Joseph Gilbert: 41 books
Aloha Betrayed
Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2004
In 1897, as a white oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition drive to protest. Ninety-five percent of the native population signed the petition, causing the annexation treaty to fail in the U.S. Senate. This event was unknown to...
Communication and Empire
Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860–1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2007
Filling in a key chapter in communications history, Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike offer an in-depth examination of the rise of the “global media” between 1860 and 1930. They analyze the connections between the development of a global communication infrastructure, the creation of national...
America's Miracle Man in Vietnam
Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2005
America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam rethinks the motivations behind one of the most ruinous foreign-policy decisions of the postwar era: America’s commitment to preserve an independent South Vietnam under the premiership of Ngo Dinh Diem. The so-called Diem experiment is usually ascribed to U.S....
The Unpredictability of the Past
Memories of the Asia-Pacific War in U.S.–East Asian Relations
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
In The Unpredictability of the Past, an international group of historians examines how collective memories of the Asia-Pacific War continue to affect relations among China, Japan, and the United States. The contributors are primarily concerned with the history of international relations broadly conceived...
Between Hollywood and Moscow
The Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture, 1943–1991
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2000
In the postwar years, Italy underwent a far-reaching process of industrialization that transformed the country into a leading industrial power. Throughout most of this period, the Italian Communist Party (PCI) remained a powerful force in local government and civil society. However, as Stephen Gundle...
Tropical Zion
General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosúa
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
Seven hundred and fifty Jewish refugees fled Nazi Germany and founded the agricultural settlement of Sosúa in the Dominican Republic, then ruled by one of Latin America’s most repressive dictators, General Rafael Trujillo. In Tropical Zion, Allen Wells, a distinguished historian and the son of...
Making Jazz French
Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2003
Between the world wars, Paris welcomed not only a number of glamorous American expatriates, including Josephine Baker and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also a dynamic musical style emerging in the United States: jazz. Roaring through cabarets, music halls, and dance clubs, the upbeat, syncopated rhythms...
by Elliott Young, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2004
Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border rescues an understudied episode from the footnotes of history. On September 15, 1891, Garza, a Mexican journalist and political activist, led a band of Mexican rebels out of South Texas and across the Rio Grande, declaring a revolution against...
Foreign in a Domestic Sense
Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2001
In this groundbreaking study of American imperialism, leading legal scholars address the problem of the U.S. territories. Foreign in a Domestic Sense will redefine the boundaries of constitutional scholarship.
More than four million U.S. citizens currently live in five “unincorporated” U.S. territories....
Juan Soldado
Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Paul J. Vanderwood offers a fascinating look at the events, beliefs, and circumstances that have motivated popular devotion to Juan Soldado, a Mexican folk saint. In his mortal incarnation, Juan Soldado was Juan Castillo Morales, a twenty-four-year-old soldier convicted of and quickly executed for...
Rural Revolt in Mexico
U.S. Intervention and the Domain of Subaltern Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 1998
Rural Revolt in Mexico is a historical investigation of how subaltern political activity engages imperialism, capitalism, and the United States. In this volume, Daniel Nugent has gathered a group of leading scholars whose work examines the relationship of revolts by peasants and Indians in Mexico...
September 11 in History
A Watershed Moment?
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2003
Hours after the collapse of the Twin Towers, the idea that the September 11 attacks had “changed everything” permeated American popular and political discussion. In the period since then, the events of September 11 have been used to justify profound changes in U.S. public policy and foreign relations....
by Guy Vincent, François Gilbert, Jean-Claude Garnier
Language: French
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: January 15, 2016
La réunion organisée à Royaumont par le Conseil du Patrimoine Ethnologique les 2 et 3 décembre 1983 vient à la suite d'une chaîne de rencontres (la journée d'études organisée par la Société d'Ethnologie Française en novembre 1981 ; l'atelier d'Anthropologie urbaine lors du Colloque de...