Halloween : the history of America's darkest holiday /

For the best part of three centuries the material well-being of the western world was dependent on

. The author provides an overview of the history, development and growth of marine tourism and describes

-- 11 Ghosts and the Machine -- 12 Japanese Children and the Culture of Death,January-August 1945 -- 13

representations of women drug users have defined America's drug policies in this century. In analyzing the

the history of European expansion in the Americas from the age of Columbus through the abolition of

-- Learning America's Other GameBaseball, Race, and the Study of Latinos -- Fútbol Nation U.S. Latinos and the

a landmark history that stretches from the Continental Congress to the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln

broadens into a sweeping demonstration of the importance of the concept of empire for understanding U.S

community over a long period of time. This is an inner history, in which the group identity of one of

identities. Combining the analysis of race and gender in the United States and the study of U.S.-Asian

. Ellen Israel Rosen, who has spent more than a decade investigating the problems of America's domestic