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 amassed to evaluate the historic importance of and look at the educational customers for the """"transnational turn"""" in American reports.

Around St. Clair (Images of America)

St. Clair lies in a slender valley wealthy with anthracite assets. town used to be born round 1831, through the nice challenging coal growth in northeast Pennsylvania. through the years town increased to surrounding parts or patches referred to as Arnouts Addition, Wadesville, darkish Water, New fort, 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 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, through 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)

Probably not anyone has ever been any such survivor as álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Member of a 600-man excursion 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 hard, overland trip within which he and the 3 different final survivors of the unique excursion walked a few 1,500 miles from the valuable Texas coast to the Gulf of California, then one other 1,300 miles to Mexico urban.