David Mamet gained regard as a leading American playwright and screenwriter with such works as his 1981 debut screenplay, The Postman Always Rings Twice and the 1984 Pulitzer Prizewinning play, Glengarry Glen Ross.

This title, David Mamet, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of David Mamet through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on David Mamet, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

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The Apache comprised many nomadic bands who hunted and gathered in a vast region -- stretching from Kansas to Northern Mexico -- until the arrival of Spanish colonists in the mid-16th century. These newcomers subdued other Indian peoples, but the Apache, highly adept warriors and raiders, fended them off for 300 years. Then, in the mid-19th century, the United States expanded its borders into Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Once again the Apache took arms, led by brilliant tacticians such as Cochise and Geronimo, who outmaneuvered the U.S. Army in skirmishes fought on the forbidding terrain of the Southwest. Enemy forces proved too great, however, and by 1996 the entire Apache population had been placed on reservations in Arizona and New Mexico. Today, these proud people face yet another struggle, as they seek to preserve their unique way of life.

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Kathleen L. Ehrhardt - European Metals in Native H ands, Rethinking Technological Change 1640-1683 (2 005).jpg

From the time of their earliest encounters with European explorers and missionaries, Native peoples of eastern North America acquired metal trinkets and utilitarian items and traded them to other aboriginal communities. As Native consumption of European products increased, their material culture repertoires shifted from ones made up exclusively of items produced from their own craft industries to ones substantially reconstituted by active appropriation, manipulation, and use of foreign goods. These material transformations took place during the same time that escalating historical, political, economic, and demographic influences (such as epidemics, new types of living arrangements, intergroup hostilities, new political alliances, missionization and conversion, changes in subsistence modes, etc.) disrupted Native systems. Ehrhardt's research addresses the early technological responses of one particular group, the Late Protohistoric Illinois Indians, to the availability of European-introduced metal objects. To do so, she applied a complementary suite of archaeometric methods to a sample of 806 copper-based metal artifacts excavated from securely dated domestic contexts at the Illiniwek Village Historic Site in Clark County, Missouri. Ehrhardt's scientific findings are integrated with observations from historical, archaeological, and archival research to place metal use by this group in a broad social context and to critique the acculturation perspective at other Contact Period sites. In revealing actual Native practice, from material selection and procurement to ultimate discard, the author challenges technocentric explanations for Native material and cultural change.

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Linda Ruth Williams, Michael Hammond - Contemporar y American Cinema (2006).jpg

Indispensable to film students and general readers interested in this art form, Contemporary American Cinema culls together the writings of the world's leading film scholars to provide the first comprehensive introduction to postclassical American film. Heavily illustrated with more than 50 color and black-and-white stills, it takes a close look at all aspects of the genre, including influential movies, directors, producers, and actors.

This unique and accessible resource includes two Tables of Contents, allowing readers to research chronologically or thematically. In addition, it includes a glossary of important terms, suggestions for further reading, sample essay questions, and a filmography. Subjects include:

* Decline of the early studio system
* Rise of American new-wave cinema
* Parallel histories of independent and underground cinema
* Black cinema--from the "blaxploitation" era of the 1970s to the 1990s
* Full history of the American blockbuster
* Uses and effects of new film making technologies
* America's ever-changing audiences
* Key genres and industry statistics

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Marc Allen Eisner - The American Political Economy . Institutional Evolution of Market and State (201 0).jpg

Policy debates are often grounded within the conceptual confines of a state-market dichotomy, as though the two existed in complete isolation. In this innovative text, Marc Allen Eisner portrays the state and the market as inextricably linked, exploring the variety of institutions subsumed by the market and the role that the state plays in creating the institutional foundations of economic activity.

Through a historical approach, Eisner situates the study of American political economy within a larger evolutionary-institutional framework that integrates perspectives in American political development and economic sociology. This volume provides a rich understanding of the complexity of U.S. economic policy, explaining how public policies become embedded in bureaucracy and reinforced by organized beneficiaries and public expectations. This path dependent layering process helps students better understand the underlying historical dynamics, which provide a clearer sense of the constraints faced by policymakers now and in the future. Thorough coverage of the entitlement crisis, globalization’s impact on the U.S. political economy, and the recent financial crisis in the final chapters demonstrate the importance of this historical institutionalist framework.

