Books in the Routledge Advances in American History series

This book scrutinizes a variety of contested topics in American history, from xenophobic attitudes toward eighteenth-century university professors to Apache masculinity, racial sciences of the early twentieth century, Tom Waits's lyrics, and the Trump era.

Examines the Mafia recruitment process, relations with Mafias in Sicily, the role of non-Sicilians in New York's organized crime Families, kinship connections, the Black Hand, impact of Prohibition, and allegations that a Mafia was created in 1931. This book is suitable for historians and criminologists.

This book explores the disconnect between political language and political reality in the United States in the post-Great Recession era of social, political, economic and environmental crisis. It argues that this crisis has called into question the ideology of "American exceptionalism," and outlines a more sustainable and democratic alternative.

Focusing on the forgotten, the exceptional and the marginal, this collection illuminates the relationship of slavery to the conflicts that defined America in the Civil War era. Analyzing case studies, it offers new perspectives on the nation¿s most tumultuous years.