Routledge Advances in American History
The White House and White Africa: Presidential Policy Toward Rhodesia During the UDI Era, 1965-1979
1st Edition
By Eddie Michel
June 30, 2020
This book offers an insightful analysis of presidential policy towards Rhodesia during the UDI era of 1965-1979. Michel provides an informative account of the stance adopted by the differing presidential administrations towards Salisbury and highlights the shifting alignment of the global and ...
After American Studies: Rethinking the Legacies of Transnational Exceptionalism
1st Edition
By Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera
December 10, 2019
After American Studies is a timely critique of national and transnational approaches to community, and their forms of belonging and trans/patriotisms. Using reports in multicultural psychology and cultural neuroscience to interpret an array of cultural forms—including literature, art, film, ...
Famine Irish and the American Racial State
1st Edition
By Peter D. O'Neill
May 23, 2019
Accounts of Irish racialization in the United States have tended to stress Irish difference. Famine Irish and the American Racial State takes a different stance. This interdisciplinary, transnational work uses an array of cultural artifacts, including novels, plays, songs, cartoons, government ...
Exploring the Next Frontier: Vietnam, NASA, Star Trek and Utopia in 1960s and 70s American Myth and History
1st Edition
By Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
March 22, 2019
The 1960s and early 70s saw the evolution of Frontier Myths even as scholars were renouncing the interpretive value of myths themselves. Works like Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War exemplified that rejection using his experiences during the Vietnam War to illustrate the problematic consequences of ...
America's Vietnam War and Its French Connection
1st Edition
By Frank Cain
March 20, 2019
That America was drawn into the Vietnam War by the French has been recognized, but rarely explored. This book analyzes the years from 1945 with the French military reconquest of Vietnam until 1963 with the execution of the French-endorsed dictator, Ngo Dinh Diem, demonstrating how the US should not...
Public Health and the US Military: A History of the Army Medical Department, 1818-1917
1st Edition
By Bobby A. Wintermute
April 23, 2015
Public Health and the US Military is a cultural history of the US Army Medical Department focusing on its accomplishments and organization coincident with the creation of modern public health in the Progressive Era. A period of tremendous social change, this time bore witness to the creation of an ...
The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891–1931
1st Edition
By David Critchley
March 25, 2010
While the later history of the New York Mafia has received extensive attention, what has been conspicuously absent until now is an accurate and conversant review of the formative years of Mafia organizational growth. David Critchley examines the Mafia recruitment process, relations ...