... veterans benefits of having served Chinese Exclusion Acts American soldiers Germany Japan War Department Adjusted Service Rating parenthood credit African Americas The war in europe is ended! surrender is unconditional; v-e will be proclaimed today; our troops on okinawa gain (May 8, 1945...

... of fascism and racism. The second focus was evident in several places, but perhaps most notably during Locke's lectures in Haiti in 1943. Cultural reciprocity supported the desired objective of increasing Pan-American understanding among the peoples of what Locke referred to as “the Three Americas...

...This book discusses the labor that music by Latin American immigrants to the US performs in creating a place in the host society and fostering relations with their places of origin. Latin music in the US sounds out and is made possible by what unites and separates the Americas: divergent...

... outside of Europe, including much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. It aims to trace the history of Spanish scientific expeditions in the Age of Enlightenment and the history of visual evidence in both science and administration in the early modern Spanish Empire. botanical travelers...

... their importance in understanding how humans have interacted with the natural world and that give historical maps especially the power to provide rich insights into the relationship between humans and nature over time. That is just what is achieved in Mapping Nature Across the Americas. Illustrated throughout...

... and Moral History of the Indies) became a mainstay of European libraries. Acosta puzzled about differences among kinds of animals, asking how European-type dogs could be missing from the Americas and unique Andean camelids be so plentiful there and absent elsewhere, just as he inquired about how human...

..., and the Academic Senate at the University of California, Los Angeles. This chapter examines whether the extreme differences in inequality that were present across the economies of the Americas soon after colonization also affected the ways tax institutions evolved. It sets forth a brief history of the emergence...

...This chapters begins with a question on why so many bodies of water and land in the Americas are so frequently compared to the European Mediterranean. The chapter cites different Mediterraneans in the nineteenth-century Americas that are later identified with and serve as the object...

... and anti-syncretism polycultural creolization and nationalism the Americas As one of the most ethnically and religiously diverse places on the planet, Trinidad provides a unique lens for questions of racial and religious difference. In the preceding interlude, Arlena’s vision of the Spiritual Nations...

..., and environmental thinking. In doing so, this study brings together a wide range of indigenous and non-indigenous authors and artists of the Americas, from Aztec priests and Amazonian shamans to Simon Ortiz, Gerald Vizenor, Jaime de Angulo, Charles Olson, Cy Twombly, Gloria Anzaldúa, William Burroughs, Louise...