Re-Framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies (Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies)

This quantity is the end result of a transatlantic dialog at the subject """"Transnational America,"""" during which greater than sixty students from universities within the usa and Germany accrued to evaluate the ancient value of and look at the tutorial customers for the """"transnational turn"""" in American experiences.

Around St. Clair (Images of America)

St. Clair lies in a slender valley wealthy with anthracite assets. town was once born round 1831, in the course of the nice challenging coal growth in northeast Pennsylvania. through the years the city accelerated to surrounding components or patches referred to as Arnouts Addition, Wadesville, darkish Water, New fortress, Mount Laffee, Crow hole, Ravensdale, Lorraine, Diener's Hill, East Mines, and Mill Creek.

Mingo Junction (Images of America)

Mingo Junction, a working-class city within the higher Ohio River Valley, has a wealthy mixture of ethnicities and races with a background going again to the Mingo Indians, together with visits from George Washington within the 1770s. Early cost got here because the coal mining flourished, by means of iron and metal foundries and accompanying railroads and river barge site visitors.

We Came Naked and Barefoot: The Journey of Cabeza de Vaca across North America (Texas Archaeology and Ethnohistory)

Might be nobody has ever been the sort of survivor as álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Member of a 600-man day trip despatched out from Spain to colonize "La Florida" in 1527, he survived a failed exploration of the west coast of Florida, an open-boat crossing of the Gulf of Mexico, shipwreck at the Texas coast, six years of captivity between local peoples, and an exhausting, overland trip within which he and the 3 different ultimate survivors of the unique excursion walked a few 1,500 miles from the critical Texas coast to the Gulf of California, then one other 1,300 miles to Mexico urban.