"The Amazing Iroquois" and the Invention of the Empire State tells the story of a multi-generational Iroquoian family from American Revolution to the Cold War who used their peoples' history, politics, and culture to shape how New Yorkers conceived of their own history and self-identity.
Maligned for centuries as a fictional tale, David Ingram's survival of a shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico and journey north through the American continent is here convincingly proven to be both remarkable and true.
Examines the European Left's attempt to think and give shape to an alternative type of European integration-a 'social Europe'-during the long 1970s, showing that the western European Left-in particular social democratic parties, trade unions, and 'Eurocommunist' parties-formulated a project to turn 'capitalist Europe' into a 'workers' Europe'.