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In this new and expanded edition of Michel Chossudovsky's 2002 best seller, the author blows away the smokescreen put up by the mainstream media, that 9/11 was an attack on America by "Islamic terrorists". Through meticulous research, the author uncovers a military-intelligence ploy behind the September 11 attacks, and the cover-up and complicity of key members of the Bush Administration.

The expanded edition, which includes twelve new chapters focuses on the use of 9/11 as a pretext for the invasion and illegal occupation of Iraq, the militarisation of justice and law enforcement and the repeal of democracy.

According to Chossudovsky, the "war on terrorism" is a complete fabrication based on the illusion that one man, Osama bin Laden, outwitted the $40 billion-a-year American intelligence apparatus. The "war on terrorism" is a war of conquest. Globalisation is the final march to the "New World Order", dominated by Wall Street and the U.S. military-industrial complex.

September 11, 2001 provides a justification for waging a war without borders. Washington's agenda consists in extending the frontiers of the American Empire to facilitate complete U.S. corporate control, while installing within America the institutions of the Homeland Security State.

Chossudovsky peels back layers of rhetoric to reveal a complex web of deceit aimed at luring the American people and the rest of the world into accepting a military solution which threatens the future of humanity.

The last chapter includes an analysis of the London 7/7 Bomb Attacks.

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Susan M. Deeds - Defiance and Deference in Mexico' s Colonial North, Indians under Spanish Rule in Nu eva Vizcaya (2003).jpg

USA Books1 - Susan M. Deeds - Defiance and Deference in Mexicos Co...rth, Indians under Spanish Rule in Nueva Vizcaya 2003.jpg

"This is a major contribution to the theoretical literature on identity and to the history of northern Mexico and Latin America in general." --William L. Merrill, Curator of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution In their efforts to impose colonial rule on Nueva Vizcaya from the sixteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth, Spaniards established missions among the principal Indian groups of present-day eastern Sinaloa, northern Durango, and southern Chihuahua, Mexico--the Xiximes, Acaxees, Conchos, Tepehuanes, and Tarahumaras. Yet, when the colonial era ended two centuries later, only the Tepehuanes and Tarahumaras remained as distinct peoples, the other groups having disappeared or blended into the emerging mestizo culture of the northern frontier. Why were these two indigenous peoples able to maintain their group identity under conditions of conquest, while the others could not? In this book, Susan Deeds constructs authoritative ethnohistories of the Xiximes, Acaxees, Conchos, Tepehuanes, and Tarahumaras to explain why only two of the five groups successfully resisted Spanish conquest and colonization. Drawing on extensive research in colonial-era archives, Deeds provides a multifaceted analysis of each group's past from the time the Spaniards first attempted to settle them in missions up to the middle of the eighteenth century, when secular pressures had wrought momentous changes. Her masterful explanations of how ethnic identities, subsistence patterns, cultural beliefs, and gender relations were forged and changed over time on Mexico's northern frontier offer important new ways of understanding the struggle between resistance and adaptation in which Mexico's indigenous peoples are still engaged, five centuries after the "Spanish Conquest."

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Publisher: Boston; I. Thomas

Literary magazine; letters, histories, poetry, &c.

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William Bonner, Addison Wiggin - Empire of Debt, T he Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (2006).jpg

General Motors will never be able to compete unless it ditches its crushing health care costs. Why does it not just cut the costs? It seems to lack either the nerve or the right, but the journalist proposed a solution: Nationalize health care! Meanwhile, CEO pay has soared to the point where the average chief executive in 2000 earned compensation equal to 500 times the average hourly wage. Stockholders, whose money was being squandered, barely said a word. They were still under the illusion that the companies were working for them. They had not noticed that the whole capitalist institution had been trussed up with so many chains, wires, red tape, and complications, it no longer functioned like the freewheeling, moneymaking corporations of the nineteenth century. Meanwhile, corporations in China—a communist country—had their hands and feet free to eat our lunches and kick our derrieres.

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Michael Adas - Dominance by Design, Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission (2006 ).jpg

Long before the United States became a major force in global affairs, Americans believed in their superiority over others due to their inventiveness, productivity, and economic and social well-being. U.S. expansionists assumed a mandate to “civilize” non-Western peoples by demanding submission to American technological prowess and design. As an integral part of America’s national identity and sense of itself in the world, this civilizing mission provided the rationale to displace the Indians from much of our continent, to build an island empire in the Pacific and Caribbean, and to promote unilateral—at times military—interventionism throughout Asia. In our age of “smart bombs” and mobile warfare, technological aptitude remains preeminent in validating America’s global mission.

