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

This quantity is the result of a transatlantic dialog at the subject """"Transnational America,"""" within which greater than sixty students from universities within the usa and Germany accumulated to evaluate the historic importance of and view the tutorial clients for the """"transnational turn"""" in American stories.

Around St. Clair (Images of America)

St. Clair lies in a slender valley wealthy with anthracite assets. the city was once born round 1831, through the nice not easy coal growth in northeast Pennsylvania. through the years town elevated to surrounding parts or patches often called Arnouts Addition, Wadesville, darkish Water, New citadel, 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 top Ohio River Valley, has a wealthy mixture of ethnicities and races with a historical past 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 way 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 one of these 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 onerous, overland trip within which he and the 3 different ultimate survivors of the unique day trip walked a few 1,500 miles from the primary Texas coast to the Gulf of California, then one other 1,300 miles to Mexico urban.