Explores the history of material culture and consumption in Latin America over the past 500 years.

Leading scholars and policymakers explore how history influences foreign policy and offer insights on how the study of the past can more usefully serve the pres

In January 1927 Gus Comstock, a barbershop porter in the small Minnesota town of Fergus Falls, drank eighty cups of coffee in seven hours and fifteen minutes. T

Ruling America offers a panoramic history of our country's ruling elites from the time of the American Revolution to the present. At its heart is the greatest o

DIVThe history of banana cultivation and its huge impact on Latin American, history, politics, and culture./div