Michael Adas brilliantly pursues the history of this mission through America's foreign relations over nearly four centuries from North America to the Philippines, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf. The belief that it is our right and destiny to remake foreign societies in our image has endured from the early decades of colonization to our current crusade to implant American-style democracy in the Muslim Middle East.

Dominance by Design explores the critical ways in which technological superiority has undergirded the U.S.’s policies of unilateralism, preemption, and interventionism in foreign affairs and raised us from an impoverished frontier nation to a global power. Challenging the long-held assumptions and imperatives that sustain the civilizing mission, Adas gives us an essential guide to America’s past and present role in the world as well as cautionary lessons for the future.

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"Atlas of the North American Indian, Third Edition" chronicles the travel and experiences of Native Americans from the first voyage to North America to the present day. This new edition now features a bold full-color format and is bolstered by more than 120 full-color, detailed maps that cover important locations for American Indians, as well as highlighting their interactions with European colonists and other non-Native people. In addition, the updated text details the history, traditions, conflicts, land cessions, and contemporary ways of life for American Indians.This informative book is enhanced by more than 130 full-color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations of the people, places, and artifacts important in the history of Native America. Invaluable appendixes include a chronology of North American Native prehistory and history, a list of contemporary Indian nations in the United States, a list of contemporary Canadian First Nations, and a list of major Native place-names in the United States and Canada. A glossary, a bibliography, and an index are also included.

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Francis Parkman, Colin G. Calloway - Pioneers of F rance in the New World (1996).jpg

In the sixteenth century, Spain claimed the fabled New World, and a rash of explorers sailed there seeking riches and, most famously, a fountain of youth. Although France made inroads into Florida, ultimately the French, like the Spanish, failed to establish dominion over North America. Francis Parkman tells why.

The first part of Pioneers of France in the New World deals with the attempts of the Spanish and the French Huguenots to occupy Florida; the second, with the expeditions of Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain and French colonial endeavors in Canada and Acadia. Pioneers is a stirring story, capturing the era of the earliest explorations in North America.

About the Author
Francis Parkman (1823–1893), the son of a prominent Boston family, devoted much of his career to writing about the struggles of France and England for domination in America.

Colin G. Calloway, a professor of history and Native American studies at Dartmouth College, is the author of the New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America.

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North Carolina in the American Experience encourages students to learn to think like a historian, and dive into the dramatic events of North Carolina’s past to uncover the lives of the people who shaped America’s history. When you study North Carolina history, you will see how the past informs everyday life.
Reading age for native speakers: Middle School students

CONTENTS

UNIT 1 (8000 B.C.–A.D. 1492): The Geography and First People of North Carolina
Chapter 1: The Geography of North Carolina
Chapter 2: American Indians in North America and North Carolina (8000 B.C.–A.D. 1492)

UNIT 2 (1492–1752): Exploration and Colonization
Chapter 3: European Exploration of North America and North Carolina (1492–1570)
Chapter 4: English Attempts to Colonize North Carolina (1584–1590)
Chapter 5: England’s Colonies and Factors in Colonization (1670–1752)

UNIT 3 (1622–1772): North Carolina: One of Thirteen Colonies
Chapter 6: North Carolina: A Southern Colony (1622–1729)
Chapter 7: North Carolina Ways of Life (1730–1772)
Chapter 8: Division Within North Carolina (1730–1771)

UNIT 4 (1754–1815): Revolution and a New Nation
Chapter 9: Events Leading Toward Revolution (1754–1763)
Chapter 10: The Revolutionary War and North Carolina’s Role (1763–1783)
Chapter 11: Forming a New Nation (1781–1815)
-- Constitution Handbook: The Living Constitution
-- Citizenship Handbook

UNIT 5 (1810–1860): Decline and Reform in North Carolina
Chapter 12: Decline and the Beginnings of Reform (1810–1835)
Chapter 13: Reform in North Carolina (1836–1860)

UNIT 6 (1845–1877): War and Reconstruction
Chapter 14: Rumblings of Civil War (1845–1861)
Chapter 15: Fighting the Civil War (1861–1865)
Chapter 16: Reconstruction and Its Impact (1865–1877)

