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Moving from the Boston Tea Party to the present, this is an exploration of the ways in which non-Indian Americans have played out their fantasies about Indians in order to experience national, modern and personal identities.

Presenting a detailed history of the events that culminated in the Great Depression, this text highlights the role of specific economic events, national policies, and individuals. It examines the reserve-hoarding policies of central banks, particularly the Bank of France.

A social and cultural history of out-of-wedlock pregnancy in the United States from 1890 to 1945. The book examines the three groups of women involved with the issue: the evangelical reformers, the new generation of social workers and the unmarried mothers themselves.

Before the 19th century, American prisons were used to hold people for trial and not to incarcerate them for wrong-doing. After independence, states began to reject such public punishment as whipping and pillorying and turn to imprisonment instead. Hirsch explores the reasons behind this change.

Impoverished after 50 years of continuous war, Spain negotiated treaties with her three most powerful enemies at the end of the 16th century. This investigation looks at the strategies which led King Philip III to seek peace, arguing that this was in fact part of a grand plan to regain power.

Examines benevolent work performed by middle- and upper-middle-class American women from the 1820s to 1885 and offers a new interpretation of the shifting political contexts and meanings of this long tradition of women's reform activism.

This work blends social and environmental history to offer a look at the angry struggles between American wildlife conservationists and local hunters since the late 19th century.