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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction Toward a Genealogy of the U.S. Colonial Present -- PART I. HISTORIES IN CONTENTION -- Chapter 1 The Specters of Recognition -- Chapter 2 Colonizing Chaco Canyon -- Chapter 3 The Prose of Counter-Sovereignty -- Chapter 4 A Sorry State -- PART II. COLONIAL ENTANGLEMENTS -- Chapter 5 Missionaries, Slaves, and Indians -- Chapter 6 American Empire, Hispanism, and the Nationalist Visions of Albizu, Recto, and Grau -- Chapter 7 Becoming Indo-Hispano -- Chapter 8 Seeking New Fields of Labor -- Chapter 9 The Kēpaniwai (Damming of the Water) Heritage Gardens -- PART III. POLITICS OF TRANSPOSITION -- Chapter 10 Our Stories Are Maps Larger Than Can Be Held -- Chapter 11 Governmentality and Cartographies of Colonial Spaces -- Chapter 12 "I'm Not Running on My Gender" -- Chapter 13 Translation, American English, and the National Insecurities of Empire -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

In this short, accessible introductory survey of the history of the United States from 1790 to the present day, Edward J. Davies examines key themes in the evolution of America from colonial rule to international supremacy. Focusing particularly on those currents within U.S. history that have influenced the rest of the world, Davies examines key themes including industrialization, the rise of international corporations, civil rights and popular culture. Offering a new way of examining the United States, this book reveals how concepts that originated in American's definition of itself as a nation - concepts such as capitalism, republicanism and race - have had supranational impact across the world.-- From publisher description

Author Anita Louise McCormick Investigates the issues surrounding the creation of reservations-areas of land chosen by the United States government to relocate or contain Native Americans. Beginning with the first European explorers and continuing to the present, examine the history of the conflicts and resolutions between the United States government and Native Americans. Decide whether you feel the native peoples were treated fairly

Since the reasoned decisions of international arbitral tribunals are tending constantly to influence, in larger degree, the development of a sound body of international law, a broad interest naturally attaches to the decisions resulting from any such general claims arbitration as that of the Governments of the United States and Panama which was concluded on June 30, last.

An intriguing history of Alcatraz Island and its infamous prison, located off the coast of San Francisco, from the earliest years of Spanish exploration to the present day. Highlighting the unique geographical features of the island, it shows how Alcatraz went through many changes, being used over the years as a military facility, a notorious federal penitentiary widely believed to be escape-proof, as well as the site of American Indian uprisings