Ciment, James

Alphabetical listings profile 143 groups of American Indians, with information on where the tribe originated, its language and lifestyle, and including entries on important events and people. Includes photographs, maps, and a timeline.

Provides an overview of the post-colonial wars in the southern African countries of Angola and Mozambique, discussing the history of the conflicts, the issues, tactics, and negotiations involved, and the participants on both sides of the crises, and including an update on conditions as they stand in the late 1990s.

Examines the internal conflict that has been raging in Algeria since the early 1990s between Islamic militants and government security forces, looking at the scriptural and historical roots of both Islamic and secular Algerian thought, and analyzing the various issues the parties to the conflict are fighting over.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that examine people, places, events, institutions, ideas, and other topics related to the social, political, cultural, and economic history of colonial America, and includes seven essays that provide an overview of major issues of the era, thematic and geographic chronologies, and a selection of documents.

Contains over 550 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about the politics, economics, law, society, environment, arts, and culture of post-World War IIAmerica, each with a bibliography, and includes sidebars, a decade-by-decade look at cultural landmarks since 1945, a glossary of key terms, and three indexes.

Contains alphabetized articles on approximately 160 social issues in the U.S., describing their histories, major aspects, and debates and controversies, and provides a chronology, further reading list, glossary, and documents with each.

Introduces the history, participants, issues, tactics, and diplomacy of the hundred-year conflict between Palestine and Israel, and offers support for the claim that the struggle is the historical product of nineteenth and twentieth century politics.

Discusses the law as it has developed in the United States and as it has pertained to individual liberty, economic growth, social change, and the frontier.

Surveys the history of the Kurdish struggle for national autonomy or independence, with discussion of their culture, political infighting, and subjection to political repression and mass murder.