural, ethnic and small-scale to an urban, American and wide-scale crime. The temperance project, advocated by the WASP elite since the early nineteenth century, turned into prohibition ...
Testing the Elite: Yale College in the Revolutionary Era, 1740–1815
1st Edition
By David Wilock
April 23, 2024
This volume explores the extent to which the Revolutionary period (1740–1815) impacted the faculty, students and institutional life of Yale College and how those changes shed insight into the nature of the American Revolution itself as a conservative or radical event.Throughout the eighteenth ...