Routledge Advances in American History
Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City, 1770–1870: Bridget’s Belfast
1st Edition
By Kay Retzlaff
May 31, 2023
Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City, 1770–1870: Bridget's Belfast examines how Irish immigrants shaped and reshaped their identity in a rural New England community. Forty percent of Irish immigrants to the United States settled in rural areas. Achieving success beyond large urban centers ...
George W Bush Administration Propaganda for an Invasion of Iraq: The Absence of Evidence
1st Edition
By Larry Hartenian
January 09, 2023
Hartenian’s history of George W Bush propaganda for an invasion of Iraq returns the administration’s approach to its conceptual origins. Hartenian places "evidence" in the center of his analysis, showing that Rumsfeld’s "the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" meant that no evidence was...
The Disinformation Age: The Collapse of Liberal Democracy in the United States
1st Edition
By Eric Cheyfitz
August 29, 2022
The Disinformation Age, beginning in the present and going back to the American colonial period, constructs an original historical explanation for the current political crisis and the reasons the two major political parties cannot address it effectively. Commentators inside and outside academia ...
An Unfamiliar America: Essays in American Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Ari Helo, Mikko Saikku
August 01, 2022
This collection focuses on conceptions of the unfamiliar from the viewpoint of mainstream American history: aliens, immigrants, ethnic groups, and previously unencountered ideas and ideologies in Trumpian America. The book suggests bringing historical thinking back to the center of American Studies...
The Overseers of Early American Slavery: Supervisors, Enslaved Labourers, and the Plantation Enterprise
1st Edition
By Laura R. Sandy
December 13, 2021
Enmeshed in the exploitative world of racial slavery, overseers were central figures in the management of early American plantation enterprises. All too frequently dismissed as brutal and incompetent, they defy easy categorisation. Some were rogues, yet others were highly skilled professionals, ...
A Brief History of the Subordination of African Americans in the U.S.: Of Handcuffs and Bootstraps
1st Edition
By Alexander Polikoff, Elizabeth Lassar
September 30, 2021
This "brief history" presents the essential story of the subordination of African Americans in the U.S., captured in a 1968 cartoon by Pulitzer-prize-winning cartoonist John Fischetti. The drawing is of a black man handcuffed to a wall with cuffs labeled "White Racism." The caption reads, "Why don’...
Education and the Racial Dynamics of Settler Colonialism in Early America: Georgia and South Carolina, ca. 1700–ca. 1820
1st Edition
By James O’Neil Spady
September 30, 2021
This is the first historical monograph to demonstrate settler colonialism’s significance for Early America. Based on a nuanced reading of the archive and using a comparative approach, the book treats settler colonialism as a process rather than a coherent ideology. Spady shows that learning was a ...
Perceptions of China and White House Decision-Making, 1941-1963: Spears of Promise, Shields of Truth
1st Edition
By Adam S.R. Bartley
June 30, 2021
This book assesses and evaluates the decision-making behavior of United States presidents and their chief advisers from Roosevelt to Kennedy pertaining to China. Seeking to dispel with the notion that each administration sought policy outcomes on the basis of a rational decision-making model, ...
Reagan’s “Boys” and the Children of the Greatest Generation: U.S. World War II Memory, 1984 and Beyond
1st Edition
By Jonathan M. Bullinger
June 30, 2021
During the 1980s and 1990s, aging Baby Boomer parents constructed a particular type of memory as they attempted to laud their own parents’ wartime accomplishments with the label "The Greatest Generation." This book is the first to tell the entire story of this particular type of U.S. World War II ...
The Liberal Dilemma: The Pragmatic Tradition in the Age of McCarthyism
1st Edition
By Jonathan Michaels
June 30, 2021
This volume explores the response of liberals to rightwing attacks during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and early 1950s, establishing it as a defensive approach aimed at warding off efforts to conflate liberalism with communism, but not at striking back at the opposing ideology of conservatism ...
The Conservative Movement and the Vietnam War: The Other Side of Vietnam
1st Edition
By Seth Offenbach
December 18, 2020
The Vietnam War was the central political issue of the 1960s and 1970s. This study by Seth Offenbach explains how the conflict shaped modern conservatism. The war caused disputes between the pro-war anti-communists right and libertarian conservatives who opposed the war. At the same time, Christian...
The Civil War and Slavery Reconsidered: Negotiating the Peripheries
1st Edition
Edited
By Laura R. Sandy, Marie S. Molloy
September 30, 2020
Following the suggestion of the historian Peter Parish, these essays probe "the edges" of slavery and the sectional conflict. The authors seek to recover forgotten stories, exceptional cases and contested identities to reveal the forces that shaped America, in the era of "the Long Civil War," c...