UNIT 7 (1877–1907): Preparing for the 20th Century
Chapter 17: Changes in the United States (1877–1907)
Chapter 18: Economic Development in North Carolina (1877–1907)

UNIT 8 (1898–1945): Crisis, War, and Recovery in the 20th Century
Chapter 19: A New Century and World War I (1898–1929)
Chapter 20: The Great Depression and the New Deal (1929–1941)
Chapter 21: World War II (1939–1945)

UNIT 9 (1945–2007): Changes in North Carolina and the Nation
Chapter 22: North Carolina after World War II (1945–1975)
Chapter 23: The Civil Rights Era (1951–1975)
Chapter 24: The Cold War and Vietnam (1945–1992)
Chapter 25: North Carolina in Today’s World (1976–2007)

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Colin G. Calloway - The Scratch of a Pen, 1763 and the Transformation of North America (2007).jpg

In this volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history, setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences, as Indians and Europeans, settlers and frontiersmen, all struggled to adapt to new boundaries, new alignments, and new relationships. Britain now possessed a vast American empire stretching from Canada to the Florida Keys, yet the crushing costs of maintaining it would push its colonies toward rebellion. White settlers, free to pour into the West, clashed as never before with Indian tribes struggling to defend their way of life. In the Northwest, Pontiac's War brought racial conflict to its bitterest level so far. Whole ethnic groups migrated, sometimes across the continent: it was 1763 that saw many exiled settlers from Acadia in French Canada move again to Louisiana, where they would become Cajuns.

Calloway unfurls this panoramic canvas with vibrant narrative skill, peopling his tale with memorable characters such as William Johnson, the Irish baronet who moved between Indian campfires and British barracks; Pontiac, the charismatic Ottawa chieftain; and James Murray, Britains first governor in Quebec, who fought to protect the religious rights of his French Catholic subjects. Most Americans know the significance of the Declaration of Independence or the Emancipation Proclamation, but not the Treaty of Paris. Yet 1763 was a year that shaped our history just as decisively as 1776 or 1862. This captivating book shows why.

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Preachers, declared an impassioned Jerry Falwell in 1965, are not called to be politicians but to be soul winners. The historical irony in these words is particularly evident to Williams, who recounts how Falwell and other Evangelical preachers became power brokers within the Republican Party. What may surprise many readers, though, is how conservative Protestants began inserting themselves into the nation’s political process as early as the 1920s and 1930s, trying to use the platforms of both parties to combat cultural liberalism, and then more effectively pressing a bipartisan anticommunism in the 1950s. But Williams highlights a decisive turn in the late 1960s, when celebrity evangelist Billy Graham threw his support behind the shrewdly opportunistic Richard Nixon. Analysis of the 1970s reveals how social controversies—the ERA, the Pill, homosexual rights, abortion—intensified Evangelical commitment to the GOP. A more complex picture emerges in a concluding analysis showing younger Evangelicals discovering environmental and social-justice concerns. An essential resource for anyone trying to understand how religion affects American politics.

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This specialized encyclopedia covers significant issues, policies, historical events, laws, theories, organizations, institutions, and people in African American education. Signed articles, by contributors from varied professional backgrounds, range from a few paragraphs (Lincoln University of Pennsylvania, Children's Defense Fund, Sabbath Schools) to longer essays (Pushouts, Community Control of Schools, Catholic Church and African American Education), with selected bibliographies provided for most. Ironically, patrons who would like an overview of African American education, or an article about historically black colleges, would do better to consult a more general source, such as The African American Encyclopedia (Marshall Cavendish, 1993) or the Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History (Macmillan, 1996). Although historically black colleges and universities are presented in individual entries here, there is no article discussing all of them (Land-Grant Colleges and Universities lists some). The editor states that biographical entries in EAAE were reduced due to Greenwood's forthcoming publication, Biographical Dictionary of African-American Educators. Major figures such as Nancy L. Arnez, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, and Primus Hall are included, however. There are entries for a large number of significant cases (Plessy v. Ferguson, Meredith v. Fair, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke). Separate entries discuss education for African Americans in various fields: law, medicine, nursing, librarianship, math, science. Odd omissions: there are no articles on affirmative action in education, literacy, or desegregation (the index refers to page numbers within other entries for the latter two topics).

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