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American History Now collects eighteen original historiographic essays that survey recent scholarship in American history and trace the shifting lines of interpretation and debate in the field. Building on the legacy of two previous editions of The New American History, this volume presents an entirely new group of contributors and a reconceptualized table of contents. The new generation of historians showcased in American History Now have asked new questions and developed new approaches to scholarship to revise the prevailing interpretations of the chronological periods from the Colonial era t.

"A comprehensive survey, Asian American History places Asian immigration to America in international and domestic contexts, and explores the significant elements that define Asian America: imperialism and global capitalist expansion, labor and capital, race and ethnicity, immigration and exclusion, family and work, community and gender roles, assimilation and multiculturalism, panethnicity and identity, transnationalism and globalization and new challenges and opportunities. It is an updated and easily accessible textbook for high school and college students as well as anyone who is interested in Asian American history. Asian American History: Covers the major and minor Asian American ethnic groups. It presents the myriad and poignant stories of a diverse body of Asian Americans, from illiterate immigrants to influential individuals, within a broad and comparative framework, offering microscopic narratives as well as macroscopic analysis and overviews. Utilizes both primary and secondary sources, employs data and surveys, and incorporates most recent scholarly discourses. Attractive and accessible by incorporating voices and illustrations of the contemporaries and by using straightforward language and concise syntax, while maintaining a reasonable level of scholarly depth. Special features: Each chapter features Significant Events, Sidebars incorporating primary sources or scholarly debates, Review Questions, and Further Readings to aid and enhance student learning experience. Bibliographies, charts, maps, photographs, and tables are included. Written by a preeminent historian with four decades of teaching, research, and publishing experiences in Asian American history, it is the best textbook on the subject to date"--

Chronicles the history of Guantanamo Bay, from the Founding Fathers' desire to possess it to the controversial base it hosts today and the uber-patriotic American soldiers, civilians and their families that call the piece of land home

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Prologue: There and Here -- Part I: Dispatches from The First America -- Chapter 1: Heaven and Hell -- Chapter 2: Key to the Indies -- Chapter 3: Copper Virgin -- Part II: A Colony Worth a Kingdom -- Chapter 4: Havana for Florida -- Chapter 5: Most Favored Nation -- Chapter 6: Sugar's Revolution -- Part III: An Empire for Slavery -- Chapter 7: Adams's Apple -- Chapter 8: Torture Plots -- Chapter 9: Dreams of Dominion -- Chapter 10: Civil War Journeys -- Part IV: ¡Cuba Libre! -- Chapter 11: Slave, Soldier, Citizen -- Chapter 12: A Revolution for the World -- Part V: American Interregnum -- Chapter 13: A War Renamed -- Chapter 14: Island Occupied -- Part VI: Strange Republic -- Chapter 15: Empire of Sugar -- Chapter 16: City of Dreams -- Chapter 17: Fratricide -- Chapter 18: Boom, Crash, Awake -- Part VII: Republic, Take Two -- Chapter 19: Authentic Masses -- Chapter 20: New Charter -- Chapter 21: Suitcases -- Part VIII: Origin Stories -- Chapter 22: Centennial Spirit -- Chapter 23: Insurrectionary Line -- Chapter 24: The Mountains Rise -- Part IX: The Revolution Begins Now! -- Chapter 25: First Time -- Chapter 26: Radical Nonstop -- Part X: Confrontation -- Chapter 27: Battle -- Chapter 28: Brink -- Part XI: Hearts and Minds -- Chapter 29: New People? -- Chapter 30: New Americans? -- Chapter 31: Other Cubas? -- Part XII: Departures -- Chapter 32: Special Years -- Chapter 33: Open and Shut -- Epilogue: If Monuments Could Speak -- Photographs -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Notes -- Index -- Image Credits -- Copyright.

A sweeping narrative history of American immigration from the colonial period to the present "A masterly historical synthesis, full of wonderful detail and beautifully written, that brings fresh insights to the story of how immigrants were drawn to and settled in America over the centuries."—Nancy Foner, author of One Quarter of the Nation The history of the United States has been shaped by immigration. Historians Carl J. Bon Tempo and Hasia R. Diner provide a sweeping historical narrative told through the lives and words of the quite ordinary people who did nothing less than make the nation. Drawn from stories spanning the colonial period to the present, Bon Tempo and Diner detail the experiences of people from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. They explore the many themes of American immigration scholarship, including the contexts and motivations for migration, settlement patterns, work, family, racism, and nativism, against the background of immigration law and policy. Taking a global approach that considers economic and personal factors in both the sending and receiving societies, the authors pay close attention to how immigration has been shaped by the state response to its promises and challenges

VC tells the riveting story of how the venture capital industry arose from the United States' long-running orientation toward entrepreneurship. From nineteenth-century whaling to the multitude of firms pursuing entrepreneurial finance today, venture capital has been driven by the pull of low-probability but substantial financial rewards. Appreciating the history of venture capital, Tom Nicholas shows, is essential to understanding the industry's future directions and possibilities, its challenges and prospects for surmounting them, and its place in America's exceptional style of capitalism.